Perl Modules Wish List
Tags: modules, perl
Last Updated: Mar 16, 2010 21:15
Module List
The table lists all the modules, notes and in which products they are already available.
Please add a reason for the request in the notes field unless it's obvious.
Modules that are provided in Perl 5.8.8 are marked with note "Core module", see http://perldoc.perl.org/5.8.8/index-modules-A.html
I think there's no reason to add marks for core modules. I've used the following notation:
A = available
? = unknown
N = Not available
X = not necessary
Feel free to debate 
| Module |
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Aleph |
Voyager |
Primo |
MetaLib |
SFX |
Verde |
Rosetta |
DigiTool |
| Benchmark::Timer |
Core module |
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| Carp |
Core module |
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| CGI |
Core module |
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| CGI::Carp |
Core module |
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| CGI::Cookie |
Core module |
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| Data::Dumper |
Core module |
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| Data::UUID |
To create unique identifiers |
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| DBD::Oracle |
To access Oracle databases |
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| DBD::MySQL |
To access MySQL databases. This would be useful even in products that don't use MySQL because it could be used as the backing store for other data. |
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| DBI |
To access databases |
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| Digest::MD5 |
Core module |
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| Encode |
Core module |
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| File::Basename |
Core module |
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| File::Find |
Core module |
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| File::stat |
Core module |
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| FileHandle |
Core module |
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| Getopt::Long |
Core module |
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| HTML::TreeBuilder |
To parse HTML |
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| HTTP::BrowserDetect |
This or similar function - this covers Chrome OS, and mobile devices. To be able to easily detect the browser type and what content to serve. |
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| HTTP::Cookies |
To use cookies with LWP |
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| HTTP::Date |
To parse and convert dates |
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| HTTP::Request |
To make HTTP requests |
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| HTTP::Request::Common |
To make HTTP requests |
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| HTTP::Response |
To make HTTP requests |
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| IO::Handle |
Core module |
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| IO::Select |
Core module |
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| IO::Socket |
Core module |
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| IO::Socket::INET |
Core module |
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| JSON |
"converts Perl data structures to JSON and vice versa" (e.g. to interpret JSON repsonses by SFX plugins) |
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| JSON::XS |
used by JSON.pm above |
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| LWP::Parallel |
To make multiple HTTP requests in parallel (e.g. in MetaLib external search programs or SFX plug-ins) |
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| LWP::UserAgent |
To make HTTP requests |
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| MARC::Batch |
"Handling files of MARC::Record objects" |
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| MARC::Record |
"Handling MARC records" |
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| MIME::Base64 |
Core module |
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| MIME::Lite |
To easily send emails with attachments |
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| MIME::QuotedPrint |
Core module |
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| Net::FTP |
Core module |
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| Net::hostent |
Core module |
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| Net::LDAP |
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| Net::LDAPS |
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| PDF::API2::Simple |
To generate PDF documents on the fly, used by my circulation notices script |
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POE
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Web services
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| Proc::ProcessTable |
To list and manipulate running processes |
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| Proc::ProcessTable::Process |
To list and manipulate running processes |
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| Socket |
Core module |
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| Time::HiRes |
Core module |
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| URI |
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| URI::Escape |
To encode and decode characters in URI's |
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| XML::DOM |
To parse and create XML documents |
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| XML::LibXML |
To parse and create XML documents |
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| XML::LibXSLT |
To do XSL transformations |
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| XML::Simple |
To parse and create XML documents (very easy, very basic) |
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| XML::Writer |
To write an XML document (e.g. for an HTTP post request by SFX plugin) |
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| ZOOM |
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