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• Here are the ones I installed last week... (Score:1)

  by cog (4665)

  • Bundle::CPAN (so I can get full capacity)
  • Bundle::Test (so that everything gets tested properly, from now on)
  • CPAN::Mini (after which I start creating a mirror)
  • Bundle::COG (it's my stuff, OK?)
  • Date::DayOfWeek (required for stuff in ~/bin)
  • ExtUtils::ModuleMaker (required for stuff in ~/bin)
  • JSAN (I'm interested in this one)
  • Perl::Tidy (required by my .vimrc, but I rarely use it now)
  • Spork (making slides)
  • WWW::Mechanize (I like this one a lot)
• date handling (Score:2)

  by jdavidb (1361)

  I still install and use Time::Piece regularly, but I am in the process of learning how to use DateTime and switching over to it. One or both are indispensible to me.

  I used to have a list of must-install modules in my perl installation instructions [perl.org], but that list has definitely changed today.

  --
  J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
  • Re:date handling (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    Yes. I suspect many programmers need all the help they can get when it comes to handling dates ... :)
• Your choice of a templating module (Score:2)

  by dws (341)

  • HTML::Template, or to taste.
• XML::Simple (Score:1)

  by Lecar_red (5694)

  There is always something that requires quick XML parsing... XML::Simple
• Hmmm.... (Score:1)

  by Adrian (66)

  Of course it depends to some extent on whatever I'm doing at the moment. However in addition to what's on your list I'd probably feel a little lost without:

  • Large chunks of Test::*
  • Kwiki - having a wiki per-project is my default behaviour now
  • CPAN::Mini - becoming my default way of managing modules for clients
  • DateTime - because it rocks
  • File::Find::Rule - because it also rocks
  • Devel::Size - for figuring out where all that memory went
  • HTTP::Recorder - web site testing and scraping
  • Module::Build - because
• My Modules (Score:1)

  by Smylers (2592)

  As well as DateTime [cpan.org] , which a few other people have mentioned, I soon find myself installing these:

  • Carp::Assert [cpan.org]
  • Params::Validate [cpan.org]
  • Path::Class [cpan.org]
  • YAML [cpan.org]

  Smylers
• My picks (Score:1)

  by ChrisDolan (2855)

  Here's my unique contributions:

  • Algorithm::Diff
  • AnnoCPAN::Perldoc
  • Archive::Zip/Archive::Tar
  • Crypt::RC4
  • DBD::mysql
  • Email::Valid
  • File::Slurp
  • Net::ICal
  • PAR
  • Parse::RecDescent
  • Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
  • Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
  • URI
  • XML::Parser

  And my "me too"s

  • CPANPLUS
  • DateTime
  • DBI
  • Module::Build
  • Module::CoreList
  • Path::Class
  • Regexp::Common
  • YAML

  And my own modules that I use constantly:

  • CAM::PDF
  • CGI::Compress::Gzip
• my list contains at least (Score:1)

  by jouke (587)

  • Wx (the GUI stuff)
    
  • Locale::Maketext::Lexicon (for L18N)
    
  • PAR (for packaging)
    
  • File::Cache (simple caching)
    
  • YAML (easy storage/retrieval of data structures)
    

  
  And my own stuff:
  

  • Speech::Synthesis (for TTS)
    
  • AAC::Pvoice (for pVoice development)
    
• Basic stuff (Score:2)

  by mir (51)

  Reading my list I note that "high-level" modules are conspicuously absent, nothing too far from the metal here:

  • YAML: for debugging, storing things to be processed by an other piece of code and output if I am the one that will read it,
  • CGI: yessir, I still use it for simple things that do not require...
  • Text::Template: I don't work with graphic designers and the little web stuff I do is quite simple, so Text::Template works really well for me,
  • DBI of course, with either
  • DBD::Pg: for serious stuff, or
  • DBD::

  --
  mirod
• Re: (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  The ones I really don’t want to do without, roughly in order of importance:

  • XML::LibXML
  • libwww-perl
  • DBI
  • DateTime

  Also rans, in alphabetical order:

  • CGI::Prototype
  • Module::Build
  • Template
  • XML::LibXSLT

  And the one I hope to write a substantial amount of code around once I have the tuits:

  • Gtk2