This package is a Test::Run plugin that colors the summary of the test output.

Modern::Perl provides a simple way to enable multiple, by now, standard libraries in a Perl program.

Config::INI::Reader::Ordered is a Perl library for parsing .ini files that returns the sections in order.

File::Zglob provides a traditional Unix glob functionality; it returns a list of file names that match the given pattern. For instance, it supports the **/*.pm form.

String eval is often used for dynamic code generation. For instance, Moose uses it heavily, to generate inlined versions of accessors and constructors, which speeds code up at runtime by a significant amount. String eval is not without its issues however - it's difficult to control the scope it's used in (which determines which variables are in scope inside the eval), and it's easy to miss compilation errors, since eval catches them and sticks them in $@ instead. This module attempts to solve these problems. It provides an eval_closure function, which evals a string in a clean environment, other than a fixed list of specified variables. Compilation errors are rethrown automatically.

This package contains a selection of subroutines that people have expressed would be nice to have in the perl core, but the usage would not really be high enough to warrant the use of a keyword, and the size so small such that being individual extensions would be wasteful.

This module understands the formats used by PostgreSQL for its DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP, and INTERVAL data types. It can be used to parse these formats in order to create DateTime or DateTime::Duration objects, and it can take a DateTime or DateTime::Duration object and produce a string representing it in a format accepted by PostgreSQL.

Time::Duration::Parse is a module to parse human readable duration strings like "2 minutes" and "3 seconds" to seconds.

This class provides several methods for host name resolution. It is designed to be used with event loops. Names are resolved by your system's native getaddrinfo(3) implementation, called in a separate thread to avoid blocking the entire application. Threading overhead is limited by using system threads instead of Perl threads.

This is a Moose role which provides an alternate constructor for creating objects using parameters passed in from the command line.

List::SomeUtils provides some trivial but commonly needed functionality on lists which is not going to go into List::Util.

All of the below functions are implementable in only a couple of lines of Perl code. Using the functions from this module however should give slightly better performance as everything is implemented in C. The pure-Perl implementation of these functions only serves as a fallback in case the C portions of this module couldn't be compiled on this machine.

MIME::Base64 module provides functions to encode and decode strings into and from the base64 encoding specified in RFC 2045 - MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). The base64 encoding is designed to represent arbitrary sequences of octets in a form that need not be humanly readable. A 65-character subset ([A-Za-z0-9+/=]) of US-ASCII is used, enabling 6 bits to be represented per printable character.

The DateTime::Set module provides a date/time sets implementation. It allows, for example, the generation of groups of dates, like "every wednesday", and then find all the dates matching that pattern, within a time range.

This module provide a convenient way to create directories of arbitrary depth and to delete an entire directory subtree from the file system.

Crypt::PasswdMD5 provides various crypt()-compatible interfaces to the MD5-based crypt() function found in various *nixes. It is based on the implementation found on FreeBSD 2.2.[56]-RELEASE.

ExtUtils::Config is an abstraction around the %Config hash. By itself it is not a particularly interesting module by any measure, however it ties together a family of modern toolchain modules.

The inc::latest module helps bootstrap configure-time dependencies for CPAN distributions. These dependencies get bundled into the inc directory within a distribution and are used by Makefile.PL or Build.PL.

Locale::gettext provides an object oriented interface to the internationalization functions provided by the C library.

This module understands the ICal date/time and duration formats, as defined in RFC 2445. It can be used to parse these formats in order to create the appropriate objects.

Type::Tiny is a small class for writing type constraints, inspired by Moose's type constraint API. It has only one non-core dependency (and even that is simply a module that was previously distributed as part of Type::Tiny but has since been spun off), and can be used with Moose, Mouse and Moo (or none of the above).

Data::Tumbler - Dynamic generation of nested combinations of variants.

This package provides a Perl library that allows refreshing classes at runtime.

The Regexp::Grammars module adds a small number of new regex constructs that can be used within Perl 5.10 patterns to implement complete recursive-descent parsing. It allows you to go beyond matching complex, nested and recursive structures, and allows you to parse and extract hierarchical data from it.

XSLoader module defines a standard simplified interface to the dynamic linking mechanisms available on many platforms. Its primary purpose is to implement cheap automatic dynamic loading of Perl modules.