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CPAN

Description

We have released the following distributions to CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network):

Wx-Perl-VirtualTreeCtrl

Build a tree control on demand

Cache-AgainstFile

Cache data structures parsed from files, watching for updates to the file

XML-Validate

An XML validator factory

Test-Assertions-TestScript

Provides a base for writing test scripts

Config-Wrest

Read and write Configuration data With References, Environment variables, Sections, and Templating

SQL-Shell

Command interpreter for DBI shells

Any-Renderer

Common API for modules that convert data structures into strings

Email-MIME-CreateHTML

Multipart HTML Email builder

Any-Template

Provide a consistent interface to a wide array of templating languages

File-Policy

Site policy for file I/O functions

Hash-Flatten

Flatten/unflatten complex data hashes

Lingua-MSWordSpell

Word spellchecker

Log-Trace

Provides a unified approach to tracing

Pod-Usage-CGI

Generate usage message for CGI scripts

Pod-Xhtml

Generate well-formed XHTML documents from POD format documentation

Sub-Slice

Split long-running tasks into manageable chunks

Test-Assertions

A simple set of building blocks for both unit and runtime testing

Wx-Perl-FSHandler-UNC

A filesystem handler for UNC filepaths

Each distribution goes through a peer reviewing, test coverage and platform testing process before being released. We currently test on:

• Solaris
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• Mac OS X
• Win32 (Activestate perl)

Modules with platform dependencies (e.g. Wx-Perl-FSHandler-UNC and Lingua-MSWordSpell) are only tested on a subset of these. Where possible modules are designed to work with older versions of perl (everything is tested with perl 5.6.x and most are tested on perl5.004) as well as recent versions.

If you find a bug or have a suggestion for a feature, please contact us. Occasionally there may be times when we're working to a tight deadline and unable to implement changes immediately, but we'll make every effort to respond quickly.

The Files

Please see the CPAN projects page for these