Perl Modules with ActivePerl and PPM (Perl Package Manager)
Perl Modules Pre-Compiled with ActivePerl
Save time from having to compile your own Perl modules, by using ActivePerl, complete with thousands of modules already pre-compiled for you. Here are some of the popular modules included with the ActivePerl core:
- DBD::ODBC, DBD::Oracle
- Net::FTP, Net::Telnet
- XML::Parser, HTML::Parser
- Crypt::SSLeay
- Algorithm::Diff, Text::Diff
- Date::Calc
- Perl::Critic
- Devel::NYTProf
- Moose
Download ActivePerl Community Edition to get started.
Perl modules with ActivePerl PPM (Perl Package Manager)
ActivePerl offers significant time savings over open source Perl for installing, removing, upgrading, and managing Perl modules, using PPM (Perl Package Mangaer). In addition to the modules already bundled with ActivePerl, there are thousands more Perl modules that can be installed from PPM - the ActivePerl online repository of compiled CPAN distributions.
Here is a sample of some of the most popular modules accessed through PPM:
- Database:
DBD-mysql - Date&Time:
DateTime, TimeDate - Parsers: Parse-RecDescent
- Email:
Email-Simple, MailTools, MIME-tools, MIME-Types - XML:
XML-Twig, XML-SAX - Utility:
Moose, List-MoreUtils, IO-stringy, Try-Tiny - Excel:
Spreadsheet-ParseExcel, Spreadsheet-WriteExcel - Encryption:
Crypt-DES, Crypt-Blowfish, Crypt-DSA
Download ActivePerl Community Edition to get started, then launch ppm which provides both command line and GUI access to all modules available through PPM*.
