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This module is intended to provide a general-purpose date and datetime type for perl. You have a Class::Date class for absolute date and datetime, and have a Class::Date::Rel class for relative dates. You can use ``+'', ``-'', ``<'' and ``>'' operators as with native perl data types.

The Class::MakeMethods framework allows Perl class developers to quickly define common types of methods. When a module "use"s a subclass of Class::MakeMethods, it can select from the supported method types, and specify a name for each method desired. The methods are dynamically generated and installed in the calling package.

This distribution facilitates the run-time generation of classes which inherit from a base class and some optional selection of mixin classes. A factory is provided to generate the mixed classes with multiple inheritance. A NEXT method allows method redispatch up the inheritance chain.

Apache Ant, a Java-based build tool, conceptually similar to make. Ant uses XML build files that defines a set of targets. Each target has dependencies (other targets) and contains a set of tasks to perform. There are tasks for various things, like compiling ("javac"), copying ("copy"), deleting ("delete"), executing other programs ("java", "exec", "execon", etc.), stylesheet transformations ("style") and so on.

This module provide a single function called dump_xml() that takes a list of perl values as argument and produce a string as result. The string returned is an XML document that represents any perl data structures passed in. Reference loops are handled correctly. Seamus Venasse <svenasse@polaris.ca>

Date::Manip is a series of modules designed to make any common date/time operation easy to do. Operations such as comparing two times, calculating a time a given amount of time from another, or parsing international times are all easily done.

The Devel::Modlist perl module provides a means by which to get a quick run-down on which libraries and modules are being utilized by a given perl script. Just as compiler systems like gcc provide dependency information via switches such as -M, Devel::Modlist is intended to assist script authors in preparing dependency information for potential users of their scripts.

Devel::PartialDump is a data dumper optimized for logging of arbitrary parameters. It attempts to truncate overly verbose data, in a way that is hopefully more useful for diagnostics warnings than warn Dumper(@stuff); Unlike other data dumping modules there are no attempts at correctness or cross referencing, this is only meant to provide a slightly deeper look into the data in question.

IO::BufferedSelect - Line-buffered select interface The purpose of this module is to implement a buffered version of the select interface that operates on lines, rather than characters. Given a set of filehandles, it will block until a full line is available on one or more of them.

This module allows you to use the GConf configuration system in order to store/retrieve the configuration of an application. The GConf system is a powerful configuration manager based on a user daemon that handles a set of key and value pairs, and notifies any changes of the value to every program that monitors those keys. GConf is used by GNOME 2.x.