Subject: New Module List Posted
From: [email-masked] (Andreas Koenig)
Date: 6 May 1997 21:07:14 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce

The Perl 5 Module List, v2.41...
================================

A new revision is on it's way around USENET and CPAN. It has been
posted to

    news:comp.lang.perl.modules

and uploaded to

    http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/00modlist.long.html

The recent changes are appended below. As usual, comments, corrections
and suggestions are more than welcome. Please don't hesitate, mail
them to [email-masked]

I believe that I have taken into account all mails we have received
since the last posting. If this is not the case, please let us know.

A big thank you to all contributors helping to keep the document up to
date. I hope, you enjoy it!

andreas

Recent Changes in the modules database
--------------------------------------

4) Operating System Interfaces
------------------------------
Errno          cdpf  Constants from errno.h EACCES, ENOENT etc    GBARR !

Mac::Apps::
::Anarchie     RdpO  Interface to Anarchie with AppleEvents       CNANDOR +

Mac::Comm::
::OT_PPP       RdpO  Interface to Open Transport/PPP              CNANDOR +

5) Networking, Device Control (modems) and InterProcess Communication
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Net::
::ACAP         adpO  Interface to ACAP Protocol (Internet-Draft)  KJOHNSON +
::Bind         adpO  Interface to bind daemon files               KJOHNSON +
::ICAP         adpO  Interface to ICAP Protocol (Internet-Draft)  KJOHNSON +
::IMAP         adpO  Interface to IMAP Protocol (RFC2060)         KJOHNSON +
::Ping         SupO  TCP and ICMP ping (will come with perl5.004) RMOSE !
::Ping         Supf  TCP ping (comes with with perl5.003)         PMQS !
::xAP          adpO  Interface to IMAP,ACAP,ICAP substrate        KJOHNSON +

RPC::
::ONC          adcO  ONC RPC interface (works with perlrpcgen)    JAKE !

6) Data Types and Data Type Utilities (see also Database Interfaces)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Bit::
::Vector       RdcO  Efficient bit vector base class              STBEY !

Set::
::IntRange     RdcO  Set of integers (arbitrary intervals, fast)  STBEY +
::Window       bdpO  Manages an interval on the integer line      SWMCD +

7) Database Interfaces (see also Data Types)
--------------------------------------------
DBD::
::Solid        amcO  Solid Driver for DBI                         TWENRICH +

8) User Interfaces (Character and Graphical)
--------------------------------------------
Term::
::Size         adcf  Simple way to get terminal size              TIMPX +

11) Text Processing, Parsing and Searching
------------------------------------------
SGMLS          RdpO  A Post-Processor for SGMLS and NSGMLS        INGOMACH !

Text::
::Bib          RdpO  Module moved to Text::Refer                  ERYQ !
::Refer        RdpO  Parse refer(1)-style bibliography files      ERYQ +

13) Internationalization and Locale
-----------------------------------
Locale::
::Country      cdpf  ISO 3166 two letter country codes            NEILB +
::Language     cdpf  ISO 639 two letter language codes            NEILB +

15) World Wide Web, HTML, HTTP, CGI, MIME etc (see Text Processing)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
MIME::
::Lite         bdpO  Single module for composing simple MIME msgs ERYQ !

16) Server and Daemon Utilities
-------------------------------
MailBot        cdpO  Archive server, listserv, auto-responder     RHNELSON +

18) Images, Pixmap and Bitmap Manipulation, Drawing and Graphing
----------------------------------------------------------------
OpenGL         adcf  Interface to OpenGL drawing/imaging library  ADESC !
ThreeD         i     Namespace root for all kinds of 3D modules   ADESC +

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