We can hopefully take all the modules included with 5.6.x as given in this discussion. That means any lowercase 'pragma' style module and the big dogs like B, CGI, Carp, Getopt_Long and such. Seriously, once, Larry and the Pumpking have sanctified a module and the core maintainers are looking over it, I think we can take it as read that the module has been well checked out.

Blessing already has a connotation in Perl so I'm going to be snotty and use "Sanctified" to mark modules that are Monk approved. The list that starts here are just the ones I see recommended everyday or love myself, feel free to strike one down off the list if you have a specific gripe. And for goodness sake, help me fill it out! Let me know especially if you have really dug into the code yourself (or if you wrote it =) and I'll add a '*' or '!' in there linked to you.

What I'm not trying to do is http://testers.cpan.org/search or CPANTS. They are a lot more brave than this here monk. What I think we need is a way to show that as a whole there are some modules that we all know and trust. And in the case of lesser used modules, that someone here has actually eye-balled the source a bit.

Modules that I currently use and have seen promoted on the site regularly are below, they betray a serious "me" bias. It is at least a start: (This list is getting pretty huge so in a number of cases I'm going to ignore the children of a main module. If it installs with a Sanctified Module, 'tis cool, OK?)

Sanctified by Monks?

Built-ins, Sanctified by P5P

If snooped through by a Monk, look for a "*", if written by one, look for '!'. Bundle::CPAN File::Spec MD5 Compress::Zlib Archive::Tar Term::ReadKey Term::ReadLine::Perl CPAN::WAIT WAIT::Client Bundle::libnet Net::Telnet Net::Cmd Net::Config Net::Domain Net::DummyInetd Net::FTP Net::FTP::A Net::FTP::E Net::FTP::I Net::FTP::L Net::FTP::dataconn Net::NNTP Net::Netrc Net::PH Net::POP3 Net::SMTP Net::SNPP Net::Time Bundle::LWP URI MIME::Base64 Digest::MD5 HTML::HeadParser LWP File::Listing HTML::Form HTTP::Cookies HTTP::Daemon HTTP::Date HTTP::Headers HTTP::Headers::Auth HTTP::Headers::ETag HTTP::Headers::Util HTTP::Message HTTP::Negotiate HTTP::Request HTTP::Request::Common HTTP::Response HTTP::Status LWP::Authen::Basic LWP::Authen::Digest LWP::Debug LWP::MediaTypes LWP::MemberMixin LWP::Protocol LWP::Protocol::data LWP::Protocol::file LWP::Protocol::ftp LWP::Protocol::gopher LWP::Protocol::http LWP::Protocol::https LWP::Protocol::mailto LWP::Protocol::nntp LWP::RobotUA LWP::Simple LWP::UserAgent WWW::RobotRules WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM_File CGI * CGI::Apache CGI::Carp CGI::Cookie CGI::Fast CGI::Pretty CGI::Push CGI::Switch CGI::Util DBI * DBI::DBD DBI::FAQ DBI::Format DBI::ProxyServer DBI::Shell DBI::W32ODBC DBD::Sybase * DBD::Oracle DBD::Ingress DBD::Interbase DBD::Pg DBD::mSQL DBD::mysql * DBD::CSV * DBD::DB2 DBD::File DBD::FreeTDS DBD::Informix DBD::ODBC DBD::RAM DBD::XBase Bundle::Apache (mod_perl) * GD HTML::Parser HTML::Entities HTML::Filter HTML::HeadParser HTML::LinkExtor HTML::TokeParser HTML::Mason * HTML::TableExtract HTML::Tagset HTML::Template ! HTML::TreeBuilder HTML::AsSubs HTML::Element HTML::Parse Image::Magick Image::Info IO::Stringy IO::AtomicFile IO::InnerFile IO::Lines IO::Scalar IO::ScalarArray IO::Wrap IO::WrapTie IPC::SysV MIME::Lite MIME::Tools MIME::Body MIME::Decoder::Base64 MIME::Decoder::Binary MIME::Decoder::Gzip64 MIME::Decoder::NBit MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint MIME::Decoder::UU MIME::Entity * MIME::Field::ConTraEnc MIME::Field::ContDisp MIME::Field::ContType MIME::Field::ParamVal MIME::Head MIME::Parser MIME::Parser::Filer MIME::Parser::Reader MIME::Parser::Results MIME::WordDecoder MIME::Words MIME::Base64 MIME::QuotedPrint Mail::Mailer Mail::Address Mail::Cap Mail::Field Mail::Field::AddrList Mail::Field::Date Mail::Filter Mail::Header Mail::Internet Mail::Mailer::mail Mail::Mailer::rfc822 Mail::Mailer::sendmail Mail::Mailer::smtp Mail::Mailer::test Mail::Send Mail::Util Parse::RecDescent PDL POE Quantum::Superpositions Spreadsheet::WriteExcel Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Template * Term::ANSIColor Term::Readline::Perl Term::ReadKey URI URI::Escape URI::Heuristic URI::URL URI::WithBase URI::data URI::file URI::file::Base URI::file::FAT URI::file::Mac URI::file::OS2 URI::file::QNX URI::file::Unix URI::file::Win32 URI::ftp URI::gopher URI::http URI::https URI::ldap URI::mailto URI::news URI::nntp URI::pop URI::rlogin URI::rsync URI::snews URI::telnet Win32 Win32::ChangeNotify Win32::Clipboard Win32::Console Win32::Event Win32::EventLog Win32::File Win32::FileSecurity Win32::IPC Win32::Internet Win32::Mutex Win32::NetAdmin Win32::NetResource Win32::PerfLib Win32::Process Win32::Registry Win32::Semaphore Win32::Service Win32::WinError Win32API::Net Win32::API Win32::RASE XML::Generator XML::Parser XML::Parser::Expat XML::Simple * XML::Twig

This list was auto generated and likely contains stuff you would never call directly. 200 modules there! AnyDBM_File AutoLoader AutoSplit B B::Asmdata B::Assembler B::Bblock B::Bytecode B::C B::CC B::Debug B::Deparse B::Disassembler B::Lint B::Showlex B::Stackobj B::Stash B::Terse B::Xref Benchmark ByteLoader CGI CGI::Apache CGI::Carp CGI::Cookie CGI::Fast CGI::Pretty CGI::Push CGI::Switch CPAN CPAN::FirstTime CPAN::Nox Carp Carp::Heavy Class::Struct Config Cwd DB DB_File Data::Dumper Devel::DProf Devel::Peek Devel::SelfStubber DirHandle Dumpvalue DynaLoader English Env Errno Exporter Exporter::Heavy ExtUtils::Command ExtUtils::Embed ExtUtils::Install ExtUtils::Installed ExtUtils::Liblist ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin ExtUtils::MM_OS2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix ExtUtils::MM_VMS ExtUtils::MM_Win32 ExtUtils::MakeMaker ExtUtils::Manifest ExtUtils::Miniperl ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap ExtUtils::Mksymlists ExtUtils::Packlist ExtUtils::testlib Fatal Fcntl File::Basename File::CheckTree File::Compare File::Copy File::DosGlob File::Find File::Glob File::Path File::Spec File::Spec::Functions File::Spec::Mac File::Spec::OS2 File::Spec::Unix File::Spec::VMS File::Spec::Win32 File::stat FileCache FileHandle FindBin GDBM_File Getopt::Long Getopt::Std I18N::Collate IO IO::Dir IO::File IO::Handle IO::Pipe IO::Poll IO::Seekable IO::Select IO::Socket IO::Socket::INET IO::Socket::UNIX IPC::Msg IPC::Open2 IPC::Open3 IPC::Semaphore IPC::SysV Math::BigFloat Math::BigInt Math::Complex Math::Trig NDBM_File Net::Ping Net::hostent Net::netent Net::protoent Net::servent O ODBM_File Opcode POSIX Pod::Checker Pod::Find Pod::Functions Pod::Html Pod::InputObjects Pod::Man Pod::ParseUtils Pod::Parser Pod::Plainer Pod::Select Pod::Text Pod::Text::Color Pod::Text::Termcap Pod::Usage SDBM_File Safe Search::Dict SelectSaver SelfLoader Shell Socket Symbol Sys::Hostname Sys::Syslog Term::ANSIColor Term::Cap Term::Complete Term::ReadLine Test Test::Harness Text::Abbrev Text::ParseWords Text::Soundex Text::Tabs Text::Wrap Tie::Array Tie::Handle Tie::Hash Tie::RefHash Tie::Scalar Tie::SubstrHash Time::Local Time::gmtime Time::localtime Time::tm UNIVERSAL User::grent User::pwent XSLoader attributes attrs auto autouse base blib bytes charnames constant diagnostics fields filetest integer less lib locale open ops overload re sigtrap strict subs unicode utf8 vars warnings warnings::register

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