CPAN modules for making shells

Oberon has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Enlightened ones,

I'm considering converting a couple of my programs over to using a CPAN module for doing shell-like programs. Problem is, there appear to be several decent choices, and I'm not sure which one to go with. I'm leaning towards Term::ShellUI. The other good contender is Term::Shell, probably enhanced by (naturally enough) Term::Shell::Enhanced. There's also Shell::Base, but it doesn't seem to offer much beyond the T::S + T::S::E combo, plus it hasn't been updated in a while (which is not necessarily bad, sure, but may as well go with something that still looks like it's being actively developed, all other things being equal).

Does anyone have experience with any of these, or (even better) more than one of them? I'd love to hear some opinions and/or comparisons.

I patiently await wisdom to be visited upon me.

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Re: CPAN modules for making shells by quester (Vicar) on Jan 26, 2008 at 05:42 UTC
Possibly not directly useful, but... for something Perl and shelly and, as Monty Python would observe, completely different, you might want to look at the Zoidberg shell.	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN modules for making shells by Oberon (Monk) on Jan 29, 2008 at 02:05 UTC
> Possibly not directly useful, but... for something Perl > and shelly and, as Monty Python would observe, completely > different, you might want to look at the Zoidberg shell. That would definitely be completely different. :-D I did look at Zoidberg briefly, but it's more of a Perl shell, which is more than what I really need. There are a couple of other options in that camp as well (although I can't recall any names ATM), but I was mainly concentrating on those that were mostly "hollow", so to speak, waiting for me to fill in the creamy center. :)	[reply]