What modules are shipped with ActivePerl on Windows in the default installation?

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

I'd like to give instructions on how to run a perl script on Windows. This will ask to use ActivePerl, which the user should install from the download page. Then I may have to ask the user to install a module with the perl package manager (ppm). More likely I don't have to ask them because the modules necessary are shipped with ActivePerl and installed with it by default. So where can I see the list of modules that are always installed?

No, Module-CoreList doesn't do that, because that module lists the modules distributed with perl vanilla, not the ones in ActivePerl. I also can't just look at the modules currently installed on my machine or the documentation, because I've installed extra modules since installing ActivePerl. Does perhaps ActivePerl's online documentation work? Does that list only the modules installed by default? Or also modules from their ppm repository?

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Re: What modules are shipped with ActivePerl on Windows in the default installation? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 08, 2013 at 16:27 UTC
The simplest way would be to install a virgin copy of the appropriate build and then run the command: `ppm query ` [download] It produces a list of all the installed packages that looks like this (truncated): C:\test>ppm query +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +--------------------------------------------+ Śname Śversion Śabstract + ŚareaŚ +--------------------------+-----------+------------------------------ +---------------------------------------+----Ś ŚActivePerl-CPAN-Config Ś1.0 ŚDefault configuration for CPAN +.pm ŚperlŚ ŚActivePerl-Config Ś1.4 ŚOverride the ActivePerl config +uration ŚperlŚ ŚActivePerl-DocTools Ś2.4 ŚMaintain HTML documentation + ŚperlŚ ŚActivePerl-IIS-Config Ś1.0 ŚActivePerl IIS Configuration U +tility ŚperlŚ ŚActivePerl-PPM Ś4.17 ŚThe Perl Package Manager + ŚperlŚ ŚActiveState-PerlCritic Ś10.0 ŚPerlCritic GUI + ŚperlŚ ŚActiveState-RelocateTree Ś1.4 ŚMove perl distribution to new +location ŚperlŚ ŚActiveState-Scineplex Ś1.1 ŚPerl extension to access Scine +plex code lexer ŚperlŚ ŚActiveState-Utils Ś2.10 ŚActiveState's utility modules + ŚperlŚ ŚAlgorithm-C3 Ś0.08 ŚA module for merging hierarchi +es using the C3 algorithm ŚperlŚ ŚAlgorithm-Diff Ś1.1902 ŚCompute `intelligent' differen +ces between two files / lists ŚperlŚ ŚArchive-Extract Ś0.60 ŚGeneric archive extracting mec +hanism ŚperlŚ ŚArchive-Tar Ś1.88 ŚManipulates TAR archives + ŚperlŚ ŚArchive-Zip Ś1.30 ŚProvide an interface to ZIP ar +chive files. ŚperlŚ ŚAttribute-Handlers Ś0.93 ŚSimpler definition of attribut +e handlers ŚperlŚ ŚAutoLoader Ś5.72 Śload subroutines only on deman +d ŚperlŚ ŚB-Debug Ś1.17 ŚWalk Perl syntax tree, printin +g debug info about ops ŚperlŚ ŚB-Keywords Ś1.12 ŚLists of reserved barewords an +d symbol names ŚperlŚ ŚB-Lint Ś1.13 ŚPerl lint + ŚperlŚ ŚBit-Vector Ś7.2 Śunknown + ŚperlŚ ŚCGI.pm Ś3.59 Ś + ŚperlŚ ŚCPAN Ś1.9800 Śquery, download and build perl + modules from CPAN sites ŚperlŚ ŚCPAN-Meta Ś2.120630 Śthe distribution metadata for +a CPAN dist ŚperlŚ ŚCPAN-Meta-YAML Ś0.008 ŚRead and write a subset of YAM +L for CPAN Meta files ŚperlŚ ŚCPANPLUS Ś0.9121 ŚAPI & CLI access to the CPAN m +irrors ŚperlŚ ŚCPANPLUS-Dist-Build Ś0.62 ŚCPANPLUS plugin to install pac +kages that use Build.PL ŚperlŚ ŚCarp Ś1.25 Śalternative warn and die for m +odules ŚperlŚ ŚCarp-Clan Ś6.04 ŚReport errors from perspective + of caller of a "clan" of modules ŚperlŚ ŚClass-Accessor Ś0.34 ŚFaster, but less expandable, a +ccessors ŚperlŚ ŚClass-C3 Ś0.24 ŚA pragma to use the C3 method +resolution order algortihm ŚperlŚ ŚClass-Data-Inheritable Ś0.08 ŚInheritable, overridable class + data ŚperlŚ ŚClass-Load Ś0.13 Śa working (require "Class::Nam +e") and more ŚperlŚ ŚClass-Load-XS Ś0.03 ŚXS implementation of parts of +Class::Load ŚperlŚ ŚClass-Method-Modifiers Ś1.10 Śprovides Moose-like method mod +ifiers ŚsiteŚ ŚClass-XSAccessor Ś1.14 ŚGenerate fast XS accessors wit +hout runtime compilation ŚsiteŚ ... [download] With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: What modules are shipped with ActivePerl on Windows in the default installation? by muba (Priest) on Jan 08, 2013 at 16:14 UTC
If I'm not misinformed, inside the ActivePerl directory there are three directories for modules: lib/ The directory containing the modules that corelist knows about site/ The modules that were installed post-installation by means of cpan, ppm, or whatver vendor/ The non-core modules that were by default installed by your Perl distribution At least it works that way for my Strawberry installation, and I seem to remember it was the same for ActivePerl. I am sure I remember that ActivePerl at least had those directories, and I assume they're used the same way.	[reply]
Re^2: What modules are shipped with ActivePerl on Windows in the default installation? by ambrus (Abbot) on Jan 08, 2013 at 16:26 UTC
It appears you are correct. There's a `site` directory in my ActivePerl install that contains both those modules that I've installed with ppm and one module I've installed from source, but does not contain the modules that came with the ActivePerl install. Thank you for the answer.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: What modules are shipped with ActivePerl on Windows in the default installation? by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Jan 08, 2013 at 19:14 UTC
Why not give them a batch file that 'ppm install's all the modules you might need? The first call will take a while to update the packlists regardless of whether it downloads or not, and any call that needs to download and install something will take a while... But the rest of the calls for things already installed return quite quickly, so you can just include everything you use in the batch file and it won't be too slow. C:\>ppm install opengl Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...done Updating ActiveState Package Repository database...done Downloading trouchelle.com packlist...not modified Downloading Bribes packlist...not modified No missing packages to install C:\>ppm install yaml::tiny Downloading YAML-Tiny-1.51...done Unpacking YAML-Tiny-1.51...done Generating HTML for YAML-Tiny-1.51...done Updating files in site area...done 2 files installed C:\>ppm install yaml::tiny No missing packages to install [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: What modules are shipped with ActivePerl on Windows in the default installation? by ambrus (Abbot) on Jan 08, 2013 at 21:06 UTC
I didn't do this because it turned out that the particular script I distributed doesn't need any modules other than Term::ReadKey and that was packed with ActivePerl. (It's a very simple script, mind you.) If there was at least one dependency that's not distributed with ActivePerl, then yes, I should probably list all the dependencies in such an install script.	[reply]

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