BW-Lib by Bill Weinman http://bw.org/ 14 February 2010 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- BW-Lib (collectively, the BW::* module tree) is a set of perl modules developed by Bill Weinman over the course of about 15 years. It provides a uniform interface for a number of common functions, most of which are available elsewhere with other interfaces. The purpose of this library is to provide a common set of functions for use in developing applications in Perl without having to use a lot of different libraries with different requirements and different interfaces. The commonality of the interfaces works for me. Please note: This library duplicates the functionality of a number of other common modules, so there is very little here that is unique. It's not designed to be "better" -- only more uniform, and therefor easier to use (at least I find it so). I've submitted it to CPAN so that it can be easily installed for the various applications that I distribute that use it. This library provides: BW::Base - Base routines for BW::* modules BW::Constants - Commonly used constants BW::Common - Some common utility functions BW::CGI - Simple OO CGI (this is NOT a CGI.pm plugin replacement!) BW::Config - Support for simple configuration files BW::Email - Support for sending email messages BW::Include - Apache SSI-compatible Include file processing (Templates) BW::Jumptable - Jump table support (for simple state machines) The emphasis here is on *simple*. All of these modules are intended to do their job simply and effectively. Most of this was written independent of and often before the popular modules that they may duplicate in CPAN. See INSTALL for installation instructions.