tCMS/.preferred_modules.ini

[JSON]
[JSON::PP]
[JSON::XS]
prefer = Cpanel::JSON::XS
reason = "Use a correct & fast JSON parser"

[YAML]
[YAML::PP]
[YAML::Syck]
prefer = YAML::XS
reason = "Use a correct & fast YAML parser"

[Sereal]
[Storable]
prefer = Cpanel::JSON::XS
reason = "JSON/YAML is preferred serialization format"

[File::Slurper]
prefer = File::Slurper::Temp
for = write_binary write_text
reason = "Avoid mangling files with concurrent writes"

[constant]
prefer = Readonly
reason = "A Readonly variable interpolates, has a sigil to find it by, and refuses an assignment at run time"

[perl/rand]
prefer = Crypt::PRNG
reason = builtin rand() insecure

[perl/sleep]
prefer = Time::HiRes
reason = "The builtin sleeps whole seconds, so a poll interval cannot be shorter than a second"

; tCMS: no [perl/time].  Its times are stored whole-second timestamps, such as
; a post's created, and not intervals, and the tests set the clock through
; CORE::GLOBAL::time, which Time::HiRes::time does not use.

[perl/alarm]
prefer = Time::HiRes
reason = "The builtin takes whole seconds, so it cannot time out sooner than a second"

[perl/readdir]
reason="Use File::Find::find() instead"

[Term::ReadKey]
[IO::Prompt]
[IO::Prompt::Tiny]
[Term::Prompt]
[Prompt::Timeout]
prefer = IO::Prompter
reason = "One way to ask for input; it suppresses echo and copes with not having a terminal"

[MIME::Base32::XS]
[Encode::Base2N]
prefer = MIME::Base32
reason = "MIME::Base32::XS corrupts the heap and pads its output, and Encode::Base2N needs a C++ build that cpm cannot install"