What's new on CPAN - July 2016

Aug 9, 2016 by David Farrell

Welcome to “What’s new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

• Add copyright information to your images with App::CopyrightImage
• Test the tone perception of your ears with App::tonematch
• ExtUtils::PL2Bat converts Perl scripts to batch files to run on Windows
• Get an interface to Mail Chimp’s API using Mail::Chimp3
• OneAll is an all-in-one social media API, use it with WWW::OneAll
• PowerShell wraps PowerShell commands
• Snapforce::API provides a perly interface for the Snapforce CRM API
• Communicate with socket.io servers using SocketIO::Emitter

Config & Devops

• Get a simple API for querying Gentoo’s installed-package database using Gentoo::VDB
• Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitReturnOr checks for use of return ... or ... - an easy mistake to make
• RT-Extension-Tags Extension using RT::Extension::Tags

Data

• Parse::SAMGov parses SAM Entity Management Public Extract Layout from SAM.gov
• Access CSV, XML, HTML and log data with SQL using DBD::AnyData2, a new version of DBIx::AnyData
• Use DBIx::Class in asynchronous environments with DBIx::Connector::Pool
• Data::IEEE754::Tools provides functions for inspecting and manipulating Perl’s floating point values
• Create custom ETL processes using ETL::Pipeline
• Geo::libpostal Perl bindings for the speedy libpostal geo coder (disclaimer: I am the module author)
• MARC::Spec builds and parses the MARCspec record path language
• Daniel Șuteu uploaded two search modules:Search::MultiMatch uses 2 dimensional arrays as keys, and Search::ByPrefix searches for substring matches
• Normalize URIs with URI::Normalize - no more missing trailing slashes, yay!
• YAML::LoadBundle loads a directory of YAML files into a single data structure, with different merge options. Nice!

Development & Version Control

• Use map reduce with just a few lines of code using MapReduce::Framework::Simple
• ReadonlyX aims to be a faster, better version of Readonly. I wonder how it compares to community favorite Const::Fast
• Write your script in any encoding with Filter::Encoding
• Alt::FFI::libffi provides a Perl Foreign Function interface based on libffi
• Monkeypatch Moose exceptions with MooseX::ErrorHandling. Docs say “This module is almost certainly a bad idea”. Ready for production then!
• Params::ValidationCompiler let’s you create and re-use parameter validation routines

Hardware

• Device::Chip::AVR_HVSP enables high-voltage serial programming for AVR chips

Other

• Geo::GoogleEarth::AutoTour generates Google Earth tours using tracks and paths

Web

• Parse::WWWAuthenticate parses the WWW-Authenticate HTTP header; not sure if this is better than using a general purpose parser like HTTP::XSHeaders
• PEF::Front is a new web framework
• Plift is a new templating module
• Implement a mock HTTP server for testing using Test::HTTP::MockServer
• Create a test Apache instance with Test::Instance::Apache