What's new on CPAN - July 2017

Aug 2, 2017 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!

WebService::CastleIO is a client for the identity theft protection service
Get a simple Perl wrapper around the League of Legends API WWW::RiotGames::LeagueOfLegends
WebService::IFConfig::Client is a client for the IP geo-location site

Validate YAML Front Matter with TidyAll using Code::TidyAll::Plugin::YAMLFrontMatter
List the contents of a directory with Dir::ls
File::ShareDir::Dist can locate per-dist shared files
RL is an alternative to Term::Readline modules, providing an interface to the machine’s readline library on Linux and MacOS
Sort version strings as in GNU filevercmp with Sort::filevercmp
Several new Alien::Build plugins:
- Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::Prompt to prompt a user before downloading tarballs
- Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::Rewrite to override destinations to local network paths for fetching
- Alien::Build::Plugin::Decode::SourceForge to better handle SourceForge links

Geo::GNS::Parser can parse a GNS data file (GeoNET Names Server data)
Get a Perl extension for the libtiff library using Graphics::TIFF
JsonSQL is similar to SQL::Abstract: it defines a JSON format to represent SQL queries which can be validated and then used to generate SQL syntax
Nonblocking MySQL connections via libmariadbclient with MariaDB::NonBlocking
Neo4j::Cypher::Abstract can generate cypher queries in Perl
Create and modify PDFs using PDF::Builder
PGObject::Util::Replication::Standby manages PG replication standbys
Get a simple Postgresql-backed queue with Pg::Queue
Two new DynamoDB helpers that translate DynamoDB documents into Perl data structures and vice-versa:
- Net::Amazon::DynamoDB::Marshaler translates Perl hashrefs into DynamoDb format and vice versa
- PawsX::DynamoDB::DocumentClient a simplified way of working with AWS DynamoDB items that uses Paws under the hood
Write fake AWS services using Paws and PawsX::FakeImplementation::Instance
Paws::Net::MultiplexCaller can route AWS service requests to other callers

Create lexical aliases under different versions of Perl (except 5.20) using Alias::Any
AnyEvent::Consul::Exec can execute commands across a Consul cluster
CLI::Osprey - write command line apps with Moo(se) classes
MooseX::DIC is a dependency injector for Moose