What's new on CPAN - March 2017

Apr 14, 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!

APIs & Apps

• CPAN::Upload::Tiny a tiny CPAN uploader
• Fetch streamable URLs from radio-station websites using IHeartRadio::Streams
• kritika.io is a code quality service for Perl, use its API with App::Kritika
• Access the Megaport API with Megaport
• Use the Money Over IP v2 API (Brazilian) with Net::Moip::V2
• Net::Zendesk is a thin and lightweight interface for Zendesk’s API
• WebService::Braintree is a fork of Net::Braintree for the Braintree Payment Services Gateway API

Config & Devops

• Install the C libxml2 library on your system with Alien::Libxml2
• Checkout Module::Build::FFI and Alien::Base::ModuleBuild if you want to distribute Alien modules with Build.PL
• Glib::FindMinVersion find the minimum version of GLib needed to compile C source
• Manage LXC containers with Linux::LXC
• Net::SSH::Putty execute SSH sessions with Putty in batch mode

Data

• Bytes::Random::XS generate random bytes in C!
• Convert::Color::HSLuv convert between RGB, CIEXYZ, CIELUV, CIELCh, HSLuv, HPLuv color spaces
• DBIx::Class::ResultSet::SetControl provides convenient looping over DBIC resultsets
• Protocol::FIX a Financial Information eXchange (FIX) parser/serializer
• Starch::Plugin::SecureStateID use cryptographically secure random when making state IDs for Starch

Development & Version Control

• Support line-oriented command interpreters with Cmd::Interpreter
• Forks::Queue a queue that can be shared across processes - neat!
• IO::SigGuard provides signal protection for sysread/syswrite EINTR errors
• Get a minimal mailing list manager with Sietima
• Sort::HashKeys provides a faster hash key sort using XS
• X::Tiny is a lightweight exception framework
• Declare constants and export them automatically using exported::constants

Hardware

• RPi::ADC::MCP3008 is an interface to the MCP3008 analog to digital converter (ADC) on Raspberry Pi

Language & International

• Describe time duration in Spanish using Time::Duration::es

Science & Mathematics

• NanoB2B::NER - turns labeled text lines into ARFF files, as part of an effort to “automatically extract and synthesize knowledge and trends in nanotechnology research” - cool!

Web

• Use websockets in Perl with Net::WebSocket
• Web::AssetLib is a static asset pipeline manager - looks very capable
• Wurm is a new web framework based on fold-r. The docs are entertaining. Bravo!