What's new on CPAN - April 2018

May 7, 2018 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

• The RSLinux package manager is written in Perl: App::rs
• WebService::S3::Tiny is a minimalist wrapper for S3 around HTTP::Tiny
• Finance::Robinhood can trade stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrency without commission
• Use the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance RESTful API with Oracle::ZFSSA::Client
• Use the Star Wars API webservice with Perl using Webservice::Swapi

Config & Devops

• Guess the OpenSSL include path using Crypt::OpenSSL::Guess
• Linux::Perl makes system calls but in pure Perl
• Get legacy support (cpanm v1) for Menlo with Menlo::Legacy

Data

• Convert DBIx result schema to JSON schema with DBIx::Result::Convert::JSONSchema
• Data::Cuid can generate collision-resistant IDs
• File::ContentStore provides a content store built on hard links
• Geo::Privacy provides lookups for EU and GDPR countries
• Locate lines in images with Image::Find::Paths
• UUID::URandom creates UUIDs based on /dev/urandom or the Windows Crypto API

Development & Version Control

• Simple, efficient, compile-time class declarations with Class::Slot
• Run external commands and Perl coderefs using Command::Runner
• Test Pod for invalid HTTP/S links using Test::Pod::Links
• Match .gitignore patterns using Text::Gitignore

Other

• Interface with an IXBLUE Gyro using Device::Gyro::IXBLUE
• Generate patterns of text using Game::TextPatterns

Science & Mathematics

• Astro::Units performs astronomical unit conversion with high precision and large number support
• PDL::Cluster provides a PDL compatible interface to the C Clustering library
• Create and manipulate interval trees, using the C based module: Tree::Interval::Fast

Web

• Catalyst::Plugin::ServeFile is a less opinionated, minimally featured way to serve static files
• Mojo::Feed provides Mojo::DOM-based parsing of RSS & Atom feeds
• Add the Content-Security-Policy header to every Mojo HTTP response with Mojolicious::Plugin::CSPHeader
• Attach a console to an async module with MooX::Async::Console
• Read Microformats2 metadata from HTML or JSON with Web::Microformats2