What's new on CPAN - July 2019

Aug 20, 2019 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

• PawsX::Waiter is a Waiter library for Paws
• Web::NewsAPI can fetch and search news headlines and sources from News API
• Use a language detection API with WebService::DetectLanguage

Config & Devops

• Write cpanfiles without XS dependencies using Module::CPANfile::Writer
• Symlink::DSL provides a domain-specific language for creating symbolic links

Data

• DataLoader abstracts data loading, with batching and caching to reduce overhead
• Get pseudo-random distribution functions with Game::PseudoRand
• Geo::IP6 provides country codes for any ipv6 or ipv4 address
• IO::BlockSync syncs data in blocks instead of whole files which can be useful for slow/unreliable destinations

Development & Version Control

• Encode/decode text for PDF using Encode::PDFDoc
• Lib::Log4cplus provides a Perl interface to Log4cplus
• MooX::TO_JSON saves you having to write a TO_JSON data serializer method for Moo classes
• Check if you are currently in compile time or run time using Perl::Phase
• Time::FFI provides an FFI to POSIX date and time functions
• Time::Moment::Role::Strptime strptime constructor for Time::Moment
• XT::Files is a standard interface for author tests to find files to check

Hardware

• Device::Chip::Adapter::UART is a Device::Chip::Adapter implementation for serial ports

Web

• Mojo::Base::Tiny is a minimal base class for non-Mojo projects
• Mojo::Promisify converts callback code to promise-based code
• Net::Iperf::Parser parses lines from iperf, the network bandwidth tool
• Progressive::Web::Application is a utility for making an application ‘progressive’