What's new on CPAN - June 2019

Jul 26, 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

• Install all modules under a certain CPAN namespace using App::cpanm::namespace
• OpenTracing - application process monitoring as defined by opentracing.io
• VoIPms is an API wrapper for VoIP.ms
• WebService::WordsAPI provides a Perly interface for retrieving data about words

Data

• Use ChromaPrint with Perl using Audio::Chromaprint
• IO::Uncompress::Untar is a Pure-perl module for reading tar, tgz, .tar.bz2 etc files/buffers
• Linux::PacketFilter provides a simple interface to Linux packet filtering
• YAML::Safe is a refactored version of YAML::XS

Development & Version Control

• Dig into the guts of a live Perl program with Endoscope (great name!)
• Process a list with callbacks with Mojo::AsyncList
• Get subroutine meta information with Sub::Meta
• Test::Pod::LinkCheck::Lite tests non-URL POD links
• Aggregate tests with Test2::Aggregate
• Try::Harder is a pure-Perl, source-filter attempt to get the functionality of Syntax::Keyword::Try compatible with older Perl versions
• Web::Solid::Test::Basic provides reusable tests via RDF

Hardware

• Device::AVR::UPDI interacts with an AVR microcontroller over UPDI
• RPi::EEPROM::AT24C32 reads and writes to the AT24C32 based EEPROM ICs
• RPi::OLED::SSD1306::128_64 is an interface to the SSD1306-esque 128x64 OLED displays
• RPi::SysInfo retrieves hardware system information from a Raspberry Pi

Other

• Game::LevelMap is a module for representing game level maps
• Play the Platforms of Peril game: Game::PlatformsOfPeril
• Z3::FFI provides an FFI to the Z3 solver/prover

Web

• Mozilla::IntermediateCerts can download and parse Mozilla intermediate certificates
• Serve GraphQL from Plack / PSGI with Plack::App::GraphQL
• Search::QS parses a query string DSL into a search query
• URI::Pure adds support to URI for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRI)