What's new on CPAN - May 2017

Jun 13, 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!

N.B. I’ll be speaking at The Perl Conference: DC 2017. My talk What’s New on CPAN - Annual Edition will cover some highlights and curiosities from the past year of CPAN uploads. Come and say hi!

APIs & Apps

• Net::Async::Trello is a low level, minimalist client for Trello
• Get a non blocking interface to Music Player Daemon with AnyEvent::Net::MPD
• VMware::vCloudDirector provides an interface to VMWare vCloud Directory REST API

Config & Devops

• CloudDeploy is a toolkit for building and managing AWS CloudFormation stacks
• A simple distributed cloud friendly cron for the masses using CloudCron

Data

• Generate color data for testing using Data::Faker::Colour
• File::PCAP is a module for reading/writing PCAP files
• Automatically normalize Unicode hash keys with Hash::Normalize
• Net::DNS::Extlang is a DNS extension language

Development & Version Control

• API::CLI is a generic framework for creating REST API command line clients
• Benchmark different parameter validation modules using Benchmark::Featureset::ParamCheck
• Ref::Util::XS is the XS implementation of Ref::Util
• Get a superfast router using Router::XS (disclaimer: I am the module author)
• SQS::Worker is a lightweight framework for async processing of messages from SQS queues
• Get tab completion in the Reply REPL for exported symbol names with Reply::Plugin::Autocomplete::ExportedSymbols

Hardware

• Interact with the Palo Alto firewall API with Device::PaloAlto::Firewall
• Extract GPS data from GPS units using GPSD::Parse
• Access and manipulate Raspberry Pi GPIO pins with RPi::Pin
• Image::Sane let’s you use SANE-compatible scanner devices from Perl

Other

• XS::Tutorial provides documentation for learning Perl XS (disclosure, I am the module author).

Science & Mathematics

• AI::XGBoost is a Perl wrapper for XGBoost, the gradient boosting machine learning framework
• Bio::DB::Big provides a perly interface to BigWig and BigBed files via libBigWig

Web

• Log LWP requests as curl commands using LWP::CurlLog
• Test::HTTP::LocalServer implements a tiny HTTP server for testing
• WWW::Mechanize::Plugin::Selector adds a CSS selector method for WWW::Mechanize

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.