What's new on CPAN - September 2017

Oct 6, 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

• Convenient send Bitcoin from a NoodlePi using App::NoodlePay
• App::SSH::SwitchShell let’s you use your preferred shell and own home directory for shared SSH accounts
• Fetch the air date of your favorite TV show’s next episode using WebService::NextEpisode
• WebService::Vichan is an API client for 4chan and vichan-based imageboards
• A perl PagerDuty client with PagerDuty::Agent
• Sendmail::AbuseIPDB API access for IP address abuse database
• Slack::Notify can Trigger Slack incoming webhooks
• Splunk HTTP Event Collector (HEC) Client with Splunk::HEC

Config & Devops

• Map Perl releases to location of the tarballs via MetaCPAN API using CPAN::Perl::Releases::MetaCPAN
• Win32::PowerShell::IPC can interactively manipulate a captive PowerShell process
• Enumerate printers in Windows using Win32::EnumPrinters

Data

• Document::OOXML manipulates of Office Open XML files
• Geo::OSM::Render is a collection of modules to render OpenStreetMap data
• Text::Control transforms control characters and makes them easy to spot

Development & Version Control

• Acme::Data::Dumper::Extensions - experimental enhancements Data::Dumper, fun!
• Const::Fast::Exporter can export Const::Fast immutable variables
• Importer::Zim can import functions à la Invader Zim. Similar to Import::Box
• Convert lists to hashes extremely fast with List::ToHash
• Allow Moo attributes to be “thunked” using MooX::Thunking
• MooseX::AccessorsOnly can react when users root around inside your objects
• goto::file Stop parsing the current file and move on to a different one. Woah!
• Build trampolining functions with async/await syntax using Async::Trampoline

Hardware

• Lab::VXI11 Perl interface to VXI-11 test & measurement backend
• Use Pimoroni’s Awesome Unicorn HAT HD with RPi::UnicornHatHD

Language & International

• Emoji::NationalFlag convert from country code to national flag emoji
• Extract Strings To PO Files with Locale::XGettext

Science & Mathematics

• Crypt::Cisco provides commands for Cisco Type 7 Passwords
• MEME::Alphabet provides nucleobase alphabet capabilities for Perl code.

Web

• Dancer2::Plugin::OpenAPIRoutes creates routes automatically from a Swagger config file. Cool!
• Mojo::IOLoop::ReadWriteProcess executes external programs or internal code blocks as separate process.
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Loop provides convenience functions for looping in Mojo templates

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.