What's new on CPAN - September 2019

Oct 12, 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

• Turn comments above functions to pod with App::CommentToPod
• Post messages to Discord chat service using WebService::Discord::Webhook
• IO::IPFinder is the official Perl module for ipfinder.io
• Get an interface to VMWare vCloud Directory REST API using VMware::vCloudDirector2

Config & Devops

• Sys::RunAlone::Flexible2 makes sure only one invocation of a script is active at a time
• File::Collector aims to be a generic file collection and processing framework

Data

• DBIx::Insert::Multi can insert multiple table rows in a single statement
• Get syntactic sugar for select with Data::FDSet
• Get convenient file slurping and spurting of JSOn using JSON::Slurper
• UUID4::Tiny provides cryptographically secure v4 UUIDs for Linux x64 systems

Development & Version Control

• Class::Accessor::Typed is like Class::Accessor::Lite with Moose-style type declarations
• Cache messages to an object using Class::Simple::Cached
• FFI::Platypus::Record::StringArray provides experimental support for arrays of C strings for FFI record classes
• Get true tail recursion with Keyword::TailRecurse, wow!
• Long::Jump return to a specific point from a deeply nested stack
• MooX::Role::CliOptions combines Moo classes with Getopt::Long for object oriented scripting
• Net::Curl::Promiser provides a promise-based interface for Net::Curl::Multi

Hardware

• Device::Chip::CC1101 is a driver for the Texas Instruments CC1101 radio transceiver

Science & Mathematics

• Math::Polynomial::ModInt is a subclass of Math::Polynomial for “modular integer coefficient spaces”
• Parse Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology (OBO) and Gene Association File (GAF) files with obogaf::parser