What's new on CPAN - January 2015

Welcome to “What’s new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. This year we’re running a new feature: “module of the month”, where we highlight our favorite new CPAN upload. Enjoy!

Module of the month

FFI::Platypus enables Perl to call foreign language functions (e.g. Python, C, Rust) using libffi. Unlike using XS, no knowledge of C is required. The module not only works great but has comprehensive documentation and is under active development.

Module author Graham Ollis has also blogged about it. FFI::Platypus is hosted on GitHub, check it out!

APIs & Apps

Config & DevOps

Data

  • HTML::Differences provides “reasonably sane” HTML diffs
  • Compare database structures using DBIx::Diff::Schema
  • Data::Fake is a data generator module with a functional interface
  • Read and update complex data structures easily using Data::Focus
  • Phash::FFI is an interface for an external library that hashes media files to test for similarity

Development and Interop

  • FFI::Me is provides some sugar over FFI::Raw that lets you call foreign language (e.g. C, Python, Ruby) library functions
  • Generate a simple-but-sensible module readme with Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Readme::Brief
  • Object::Properties is another class library, similar to Object::Tiny with some additional features
  • ARGV::Struct parses complex command line arguments

Testing & Debugging

Web


This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.

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