What's new on CPAN - February 2019

Mar 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

• App::termpub is an epub reader for the terminal
• WebService::TaxJar provides a simple client to TaxJar’s REST API
• Geocode strings using datasciencetoolkit (US & UK) Geo::Coder::DataScienceToolkit
• Query RightScale for server info using RightScale::Query
• Three new distributions for IP address APIs by Kang Meng:
  • WebService::GeoIPify
  • WebService::IPAPI
  • WebService::IPStack

Config & Devops

• Disable the touchpad when a mouse is connected using App::DTWMIC
• Parse, manipulate and validate CloudFormation documents with Cfn
• Dynamically inject data into static data with Data::MethodProxy
• Log::MixedColor logs messages in different colors
• More easily use platform libraries provided by pkg-config with Module::Build::Using::PkgConfig

Data

• Diff cnf and ini files using App::mycnfdiff
• Data::Hopen is a build tool (e.g. make) with first-class edges and explicit dependencies
• DataStruct::Flat flattens nested data structures into a hash of key pair values
• Parse and cache spreadsheets for faster repeat processing with Spreadsheet::Read::Ingester
• Decode audio/video files using LibVLC with VideoLAN::LibVLC
• YottaDB is a Perl interface to the NoSQL YottaDB database

Development & Version Control

• AnyEvent::XSPromises this Promises library is implemented in XS for performance
• Alternatively, Promise::ES6 provides ES6-style promises
• Create tiny classes with read-only attributes using Class::Tiny::Immutable
• Test2::Tools::FFI provides routines for convenient FFI testing

Science & Mathematics

• Perform matrix operations and LUP decomposition using Math::MatrixLUP