What's new on CPAN - August 2018

Sep 4, 2018 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

• Write Anki flashcards with your favorite editor using Anki::Import
• Extract companies data from Yandex Maps to CSV using App::ygeo
• Use the MoceanSMS gateway with WebService::Mocean
• GCloud::CLIWrapper uses Google Cloud APIs via the gcloud CLI
• WWW::Scrape::BillionGraves scrapes the BillionGraves website

Config & Devops

• Net::Doveadm can administer Dovecot
• Pod::Knit stitches together POD documentation like Pod::Weaver, but with its own DOM
• Fix the Win32::Console DESTROY bug by using Win32::Console::PatchForRT33513
• lib::archive loads pure-Perl modules directly from TAR archives

Data

• Use the SQLite3 DBI Driver with optional encryption using DBD::SQLeet
• DBIx::Connector::Retry is a DBIx::Connector with block retry support
• Set::Hash::Keys treats hash keys as sets
• TextFileParser is a text file processor with an overrideable parsing routine

Development & Version Control

• Babel for Perl - what a great idea! Babble
• FFI::Build is a modern way to build C libraries for use with Perl
• Specify a sub return type using attributes with Function::Return
• Enforce types on scalars using Lexical::TypeTiny
• Syntax::Keyword::Dynamically introduces the dynamically keyword which is similar to local
• Apply decorators to your methods via subroutine attributes with decorators
• namespace::lexical is like namespace::clean but instead of deleting subs, it makes them lexical

Language & International

• DateTime::Calendar::TauStation can handle TauStation GCT datetimes!
• Replace homoglyphs with their ASCII lookalike equivalents with Unicode::Homoglyph::Replace

Science & Mathematics

• A numeric grid of weights plus some related functions with Game::DijkstraMap
• Algorithm::Heapify::XS supplies heap primitives for arrays
• Calculate intervals for spaced repetition memorization using Repetition::Interval