What's new on CPAN - August 2019

Sep 10, 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

• WebService::GoShippo is a simple client for Shippo’s shipping and handling API
• Use Google’s CloudTasks API to queue up tasks with Google::CloudTasks
• Manage machines and software using the Puppet Enterprise API with Puppet::Classify and Puppet::Orchestrator
• Configure 433 MHz HC-12 Radio Frequency serial transceivers with RF::HC12
• WWW::PlantUML is a simple client for retrieving diagram URLs from a plantuml server

Config & Devops

• Parse ldap config files with Config::Parser::ldap
• Use XOAUTH2 authentication with Net::POP3 via Net::POP3::XOAuth2
• OpenBSD::Checkpass provides an interface to OpenBSD crypt_checkpass(3)

Data

• DBIx::Class::Helper::WindowFunctions adds basic support for window functions to DBIx::Class
• Clean data so it is safe to output to JSON using Data::Clean::ForJSON
• Dita::PCD is an implementation of the Please Change Dita Language
• Puppet::DB retrieves data (facts, reports) from a Puppet DB

Development & Version Control

• Code::Quality uses static analysis (clang, lizard) to compute a “code quality” metric for a program
• Curses::Readline provides readline for curses
• Perform continuous database migration using Geoffrey
• Partially apply parameters to functions with PartialApplication
• Profile database queries run during tests using Test2::Plugin::DBIProfile
• Collect and display test memory usage information with Test2::Plugin::MemUsage
• parent::versioned establishes ISA relationships with base classes at compile time, with version checking
• Text::Layout can create documents/graphics using the Pango style markup formatting (PDFs, cairo)

Gaming

• Run Conway’s Game of Life faster using Game::Life::Faster

Web

• Mojolicious::Command::static stands up a simple static file server
• Test Mojo under Test2 with Test2::MojoX
• Weasel::DriverRole provides an API definition for Weasel’s driver wrappers