What's new on CPAN - January 2017

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

Config & Devops

  • Version::Dotted supplements Version with new features for dotted version numbers

Data

Development & Version Control

  • Track execution context in async programs with Async::ContextSwitcher
  • Git::ObjectStore is an abstraction layer for Git::Raw and libgit2
  • A Meta Object Protocol for Perl 5 - MOP
  • MooX::Commander - build command line apps with subcommands and option parsing using Moo
  • MoobX is a reactive programming clone of JavaScript’s MobX
  • Ryu provides stream and data flow handling for async code
  • Syntax::Feature::Qn is a Perl syntax extension for line-based quoting
  • Get a minimal mocking framework for Perl using Test::Mockify

Hardware

A bunch of new Raspberry Pi modules thanks to Steve Bertrand:

  • RPi::ADC::ADS is an interface to ADS 1xxx series analog to digital converters (ADC)
  • RPi::DigiPot::MCP4XXXX is interface to the MCP4xxxx series digital potentiometers
  • RPi::HCSR04 is an interface to the HC-SR04 ultrasonic distance measurement sensor
  • RPi::SPI can communicate with devices over the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus

Other

A couple of notable gaming-related releases:

Science & Mathematics

Web


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