What's new on CPAN - July 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

WebService::CastleIO is a client for the identity theft protection service

Get a simple Perl wrapper around the League of Legends API WWW::RiotGames::LeagueOfLegends

WebService::IFConfig::Client is a client for the IP geo-location site

Config & Devops

Validate YAML Front Matter with TidyAll using Code::TidyAll::Plugin::YAMLFrontMatter

List the contents of a directory with Dir::ls

File::ShareDir::Dist can locate per-dist shared files

RL is an alternative to Term::Readline modules, providing an interface to the machine’s readline library on Linux and MacOS

Sort version strings as in GNU filevercmp with Sort::filevercmp

Several new Alien::Build plugins: Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::Prompt to prompt a user before downloading tarballs Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::Rewrite to override destinations to local network paths for fetching Alien::Build::Plugin::Decode::SourceForge to better handle SourceForge links



Data

Geo::GNS::Parser can parse a GNS data file (GeoNET Names Server data)

Get a Perl extension for the libtiff library using Graphics::TIFF

JsonSQL is similar to SQL::Abstract: it defines a JSON format to represent SQL queries which can be validated and then used to generate SQL syntax

Nonblocking MySQL connections via libmariadbclient with MariaDB::NonBlocking

Neo4j::Cypher::Abstract can generate cypher queries in Perl

Create and modify PDFs using PDF::Builder

PGObject::Util::Replication::Standby manages PG replication standbys

Get a simple Postgresql-backed queue with Pg::Queue

Two new DynamoDB helpers that translate DynamoDB documents into Perl data structures and vice-versa: Net::Amazon::DynamoDB::Marshaler translates Perl hashrefs into DynamoDb format and vice versa PawsX::DynamoDB::DocumentClient a simplified way of working with AWS DynamoDB items that uses Paws under the hood

Write fake AWS services using Paws and PawsX::FakeImplementation::Instance

Paws::Net::MultiplexCaller can route AWS service requests to other callers

Development & Version Control

Create lexical aliases under different versions of Perl (except 5.20) using Alias::Any

AnyEvent::Consul::Exec can execute commands across a Consul cluster

CLI::Osprey - write command line apps with Moo(se) classes

MooseX::DIC is a dependency injector for Moose

Language & International

Calendar::Julian is a pretty Julian calendar implementation

Science & Mathematics

LinAlg::Vector is a Moose-based vector library

Physics::Ballistics provides utility functions for projectile calculations

Use immutable segment trees with Set::SegmentTree

Web