Perl module ideas #4
About the Perl Module Ideas posting series. Previous posts: #1, #2, #3.
1. JSON::Color, YAML::Color. I'm loving colors on the terminal. Only recently (yes, recently!) found out that terminals can support 256 colors. After Log::Any::App and Data::Dump::Color, I'm looking forward to see JSON::Color and YAML::Color, and might even write them myself someday if needed.
Since there are already several syntax highlighters targetting HTML (like those Javascript-based ones, search.cpan.org is even using one), a feasible approach is to convert HTML output of syntax-highlighted JSON/YAML/others to ANSI. Sort of the reverse of HTML::FromANSI.
Yet another approach might be to raw dump the output of color-supporting text-based browser like links2 (complete with its ANSI escape codes), though I can't seem to activate its color support in my terminal ATM.
2. Compress::smaz. An interface to the smaz compression library. Might be useful someday, since I deal with language text a lot.
3. RSS::CPAN::ReverseDepends. In a similar spirit to previous idea, RSS::Mention::CPAN::Module, this module can generate feeds to let CPAN authors know when there is a new module on CPAN using (one of his, or any of his) modules. This should be easily done using the MetaCPAN API.
A programmer (mostly Perl 5 nowadays).
My CPAN ID: SHARYANTO. I'm sedusedan on perlmonks. My twitter is stevenharyanto (but I don't tweet much). Follow me on github: sharyanto.
UPDATE: JSON::Color has been implemented as has YAML::Tiny::Color. As for #3, I have written App::ListRevDeps and run them regularly against my Perl modules, to check if there is any new CPAN dist (not written by me) that depends on them.