What's new on CPAN - May 2016

Jun 7, 2016 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

• App::VTide is an API for Tmux servers
• Use the DNSMadeEasy v2.0 API with WebService::DNSMadeEasy
• Get a perly interface to site24x7.com with WebService::Site24x7
• DR::Msgpuck provides Perl bindings for msgpuck, the speedy message packer
• Resolve domain names with Google Public DNS using Google::DNS
• Ufal::UDPipe provides bindings for UDPipe, a linguistics library
• Use the Gtk3 SourceView widget in Perl with Gtk3::SourceView
• Get ssl certificates via the startssl API using StartCom::API

Config & Devops

• Linux::RTC::Ioctl provides Real Time Clock access using the Linux driver ioctl interface
• Log::Contextual::WarnLogger::Fancy is a lightweight logger with a heavyweight name
• Cache log messages and throw them later using Log::Stack
• Netflow::Collector looks like a convenient packet collector
• Manage QMail message queues with QMail::QueueHandler

Data

• Data::RecordStore is a simple, pure Perl record data store
• Interesting: convert PNGs into plans to build a fuse bead replica with FuseBead::From::PNG
• Extract normalized sections from PEM files using Parse::PEM::Lax
• Struct::Diff provides diffs of Perl data structures
• For an insanely fast upgrade for URI::Escape, see URI::XSEscape

Development & Version Control

• Get a Perl implementation of the Inky template language with Inky
• MooX::POE provides a POE::Session attribute for Moo classes
• MooX::PluginKit is a comprehensive new plugin system. Wow!
• NativeCall is an foreign function interface similar to Perl 6’s
• Build an optimized subroutine parameter validator once, and use it forever with Params::CheckCompiler
• Get a minimal, stand-alone preprocessor for code generation with Preproc::Tiny
• Test::Needs skips tests when modules are not available
• This is useful - fail if tests warn with Test2::Plugin::NoWarnings

Other

• Get those beautiful Color schemes from Cynthia Brewer’s ColorBrewer with Color::Brewer

Science & Mathematics

• Fast symbolic calculations with arbitrary large rationals using Math::BigSym
• Math::BivariateCDF a Perl extension for Bivariate CDF functions.

Web

• Inject modules into Catalyst applications using CatalystX::InjectModule
• Contenticious builds web sites from markdown
• Use WWW::Mechanize over Tor with WWW::Mechanize::Tor

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.