What's new on CPAN - February 2020

Mar 12, 2020 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

• API::GitForge is a generic interface to APIs of sites like GitHub, GitLab etc.
• Build GIMP from its git repo using App::gimpgitbuild
• Use reCAPTCHA API version v3 with Captcha::reCAPTCHA::V3
• Work with the Windows Credential Manager using credsman
• Send email via the SendGrid v3 Web API with Email::SendGrid::V3
• Git::Annex is a Perl interface for git-annex repositories
• Gtk3::WebKit2 provides WebKit2 bindings for Perl
• Neo4j::Bolt can communicate with a Neo4j server agent using Bolt protocol
• Control Windows Notepad++ app with code using Win32::Mechanize::NotepadPlusPlus
• OPCUA::Open62541 is a wrapper for the open62541 OPC UA library
• Query Rundeck’s REST API with RundeckAPI
• Weather::MOSMIX downloads and parses the German weather service’s forecast data

Config & Devops

• Mojo::File::Share aims to provide better local share directory support with Mojo::File
• Net::DNS::DomainController::Discovery can discover Microsoft Active Directory domain controllers via DNS
• Pb is a workflow system made from Perl and bash

Data

• Jasonify is Just Another Serialized Object Notation library
• Create PDFs with Mxpress::PDF

Development & Version Control

• Set default PerlIO layers with open::layers, an alternative to the open pragma
• Git::Repository::Plugin::Diff adds a diff method to Git::Repository
• LooksLike provides more precise alternatives to looks_like_number
• Have a role fire a callback when its applied via Role::Hooks
• Test::Arrow is an Object-Oriented testing library with a fun syntax
• Mock method behavior with queued subs using Test::Ratchet
• Timer::Milestones is an easy-to-use code timing module
• Track changes to scalars (in color!) with Var::Mystic
• XS::Manifesto describes an approach for creating shared XS code
• Zydeco is a new OO framework

Science & Mathematics

• Get Raycast field-of-view and related routines using Game::RaycastFOV
• Math::Spiral returns an endless stream of X, Y offset coordinates which represent a spiral shape
• Add numbers with fewer numerical errors using Math::Summation

Web

• Manage an ecosystem of Plack organisms under Kelp with Kelp::Module::Symbiosis
• Plack::Middleware::HealthCheck adds a health check endpoint for your Plack app
• Control an embedded WebKit2 engine with WWW::WebKit2