What's new on CPAN - January 2018

Feb 3, 2018 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. A full list of January’s new distributions can be found here. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

• App::NDTools provides diff tools for nested structures
• Get a non-blocking interface to Music Player Daemon using Net::Async::MPD
• Net::Ethereum::Swarm provides an API for Ethereum Swarm
• Lookup cryptocurrency exchange rates and query the Binance api with WebService::Binance

Config & Devops

• Net::ACME2 supports the new wildcard certificates, as author Felipe Gasper recently announced
• Get more methods for version numbers via version::Normal
• Data::Password::zxcvbn is a port of Dropbox’s password strength estimator

Data

• Use Postresql’s pg_recvlogical from Perl with AnyEvent::PgRecvlogical
• Business::cXML implements several cXML request/response messages
• Quickly start a database server using DBIx::QuickDB
• Convert MGRS coordinates to UTM or lat/lon in C with Geo::Coordinates::MGRS::XS
• Convert to and from proquints (“readable, spellable, and pronounceable identifiers”) with Proquint
• Marshall LibXML nodes and native objects with XML::LibXML::Ferry
• XML::LibXML::Proxy can force LibXML to use a proxy for HTTP/HTTPS external entities

Development & Version Control

• Conveniently set breakpoints in subroutines using Devel::ModuleBreaker
• Git::Repository::Plugin::Dirty provides methods to inspect the dirtiness of a git repository
• MooseX::Attribute::Multibuilder lets’ you share a builder routine between attributes
• Report tests via Metabase, but fallback to files using Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase::Fallback
• Test::Snapshot test against data stored in automatically-named file á la “snapshot testing”
• Test with hires time using Test::Time::HiRes
• Util::EvalSnippet speeds up application development by avoiding reloads

Hardware

• Access TP-Link Device APIs from Perl with Device::TPLink

Science & Mathematics

• Use Algorithm::ConstructDFA2 for deterministic finite automaton construction
• Align or re-align sequences via Bio::MUST::Apps::TwoScalp
• Bio::SearchIO::blastxml is a SearchIO implementation of NCBI Blast XML parsing
• Crypt::Sodium::Nitrate is a wrapper for libsodium, the cryptography library
• Math::GF conducts arithmetic on Galois (finite) fields
• PDL::Algorithm::Center provides various methods of finding the center of a sample
• Parse R package DESCRIPTION (metadata) files using R::DescriptionFile

Web

• Send statistics to statsd with Plack::Middleware::Statsd