What's new on CPAN - July 2018

Aug 5, 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. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

• App::SlowQuitApps - simplify the configuration of SlowQuitApps app on MacOS
• Get a “cointoss” command for Bernoulli and binomial distributions App::cointoss
• App::colorplus can manipulate ANSI color escape sequences
• Get info about a character with App::unichar
• JavaScript::V8::XS provides XS bindings for the V8 JavaScript engine. Woo!
• Prometheus::Tiny is a tiny client for the time series database
• Perform queries using the Yandex Maps API with Yandex::Geo

Config & Devops

• Parser for HAProxy configuration file using Config::HAProxy
• File::AddInc is a “FindBin” for modulinos

Data

• Net::IP::Checker validates IP addresses correctly
• Send data to the statsd plugin telegraf using Net::Statsd::Client::Telegraf
• Get a ready-made WordPress database schema with WordPress::DBIC::Schema

Development & Version Control

• Write a heap dump file for later analysis with Devel::MAT::Dumper
• Git::LowLevel performs blob/tree/commit operations on a Git repo
• HO::class is a class builder for hierarchical (arrayref) objects
• MooX::Enumeration provides shortcuts for working with enum attributes in Moo
• POE::Filter::ThruPut is a POE filter that passes data through unchanged whilst counting bytes sent and received
• Get a language Server for Perl with Perl::LanguageServer

Language & International

• Text::ANSI::Fold can split text by length but preserve ANSI sequences and multibyte characters

Science & Mathematics

• Perl interface to MXNet Gluon ModelZoo with AI::MXNet::Gluon::ModelZoo
• BioSAILs::Command is a command line wrapper for the BioX-Workflow-Command and HPC-Runner-Command libraries

Web

• Extract email addresses from webpages with Email::Extractor
• Do low-cost desktop software development via loopback and Mojolicious::Plugin::Locof
• Plack::Middleware::LogStderr can redirect all STDERR output to another logger
• Scrape, store and analyze data from NHL.com with Sport::Analytics::NHL