What's new on CPAN - November 2017

Dec 22, 2017 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

• Compute Adler32 digests at the command line with App::adler32
• Get various string escaping/unescaping utilities using App::EscapeUtils
• A simple tool for maintaining a shared group secret with App::GroupSecret
• YouTube has changed their API but you can manage your Watch Later videos with App::WatchLater
• App::weavedoc provides a perldoc for Pod weaver
• Net::Async::Beanstalk is a non-blocking beanstalk client
• WebService::DeathByCaptcha provides a Perly interface for the DeathByCaptcha API
• Get a simple mail.ru client with Mailru::Cloud

Config & Devops

• File::Globstar provides globstar (**) utils
• IPC::Pleather - “C has Cilk, Perl has Pleather”, love it!
• Martian extends Starman with max-memory usage cap
• MooseX::ConfigCascade is another cascading-style config
• Like Capture::Tiny but with more options, POSIX::Run::Capture will run a command and capture its output
• Identify Perl releases and download the most recent via FTP using Perl::Download::FTP
• Parse files with continuation lines with Text::Continuation::Parser
• Pack your Perl applications for Windows with Win32::Packer
• Win32::Shortkeys::Kbh is a module for hooking the keyboard on Windows

Data

• Data::Pokemon::Go aims to provide data for every Pokemon in Pokemon Go, the author is calling for contributors
• Represent a financial asset with Finance::Underlying
• IO::ReadHandle::Chain can conveniently chain IO of multiple sources through a single filehandle
• Find the size of JPEG images with Image::JPEG::Size
• Translate the latest JSON-Schema (v06) into Perl code using JSV::Compiler
• Manipulate LRC karaoke timed lyrics files using Music::Lyrics::LRC
• Read .slob dictionaries (for Aard 2) using Slob
• Generate XML from simple Perl data structures with XML::FromPerl - sounds a lot like XML::Simple, but uses libxml2

Development & Version Control

• Asynchronously run code concurrently in a pool of perl processes using AnyEvent::ProcessPool
• Get a useful counter that signals when it reaches 0 with Coro::Countdown
• Doit is a framework for Perl scripting
• Moose has it’s clones, and now Mojo::Base has Jojo::Base, which implements a lexical has. Naturally there is Jojo::Role too
• Create Moo classes with IO::Async event handlers using MooX::EventHandler
• Sort::Naturally::ICU implements a fast, natural sort

Other

• Generate AWS S3 signed URLs using the aptly-named Amazon::S3::SignedURLGenerator
• Authen::Krb5 provides XS bindings for Kerberos 5, the secure network protocol
• Neovim::RPC::Plugin::Taskwarrior provides a Neovim UI for taskwarrior
• Get printf style functions that handle multibyte characters using Text::VisualPrintf

Science & Mathematics

• Use the Boutros Lab valection C library from Perl with Bio::Sampling::Valection
• Track events and calculate a rolling average of time Time::Spent

Testing

• Test if a cpanfile lists every used module with Test::CPANfile
• Test::Class::WithStrictPlan makes sure Test::Class executes the declared number of tests
• Declare subtests using subroutine attributes with Test::Subtest::Attribute
• Test that your XS files are problem-free with XS::Check with Test::XS::Check
• Test::HTML::Recursive::DeprecatedTags can check HTML files for deprecated tags

Web

• Generate pretty HTML from Perl code in a Dancer2 app using Dancer2::Plugin::SyntaxHighlight::Perl
• Ion aims to be a “clear and concise API for writing TCP servers and clients”
• Mojo::Collection::Role::UtilsBy provides List::UtilsBy methods for Mojo::Collection objects