What's new on CPAN - November 2019

Dec 11, 2019 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::Greple::subst can perform text search and substitution using a dictionary
• App::RetroPAN returns distribution information for a module on a given date
• Control monitors via DDC/CI protocol using DDCCI

Config & Devops

• Config::Eggdrop::Userfile is a parser for userfiles generated by the Eggdrop IRC bot
• Get all the modules that should have been installed with your copy of Perl: Task::CoreModules

Data

• Parse EXIF timestamps into DateTime objects using DateTime::Format::EXIF
• Finance::Salary::Rate can calculate hourly rates for small businesses
• Read an X11 PCF font file using Font::PCF
• MsOffice::Word::Surgeon (great name!) it operates on the “guts” of docx files
• Use the msgpack C library for fast data serialization with MsgPack::Raw
• Parse Zeek (network analysis) logfiles with Zeek::Log::Parse

Development & Version Control

• Generate code coverage in a JSON file for codecov.io Devel::Cover::Report::Codecovbash
• Add pack and unpack methods to an IO::Handle with IO::Handle::Packable
• Use Linux::FD::Pid to create PID file descriptors to await the termination of a process
• Password::OWASP can manage passwords according to OWASP recommendations
• portable::loader defines and loads classes and roles with no fixed package name for portability

Fun

• Acme::LSD is a fun module that colorizes printed output
• Control Minecraft servers using RCON with Net::RCON::Minecraft

Science & Mathematics

• Annotate fragements in metabolomics using Metabolomics::Fragment::Annotation