What's new on CPAN - October 2016

Nov 3, 2016 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

• Retrieve status information about Open Tibia MMORPG Servers with Net::OTServ
• Business::TNT::ExpressConnect provides an interface to the shipping company’s API
• Tarantool is an in memory no-SQL store, use it with Perl using DR::Tnt
• Pandoc is a wrapper for the useful document conversion tool
• stasis is an encrypting archive tool using tar, gpg and Perl. It is also a sneaky indexed package without a .pm file (disclosure - I am the module author).
• Get subtitles for videos using WWW::SubDB

Config & Devops

• Bread::Runner is a generic app runner for Bread::Board, the Inversion of Control framework
• Share locks with child processes using File::Lock::ParentLock
• Linux::Netfilter::Log is a Linux netfilter logging (libnetfilter_log) wrapper

Data

• BSON::XS is an XS implementation of MongoDB’s BSON serialization
• Ajv is the premier JavaScript JSON schema validator, now you can use it with Data::JSONSchema::Ajv
• Data::MoneyCurrency provides data about countries’ currencies
• “Templatize” data with Data::Xslate - useful for conditional config files and more
• File::JSON::Slurper slurps and decodes JSON files in a single step
• This looks fun; create black and white PNG files from arrays using Image::PNG::Write::BW
• Test::Postgresql58 is a Perl 5.8 compatible version of Test::Postgresql

Development & Version Control

• Distribute tasks among multiple workers with Broker::Async
• Continual::Process keeps processes running … forever
• Import::Box is a new way to import functions but not pollute the importing namespace
• Using Test2 and missing explain()? Then you’ll love Test2::Tools::Explain
• T encapsulates test imports to avoid polluting main (uses Import::Box)

Hardware

• Device::Chip::HTU21D is a chip driver for HTU21D
• Control Gqrx (software driven radio) using the Remote Control protocol using GQRX::Remote
• App::RPi::EnvUI is a single page app grow room environment control for Raspberry Pi

Language & International

• Compute verb actants for Portuguese using Lingua::PT::Actants

Science & Mathematics

• Conveniently create and consume authenticated and encrypted messages using Crypt::EAMessage
• PDLx::DetachedObject enables subclassing the non-standard PDL classes
• PDLx::Mask can mask multiple piddles with automatic two way feedback

Web

• Don’t call it a framework; MVC::Neaf is a new, minimalist web tool

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.