What's new on CPAN - February 2017

Mar 13, 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

• Facebook Messenger Send API using Facebook::Messenger::Client
• Taskwarrior::Kusarigama provides a plugin system for the Taskwarrior task manager
• WebService::Fitbit can get, post and delete Fitbit API data
• Get a perly interface to the Foreman API using WWW::Foreman::API

Config & Devops

• Get a CPANTS Kwalitee Report using CPANTS::Kwalitee::Report
• Read large directories over NFS with Linux::NFS::BigDir

Data

• Geo::Coordinates::Converter::LV03 converts Swiss LV03 coordinates to WSG84 and vice versa
• Hadoop::Inline::ClassLoader loads Hadoop Java classes via Inline::Java
• PDF::Tiny is a lightweight PDF parser
• Convert JSON via an IO layer with PerlIO::via::json
• Get a raw quote operator for Perl with Syntax::Keyword::RawQuote

Development & Version Control

• Autoload::AUTOCAN provides some sugar for autoloading methods
• Treat environment variables as arrays with Env::ShellWords
• Git::Repo::Commits gets all commits in a repository
• Part of the new MOP framework, Method::Traits adds coderefs to methods via subroutine attributes
• Piper is a flexible, iterable pipeline engine with automatic batching with a great name
• Proc::tored manages a process using a pid file. Check out Proc::tored::Pool for an example implementation

Hardware

• Amazon::Dash::Button let’s you use your Amazon dash button for anything
• Get a perly interface to the Revolt USB Dongle PX-1674-675 using Device::USB::PX1674
• Steve Bertrand released more RaspberryPi goodies:
  • RPi::BMP180 - interface to the BMP180 barometric pressure sensor
  • RPi::DAC::MCP4922 - interface to the MCP49x2 series digital to analog converters (DAC) over the SPI bus
  • See his recent blog post about it

Language & International

• Compare visually similar strings with String::Similex
• Ucam::Term returns information about the start and end dates of terms at the University of Cambridge
• Date::Tolkien::Shire::Data provides functionality for Shire calendars.

Science & Mathematics

• Bio::Phylo::Forest::DBTree provides a Bio::Phylo-like API for large phylogenies
• Partition a number into addition sequences with Math::Partition::Rand
• Get Kruskall-Wallis statistics and test using Statistics::ANOVA::KW

Web

• Dancer2::Plugin::EditFile - easily edit a text file from a Dancer2 app
• Email::Mailer aims to be a “multi-purpose emailer for HTML, auto-text, attachments, and templates”