What's new on CPAN - November 2023

Dec 20, 2023 by Mathew Korica

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

• Perform bit-wise search of data in a hexadecimal stream with App::Bin::Search
• App::CPANStreaks displays various metrics of CPAN author’s module release streaks
• App::FileFindUtils bundles command-line utilities related to finding files
• App::MARC::Leader decodes the first field of a MARC record (Leader) from a file or string
• App::randquote is a demo command-line app
• Print lines matching a wildcard pattern App::wcgrep
• Interact with the TrueLayer API using Business::TrueLayer
• Aion::Query is a functional interface to the MySQL/MariaDB database

Config & Devops

• A few non-Perl dependencies you can now find and build with Alien:
  • Serd RDF processor (Alien::Serd)
  • Sord in-memory RDF store (Alien::Sord)
  • hdt-cpp RDF binary format library (Alien::hdt_cpp)
  • Zix C99 data structure library (Alien::zix)
• CPAN::API::BuildPL documents the Build.PL API
• A description of static CPAN installation, along with a reference implementation is provided in CPAN::Static
• Automate various system administration tasks with Ixchel
• CLI::Simple makes it easy to create scripts that take options, commands and arguments

Data

• Manage database handles safely for long running processes with Database::ManagedHandle
• Create an ad hoc database which drops itself automatically with Database::Temp
• File::Util::DirList consists of some file-related routines that involve lists of directories
• File::Util::Sort has routines related to sorting files in one or more directories
• File::Util::Symlink bundles some utilities related to symbolic links
• A trio of releases for dealing with MARC Leader data: MARC::Leader, MARC::Leader::Print and Data::MARC::Leader
• Export telemetry data using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) with OpenTelemetry::Exporter::OTLP
• Build an ontology on CPAN infrastructure! Acme::Thing provides your base type
• Lots of CPAN release data bundled this month into CPAN modules:
  • Acme::CPANAuthors::InMostCPANAuthors lists authors that are listed most often in Acme::CPANAuthors::* modules
  • Acme::CPANAuthorsBundle::CPAN::Streaks lists prolific authors in the midst of various kinds of release streaks
  • Acme::CPANModules::CPANAuthors lists Acme::CPANAUthors::* modules
  • Acme::CPANModules::SmartMatch lists modules that do smart matching
  • Finally, a year’s worth of CPAN release data is aggregated in TableData::Perl::CPAN::Release::Static::2023

Development & Version Control

• AnyEvent::KVStore::Etcd gives the AnyEvent::KVStore framework an Etcd distributed key-value store back-end
• Bencher::Scenarios::Log::ger provides some scenarios for benchmarking Log::ger
• The Dist::Zilla::Plugin::InsertDistFileLink plugin lets Dist::Zilla users link to a distribution’s shared files in their HTML documentation
• Object::PadX::Role::AutoJSON is an Object::Pad role that furnishes a method to serializes properly with JSON::XS or Cpanel::JSON::XS
• Automatically create nested Object::Pad objects with Object::PadX::Role::AutoMarshal
• Check for known vulnerabilities before releasing to CPAN with Test::CVE
• Test::Database::Temp provides a way to easily test several different databases with the same set of test data.
• Aion::Telemetry measures the time the program runs between specified points
• At implements Bluesky’s new AT social networking protocol
• Mo::utils::Date provides date utilities for the Mo object system
• Seq::Iter generates a coderef iterator from a sequence of items, the last of which can be a coderef to produce more items
• New features for the SPVM language:
  • SPVM::Go implements Go’s goroutines
  • SPVM::Thread implements native threads
  • SPVM::Time::HiRes implements High Resolution Time

Hardware

• Chipcard::PCSC allows your script to communicate with a smart card using the PC/SC specification

Language & International

• TextDoc::Examples provides a collection of dummy word processor files useful for testing or bench-marking purposes
• Acme::CPANModules::Locale::ID provides a list of modules related to the Indonesian locale
• Find out Indonesian color names and corresponding RGB values with Graphics::ColorNamesLite::ID
• Locale::MaybeMaketext automatically figures out which Maketext library is available on the end-users platform

Science & Mathematics

• Implement a B-Tree as a silicon chip with Silicon::Chip::Btree

Web

• Dancer2::Plugin::JsonApi provides JSON:API helpers to Dancer2 apps
• Create OpenAPI documentation of your Dancer2 application with Dancer2::Plugin::OpenAPI