What's new on CPAN - January 2018

Feb 3, 2018 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. A full list of January’s new distributions can be found here. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

App::NDTools provides diff tools for nested structures
Get a non-blocking interface to Music Player Daemon using Net::Async::MPD
Net::Ethereum::Swarm provides an API for Ethereum Swarm
Lookup cryptocurrency exchange rates and query the Binance api with WebService::Binance

Config & Devops

Net::ACME2 supports the new wildcard certificates, as author Felipe Gasper recently announced
Get more methods for version numbers via version::Normal
Data::Password::zxcvbn is a port of Dropbox’s password strength estimator

Data

Use Postresql’s pg_recvlogical from Perl with AnyEvent::PgRecvlogical
Business::cXML implements several cXML request/response messages
Quickly start a database server using DBIx::QuickDB
Convert MGRS coordinates to UTM or lat/lon in C with Geo::Coordinates::MGRS::XS
Convert to and from proquints (“readable, spellable, and pronounceable identifiers”) with Proquint
Marshall LibXML nodes and native objects with XML::LibXML::Ferry
XML::LibXML::Proxy can force LibXML to use a proxy for HTTP/HTTPS external entities

Development & Version Control

Conveniently set breakpoints in subroutines using Devel::ModuleBreaker
Git::Repository::Plugin::Dirty provides methods to inspect the dirtiness of a git repository
MooseX::Attribute::Multibuilder lets’ you share a builder routine between attributes
Report tests via Metabase, but fallback to files using Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase::Fallback
Test::Snapshot test against data stored in automatically-named file á la “snapshot testing”
Test with hires time using Test::Time::HiRes
Util::EvalSnippet speeds up application development by avoiding reloads

Hardware

Access TP-Link Device APIs from Perl with Device::TPLink

Science & Mathematics

Use Algorithm::ConstructDFA2 for deterministic finite automaton construction
Align or re-align sequences via Bio::MUST::Apps::TwoScalp
Bio::SearchIO::blastxml is a SearchIO implementation of NCBI Blast XML parsing
Crypt::Sodium::Nitrate is a wrapper for libsodium, the cryptography library
Math::GF conducts arithmetic on Galois (finite) fields
PDL::Algorithm::Center provides various methods of finding the center of a sample
Parse R package DESCRIPTION (metadata) files using R::DescriptionFile