What's new on CPAN - February 2016

Mar 4, 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

• App::WordPressTools provides tools to backup and upgrade WordPress installations.
• Manage AMQP connections with Net::AMQP::ConnectionMgr.
• WebService::Walmart Interface to Walmart’s open API.
• Get a Perly interface to the Microsoft Translator with Lingua::Translator::Microsoft.
• Start interacting with Ticketmaster’s APIs using Ticketmaster::API.

Config & Devops

• CPAN::Mirror::Tiny can create local CPAN mirrors, with no XS dependencies.
• Log::GELF::Util provides utility functions for Graylog’s GELF format.

Data

• Stream data scattered across files by datetime using CSV::HistoryPlayer.
• DBIx::Class::BatchUpdate can update DBIx results in batches, minimizing the number of queries executed.
• Run asynchronous queries on Postgres with AnyEvent and Promises with DBIx::Poggy.
• HTML::MyHTML is a superfast, threaded, C based HTML parser.
• Image::Similar measures how similar two images are.
• Regexp::Parsertron parses Perl regular expressions into trees.

Development & Version Control

• Export::Attrs provides Perl 6’s is export(...) trait as a Perl 5 attribute.
• Get functions to compare Git::Version objects using Git::Version::Compare.
• Parse::Diagnostics can extract diagnostic messages from Perl source code.
• Perlmazing - a bundle of lazily-loaded helper functions based on Perlmazing::Engine.
• GitHub inspired Perl module, run experiments with Scientist.
• Want to test a module against every installed version of Perl? Test::BrewBuild builds on perlbrew/berrybrew to do that for Windows Unix-based systems.
• Test::Mock::Time create deterministic time & timers for testing. Particularly apt as February 29^th just passed.
• Test2::AsyncSubtest execute subtests asynchronously.

Science & Mathematics

• Astro::Constants a collection of Astronomy constants.
• Compress::Huffman can huffman-encode a symbol table.
• Music::Voss provides functions for fractal noise generation.

Web

• Remotely control Google Chrome from Perl with AnyEvent::Chromi.
• Get an alternative syntax for describing Catalyst routes with Catalyst::ControllerRole::At. This is big.
• Getopt::Long::CGI is a cool idea: execute CGI scripts just like passing arguments to a command line program.
• Time::Progress::Stored is a progress bar implementation with an web apps.

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.