What's new on CPAN - April 2024

May 9, 2024 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

App::papersway (SPWHITTON) provides PaperWM-like window management for Sway and i3 window managers
Sort lines of text from the command line using various reusable subroutine modules:
- Comparer with App::sort_by_comparer (PERLANCAR)
- Sorter with App::sort_by_sorter (PERLANCAR)
- SortKey with App::sort_by_sortkey (PERLANCAR)
Access the OpenExchangeRates API with Net::Async::OpenExchRates (VNEALV)
AI::Ollama::Client (CORION) interfaces with Ollama language models

Config & Devops

Find and build Microsoft’s ONNX Runtime AI system with Alien::onnxruntime (EGOR)
CPAN::Requirements::Dynamic (LEONT) will check that your system meets the prerequisites specified by a CPAN distribution
Dist::Build (LEONT) provides another way to build and install Perl modules
A couple of Dist::Zilla plugins:
- Dist::Zilla::Plugin::DistBuild (LEONT) for CPAN::Requirements::Dynamic (see above)
- Dist::Zilla::Plugin::DynamicPrereqs::Meta (LEONT) for Dist::Build (see above)

Data

Load back Data::Dumper output via eval with Data::Dumper::UnDumper (BIGPRESH)
Categorization of modules using modules with:
- Acme::CPANModules::BPOM::FoodRegistration (PERLANCAR) for modules pertaining to the Indonesian food and drug authority
- Acme::CPANModules::JSONVariants (PERLANCAR) for variants or extensions of JSON
Use a SortKey module with Sort::Key via Sort::Key::SortKey (PERLANCAR)
Get all the colors of the rainbow, sorted, from SortExample::Color::Rainbow::EN (PERLANCAR)
Generate SortKey-based sort keys for:
- the number of occurrences of a string or regex pattern using SortKey::Num::pattern_count (PERLANCAR)
- the similarity to a reference string using SortKey::Num::similarity (PERLANCAR)
- a date extracted from text using SortKey::date_in_text (PERLANCAR)
SortSpec::Perl::CPAN::ChangesGroup::PERLANCAR provides a specification for sorting groups of text in CPAN change files (PERLANCAR)
Sort by a Comparer subroutine using Sorter::from_comparer (PERLANCAR)
Sort by keys generated by a SortKey module with Sorter::from_sortkey (PERLANCAR)
Generate short unique identifiers from numbers with Sqids (MYSOCIETY)
TableData::Business::ID::BPOM::FoodAdditive (PERLANCAR) provides food additive data from the Indonesian food and drug authority
A bevy of schemas employing the Sah schema format with:
- Sah::SchemaBundle::Business::ID::BCA (PERLANCAR) for schemas related to BCA (Bank Central Asia) bank
- Sah::SchemaBundle::Business::ID::Mandiri (PERLANCAR) for schemas related to Mandiri bank
- Sah::SchemaBundle::Comparer (PERLANCAR) for schemas related to Comparer
- Sah::SchemaBundle::Perl (PERLANCAR) for schemas related to Perl
- Sah::SchemaBundle::SortKey (PERLANCAR) for schemas related to SortKey
- Sah::SchemaBundle::Sorter (PERLANCAR) for schemas related to Sorter

Development & Version Control

Benchmark various ways to handle exceptions with Bencher::Scenario::ExceptionHandling (PERLANCAR)
Data::MiniDumpX (PERLANCAR) supports Plugin::System
Generate fixtures for DBD::Mock::Session with DBD::Mock::Session::GenerateFixtures (UXYZAB)
Net::EPP::Server (GBROWN) provides a high-level framework for developing EPP (Extensible Provisioning Protocol) servers
Load an i3 workspace with AnyEvent::I3X::Workspace::OnDemand (WATERKIP)
Parse and format datetimes from PDF’s using DateTime::Format::PDF (SKIM)
Stringify references in:
- Data::Dump::HTML::Collapsible with Devel::Confess::Patch::UseDataDumpHTMLCollapsible (PERLANCAR)
- Data::Dump::HTML::PopUp with Devel::Confess::Patch::UseDataDumpHTMLPopUp (PERLANCAR)
Test2::Tools::MIDI (JMATES) tests whether MIDI files contain particular MIDI structures and events
Carp::Object (DAMI) is an object-oriented replacement for Carp or Carp::Clan
Carp::Patch::OutputToBrowser (PERLANCAR) outputs a stacktrace to a web browser
Easily profile code with Tiny::Prof (TIMKA)
JSON::Ordered::Conditional (LNATION) and YAML::Ordered::Conditional (LNATION) provide a conditional language for use within JSON and YAML, respectively
Generate CSAF (Common Security Advisory Framework) documents with CSAF (GDT)
Generate DDL for database table creation using CXC::DB::DDL (DJERIUS)
Comparer::date_in_text (PERLANCAR) is a Comparer that uses dates extracted from text
Validation routines for the Mo object system:
- Mo::utils::Country (SKIM) for countries
- Mo::utils::TimeZone (SKIM) for timezones
Number::Iterator (LNATION) is a simple iterator for numbers

Science & Mathematics

Crypt::Passphrase::Bcrypt::Compat (LEONT) provides a bcrypt encoder for Crypt::Passphrase

Web

In your Catalyst app, automatically put flash values into the next request’s stash with Catalyst::Plugin::Flash (ARISTOTLE)
A whole slew of new plugins for the Mojolicious framework:
- Use OpenID Connect authentication with Mojolicious::Plugin::Authentication::OIDC (TYRRMINAL)
- Add more configuration options to Mojolicious::Plugin::Cron with Mojolicious::Plugin::Cron::Scheduler (TYRRMINAL)
- Run Sqitch database migrations using Mojolicious::Plugin::Migration::Sqitch (TYRRMINAL)
- Automatically load modules from namespaces with Mojolicious::Plugin::Module::Loader (TYRRMINAL)
- Access DBIx::Class with Mojolicious::Plugin::ORM::DBIx (TYRRMINAL)
- Mojolicious::Plugin::SendEmail for easily sending e-mails (TYRRMINAL)
- Disable sessions with Mojolicious::Plugin::Sessionless (TYRRMINAL)
Plack::App::Login::Request (SKIM) is a Plack application for requesting login information. Tags::HTML::Login::Request (SKIM) generates the supporting HTML and CSS
Generate image-related HTML tags with Tags::HTML::Image (SKIM)
Use Future on the web with Web::Async (TEAM)
Render JSON-based data structures as HTML tables with JSON::ToHTML (ARISTOTLE)