What's new on CPAN - October 2017

Nov 9, 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

• App::tt is a time tracking application for the terminal
• Get bindings for Bitbucket Server REST APIs via WebService::BitbucketServer
• WWW::Oxontime can get live Oxford UK bus departure times
• Inspect Apache errors log with App::Elog
• Yandex::Disk is a simple API for Yandex Disk
• Parse network device configurations with ncp

Config & Devops

• Directory::Scanner is a streaming searcher that won’t prefetch the results to save resources
• OTRS::OPM::Installer installs dependencies for the ticket manager app
• Format strings with terminal escape codes using String::Tagged::Terminal
• Win32::Net::Info can retrieve Windows network adapter information
• Use icon libraries in Wx with Wx::Perl::IconDepot

Data

• Data::SeaBASS can read/write SeaBASS ocean data files
• Get globstar (**) globbing with File::Globstar
• Geo::Coder::Free provides geocoding functionality using free databases
• Geo::Coder::US::Census provides a geocoding functionality US census.gov data

Development & Version Control

• Display the cumulative test running time with App::Prove::Plugin::CumulativeTimer
• Defined::KV provides a drop-in replacement function for a common idiom
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git::RequireUnixEOL enforces Unix line endings in your distribution
• List::Breakdown can conveniently breakdown lists into sublists
• Easily create named, parameterized types using Type::TinyX::Facets
• roles is a simple pragma for composing roles

Language & International

• Convert between braille character sets using App::Brl2Brl
• Translates Portuguese words to Galician using fuzzy replacements with Lingua::FuzzyTrans::PT2GL

Hardware

• PGPLOT::Device can autogenerate PGPLOT device names

Science & Mathematics

• Math::Base85 provides support for base 85 numbers as defined by RFC 1924

Web

• Log Catalyst DBIC querylogs to the console using Catalyst::Plugin::DBIC::ConsoleQueryLog
• Dancer2::Plugin::WebSocket adds a websocket interface to Dancer2
• HTML::Untidy is another way to generate HTML quickly and programmatically
• Mojolicious::Plugin::ClientIP::Pluggable provides convenient client IP header handling for Mojolicious requests

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.