What's new on CPAN - February 2024

Mar 14, 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

• Use GnuCash to manage membership data with App::GnuCash::MembershipUtils
• Check validity of ISBN numbers listed in a file using App::ISBN::Check
• App::MARC::Record::Stats provides an app wrapper for MARC::Record::Stats
• Change the directory in your shell script to one in a list of directory “bookmarks” using App::cdbookmark
• Perform lookups and validations on the EAN-Search database using Net::EANSearch
• Post Microsoft Teams notifications using Microsoft::Teams::WebHook

Config & Devops

• Find and build the following non-Perl dependencies via Alien:
  • Cowl using Alien::Cowl
  • Qhull using Alien::Qhull

Data

• DBIx::Class::FilterColumn::Encrypt transparently encrypts columns for DBIx::Class
• Data::Login encapsulates some authentication/authorization data
• Remove problematic characters from filenames with Data::Sah::FilterBundle::Filename::Safe
• Data::Structure::Deserialize::Auto deserializes perl, JSON, YAML or TOML data structures from strings or files
• Data::Transfigure allows you to write reusable rules (“transfigurators”) to modify arbitrary data structures
• File::Util::Rename renames files in different ways (1 so far!)
• Yet more modules that categorize other CPAN modules this month:
  • Acme::CPANModules::ArrayData for modules related to the ArrayData format
  • Acme::CPANModules::FormattingDate for various methods to format dates
  • Acme::CPANModules::HashData for modules related to the HashData format
  • Acme::CPANModules::Import::CPANRatings::User::davidgaramond for modules mentioned by a contributor to the now defunct CPAN Ratings
  • Acme::CPANModules::InfoFromCPANTesters for distributions that gather information from CPAN Testers
  • Acme::CPANModules::InterestingTies for interesting uses of Perl’s tie interface
• Curacoa’s official holidays in Date::Holidays::CW
• Acrux::DBI provides a database independent interface for Acrux applications
• RDF::Cowl is a lightweight API for working with OWL 2 ontologies

Development & Version Control

• Exclude some packages from source trace with Devel::Confess::Source::Patch::ExcludePackage
• Access a HashData object as a tied hash using Tie::Hash::HashData
• A couple of scenarios for the Bencher benchmarking framework:
  • Bencher::Scenarios::Log::Dispatch::FileRotate for Log::Dispatch::FileRotate
  • Bencher::Scenarios::Log::Dispatch for Log::Dispatch modules
• Tk::AppWindow is an application framework based on Tk
• The Mo object system gets some new validation routines:
  • Mo::utils::IRI for IRIs
  • Mo::utils::URI for URIs
• Parse lines of the common log format used by Apache web server with Common::Log::Parser
• Compare similarity to a reference string with Comparer::similarity
• New subroutine specifications:
  • Comparer for subroutines that accept two items to compare and return a value of either -1/0/1
  • SortKey for subroutines that accept an item and convert it to a string/numeric key
• SPVM::HTTP::Tiny is an HTTP client for the SPVM language
• Sort by similarity to a reference string with Sort::BySimilarity
• App::Prove::Plugin::TestArgs is an App::Prove plugin to configure test aliases and arguments

Language & International

• Data::Text::Simple encapsulates internationalized text
• A slew of new locales for Locale::CLDR:
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Aa (Afar)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Ab (Abkhazian)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Ann (Obolo)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::An (Aragonese)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Arn (Mapuche)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Bal (Baluchi)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Ba (Bashkir)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Bew (Betawi)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Bgc (Haryanvi)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Bgn (Western Balochi)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Bho (Bhojpuri)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Blo (Anii)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Blt (Tai Dam)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Bss (Akoose)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Byn (Blin)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Cad (Caddo)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Cch (Atsam)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Cho (Choctaw)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Cic (Chickasaw)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Co (Corsican)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Csw (Swampy Cree)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Cv (Chuvash)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Dv (Divehi)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Frr (Northern Frisian)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Gaa (Ga)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Gez (Geez)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Gn (Guarani)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Hnj (Hmong Njua)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Ie (Interlingue)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Io (Ido)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Iu (Inuktitut)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Jbo (Lojban)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Kaj (Jju)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Kcg (Tyap)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Ken (Kenyang)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Kpe (Kpelle)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Kxv (Kuvi)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::La (Latin)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Lij (Ligurian)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Lmo (Lmo)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Mdf (Moksha)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Mic (Mi’kmaw)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Moh (Mohawk)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Mus (Mus)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Myv (Erzya)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Nqo (N’Ko)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Nr (South Ndebele)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Nso (Northern Sotho)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Nv (Navajo)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Ny (Nyanja)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Oc (Occitan)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Osa (Osage)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Pap (Papiamento)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Pis (Pijin)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Quc (Kʼicheʼ)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Raj (Rajasthani)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Rhg (Rohingya)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Rif (Riffian)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Scn (Sicilian)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Sdh (Southern Kurdish)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Shn (Shan)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Sid (Sidamo)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Sma (Southern Sami)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Smj (Lule Sami)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Sms (Skolt Sami)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Ssy (Saho)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Ss (Swati)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::St (Southern Sotho)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Syr (Syriac)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Szl (Silesian)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Tig (Tigre)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Tn (Tswana)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Tok (Toki Pona)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Tpi (Tok Pisin)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Tyv (Tuvinian)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Vec (Venetian)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Ve (Venda)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Vmw (Makhuwa)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Wal (Wolaytta)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Wa (Walloon)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Wbp (Warlpiri)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Xnr (Kangri)
  • Locale::CLDR::Locales::Za (Zhuang)

Web

• Use Web Components in the Mojolicious framework with Mojolicious::Plugin::WebComponent
• Add change password functionality to a website with Tags::HTML::ChangePassword and Plack::App::ChangePassword
• Plugins for the WWW::Suffit, the Mojolicious-based “metasystem”:
  • WWW::Suffit::Plugin::ConfigAuth for authentication and authorization via configuration
  • WWW::Suffit::Plugin::FileAuth for authentication and authorization by password file
  • WWW::Suffit::Plugin::SuffitAuth for general authentication and authorization

Other

• Bundle::WATERKIP collects scripts and modules that CPAN author WATERKIP relies on
• Download and store FIDE ratings with Chess::ELO::FIDE
• Visualize and play collections of standard 9x9 Sudoku in your browser with Games::Sudoku::Html
• Produce pdf files from your digital Sudoku sources or collections using Games::Sudoku::Pdf