What's new on CPAN - June 2017

Jul 18, 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. The Perl Conference NA was held in June and the talks are on YouTube. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

App::BorgRestore restores paths from borg backups
Net::Async::Slack provides async Slack messaging
Trade bitcoin, ether et al using WebService::CoinSpot
Use the Globus research data sharing service with Acme::Globus
Build and sign GDAX REST request using Finance::GDAX::API
REST integration with icinga2 using Monitoring::Icinga2::Client::REST
WWW::Zotero::Write provides a Perl interface to the Zotero Write API

Config & Devops

Send messages over serial ports using IPC::Serial
List out of date author prereqs with Module::CheckDep::Version
PPIx::Utils has been separated from PPI
Win32::Ldd tracks dependencies for Windows EXE and DLL files
lib::relative adds paths relative to the current file to @INC

Data

List::Flat provides functions to flatten array references
List::Haystack an immutable list utility to find elements
Data::Dx can dump data structures with name and point-of-origin
Hash::GuavaRing get consistent ring hashing using guava hash (explained here

Development & Version Control

Asynchronously process stream data with Async::Stream
Interesting: use names beginning with control for punctuation variables using English::Control
PPR Pattern-based Perl Recognizer - Damian’s PPI alternative
Get a pure Perl method keyword; Method::Signatures::PP (uses PPR)
Not another Moose clone, Moxie is Stevan Little’s new OO system
TAP::Harness::BailOnFail bail’s on remaining tests after first failure
Test::Compiles tests if perl can compile a string of code
Test::Expr test an expression with better error messages
Output the lines of code that resulted in a failure using Test2::Plugin::SourceDiag

Hardware

Perl Interface to HIDAPI with Device::HID
Interface to the I2C bus on the Raspberry Pi using RPi::I2C

Other

Rdirect Printer::ESCPOS output to a PDF file instead of a printer with Printer::ESCPOS::PDF
SPVM Fast calculation, GC, static typing, VM with perlish syntax

Science & Mathematics

Recognize passphrases using Tarsnap’s scrypt algorithm using Authen::Passphrase::Scrypt
Get blind signatures via Crypt::RSA::Blind and Crypt::ECDSA::Blind
Cuckoo::Filter is a Cuckoo Filter implementation in perl
Geo::Compass::Variation can accurately calculate magnetic declination and inclination