(ccxc) 13 CPAN great modules released last week

This is a list of great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.045005 on 2020-05-18
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.045003 was 3 days before
2. App::Sqitch - Sensible database change management
   • Version: v1.1.0 on 2020-05-17
   • Votes: 36
   • Previous version: v1.0.0 was 11 months, 13 days before
3. Convert::Binary::C - Binary Data Conversion using C Types
   • Version: 0.79 on 2020-05-19
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.78 was 4 years, 3 months, 5 days before
4. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
   • Version: 1.09 on 2020-05-17
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 1.08 was 5 months, 10 days before
5. Devel::Cover - Code coverage metrics for Perl
   • Version: 1.36 on 2020-05-19
   • Votes: 97
   • Previous version: 1.33 was 1 year, 23 days before
6. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 1.28 on 2020-05-20
   • Votes: 52
   • Previous version: 1.26 was 13 days before
7. JSON::MaybeXS - Use Cpanel::JSON::XS with a fallback to JSON::XS and JSON::PP
   • Version: 1.004002 on 2020-05-17
   • Votes: 42
   • Previous version: 1.004001 was 16 days before
8. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 8.43 on 2020-05-21
   • Votes: 425
   • Previous version: 8.42 was 17 days before
9. Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format
   • Version: 20200520 on 2020-05-20
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 20180117 was 2 years, 2 months, 19 days before
10. Regexp::Debugger - Visually debug regexes in-place
    • Version: 0.002005 on 2020-05-23
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 0.002004 was 3 months, 7 days before
11. Regexp::Grammars - Add grammatical parsing features to Perl 5.10 regexes
    • Version: 1.057 on 2020-05-22
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 1.055 was 15 days before
12. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.42 on 2020-05-19
    • Votes: 89
    • Previous version: 1.41 was 3 months, 3 days before
13. TimeDate - miscellaneous timezone manipulations routines
    • Version: 2.33 on 2020-05-19
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 2.32 was 2 months, 15 days before

(cdxxi) metacpan weekly report - Test::Smoke

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 40

Week's winner: Test::Smoke (+2)

Build date: 2020/05/23 13:00:16 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Date::Holidays::ES - Spanish holidays for Date::Holidays
• Lingua::EN::Ngram - Extract n-grams from texts and list them according to frequency and/or T-Score
• Protocol::WebSocket::Fast - very fast WebSocket protocol implementation

Increasing its reputation:

• AI::MXNetCAPI (+1=2)
• Apache::DB (+1=2)
• App::GitHubPullRequest (+1=3)
• App::plx::0.000001 (+1=0)
• Convert::Binary::C (+1=12)
• DBD::CSV (+1=23)
• Devel::PerlySense (+1=2)
• File::Map (+1=17)
• grpc::xs (+1=2)
• inc::latest (+1=2)
• JSON (+1=88)
• libwww::perl (+1=147)
• Mail::SpamAssassin (+1=7)
• Math::Prime::Util (+1=18)
• Mojo::Log::Colored (+1=2)
• Mojo::Server::Threaded (+1=3)
• Mojolicious (+1=425)
• Number::MuPhone (+1=3)
• Parse::RecDescent (+1=18)
• Path::Tiny (+1=152)
• perl (+1=357)
• Perl::Build (+1=19)
• Plack::Middleware::Profiler::NYTProf (+1=3)
• Regexp::Debugger (+1=52)
• Regexp::Grammars (+1=33)
• Smart::Comments (+1=35)
• SQL::Bind (+1=4)
• Test::Harness (+1=57)
• Test::Simple (+1=168)
• Test::Smoke (+2=3)
• Text::CSV_XS (+1=89)
• Text::Unidecode (+1=30)
• Twiggy (+1=27)
• Type::Tiny (+1=119)
• Web::Scraper (+1=39)
• XML::LibXML (+1=89)

(cdxliv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-05-23 12:50:41 GMT

---

1. How does a Perl script know if it's running in the debugger? - [4/2]
2. Find thousands of files efficiently with exact match from a directory containing millions of files (bash/python/perl) - [3/5]
3. How to capture every match in a global regex substitution? - [3/5]
4. How to pass const string parameter from perl to c++ using swig - [3/1]
5. Perl Use of uninitialized value in regexp compilation at warning - [2/3]
6. How to match several numbers only? - [2/3]
7. Wxperl create widget but don't place it - [2/2]
8. How to have perl web crawler do 'breadth first' retrieval, like wget? - [2/2]
9. Perl; How to avoid severely nested foreach loops - [2/2]
10. how to add/delete the function for two process at the same time in one line? - [2/1]

(cclxxxix) 11 CPAN great modules released last week

This is a list of great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
   • Version: 2.23 on 2020-05-15
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.22 was 10 days before
2. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
   • Version: 0.993 on 2020-05-13
   • Votes: 47
   • Previous version: 0.992 was 5 days before
3. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.045003 on 2020-05-15
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.045002 was 26 days before
4. FFI::CheckLib - Check that a library is available for FFI
   • Version: 0.27 on 2020-05-11
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.26 was 3 months, 20 days before
5. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.24 on 2020-05-11
   • Votes: 59
   • Previous version: 6.22 was 2 months, 16 days before
6. IO::Async - Asynchronous event-driven programming
   • Version: 0.77 on 2020-05-13
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 0.76 was 8 days before
7. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
   • Version: 1.868 on 2020-05-11
   • Votes: 78
   • Previous version: 1.867 was 7 days before
8. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
   • Version: 1.871 on 2020-05-13
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 1.867 was 9 days before
9. Test::Requires - Checks to see if the module can be loaded
   • Version: 0.11 on 2020-05-14
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 0.10 was 4 years, 9 months, 24 days before
10. Text::Table - Organize Data in Tables
    • Version: 1.134 on 2020-05-15
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.133 was 2 years, 9 months, 11 days before
11. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 1.97 on 2020-05-14
    • Votes: 84
    • Previous version: 1.96 was 2 months, 22 days before

(cdxx) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 52
This week there isn't any remarkable distribution
Build date: 2020/05/16 11:10:22 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• AnyEvent::XSPromises - Another Promises library, this time implemented in XS for performance
• Beam::Make - Recipes to declare and resolve dependencies between things
• Dancer2::Plugin::Argon2 - Handling Argon2 passwords in Dancer2
• Image::Grab - Perl extension for Grabbing images off the Internet.
• Minecraft::RCON - RCON remote console communication with Minecraft servers
• Nuvol - A cloud toolkit
• Youri::Package::RPM::Updater - Update RPM packages

Increasing its reputation:

• App::PMUtils (+1=2)
• Catalyst::Manual (+1=47)
• CGI::Simple (+1=7)
• cpan::outdated (+1=32)
• Data::Dumper::AutoEncode (+1=5)
• Data::ICal (+1=6)
• Data::Object (+1=13)
• Data::Printer (+1=129)
• Data::Rmap (+1=12)
• DBD::MariaDB (+1=5)
• Devel::StackTrace (+1=25)
• Email::MIME (+1=16)
• Encode (+1=54)
• Feersum (+1=12)
• File::Map (+1=16)
• Firefox::Marionette (+1=11)
• Getopt::Long (+1=101)
• Hash::Merge (+1=27)
• Import::Into (+1=33)
• JIRA::REST (+1=12)
• JSON (+1=87)
• LWPx::ParanoidAgent (+1=4)
• MCE (+1=78)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::SwaggerUI (+1=4)
• Net::API::Stripe (+1=2)
• Net::Server (+1=28)
• Net::Stripe (+1=10)
• perl (+1=357)
• Plack (+1=215)
• Plack::Middleware::Profiler::NYTProf (+1=2)
• Sereal (+1=54)
• Server::Starter (+1=21)
• SQL::Bind (+1=3)
• Starlet (+1=16)
• Starlight (+1=3)
• Term::ANSIScreen (+1=12)
• Term::Clui (+1=5)
• Term::Encoding (+1=6)
• Test::Postgresql58 (+1=2)
• TOML::Tiny (+1=4)
• Type::Tiny::XS (+1=12)
• Ubic (+1=51)
• Wasm (+1=3)
• XML::LibXML (+1=89)
• Yancy (+1=33)

(cdxliii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-05-16 11:07:06 GMT

---

1. Schwartzian Transform will not obvious faster if list count greater than 1M - [3/0]
2. How can I detect if a lexical variable exists (is declared) in a package, even if uninitialized? - [2/4]
3. Regex works in python simulator but not in perl - [2/4]
4. What things in CORE Perl set the ERRNO ($!) on success? - [2/2]
5. IN in WHERE-clause is not being parsed correctly using SQL::Statement - [2/2]
6. Perl sort corrupts bsd_glob results - [2/2]
7. perl YAML.pm dump array without quotes - [2/2]
8. How to replace a character before and after a match - [2/1]
9. Why does Perl DBI interface fail to INSERT to Postgres table? - [2/1]
10. How can I handle an option made of an arbitrary number with Getopt::Long[::Descriptive]? - [2/1]

(cclxxxviii) 19 CPAN great modules released last week

This is a list of great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
   • Version: 2.22 on 2020-05-05
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.21 was 24 days before
2. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
   • Version: 0.992 on 2020-05-08
   • Votes: 47
   • Previous version: 0.991 was 26 days before
3. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
   • Version: 3.12.0 on 2020-05-07
   • Votes: 82
   • Previous version: 3.11.1 was 9 days before
4. Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls - coveralls backend for Devel::Cover
   • Version: 0.15 on 2020-05-03
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 0.14 was 1 month, 20 days before
5. experimental - Experimental features made easy
   • Version: 0.022 on 2020-05-04
   • Votes: 30
   • Previous version: 0.021 was 2 months, 11 days before
6. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 1.26 on 2020-05-07
   • Votes: 52
   • Previous version: 1.24 was 5 days before
7. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
   • Version: 0.40 on 2020-05-09
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 0.38 was 5 months, 1 day before
8. IO::Async - Asynchronous event-driven programming
   • Version: 0.76 on 2020-05-05
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 0.75 was 5 months, 9 days before
9. IPC::Run - system() and background procs w/ piping, redirs, ptys (Unix, Win32)
   • Version: 20200505.0 on 2020-05-05
   • Votes: 32
   • Previous version: 20180523.0 was 1 year, 11 months, 13 days before
10. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
    • Version: 1.867 on 2020-05-04
    • Votes: 77
    • Previous version: 1.866 was 2 months, 24 days before
11. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
    • Version: 1.867 on 2020-05-04
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.864 was 5 months before
12. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.42 on 2020-05-04
    • Votes: 425
    • Previous version: 8.41 was 3 days before
13. Plack::Middleware::Debug - display information about the current request/response
    • Version: 0.18 on 2020-05-03
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.17 was 2 years, 2 months, 10 days before
14. Regexp::Grammars - Add grammatical parsing features to Perl 5.10 regexes
    • Version: 1.055 on 2020-05-07
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 1.052 was 9 months, 22 days before
15. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.10.0 on 2020-05-05
    • Votes: 71
    • Previous version: 1.9.0 was 1 month before
16. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v6.3.0 on 2020-05-05
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: v6.1.0 was 1 month, 26 days before
17. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.71 on 2020-05-02
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.70 was 14 days before
18. XML::LibXML - Interface to Gnome libxml2 xml parsing and DOM library
    • Version: 2.0205 on 2020-05-08
    • Votes: 89
    • Previous version: 2.0204 was 1 month, 22 days before
19. YAML::LibYAML - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
    • Version: 0.82 on 2020-05-02
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 0.81 was 3 months, 6 days before

(cdxix) metacpan weekly report - FFI::Platypus::Lang::Go

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 68
Week's winner: FFI::Platypus::Lang::Go (+3)
Build date: 2020/05/09 14:34:45 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Digest::FarmHash - FarmHash Implementation For Perl
• Digest::HighwayHash - XS fast strong keyed hash function
• Digest::Keccak - Perl interface to the Keccak digest algorithm
• Digest::Shabal - Perl interface to the Shabal digest algorithm
• Digest::SipHash - Perl XS interface to the SipHash algorithm
• Digest::ssdeep - Pure Perl ssdeep (CTPH) fuzzy hashing
• Digest::Whirlpool - How to install Digest::Whirlpool
• FIDO::Raw - Perl bindings to the libfido2 library
• Game::RockPaperScissor - object oriented Game::RockPaperScissor!
• Hash::ConsistentHash - Constant hash algorithm
• LWP::JSON::Tiny - use JSON natively with LWP objects
• Neovim::Ext - Perl bindings for neovim
• OCR::OcrSpace - Perl Interface to access https://ocr.space/OCRAPI
• Redis::RateLimit - Sliding window rate limiting with Redis

Increasing its reputation:

• Algorithm::ConsistentHash::CHash (+1=2)
• Algorithm::ConsistentHash::Ketama (+1=2)
• Alien::Build (+1=19)
• App::lcpan (+1=9)
• Crypt::Eksblowfish (+1=16)
• Data::Entropy (+1=5)
• Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls (+1=14)
• Digest (+1=9)
• Digest::Bcrypt (+1=7)
• Digest::BLAKE2 (+1=2)
• Digest::JHash (+1=3)
• Digest::MurmurHash (+1=4)
• Digest::MurmurHash3 (+1=2)
• Digest::Perl::MD5 (+1=5)
• Digest::xxHash (+1=5)
• Faker (+1=8)
• FFI::C (+2=2)
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::Go (+3=3)
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::Rust (+1=7)
• File::BaseDir (+1=3)
• File::XDG (+1=4)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=27)
• Git::Raw (+1=28)
• JavaScript::V8::XS (+1=5)
• JSON (+1=86)
• libnet (+1=25)
• List::Gen (+1=21)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=83)
• MIDI::Simple::Drummer (+1=2)
• MIME::Lite (+1=31)
• Mojo::File::Role::Extension (+1=2)
• Net::SSH (+1=4)
• Nginx::Perl (+1=13)
• Ouch (+2=10)
• pantheon (+1=4)
• Parallel::Map (+1=2)
• POSIX::1003 (+2=6)
• Prima (+1=30)
• Rex (+2=71)
• SQL::Abstract (+1=67)
• SQL::Bind (+1=2)
• Statocles (+1=26)
• String::Random (+1=19)
• Text::Lorem (+1=3)
• Text::Table (+1=12)
• WWW::Scripter (+1=3)
• XML::LibXML (+1=89)
• ZMQ::Raw (+1=5)

(cdxlii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-05-09 14:24:39 GMT

---

1. Is it faster to prepend to a string with substr? - [6/1]
2. Memory leak using WWW::Mechanize - [4/1]
3. Why is substr-lvalue faster than four-arg substr? - [3/2]
4. How does : # use perl eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' set the perl version? - [3/1]
5. Is there a symbolic implementation of the PDL API? - [3/0]
6. cut first sunday to saturday of each month in a year - [2/7]
7. Set breakpoint from .perldb init file - [2/1]
8. Umlauts in Excel data - [2/1]
9. Compiling perl Net::Interface module on CentOS 8.1 fails - [2/1]
10. Perl regex to match but only replace in blocks - [2/1]

(cclxxxvii) 19 CPAN great modules released last week

This is a list of great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. AnyEvent::HTTP - simple but non-blocking HTTP/HTTPS client
   • Version: 2.25 on 2020-04-27
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 2.24 was 1 year, 7 months, 28 days before
2. App::GitGot - A tool to make it easier to manage multiple git repositories.
   • Version: 1.337 on 2020-04-25
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 1.336 was 2 years, 12 days before
3. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
   • Version: 4.47 on 2020-05-01
   • Votes: 38
   • Previous version: 4.46 was 2 months, 27 days before
4. Code::TidyAll - Engine for tidyall, your all-in-one code tidier and validator
   • Version: 0.78 on 2020-04-25
   • Votes: 35
   • Previous version: 0.75 was 4 months, 1 day before
5. Data::Object - Object-Orientation for Perl 5
   • Version: 2.05 on 2020-04-27
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.04 was 4 days before
6. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
   • Version: 3.11.1 on 2020-04-28
   • Votes: 82
   • Previous version: 3.11.0 was 5 days before
7. Devel::Declare - (DEPRECATED) Adding keywords to perl, in perl
   • Version: 0.006022 on 2020-04-26
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.006019 was 3 years, 29 days before
8. Encode - character encodings in Perl
   • Version: 3.06 on 2020-05-02
   • Votes: 53
   • Previous version: 3.05 was 1 month, 15 days before
9. JSON::MaybeXS - Use Cpanel::JSON::XS with a fallback to JSON::XS and JSON::PP
   • Version: 1.004001 on 2020-05-01
   • Votes: 42
   • Previous version: 1.004000 was 2 years, 12 days before
10. Message::Passing - a simple way of doing messaging.
    • Version: 0.117 on 2020-04-28
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 0.116 was 5 years, 2 months, 5 days before
11. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20200428 on 2020-04-28
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20200320 was 1 month, 8 days before
12. Mojo::mysql - Mojolicious and Async MySQL/MariaDB
    • Version: 1.19 on 2020-04-30
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 1.18 was 4 months, 29 days before
13. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.41 on 2020-05-01
    • Votes: 425
    • Previous version: 8.40 was 8 days before
14. Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ - interact with RabbitMQ over AMQP using librabbitmq
    • Version: 2.40007 on 2020-04-30
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.40005 was 2 months, 7 days before
15. Net::OpenSSH - Perl SSH client package implemented on top of OpenSSH
    • Version: 0.79 on 2020-04-29
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 0.78 was 1 year, 11 months, 24 days before
16. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.114 on 2020-04-26
    • Votes: 151
    • Previous version: 0.112 was 2 months, 28 days before
17. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.010002 on 2020-05-01
    • Votes: 118
    • Previous version: 1.010001 was 1 month, 16 days before
18. Yancy - A simple framework and editor for content-driven Mojolicious websites
    • Version: 1.056 on 2020-04-26
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 1.055 was 1 day before
19. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.518 on 2020-05-01
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.517 was 23 days before