(cccxxiv) 15 CPAN great modules released last week

Updates for 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: 2.38 on 2021-01-11
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.37 was 2 months, 9 days before
2. Catmandu - a data toolkit
   • Version: 1.2014 on 2021-01-15
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.2013 was 6 months, 6 days before
3. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
   • Version: 0.031 on 2021-01-10
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 0.030 was 2 days before
4. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
   • Version: 2.65 on 2021-01-09
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.64 was 8 days before
5. Kelp - A web framework light, yet rich in nutrients.
   • Version: 1.03 on 2021-01-12
   • Votes: 42
   • Previous version: 1.02 was 3 years, 8 days before
6. Module::ScanDeps - Recursively scan Perl code for dependencies
   • Version: 1.30 on 2021-01-13
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 1.29 was 4 months, 28 days before
7. PAR - Perl Archive Toolkit
   • Version: 1.017 on 2021-01-13
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 1.016 was 1 year, 7 months, 24 days before
8. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
   • Version: 1.052 on 2021-01-13
   • Votes: 38
   • Previous version: 1.051 was 1 month, 14 days before
9. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
   • Version: 20210111 on 2021-01-10
   • Votes: 120
   • Previous version: 20201207 was 1 month, 4 days before
10. Image::Magick - objected-oriented Perl interface to ImageMagick. Use it to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images from within a Perl script.
    • Version: v6.9.11 on 2021-01-16
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 6.89-1 was 6 years, 3 months, 25 days before
11. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.022 on 2021-01-11
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 1.020 was 3 months, 26 days before
12. Role::Tiny - Roles: a nouvelle cuisine portion size slice of Moose
    • Version: 2.002003 on 2021-01-11
    • Votes: 62
    • Previous version: 2.001004 was 1 year, 2 months, 17 days before
13. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v7.0.0 on 2021-01-15
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v6.10.0 was 1 month, 14 days before
14. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.012001 on 2021-01-10
    • Votes: 124
    • Previous version: 1.012000 was 2 months, 13 days before
15. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.06 on 2021-01-14
    • Votes: 103
    • Previous version: 5.05 was 2 months, 24 days before

(cdl) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 61

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+2)

Build date: 2021/01/16 22:35:36 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Taboo - Automated Cencoring Micro Engine
• App::NoodlePay - Convenient way to securely send Bitcoin from cold storage
• Audio::StreamGenerator - create a 'radio' stream by mixing ('cross fading') multiple audio sources (files or anything that can be converted to PCM audio) and sending it to a streaming server (like Icecast)
• Class::Std - Support for creating standard "inside-out" classes
• Class::Std::Utils - Utility subroutines for building "inside-out" objects
• Data::Paging - pagination helper for view
• Fluent::AgentLite -
• IPC::Serial - Simple message passing over serial ports
• JSON::Server -
• Kelp::Module::Template::Toolkit - Template rendering for Kelp via Template
• Nephia::Plugin::ErrorPage - Error Page DSL for Nephia
• Nephia::Plugin::FillInForm - A plugin for Nephia that provides fill-in-form feature
• Nephia::Plugin::View::Xslate - A plugin for Nephia that provides template mechanism
• Nephia::Setup::Plugin::Normal - Normal setup of Nephia
• NephiaX::Auth::Twitter - Twitter Authorizer
• Net::Azure::NotificationHubs - A Client Class for Azure Notification Hubs
• Net::GrowthForecast - A client library for awesome visualization tool GrowthForecast
• Net::Hadoop::DFSAdmin::ReportParser - Parser module for 'hadoop dfsadmin -report'
• Net::Hadoop::HuahinManager - Client library for Huahin Manager.
• Net::Saml2 - SAML bindings and protocol implementation
• Norikra::Client - Client library for Norikra (https://github.com/tagomoris/norikra)
• Ordeal::Model - Manage cards and decks
• Otogiri::Plugin::BulkInsert - bulk insert for Otogiri
• Otogiri::Plugin::InsertAndFetch - An Otogiri plugin that keep compatibility for insert method
• Otogiri::Plugin::SelectWithColumns - Otogiri plugin to search row-data that contains only specific columns from database
• TAP3::Tap3edit - Decodes, modifies and encodes TAP 3 files
• Term::DataMatrix - Generate terminal base DataMatrix 2D Code
• Test::PostgreSQL::Docker - A Postgresql mock server for testing perl programs
• Vector::QRCode::IntoPDF - A module to append QRCode as vector data into PDF
• WWW::256locksMaker - Perl Interface of 256locks maker (http://maker-256locks.herokuapp.com/)
• XML::Diver - Dive XML with XML and first-class collection + alpha
• XML::XPath::Diver - Dive XML with XML::XPath and first-class collection + alpha

Increasing its reputation:

• BerkeleyDB (+1=10)
• Business::Bitcoin (+1=4)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+1=38)
• Dancer2 (+1=120)
• Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls (+1=16)
• Eixo::Docker (+1=5)
• Games::2048 (+1=8)
• Inline::Python (+1=11)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=89)
• mod_perl (+1=19)
• Module::Starter (+1=28)
• Module::Starter::PBP (+1=7)
• Mojolicious (+2=439)
• Mouse (+1=58)
• Net::Async::HTTP::Server (+1=2)
• Net::Azure::CognitiveServices::Face (+1=2)
• Net::Docker (+1=4)
• Net::Duo (+1=2)
• PDF::API2 (+1=26)
• Pepper (+1=5)
• perl (+1=365)
• Raisin (+1=40)
• Search::Elasticsearch (+1=38)
• Smart::Comments (+1=37)
• String::Random (+1=20)
• Term::QRCode (+1=4)
• Text::QRCode (+1=5)
• XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint (+1=2)

(cdlxxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-01-16 22:33:17 GMT

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1. Is there a succinct list of all perl stateful operators and modifiers? - [4/2]
2. Anyway to tell if perl script is run via do? - [3/1]
3. How to make perl Makefile.PL use a given C compiler when compiling an XS module? - [2/3]
4. How to rename multiple files in a folder with a specific format? - [2/2]
5. Undefined subroutine &main::header called at /opt/alu-rp/www/cgi/munin-cgi-html - [2/1]
6. How can I tell if an object has a specific overloaded method? - [2/1]
7. Unable to install perl modules via cpanm in conda environments - [2/1]
8. Is it really so easy to fix Devel::ptkdb to support lvalue sub's? (rfce) - [2/0]
9. How can I find a specific piece of a webpage using MOJO::Dom? - [2/0]
10. perl sorting according to multiple columns (order of column matters) - [1/3]

(cccxxiii) 16 CPAN great modules released last week

Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
   • Version: 0.997000 on 2021-01-08
   • Votes: 51
   • Previous version: 0.996 was 1 month, 2 days before
2. App::TimeTracker - time tracking for impatient and lazy command line lovers
   • Version: 3.008 on 2021-01-05
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 3.007 was 8 days before
3. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
   • Version: 0.030 on 2021-01-08
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 0.029 was 6 months, 16 days before
4. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.27 on 2021-01-05
   • Votes: 59
   • Previous version: 6.26 was 3 months, 25 days before
5. IO - Perl core IO modules
   • Version: 1.45 on 2021-01-04
   • Votes: 52
   • Previous version: 1.42 was 11 months, 15 days before
6. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
   • Version: 2.100 on 2021-01-07
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.096 was 5 months, 7 days before
7. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
   • Version: 6.52 on 2021-01-07
   • Votes: 149
   • Previous version: 6.51 was 9 days before
8. Minion - Job queue
   • Version: 10.15 on 2021-01-03
   • Votes: 80
   • Previous version: 10.14 was 2 months, 9 days before
9. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
   • Version: 4.23 on 2021-01-03
   • Votes: 66
   • Previous version: 4.22 was 1 month, 27 days before
10. Mojolicious::Plugin::Status - Mojolicious server status
    • Version: 1.13 on 2021-01-03
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.12 was 6 months, 21 days before
11. Net::LDAP - LDAP client library
    • Version: 0.68 on 2021-01-03
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.67 was 8 days before
12. RapidApp - Turnkey ajaxy webapps
    • Version: 1.3401 on 2021-01-08
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 1.3400 was 22 days before
13. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
    • Version: 1.39 on 2021-01-08
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 1.38 was 2 months, 20 days before
14. Test::LeakTrace - Traces memory leaks
    • Version: 0.17 on 2021-01-05
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.16 was 3 years, 6 months, 17 days before
15. Test::MockModule - Override subroutines in a module for unit testing
    • Version: v0.176.0 on 2021-01-05
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v0.175.0 was 3 months, 18 days before
16. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.613 on 2021-01-09
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.612 was 2 months, 30 days before

(cdxlix) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 62

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+3)

Build date: 2021/01/09 21:32:29 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::calendr - Application to display supported Calendar.
• Argv - Provide an OO interface to an arg vector
• Bitcoin::Crypto - Bitcoin cryptography in Perl
• Calendar::Hijri - Interface to Islamic Calendar.
• CPAN::Test::Dummy::Perl5::StaticInstall - Dummy CPAN distribution with x_static_install metadata
• MIDI::RtMidi::FFI - Bindings for librtmidi - Realtime MIDI library
• Net::Duo - API for Duo multifactor authentication service
• Plack::Middleware::Text::Minify - minify text responses on the fly
• Readonly::Tiny - Simple, correct readonly values
• Regexp::Assemble::Compressed - Assemble more compressed Regular Expression
• Statistics::Standard_Normal - Z scores and percentiles using standard normal table

Increasing its reputation:

• Acme::Futuristic::Perl (+1=5)
• Algorithm::AhoCorasick::XS (+1=2)
• App::fsql (+1=7)
• Class::MethodMaker (+1=2)
• Clipboard (+1=4)
• Const::Fast (+1=31)
• Crypt::OpenSSL::DSA (+1=2)
• Data::Alias (+1=14)
• Data::DeepAccess (+1=3)
• Data::Money (+1=6)
• Data::Section (+1=10)
• DBD::Pg (+2=85)
• DBI (+1=247)
• File::Slurp (+1=67)
• Gedcom (+1=3)
• HTML5::DOM (+1=11)
• IO::Async (+1=58)
• IO::FDPass (+1=2)
• IO::Interactive (+1=15)
• IO::Prompter (+1=21)
• MediaWiki::API (+1=5)
• MetaCPAN::Client (+1=21)
• Mojolicious (+3=438)
• Net::Async::WebSocket (+1=4)
• Path::Tiny (+1=157)
• Perl::Critic::Freenode (+1=19)
• Pod::POM::Web (+1=7)
• Pod::Simple (+1=16)
• Pod::Weaver (+1=32)
• PPI::HTML (+1=2)
• Regexp::Assemble (+1=33)
• Regexp::Common (+1=51)
• Regexp::Debugger (+1=55)
• Sort::Key (+1=25)
• Sort::Naturally (+1=17)
• SQL::Abstract (+1=69)
• StreamFinder (+1=2)
• Sub::Install (+1=18)
• Sub::Pipe (+1=2)
• Template::Toolkit (+1=129)
• Term::ANSIColorx::ColorNicknames (+1=2)
• Test2::Suite (+1=30)
• Test::LeakTrace (+1=14)
• Text::Table::Tiny (+1=14)
• Type::Tiny (+1=124)
• Types::XSD::Lite (+1=3)
• URI::db (+1=8)
• WWW::Mechanize::Chrome (+1=15)

(cdlxxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-01-09 21:30:36 GMT

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1. Pretending an Autoloaded Function has a Block Prototype - [6/1]
2. The smartmatch operator is not working as expected - [3/2]
3. What is the minimum perl script for Selenium? - [3/1]
4. dynamically add leading underscore to existing sub - [3/1]
5. Perl:How to insert line in a file? - [2/3]
6. In mrskew, can I calculate human readable timestamps from tim? - [2/2]
7. How to append content of a file multiple times into one file in perl script - [2/2]
8. How to use patchperl when compiling an old perl distribution? - [2/1]
9. Inline Python support for passing filehandle from perl - [2/1]
10. Spreadsheet::WriteExcel - Values are changed to scientific notation despite cell being formatted as Text - [2/1]

10 best perl distributions created at 2020 (metacpan rating)

10 best perl distributions created at 2020 (metacpan rating)

This list contains distributions created at 2020

1. Zydeco (+20)
2. Code::ART (+8)
3. Devel::Wherefore (+6)
4. Guacamole (+6)
5. SQL::Bind (+6)
6. MLPerl (+5)
7. Sub::MultiMethod (+5)
8. TOML::Tiny (+5)
9. Pepper (+4)
10. RxPerl (+4)

metacpan most voted distributions in 2020

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2020

1. Mojolicious (+42)
2. Zydeco (+20)
3. perl (+17)
4. Type::Tiny (+15)
5. Future::AsyncAwait (+13)
6. Path::Tiny (+12)
7. Plack (+9)
8. Regexp::Debugger (+9)
9. Rex (+9)
10. Role::Tiny (+9)
11. Yancy (+9)
12. Code::ART (+8)
13. Dancer2 (+8)
14. Log::Log4perl (+8)
15. MCE (+8)
16. Minion (+8)
17. Moose (+8)
18. Sereal (+8)
19. Template::Toolkit (+8)
20. Text::CSV_XS (+8)

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2020 group by month

• 2020-01

Mojolicious (+9)
Future::AsyncAwait (+4)


• 2020-02

Zydeco (+8)
Sub::MultiMethod (+4)


• 2020-03

Zydeco (+6)
Devel::Wherefore (+4)


• 2020-04

Mojolicious (+5)
Yancy (+5)


• 2020-05

App::lcpan (+5)
JSON (+4)


• 2020-06

Role::Tiny (+9)
Code::ART (+7)


• 2020-07

Future::AsyncAwait (+3)
Mojolicious (+3)


• 2020-08

Perl::Tidy (+3)
Regexp::Common::Markdown (+3)


• 2020-09

Mojolicious (+4)
Pepper (+4)


• 2020-10

Ask (+4)
Mojo::PDF (+3)


• 2020-11

Plack (+4)
Log::Log4perl (+3)


• 2020-12

Mojolicious (+3)
XS::Tutorial (+3)

20 best Perl questions at stackoverflow in 2020

This is the ten most rated questions at 2020 Stack Overflow.
Between brackets: question score & answers count
Built date: 2021/01/02 13:55:42 GMT

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1. Why is this regex so slow in java - [51/4]
2. How can I wrap require and use? - [11/4]
3. Perl can't use last with the while statement modifier - [11/2]
4. Find and Increment a Number in an XML File - [10/5]
5. Is split what I want to use here or pop? - [10/2]
6. Can anyone explain how to print all keys if two keys are same but with different values? - [9/4]
7. Add "m" modifier to qr pattern passed as parameter - [9/4]
8. How can I set the level of precision for Raku's sqrt? - [9/2]
9. How to emulate wc -l in Raku - [9/1]
10. Can I use Text::CSV_XS to parse a csv-format string without writing it to disk? - [8/3]
11. How do I turn the Perl 5 module Data::Printer&'s `show_tied` option off when using it in Raku? - [8/1]
12. Perl die() call mysteriously not dying - [8/1]
13. cut first sunday to saturday of each month in a year - [8/7]
14. How to remove and ID from a string - [7/4]
15. How do I disable Devel::Cover for forked child processes? - [7/2]
16. What does local do on the standard streams / bareword word filehandles: STDIN? - [7/2]
17. How to request permission access from user without asking the user to insert information Google Sign-Up - [7/0]
18. Multiple filehandles opening the same file - is it a good practice? - [6/3]
19. How do I remove the special characters within multiple lines in Regex? - [6/3]
20. retrieve patterns that exactly match all regex in Perl - [6/3]

(cccxxii) 12 CPAN great modules released last week

Updates for 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: 2.047002 on 2020-12-30
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.047000 was 7 days before
2. App::TimeTracker - time tracking for impatient and lazy command line lovers
   • Version: 3.007 on 2020-12-28
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 3.005 was 1 month, 6 days before
3. Future - represent an operation awaiting completion
   • Version: 0.47 on 2021-01-01
   • Votes: 52
   • Previous version: 0.46 was 2 months, 13 days before
4. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
   • Version: 0.9716 on 2021-01-01
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 0.9714 was 7 days before
5. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
   • Version: 2.64 on 2021-01-01
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.62 was 1 month, 15 days before
6. IO::AIO - Asynchronous/Advanced Input/Output
   • Version: 4.75 on 2020-12-30
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 4.73 was 26 days before
7. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
   • Version: 6.51 on 2020-12-29
   • Votes: 149
   • Previous version: 6.50 was 13 days before
8. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 8.70 on 2020-12-30
   • Votes: 435
   • Previous version: 8.67 was 25 days before
9. SQL::Abstract::More - extension of SQL::Abstract with more constructs and more flexible API
   • Version: 1.34 on 2021-01-01
   • Votes: 20
   • Previous version: 1.33 was 2 years, 11 months, 18 days before
10. Term::ReadLine::Gnu - Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library
    • Version: 1.37 on 2020-12-27
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.36 was 1 year, 11 months, 13 days before
11. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.75 on 2020-12-28
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.74 was 16 days before
12. XS::Tutorial - documentation with examples for learning Perl XS
    • Version: 0.04 on 2020-12-28
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.03 was 2 years, 7 months, 27 days before