(cdxxx) 14 great CPAN 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::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.314 on 2023-02-03
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.313 was 21 days before
2. autodie - Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
   • Version: 2.36 on 2023-01-30
   • Votes: 58
   • Previous version: 2.35 was 3 days before
3. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
   • Version: 1.16 on 2023-02-04
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 1.15 was 23 days before
4. Devel::CheckOS - a script to package Devel::AssertOS modules with your code.
   • Version: 1.96 on 2023-02-04
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 1.95 was 3 months, 6 days before
5. experimental - Experimental features made easy
   • Version: 0.031 on 2023-01-31
   • Votes: 31
   • Previous version: 0.030 was 1 month, 21 days before
6. HTML::Parser - HTML parser class
   • Version: 3.81 on 2023-01-31
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 3.80 was 2 months, 30 days before
7. Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
   • Version: 1.16 on 2023-01-29
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 1.03 was 10 years, 9 months, 7 days before
8. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
   • Version: 5.002 on 2023-02-01
   • Votes: 60
   • Previous version: 5.001 was 4 months, 28 days before
9. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
   • Version: 5.002 on 2023-02-01
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 5.001 was 4 months, 28 days before
10. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 5.002 on 2023-02-01
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 5.001 was 4 months, 28 days before
11. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9689 on 2023-02-01
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9686 was 5 days before
12. String::Util - String processing utility functions
    • Version: 1.34 on 2023-02-01
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.32 was 1 year, 10 months, 6 days before
13. System::Command - Object for running system commands
    • Version: 1.122 on 2023-02-04
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 1.121 was 2 years, 8 months, 1 day before
14. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302192 on 2023-02-02
    • Votes: 180
    • Previous version: 1.302191 was 6 months, 24 days before

(dxliii) metacpan weekly report - Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 64

Week's winner: Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub (+2)

Build date: 2023/02/04 22:41:43 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Crypt::PK::ECC::Schnorr - Public key cryptography based on EC with Schnorr signatures
• Data::Validate::OpenAPI - Validate and untaint input parameters via OpenAPI schema
• Device::Chip::CC1101 - chip driver for a CC1101
• Device::Modbus::TCP - Distribution for Modbus TCP communications
• Dist::Zilla::Role::ModuleMetadata - A role for plugins that use Module::Metadata
• Domain::Details - Domain class with DNS/SSL/WHOIS fields
• Future::Queue - a FIFO queue of values that uses Futures
• Graph::Maker::Other - Create Graph.pm graph theory graphs of various kinds.
• OpenAPI::Render - Render OpenAPI specifications as documents
• Syntax::Operator::Divides - an infix operator for division test
• Syntax::Operator::ExistsOr - an infix operator sensitive to hash element existence
• Test2::Tools::Rustfmt - Test that bundled Rust code is formatted according to Rust style guidelines
• Text::Treesitter - Perl binding for tree-sitter
• Version::Dotted - Bump a dotted version, check if version is trial

Increasing its reputation:

• Babble (+1=3)
• BackPAN::Index (+1=5)
• Commandable (+1=2)
• Convert::Color (+1=8)
• CPAN::Changes (+1=31)
• Curses::UI (+1=19)
• DateTime (+1=209)
• DBI::Log (+1=2)
• Device::Chip (+1=2)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ChangelogFromGit (+1=7)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git (+1=44)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub (+2=16)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GithubMeta (+1=9)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::InstallGuide (+1=4)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::NextVersion::Semantic (+1=4)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::OnlyCorePrereqs (+1=5)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Twitter (+1=4)
• Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::ETHER (+1=4)
• Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::LEONT (+1=2)
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::Rust (+1=10)
• Firefox::Marionette (+1=14)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=45)
• Hash::Ordered (+1=32)
• Math::Matrix::MaybeGSL (+1=2)
• Module::Metadata (+1=14)
• MooseX::Has::Sugar (+1=2)
• MooseX::Types::URI (+1=5)
• Myriad (+1=7)
• PAR::Packer (+1=41)
• Path::Tiny (+1=174)
• Plack::Middleware::CrossOrigin (+1=5)
• Struct::Dumb (+1=14)
• SUPER (+1=6)
• Syntax::Construct (+1=10)
• Syntax::Keyword::Dynamically (+1=7)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=60)
• Test2::Plugin::NoWarnings (+1=3)
• Test::Directory (+1=2)
• Test::PerlTidy (+1=3)
• Text::Abbrev (+1=2)
• Text::CSV (+1=73)
• Text::Template (+1=23)
• Text::Xslate (+1=69)
• Tickit::Widgets (+1=6)
• Tk (+1=28)
• Try::Tiny (+1=172)
• Unix::Sudo (+1=2)
• UTF8::R2 (+1=4)
• With::Roles (+1=5)

(dlxxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-02-04 22:39:41 GMT

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1. How to check if an array has an element that is not integer? - [3/3]
2. Remove upfront zeros from floating point lower than 1 in Perl - [3/2]
3. Perl: How to copy directory without any files? - [3/1]
4. Perl 5.18 | Archive::ZIP 1.68 | Recursive files not included in ZIP - [3/0]
5. Using gawk or sed to inplace change line after or before every other match - [2/5]

(cdxxix) 15 great CPAN 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::cpanminus::reporter - send cpanm output to CPAN Testers
   • Version: 0.18 on 2023-01-23
   • Votes: 36
   • Previous version: 0.17 was 6 years, 8 months, 29 days before
2. autodie - Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
   • Version: 2.35 on 2023-01-27
   • Votes: 58
   • Previous version: 2.34 was 2 years, 5 days before
3. Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
   • Version: 5.77 on 2023-01-23
   • Votes: 27
   • Previous version: 5.74 was 3 years, 3 days before
4. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
   • Version: 1.35 on 2023-01-22
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 0.77 was 3 years, 6 months, 15 days before
5. Function::Parameters - define functions and methods with parameter lists ("subroutine signatures")
   • Version: 2.001005 on 2023-01-27
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 2.001004 was 7 days before
6. IO - Perl core IO modules
   • Version: 1.51 on 2023-01-23
   • Votes: 57
   • Previous version: 1.50 was 8 months, 20 days before
7. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.081 on 2023-01-25
   • Votes: 46
   • Previous version: 2.080 was 7 days before
8. Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert CSS, Less, Sass, JavaScript and CoffeeScript files
   • Version: 2.14 on 2023-01-27
   • Votes: 49
   • Previous version: 2.13 was 1 year, 10 months, 14 days before
9. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
   • Version: 2.2203 on 2023-01-22
   • Votes: 325
   • Previous version: 2.2202 was 8 days before
10. Net::OpenSSH - Perl SSH client package implemented on top of OpenSSH
    • Version: 0.83 on 2023-01-22
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 0.82 was 10 months, 17 days before
11. PLS - Perl Language Server
    • Version: 0.905 on 2023-01-21
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.902 was 4 months, 22 days before
12. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9686 on 2023-01-27
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9683 was 7 days before
13. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000142 on 2023-01-25
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.000141 was 1 month, 10 days before
14. Tie::File - Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
    • Version: 1.06 on 2023-01-23
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.05 was 2 years, 11 months, 27 days before
15. YAML::LibYAML - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
    • Version: 0.86 on 2023-01-26
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 0.85 was 4 months, 14 days before

(dxlii) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 46

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2023/01/28 20:50:55 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Alien::Role::Dino - Experimental support for dynamic share Alien install
• AnyEvent::RipeRedis::Cluster - Non-blocking Redis Cluster client
• AnyEvent::Stomper - Flexible non-blocking STOMP client
• Chemistry::Harmonia - Decision of simple and difficult chemical puzzles.
• Lingua::RU::Numeral - Perl extension for generate Russian wording of numerals from the natural numbers and 0 (zero).
• Math::Assistant - functions for various exact algebraic calculations
• Task::BeLike::RJBS - be more like RJBS -- use the modules he likes!

Increasing its reputation:

• ack (+1=127)
• AnyEvent::RipeRedis (+1=3)
• App::Cmd (+1=45)
• App::cpanminus (+1=271)
• App::perlbrew (+1=172)
• Archive::Tar::Wrapper (+1=6)
• Ask (+1=11)
• autodie (+1=58)
• autovivification (+1=26)
• Bitcoin::BIP39 (+1=2)
• CPAN (+1=37)
• Devel::MAT (+1=29)
• Devel::MAT::Tool::Object::Pad (+1=2)
• Domain::PublicSuffix (+1=7)
• Exporter::Easy (+1=5)
• ExtUtils::MakeMaker (+1=52)
• Feature::Compat::Class (+1=2)
• IO::Async (+1=69)
• libintl::perl (+1=9)
• Memory::Stats (+1=2)
• Memory::Usage (+1=7)
• Minion (+1=92)
• Mo (+1=40)
• Mojolicious (+1=478)
• MOP (+1=10)
• Neo4j::Bolt (+1=2)
• Neo4j::Driver (+1=4)
• Net::Domain::ExpireDate (+1=3)
• Net::SFTP::Foreign (+1=24)
• Net::SFTP::Foreign::Backend::Net_SSH2 (+1=3)
• Number::Bytes::Human (+1=9)
• PadWalker (+1=26)
• Paws (+1=55)
• Proc::Simple (+1=3)
• Redis::ClusterRider (+1=3)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=59)
• Text::CSV (+1=72)
• Type::Tiny (+1=134)
• WordPress::XMLRPC (+1=2)

(dlxx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-28 20:49:22 GMT

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1. Open a scalar as a file in Perl - [4/1]
2. Perl JSON arrays within a parent key - [3/2]
3. Get the first item of the list returned by function - [2/3]
4. How to use File-Rename aka Perl's rename in Windows? - [2/1]
5. Cast array into list - [2/1]

(cdxxviii) 9 great CPAN 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: 2.77 on 2023-01-20
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.76 was 22 days before
2. Class::Method::Modifiers - Provides Moose-like method modifiers
   • Version: 2.14 on 2023-01-16
   • Votes: 29
   • Previous version: 2.13 was 3 years, 5 months, 6 days before
3. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
   • Version: 6.030 on 2023-01-19
   • Votes: 179
   • Previous version: 6.029 was 1 month, 24 days before
4. Function::Parameters - define functions and methods with parameter lists ("subroutine signatures")
   • Version: 2.001004 on 2023-01-20
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 2.001003 was 5 years, 2 months, 9 days before
5. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.080 on 2023-01-18
   • Votes: 46
   • Previous version: 2.078 was 1 month, 7 days before
6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20230120 on 2023-01-20
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 5.20221220 was 1 month before
7. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.9683 on 2023-01-20
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 0.9681 was 7 days before
8. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
   • Version: v9.0.0 on 2023-01-16
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: v8.10.0 was 1 month, 8 days before
9. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
   • Version: 2.002001 on 2023-01-20
   • Votes: 133
   • Previous version: 2.002000 was 19 days before

(dxli) metacpan weekly report - IO::Socket::SSL

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 53

Week's winner: IO::Socket::SSL (+2)

Build date: 2023/01/21 20:28:45 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• CPU::Z80::Disassembler - Disassemble the flow of a Z80 program
• Dancer2::Logger::Log4perl - Dancer2 logger interface for Log4perl.
• Fl - Bindings for the Stable 1.3.x Branch of the Fast Light Toolkit
• Lingua::RU::Antimat - Perl Module for removal Russian slang from chat, guestbooks, etc.
• Lingua::RU::Preposition - Lingua::RU::Preposition - Russian preposition choosing
• Test::Pod::LinkCheck::Lite - Test POD links

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpanminus (+1=270)
• AppConfig (+1=7)
• Capture::Tiny (+1=98)
• Carmel (+1=28)
• CGI::Application::Plugin::ValidateRM (+1=2)
• Config::INI (+1=20)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+1=44)
• Crypt::Rijndael (+1=8)
• Dancer2 (+1=131)
• Data::Page (+1=18)
• DBM::Deep (+1=26)
• Devel::Camelcadedb (+1=6)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CopyFilesFromBuild (+1=9)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaProvides::Package (+1=4)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodWeaver (+1=15)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::Kwalitee (+1=8)
• Email::MIME::Kit (+1=10)
• FASTX::Reader (+1=5)
• File::MimeInfo (+1=9)
• HTML5::DOM (+1=12)
• Import::Base (+1=17)
• IO::Socket::SSL (+2=46)
• IO::Tty (+1=7)
• IUP (+1=12)
• Lingua::Identify (+1=2)
• Lingua::RU::Inflect (+1=3)
• Linux::FD (+1=3)
• Mail::Message (+1=2)
• MailTools (+1=9)
• Mo (+1=39)
• Myriad (+1=6)
• Net::DNS (+1=25)
• Path::Tiny (+1=173)
• perl (+1=401)
• Perl::Build (+1=22)
• Perl::Critic::Pulp (+1=4)
• Perl::Dist::APPerl (+1=6)
• Perl::PrereqScanner (+1=22)
• Proc::Simple (+1=2)
• Task::Kensho (+1=115)
• Text::ASCIITable (+1=18)
• Text::Markdown::Hoedown (+1=14)
• Tickit (+1=25)
• Tie::Hash::DBD (+1=5)
• Util::H2O (+1=8)
• Web::Query (+1=30)

(dlxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-21 20:26:32 GMT

---

1. Printing hash of array as values with Dumper leads to infinite recursion - [4/1]
2. Importing subroutines from parent class - [3/2]
3. Can you print the subroutine's argument name in Perl? - [2/2]
4. Why doesn't Perl recognize the file name? - [2/1]
5. Convert text to value hexadecimal - [2/1]

(cdxxvii) 16 great CPAN 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::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.313 on 2023-01-13
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.309 was 7 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.060004 on 2023-01-11
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.060003 was 28 days before
3. Config::INI - simple .ini-file format
   • Version: 0.029 on 2023-01-14
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 0.028 was 13 days before
4. CPAN::Uploader - upload things to the CPAN
   • Version: 0.103018 on 2023-01-14
   • Votes: 24
   • Previous version: 0.103017 was 13 days before
5. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
   • Version: 1.15 on 2023-01-12
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 1.14 was 13 days before
6. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodWeaver - weave your Pod together from configuration and Dist::Zilla
   • Version: 4.010 on 2023-01-12
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 4.009 was 1 year, 6 months, 23 days before
7. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::ReportPrereqs - Report on prerequisite versions during automated testing
   • Version: 0.029 on 2023-01-08
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.028 was 2 years, 4 months, 27 days before
8. Email::Address - RFC 2822 Address Parsing and Creation
   • Version: 1.913 on 2023-01-10
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 1.912 was 4 years, 10 days before
9. Email::MIME - easy MIME message handling
   • Version: 1.953 on 2023-01-09
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 1.952 was 1 year, 26 days before
10. Email::Simple - simple parsing of RFC2822 message format and headers
    • Version: 2.218 on 2023-01-09
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 2.216 was 4 years, 7 months, 3 days before
11. Email::Stuffer - A more casual approach to creating and sending Email:: emails
    • Version: 0.020 on 2023-01-11
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.018 was 2 years, 6 months, 8 days before
12. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
    • Version: 2.2202 on 2023-01-14
    • Votes: 325
    • Previous version: 2.2201 was 1 year, 2 months, 7 days before
13. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.78 on 2023-01-12
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 0.77 was 24 days before
14. Pod::Weaver - weave together a Pod document from an outline
    • Version: 4.019 on 2023-01-12
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 4.018 was 1 year, 6 months, 23 days before
15. Redis - Perl binding for Redis database
    • Version: 2.000 on 2023-01-13
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 1.999 was 11 months, 30 days before
16. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9681 on 2023-01-13
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9680 was 7 days before