(cclxxviii) 7 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. Catalyst::Devel - Catalyst Development Tools
   • Version: 1.40 on 2020-02-27
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 1.39 was 6 years, 8 months, 13 days before
2. experimental - Experimental features made easy
   • Version: 0.021 on 2020-02-22
   • Votes: 30
   • Previous version: 0.020 was 1 year, 9 months, 13 days before
3. Getopt::Long::Descriptive - Getopt::Long, but simpler and more powerful
   • Version: 0.105 on 2020-02-25
   • Votes: 45
   • Previous version: 0.104 was 9 months, 28 days before
4. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.22 on 2020-02-24
   • Votes: 58
   • Previous version: 6.18 was 1 year, 8 months, 19 days before
5. Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ - interact with RabbitMQ over AMQP using librabbitmq
   • Version: 2.40005 on 2020-02-23
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.40004 was 8 months, 9 days before
6. Promises - An implementation of Promises in Perl
   • Version: 1.04 on 2020-02-23
   • Votes: 40
   • Previous version: 1.03 was 1 month, 16 days before
7. Time::Piece - Object Oriented time objects
   • Version: 1.34 on 2020-02-27
   • Votes: 46
   • Previous version: 1.33 was 1 year, 6 months, 9 days before

(cdix) metacpan weekly report - Template::Toolkit

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 67
Week's winners (+3): Template::Toolkit
Build date: 2020/02/29 08:10:40 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::unbelievable - Dancer2 static site generator
• Brocade::BSC - Configure and query the Brocade SDN controller.
• DBIx::VersionedSchema - helps to manage database schema versions
• HTML::DeferableCSS - Simplify management of stylesheets in your HTML
• Mojolicious::Services - Mojolicious::Services
• Neo4j::Bolt - Neo4j server agent using Bolt protocol
• Swagger::Schema - Object model for Swagger schema files
• Test2::Tools::Condition - Conditional block with Test2

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpangrep (+1=6)
• App::cpanminus (+1=251)
• App::cpm (+1=45)
• App::Wallflower (+1=9)
• Bytes::Random::Secure::Tiny (+1=3)
• Chart::Plotly (+1=10)
• CLI::Osprey (+1=3)
• common::sense (+1=19)
• Config::IniFiles (+1=12)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+1=33)
• CryptX (+1=41)
• DBD::SQLite (+1=91)
• DBIx::Class (+1=271)
• DBIx::DataModel (+1=11)
• DBIx::FixtureLoader (+1=3)
• DBIx::TempDB (+1=3)
• Devel::REPL (+1=59)
• experimental (+2=30)
• Gearman (+1=10)
• Gearman::XS (+1=4)
• Hook::LexWrap (+1=7)
• HTTP::Exception (+1=2)
• JSON::Validator (+1=26)
• JSON::XS (+2=108)
• Keyword::Declare (+1=18)
• libwww::perl (+1=146)
• local::lib (+1=78)
• Minilla (+1=49)
• Mo (+1=35)
• Module::Load (+1=25)
• Mojo::AsyncAwait (+1=6)
• Mojo::Base::Tiny (+1=3)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::PODViewer (+1=3)
• MongoDB (+1=84)
• Neo4j::Driver (+1=3)
• perl (+1=356)
• Plack (+1=214)
• Promises (+1=40)
• Protocol::Redis::XS (+1=3)
• Regexp::Debugger (+1=49)
• Selenium::Remote::Driver (+1=41)
• SQL::Abstract::More (+1=19)
• String::Escape (+1=6)
• Struct::Dumb (+1=12)
• Template::Toolkit (+3=126)
• Test2::Harness::0.999009 (+1=0)
• Test2::MojoX (+1=2)
• Text::LineNumber (+1=2)
• Tk (+1=21)
• Type::Tiny (+1=117)
• URI::Encode (+1=2)
• UV (+1=7)
• Web::Machine (+1=25)
• YAML::LibYAML (+1=43)
• Zydeco (+1=7)

(cdxxxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-02-29 08:07:16 GMT

---

1. How to emulate wc -l in Raku - [6/1]
2. How to differentiate between false and defined values in Template Toolkit for perl - [3/2]
3. How to call a grandparent method in perl - [3/2]
4. How to send email via Email::Simple? - [3/1]
5. Converting XLSX to CSV with Perl while maintaining the encoding - [3/0]
6. Perl push an element into an array that is inside of another array - [2/4]
7. Using perl `my` within actual function arguments - [2/3]
8. LWP::UserAgent ignoring SSL_VERIFY_PEER - [2/2]
9. Perl variable scopes seemingly not cooperating - [2/2]
10. Is there any way to declare a function as a variable in perl? - [2/2]

(cclxxvii) 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. AI::MXNet - Perl interface to MXNet machine learning library
   • Version: 1.5 on 2020-02-19
   • Votes: 33
   • Previous version: 1.4 was 11 months, 24 days before
2. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
   • Version: 2.08 on 2020-02-16
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 2.04 was 10 days before
3. DBIx::Class::Helpers - Simplify the common case stuff for DBIx::Class.
   • Version: 2.035000 on 2020-02-21
   • Votes: 46
   • Previous version: 2.034002 was 1 month, 23 days before
4. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 3.23 on 2020-02-19
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 3.22 was 5 days before
5. Keyword::Declare - Declare new Perl keywords...via a keyword...named keyword
   • Version: 0.001017 on 2020-02-16
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 0.001016 was 11 days before
6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20200220 on 2020-02-21
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 5.20200120 was 1 month, 1 day before
7. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
   • Version: 1.017 on 2020-02-16
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 1.016 was 5 months, 3 days before
8. Regexp::Debugger - Visually debug regexes in-place
   • Version: 0.002004 on 2020-02-16
   • Votes: 48
   • Previous version: 0.002003 was 16 days before
9. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
   • Version: 1.37 on 2020-02-18
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 1.36 was 3 months, 10 days before
10. Test::MockModule - Override subroutines in a module for unit testing
    • Version: v0.172.0 on 2020-02-19
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v0.171.0 was 4 months before
11. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.41 on 2020-02-16
    • Votes: 85
    • Previous version: 1.40 was 5 months, 1 day before
12. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.010000 on 2020-02-19
    • Votes: 116
    • Previous version: 1.008005 was 20 days before
13. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 1.96 on 2020-02-21
    • Votes: 84
    • Previous version: 1.95 was 3 months, 24 days before

(cdviii) metacpan weekly report - Zydeco

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 84
Week's winner: Zydeco (+6)
Build date: 2020/02/22 13:46:27 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• AI::MXNetCAPI - Swig interface to mxnet c api
• AI::NNVMCAPI - Swig interface to nnvm c api
• Amazon::S3::SignedURLGenerator - Amazon S3 Signed URL Generator
• asterisk::perl - Asterisk Perl Interface
• Getopt::Complete - programmable shell completion for Perl apps
• Hash::Util::Merge - utility functions for merging hashes
• lib::relative::to -
• LooksLike - See if a number looks like a number, integer, numeric, infinity, not-a-number, zero, non-zero, positive, negative, even, or odd.
• Mojo::IOLoop::Stream::Role::LineBuffer - Read and write streams by lines
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Systemd - Configure your app from within systemd service file
• Net::MQTT::Simple - Minimal MQTT version 3 interface
• Role::Hooks - role callbacks
• Test2::Plugin::IOEvents - Turn STDOUT and STDERR into Test2 events.
• XS::Manifesto - Shared XS modules manifesto

Increasing its reputation:

• AI::MXNet (+1=33)
• AnyEvent (+1=144)
• autovivification (+1=24)
• AWS::Lambda (+1=2)
• CHI (+1=48)
• CPAN::Uploader (+1=17)
• Crypt::JWT (+1=13)
• Dash (+1=5)
• Data::Compare (+1=11)
• DBIx::Class (+1=270)
• DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::Serializer (+1=12)
• DBIx::Class::Sims (+1=2)
• DBIx::Custom (+1=13)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHubREADME::Badge (+1=3)
• DNS::Unbound (+1=2)
• Encoding::FixLatin (+1=3)
• Excel::Writer::XLSX (+1=53)
• Faker (+1=6)
• File::Flock::Tiny (+1=6)
• File::ShareDir (+1=35)
• Getopt::Long::Complete (+1=9)
• Glib (+1=9)
• Kelp (+1=41)
• Lingua::EN::Inflect (+1=13)
• MLPerl (+1=4)
• Mojo::Pg (+1=64)
• Mojo::Redis (+1=15)
• Mojolicious (+1=419)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack (+1=47)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::ClientIP (+1=3)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::CORS (+1=4)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::RESTRoutes (+1=5)
• Moops (+1=51)
• Moose (+1=312)
• MooX::TypeTiny (+1=8)
• Net::SFTP::Foreign (+1=21)
• Object::Lazy (+1=2)
• OIDC::Lite (+1=2)
• PDF::API2 (+1=25)
• PDL (+1=35)
• PDL::Graphics::Prima (+1=6)
• PDL::Stats (+1=13)
• Perinci::CmdLine (+1=2)
• Perinci::CmdLine::Lite (+1=4)
• PerlPowerTools (+1=26)
• Pg::Explain (+1=3)
• Pod::Markdown (+1=28)
• Reply (+1=55)
• Spreadsheet::Wright (+1=4)
• SPVM (+1=20)
• Sub::HandlesVia (+1=4)
• Sub::MultiMethod (+1=5)
• Test2::Harness (+1=6)
• Test::BDD::Cucumber (+1=14)
• Text::CSV (+1=67)
• Text::CSV_XS (+1=85)
• Tickit (+1=24)
• Time::Format (+1=4)
• Time::HiRes (+1=58)
• Tree (+1=3)
• Types::Path::Tiny (+1=14)
• Types::URI (+1=2)
• Web::Machine (+1=25)
• Web::Simple (+1=25)
• Zydeco (+6=6)

(cdxxxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-02-22 13:44:45 GMT

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1. How do I extract a certain amount of lines after a pattern in perl? - [4/6]
2. Perl Serial port access [Windows 10] - [4/0]
3. perl open() always returns the PID of the sh instead of the underlying program - [3/1]
4. Perl next if regex stored in array - [3/1]
5. Days/Months/Years between two dates - [3/1]
6. Mojo $c->reply->exception vs die? - [2/1]
7. Installing Switch.pm in Active perl on windows 10 - [2/1]
8. Why is perl regex hanging? - [2/1]
9. Devel::Cover - Save coverage data before the program ends - [2/0]
10. perl - matching greater than charater in regex - [1/4]

(cclxxvi) 10 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: 2.044015 on 2020-02-12
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.044013 was 8 days before
2. Data::Table - Data type related to database tables, spreadsheets, CSV/TSV files, HTML table displays, etc.
   • Version: 1.78 on 2020-02-11
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 1.77 was 1 year, 19 days before
3. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.067 on 2020-02-14
   • Votes: 39
   • Previous version: 2.066 was 11 months, 8 days before
4. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 3.22 on 2020-02-14
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 3.19 was 7 days before
5. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
   • Version: 1.866 on 2020-02-09
   • Votes: 77
   • Previous version: 1.865 was 1 month, 14 days before
6. Modern::Perl - enable all of the features of Modern Perl with one import
   • Version: 1.20200211 on 2020-02-11
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 1.20200201 was 10 days before
7. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 8.33 on 2020-02-11
   • Votes: 417
   • Previous version: 8.32 was 23 days before
8. Moops - Moops Object-Oriented Programming Sugar
   • Version: 0.038 on 2020-02-15
   • Votes: 50
   • Previous version: 0.036 was 1 year, 6 months, 6 days before
9. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
   • Version: 1.22 on 2020-02-13
   • Votes: 20
   • Previous version: 1.21 was 5 months, 14 days before
10. Pegex - Acmeist PEG Parser Framework
    • Version: 0.75 on 2020-02-13
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.74 was 22 days before

(cdvii) metacpan weekly report - Text::CSV

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 53
Week's winner: Text::CSV (+2)
Build date: 2020/02/15 10:13:00 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• AI::NeuralNet::SOM - Perl extension for Kohonen Maps
• IMAP::Admin - Perl module for basic IMAP server administration
• Minion::Backend::API - API Rest backend
• MooseY - Document the MooseY namespace
• Proc::Pidfile - a simple OO Perl module for maintaining a process id file for the curent process
• Text::Gitignore - Match .gitignore patterns
• Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpanminus (+1=250)
• App::Uni (+1=14)
• Bot::ChatBots::Telegram (+1=3)
• Chart::Gnuplot (+1=8)
• Class::Inspector (+1=15)
• CLI::Osprey (+1=2)
• Config::Crontab (+1=4)
• Data::DPath (+1=12)
• DBD::SQLite (+1=90)
• DBIx::Custom (+1=12)
• Debug::Trace (+1=4)
• Devel::StrictMode (+1=5)
• Email::Sender (+1=44)
• Email::SendGrid::V3 (+1=2)
• File::Tail (+1=5)
• File::Which (+1=22)
• Getopt::Long::Descriptive (+1=45)
• IPC::Cmd (+1=19)
• JSON::Validator (+1=25)
• Log::Dispatch::DesktopNotification (+1=3)
• Mojo::Promisify (+1=2)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Status (+1=11)
• MooX::HandlesVia (+1=11)
• Moxie (+1=24)
• Number::Bytes::Human (+1=4)
• Params::ValidationCompiler (+1=19)
• Parse::Crontab (+1=3)
• Path::Tiny (+1=147)
• perl (+1=355)
• Plack::App::Proxy (+1=8)
• Ref::Util (+1=27)
• Router::Simple (+1=13)
• SQL::Abstract (+1=66)
• Sub::MultiMethod (+1=4)
• Task::Kensho (+1=106)
• Text::ASCIITable (+1=17)
• Text::CSV (+2=66)
• Time::Piece (+1=46)
• Try::Tiny (+1=167)
• Type::Tiny (+1=116)
• Util::Underscore (+1=2)
• Wx (+1=23)
• YAML (+1=62)
• YAML::LibYAML (+1=42)
• YAML::PP (+1=5)

(cdxxxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-02-15 10:11:11 GMT

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1. Why do @+ and @{^CAPTURE} differ in length? - [4/2]
2. How can I keep my environment variables between two calls to open? - [3/3]
3. Perl: Force hash in numeric order - [2/3]
4. STDOUT and STDERR out of order - [2/3]
5. Why doesn't `my $x = if (0) {1} else {2}` work? - [2/2]
6. Encoding problem using new line command in perl - [2/2]
7. Polling a constantly updating text file to cut selected information - [2/1]
8. How to determine, in a Moose constructor, what context it was called in? - [2/1]
9. Permanently change @INC for Perl scripts - [2/1]
10. windows script creates a clickable Beyond Compare report but now stopped working - [2/0]

(cclxxv) 20 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: 2.04 on 2020-02-06
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 1.98 was 7 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.044013 on 2020-02-04
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.044012 was 3 days before
3. App::revealup - HTTP Server application for viewing Markdown formatted text as slides
   • Version: 0.22 on 2020-02-06
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 0.21 was 4 years, 5 months, 9 days before
4. Archive::Tar - Manipulates TAR archives
   • Version: 2.36 on 2020-02-02
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.34 was 1 day before
5. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
   • Version: 4.46 on 2020-02-03
   • Votes: 36
   • Previous version: 4.45 was 21 days before
6. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.19 on 2020-02-06
   • Votes: 32
   • Previous version: 4.18 was 1 month, 24 days before
7. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
   • Version: 0.026 on 2020-02-02
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.025 was 4 months, 3 days before
8. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
   • Version: 0.067 on 2020-02-01
   • Votes: 40
   • Previous version: 0.066 was 3 months, 12 days before
9. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
   • Version: 3.10.4 on 2020-02-03
   • Votes: 82
   • Previous version: 3.10.3 was 14 days before
10. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.10 on 2020-02-05
    • Votes: 51
    • Previous version: 1.09 was 18 days before
11. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 3.19 on 2020-02-07
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 3.18 was 9 days before
12. Keyword::Declare - Declare new Perl keywords...via a keyword...named keyword
    • Version: 0.001016 on 2020-02-05
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 0.001015 was 16 days before
13. parent - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
    • Version: 0.238 on 2020-02-07
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.237 was 1 year, 7 months, 1 day before
14. PDF::API2 - Facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files
    • Version: 2.037 on 2020-02-05
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 2.036 was 4 months, 18 days before
15. POE - Portable, event-loop agnostic eventy networking and multitasking.
    • Version: 1.368 on 2020-02-02
    • Votes: 49
    • Previous version: 1.367 was 4 years, 7 months, 29 days before
16. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.8.1 on 2020-02-05
    • Votes: 69
    • Previous version: 1.8.0 was 1 month before
17. Sub::Util - Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
    • Version: 1.54 on 2020-02-02
    • Votes: 146
    • Previous version: 1.53 was 3 months, 9 days before
18. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 4.011 on 2020-02-04
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 4.009 was 4 days before
19. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 4.011 on 2020-02-04
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 4.009 was 4 days before
20. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 4.011 on 2020-02-04
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 4.009 was 4 days before

(cdvi) metacpan weekly report - Sub::MultiMethod

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 61
Week's winners (+3): Sub::MultiMethod
Build date: 2020/02/08 21:11:12 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Devel::REPL::Plugin::ModuleAutoLoader - Autoloader Plugin for Devel::REPL
• Event::Distributor - a simple in-process pub/sub mechanism
• Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Client -
• Parallel::ForkManager::Segmented - use Parallel::ForkManager on batches / segments of items.
• Pb - a workflow system made from Perl and bash
• RT::Extension::LDAPImport::MultiEmail - RT-Extension-LDAPImport-MultiEmail Extension
• Timer::Milestones - measure code execution time succinctly by setting milestones

Increasing its reputation:

• ack (+1=124)
• Algorithm::BitVector (+1=2)
• AnyEvent::Fork::RPC (+1=9)
• App::DBBrowser (+1=11)
• App::revealup (+1=15)
• Archive::Tar (+1=13)
• BGS (+1=2)
• Cache::FastMmap (+1=21)
• Carton (+1=103)
• Chart::Plotly (+1=10)
• Coro (+1=67)
• DBI (+1=241)
• Devel::PatchPerl (+1=5)
• Devel::PerlySense (+1=2)
• Email::Sender (+1=43)
• EV (+1=39)
• File::Share (+1=9)
• Hash::MultiValue (+1=16)
• IO::Async (+1=55)
• IO::Multiplex (+1=2)
• IPC::Shareable (+1=4)
• JSON::Validator (+1=24)
• JSON::XS (+1=107)
• LWP::ConsoleLogger (+1=9)
• Module::ScanDeps (+1=12)
• Mojolicious (+1=416)
• Moose (+1=311)
• MooX::Options (+1=24)
• Net::OpenSSH (+1=34)
• Net::Prometheus (+1=6)
• Net::Whois::RIPE (+1=2)
• PDF::API2 (+1=24)
• Prima (+1=26)
• Print::Colored (+1=3)
• Promise::XS (+1=2)
• Rex (+1=69)
• Sereal (+1=52)
• Sereal::Decoder (+1=18)
• Sereal::Encoder (+1=19)
• Spreadsheet::Wright (+1=3)
• Spreadsheet::WriteExcel (+1=28)
• Storable (+1=43)
• Sub::MultiMethod (+3=4)
• Term::Choose::Util (+1=2)
• Test::SQLite (+1=2)
• Text::Template (+1=22)
• Tickit (+1=24)
• Time::Moment (+2=69)
• Timer::Simple (+1=4)
• TOML::Tiny (+1=3)
• URI (+1=100)

(cdxxx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-02-08 21:08:34 GMT

---

1. Some string values ("0", "", and " ") are defined, but (==undef) - [4/1]
2. printf format specifiers for Perl API types - [3/2]
3. How to find the number of vowels in a string using Perl - [2/4]
4. Getopts to flag bad options without dash - [2/3]
5. What does "#! -*-perl-*-" mean? - [2/2]
6. Regex : replace a phrase only if NOT preceded by a word - [2/2]
7. Building table from list using nearest value? - [1/5]
8. Perl Parsing Without Package - [1/3]
9. Perl array loop - [1/3]
10. Asynchronous programming in Perl - [1/2]

(cclxxiv) 27 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: 1.98 on 2020-01-30
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 1.94 was 1 month, 14 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.044011 on 2020-01-26
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.044010 was 1 day before
3. App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
   • Version: 0.88 on 2020-01-29
   • Votes: 163
   • Previous version: 0.87 was 3 months, 4 days before
4. Dancer - lightweight yet powerful web application framework
   • Version: 1.3513 on 2020-01-29
   • Votes: 144
   • Previous version: 1.3512 was 9 months, 29 days before
5. DBD::ODBC - ODBC DBD for Perl DBI
   • Version: 1.61 on 2020-01-31
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 1.60 was 1 year, 3 months before
6. DBI - Database independent interface for Perl
   • Version: 1.643 on 2020-01-31
   • Votes: 240
   • Previous version: 1.642 was 1 year, 3 months, 2 days before
7. Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls - coveralls backend for Devel::Cover
   • Version: 0.13 on 2020-01-30
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.11 was 5 years, 3 months, 22 days before
8. Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information
   • Version: 11.85 on 2020-01-28
   • Votes: 33
   • Previous version: 11.70 was 3 months, 18 days before
9. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 3.18 on 2020-01-29
   • Votes: 24
   • Previous version: 3.17 was 1 month before
10. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.04 on 2020-01-30
    • Votes: 74
    • Previous version: 10.02 was 1 month, 10 days before
11. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.19 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.18 was 4 months, 28 days before
12. Modern::Perl - enable all of the features of Modern Perl with one import
    • Version: 1.20200201 on 2020-02-01
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 1.20190727 was 6 months, 5 days before
13. Module::Build - Build and install Perl modules
    • Version: 0.4231 on 2020-01-29
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 0.4229 was 9 months, 14 days before
14. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
    • Version: 4.18 on 2020-01-30
    • Votes: 64
    • Previous version: 4.17 was 3 months, 23 days before
15. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.112 on 2020-01-29
    • Votes: 147
    • Previous version: 0.110 was 16 days before
16. Regexp::Debugger - Visually debug regexes in-place
    • Version: 0.002003 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 48
    • Previous version: 0.002001 was 2 years, 4 months, 5 days before
17. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 4.009 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 51
    • Previous version: 4.007 was 9 months, 22 days before
18. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 4.009 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 4.007 was 9 months, 22 days before
19. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 4.009 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 4.007 was 9 months, 22 days before
20. Template::Toolkit - comprehensive template processing system
    • Version: 3.007 on 2020-01-27
    • Votes: 124
    • Previous version: 3.006 was 11 days before
21. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000129 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 0.000127 was 3 months before
22. Tickit - Terminal Interface Construction KIT
    • Version: 0.70 on 2020-01-27
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.69 was 28 days before
23. Tie::File - Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
    • Version: 1.05 on 2020-01-27
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.01 was 8 days before
24. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.008005 on 2020-01-30
    • Votes: 115
    • Previous version: 1.008003 was 17 days before
25. YAML - YAML Ain't Markup Language™
    • Version: 1.30 on 2020-01-27
    • Votes: 61
    • Previous version: 1.29 was 8 months, 16 days before
26. YAML::LibYAML - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
    • Version: 0.81 on 2020-01-27
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 0.80 was 5 months, 5 days before
27. YAML::Syck - Fast, lightweight YAML loader and dumper
    • Version: 1.32 on 2020-01-27
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 1.31 was 1 year, 3 months, 2 days before

(cdv) metacpan weekly report - Sub::HandlesVia

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 65
Week's winner: Sub::HandlesVia (+3)
Build date: 2020/02/01 08:32:38 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• B::COW - B::COW additional B helpers to check COW status
• Eircode - Validation and utilities for Eircodes / Irish postcodes
• GTop - Perl interface to libgtop
• JS::JJ - Encode and Decode JJ
• Object::Depot - Decouple object instantiation from usage.
• Plack::Middleware::DirIndex - Append an index file to request PATH's ending with a /
• Shout - Perl glue for libshout MP3 streaming source library
• Sub::MultiMethod - yet another implementation of multimethods
• Sys::CpuLoad - a module to retrieve system load averages.
• VS::Chart - Simple module to create beautifully looking charts

Increasing its reputation:

• AnyEvent::XMPP (+1=11)
• App::scan_prereqs_cpanfile (+1=19)
• Authen::Simple::LDAP (+1=4)
• Chart::Clicker (+1=30)
• Class::Singleton (+1=5)
• Compiler::Lexer (+1=16)
• CryptX (+2=40)
• Dancer::Plugin::SimpleCRUD (+1=2)
• Data::JSONSchema::Ajv (+1=2)
• Date (+1=2)
• DBIx::Class (+1=269)
• DBIx::Lite (+1=25)
• DBIx::Mint (+1=4)
• File::Path (+1=40)
• Filesys::Notify::Simple (+1=11)
• Firefox::Marionette (+1=10)
• forks (+1=20)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=23)
• Hash::MultiValue (+1=15)
• IO::Socket::SSL (+1=39)
• Iterator::Util (+1=3)
• JavaScript::Duktape::XS (+1=4)
• JSON::XS (+1=106)
• Kelp (+1=41)
• Log::Any (+1=55)
• Minilla (+1=48)
• Minion (+1=74)
• Minion::Backend::mysql (+1=12)
• Mojolicious (+2=416)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Cron (+1=3)
• MooX::Commander (+1=2)
• MooX::Press (+1=3)
• MooX::TypeTiny (+1=7)
• Net::OpenSSH (+1=33)
• Print::Colored (+1=2)
• Regexp::Debugger (+1=48)
• String::ShellQuote (+1=14)
• Sub::HandlesVia (+3=3)
• Sub::Retry (+1=9)
• Task::Kensho (+2=105)
• Template::Toolkit (+1=124)
• Test::Spec (+1=17)
• Tie::File (+1=14)
• Time::Local (+1=6)
• TOML::Tiny (+2=2)
• Type::Tiny (+1=115)
• URI (+1=100)
• XS::Install (+1=5)
• YAML::LibYAML (+1=41)

(cdxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-02-01 08:31:19 GMT

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1. Multiple filehandles opening the same file - is it a good practice? - [5/3]
2. Why not simply use __PACKAGE__ when creating a new Perl module? - [4/1]
3. Perl variable assignment side effects - [3/2]
4. Perl module depends on a binary, why tests fail on FreeBSD even if using CheckBin? - [3/1]
5. Reg ex for splitting camel case words by hyphen in njs (javascript) - [3/1]
6. Perl Postgres Trigger acting incorrectly - [3/0]
7. Perl 5.26: How to get keys from 2d hash? - [2/3]
8. Trying to change connection host name in perl script that connect to SQL Server DB - [2/2]
9. Using Mojo::UserAgent and accessing the JSON in response? - [2/2]
10. parse URL params in Perl - [2/1]