(cclxxxvi) 17 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: 2.045002 on 2020-04-19
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.045001 was 1 day before
2. Clone - recursively copy Perl datatypes
   • Version: 0.45 on 2020-04-23
   • Votes: 24
   • Previous version: 0.43 was 8 months, 25 days before
3. Data::Object - Object-Orientation for Perl 5
   • Version: 2.04 on 2020-04-23
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.99 was 8 months, 6 days before
4. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.39 on 2020-04-24
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 2.38 was 5 months, 9 days before
5. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
   • Version: 3.11.0 on 2020-04-23
   • Votes: 82
   • Previous version: 3.10.5 was 1 month before
6. Devel::MAT - Perl Memory Analysis Tool
   • Version: 0.43 on 2020-04-24
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 0.42 was 1 year, 1 month, 3 days before
7. Exporter::Tiny - an exporter with the features of Sub::Exporter but only core dependencies
   • Version: 1.002002 on 2020-04-24
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.002001 was 1 year, 9 months, 7 days before
8. Future - represent an operation awaiting completion
   • Version: 0.45 on 2020-04-22
   • Votes: 50
   • Previous version: 0.44 was 28 days before
9. Git::Raw - Perl bindings to the Git linkable library (libgit2)
   • Version: 0.86 on 2020-04-25
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 0.84 was 8 months, 6 days before
10. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.20 on 2020-04-19
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.19 was 2 months, 19 days before
11. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.40 on 2020-04-23
    • Votes: 424
    • Previous version: 8.36 was 21 days before
12. Net::GitHub - Perl Interface for github.com
    • Version: 1.01 on 2020-04-23
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 0.99 was 28 days before
13. PPR - Pattern-based Perl Recognizer
    • Version: 0.000026 on 2020-04-24
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.000024 was 4 months, 14 days before
14. SQL::Translator - SQL DDL transformations and more
    • Version: 1.61 on 2020-04-19
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 1.60 was 10 months, 21 days before
15. Struct::Dumb - make simple lightweight record-like structures
    • Version: 0.12 on 2020-04-20
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.11 was 3 days before
16. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.70 on 2020-04-18
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.69 was before
17. Yancy - A simple framework and editor for content-driven Mojolicious websites
    • Version: 1.055 on 2020-04-25
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 1.053 was 10 days before

(cdxvii) metacpan weekly report - Path::Tiny

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 47
Week's winners (+3): Path::Tiny
Build date: 2020/04/25 12:07:48 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Alien::FLTK - Build and use the stable 1.3.x branch of the Fast Light Toolkit
• Authen::U2F - FIDO U2F library
• Boxer - boxer command line utils
• Data::Lazy - "lazy" (defered/on-demand) variables
• Net::Wake - A package to send packets to power on computers.
• Proc::Stat -
• Tie::Discovery - Lazily evaluated "discovery" hashes
• Tk::TextANSIColor - Tk::Text widget with support for ANSI color escape codes
• Video::Generator - Perl class for video generation.

Increasing its reputation:

• AnyEvent::DBus (+1=2)
• App::url (+1=3)
• CBOR::Free (+1=3)
• CGI::Session (+1=7)
• Class::Tiny (+1=30)
• Class::Tiny::Immutable (+1=3)
• Compress::Zstd (+1=4)
• Dancer2 (+1=115)
• Date::Holidays (+1=3)
• Date::Holidays::CA_ES (+1=2)
• Devel::Wherefore (+1=5)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CheckExtraTests (+1=7)
• EV (+1=40)
• FFI::Platypus (+1=52)
• FunctionalPerl (+1=4)
• Getopt::Long (+1=100)
• HTML::Parser (+1=41)
• HTML::Template (+1=13)
• IO::AIO (+1=13)
• IO::Socket::SSL (+1=40)
• Kafka (+1=8)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=82)
• Math::Random::Discrete (+1=3)
• Math::Utils (+1=3)
• Mojolicious (+2=424)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::NYTProf (+1=14)
• next::XS (+1=6)
• Path::Tiny (+3=151)
• Prima (+1=29)
• Statistics::Basic (+1=10)
• String::Format (+1=4)
• Text::TabularDisplay (+1=2)
• Win32::RunAsAdmin (+1=6)
• Yancy (+1=32)
• ZMQ::Raw (+1=5)

(cdxl) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-04-25 11:50:38 GMT

---

1. Test difference of `undef` vs. "empty slot" in array - [3/1]
2. Connecting to AWS Managed Cassandra with Perl - [3/1]
3. Faster way to send SMTP emails in Perl? - [3/1]
4. Grep the file in reverse order from a particular line in a file - [2/3]
5. Multithreaded Perl script leads to broken pipe if called as a Python subprocess - [2/2]
6. remove comments without affecting values in the config file - [2/2]
7. Given-when-continue statement in perl - [2/1]
8. Don't stop perl on: Quantifier in {,} bigger than 32766 in regex - [2/1]
9. How to call method by Name from variable value in perl? - [2/1]
10. Does package compiled partially? How to prevent this? - [2/0]

(cclxxxv) 15 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: 2.21 on 2020-04-11
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 2.20 was 1 day before
2. Amon2 - lightweight web application framework
   • Version: 6.14 on 2020-04-15
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 6.13 was 4 years, 7 days before
3. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
   • Version: 0.991 on 2020-04-12
   • Votes: 47
   • Previous version: 0.990 was 16 days before
4. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.045001 on 2020-04-18
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.044015 was 2 months, 6 days before
5. CPANPLUS - Ameliorated interface to the CPAN
   • Version: 0.9908 on 2020-04-12
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.9906 was 2 months, 20 days before
6. Data::UUID - Globally/Universally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs/UUIDs)
   • Version: 1.226 on 2020-04-12
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 1.224 was 1 year, 1 month, 10 days before
7. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 1.11 on 2020-04-16
   • Votes: 51
   • Previous version: 1.10 was 2 months, 13 days before
8. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.40 on 2020-04-15
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 0.39 was 19 days before
9. HTTP::BrowserDetect - Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
   • Version: 3.27 on 2020-04-15
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 3.26 was 30 days before
10. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.44 on 2020-04-14
    • Votes: 146
    • Previous version: 6.43 was 4 months, 18 days before
11. MooseX::Storage - A serialization framework for Moose classes
    • Version: 0.53 on 2020-04-18
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.52 was 3 years, 9 months, 26 days before
12. Sub::Util - Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
    • Version: 1.55 on 2020-04-12
    • Votes: 147
    • Previous version: 1.54 was 2 months, 10 days before
13. Struct::Dumb - make simple lightweight record-like structures
    • Version: 0.11 on 2020-04-17
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.09 was 4 years, 1 month, 8 days before
14. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302175 on 2020-04-13
    • Votes: 167
    • Previous version: 1.302174 was 14 days before
15. Yancy - A simple framework and editor for content-driven Mojolicious websites
    • Version: 1.053 on 2020-04-15
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 1.051 was 4 days before

(cdxvi) metacpan weekly report - Statistics::Basic

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 71
Week's winners (+3): Statistics::Basic
Build date: 2020/04/18 20:05:10 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• AnyEvent::ReverseHTTP - reversehttp for AnyEvent
• CGI::Builder - Framework to build simple or complex web-apps
• Corona - Coro based PSGI web server
• D - Provides utility functions to encode data and dump it to STDERR.
• Docker::Names::Random - Create random strings like Docker does for container names.
• Form::Toolkit - Data centric form(s) toolkit
• Gantry - Web application framework for mod_perl, cgi, etc.
• HTTP::Engine - Web Server Gateway Interface and HTTP Server Engine Drivers
• Interpolation - Arbitrary string interpolation semantics (using tie())
• Jifty - an application framework
• Mojo::Log::Role::Color - Add colors to your mojo logs
• Object::Properties - minimal-ceremony class builder
• Object::Sub - Create objects without those pesky classes
• SCGI - SCGI server library for perl
• Test::Command - Test routines for external commands
• Test::DBUnit - Database test framework
• XS::Object::Magic - Opaque, extensible XS pointer backed objects using sv_magic

Increasing its reputation:

• (+1=0)
• accessors (+1=4)
• AnyEvent::HTTPD (+1=5)
• App::cpm (+1=47)
• CGI (+2=38)
• CGI::Alternatives (+1=7)
• CGI::Application (+1=15)
• CGI::Ex (+1=4)
• Class::Prototyped (+1=3)
• Clownfish (+1=3)
• Code::TidyAll (+1=34)
• Const::Fast (+1=30)
• CryptX (+1=42)
• Dancer2 (+1=114)
• DBI (+1=244)
• Device::WebIO (+1=5)
• Dist::Zilla (+1=172)
• Embperl (+1=2)
• Eval::WithLexicals (+1=5)
• File::ShareDir::ProjectDistDir (+1=4)
• Filter::Crypto (+1=8)
• Gitalist (+1=4)
• Github::Backup (+1=3)
• Hash::Util::Merge (+1=2)
• HTTP::AnyUA (+1=2)
• HTTP::Message (+1=59)
• KiokuDB (+1=10)
• Mason (+1=23)
• Menlo (+1=13)
• Mo (+1=36)
• Module::CPANfile (+1=53)
• Mojolicious (+2=422)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Kavorka (+1=3)
• MooseX::YAML (+1=2)
• MooX::Role::JSON_LD (+1=3)
• Object::Enum (+1=2)
• Object::Util (+1=10)
• Path::Tiny (+1=148)
• perl (+1=357)
• PerlX::Maybe (+1=31)
• Poet (+1=11)
• SQL::Functional (+1=9)
• Statistics::Basic (+3=10)
• Sys::Mmap (+1=2)
• Template::Toolkit (+1=127)
• TUWF (+1=2)
• UNIVERSAL::Object (+1=11)
• Wasm (+1=2)
• XXX (+1=11)
• YAML (+1=63)
• Yancy (+1=31)

(cdxxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-04-18 19:53:48 GMT

---

1. Is postderef syntax on hashes supported? - [5/1]
2. Treat Two Columns as One - [4/2]
3. I get error "variable will not stay shared" when i use subroutine - [3/2]
4. Can I reference a named subroutine with some arguments - [3/2]
5. How do you properly wait for the prompt in the terminal before sending a command using expect for perl? - [3/1]
6. Checking really fast if one of many strings exists in one of many other strings, in Perl - [2/3]
7. how to convert array of bytes to int64 in perl - [2/2]
8. Finding text in a file using perl program - [2/1]
9. optimizing regex substitution runtime - [2/1]
10. How to create issues in Gitlab with Perl - [2/1]

(cclxxxiv) 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
   • Version: 2.20 on 2020-04-10
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 2.17 was 21 days before
2. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
   • Version: 0.300003 on 2020-04-09
   • Votes: 113
   • Previous version: 0.300000 was 3 months, 16 days before
3. Moo - Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
   • Version: 2.004000 on 2020-04-09
   • Votes: 274
   • Previous version: 2.003006 was 5 months, 15 days before
4. Net::SSH2 - Support for the SSH 2 protocol via libssh2.
   • Version: 0.71 on 2020-04-10
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 0.70 was 1 year, 24 days before
5. Rex - the friendly automation framework
   • Version: 1.9.0 on 2020-04-05
   • Votes: 69
   • Previous version: 1.8.2 was 1 month before
6. Rose::DB::Object - Extensible, high performance object-relational mapper (ORM).
   • Version: 0.817 on 2020-04-05
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 0.816 was 2 days before
7. Test::Most - Most commonly needed test functions and features.
   • Version: 0.37 on 2020-04-04
   • Votes: 37
   • Previous version: 0.36 was before
8. Time::Piece - Object Oriented time objects
   • Version: 1.3401 on 2020-04-06
   • Votes: 47
   • Previous version: 1.34 was 1 month, 8 days before
9. Yancy - A simple framework and editor for content-driven Mojolicious websites
   • Version: 1.051 on 2020-04-11
   • Votes: 30
   • Previous version: 1.047 was 10 days before
10. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.517 on 2020-04-08
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.516 was 15 days before

(cdxv) metacpan weekly report - Yancy

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 73
Week's winners (+3): Yancy 
Build date: 2020/04/11 11:02:54 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::Cmdline - helper for writing command-line applications
• App::Module::Setup - a simple setup for a new module
• Class::DOES - Provide a simple ->DOES override
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaMergeFile - Add arbitrary metadata using a mergefile
• Getopt::Long::More - Like Getopt::Long, but with more stuffs
• Getopt::Modular - Modular access to Getopt::Long
• mmds - Flexible properties handling for MMDS
• Monkey::Patch::Action - Wrap/add/replace/delete subs from other package (with restore)
• Opt::Imistic - Very quick and simple and unobtrusive option parser
• PortageXS - Portage abstraction layer for perl
• Return::Deep - deeply returns through multiple layers at once
• Test::AllModules - do some tests for modules in search path
• Test::ClassAPI - Provides basic first-pass API testing for large class trees
• Test::Directory - Perl extension for maintaining test directories.
• Test::Group - Group together related tests in a test suite
• Test::Mimic - Perl module for automatic package and object mocking via recorded data.
• Test::Reuse - Reusable Test::More tests in classes
• Text::Filter - Base class for line based text processing modules
• Wasm - Write Perl extensions using Wasm

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpanminus (+1=252)
• App::cpm (+1=46)
• App::perlbrew (+1=164)
• App::Spec::Bash (+1=2)
• Carmel (+1=14)
• Carton (+1=105)
• CLI::Startup (+1=2)
• CPAN::Mini (+1=42)
• Dancer2 (+1=113)
• DBIx::Class (+1=272)
• Dist::Milla (+1=30)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CopyFilesFromBuild (+1=8)
• ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Dist::Zilla::Develop (+1=2)
• Fsdb (+1=5)
• Hash::Ordered (+1=30)
• Inline (+1=32)
• Lock::File (+1=4)
• Minilla (+1=50)
• Mock::MonkeyPatch (+1=2)
• Mock::Sub (+1=4)
• Module::Build::Tiny (+1=11)
• Module::Load (+1=26)
• Module::Patch (+1=2)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::BasicAuth (+1=3)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::BasicAuthPlus (+1=7)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::CGI (+1=5)
• Monkey::Patch (+1=3)
• MooX::Cmd (+1=8)
• MooX::ConfigFromFile (+1=2)
• Net::IP::LPM (+1=2)
• new (+2=6)
• Plack (+1=214)
• Release::Checklist (+1=2)
• SVG::TT::Graph (+1=2)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=49)
• Test::Base (+1=12)
• Test::Cmd (+1=5)
• Test::Kit (+1=10)
• Test::Lib (+1=4)
• Test::Most (+1=37)
• Test::Resub (+1=3)
• Test::Simpler (+1=3)
• Test::Wrapper (+1=2)
• Text::CSV_XS (+1=88)
• Time::Piece (+1=47)
• Tk (+1=22)
• Tkx (+1=5)
• URI::Escape::XS (+1=6)
• Win32::Console::ANSI (+1=9)
• XML::Simple (+1=34)
• Yancy (+3=30)

(cdxxxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-04-11 05:33:12 GMT

---

1. How do I get the information about each branch of my git local repository - [4/2]
2. Cannot use "my $_" in new version(s) of Perl - [4/1]
3. Can perl modules "use" other perl modules? - [4/1]
4. How to disable warnings? - [3/3]
5. Call perl function from another perl script with different Active perl versions - [2/2]
6. How to disable optimization for non used variables in current scope? - [2/2]
7. perl XML::LibXML not selector - [2/1]
8. IO::Select and adding a tag to the handle - [2/1]
9. Perl add content to JSON data after processing - [2/1]
10. Perl CPAN can&'t install Tkx - [1/2]

(cclxxxiii) 14 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. common::sense - save a tree AND a kitten, use common::sense!
   • Version: 3.75 on 2020-04-02
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 3.74 was 4 years, 9 months, 3 days before
2. DBIx::Class::Helpers - Simplify the common case stuff for DBIx::Class.
   • Version: 2.036000 on 2020-03-28
   • Votes: 46
   • Previous version: 2.035000 was 1 month, 7 days before
3. DBIx::Custom - DBI extension to execute insert, update, delete, and select easily
   • Version: 0.43 on 2020-04-01
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.42 was 5 months, 13 days before
4. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.068 on 2020-03-31
   • Votes: 39
   • Previous version: 2.067 was 1 month, 17 days before
5. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
   • Version: v3.1.10 on 2020-03-30
   • Votes: 49
   • Previous version: v3.1.9 was 2 months, 5 days before
6. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 8.36 on 2020-04-02
   • Votes: 421
   • Previous version: 8.35 was 12 days before
7. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
   • Version: 3.31 on 2020-03-31
   • Votes: 35
   • Previous version: 3.30 was 7 days before
8. Rose::DB::Object - Extensible, high performance object-relational mapper (ORM).
   • Version: 0.816 on 2020-04-03
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 0.815 was 5 years, 11 days before
9. Statocles - A static site generator
   • Version: 0.097 on 2020-04-01
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 0.096 was 3 months, 27 days before
10. Template::Toolkit - comprehensive template processing system
    • Version: 3.008 on 2020-03-30
    • Votes: 126
    • Previous version: 3.007 was 2 months, 2 days before
11. Test::Most - Most commonly needed test functions and features.
    • Version: 0.36 on 2020-04-04
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 0.35 was 3 years, 7 months, 24 days before
12. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302174 on 2020-03-30
    • Votes: 167
    • Previous version: 1.302173 was 2 days before
13. Tk - Tk - a Graphical User Interface Toolkit
    • Version: 804.035 on 2020-03-28
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 804.034 was 2 years, 7 months, 2 days before
14. Yancy - A simple framework and editor for content-driven Mojolicious websites
    • Version: 1.047 on 2020-04-01
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 1.045 was 3 months, 15 days before

(cdxiv) metacpan weekly report - new

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 49
Week's winners (+5):  new
Build date: 2020/04/04 14:06:35 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::week - colorful calender command
• Bio::BPWrapper - wrappers of popular BioPerl classes (`Bio::SeqIO`, `Bio::Seq`, `Bio::AlignIO`, `Bio::SimpleAlign
• Convert::Moji - objects to convert alphabets
• Lingua::KO::Munja - Korean letter conversion
• Net::IP::RangeCompare - Perl extension for IP Range Comparisons
• Net::IPAM::Block - A library for reading, formatting, sorting and converting IP-blocks.
• SMS::MessageBird - SMS sending module that uses the MessageBird gateway.
• X11::XRandR - An interface to the X11 XRandR extension
• YouTube::Util - YouTube-related utilities

Increasing its reputation:

• AnyEvent (+1=144)
• App::CLI (+1=2)
• Beam::Wire (+1=15)
• Business::ISSN (+1=2)
• Carton (+1=104)
• Class::Accessor (+1=16)
• Data::Dump::Streamer (+1=8)
• Data::Record (+1=3)
• Devel::IPerl (+1=16)
• Devel::IPerl::Plugin::Perlbrew (+1=2)
• Devel::Trepan (+1=20)
• Devel::Wherefore (+4=4)
• File::chdir (+1=21)
• ICC::Profile (+1=2)
• IPC::Run3 (+1=25)
• LWP::Authen::OAuth2 (+1=4)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Notifications (+1=6)
• new (+5=5)
• Number::Range (+1=3)
• Perl::Critic (+1=110)
• PSGI (+1=48)
• Range::Object (+1=2)
• Regexp::Assemble (+1=31)
• Reply (+1=56)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=147)
• Statistics::Covid (+1=4)
• Statocles (+1=25)
• URI (+1=101)
• URL::Encode (+1=9)
• Win32::LongPath (+1=6)
• Win32::Unicode (+1=2)
• X11::Protocol (+1=4)
• Yancy (+1=27)