(cccviii) 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: 2.33 on 2020-09-21
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.32 was 10 days before
2. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
   • Version: 1.11 on 2020-09-23
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.10 was 2 months, 27 days before
3. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 1.32 on 2020-09-21
   • Votes: 53
   • Previous version: 1.31 was 2 months, 20 days before
4. File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely
   • Version: 0.2310 on 2020-09-26
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 0.2309 was 1 year, 8 months, 20 days before
5. GD - Perl interface to the gd2 graphics library
   • Version: 2.73 on 2020-09-24
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 2.72 was 2 months, 6 days before
6. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
   • Version: 6.49 on 2020-09-24
   • Votes: 148
   • Previous version: 6.47 was 1 month, 6 days before
7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20200920 on 2020-09-20
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 5.20200820 was 1 month before
8. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
   • Version: 3.36 on 2020-09-22
   • Votes: 37
   • Previous version: 3.35 was 1 month, 11 days before
9. PadWalker - play with other peoples' lexical variables
   • Version: 2.4 on 2020-09-26
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 2.3 was 2 years, 10 months, 16 days before
10. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
    • Version: 0.82 on 2020-09-26
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.81 was 1 year, 1 month, 1 day before
11. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0914 on 2020-09-26
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0912 was 12 days before
12. Type::Tiny::XS - provides an XS boost for some of Type::Tiny's built-in type constraints
    • Version: 0.022 on 2020-09-25
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.021 was 1 month, 7 days before
13. version - Structured version objects
    • Version: 0.9928 on 2020-09-22
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.9927 was 1 month, 2 days before
14. WWW::YouTube::Download - WWW::YouTube::Download - Very simple YouTube video download interface
    • Version: 0.64 on 2020-09-20
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.63 was 2 months, 27 days before
15. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.611 on 2020-09-23
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.608 was 6 days before

(cdlxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-09-26 18:02:13 GMT

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1. How to separate the Hex 8 bits into two 4 bits - [3/3]
2. Why does perl regex with /mg modifier match past end-of-line? - [3/3]
3. Perl : Regular Expression with changing decimal to hexadecimal - [3/2]
4. How do you check to see if an object overloads an operator in XS? - [3/1]
5. How to rename perl __ANON__ sub without disabling strict 'refs'? - [3/1]
6. How to make a script for two txt files with different names in perl - [2/3]
7. CORE::GLOBAL::die redefinition inside BEGIN - [2/2]
8. Perl: Perl6::Form format - [2/1]
9. Perl "my $bar if 0;" vs "my $bar = undef if 0;" - [2/1]
10. Python use regex match object in if statement and then access capture groups like Perl - [2/1]

(cccvii) 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. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git - Update your git repository after release
   • Version: 2.047 on 2020-09-12
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 2.046 was 1 year, 5 months, 26 days before
2. IO::Socket::IP - Family-neutral IP socket supporting both IPv4 and IPv6
   • Version: 0.41 on 2020-09-15
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 0.39 was 3 years, 6 months, 9 days before
3. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 4.03 on 2020-09-14
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 4.02 was 1 month, 3 days before
4. Log::Log4perl - Log4j implementation for Perl
   • Version: 1.53 on 2020-09-17
   • Votes: 84
   • Previous version: 1.52 was 10 days before
5. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 8.59 on 2020-09-13
   • Votes: 433
   • Previous version: 8.58 was 1 month, 3 days before
6. PDL - Perl Data Language
   • Version: 2.024 on 2020-09-17
   • Votes: 37
   • Previous version: 2.022 was 11 days before
7. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
   • Version: 1.020 on 2020-09-15
   • Votes: 27
   • Previous version: 1.017 was 6 months, 28 days before
8. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
   • Version: 7.30 on 2020-09-15
   • Votes: 37
   • Previous version: 6.81 was 2 months, 19 days before
9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.0912 on 2020-09-14
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.0911 was 10 days before
10. SQL::Translator - SQL DDL transformations and more
    • Version: 1.62 on 2020-09-14
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 1.61 was 4 months, 25 days before
11. Test::MockModule - Override subroutines in a module for unit testing
    • Version: v0.175.0 on 2020-09-17
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v0.173.0 was 3 months, 5 days before
12. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302181 on 2020-09-14
    • Votes: 170
    • Previous version: 1.302177 was 1 month, 7 days before
13. Text::ANSITable - Create nice formatted tables using extended ASCII and ANSI colors
    • Version: 0.600 on 2020-09-13
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.501 was 1 year, 9 months, 11 days before
14. Text::Table::Tiny - generate simple text tables from 2D arrays
    • Version: 1.02 on 2020-09-13
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.01 was 5 days before
15. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.01 on 2020-09-18
    • Votes: 83
    • Previous version: 2.00 was 3 months, 9 days before
16. XML::LibXML - Interface to Gnome libxml2 xml parsing and DOM library
    • Version: 2.0206 on 2020-09-15
    • Votes: 90
    • Previous version: 2.0205 was 4 months, 7 days before
17. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.608 on 2020-09-17
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.603 was 5 days before

(cdxxxvii) metacpan weekly report - Pepper

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 37

Week's winners (+3):  Pepper

Build date: 2020/09/19 17:35:18 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Path::Tiny::Rule - Path::Iterator::Rule subclass that returns Path::Tiny objects
• PDL::Transform::Color - Useful color system conversions for PDL

Increasing its reputation:

• App::Software::License (+1=2)
• Catalyst::Devel (+1=25)
• Catalyst::Manual (+1=46)
• CGI::Simple (+1=8)
• Email::Sender (+1=44)
• File::Slurper (+1=38)
• forkprove (+1=18)
• Hash::MultiValue (+1=17)
• Log::Handler (+1=8)
• Minion (+1=78)
• Module::Build (+1=43)
• Mojolicious (+2=433)
• Moo (+1=276)
• MooX::Press (+1=4)
• Pepper (+3=4)
• Perl::Tags (+1=2)
• Perldoc::Server (+1=4)
• Pinto (+1=58)
• Regexp::Debugger (+2=54)
• Rex::Template::Mojo (+1=2)
• Scalar::Does (+1=9)
• Test2::Suite (+1=27)
• Test::Pod (+1=21)
• Test::Spelling (+1=11)
• Time::Duration (+1=9)
• Type::Tiny (+2=122)
• Vim::Tag (+1=3)
• XML::LibXML (+1=90)
• Yancy (+1=36)
• Zydeco (+1=15)

(cdlx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-09-19 17:28:28 GMT

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1. What is the reason for this bizarre issue parsing a UTF-8 command line argument on Windows? - [4/2]
2. Perl: hash does not allow alphanumeric keys in this special case - [4/2]
3. Why does the match operator's "match-only-once" optimization only apply with the "?" delimiter? - [3/2]
4. Find Favicons in HTML using Perl - [3/2]
5. Perl Time::Piece use current date if not in format - [3/1]
6. can a variable be defined in perl whose value cannot be changed in a subroutine? - [2/4]
7. Internal-use-only class in a deeply nested Perl module - avoiding awkward naming - [2/2]
8. How can I install XML::DOM into my perl built from source? - [2/2]
9. How to implement https support for Perl's HTTP::DAV - [2/1]
10. Calling a Perl Module which is Installed in different path/directory - [2/1]

(cccvi) 16 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: 2.32 on 2020-09-11
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.29 was 1 month, 1 day before
2. Catalyst::Devel - Catalyst Development Tools
   • Version: 1.42 on 2020-09-11
   • Votes: 24
   • Previous version: 1.41 was 1 month, 15 days before
3. Catalyst::Runtime - The Catalyst Framework Runtime
   • Version: 5.90128 on 2020-09-11
   • Votes: 143
   • Previous version: 5.90126 was 7 months, 22 days before
4. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.26 on 2020-09-10
   • Votes: 59
   • Previous version: 6.25 was 2 months, 12 days before
5. List::AllUtils - Combines List::Util, List::SomeUtils and List::UtilsBy in one bite-sized package
   • Version: 0.18 on 2020-09-05
   • Votes: 29
   • Previous version: 0.17 was before
6. Log::Log4perl - Log4j implementation for Perl
   • Version: 1.52 on 2020-09-07
   • Votes: 84
   • Previous version: 1.51 was 2 days before
7. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
   • Version: v3.1.11 on 2020-09-12
   • Votes: 50
   • Previous version: v3.1.10 was 5 months, 13 days before
8. Module::Starter - a simple starter kit for any module
   • Version: 1.77 on 2020-09-05
   • Votes: 27
   • Previous version: 1.76 was 1 year, 5 months, 25 days before
9. Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
   • Version: 2.09 on 2020-09-06
   • Votes: 46
   • Previous version: 2.08 was 1 year, 3 months, 30 days before
10. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.27 on 2020-09-11
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.26 was 1 month, 5 days before
11. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.022 on 2020-09-06
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 2.021 was 6 months, 5 days before
12. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20200907 on 2020-09-06
    • Votes: 119
    • Previous version: 20200822 was 15 days before
13. Regexp::Debugger - Visually debug regexes in-place
    • Version: 0.002006 on 2020-09-12
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 0.002005 was 3 months, 20 days before
14. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.12.2 on 2020-09-05
    • Votes: 71
    • Previous version: 1.12.1 was 1 month before
15. Text::Table::Tiny - generate simple text tables from 2D arrays
    • Version: 1.01 on 2020-09-08
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.00 was 1 month, 1 day before
16. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.602 on 2020-09-11
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.601 was 7 days before

(cdxxxvi) metacpan weekly report - Starwoman

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

Week's winner: Starwoman (+2)

Build date: 2020/09/12 11:44:53 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Apache::Session::LDAP - An implementation of Apache::Session
• Class::Publisher - A simple publish-subscribe event framework
• Crypt::OpenSSL::Bignum - OpenSSL's multiprecision integer arithmetic
• DBIx::Class::Helper::Row::Types - Use Types to define rows
• DBIx::Result::Convert::JSONSchema - lib/DBIx/Result/Convert/JSONSchema.pm
• Event::Notify - Simple Observer/Notifier
• File::Flock::Retry - Yet another flock module
• Mixin::Event::Dispatch - Mixin methods for simple event/message dispatch framework
• Module::Pluggable::Ordered - Call module plugins in a specified order
• Moo::Role::ToJSON - a Moo role for a TO_JSON method
• MooX::Options::Actions - Instant one class CLI App
• Pepper - Quick-start kit for learning and creating microservices in Perl.
• Perl7::Handy - Handy Perl7 scripting environment on Perl5
• Redis::ClusterRider - Daring Redis Cluster client
• Weather::NHC::TropicalCyclone - Provides a convenient interface to NHC's Tropical Cyclone JSON format.

Increasing its reputation:

• Catalyst::Plugin::Session (+1=15)
• Class::Observable (+1=2)
• Class::Trigger (+1=4)
• Crypt::JWT (+1=14)
• Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA (+1=6)
• Daemon::Control (+1=41)
• Data::Object (+1=13)
• DBIx::Connector (+1=43)
• DBIx::Deployer (+1=2)
• DBIx::Simple (+1=33)
• File::Serialize (+1=9)
• Gearman::Starter (+1=4)
• Hash::Diff (+1=5)
• Hash::MoreUtils (+1=4)
• HTTP::Tiny (+1=99)
• JQuery::DataTables::Request (+1=2)
• JSON::RPC::Spec (+1=2)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Webpack (+1=4)
• MooX::Cmd::ChainedOptions (+1=2)
• MooX::LvalueAttribute (+1=8)
• MVC::Neaf (+1=3)
• Parallel::ForkManager (+1=86)
• Parallel::Loops (+1=3)
• Parse::CSV (+1=7)
• Path::Router (+1=9)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=119)
• Queue::DBI (+1=8)
• Role::REST::Client (+1=9)
• Router::Boom (+1=5)
• Router::R3 (+1=10)
• Router::XS (+1=7)
• RxPerl (+1=2)
• Software::License (+1=12)
• SQL::Bind (+1=5)
• SQL::Tokenizer (+1=3)
• Starwoman (+2=2)
• Teng (+1=22)
• Term::ANSIScreen (+1=13)
• Termbox (+1=2)
• Text::MicroTemplate::Extended (+1=5)
• TheSchwartz (+1=11)
• Time::Format (+1=5)
• TimeDate (+1=26)
• Unicode::EastAsianWidth (+1=5)
• WWW::Mechanize::Chrome (+1=13)
• Zydeco (+1=14)

(cdlix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-09-12 11:42:06 GMT

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1. How to document parameters in Perl POD - [4/2]
2. How to see syntax errors reported with actual line numbers in the parent script when Perl is embedded within shell script? - [4/2]
3. How to associate days (1 to 365.25) to radians in perl? - [4/1]
4. How do I get the signature of a subroutine in runtime? - [3/3]
5. sed replacing a string with warning when string not found - [3/3]
6. How can we use a variable for the "use" command in Perl? - [3/2]
7. Suspending a running shell command in a Perl script - [3/0]
8. How to use perl to extract text between and look ahead and a look behind string without applying it twice? - [2/4]
9. How do I parse an expression '^#[0-9A-F]{2}\$[0-9A-F]{4}/$' effectively in perl - [2/2]
10. Signature without slurping - [2/1]

(cccv) 12 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. Class::Tiny - Minimalist class construction
   • Version: 1.008 on 2020-09-04
   • Votes: 30
   • Previous version: 1.006 was 3 years, 11 months, 24 days before
2. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.23 on 2020-09-05
   • Votes: 37
   • Previous version: 4.21 was 23 days before
3. DBD::SQLite - Self Contained SQLite RDBMS in a DBI Driver
   • Version: 1.66 on 2020-08-30
   • Votes: 92
   • Previous version: 1.64 was 1 year, 18 days before
4. Git::Raw - Perl bindings to the Git linkable library (libgit2)
   • Version: 0.87 on 2020-08-30
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 0.86 was 4 months, 5 days before
5. HTML::Filter - Filter HTML text through the parser
   • Version: 3.74 on 2020-08-30
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 3.73 was 5 days before
6. HTML::Parser - HTML parser class
   • Version: 3.75 on 2020-08-30
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 3.73 was 5 days before
7. Mojo::mysql - Mojolicious and Async MySQL/MariaDB
   • Version: 1.20 on 2020-09-05
   • Votes: 33
   • Previous version: 1.19 was 4 months, 5 days before
8. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
   • Version: 3.6006 on 2020-09-04
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 3.6005 was 2 months, 28 days before
9. PDF::API2 - Facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files
   • Version: 2.038 on 2020-08-31
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 2.037 was 6 months, 26 days before
10. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0911 on 2020-09-04
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0907 was 23 days before
11. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.010006 on 2020-09-04
    • Votes: 120
    • Previous version: 1.010005 was 9 days before
12. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.601 on 2020-09-04
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.519 was 10 days before

(cdxxxv) metacpan weekly report - Perl::Tidy

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

Week's winners (+3): Perl::Tidy

Build date: 2020/09/05 13:23:34 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Bio::Kmer - Helper module for Kmer Analysis.
• Config::INI::Tiny - Parse INI configuration in extremely little code
• D - Provides utility functions to encode data and dump it to STDERR.
• db::sql::migrations::advanced - apply/rollback migrations from a directory
• File::Hotfolder - recursive watch directory for new or modified files
• Hyperscan - Perl bindings to the Intel hyperscan regular expression library
• Log::Log4perl::Appender::SMTP - Send logs by email
• Pherkin::Extension::Weasel - Pherkin extension for web-testing
• RxPerl - an implementation of Reactive Extensions / rxjs for Perl
• XLog - Unified logging API, without performance penalties.

Increasing its reputation:

• Algorithm::LibLinear (+1=5)
• Alien (+1=3)
• App::cpanminus (+1=255)
• App::MyPerl (+1=6)
• Array::Shuffle (+1=5)
• B::Hooks::Parser (+1=4)
• Capture::Tiny (+1=93)
• Cassandra::Client (+1=3)
• CPAN::Meta (+1=23)
• CPAN::Uploader (+1=19)
• Dancer2 (+1=116)
• DBD::SQLite (+1=92)
• Devel::IPerl (+1=17)
• Devel::NYTProf (+1=167)
• Expect (+1=22)
• FindBin::libs (+1=7)
• Gazelle (+1=23)
• GDB::bt (+2=2)
• Google::ProtocolBuffers::Dynamic (+1=5)
• JSON (+1=91)
• Mite (+1=3)
• Mojolicious (+1=432)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI (+1=37)
• Moo (+1=275)
• Perl::Tidy (+3=119)
• Regexp::Debugger (+1=52)
• Scope::Upper (+1=12)
• Task::Kensho (+1=107)
• Test::Simple (+1=170)
• Text::Tabs+Wrap (+1=14)
• Text::Template (+1=22)
• Web::Simple (+1=26)
• YAML::LibYAML (+1=44)