(cccxxi) 17 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: 2.047000 on 2020-12-23
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.046006 was 1 month, 23 days before
2. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.46 on 2020-12-23
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 2.44 was 1 month, 17 days before
3. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
   • Version: 7.58 on 2020-12-21
   • Votes: 47
   • Previous version: 7.56 was 1 month, 2 days before
4. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
   • Version: 0.9714 on 2020-12-25
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 0.9713 was 6 days before
5. Net::Cmd - Collection of network protocol modules
   • Version: 3.13 on 2020-12-23
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 3.12 was 14 days before
6. MetaCPAN::Client - A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
   • Version: 2.029000 on 2020-12-20
   • Votes: 20
   • Previous version: 2.028000 was 3 months, 27 days before
7. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
   • Version: 0.23 on 2020-12-19
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.22 was 1 day before
8. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20201220 on 2020-12-20
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 5.20201120 was 1 month before
9. Mojo::mysql - Mojolicious and Async MySQL/MariaDB
   • Version: 1.22 on 2020-12-22
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 1.20 was 3 months, 17 days before
10. Net::SSH2 - Support for the SSH 2 protocol via libssh2.
    • Version: 0.72 on 2020-12-22
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.71 was 8 months, 12 days before
11. PDL::Stats - a collection of statistics modules in Perl Data Language, with a quick-start guide for non-PDL people.
    • Version: 0.76 on 2020-12-19
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.75 was 4 years, 6 months, 20 days before
12. Perl::Critic::Freenode - Perl::Critic policies inspired by #perl on freenode IRC
    • Version: 0.033 on 2020-12-22
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.032 was 1 year, 1 month, 11 days before
13. Net::LDAP - LDAP client library
    • Version: 0.67 on 2020-12-26
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.66 was 1 year, 8 months, 10 days before
14. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
    • Version: 0.83 on 2020-12-21
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.82 was 2 months, 25 days before
15. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0929 on 2020-12-23
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0928 was 14 days before
16. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.45 on 2020-12-24
    • Votes: 92
    • Previous version: 1.44 was 5 months, 2 days before
17. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.068 on 2020-12-19
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 1.067 was 1 month, 3 days before

(cccxx) 13 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. Algorithm::Diff - Compute `intelligent' differences between two files / lists
   • Version: 1.201 on 2020-12-13
   • Votes: 20
   • Previous version: 1.200 was 2 months, 16 days before
2. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
   • Version: 1.56 on 2020-12-14
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.54 was 2 days before
3. CPANPLUS - Ameliorated interface to the CPAN
   • Version: 0.9910 on 2020-12-19
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.9908 was 8 months, 7 days before
4. DateTime::Format::Strptime - Parse and format strp and strf time patterns
   • Version: 1.78 on 2020-12-15
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 1.77 was 9 months, 15 days before
5. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
   • Version: 0.57 on 2020-12-17
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 0.56 was 12 days before
6. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
   • Version: 6.50 on 2020-12-16
   • Votes: 149
   • Previous version: 6.49 was 2 months, 22 days before
7. LWP::Protocol::https - Provide https support for LWP::UserAgent
   • Version: 6.10 on 2020-12-17
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 6.09 was 5 months, 1 day before
8. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
   • Version: 0.22 on 2020-12-18
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.21 was 4 months, 17 days before
9. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
   • Version: 2.2014 on 2020-12-19
   • Votes: 316
   • Previous version: 2.2013 was 4 months, 29 days before
10. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
    • Version: 0.48 on 2020-12-14
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.47 was 1 month, 11 days before
11. RapidApp - Turnkey ajaxy webapps
    • Version: 1.3400 on 2020-12-17
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 1.3302 was 1 month, 27 days before
12. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.74 on 2020-12-12
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.73 was 3 months, 15 days before
13. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000139 on 2020-12-16
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.000138 was 1 month, 25 days before

(cdxlvii) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious::Plugin::SecureCORS

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 30

Week's winner: Mojolicious::Plugin::SecureCORS (+2)

Build date: 2020/12/19 12:59:55 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Log::Any::Adapter::Journal - Adapter for Log::Any that outputs with a priority prefix that systemd's journal can parse
• Method::Assert - Ensure instance and class methods are called properly
• Protocol::Matrix - Helper functions for the Matrix protocol
• Type::Libraries - bundle up multiple type constraint libraries
• Types::UUID - type constraints for UUIDs

Increasing its reputation:

• AnyEvent (+1=150)
• App::cpm (+1=51)
• Class::Multimethods (+1=4)
• Hashids (+1=7)
• LaTeX::Driver (+1=2)
• lib::relative (+1=11)
• Lingua::EN::Inflect (+1=15)
• Minion (+1=80)
• Mojolicious (+1=435)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::SecureCORS (+2=5)
• Moo (+1=279)
• Moose (+1=316)
• PAR::Packer (+1=38)
• Paws (+1=46)
• Proc::ProcessTable (+1=19)
• RapidApp (+1=27)
• SQL::Translator (+1=39)
• Sub::Identify (+1=8)
• Test2::Plugin::SourceDiag (+1=5)
• Test::BDD::Cucumber (+1=14)
• Test::Requires (+1=16)
• Test::Script (+1=5)
• Types::DateTime (+1=4)
• version (+1=18)

(cdlxxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-12-19 12:57:42 GMT

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1. Why do `join` and/or `JSON::to_json` convert my data silently from integer to string? - [6/2]
2. Add "m" modifier to qr pattern passed as parameter - [5/4]
3. Error installing perl using perlbrew on Big Sur - [4/2]
4. Most efficient way to read first and last number of bytes of a file in Perl - [3/3]
5. How to install Perl DBD::Oracle with Oracle Instant Client on macOS Catalina - [3/1]
6. trying to get last 4 distinct values from a dynamic NF file - [2/6]
7. How to pass arguments to a Perl test when run using Module::Build - [2/1]
8. Perl Hash Value - [2/1]
9. Can variable declarations be placed in a common script - [2/1]
10. Is it possible to rename PascalCase1.wav to kebab-case-1.wav with a single perl regex? - [1/4]

(cccxix) 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::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
   • Version: 0.996 on 2020-12-06
   • Votes: 50
   • Previous version: 0.995 was 8 days before
2. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
   • Version: 1.54 on 2020-12-12
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.51 was 1 month, 1 day before
3. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
   • Version: 0.9712 on 2020-12-05
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 0.9711 was 8 days before
4. Net::Cmd - Collection of network protocol modules
   • Version: 3.12 on 2020-12-09
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 3.11 was 3 years, 25 days before
5. Lingua::EN::Inflect - Convert singular to plural. Select "a" or "an".
   • Version: 1.905 on 2020-12-08
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.904 was 1 year, 7 months, 11 days before
6. Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
   • Version: 2.10 on 2020-12-11
   • Votes: 47
   • Previous version: 2.09 was 3 months, 5 days before
7. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
   • Version: 20201207 on 2020-12-06
   • Votes: 120
   • Previous version: 20201202 was 4 days before
8. Rex - the friendly automation framework
   • Version: 1.13.2 on 2020-12-05
   • Votes: 73
   • Previous version: 1.13.1 was 1 month before
9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.0928 on 2020-12-09
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.0927 was 19 days before
10. Test::WWW::Mechanize - Testing-specific WWW::Mechanize subclass
    • Version: 1.54 on 2020-12-09
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 1.52 was 2 years, 4 days before
11. Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
    • Version: 2.04 on 2020-12-11
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.03 was 5 years, 9 months, 7 days before
12. Text::Fuzzy - Partial string matching using edit distances
    • Version: 0.29 on 2020-12-10
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.28 was 2 years, 2 months, 6 days before

(cdxlvi) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 41

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2020/12/12 17:59:34 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::Iptables2Dot - Analyze iptables with GraphViz
• App::MakeEPUB - Create an EPUB ebook
• App::NDTools - Command line tools for nested structures
• CPANPLUS::Dist::Slackware - Install Perl distributions on Slackware Linux
• Directory::Organize - create and find directories interactive
• File::PCAP - a pure Perl library to read and write PCAP files
• FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script
• Gtk3::Notify - Perl interface to libnotify
• Mozilla::PublicSuffix - Get a domain name's public suffix via the Mozilla Public Suffix List
• pgtop -
• Text::NGrammer - Pure Perl extraction of n-grams and skip-grams

Increasing its reputation:

• Class::XSAccessor (+1=24)
• Dancer2 (+1=119)
• Data::Dx (+1=3)
• DateTime (+1=198)
• Digest::HMAC (+1=10)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PPPort (+1=4)
• FCGI (+1=8)
• File::Path (+1=41)
• File::Slurper (+1=39)
• HealthCheck (+1=2)
• HTML::GoogleMaps::V3 (+1=2)
• IPC::ConcurrencyLimit (+1=12)
• JSON::PP (+1=15)
• Markdown::Pod (+1=8)
• Markua::Parser (+1=2)
• Math::Base::Convert (+1=3)
• MCE::Shared (+1=14)
• Minion (+1=80)
• Moo (+1=278)
• MOP (+1=8)
• Net::MQTT::Simple (+1=3)
• Number::RecordLocator (+1=3)
• Path::Tiny (+1=156)
• Rose::DB (+1=10)
• Router::Boom (+1=6)
• Router::XS (+1=8)
• Test::PPPort (+1=2)
• Type::Tiny (+1=123)
• Type::Tiny::XS (+1=14)
• Z (+1=2)

(cccxviii) 14 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. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
   • Version: 6.83 on 2020-11-30
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 6.82 was 5 months, 29 days before
2. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
   • Version: 1.54 on 2020-12-04
   • Votes: 197
   • Previous version: 1.53 was 25 days before
3. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
   • Version: 0.56 on 2020-12-05
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 0.55 was 4 months, 9 days before
4. Encode - character encodings in Perl
   • Version: 3.08 on 2020-12-02
   • Votes: 55
   • Previous version: 3.07 was 4 months, 8 days before
5. Feersum - A PSGI engine for Perl based on EV/libev
   • Version: 1.410 on 2020-12-05
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 1.407 was 1 year, 5 months, 26 days before
6. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.47 on 2020-11-29
   • Votes: 32
   • Previous version: 0.46 was 20 days before
7. IO::AIO - Asynchronous/Advanced Input/Output
   • Version: 4.73 on 2020-12-04
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 4.72 was 1 year, 8 months, 1 day before
8. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 8.67 on 2020-12-05
   • Votes: 435
   • Previous version: 8.65 was 24 days before
9. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
   • Version: 3.7000 on 2020-12-05
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 3.6006 was 3 months, 1 day before
10. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
    • Version: 1.051 on 2020-11-29
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 1.050 was 8 months, 11 days before
11. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20201202 on 2020-12-02
    • Votes: 120
    • Previous version: 20201001 was 2 months, 4 days before
12. Plack - Perl Superglue for Web frameworks and Web Servers (PSGI toolkit)
    • Version: 1.0048 on 2020-11-30
    • Votes: 220
    • Previous version: 1.0047 was 2 years, 9 months, 20 days before
13. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v6.10.0 on 2020-12-01
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v6.8.0 was 1 month, 27 days before
14. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.65 on 2020-11-30
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.63 was 2 days before

(cdxlv) metacpan weekly report - Plack

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 45

Week's winner: Plack (+3)

Build date: 2020/12/05 20:03:50 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Amazon::SNS::V4 - Amazon Simple Notification Service, V4 Signatures
• Authen::PAM - Frequently-Asked Questions about Authen::PAM.
• Data::Recursive - array and hash merge, deep clone, recursive data compare, done very fast, with C++ API.
• Math::Sidef - Perl interface to Sidef's mathematical library.
• WWW::Google::Cloud::Auth::ServiceAccount - Service account based OAuth authentication for Google Cloud APIs

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpm (+1=50)
• Capture::Tiny (+1=94)
• Coro (+1=70)
• Crypt::PBKDF2 (+1=9)
• Crypt::Perl (+1=4)
• DateTime (+1=197)
• Devel::Backtrace (+1=2)
• Devel::Trace (+1=19)
• Encode::Detect (+1=6)
• Expect (+1=23)
• Getopt::Long (+1=106)
• Graph (+1=21)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=88)
• MCE (+1=82)
• Minion::Backend::SQLite (+1=13)
• Module::Load (+1=27)
• Module::ScanDeps (+1=13)
• Mojolicious (+1=435)
• Net::SFTP (+1=4)
• Net::SSH::Perl (+1=16)
• Number::Format (+1=13)
• PAR (+1=17)
• PAR::Dist (+1=4)
• PAR::Packer (+1=37)
• Parallel::WorkUnit (+1=5)
• Plack (+3=220)
• Proc::ProcessTable (+1=19)
• Regexp::Common (+1=51)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=150)
• Starman (+1=106)
• Term::ProgressBar (+1=26)
• Test::Compile (+1=6)
• Test::Script (+1=4)
• Text::CSV_XS (+1=92)
• Time::HiRes (+1=59)
• URI (+1=103)
• UTF8::R2 (+1=2)
• XML::Sig::0.29 (+1=0)

(cdlxx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-12-05 19:31:10 GMT

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1. How can I wrap require and use? - [8/4]
2. Regular expression to match exactly and only n times - [3/3]
3. log4perl: How to write ERROR message to file and DEBUG message to stderr? - [3/1]
4. Properly detecting if Perl subroutine argument is array - [2/1]
5. Regex: capture anything within parenthesis, also nested parenthesis - [2/1]
6. How to ignore an exit(1) on a perl subroutine - tried eval but didn't work - [2/1]
7. Can chrome know if there is a window maximized or not in front during selenium automation? - [2/0]
8. Is there a way to read comments/notes of a cell in an excel file with ParseExcel/ParseXLSX? - [2/0]
9. How send and received string, array and hash in perl function - [1/2]
10. How can I get the local time modification of a file with File::stat in perl? - [1/2]