(ccclxxiii) 13 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. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
   • Version: 0.075 on 2021-12-25
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 0.074 was 1 month, 19 days before
2. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
   • Version: 1.55 on 2021-12-23
   • Votes: 204
   • Previous version: 1.54 was 1 year, 19 days before
3. DBD::Oracle - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
   • Version: 1.81 on 2021-12-24
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 1.80 was 2 years, 4 months, 30 days before
4. Devel::IPerl - Perl language kernel for Jupyter
   • Version: 0.011 on 2021-12-24
   • Votes: 20
   • Previous version: 0.010 was 8 months, 19 days before
5. File::Slurper - A simple, sane and efficient module to slurp a file
   • Version: 0.013 on 2021-12-25
   • Votes: 39
   • Previous version: 0.012 was 3 years, 10 months, 5 days before
6. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.073 on 2021-12-22
   • Votes: 42
   • Previous version: 2.072 was 4 months, 6 days before
7. JIRA::REST - Thin wrapper around Jira's REST API
   • Version: 0.022 on 2021-12-19
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.021 was 10 months, 13 days before
8. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
   • Version: 1.000 on 2021-12-21
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.33 was 6 days before
9. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20211220 on 2021-12-20
   • Votes: 37
   • Previous version: 5.20211120 was 29 days before
10. Scope::Upper - Act on upper scopes.
    • Version: 0.33 on 2021-12-20
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.32 was 2 years, 5 months, 12 days before
11. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9102 on 2021-12-24
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9018 was 11 days before
12. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.47 on 2021-12-21
    • Votes: 93
    • Previous version: 1.46 was 8 months, 28 days before
13. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.088 on 2021-12-19
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 1.087 was 5 days before

(cdxciv) metacpan weekly report - RxPerl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 47

Week's winner (+3): RxPerl

Build date: 2021/12/25 15:56:56 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Alien::Sodium - Interface to the libsodium library http://libsodium.org
• Archive::Ar - Interface for manipulating ar archives
• HTML::Inspect - Inspect a HTML document
• Module::cpmfile - Parse cpmfile
• Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ::PP - Pure perl AMQP client for RabbitMQ

Increasing its reputation:

• App::Dex (+1=2)
• App::perlimports (+1=6)
• B::Hooks::EndOfScope (+1=10)
• Code::ART (+1=9)
• Dancer (+1=144)
• Dancer2 (+1=126)
• Date::Holidays::AU (+1=2)
• DateTime::Format::Strptime (+1=24)
• Devel::PatchPerl (+1=6)
• Devel::PPPort (+1=10)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker::Awesome (+1=7)
• Encode::Simple (+1=3)
• File::Copy::Recursive (+1=16)
• File::Path (+1=43)
• Form::Diva (+1=4)
• Google::RestApi (+1=3)
• JSON (+1=96)
• Linux::Inotify2 (+1=8)
• MARC::Record (+1=7)
• Method::Signatures (+1=37)
• Module::Signature (+1=5)
• MojoX::HTTP::Async (+1=2)
• Net::SSL::ExpireDate (+1=8)
• Object::Pad (+1=23)
• Path::Tiny (+1=166)
• PDF::Boxer (+1=4)
• perl (+2=387)
• Perl::LanguageServer (+1=24)
• PerlPowerTools (+1=29)
• Protocol::Redis::Faster (+1=2)
• REST::Client (+1=15)
• RxPerl (+3=10)
• Set::IntSpan (+1=7)
• signatures (+1=7)
• SQL::Abstract (+1=69)
• Term::CLI (+1=5)
• UTF8::R2 (+1=2)
• Util::Medley (+1=2)
• XS::Parse::Keyword (+1=4)

(dxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-12-25 15:46:26 GMT

---

1. Eliminate whitespace around single letters - [4/2]
2. Change a specified bit to 0 - [2/4]
3. Only find multiline C comment but not single line C comments - [2/2]
4. Extract a word between brackets and replace it in a sentence - [1/6]
5. Time interval between two dates with Perl - [1/2]
6. A regex to parse regex string - [1/2]
7. Combine 'if' and 'if not' in perl - [1/1]
8. Perl must do break return to calling code line outside recursive - [1/1]
9. How can one remove (or at least put into selection) several lines containing Text1 between nearest delimiters, using sed/grep/awk/perl? - [0/2]
10. How to generate output files of excel format for each column of A i.e output files for App and Data each using perl code - [0/1]

(ccclxxii) 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. DBIx::Custom - DBI extension to execute insert, update, delete, and select easily
   • Version: 0.45 on 2021-12-16
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.44 was 1 year, 4 months, 13 days before
2. Email::MIME - easy MIME message handling
   • Version: 1.952 on 2021-12-14
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 1.949 was 1 year, 6 months, 21 days before
3. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
   • Version: 7.64 on 2021-12-17
   • Votes: 49
   • Previous version: 7.62 was 8 months, 4 days before
4. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.55 on 2021-12-16
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 0.54 was 1 month, 21 days before
5. IO::Async - Asynchronous event-driven programming
   • Version: 0.801 on 2021-12-15
   • Votes: 65
   • Previous version: 0.800 was 1 month, 4 days before
6. JSON - JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder
   • Version: 4.04 on 2021-12-17
   • Votes: 95
   • Previous version: 4.03 was 10 months, 24 days before
7. JSON::PP - JSON::XS compatible pure-Perl module.
   • Version: 4.07 on 2021-12-17
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 4.06 was 10 months, 25 days before
8. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
   • Version: 6.60 on 2021-12-17
   • Votes: 153
   • Previous version: 6.59 was 15 days before
9. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
   • Version: 0.33 on 2021-12-15
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.32 was 4 days before
10. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.33 on 2021-12-16
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 1.32 was 5 months before
11. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.59 on 2021-12-15
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.58 was 20 days before
12. REST::Client - A simple client for interacting with RESTful http/https resources
    • Version: 281 on 2021-12-17
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 273 was 6 years, 4 months, 12 days before
13. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9018 on 2021-12-13
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9017 was 3 days before
14. Template::Toolkit - comprehensive template processing system
    • Version: 3.010 on 2021-12-13
    • Votes: 135
    • Previous version: 3.009 was 1 year, 5 months before
15. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.087 on 2021-12-14
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 1.085 was 10 days before

(ccclxxi) 8 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::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
   • Version: 0.94 on 2021-12-04
   • Votes: 167
   • Previous version: 0.94 was 7 days before
2. App::Sqitch - Sensible database change management
   • Version: v1.2.1 on 2021-12-05
   • Votes: 38
   • Previous version: v1.2.0 was 15 days before
3. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 5.04 on 2021-12-09
   • Votes: 29
   • Previous version: 5.03 was 19 days before
4. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
   • Version: 0.32 on 2021-12-11
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.30 was 11 days before
5. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
   • Version: 3.8002 on 2021-12-06
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 3.8001 was 2 months, 15 days before
6. PDF::API2 - Create, modify, and examine PDF files
   • Version: 2.043 on 2021-12-08
   • Votes: 27
   • Previous version: 2.042 was 2 months, 22 days before
7. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.9017 on 2021-12-10
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.9015 was 2 months, 16 days before
8. Unicode::Tussle - Tom's Unicode Scripts So Life is Easier
   • Version: 1.115 on 2021-12-11
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 1.111 was 5 years, 6 months, 4 days before

(dxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-12-11 22:30:55 GMT

---

1. How to convert between the unicode forms: string, name, number - [4/3]
2. Perl: How is to be interpreted a negation of an array and scalar? - [2/1]
3. cpan says App::cpanminus is up to date but cpanm doesn't come up in /usr/bin - [2/1]
4. Perl's rpm version differs from "perl -v" - [1/2]
5. Is there a way to remote to a different machine, and run multiple commands there in series (using perl)? - [1/2]
6. Perl issue when encoding mysql data from UTF-8 to UCS-2 for SMPP - [1/2]
7. Wrapper generator SWIG (C++/Perl): How to access "blessed" objects in a 1d vector<double>in Perl? - [1/2]
8. Perl: Can't use string ("XXX") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use - [1/2]
9. Perl: match regex from the file - [1/1]
10. Perl Regex return named groups in capture Group one - [1/1]

(ccclxx) 12 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: 2.46 on 2021-11-30
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.45 was 1 month, 2 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.052000 on 2021-11-30
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.051005 was 5 days before
3. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
   • Version: 0.034 on 2021-11-28
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 0.033 was 6 months, 27 days before
4. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
   • Version: 6.59 on 2021-12-02
   • Votes: 153
   • Previous version: 6.58 was 1 month, 8 days before
5. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
   • Version: 1.876 on 2021-12-02
   • Votes: 89
   • Previous version: 1.875 was 16 days before
6. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
   • Version: 1.875 on 2021-12-03
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.873 was 1 year, 4 months, 2 days before
7. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
   • Version: 0.30 on 2021-11-30
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.29 was 5 months, 23 days before
8. Mojo::SQLite - A tiny Mojolicious wrapper for SQLite
   • Version: 3.008 on 2021-11-28
   • Votes: 24
   • Previous version: 3.007 was 3 months, 26 days before
9. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
   • Version: 1.46 on 2021-12-04
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 1.45 was 1 month, 14 days before
10. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v7.10.0 on 2021-12-01
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v7.9.0 was 29 days before
11. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000144 on 2021-12-03
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.000142 was 18 days before
12. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.085 on 2021-12-04
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 1.084 was 1 month, 1 day before

(cdxciii) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 26

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+2)

Build date: 2021/12/04 16:26:06 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• JSON::Schema::Modern::Document::OpenAPI - One OpenAPI v3.1 document

Increasing its reputation:

• aliased (+1=32)
• App::Cmd (+1=43)
• App::Iptables2Dot (+1=2)
• App::shcompgen (+1=2)
• Data::Faker (+1=7)
• Date (+1=5)
• DBI (+1=251)
• Enbugger (+1=7)
• Getopt::Long::Complete (+1=12)
• IO::Prompter (+1=23)
• libwww::perl (+1=153)
• MCE (+1=89)
• Mojo::IOLoop::ReadWriteProcess (+1=2)
• Mojo::IRC (+1=13)
• Mojolicious (+2=465)
• MojoX::HTTP::Async (+1=2)
• Net::SSL::ExpireDate (+1=7)
• Parallel::ForkManager (+1=90)
• Perl::Critic::CognitiveComplexity (+1=2)
• Sys::SigAction (+1=11)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=54)
• Test::Perl::Critic (+1=14)
• Test::XPath (+1=3)
• Text::Unidecode (+1=32)

(dxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-12-04 16:19:09 GMT

---

1. Why would you ever need (?(R)...|...) if condition in a regex? - [5/1]
2. MultiDimensional array Input to Single array in Perl - [2/2]
3. Perl code executed alongside C program writes incorrect byte length to memory in Windows - [2/1]
4. Perl way to allocate some memory inglobal array - [2/1]
5. Perl Dynaloader gives Usage error while calling function with parameters - [2/0]
6. In Mojolicious can I forward to another action? - [2/0]
7. How do I search and replace a string after an arbitrary amount of white space in bash? - [1/4]
8. How to avoid line insert to the file if the line is already present in the file? - [1/4]
9. Perl match and extract phone number with (312) 555-1212 format - [1/2]
10. Perl: What is the preferred way of evaluating expressions besides eval? - [1/2]

(ccclxix) 12 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::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.051005 on 2021-11-25
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.051001 was 11 days before
2. App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
   • Version: 0.93 on 2021-11-22
   • Votes: 167
   • Previous version: 0.92 was 7 months, 7 days before
3. App::Sqitch - Sensible database change management
   • Version: v1.2.0 on 2021-11-20
   • Votes: 38
   • Previous version: v1.1.0 was 1 year, 6 months before
4. Code::TidyAll - Engine for tidyall, your all-in-one code tidier and validator
   • Version: 0.80 on 2021-11-26
   • Votes: 36
   • Previous version: 0.78 was 1 year, 7 months, 1 day before
5. CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
   • Version: 2.29 on 2021-11-23
   • Votes: 33
   • Previous version: 2.28 was 1 year, 5 months, 10 days before
6. CPANPLUS - Ameliorated interface to the CPAN
   • Version: 0.9914 on 2021-11-23
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.9912 was 3 months, 2 days before
7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20211120 on 2021-11-21
   • Votes: 37
   • Previous version: 5.20211020 was 1 month before
8. Mojo::mysql - Mojolicious and Async MySQL/MariaDB
   • Version: 1.25 on 2021-11-22
   • Votes: 35
   • Previous version: 1.24 was 1 month, 17 days before
9. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
   • Version: 5.02 on 2021-11-21
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 5.01 was 1 day before
10. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.58 on 2021-11-25
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 0.57 was 7 days before
11. RapidApp - Turnkey ajaxy webapps
    • Version: 1.3500 on 2021-11-22
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 1.3404 was 2 months, 5 days before
12. Try::Tiny - Minimal try/catch with proper preservation of $@
    • Version: 0.31 on 2021-11-23
    • Votes: 168
    • Previous version: 0.30 was 3 years, 11 months, 2 days before

(cdxcii) metacpan weekly report - DBD::Pg

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 24

Week's winner: DBD::Pg (+2)

Build date: 2021/11/27 16:53:53 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Cookie - Cookie Object with Encryption or Signature
• DBIx::Spreadsheet - Query a spreadsheet with SQL
• Dist::Zilla::MintingProfile::AlienBuild - A minimal Dist::Zilla minting profile for Aliens
• Perl::Critic::RENEEB - A collection of handy Perl::Critic policies
• Text::CleanFragment - clean up text to use as URL fragment or filename

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpanminus (+1=261)
• App::plx (+1=5)
• Coro (+1=72)
• DateTime (+1=204)
• DBD::Pg (+2=87)
• DBI (+1=251)
• MCE (+1=88)
• mod_perl (+1=21)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Directory::Stylish (+1=2)
• Object::Pad (+1=22)
• Parallel::ForkManager (+1=89)
• perl (+1=385)
• POE (+1=51)
• Statocles (+1=31)
• StreamFinder (+1=4)
• Test::Perl::Critic::Progressive (+1=3)
• UNIVERSAL::Object (+1=12)
• YAML (+1=66)

(dxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-11-27 15:58:04 GMT

---

1. Understanding the difference in behaviour between perl's assign-or operator and the combination of assignment and logical-or operators - [3/2]
2. Mojo::UserAgent fails to verify certificate, where LWP::UserAgent succeeds - [2/1]
3. Dump WWW::Curl::Easy request - [2/1]
4. 2-Way-TLS support - [2/0]
5. In Perl, can I put unlimited conditions with the ternary conditional operator? - [1/3]
6. Multiple inheritance - wrong overload selected - [1/3]
7. How can I modify this Perl subroutine so that it prints the contents of the file, using print_file? - [1/2]
8. How to push an array into another array? - [1/2]
9. Extract HTTP body from curl response - [1/2]
10. CPAN fails to install Algorithm::CurveFit - [1/1]

(ccclxviii) 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. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.051001 on 2021-11-14
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.050003 was 26 days before
2. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
   • Version: 6.86 on 2021-11-15
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 6.85 was 8 months, 14 days before
3. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 5.03 on 2021-11-20
   • Votes: 29
   • Previous version: 5.02 was 1 month, 14 days before
4. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
   • Version: 1.875 on 2021-11-16
   • Votes: 87
   • Previous version: 1.874 was 1 year, 2 months, 29 days before
5. Mojo::Redis - Redis driver based on Mojo::IOLoop
   • Version: 3.27 on 2021-11-20
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 3.26 was 8 months, 19 days before
6. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
   • Version: 5.01 on 2021-11-20
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 5.00 was 1 month, 18 days before
7. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
   • Version: 0.57 on 2021-11-18
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.56 was 27 days before
8. PDL - Perl Data Language
   • Version: 2.063 on 2021-11-19
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 2.061 was 8 days before
9. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
   • Version: 0.000142 on 2021-11-15
   • Votes: 31
   • Previous version: 0.000141 was 3 months, 20 days before

(cdxci) metacpan weekly report - App::sdview

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 28

Week's winner: App::sdview (+3)

Build date: 2021/11/20 15:03:15 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::BorderStyleUtils - CLI utilities related to border styles
• App::Easer - Simplify writing (hierarchical) CLI applications
• Inline::Filters::Ragel - Run ragel when compiling your Inline modules

Increasing its reputation:

• App::ModuleBuildTiny (+1=10)
• App::Perldoc::Search (+1=2)
• App::perlimports (+1=5)
• App::PrereqGrapher (+1=12)
• App::sdview (+3=4)
• autobox (+1=27)
• autobox::Base64 (+1=3)
• autobox::JSON (+1=4)
• B::C (+1=21)
• cpan::listchanges (+1=12)
• cpan::outdated (+1=33)
• Google::ProtocolBuffers::Dynamic (+1=10)
• HTTP::Parser::XS (+1=12)
• IPC::Lite (+1=2)
• libapreq2 (+1=3)
• Lingua::EN::ABC (+1=2)
• Math::GMPz (+1=4)
• Minilla (+1=53)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI (+1=41)
• PDL (+1=43)
• perl (+1=384)
• Router::R3 (+1=11)
• RPerl (+1=29)

(ccclxvii) 6 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. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.35 on 2021-11-11
   • Votes: 59
   • Previous version: 6.33 was 4 months, 13 days before
2. IO::Async - Asynchronous event-driven programming
   • Version: 0.800 on 2021-11-11
   • Votes: 65
   • Previous version: 0.79 was 3 months, 6 days before
3. Minion::Backend::SQLite - SQLite backend for Minion job queue
   • Version: v5.0.6 on 2021-11-13
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: v5.0.5 was 4 months, 27 days before
4. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
   • Version: 2.2201 on 2021-11-07
   • Votes: 319
   • Previous version: 2.2200 was 7 days before
5. PDL - Perl Data Language
   • Version: 2.061 on 2021-11-11
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 2.058 was 5 days before
6. perlsecret - Perl secret operators and constants
   • Version: 1.017 on 2021-11-08
   • Votes: 49
   • Previous version: 1.016 was 2 years, 5 months, 11 days before

(cdxc) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 48

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2021/11/13 23:44:22 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::ansiecho - Command to produce ANSI terminal code
• App::ASCIIUtils - Utilities related to ASCII
• App::contenttype - to search Content-Type
• App::csv2tsv -
• App::PermuteNamed - Permute multiple-valued key-value pairs
• App::scriptdist - create a distribution around a perl script
• App::tonematch - A script to test the tone perception of your ears.
• App::tracepm - Trace dependencies of your Perl script
• B::Tree - Simplified version of B::Graph for demonstration
• Binance::API - Perl module for interacting with the Binance API.
• Data::Text - Class to handle text in an OO way

Increasing its reputation:

• App::AsciiChart (+1=2)
• App::datecalc (+1=2)
• App::Inspect (+1=3)
• App::LintPrereqs (+1=2)
• App::MarkFiles (+1=2)
• App::MiseEnPlace (+1=4)
• App::pathed (+1=2)
• App::plx (+1=4)
• App::spaceless (+1=2)
• App::watchdo (+1=2)
• App::WithSound (+1=2)
• CallBackery (+1=4)
• CPAN::Uploader (+1=22)
• Crypt::Passphrase (+1=9)
• Dancer (+1=144)
• Dancer2 (+1=126)
• ExtUtils::Depends (+1=3)
• FFI::Platypus (+1=56)
• File::XDG (+1=5)
• Google::ProtocolBuffers::Dynamic (+1=9)
• Gzip::Faster (+1=6)
• IO::Async (+1=65)
• Iterator::Simple (+1=6)
• JSONSchema::Validator (+1=2)
• Lingua::EN::ABC (+1=2)
• MojoX::DirectoryListing (+1=3)
• Net::Server (+1=29)
• perl (+1=384)
• Perl::Critic::Community (+1=2)
• perlsecret (+1=49)
• Plack::Middleware::Deflater (+1=6)
• TOML::Tiny (+1=5)
• Tree::RB (+1=2)
• WWW::Mechanize (+1=89)
• WWW::OAuth (+1=2)
• XML::Twig (+1=57)
• ZMQ::FFI (+1=16)

(dx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-11-13 23:33:51 GMT

---

1. Performance while reading 2 files in parallel in perl - [2/1]
2. How to setting a favicon in pod2html - [2/1]
3. How do I run this Bismark Bisulfite Sequencing program? - [2/1]
4. subroutines returning references to an array or hash and the role of + operator - [2/0]
5. How to find and replace a pattern string using sed/perl/awk? - [1/6]
6. How can I validate a Perl regex in user input? - [1/2]
7. How can I use the Win32::LongPath module in Perl to manipulate long path names? - [1/1]
8. I need to refactor an ancient piece of Perl code with defined(@array) and defined(%hash) - [1/1]
9. Perl-printing a 2-d matrix from a file - [1/1]
10. SSL connect attempt failed because of handshake problems using Net::FTPSSL - [1/0]

(ccclxvi) 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. CPAN::Uploader - upload things to the CPAN
   • Version: 0.103016 on 2021-10-31
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.103015 was 1 year, 2 months, 10 days before
2. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
   • Version: 0.074 on 2021-11-06
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 0.073 was 3 months, 19 days before
3. Getopt::Long::Descriptive - Getopt::Long, but simpler and more powerful
   • Version: 0.110 on 2021-10-31
   • Votes: 48
   • Previous version: 0.109 was 7 months, 15 days before
4. HTTP::Tiny - A small, simple, correct HTTP/1.1 client
   • Version: 0.080 on 2021-11-05
   • Votes: 101
   • Previous version: 0.078 was 3 months, 3 days before
5. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
   • Version: 2.2200 on 2021-10-31
   • Votes: 319
   • Previous version: 2.2015 was 7 months before
6. Spreadsheet::XLSX - Perl extension for reading MS Excel 2007 files;
   • Version: 0.17 on 2021-11-03
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 0.16 was 9 days before
7. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
   • Version: v7.9.0 on 2021-11-02
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: v7.8.0 was 1 month, 1 day before
8. Text::Xslate - Scalable template engine for Perl5
   • Version: v3.5.9 on 2021-10-31
   • Votes: 68
   • Previous version: v3.5.8 was 1 year, 4 months, 30 days before
9. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
   • Version: 1.084 on 2021-11-03
   • Votes: 42
   • Previous version: 1.082 was 5 days before

(cdlxxxix) metacpan weekly report - MojoX::DirectoryListing

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 55

Week's winners (+3): MojoX::DirectoryListing

Build date: 2021/11/06 16:34:25 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::ccdiff - Colored Character Diff
• App::chalk - Colorize text for terminal output
• App::Dex - Directory Execute
• App::errno - List/show errno
• App::Utils - some useful command-line utilities
• KubeBuilder - Module to help build the Perl Kubernetes client
• Kubectl::CLIWrapper - Module to use the Kubernetes API via the kubectl CLI
• Perl::Critic::Community - Community-inspired Perl::Critic policies
• Signer::AWSv4 - Implements the AWS v4 signature algorithm

Increasing its reputation:

• AnyEvent::ForkManager (+1=3)
• AnyEvent::Worker (+1=3)
• App::cpanminus (+1=260)
• App::perlbrew (+1=167)
• App::plx (+1=3)
• App::pmdir (+1=3)
• App::stopw (+1=3)
• ARGV::Struct (+1=3)
• Ask (+1=9)
• Bitcoin::RPC::Client (+1=7)
• Carmel (+1=15)
• Carp (+1=65)
• DateTime::Locale (+1=9)
• Devel::Cover (+1=100)
• Devel::NYTProf (+2=172)
• Docker::Registry (+1=2)
• Game::Entities (+1=2)
• Google::ProtocolBuffers::Dynamic (+1=8)
• HiPi (+1=8)
• IO::K8s (+1=4)
• JSON::MaybeXS (+1=44)
• Kubernetes::REST (+1=2)
• List::SomeUtils (+1=15)
• Log::Any (+1=59)
• Log::Any::Adapter::Log4perl (+1=4)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=91)
• MediaWiki::API (+1=6)
• Module::CoreList (+1=37)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI (+1=41)
• MojoX::DirectoryListing (+3=3)
• Object::Pad (+1=21)
• Paws (+1=49)
• perl (+1=384)
• Perl::Build (+1=20)
• Perl::Critic (+1=116)
• Perl::Critic::Bangs (+1=5)
• Perl::MinimumVersion (+1=19)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=122)
• Task::Kensho (+1=108)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=53)
• Test::Exception (+1=38)
• Test::Simple (+1=172)
• Yancy (+1=42)

(ccclxv) 12 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: 2.45 on 2021-10-28
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.44 was 8 days before
2. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 1.56 on 2021-10-28
   • Votes: 55
   • Previous version: 1.55 was 2 months, 30 days before
3. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.54 on 2021-10-26
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 0.53 was 2 months before
4. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
   • Version: 6.58 on 2021-10-25
   • Votes: 153
   • Previous version: 6.57 was 1 month, 5 days before
5. Mojolicious::Plugin::OAuth2 - Auth against OAuth2 APIs including OpenID Connect
   • Version: 2.01 on 2021-10-28
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 1.59 was 8 months, 12 days before
6. Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ - interact with RabbitMQ over AMQP using librabbitmq
   • Version: 2.40009 on 2021-10-23
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 2.40008 was 1 year, 22 days before
7. Path::Tiny - File path utility
   • Version: 0.120 on 2021-10-24
   • Votes: 165
   • Previous version: 0.118 was 8 months, 19 days before
8. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
   • Version: 20211029 on 2021-10-29
   • Votes: 121
   • Previous version: 20210717 was 3 months, 12 days before
9. Spreadsheet::XLSX - Perl extension for reading MS Excel 2007 files;
   • Version: 0.16 on 2021-10-25
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 0.15 was 5 years, 11 months, 25 days before
10. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.10 on 2021-10-25
    • Votes: 103
    • Previous version: 5.09 was 7 months, 22 days before
11. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.06 on 2021-10-25
    • Votes: 88
    • Previous version: 2.05 was 1 month, 4 days before
12. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.082 on 2021-10-29
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 1.078 was 12 days before

(cdlxxxviii) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

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

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+2)

Build date: 2021/10/30 13:49:27 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Color::Rgb - Simple rgb.txt parsing class
• Color::Spectrum - Just another HTML color generator.
• Future::Mojo - use Future with Mojo::IOLoop
• Syntax::Keyword::MultiSub - multiple dispatch on subroutines
• Text::Layout - Pango style markup formatting

Increasing its reputation:

• Algorithm::Cron (+1=3)
• AnyEvent (+1=152)
• AnyEvent::Future (+1=4)
• CBOR::XS (+1=11)
• CGI::Tiny (+1=5)
• Crypt::JWT (+1=18)
• Crypt::Passphrase (+1=8)
• Dancer2 (+1=126)
• DateTime::Format::ISO8601 (+1=9)
• DateTime::Format::RFC3339 (+1=6)
• File::Slurp (+1=70)
• Font::FreeType (+1=4)
• Form::Tiny (+1=4)
• Future::HTTP (+1=2)
• Inline::C (+1=33)
• JSON::Schema::Modern (+1=2)
• lib::relative (+1=12)
• Mojo::AsyncAwait (+1=9)
• Mojolicious (+2=464)
• Net::SSH::Perl (+1=19)
• Open::This (+1=8)
• OpenAPI::Generator (+1=2)
• Package::Alias (+1=4)
• Promise::XS (+1=7)
• RxPerl (+1=7)
• Set::Object (+1=10)
• SQL::Abstract::Pg (+1=2)
• String::ShellQuote (+1=16)
• Struct::Dumb (+1=13)
• Test::Script (+1=7)
• Unicode::UTF8 (+1=19)
• Valiant (+1=2)
• WWW::Mechanize::Chrome (+1=16)
• X11::XCB (+1=4)
• Zydeco (+1=16)

(dix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-10-30 13:42:01 GMT

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1. How do you delete a file that does not have a file extension? - [3/3]
2. Limiting a for loop in perl - [3/2]
3. Best practice for writing exception classes in modern Perl - [3/1]
4. Can't use "Git add -i" - [3/1]
5. PerlXS: Possible crash trying to free() - [3/0]
6. How to unpack bytes in "pairwise reversed" order BA DC? - [2/2]
7. Perl Net::Server Log Buffer cuts off at 4096 characters - [2/1]
8. Perl script fails from crontab but not command line - [2/0]
9. How to sort output from Data::Printer? - [1/1]
10. How do I do a search in Perl? - [1/1]

(ccclxiv) 11 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: 2.44 on 2021-10-20
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.42 was 21 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.050003 on 2021-10-19
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.050001 was 7 days before
3. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.51 on 2021-10-22
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 2.50 was 7 days before
4. HTTP::BrowserDetect - Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
   • Version: 3.35 on 2021-10-19
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 3.34 was 2 months, 16 days before
5. local::lib - create and use a local lib/ for perl modules with PERL5LIB
   • Version: 2.000028 on 2021-10-17
   • Votes: 84
   • Previous version: 2.000027 was 3 days before
6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20211020 on 2021-10-21
   • Votes: 36
   • Previous version: 5.20210920 was 1 month, 1 day before
7. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 9.22 on 2021-10-21
   • Votes: 462
   • Previous version: 9.21 was 2 months, 8 days before
8. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
   • Version: 0.56 on 2021-10-22
   • Votes: 20
   • Previous version: 0.55 was 11 days before
9. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
   • Version: 7.715 on 2021-10-20
   • Votes: 42
   • Previous version: 7.714 was 2 months, 11 days before
10. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
    • Version: 1.45 on 2021-10-21
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 1.44 was 6 months, 25 days before
11. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.078 on 2021-10-17
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 1.077 was 1 month, 11 days before

(ccclxiii) 10 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::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.050001 on 2021-10-12
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.049009 was 6 days before
2. CHI - Unified cache handling interface
   • Version: 0.61 on 2021-10-13
   • Votes: 51
   • Previous version: 0.60 was 6 years, 4 months, 6 days before
3. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.27 on 2021-10-14
   • Votes: 39
   • Previous version: 4.26 was 6 months, 2 days before
4. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.50 on 2021-10-15
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 2.49 was 13 days before
5. Encode - character encodings in Perl
   • Version: 3.16 on 2021-10-13
   • Votes: 54
   • Previous version: 3.15 was 5 days before
6. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
   • Version: 0.9725 on 2021-10-10
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 0.9724 was 27 days before
7. local::lib - create and use a local lib/ for perl modules with PERL5LIB
   • Version: 2.000027 on 2021-10-14
   • Votes: 84
   • Previous version: 2.000024 was 4 years, 6 days before
8. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
   • Version: 0.55 on 2021-10-11
   • Votes: 20
   • Previous version: 0.54 was 4 days before
9. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
   • Version: 1.027 on 2021-10-11
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 1.025 was 3 months, 25 days before
10. Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.26 on 2021-10-12
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 0.25 was 4 months, 11 days before

(cdlxxxvii) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 27

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2021/10/17 07:52:38 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• AnyEvent::Subprocess - flexible, OO, asynchronous process spawning and management
• PDL::DSP::Fir - Finite impulse response filter kernels.
• POE::Component::Server::Inet - a super-server daemon implementation in POE
• Test::WWW::WebKit2 - Perl extension for using an embedding WebKit2 engine for tests

Increasing its reputation:

• AnyEvent (+1=152)
• AnyEvent::Fork (+1=15)
• AnyEvent::Fork::Pool (+1=10)
• AnyEvent::Fork::RPC (+1=10)
• AnyEvent::HTTP (+1=31)
• AnyEvent::MP (+1=8)
• App::cpanminus (+1=259)
• App::CPANtoRPM (+1=5)
• autodie::variables (+1=2)
• CBOR::XS (+1=10)
• Chart::Plotly (+1=15)
• Config::IniFiles (+1=13)
• CPAN::Audit (+1=6)
• Crypt::JWT (+1=17)
• Devel::ptkdb (+1=7)
• Dist::Zilla::MintingProfile::FFI (+1=3)
• Gtk3::WebKit2 (+1=4)
• IO (+1=54)
• Mojo::Redis (+1=17)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Model (+1=12)
• Parallel::ForkManager (+1=88)
• Plack::Middleware::LogErrors (+1=3)
• WWW::WebKit2 (+1=2)

(dviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-10-17 06:44:32 GMT

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1. Perl optional capture groups not working? - [3/3]
2. How do I format qw lists using perltidy? - [3/1]
3. Perl one-liner regex doesn't substitute correctly - returns error - [3/1]
4. Automate values from text files to each sheet of excel file - [2/2]
5. Perl LWP::UserAgent parse response JSON - [2/2]
6. perl regex to remove initial all-whitespace lines from a string: why does it work? - [2/2]
7. Why doesn't my XPath expression find a newly added node in an XML document? - [2/1]
8. Perl eval scope - [2/1]
9. In Mojolicious how do I have a route override a static path? - [2/0]
10. Is the use of "||" in a substring search prohibited? - [1/3]

(ccclxii) 7 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::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.049009 on 2021-10-06
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.049005 was 27 days before
2. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.49 on 2021-10-02
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 2.49 was before
3. Encode - character encodings in Perl
   • Version: 3.15 on 2021-10-08
   • Votes: 54
   • Previous version: 3.12 was 1 month, 30 days before
4. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 5.02 on 2021-10-06
   • Votes: 29
   • Previous version: 5.00 was 4 days before
5. Mojo::mysql - Mojolicious and Async MySQL/MariaDB
   • Version: 1.24 on 2021-10-05
   • Votes: 35
   • Previous version: 1.23 was 24 days before
6. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
   • Version: 0.54 on 2021-10-07
   • Votes: 20
   • Previous version: 0.53 was 9 days before
7. Sub::Util - Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
   • Version: 1.60 on 2021-10-08
   • Votes: 157
   • Previous version: 1.59 was 26 days before

(cdlxxxvi) metacpan weekly report - Dist::Zilla::MintingProfile::FFI

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 39

Week's winners (+3): Dist::Zilla::MintingProfile::FFI

Build date: 2021/10/09 22:38:11 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• autocroak - Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
• Color::TupleEncode - Encode a tuple (vector) into a color - useful for
• HTTP::Accept - Parse the HTTP header 'Accept'
• Log::Any::Adapter::JSON - One-line JSON logging of arbitrary structured data
• Pass::OTP - Perl implementation of HOTP / TOTP algorithms

Increasing its reputation:

• Acme::Magic::Pony (+1=3)
• App::cpanminus::reporter (+1=35)
• App::cpm (+1=55)
• Authen::OATH (+1=4)
• CHI (+1=51)
• Complete::Bash (+1=4)
• Coro (+1=71)
• Data::Alias (+1=16)
• DateTime (+1=203)
• DBIx::Class::Schema::ResultSetNames (+2=3)
• Dist::Zilla::MintingProfile::FFI (+3=3)
• Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Git::CheckFor (+1=2)
• File::Remove (+1=6)
• Gtk3::WebKit2 (+1=3)
• Image::ExifTool (+1=35)
• libalarm (+1=2)
• List::Helpers::XS (+1=3)
• Math::BigInt::GMP (+1=2)
• MCE (+2=87)
• MLPerl (+1=7)
• Mojo::mysql (+1=35)
• Moo (+1=284)
• Net::OpenSSH (+1=36)
• Net::Pcap::Easy (+1=2)
• Net::Telnet (+1=2)
• Params::Validate (+1=32)
• Parse::Crontab (+1=3)
• Smart::Comments (+1=41)
• Syntax::Operator::Equ (+1=2)
• Sys::Virt (+1=15)
• Template::Mustache (+1=3)

(dvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-10-09 21:41:38 GMT

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1. python regex where a set of options can occur at most once in a list, in any order - [11/7]
2. Force Perl to stop special processing of command line arguments if -e eval switch is used - [5/1]
3. How do I get it to stop removing what was previously in the text file? - [4/2]
4. How to define multiple Perl packages in one file that are inter-dependent - [3/3]
5. Searching Perl array with regex and return single capturing group only - [3/3]
6. How to use Perl's Text::Aspell to spellcheck a text? - [3/2]
7. In Moose, how do I create a rw proxy attribute for another rw attribute - [3/1]
8. sed and Perl regexp replaces once, with multiple replacements flag - [2/5]
9. How to Iterate through multiple Perl arrays - [2/3]
10. How to grep/perl/awk overlapping regex - [2/3]