(cccxxx) 18 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: 0.997003 on 2021-02-23
   • Votes: 52
   • Previous version: 0.997002 was 28 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.047005 on 2021-02-24
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.047004 was 9 days before
3. Data::Fake - Declaratively generate fake structured data for testing
   • Version: 0.006 on 2021-02-26
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.005 was 4 months, 25 days before
4. Data::Printer - colored & full-featured pretty print of Perl data structures and objects
   • Version: 1.000001 on 2021-02-25
   • Votes: 131
   • Previous version: 0.40 was 3 years, 6 months, 23 days before
5. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub - Plugins to integrate Dist::Zilla with GitHub
   • Version: 0.48 on 2021-02-20
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 0.47 was 2 years, 5 months, 4 days before
6. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.49 on 2021-02-24
   • Votes: 35
   • Previous version: 0.48 was 22 days before
7. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
   • Version: 2.66 on 2021-02-21
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.65 was 1 month, 12 days before
8. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
   • Version: 2.101 on 2021-02-20
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.100 was 1 month, 13 days before
9. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.070 on 2021-02-26
   • Votes: 40
   • Previous version: 2.069 was 1 month, 4 days before
10. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 4.14 on 2021-02-23
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 4.13 was 26 days before
11. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20210220 on 2021-02-20
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20210123 was 27 days before
12. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
    • Version: 4.25 on 2021-02-20
    • Votes: 66
    • Previous version: 4.24 was 14 days before
13. Mojolicious::Plugin::Status - Mojolicious server status
    • Version: 1.15 on 2021-02-20
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.14 was 11 days before
14. OpenAPI::Client - A client for talking to an Open API powered server
    • Version: 1.00 on 2021-02-23
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.25 was 7 months, 23 days before
15. OrePAN2 - Yet another DarkPAN manager.
    • Version: 0.48 on 2021-02-25
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.47 was 2 years, 3 months, 23 days before
16. Perl::LanguageServer - Language Server and Debug Protocol Adapter for Perl
    • Version: v2.2.0 on 2021-02-21
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.1.0 was 7 months, 24 days before
17. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
    • Version: 0.84 on 2021-02-26
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.83 was 2 months, 5 days before
18. Term::ReadLine::Gnu - Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library
    • Version: 1.40 on 2021-02-23
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.37 was 1 month, 27 days before

(cdlvi) metacpan weekly report - Text::Table::More

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 57

Week's winners (+3): Text::Table::More

Build date: 2021/02/27 18:35:17 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• BoardStreams - An easy way to use WebSockets on the browser and on the server
• Math::Tau - provide the important mathematical constant tau = 6.2831...
• Parse::CPAN::Packages::Fast - parse CPAN's package index
• Search::QueryParser - parses a query string into a data structure
• SQL::Engine - SQL Generation for Perl 5

Increasing its reputation:

• App::financeta (+1=2)
• App::perlbrew (+1=167)
• App::Sqitch (+1=37)
• Array::Heap (+1=3)
• Art::World (+1=2)
• B::Keywords (+1=6)
• Compress::LZ4 (+1=4)
• Compress::Raw::Zlib (+1=2)
• CPAN::Uploader (+1=21)
• Data::Dump (+1=33)
• Data::Fake (+1=13)
• DBD::SQLite (+1=94)
• dip (+1=6)
• File::Slurp (+1=68)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=35)
• Gtk3 (+1=17)
• Gzip::Libdeflate (+2=2)
• HTTP::BrowserDetect (+1=22)
• IO::Prompter (+1=22)
• JSON::XS (+1=109)
• Lingua::BrillTagger (+1=2)
• Lingua::EN::Inflect (+1=16)
• Lingua::EN::Inflexion (+1=9)
• Lingua::EN::Tagger (+1=3)
• Lingua::Stem (+1=3)
• Marpa::R2 (+1=48)
• Object::Pad (+1=6)
• Path::Tiny (+1=161)
• PathTools (+1=74)
• PDL (+1=39)
• Pegex (+1=21)
• Pepper (+1=6)
• perl (+1=370)
• Perl6::Controls (+1=6)
• Perl::LanguageServer (+1=17)
• POSIX::strptime (+1=5)
• Prima (+1=33)
• Promise::ES6 (+1=2)
• Promise::XS (+1=4)
• Reddit::Client (+1=7)
• Selenium::Remote::Driver (+1=43)
• Teng (+1=25)
• Test::Exception (+1=37)
• Text::Table::Any (+1=2)
• Text::Table::More (+2=2)
• WordNet::Similarity (+1=4)
• XML::LibXML (+1=91)
• Yancy (+1=38)
• Zydeco (+1=15)

(cdlxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-02-27 18:29:49 GMT

---

1. No error or warning for trying to print to an already closed filehandle - [5/2]
2. Ternary producing different results than If - [4/1]
3. How to create many hash references with identical data? - [4/1]
4. How to Perl calculate array column data? - [2/2]
5. Count the number of non-whitespace characters in a string in Perl - [2/2]
6. Perl repeat string which has repeated substring - [2/1]
7. In Perl, how can query a JSON::Path object and return the paths of the matched elements? - [2/1]
8. Cannot install DBD::Oracle on macOS Big Sur => dependent dylib '@rpath/libclntsh.dylib.19.1' not found - [2/1]
9. I need to serialize in Perl with PHP format - [2/1]
10. Perl 5 OOP programming - [2/1]

(cccxxix) 19 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: 2.047004 on 2021-02-15
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.047002 was 1 month, 16 days before
2. Dumbbench - More reliable benchmarking with the least amount of thinking
   • Version: 0.501 on 2021-02-15
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.111 was 3 years, 7 months, 28 days before
3. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
   • Version: 7.60 on 2021-02-17
   • Votes: 47
   • Previous version: 7.58 was 1 month, 27 days before
4. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
   • Version: 0.49 on 2021-02-15
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 0.48 was 10 days before
5. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.28 on 2021-02-19
   • Votes: 59
   • Previous version: 6.27 was 1 month, 14 days before
6. Log::Any - Bringing loggers and listeners together
   • Version: 1.709 on 2021-02-17
   • Votes: 58
   • Previous version: 1.708 was 1 year, 1 month, 4 days before
7. Minion - Job queue
   • Version: 10.16 on 2021-02-16
   • Votes: 80
   • Previous version: 10.15 was 1 month, 13 days before
8. Minion::Backend::SQLite - SQLite backend for Minion job queue
   • Version: v5.0.4 on 2021-02-16
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: v5.0.3 was 6 months, 14 days before
9. Mojo::IRC - IRC Client for the Mojo IOLoop
   • Version: 0.46 on 2021-02-17
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.45 was 2 years, 8 months, 10 days before
10. Mojo::SQLite - A tiny Mojolicious wrapper for SQLite
    • Version: 3.005 on 2021-02-16
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 3.004 was 6 months, 24 days before
11. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.01 on 2021-02-16
    • Votes: 444
    • Previous version: 8.73 was 10 days before
12. Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
    • Version: 2.11 on 2021-02-19
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 2.10 was 2 months, 8 days before
13. Mojolicious::Plugin::OAuth2 - Auth against OAuth2 APIs
    • Version: 1.59 on 2021-02-16
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 1.58 was 1 year, 7 months, 13 days before
14. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 4.00 on 2021-02-17
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 3.41 was 24 days before
15. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.026 on 2021-02-13
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 2.025 was 3 months before
16. Test::Class - Easily create test classes in an xUnit/JUnit style
    • Version: 0.52 on 2021-02-17
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.50 was 5 years, 8 months, 10 days before
17. Text::ANSITable - Create nice formatted tables using extended ASCII and ANSI colors
    • Version: 0.602 on 2021-02-19
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.601 was 4 months, 14 days before
18. Tk - Tk - a Graphical User Interface Toolkit
    • Version: 804.036 on 2021-02-14
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 804.035 was 10 months, 17 days before
19. XML::Hash::XS - Simple and fast hash to XML and XML to hash conversion written in C
    • Version: 0.56 on 2021-02-13
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.55 was 11 months, 11 days before

(cdlv) metacpan weekly report - Teng

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 53

Week's winners (+3): Teng

Build date: 2021/02/20 14:03:38 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::Prima::REPL - a GUI REPL written with Prima for the PDL community.
• DataLoader - Abstract data loading, auto batch and cache
• GraphQL::Plugin::Convert::DBIC - convert DBIx::Class schema to GraphQL schema
• List::GroupBy - Group a list of hashref's to a multilevel hash of hashrefs of arrayrefs
• MooX::Private::Attribute - private attributes
• Net::Curl::Easier - Convenience wrapper around Net::Curl::Easy
• Regexp::Common::Apache2 - Apache2 Expressions
• Text::Table::Span - (DEPRECATED) Text::Table::Tiny + support for column/row spans

Increasing its reputation:

• Acme::EyeDrops (+1=10)
• Continuity (+1=7)
• CPAN::Uploader (+1=20)
• Daiku (+1=12)
• DateTimeX::Auto (+1=2)
• DBD::MariaDB (+1=6)
• DBD::SQLite (+1=93)
• DBIx::Mint (+1=5)
• DBIx::Sunny (+1=8)
• Dios (+1=21)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=34)
• Graph::Easy (+1=9)
• Imager (+1=60)
• Jifty (+1=3)
• Kavorka (+1=33)
• Lexical::Accessor (+1=5)
• MLPerl (+1=6)
• Mojolicious (+2=444)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::GraphQL (+1=2)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI (+1=39)
• MooX::ChainedAttributes (+1=8)
• MooX::HandlesVia (+1=11)
• Moxie (+1=24)
• Net::Async::WebSocket (+1=5)
• Net::Curl::Promiser (+1=3)
• Params::ValidationCompiler (+1=20)
• Path::Tiny (+1=160)
• PDF::Table (+1=3)
• Perl6::Controls (+1=5)
• Return::Type (+1=3)
• Search::Elasticsearch (+2=40)
• Specio (+1=12)
• Squatting (+1=3)
• Sub::HandlesVia (+1=6)
• Teng (+3=25)
• Text::Caml (+1=7)
• Text::Levenshtein (+1=6)
• Tk (+1=26)
• Types::XSD (+1=2)
• UML::Class::Simple (+1=6)
• Web::Scraper (+1=41)

(cdlxxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-02-20 13:55:05 GMT

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1. Perl and parameterised statements - [3/2]
2. Using IPC::Run with timeouts results in Modification of a read-only value error - [3/1]
3. Perl's odd behavior of index() when called with empty substr with vs without Encode::decode() - [3/1]
4. How does the PRELOAD (and other) constants/symbols work in Test2::API::Instance? - [3/0]
5. perl - range between with regex - [2/4]
6. UTF8 output from Strawberry Perl - [2/4]
7. Perl XPath: use "and" to return two nodes - [2/3]
8. Perl script to test all posible dates backwards - [2/2]
9. Why does this Perl shuffle function not shuffle? - [2/2]
10. Convert deprecated Perl&'s Net::IRC codes to AnyEvent::IRC::Client inquiry - [2/1]

(cccxxviii) 11 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. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
   • Version: 0.070 on 2021-02-12
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 0.069 was 5 months, 18 days before
2. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
   • Version: 0.58 on 2021-02-10
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 0.57 was 1 month, 24 days before
3. Log::Log4perl - Log4j implementation for Perl
   • Version: 1.54 on 2021-02-06
   • Votes: 89
   • Previous version: 1.53 was 4 months, 19 days before
4. Markdent - An event-based Markdown parser toolkit
   • Version: 0.39 on 2021-02-12
   • Votes: 20
   • Previous version: 0.38 was 3 months, 5 days before
5. Mojolicious::Plugin::Status - Mojolicious server status
   • Version: 1.14 on 2021-02-09
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 1.13 was 1 month, 6 days before
6. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
   • Version: 1.023 on 2021-02-10
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 1.022 was 30 days before
7. Pithub - Github v3 API
   • Version: 0.01036 on 2021-02-08
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 0.01035 was 1 year, 2 months, 15 days before
8. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
   • Version: 7.711 on 2021-02-11
   • Votes: 38
   • Previous version: 7.30 was 4 months, 26 days before
9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.0932 on 2021-02-08
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.0931 was 2 days before
10. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.77 on 2021-02-10
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.75 was 1 month, 13 days before
11. Test::Class::Moose - Serious testing for serious Perl
    • Version: 0.99 on 2021-02-07
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.98 was 1 year, 3 months, 12 days before

(cdliv) metacpan weekly report

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

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2021/02/13 16:22:37 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Algorithm::Backoff::RetryTimeouts - A backoff-style retry algorithm with adjustable timeout support
• Class::Mockable -
• Data::Faker::MetaSyntactic - Data::Faker plugin for metasyntactic data
• Moodle - Migrations for Mojo DB Drivers
• Sentry::SDK - sentry.io integration
• URI::Query::FromHash - Construct a query string from a hash ref

Increasing its reputation:

• Acme::Comment (+1=2)
• Data::Fake (+1=12)
• Data::Faker (+1=6)
• Data::Session (+1=2)
• Devel::Camelcadedb (+1=3)
• Devel::NYTProf (+1=168)
• Doodle (+1=4)
• Geo::Index (+1=5)
• local::lib (+1=84)
• match::simple (+1=13)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::ConsoleLogger (+1=4)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::EventSource (+1=3)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI (+1=39)
• Paws (+1=47)
• pgtop (+1=2)
• Pithub (+1=19)
• Rex (+1=76)
• Selenium::Remote::Driver (+1=42)
• Sub::Retry (+1=11)
• Text::CSV_XS (+1=92)
• Vroom (+1=18)
• Yancy (+1=37)

(cdlxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-02-13 16:20:21 GMT

---

1. "no autovivication" pragma fails with grep in Perl - [7/2]
2. Can I autobox a single variable in perl? - [3/1]
3. Perl not recognizing module / module path for root user - [3/1]
4. IPC::Open2 output to already open file handle as per doc example - [3/1]
5. add to JSON ($payload={}) on condition - [3/1]
6. PERL CLOSING the file after slurping and "perl -0777"s translation to a complete perl file - [2/2]
7. How to print only the capture groups of all matches in perl? - [2/2]
8. Convert the position of a character in a string to account for "gaps" (i.e., non alphanumeric characters in the string) - [2/1]
9. How to add more JSON entries into file with right format? - [2/1]
10. Perl: assignment within scalar and string matching (regex) - [2/1]

(cccxxvii) 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. App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
   • Version: 0.91 on 2021-01-31
   • Votes: 166
   • Previous version: 0.90 was 2 days before
2. BioPerl - Perl modules for biology
   • Version: 1.7.8 on 2021-02-03
   • Votes: 27
   • Previous version: 1.7.7 was 1 year, 1 month, 27 days before
3. Config::Tiny - Read/Write .ini style files with as little code as possible
   • Version: 2.26 on 2021-02-01
   • Votes: 29
   • Previous version: 2.24 was 1 year, 7 months, 14 days before
4. DBIx::DataModel - UML-based Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework
   • Version: 3.01 on 2021-02-02
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 3.0 was 2 years, 11 months, 7 days before
5. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.48 on 2021-02-02
   • Votes: 33
   • Previous version: 0.47 was 2 months, 3 days before
6. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
   • Version: 0.48 on 2021-02-05
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 0.46 was 9 days before
7. IO::Interactive - Utilities for interactive I/O
   • Version: 1.023 on 2021-02-03
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 1.022 was 4 years, 4 months, 29 days before
8. JIRA::REST - Thin wrapper around Jira's REST API
   • Version: 0.021 on 2021-02-06
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.020 was 1 year, 3 months, 3 days before
9. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
   • Version: 4.24 on 2021-02-06
   • Votes: 66
   • Previous version: 4.23 was 1 month, 3 days before
10. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.73 on 2021-02-06
    • Votes: 444
    • Previous version: 8.72 was 10 days before
11. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.7001 on 2021-02-04
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 3.7000 was 1 month, 30 days before
12. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.118 on 2021-02-05
    • Votes: 159
    • Previous version: 0.116 was 14 days before
13. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0931 on 2021-02-06
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0930 was 9 days before

(cdliii) metacpan weekly report - Acme::ConspiracyTheory::Random

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 74

Week's winner: Acme::ConspiracyTheory::Random (+5)

Build date: 2021/02/06 19:40:42 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Feature::Compat::Try - make try/catch syntax available
• libalarm - Module handling tying of %SIG for alarm extensions.
• Net::RDAP - an interface to the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP).
• PDF::Imposition - Perl module to manage the PDF imposition
• Random::Any - Try to use Data::Entropy::Algorithms::rand(), fallback on builtin rand()
• SNMP - The Perl5 'SNMP' Extension Module for the Net-SNMP SNMP package.
• SQL::Tree - Generate a trigger-based SQL tree implementation
• Template::Plugin::XML::Feed - Plugin interface to XML::Feed

Increasing its reputation:

• Acme::ConspiracyTheory::Random (+5=5)
• App::CSVUtils (+1=2)
• App::ModuleBuildTiny (+1=9)
• AWS::Lambda (+1=5)
• B::Lint (+1=6)
• BioPerl (+1=27)
• Cisco::SNMP (+1=2)
• Class::Accessor (+1=17)
• Curses (+1=7)
• Data::Dump::Color (+1=5)
• Devel::Cover (+1=98)
• Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls (+1=17)
• Email::Stuffer (+1=28)
• Firefox::Marionette (+1=11)
• Graphics::Framebuffer (+1=6)
• HTTP::Tiny (+1=100)
• Jifty (+1=2)
• Keyword::Simple (+1=14)
• libwww::perl (+1=152)
• List::MoreUtils (+2=110)
• Locale::Maketext (+1=6)
• Log::ger (+2=5)
• Mail::SpamAssassin (+1=7)
• Math::Prime::Util (+1=19)
• Mojolicious (+1=444)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Model (+1=11)
• Mozilla::CA (+1=17)
• Net::SNMP (+1=9)
• Net::SNMPTrapd (+1=2)
• OpenAPI::Client (+1=13)
• PAR (+1=18)
• Path::Tiny (+1=159)
• perl (+1=369)
• Perl::Critic (+1=112)
• Perl::Lint (+1=15)
• Perl::Version (+1=8)
• Plack (+1=221)
• RBAC::Tiny (+1=4)
• re::engine::RE2 (+1=10)
• Rex (+1=75)
• RxPerl (+1=6)
• Scientist (+1=4)
• Sereal::Decoder (+1=20)
• SNMP::Info (+1=5)
• Sub::Retry (+1=10)
• Syntax::Keyword::Try (+1=32)
• Sys::SigAction (+1=10)
• Template::Tiny (+1=7)
• Template::Toolkit (+1=130)
• Test::BDD::Cucumber (+1=15)
• Test::Class (+1=21)
• Test::Class::Most (+1=4)
• Test::File (+1=11)
• Test::LWP::UserAgent (+1=13)
• Test::Mojo::Role::Selenium (+1=7)
• Test::Pod (+1=22)
• Test::Pod::Coverage (+1=22)
• Unicode::Stringprep (+1=2)
• XML::MyXML (+1=4)
• YAML (+1=64)