(cccxxxviii) 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. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
   • Version: 0.301002 on 2021-04-18
   • Votes: 124
   • Previous version: 0.301001 was 1 month, 1 day before
2. Data::Alias - Comprehensive set of aliasing operations
   • Version: 1.21 on 2021-04-22
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.21 was 3 years, 4 months, 14 days before
3. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
   • Version: 0.9721 on 2021-04-18
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 0.9720 was 24 days before
4. JavaScript::V8 - Perl interface to the V8 JavaScript engine
   • Version: 0.10 on 2021-04-23
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 0.09 was 2 years, 12 days before
5. List::AllUtils - Combines List::Util, List::SomeUtils and List::UtilsBy in one bite-sized package
   • Version: 0.19 on 2021-04-23
   • Votes: 30
   • Previous version: 0.18 was 7 months, 18 days before
6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20210420 on 2021-04-21
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 5.20210320 was 1 month before
7. Module::ScanDeps - Recursively scan Perl code for dependencies
   • Version: 1.31 on 2021-04-21
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 1.30 was 3 months, 8 days before
8. Mojolicious::Plugin::Authentication - A plugin to make authentication a bit easier
   • Version: 1.36 on 2021-04-21
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 1.33 was 3 years before
9. PDL - Perl Data Language
   • Version: 2.039 on 2021-04-24
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 2.037 was 8 days before
10. PDL::Stats - a collection of statistics modules in Perl Data Language, with a quick-start guide for non-PDL people.
    • Version: 0.78 on 2021-04-24
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.76 was 4 months, 5 days before
11. Perl::MinimumVersion - Find a minimum required version of perl for Perl code
    • Version: 1.40 on 2021-04-22
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 1.38 was 6 years, 8 months before
12. Pod::Weaver - weave together a Pod document from an outline
    • Version: 4.017 on 2021-04-17
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 4.015 was 4 years, 6 months, 2 days before
13. Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
    • Version: 1.61 on 2021-04-23
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 1.60 was 5 months, 23 days before
14. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0946 on 2021-04-23
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0942 was 8 days before
15. SVG - Perl extension for generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) documents.
    • Version: 2.86 on 2021-04-22
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 2.85 was 9 months, 20 days before

(cdlxiv) metacpan weekly report - App::perlimports

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

Week's winners (+3): App::perlimports 

Build date: 2021/04/24 19:10:30 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• AnyEvent::Monitor::CPU - monitors your process CPU usage, with high/low watermark triggers
• Atomic::Pipe - Send atomic messages from multiple writers across a POSIX pipe.
• CGI::Tiny - Common Gateway Interface, with no frills
• CodeGen::Protection - Safely rewrite parts of generated code
• Function::Version - Define and use different function versions
• IO::Slice - restrict reads to a range in a file
• Myriad - async microservice framework
• Proc::Application - interface scoreboard class
• Sub::Versions - Subroutine versioning syntactic sugar
• Valiant - Validation Library

Increasing its reputation:

• App::perlimports (+3=3)
• App::XML::DocBook::Builder (+1=2)
• Carp::Assert::More (+1=3)
• Dancer2 (+1=124)
• Deep::Encode (+1=3)
• Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Starter (+1=5)
• Feature::Compat::Try (+1=3)
• File::Temp (+1=57)
• Getopt::Kingpin (+1=8)
• grpc::xs (+1=2)
• Hash::Merge (+1=28)
• HTML::Untemplate (+1=4)
• Linux::APT (+1=2)
• Minion (+1=83)
• Mojo::IOLoop::ReadWriteFork (+1=10)
• Mojo::mysql (+1=34)
• Mom (+1=2)
• namespace::autoclean::0.30 (+1=0)
• NativeCall (+1=12)
• Parser::MGC (+1=11)
• perl (+1=373)
• Perl::LanguageServer (+1=18)
• PPI (+1=50)
• Proc::CPUUsage (+1=5)
• RapidApp (+1=28)
• self (+1=4)
• Statistics::Descriptive (+1=18)
• SVG (+2=18)
• Syntax::Keyword::Match (+1=3)
• Test::NoLeaks (+1=3)
• Text::LTSV (+1=4)
• version (+1=18)

(cdlxxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-04-24 18:59:34 GMT

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1. Perl: Make declaration of a duplicate hash key a fatal error? - [3/2]
2. Why do some variables require initialization and some don't in the same script? - [3/1]
3. Sort hash by values - [3/1]
4. Elegant way to set an environment variable in Perl - [2/4]
5. Perl: How to grep with Hash Slices? - [2/1]
6. Linking macos's frameworks in Inline::C - [2/1]
7. Perl: Converting Formula To Perl Code What Should It Look Like? - [2/1]
8. Perl: Cross-references in nested datastructures? - [1/3]
9. Merging of duplicate path values of a Perl HOH - [1/3]
10. I want to do a search replace in perl. My file has strings like “time1”, “+time1”, “+time11”, “time11”.How do I differentiate between these 4 strings - [1/2]

(cccxxxvii) 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::opan - A CPAN overlay for darkpan and pinning purposes
   • Version: 0.003005 on 2021-04-13
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.003003 was 23 days before
2. App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
   • Version: 0.92 on 2021-04-15
   • Votes: 166
   • Previous version: 0.91 was 2 months, 15 days before
3. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.26 on 2021-04-12
   • Votes: 39
   • Previous version: 4.25 was 5 months, 15 days before
4. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
   • Version: 7.62 on 2021-04-13
   • Votes: 49
   • Previous version: 7.60 was 1 month, 24 days before
5. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
   • Version: 0.24 on 2021-04-12
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.23 was 3 months, 24 days before
6. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 9.17 on 2021-04-13
   • Votes: 451
   • Previous version: 9.16 was 4 days before
7. PDF::API2 - Facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files
   • Version: 2.040 on 2021-04-13
   • Votes: 27
   • Previous version: 2.039 was 1 month, 9 days before
8. PDL - Perl Data Language
   • Version: 2.037 on 2021-04-16
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 2.034 was 16 days before
9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.0942 on 2021-04-15
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.0937 was 9 days before
10. Statocles - A static site generator
    • Version: 0.098 on 2021-04-11
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.097 was 1 year, 10 days before
11. version - Structured version objects
    • Version: 0.9929 on 2021-04-16
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.9928 was 6 months, 24 days before
12. XML::LibXML - Interface to Gnome libxml2 xml parsing and DOM library
    • Version: 2.0207 on 2021-04-17
    • Votes: 91
    • Previous version: 2.0206 was 7 months, 2 days before

(cdlxiii) metacpan weekly report - XS::Parse::Keyword

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 63

Week's winner: XS::Parse::Keyword (+3)

Build date: 2021/04/17 19:17:49 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::Virtualenv - Perl virtual environment
• FFI::ExtractSymbols - Extract symbol names from a shared object or DLL
• File::Copy::Recursive::Reduced - Recursive copying of files and directories within Perl 5 toolchain
• Lingua::StarDict::Writer - A module that allows to create a StarDict dictionary
• PDF::API2::XS - Optional PDF::API2 add-on using XS to speed up expensive operations
• Prometheus::Tiny - A tiny Prometheus client
• See - Debug See
• TaskPipe - A task management framework for building web scrapers and crawlers
• Text::Amuse::Compile - Compiler for Text::Amuse

Increasing its reputation:

• Acme::LOLCAT (+1=2)
• AnyEvent (+1=150)
• App::cpm (+1=53)
• Crypt::OpenSSL::ECDSA (+1=3)
• Daemon::Control (+1=43)
• Deep::Encode (+1=2)
• Devel::NYTProf (+1=168)
• Devel::Size (+1=17)
• ExtUtils::MakeMaker (+1=49)
• File::Temp (+1=57)
• GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI (+1=2)
• Google::ProtocolBuffers::Dynamic (+1=7)
• HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath (+1=21)
• IPC::SysV (+1=4)
• jQuery::File::Upload (+1=3)
• JSON::Schema::Tiny (+1=2)
• JSON::Validator (+1=28)
• Lingua::StopWords::0.10 (+1=0)
• List::UtilsBy (+1=33)
• Mail::Toaster (+1=3)
• Modern::Perl (+1=45)
• Mojo::Server::Threaded (+1=4)
• Mojolicious (+1=451)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI (+1=40)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::PPI (+1=5)
• Moose (+1=318)
• Moose::2.2100 (+1=0)
• MooX::Options (+1=24)
• Number::Bytes::Human (+1=6)
• OpenAPI::Client (+1=14)
• OpenMP::Environment (+1=2)
• PDF::API2 (+1=27)
• perl::ldap (+1=16)
• perlsecret (+1=47)
• perlude (+1=10)
• Readonly::Tiny (+2=3)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=152)
• Statocles (+1=29)
• Syntax::Keyword::Defer (+2=3)
• Syntax::Keyword::Match (+2=2)
• Test2::Suite (+1=31)
• Test::LeakTrace (+1=15)
• Test::Memory::Cycle (+1=12)
• Test::Output (+1=12)
• threads (+1=12)
• threads::shared (+1=8)
• Web::Query (+1=29)
• XS::Parse::Keyword (+3=3)
• YAML::PP (+1=11)

(cdlxxxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-04-17 19:05:08 GMT

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1. Is it possible to have an 'or' or 'and' operator inside an 'eq' or 'ne' comparison in perl? - [3/1]
2. reinitializing environment in shared library - [3/0]
3. Modification of a read-only value attempted at ... line .... in a foreach loop - [3/0]
4. FastCGI, Perl and Exit - [2/1]
5. Automation on current tab with WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - [2/1]
6. Execute python script and read its JSON output - [2/1]
7. Perl replace multiple strings in a file - [2/1]
8. Variable substitution in Perl with Perl special characters - [2/1]
9. Can't find a valid termcap file - [2/0]
10. How to mock a full module? - [1/2]

(cccxxxvi) 6 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. Devel::IPerl - Perl language kernel for Jupyter
   • Version: 0.010 on 2021-04-05
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 0.009 was 3 years, 3 months, 19 days before
2. Devel::NYTProf - Powerful fast feature-rich Perl source code profiler
   • Version: 6.07 on 2021-04-06
   • Votes: 167
   • Previous version: 6.06 was 2 years, 10 months, 2 days before
3. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
   • Version: 0.50 on 2021-04-08
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 0.49 was 1 month, 21 days before
4. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 9.16 on 2021-04-09
   • Votes: 450
   • Previous version: 9.14 was 17 days before
5. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.0937 on 2021-04-06
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.0936 was 3 days before
6. XML::Compile::SOAP - SOAP version 1.1
   • Version: 3.27 on 2021-04-07
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 3.26 was 1 year, 4 months, 17 days before

(cdlxii) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 40

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+2)

Build date: 2021/04/10 19:01:29 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• CGI::ProgressBar - CGI.pm sub-class with a progress bar object
• Crayon - dedupe, minify and extend CSS
• DBIx::BlackBox - Access database with stored procedures only
• File::LsColor - Colorize input filenames like ls(1)
• Graph::D3 - Create ref/json to show node-edge graph with D3.js
• Image::CairoSVG - render SVG into a Cairo surface
• Math::BaseArith - mixed-base number arithmetic (like APL encode/decode)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::DBIC - Mojolicious ♥ DBIx::Class
• OpenMP::Environment - Perl extension managing OpenMP variables in %ENV within a script.

Increasing its reputation:

• B::Hooks::EndOfScope (+1=9)
• BerkeleyDB (+1=11)
• Clone (+1=27)
• CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps (+1=4)
• Dancer2 (+1=123)
• DBI (+1=250)
• Devel::IPerl (+1=19)
• Dotenv (+1=4)
• Graphics::ColorNames::WWW (+1=2)
• Mojo::DOM58 (+1=6)
• Mojo::Pg (+1=66)
• Mojolicious (+2=450)
• Moo (+1=282)
• Moose (+1=316)
• Net::CIDR::Lite (+1=4)
• Net::Graylog::Client (+1=3)
• Number::Bytes::Human (+1=5)
• Object::Pad (+1=7)
• OrePAN (+1=5)
• PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot (+1=8)
• PPIx::Regexp (+1=5)
• PPR (+1=17)
• Smart::Comments (+1=39)
• Sub::Exporter::ForMethods::0.100053 (+1=0)
• Sub::Meta (+1=4)
• Task::Dancer2 (+1=5)
• Text::Markdown::Hoedown (+1=11)
• Text::Table (+1=14)
• Time::Moment (+1=70)
• UUID::Tiny (+1=10)

(cdlxxxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-04-10 18:54:30 GMT

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1. Single quotes in a variable name in Perl? - [4/1]
2. How to make multiple variables readonly in Perl? - [3/2]
3. Matching a string with Regexp Grammars - [3/0]
4. Prepend a String to a Regex Match Using Bash - [2/3]
5. How merge multiple files using Perl? - [2/2]
6. Mac M1 Homebrew Perl Carton Net::SSLeay is loading libcrypto in an unsafe way - [2/0]
7. Makefile.PL meta.json prereqs for OS so module won&'t be installed on Windows - [2/0]
8. perl sort function efficiency - [1/2]
9. Sum of Primes always returns 0 - [1/2]
10. My Perl can't find local::lib after upgrading from Perl 5.14 to 5.28 - [1/2]

(cccxxxv) 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. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
   • Version: 0.071 on 2021-03-30
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 0.070 was 1 month, 18 days before
2. Excel::Writer::XLSX - Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
   • Version: 1.08 on 2021-03-31
   • Votes: 55
   • Previous version: 1.07 was 7 months, 25 days before
3. Moo - Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
   • Version: 2.005004 on 2021-03-29
   • Votes: 281
   • Previous version: 2.005003 was 7 days before
4. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
   • Version: 2.2015 on 2021-03-31
   • Votes: 316
   • Previous version: 2.2014 was 3 months, 12 days before
5. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
   • Version: 1.30 on 2021-03-30
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.29 was 4 months, 12 days before
6. PDL - Perl Data Language
   • Version: 2.034 on 2021-03-31
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 2.032 was 7 days before
7. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
   • Version: 20210402 on 2021-04-01
   • Votes: 120
   • Previous version: 20210111 was 2 months, 22 days before
8. Sub::Util - Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
   • Version: 1.56 on 2021-03-30
   • Votes: 151
   • Previous version: 1.55 was 11 months, 18 days before
9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.0936 on 2021-04-03
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.0933 was 23 days before
10. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v7.2.0 on 2021-04-01
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v7.1.0 was 1 month before
11. Win32::OLE - OLE Automation extensions
    • Version: 0.1713 on 2021-04-03
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.1712 was 6 years, 10 months, 20 days before
12. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.66 on 2021-03-30
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.65 was 4 months before

(cdlxi) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 65

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+2)

Build date: 2021/04/03 13:26:54 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::mokupona - a feed aggregator for Gopher, Gemini, RSS and Atom
• Combine::Keys - keys on multiple hash references
• File::NFSLock - perl module to do NFS (or not) locking
• Games::Checkers - Play the Checkers games
• Image::JPEG::Size - find the size of JPEG images
• JSON::Schema::Tiny - Validate data against a schema, minimally
• Language::FormulaEngine - Evaluator for spreadsheet-style function expressions
• MooX::Private::Attribute - private attributes
• Syntax::Keyword::Defer - add defer block syntax to perl
• Text::Sparkline - Creates text-based sparklines
• Web::Request::Role::JWT - Accessors for JSON Web Token (JWT) stored in psgix

Increasing its reputation:

• AI::MXNet (+1=34)
• Android::Build (+1=6)
• App::Cmd (+1=41)
• App::TimeTracker (+1=15)
• Catalyst::Runtime (+1=146)
• CHI (+1=48)
• Child (+1=7)
• Config::Augeas (+1=3)
• CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps (+1=3)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+1=39)
• Crypt::OpenSSL::ECDSA (+1=2)
• DBIx::Class (+1=275)
• Devel::MAT (+1=26)
• Dist::Zilla::App::Command::regenerate (+1=2)
• Feature::Compat::Try (+1=2)
• File::Temp (+1=56)
• Finance::Quote (+1=7)
• Getopt::Long (+1=106)
• Graph (+1=26)
• Hash::Flatten (+1=12)
• Hash::Wrap (+1=4)
• HTML::FormBuilder (+1=2)
• Importer (+1=12)
• IO::Async (+1=59)
• JSON (+1=94)
• LINQ (+1=2)
• Lucy (+1=15)
• Math::Random::Secure (+1=5)
• Module::Release (+1=4)
• Mojolicious (+2=449)
• Moo (+1=281)
• MooseX::Singleton (+1=5)
• perl (+1=373)
• Perl::Metrics::Simple (+1=8)
• Playwright (+1=2)
• Pod::Usage (+1=39)
• Protocol::DBus (+1=3)
• Regexp::Grammars (+1=35)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=151)
• Search::Elasticsearch (+1=41)
• Search::Tools (+1=6)
• SQL::Beautify (+1=4)
• String::Diff (+1=4)
• Sys::Binmode (+1=3)
• Telugu::TGC (+1=2)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=51)
• Term::Table (+1=3)
• Termbox (+1=3)
• TermReadKey (+1=17)
• Test::Deep (+1=49)
• Time::Local (+1=8)
• urpmi (+1=2)
• ZMQ::LibZMQ3 (+1=7)

(cdlxxxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-04-03 13:15:37 GMT

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1. how to pass command line arguments to perl script file in one-line - [3/3]
2. How to make a non-interpolate string interpolate in Perl - [3/2]
3. Can I make a variable optional in a perl sub prototype? - [3/2]
4. How to create and to throw exceptions in Perl? - [3/1]
5. How can I dynamically load Perl modules and use their functions? - [2/3]
6. Dynamic variable names and hash keys - [2/1]
7. Perl code to delete a multi line XML node - [1/3]
8. Search in an array of hashes by the hash key and its sorting in Perl - [1/2]
9. Why is Perl giving "Can't modify string in scalar output" error? - [1/2]
10. How to add zeros into my file using Perl to make lines the same length? - [1/2]