(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]

(ccclxi) 14 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: 2.42 on 2021-09-29
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.41 was 3 months, 8 days before
2. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
   • Version: 1.57 on 2021-09-30
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.56 was 9 months, 16 days before
3. DBIx::Connector - Fast, safe DBI connection and transaction management
   • Version: 0.57 on 2021-09-27
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 0.56 was 5 years, 6 months, 11 days before
4. HTML::Escape - Extremely fast HTML escaping
   • Version: 1.11 on 2021-09-27
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 1.10 was 5 years, 6 months, 12 days before
5. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 5.00 on 2021-10-02
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 4.25 was 7 days before
6. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
   • Version: 5.00 on 2021-10-02
   • Votes: 40
   • Previous version: 4.06 was 18 days before
7. Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format
   • Version: 20211001 on 2021-10-01
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 20200520 was 1 year, 4 months, 12 days before
8. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
   • Version: 0.53 on 2021-09-28
   • Votes: 20
   • Previous version: 0.52 was 1 month, 3 days before
9. OpenAPI::Client - A client for talking to an Open API powered server
   • Version: 1.03 on 2021-10-02
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.02 was 1 month, 5 days before
10. PDL::Stats - a collection of statistics modules in Perl Data Language, with a quick-start guide for non-PDL people.
    • Version: 0.80 on 2021-10-02
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.79 was 1 month, 16 days before
11. Perl::LanguageServer - Language Server and Debug Protocol Adapter for Perl
    • Version: v2.3.0 on 2021-09-26
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 2.2.0 was 7 months, 5 days before
12. Proc::ProcessTable - Perl extension to access the unix process table
    • Version: 0.634 on 2021-09-26
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.62 was 13 days before
13. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v7.8.0 on 2021-10-01
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v7.7.0 was 29 days before
14. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302188 on 2021-09-29
    • Votes: 171
    • Previous version: 1.302187 was 12 days before