(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

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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

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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

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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]