(cdxxiv) 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: 2.75 on 2022-12-22
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.74 was 25 days before
2. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.306 on 2022-12-23
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.304 was 2 months, 11 days before
3. Data::Alias - Comprehensive set of aliasing operations
   • Version: 1.28 on 2022-12-21
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 1.27 was 19 days before
4. Data::Printer - colored & full-featured pretty print of Perl data structures and objects
   • Version: 1.001000 on 2022-12-22
   • Votes: 143
   • Previous version: 1.000004 was 1 year, 9 months, 19 days before
5. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.62 on 2022-12-20
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 0.61 was 29 days before
6. JavaScript::V8 - Perl interface to the V8 JavaScript engine
   • Version: 0.11 on 2022-12-19
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 0.10 was 1 year, 7 months, 26 days before
7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20221220 on 2022-12-20
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 5.20221120 was 1 month before
8. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 9.31 on 2022-12-21
   • Votes: 476
   • Previous version: 9.30 was 28 days before
9. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.77 on 2022-12-19
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 0.75 was 5 days before
10. Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
    • Version: 1.146 on 2022-12-22
    • Votes: 126
    • Previous version: 1.144 was 16 days before
11. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9672 on 2022-12-23
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9667 was 7 days before

(dxxxvii) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 37

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2022/12/24 13:15:41 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• AI::TensorFlow::Libtensorflow - Bindings for Libtensorflow deep learning library
• constant::more - Assign values to constants from the command arguments
• Net::Wait - Wait on startup until the specified ports are listening

Increasing its reputation:

• Algorithm::Combinatorics (+1=24)
• App::elsquid (+1=2)
• App::tcpproxy (+1=2)
• CPAN::Changes (+1=30)
• Crypt::JWT (+1=21)
• DBD::Pg (+1=90)
• DBI (+1=260)
• Devel::Kit (+1=7)
• Digest::SHA3 (+1=7)
• Dumbbench (+1=15)
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::Rust (+1=9)
• HTTP::Proxy (+1=4)
• Limper (+1=6)
• Math::BigInt (+1=12)
• Math::Prime::Util (+1=20)
• Modern::Perl (+1=49)
• Mojo::JWT (+1=16)
• Mojo::Pg (+1=70)
• Mojolicious::Command::Author::generate::cpanfile (+1=3)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Bcrypt (+1=8)
• MongoDB (+1=87)
• Net::Proxy (+1=6)
• Net::SSH2 (+1=24)
• OptArgs (+1=16)
• OptArgs2 (+1=7)
• PathTools (+1=78)
• PDF::API2 (+1=28)
• Sys::Info::Base (+1=4)
• Task::Kensho (+1=115)
• Text::ANSITable (+1=19)
• Text::MultiMarkdown (+1=12)
• Types::Path::Tiny (+1=14)
• Util::H2O (+1=7)
• Util::H2O::More (+1=3)

(dlxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-12-24 13:10:53 GMT

---

1. Hiding Warnings that Relate to Intentional Code in Perl - [4/1]
2. Why is the Hashref passed to the Net::Ping constructor, set to an empty hashref after Net::Ping->new($args)? - [3/1]
3. Perl version changes? - [3/1]
4. perl oneliner print the array and other match in same print statement - [3/1]
5. Is there a difference betwen qq(<text>) and "<text>" in Perl? - [2/3]

(cdxxiii) 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: 2.060003 on 2022-12-14
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.060000 was 5 days before
2. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.57 on 2022-12-14
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.56 was 1 month, 16 days before
3. File::Slurper - A simple, sane and efficient module to slurp a file
   • Version: 0.014 on 2022-12-16
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 0.013 was 11 months, 22 days before
4. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.078 on 2022-12-11
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 2.077 was 20 days before
5. List::SomeUtils - Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
   • Version: 0.59 on 2022-12-11
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 0.58 was 3 years, 1 month, 16 days before
6. Log::Any - Bringing loggers and listeners together
   • Version: 1.713 on 2022-12-12
   • Votes: 61
   • Previous version: 1.712 was 3 days before
7. match::simple - simplified clone of smartmatch operator
   • Version: 0.011 on 2022-12-13
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.010 was 5 years, 10 months, 13 days before
8. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.76 on 2022-12-16
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 0.74 was 12 days before
9. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.9667 on 2022-12-16
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 0.9665 was 7 days before
10. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000141 on 2022-12-15
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.000138 was 9 days before

(dxxxvi) metacpan weekly report - Catalyst::Runtime

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

Week's winner: Catalyst::Runtime (+2)

Build date: 2022/12/18 13:37:52 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::Prove::Plugin::PassEnv - a prove plugin to pass environment variables
• Bio::FastParsers - Classes for parsing bioinformatic programs output
• Bundle::Camelcade - Bundle of modules used by Perl5 plugin for IntelliJ IDEs
• LibUI - Simple, Portable, Native GUI Library
• oo_sub - Enable OOP for supported Perl functions
• String::Numeric::Whatever - It's a test implement to ignore the difference between E and cmp
• Try::ALRM - Provides try_once and retry semantics to CORE::alarm, similar to Try::Tiny.

Increasing its reputation:

• AnyEvent (+1=158)
• AWS::Lambda (+1=8)
• Carp::Assert (+1=6)
• Catalyst::Runtime (+2=154)
• CPAN::Meta (+1=25)
• CPAN::Reporter (+1=12)
• CPAN::Uploader (+1=23)
• Data::Dump (+1=38)
• Data::Printer (+1=143)
• Data::Xslate (+1=5)
• Date::ICal (+1=2)
• DBD::Pg (+1=89)
• Dist::Zilla (+1=179)
• Excel::Writer::XLSX (+1=58)
• ExtUtils::CBuilder (+1=7)
• ExtUtils::Manifest (+1=3)
• IO::FD (+1=3)
• IO::Prompter (+1=26)
• JSON::PP (+1=18)
• JSON::XS (+1=115)
• LaTeXML (+1=5)
• Make (+1=3)
• Minilla (+1=59)
• Module::Load (+1=29)
• Mojolicious (+1=476)
• Moose (+1=325)
• perl (+1=400)
• perl5i (+1=31)
• Perl::Examples (+1=2)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=130)
• Rex (+1=82)
• String::Random (+1=22)
• Sys::Cmd (+1=3)
• System::Command (+1=17)
• Task::Kensho (+1=114)
• Test::Simple (+1=180)
• Time::Piece (+1=54)
• Util::H2O (+1=6)
• Value::Diff (+1=3)
• YAML::PP (+1=14)

(dlxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-12-18 13:36:30 GMT

---

1. In Perl, is there a limit to the number of capture groups in a Regular Expression? - [4/3]
2. How to empty the $table every iteration drawn using Text::SimpleTable - [3/1]
3. How can I detect end of file on a pipe in a Perl script? - [3/1]
4. How to expand a shell variable in a Perl command - [2/3]
5. Find last occurrences of a string from multiple files in a directory using perl - [2/2]

(cdxxii) 16 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: 2.060000 on 2022-12-09
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.059001 was 13 days before
2. experimental - Experimental features made easy
   • Version: 0.030 on 2022-12-10
   • Votes: 31
   • Previous version: 0.029 was 1 month, 16 days before
3. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 5.13 on 2022-12-09
   • Votes: 31
   • Previous version: 5.12 was 1 month, 14 days before
4. Log::Any - Bringing loggers and listeners together
   • Version: 1.712 on 2022-12-09
   • Votes: 61
   • Previous version: 1.711 was 17 days before
5. Module::Build - Build and install Perl modules
   • Version: 0.4232 on 2022-12-08
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 0.4231 was 2 years, 10 months, 10 days before
6. Mojo::IRC - IRC Client for the Mojo IOLoop
   • Version: 0.47 on 2022-12-09
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.46 was 1 year, 9 months, 20 days before
7. Mojo::mysql - Mojolicious and Async MySQL/MariaDB
   • Version: 1.26 on 2022-12-09
   • Votes: 36
   • Previous version: 1.25 was 1 year, 17 days before
8. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
   • Version: 5.08 on 2022-12-09
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 5.07 was 3 months, 23 days before
9. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.74 on 2022-12-04
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 0.72 was 4 days before
10. parent - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
    • Version: 0.239 on 2022-12-06
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.238 was 2 years, 9 months, 28 days before
11. Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
    • Version: 1.144 on 2022-12-06
    • Votes: 126
    • Previous version: 1.142 was 7 days before
12. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9665 on 2022-12-09
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9664 was 9 days before
13. Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.28 on 2022-12-08
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 0.27 was 9 months, 16 days before
14. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v8.10.0 on 2022-12-08
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: v8.9.0 was 1 month, 5 days before
15. Test::WWW::Mechanize - Testing-specific WWW::Mechanize subclass
    • Version: 1.60 on 2022-12-05
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 1.58 was 7 months, 6 days before
16. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000138 on 2022-12-06
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.000136 was 7 days before

(dxxxv) metacpan weekly report - Value::Diff

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

Week's winner (+3): Value::Diff

Build date: 2022/12/10 20:33:58 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• DateTime::TimeZone::Catalog::Extend - Extend DateTime::TimeZone catalog
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Babble - EXPERIMENTAL Automatic Babble substitution in Dist::Zilla
• Geo::UK::Postcode::Regex - regular expressions for handling British postcodes
• Git::Lint - lint git commits and messages
• Mojolicious::Plugin::HTMX - Mojolicious Plugin for htmx
• Text::Password::AutoMigration - generate and verify Password with any contexts

Increasing its reputation:

• App::CGIThis (+2=3)
• App::sdview (+1=5)
• Babble (+1=2)
• Catmandu (+1=21)
• Data::Frame (+1=9)
• Data::Printer (+1=142)
• Feature::Compat::Try (+1=14)
• File::Temp (+1=60)
• Hash::Wrap (+1=6)
• IO::FD (+1=2)
• KCP (+1=2)
• Mango (+1=43)
• Math::Prime::Util (+1=19)
• MCE (+2=93)
• Module::CoreList (+1=41)
• Net::GitHub (+1=27)
• Number::Range (+1=4)
• Object::Pad (+2=34)
• Padre (+1=38)
• Path::Tiny (+1=172)
• perl (+1=399)
• Perl::Critic (+1=126)
• Pithub (+1=20)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=164)
• Syntax::Keyword::Match (+1=5)
• Syntax::Keyword::Try (+1=38)
• Term::Graille (+1=4)
• Term::ProgressBar::Simple (+1=8)
• Test::Deep::Type (+1=4)
• Time::Piece (+1=53)
• Try::Tiny (+1=171)
• URL::Social (+1=5)
• Util::H2O (+1=5)
• Util::H2O::More (+1=2)
• Value::Diff (+3=3)
• XML::LibXML (+1=96)

(dlxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-12-10 20:31:03 GMT

---

1. How do I extract an array from a 2D array in Perl? - [5/1]
2. Get a list of classes derived from given base class in Perl - [3/2]
3. `perl -pe` match only start of file? - [3/2]
4. Perl executable crashes even though file is not missing - [3/1]
5. In perl is \*STDIN the same as STDIN? - [2/2]

(cdxxi) 16 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: 2.74 on 2022-11-27
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.73 was 7 days before
2. Data::Alias - Comprehensive set of aliasing operations
   • Version: 1.27 on 2022-12-02
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 1.25 was 1 year, 6 months, 22 days before
3. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
   • Version: 6.90 on 2022-12-02
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 6.89 was 3 months, 1 day before
4. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
   • Version: 1.33 on 2022-11-27
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 0.77 was 3 years, 4 months, 20 days before
5. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
   • Version: 1.882 on 2022-12-03
   • Votes: 91
   • Previous version: 1.881 was 1 month, 20 days before
6. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
   • Version: 1.879 on 2022-12-03
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.878 was 1 month, 24 days before
7. Net::Server - Extensible Perl internet server
   • Version: 2.013 on 2022-12-03
   • Votes: 31
   • Previous version: 2.010 was 1 year, 8 months, 12 days before
8. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
   • Version: 3.8007 on 2022-12-02
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 3.8006 was 2 months, 29 days before
9. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.73 on 2022-12-03
   • Votes: 32
   • Previous version: 0.71 was 1 month, 2 days before
10. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
    • Version: 1.057 on 2022-11-29
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 1.056 was 2 months, 24 days before
11. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.144 on 2022-12-01
    • Votes: 171
    • Previous version: 0.142 was 22 days before
12. Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
    • Version: 1.142 on 2022-11-29
    • Votes: 125
    • Previous version: 1.140 was 1 year, 8 months, 5 days before
13. Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
    • Version: 1.67 on 2022-11-27
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.66 was 3 months, 7 days before
14. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9664 on 2022-11-30
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9662 was 15 days before
15. Term::ReadLine::Gnu - Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library
    • Version: 1.45 on 2022-11-27
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 1.44 was 21 days before
16. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000136 on 2022-11-29
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.000133 was 2 months, 22 days before

(dxxxiv) metacpan weekly report - Perl::Dist::APPerl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 56

Week's winner: Perl::Dist::APPerl (+2)

Build date: 2022/12/04 07:50:38 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• IO::FD - Faster accept, socket, listen with file descriptors, not handles
• IO::Tee - Multiplex output to multiple output handles
• KCP - Perl extension for skywind3000/kcp
• Linux::Joystick -
• Logging::Simple - Simple debug logging by number, with customizable labels and formatting
• results - why throw exceptions when you can return them?
• Role::RunAlone - prevent multiple instances of a script from running
• SPVM::Numpy - Numpy is the Python/NumPy porting to Perl/SPVM
• Template::Plugin::Cache - cache output of templates
• Terminal::Identify - Perl extension for recognising the terminal emulator in use.

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpm (+1=62)
• App::CSVUtils (+1=4)
• App::grindperl (+1=5)
• bareword::filehandles (+1=4)
• Capture::Tiny (+1=97)
• Class::Tiny (+1=34)
• Coro (+1=76)
• Crypt::JWT (+1=20)
• DateTime::Tiny (+1=10)
• Devel::REPL (+1=65)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Run (+1=9)
• Email::Sender (+1=48)
• Email::Simple (+1=21)
• ExtUtils::ParseXS (+1=4)
• Hash::Ordered (+1=31)
• HTML::Parser (+1=44)
• indirect (+1=9)
• IPC::Run (+1=36)
• JSON::XS (+1=114)
• Log::Any (+1=61)
• Log::ger (+1=11)
• Metrics::Any (+1=3)
• Moo (+1=292)
• MooseX::Getopt (+1=21)
• multidimensional (+1=4)
• Net::IMAP::Simple (+1=8)
• Net::Server (+1=31)
• PDF::Builder (+1=5)
• Perl::Critic (+1=125)
• Perl::Critic::Bangs (+1=6)
• Perl::Critic::Community (+1=5)
• Perl::Critic::Pulp (+1=3)
• Perl::Critic::TooMuchCode (+1=8)
• Perl::Dist::APPerl (+2=5)
• perlfaq (+1=11)
• Plack::Middleware::Greylist (+1=2)
• Pod::Tree (+1=3)
• strictures (+1=22)
• Tee (+1=2)
• Test::Deep (+1=52)
• Test::Harness (+1=59)
• URI (+1=107)
• UTF8::R2 (+1=3)
• Vlc::Engine (+1=3)
• XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint (+1=3)

(dlxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-12-04 07:49:14 GMT

---

1. Hash key is storing only the last element of loop - [3/1]
2. Is there a way to reformat w/ zero-fill a regex match group? - [3/1]
3. perl code to search and replace a pattern - [2/3]
4. XMPP connection fails using perl client and ejabberd/ecs container - [1/2]
5. Why is my last line is always output twice? - [1/2]

(cdxx) 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: 2.73 on 2022-11-20
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.72 was 25 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.059001 on 2022-11-26
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.058003 was 22 days before
3. DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader - Create a DBIx::Class::Schema based on a database
   • Version: 0.07051 on 2022-11-23
   • Votes: 45
   • Previous version: 0.07049 was 4 years, 8 months, 2 days before
4. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
   • Version: 6.029 on 2022-11-25
   • Votes: 178
   • Previous version: 6.028 was 16 days before
5. Exporter::Tiny - an exporter with the features of Sub::Exporter but only core dependencies
   • Version: 1.006000 on 2022-11-21
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.004004 was 1 month, 6 days before
6. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.61 on 2022-11-21
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 0.59 was 1 month, 28 days before
7. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.077 on 2022-11-21
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 2.076 was 7 days before
8. Log::Any - Bringing loggers and listeners together
   • Version: 1.711 on 2022-11-22
   • Votes: 60
   • Previous version: 1.710 was 1 year, 3 months, 20 days before
9. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20221120 on 2022-11-20
   • Votes: 40
   • Previous version: 5.20221020 was 1 month before
10. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.30 on 2022-11-23
    • Votes: 475
    • Previous version: 9.29 was 12 days before
11. Pod::Man - Convert POD data to various other formats
    • Version: 5.00 on 2022-11-25
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 4.14 was 2 years, 10 months, 21 days before

(dxxxiii) metacpan weekly report - Perl::Critic

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 42

Week's winner: Perl::Critic (+2)

Build date: 2022/11/27 07:55:57 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Async::Microservice - Async HTTP Microservice Moose Role
• Net::Bluetooth - Perl Bluetooth Interface
• Path::List::Rule - Path::Iterator::Rule on an list of paths
• Permute::Named::Iter - Permute multiple-valued key-value pairs
• Runtime::Debugger - Easy to use REPL with existing lexicals support.

Increasing its reputation:

• Attribute::Handlers (+1=10)
• Carmel (+1=26)
• Class::XSConstructor (+1=3)
• Crypt::JWT (+1=19)
• Data::Cmp (+1=3)
• Devel::NYTProf (+1=181)
• Device::BCM2835 (+1=4)
• Dir::Self (+1=11)
• Dotenv (+1=9)
• Excel::Grinder (+1=3)
• Faker (+1=10)
• File::Map (+1=19)
• File::ReadBackwards (+1=7)
• File::Rsync (+1=15)
• File::RsyncP (+1=3)
• Function::Parameters (+1=56)
• Hash::Diff (+1=6)
• JSON::XS (+1=113)
• Kephra (+1=7)
• MediaWiki::API (+1=8)
• Mojolicious (+1=475)
• Moose (+1=324)
• MooseX::Types (+1=30)
• MooseX::Types::Structured (+1=7)
• MooX::XSConstructor (+1=2)
• NewFangle (+1=3)
• PadWalker (+1=25)
• Perl::Critic (+2=124)
• Perl::Critic::TooMuchCode (+1=7)
• Perl::Dist::APPerl (+1=3)
• Plack (+1=229)
• podlators (+1=12)
• Sietima (+1=2)
• Text::Markup (+1=11)
• Web::API (+1=3)
• WWW::YouTube::Download (+1=21)

(dlxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-11-27 07:54:48 GMT

---

1. perldoc does not display text between section - [2/2]
2. How to access multiple option values from hash specification - [2/1]
3. Perl :: Can You Have a Lists of Objects Within a Hash? - [2/1]
4. How to Bless Objects in a List Passed to a Subroutine? - [2/1]
5. Restore pack value from hex string - [2/1]

(cdxix) 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. Code::TidyAll - Engine for tidyall, your all-in-one code tidier and validator
   • Version: 0.83 on 2022-11-19
   • Votes: 38
   • Previous version: 0.82 was 7 months, 4 days before
2. Devel::NYTProf - Powerful fast feature-rich Perl source code profiler
   • Version: 6.12 on 2022-11-16
   • Votes: 180
   • Previous version: 6.11 was 1 year, 1 month, 27 days before
3. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 2.05 on 2022-11-16
   • Votes: 58
   • Previous version: 2.04 was 11 days before
4. Getopt::Long - Module to handle parsing command line options
   • Version: 2.54 on 2022-11-17
   • Votes: 114
   • Previous version: 2.52 was 2 years, 2 months, 30 days before
5. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.076 on 2022-11-14
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 2.075 was 2 months, 12 days before
6. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
   • Version: v3.1.20 on 2022-11-13
   • Votes: 58
   • Previous version: v3.1.19 was 5 months, 10 days before
7. Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format
   • Version: 20221114 on 2022-11-14
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 20211001 was 1 year, 1 month, 13 days before
8. PDF::API2 - Create, modify, and examine PDF files
   • Version: 2.044 on 2022-11-16
   • Votes: 27
   • Previous version: 2.043 was 11 months, 8 days before
9. Perl::LanguageServer - Language Server and Debug Protocol Adapter for Perl
   • Version: v2.4.0 on 2022-11-18
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 2.3.0 was 1 year, 1 month, 22 days before
10. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9662 on 2022-11-15
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9659 was 18 days before

(dxxxii) metacpan weekly report - Perl::Dist::APPerl

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

Week's winner (+3): Perl::Dist::APPerl

Build date: 2022/11/19 22:16:45 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::Cookie - Store session data in the client cookie
• Food::Ratio - calculate ingredient ratios
• Net::Libwebsockets - libwebsockets in Perl
• Plack::Middleware::Greylist - throttle requests with different rates based on net blocks
• Test::VariousBits - Various test helpers.

Increasing its reputation:

• Benchmark::Perl::Formance (+1=4)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+1=43)
• CryptX (+1=47)
• DateTime::Tiny (+1=9)
• Devel::REPL (+1=64)
• Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::TestingMania (+1=7)
• Feature::Compat::Try (+1=13)
• File::ReadBackwards (+1=6)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=44)
• Getopt::Long (+2=114)
• HTML::Blitz (+2=2)
• JSON (+1=99)
• Keyword::Declare (+1=23)
• libwww::perl (+1=159)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=99)
• Mason (+1=25)
• Mojolicious (+1=475)
• MooseX::XSAccessor (+1=3)
• PDF::Builder (+1=4)
• Perl::Dist::APPerl (+3=3)
• Promise::AsyncAwait (+1=2)
• Syntax::Keyword::MultiSub (+1=3)
• Syntax::Keyword::Try (+1=37)
• Tcl::pTk (+1=2)
• Term::Choose (+1=13)
• Term::Menus (+1=3)
• Test::Script (+1=8)
• Text::SimpleTable::AutoWidth (+1=3)
• Text::Table (+1=21)
• Unicode::Japanese (+1=2)
• X::Tiny (+1=6)

(dlx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-11-19 22:15:27 GMT

---

1. How do I define a subclass in Perl when I'm using a closure to limit access to the properties? - [3/1]
2. In Perl, are user-provided format specifiers always safe? - [3/1]
3. Split() on newline AND space characters? - [2/3]
4. Does Python have a maximum group refer for regex (like Perl)? - [2/2]
5. How to extract coding between two tags using RegEx in perlscript - [2/1]

(cdxviii) 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. Catalyst::Runtime - The Catalyst Framework Runtime
   • Version: 5.90130 on 2022-11-09
   • Votes: 152
   • Previous version: 5.90129 was 3 months, 17 days before
2. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
   • Version: 6.028 on 2022-11-09
   • Votes: 178
   • Previous version: 6.025 was 5 months, 12 days before
3. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
   • Version: 1.32 on 2022-11-08
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 0.77 was 3 years, 4 months, 1 day before
4. Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information
   • Version: 12.50 on 2022-11-09
   • Votes: 38
   • Previous version: 12.42 was 5 months, 2 days before
5. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 9.29 on 2022-11-11
   • Votes: 475
   • Previous version: 9.28 was 28 days before
6. Path::Tiny - File path utility
   • Version: 0.142 on 2022-11-09
   • Votes: 171
   • Previous version: 0.130 was 20 days before
7. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
   • Version: 20221112 on 2022-11-11
   • Votes: 129
   • Previous version: 20220613 was 4 months, 28 days before
8. Term::ReadLine::Gnu - Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library
   • Version: 1.44 on 2022-11-06
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 1.43 was 1 month, 5 days before

(dxxxi) metacpan weekly report - Getopt::Long

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 37

Week's winners (+3): Getopt::Long

Build date: 2022/11/12 22:47:36 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::BatParser - Parse DOS .bat and .cmd files
• Data::XLSX::Parser - faster XLSX parser
• Nginx::Log::Entry - This class represents a single line from the Nginx combined access log (the default access log format). It provides methods to extract information from the log entry, such as the browser, operating system, request type, ip address and more. If you want to gather statistics about an Nginx log, consider using Nginx::Log::Statistics which uses this class.
• OpenSSH::Fingerprint - The great new OpenSSH::Fingerprint!
• Porbo - Porbo HTTP development psgi server
• Quiq - Class library for rapid development
• Wx::WidgetMaker - a CGI.pm-like library for wxPerl

Increasing its reputation:

• Astro::Sunrise (+1=4)
• Catalyst::Runtime (+2=152)
• Cookie (+1=2)
• Date::Holidays (+1=5)
• Devel::CheckOS (+1=16)
• Devel::NYTProf (+1=180)
• Email::Sender (+1=47)
• experimentals (+1=2)
• Getopt::Long (+3=114)
• JSON::Validator (+1=31)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=99)
• MediaWiki::API (+1=7)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::AccessControl (+1=4)
• Myriad (+1=5)
• Net::CIDR::Lite (+1=5)
• Net::IP::Match::Trie (+1=4)
• PathTools (+1=77)
• PDF::Builder (+1=3)
• Prima (+1=35)
• Regexp::Grammars (+1=37)
• Socket (+1=8)
• Sort::Key (+1=29)
• SQLite_File (+1=2)
• Term::Choose (+1=12)
• Term::Graille (+1=4)
• Term::Menus (+1=3)
• VCF (+1=2)

(dlix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-11-12 22:46:27 GMT

---

1. How to spawn pre-loaded mojolicious applications from a mojolicious application? - [4/1]
2. How to escape a regular expression when I include it in another regular expression? - [3/1]
3. Explaining perl split with backslash in string pattern - [2/2]
4. How to insert an element into array shifting all others right? - [2/2]
5. Tagging words in a corpus - [2/2]

(cdxvii) 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. Amon2 - lightweight web application framework
   • Version: 6.16 on 2022-11-01
   • Votes: 27
   • Previous version: 6.15 was 1 year, 11 months, 22 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.058003 on 2022-11-04
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.057008 was 17 days before
3. DBD::SQLite - Self Contained SQLite RDBMS in a DBI Driver
   • Version: 1.72 on 2022-11-03
   • Votes: 97
   • Previous version: 1.70 was 1 year, 3 months, 2 days before
4. DBIx::DataModel - UML-based Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework
   • Version: 3.04 on 2022-11-05
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 3.03 was 3 months, 13 days before
5. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 2.04 on 2022-11-05
   • Votes: 58
   • Previous version: 2.03 was 8 days before
6. HTML::Parser - HTML parser class
   • Version: 3.80 on 2022-11-01
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 3.79 was 20 days before
7. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.71 on 2022-11-01
   • Votes: 32
   • Previous version: 0.70 was 3 days before
8. SQL::Maker - Yet another SQL builder
   • Version: 1.22 on 2022-11-01
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 1.21 was 7 years, 10 months, 10 days before
9. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
   • Version: v8.9.0 on 2022-11-03
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: v8.8.0 was 29 days before
10. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.83 on 2022-10-30
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.82 was 1 year, 2 months, 7 days before
11. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.17 on 2022-11-02
    • Votes: 107
    • Previous version: 5.16 was 21 days before

(dxxx) metacpan weekly report - pEFL

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

Week's winner: pEFL (+3)

Build date: 2022/11/05 21:10:10 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• KinoSearch - Search engine library.
• SQLite_File - DB_File emulator with SQLite backend

Increasing its reputation:

• all (+1=4)
• BerkeleyDB (+1=12)
• Cache::FastMmap (+1=23)
• Data::Dumper (+1=101)
• Devel::CheckOS (+1=15)
• Devel::NYTProf (+1=179)
• Email::Sender (+1=46)
• FFI::Platypus (+1=58)
• File::LibMagic (+1=11)
• File::Slurper (+1=41)
• List::MoreUtils (+1=113)
• Mojolicious (+1=475)
• Net::Amazon::S3 (+1=13)
• Object::Pad (+2=32)
• PDF::Builder (+1=2)
• pEFL (+3=3)
• Sort::Key (+1=28)
• Sub::HandlesVia (+1=9)
• Test::FITesque (+1=2)

(dlviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-11-05 21:04:45 GMT

---

1. Do all my perl module .pm files need a `$VERSION` definition? - [5/2]
2. Suppressing output after SSH to another server - [2/2]
3. Cannot get multi-line regex to match string - [2/2]
4. Can mojolicious output the prepared sql query? - [2/1]
5. How to find if an array has a value not found in list - [2/1]

(cdxvi) 16 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: 2.72 on 2022-10-26
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.71 was 22 days before
2. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
   • Version: 1.59 on 2022-10-23
   • Votes: 208
   • Previous version: 1.58 was 6 months, 5 days before
3. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.56 on 2022-10-29
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.55 was 17 days before
4. Devel::CheckOS - a script to package Devel::AssertOS modules with your code.
   • Version: 1.95 on 2022-10-29
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.94 was 3 months, 5 days before
5. Email::Sender - a library for sending email
   • Version: 2.600 on 2022-10-23
   • Votes: 45
   • Previous version: 2.500 was 1 year, 3 months, 19 days before
6. experimental - Experimental features made easy
   • Version: 0.029 on 2022-10-25
   • Votes: 31
   • Previous version: 0.028 was 5 months, 29 days before
7. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 2.03 on 2022-10-28
   • Votes: 57
   • Previous version: 2.02 was 4 days before
8. Git::Raw - Perl bindings to the Git linkable library (libgit2)
   • Version: 0.90 on 2022-10-27
   • Votes: 31
   • Previous version: 0.88 was 1 year, 2 months, 19 days before
9. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.44 on 2022-10-26
   • Votes: 61
   • Previous version: 6.43 was 4 days before
10. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 5.12 on 2022-10-26
    • Votes: 30
    • Previous version: 5.11 was 1 month, 27 days before
11. Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
    • Version: 1.15 on 2022-10-23
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 1.03 was 10 years, 6 months, 1 day before
12. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.70 on 2022-10-29
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.68 was 2 months, 16 days before
13. OpenAPI::Client - A client for talking to an Open API powered server
    • Version: 1.07 on 2022-10-26
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 1.06 was 1 month, 15 days before
14. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.081 on 2022-10-25
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 2.019 was 4 years, 5 months, 20 days before
15. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9659 on 2022-10-28
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9657 was 7 days before
16. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.617 on 2022-10-23
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.616 was 3 months, 4 days before

(dxxix) metacpan weekly report - Text::Table

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

Week's winner: Text::Table (+3)

Build date: 2022/10/29 19:17:07 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Color::Rust - Color example class using Rust + FFI
• Memcached::RateLimit - Sliding window rate limiting with Memcached
• Music::BachChoralHarmony - Parse the UCI Bach choral harmony data set
• MySQL::Dump::Parser::XS - mysqldump SQL parser
• XML::TMX::CWB - TMX interface with Open Corpus Workbench

Increasing its reputation:

• Array::Utils (+1=10)
• Call::Context (+1=2)
• Config::Any (+1=26)
• Data::Dumper (+1=100)
• Data::Page (+1=17)
• DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader (+1=45)
• DBM::Deep (+1=25)
• Devel::Size (+1=20)
• Dotenv (+1=8)
• FindBin (+1=4)
• Getopt::Long (+1=111)
• Getopt::Long::Descriptive (+1=52)
• Git::Hooks (+1=11)
• Hash::MultiValue (+1=18)
• Hook::LexWrap (+1=8)
• HTTP::Tiny (+1=105)
• libwww::perl (+1=159)
• List::MoreUtils (+1=112)
• List::MoreUtils::XS (+1=3)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=98)
• Memory::Usage (+1=6)
• Module::Find (+1=9)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Prometheus (+1=7)
• Params::Validate (+1=35)
• Params::ValidationCompiler (+1=23)
• Rose::HTML::Objects (+1=3)
• Syntax::Operator::In (+1=3)
• Test::Trap (+1=9)
• Text::Table (+3=20)
• Type::Tiny (+1=133)
• X::Tiny (+1=5)
• XML::Twig (+1=58)

(dlvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-10-29 19:15:24 GMT

---

1. In Perl POD, what is the proper way to link to an internal function? - [3/3]
2. Regex only inside multiline match - [2/3]
3. autovivify non-sequential array/list in Python like Perl - [2/1]
4. Can't run "compgen -c" from perl script - [1/2]
5. How can I convert an integer to a float value in Perl? - [1/2]

(cdxv) 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: 2.057008 on 2022-10-18
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.057007 was 14 days before
2. Clone - recursively copy Perl datatypes
   • Version: 0.46 on 2022-10-19
   • Votes: 29
   • Previous version: 0.45 was 2 years, 5 months, 26 days before
3. Future - represent an operation awaiting completion
   • Version: 0.49 on 2022-10-17
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 0.48 was 8 months, 22 days before
4. GraphViz - Interface to AT&T's GraphViz. Deprecated. See GraphViz2
   • Version: 2.25 on 2022-10-22
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.25 was 2 months, 2 days before
5. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.43 on 2022-10-22
   • Votes: 61
   • Previous version: 6.41 was 10 days before
6. Log::Log4perl - Log4j implementation for Perl
   • Version: 1.57 on 2022-10-21
   • Votes: 97
   • Previous version: 1.56 was 1 month, 19 days before
7. Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
   • Version: 1.14 on 2022-10-15
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 1.14 was before
8. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20221020 on 2022-10-20
   • Votes: 40
   • Previous version: 5.20220920 was 29 days before
9. Params::Validate - Validate method/function parameters
   • Version: 1.31 on 2022-10-22
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 1.30 was 2 years, 4 days before
10. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.130 on 2022-10-20
    • Votes: 171
    • Previous version: 0.124 was 1 month, 18 days before
11. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9657 on 2022-10-21
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9655 was 9 days before
12. Type::Tiny::XS - provides an XS boost for some of Type::Tiny's built-in type constraints
    • Version: 0.025 on 2022-10-19
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.022 was 2 years, 24 days before

(dxxviii) metacpan weekly report - Text::Table

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

Week's winners (+3): Text::Table 

Build date: 2022/10/22 20:34:40 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Apache::ParseLog - Object-oriented Perl extension for parsing Apache log files
• App::Gimei - CLI for Data::Gimei
• Call::Context - Sanity-check calling context
• CPAN::FindDependencies - generate reports when modules' dependencies get new releases
• Data::Gimei - a Perl port of Ruby's gimei generates fake data in Japanese.
• RPM::Tools - compare installed rpms with up-to-date distribution

Increasing its reputation:

• Acme::Inabajun::Utils (+1=2)
• AnyEvent (+1=157)
• App::cpanminus (+1=269)
• App::Staticperl (+1=20)
• Config::General (+1=28)
• Data::Dumper (+1=99)
• Data::Page (+1=16)
• Data::Section::Simple (+1=15)
• DBIx::Class::ParameterizedJoinHack (+1=5)
• DBM::Deep (+1=24)
• Devel::Size (+1=19)
• Dotenv (+1=7)
• GBK (+1=3)
• HTTP::CookieJar (+1=9)
• HTTP::Tiny (+1=104)
• IO::AIO (+1=16)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=97)
• Math::Prime::Util (+1=19)
• mb::JSON (+1=3)
• Memory::Usage (+1=5)
• Minion (+1=90)
• Mojolicious (+2=475)
• Moo (+1=291)
• Net::Curl (+1=17)
• Net::Curl::Promiser (+1=4)
• Net::IDN::Encode (+1=7)
• Net::LastFM (+1=4)
• Plack::Middleware::XSRFBlock (+1=8)
• Promise::ES6 (+1=6)
• Raisin (+1=43)
• Rex (+1=81)
• RPM::Packager (+1=2)
• Test::Deep (+1=51)
• Text::Iconv (+1=4)
• Text::Table (+2=17)
• URI (+1=106)
• UTF8::R2 (+1=3)
• Weather::GHCN::Fetch (+1=2)
• X::Tiny (+1=4)