(ccclxxvii) 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. AnyEvent::Fork - everything you wanted to use fork() for, but couldn't
   • Version: 1.32 on 2022-01-26
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 1.31 was 5 years, 2 months, 16 days before
2. App::cpanminus - get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN
   • Version: 1.7045 on 2022-01-27
   • Votes: 260
   • Previous version: 1.7044 was 3 years, 9 months, 8 days before
3. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
   • Version: 1.13 on 2022-01-23
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.12 was 10 months, 4 days before
4. Future - represent an operation awaiting completion
   • Version: 0.48 on 2022-01-26
   • Votes: 54
   • Previous version: 0.47 was 1 year, 25 days before
5. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.56 on 2022-01-26
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 0.55 was 1 month, 10 days before
6. GD - Perl interface to the gd2 graphics library
   • Version: 2.75 on 2022-01-25
   • Votes: 24
   • Previous version: 2.73 was 1 year, 4 months, 1 day before
7. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
   • Version: 1.054 on 2022-01-27
   • Votes: 38
   • Previous version: 1.052 was 1 year, 14 days before
8. PDL - Perl Data Language
   • Version: 2.070 on 2022-01-28
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 2.068 was 14 days before
9. PPI - Parse, Analyze and Manipulate Perl (without perl)
   • Version: 1.271 on 2022-01-25
   • Votes: 54
   • Previous version: 1.270 was 2 years, 6 months, 16 days before
10. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9132 on 2022-01-28
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 0.9126 was 7 days before

(dxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-01-29 20:35:53 GMT

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1. Why does Perl allow functions to be declared without being defined? - [18/4]
2. Why does combining Perl hashes in and each expression not work? - [5/2]
3. Cpan, address already in use error when installing IO::Socket::Timeout - [4/1]
4. Perl numeric comparison of numeric strings understanding and debugging - [4/1]
5. How to not export all functions/methods from a package in perl? - [3/1]

(ccclxxvi) 9 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. DBD::Oracle - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
   • Version: 1.83 on 2022-01-17
   • Votes: 29
   • Previous version: 1.82 was 19 days before
2. Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls - coveralls backend for Devel::Cover
   • Version: 0.30 on 2022-01-18
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 0.20 was 1 year, 2 months, 10 days before
3. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
   • Version: 6.61 on 2022-01-21
   • Votes: 153
   • Previous version: 6.60 was 1 month, 4 days before
4. Minion - Job queue
   • Version: 10.23 on 2022-01-20
   • Votes: 88
   • Previous version: 10.22 was 7 months, 10 days before
5. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20220120 on 2022-01-20
   • Votes: 37
   • Previous version: 5.20211220 was 1 month before
6. Path::Tiny - File path utility
   • Version: 0.122 on 2022-01-16
   • Votes: 168
   • Previous version: 0.120 was 2 months, 23 days before
7. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
   • Version: 1.028 on 2022-01-19
   • Votes: 30
   • Previous version: 1.027 was 3 months, 8 days before
8. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.9126 on 2022-01-21
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 0.9121 was 6 days before
9. Test::LWP::UserAgent - A LWP::UserAgent suitable for simulating and testing network calls
   • Version: 0.036 on 2022-01-16
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.035 was 1 day before

(cdxcvi) metacpan weekly report - Regex::Object

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 34

Week's winner: Regex::Object (+2)

Build date: 2022/01/22 21:01:12 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• HTML::Object - HTML Parser, Modifier and Query Interface
• WebSocket - WebSocket Client & Server

Increasing its reputation:

• Algorithm::Diff (+1=21)
• Catalyst::Runtime (+1=149)
• CHI (+1=52)
• CLucene (+1=2)
• Crypt::Passphrase (+1=12)
• CryptX (+1=44)
• Dancer2 (+1=127)
• DB_File (+1=4)
• DB_File::Lock (+1=4)
• DBD::Oracle (+1=29)
• DBIx::Class (+1=279)
• Dpkg (+1=3)
• Encode (+1=55)
• ETL::Pipeline (+1=5)
• File::XDG (+1=8)
• Git::Hooks (+1=10)
• Kwalify (+1=2)
• Lingua::EN::Inflect (+1=17)
• Lingua::EN::Numbers (+1=7)
• Path::Class (+1=82)
• Path::Tiny (+1=168)
• perl (+1=388)
• Progress::Any (+1=9)
• Regex::Object (+2=2)
• SPVM (+1=22)
• Sub::MultiMethod (+1=6)
• Test2::Harness (+1=11)
• Test2::Harness::Renderer::JUnit (+1=3)
• Tie::Trace (+1=8)
• TOML::Tiny (+1=6)
• WWW::Mechanize (+1=90)

(dxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-01-22 20:58:33 GMT

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1. Difference in Perl regex variable $+{name} and $-{name} - [8/1]
2. what does this perl -ane mean in the find command of shell script? - [2/2]
3. Extracting data from Excel XML files using perl XML::Twig handlers when tags (nodes) contain prefix - [2/1]
4. Perl Exec/System passing parameter - [2/1]
5. How to control logging for Mojolicious web server - [2/1]

(ccclxxv) 9 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. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
   • Version: 0.53 on 2022-01-15
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 0.52 was 4 months, 12 days before
2. JSON - JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder
   • Version: 4.05 on 2022-01-14
   • Votes: 96
   • Previous version: 4.04 was 28 days before
3. Net::SSLeay - Perl bindings for OpenSSL and LibreSSL
   • Version: 1.92 on 2022-01-12
   • Votes: 20
   • Previous version: 1.90 was 11 months, 22 days before
4. PDL - Perl Data Language
   • Version: 2.068 on 2022-01-14
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 2.019 was 3 years, 8 months, 9 days before
5. PDL::Stats - a collection of statistics modules in Perl Data Language, with a quick-start guide for non-PDL people.
   • Version: 0.81 on 2022-01-11
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 0.80 was 3 months, 9 days before
6. Redis - Perl binding for Redis database
   • Version: 1.999 on 2022-01-14
   • Votes: 40
   • Previous version: 1.998 was 1 year, 4 months, 27 days before
7. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.9120 on 2022-01-14
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.9112 was 7 days before
8. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
   • Version: v8.0.0 on 2022-01-14
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: v7.10.0 was 1 month, 13 days before
9. Test::LWP::UserAgent - A LWP::UserAgent suitable for simulating and testing network calls
   • Version: 0.035 on 2022-01-15
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.034 was 1 year, 10 months, 9 days before

(cdxcv) metacpan weekly report - Crypt::Passphrase

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

Week's winners (+3):  Crypt::Passphrase

Build date: 2022/01/15 20:43:56 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Crypt::Bcrypt - A modern bcrypt implementation
• Crypt::OpenSSL::Verify - OpenSSL Verify certificate verification in XS.
• Data::CompactReadonly - a description of CompactReadonly data format, version 0.
• Feature::Compat::Defer - make defer syntax available
• MojoX::Log::Dispatch::Simple - Simple Log::Dispatch replacement of Mojo::Log
• ReturnValue - A structured return value for failure or success
• String::Interpolate::Named - Interpolated named arguments in string
• Tree::RB::XS - Red/Black Tree container with similar API to Tree::RB
• Util::H2O - Hash to Object: turns hashrefs into objects with accessors for keys
• YAML::Parser - Generated Reference Parser for YAML 1.2

Increasing its reputation:

• Alien::Build (+1=20)
• AnyEvent::Promises (+1=5)
• App::cpm (+1=56)
• autocroak (+1=2)
• Autoload::AUTOCAN (+1=4)
• Chart::Clicker (+1=33)
• Code::TidyAll (+1=37)
• Crypt::Passphrase (+3=12)
• Data::PathSimple (+1=2)
• Devel::IPerl (+1=21)
• File::Fetch (+1=3)
• File::Slurper (+1=40)
• File::XDG (+2=7)
• Gazelle (+1=24)
• GD (+1=24)
• HTML::HTML5::Parser (+1=5)
• JSON::Path (+1=9)
• List::Keywords (+1=8)
• List::MoreUtils (+1=110)
• Log::Dispatch (+1=43)
• Math::BigInt (+1=10)
• Minilla (+1=54)
• Mojolicious (+1=466)
• Moose (+1=320)
• Open::This (+1=9)
• Parse::nm (+1=2)
• Path::Tiny (+1=167)
• perl (+1=388)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=123)
• PerlPowerTools (+1=30)
• PLS (+1=9)
• Pod::Markdown (+1=31)
• Pod::Markdown::Github (+1=6)
• RxPerl (+1=10)
• Sentry::SDK (+1=2)
• Syntax::Construct (+1=9)
• Syntax::Keyword::Defer (+1=7)
• Text::Amuse (+1=2)
• Text::CSV_XS (+1=94)
• Type::Tiny (+1=128)
• Unicode::LineBreak (+1=9)
• Unicode::Normalize (+1=8)
• YAML::PP (+1=12)

(dxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-01-15 20:42:04 GMT

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1. Using Perl look-ahead assertion to find individual list - [3/1]
2. Perl - Correcting char encoding on command line input - [2/2]
3. Using foreach instead of map and grep in perl - [2/2]
4. How to interrupt a read of a lexical filehandle in Perl? - [2/1]
5. Appropriate way to return an arrayref from a sub with optional sorting in Perl version 5.20 - [2/1]

(ccclxxvi) 9 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. Config::Tiny - Read/Write .ini style files with as little code as possible
   • Version: 2.28 on 2022-01-04
   • Votes: 30
   • Previous version: 2.27 was 3 months, 12 days before
2. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
   • Version: 0.076 on 2022-01-07
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 0.075 was 13 days before
3. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.36 on 2022-01-05
   • Votes: 59
   • Previous version: 6.35 was 1 month, 24 days before
4. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.074 on 2022-01-07
   • Votes: 42
   • Previous version: 2.073 was 16 days before
5. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 5.05 on 2022-01-06
   • Votes: 29
   • Previous version: 5.04 was 28 days before
6. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
   • Version: v3.1.14 on 2022-01-07
   • Votes: 53
   • Previous version: v3.1.12 was 9 months, 13 days before
7. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.9112 on 2022-01-07
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.9103 was 7 days before
8. Test::Differences - Test strings and data structures and show differences if not ok
   • Version: 0.69 on 2022-01-07
   • Votes: 20
   • Previous version: 0.68 was 7 months, 20 days before
9. Text::ANSITable - Create nice formatted tables using extended ASCII and ANSI colors
   • Version: 0.607 on 2022-01-05
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 0.606 was 4 months, 9 days before

(dxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-01-08 22:09:37 GMT

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1. Capturing group regex with grep - [3/4]
2. Find nearest option in a Perl Hash - [3/3]
3. Count trailing newlines with POSIX utilities or Perl - [2/5]
4. A 'my' issue, it cannot work even in clear PL rule - [2/1]
5. How can I get table height from PDF::Table? - [2/1]
6. Perl wrong UTF-8 output - [2/1]
7. Perl: Repair utf8 xml file which contains octal or hexadecimal codes - [2/1]
8. Howto sort inline POD entries of a Perl package documentation for IMenu or a final documentation - [2/0]
9. Perl 5 signatures: Passing multiple arrays - [1/2]
10. How to get regex to work in a perl script? - [1/2]

(ccclxxiv) 5 great CPAN modules released last week

Not too many released, so this is a bonus material:

• 20 best Perl questions at stackoverflow in 2021
• metacpan most voted distributions in 2021
• 10 best Perl distributions created at 2021 (metacpan rating)

Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. curry - Create automatic curried method call closures for any class or object
   • Version: 2.000001 on 2021-12-30
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 1.001000 was 4 years, 6 months, 7 days before
2. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
   • Version: 0.59 on 2022-01-01
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 0.58 was 10 months, 19 days before
3. DBD::Oracle - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
   • Version: 1.82 on 2021-12-29
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 1.80 was 2 years, 5 months, 4 days before
4. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.9103 on 2021-12-31
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.9102 was 7 days before
5. TheSchwartz - reliable job queue
   • Version: 1.17 on 2021-12-30
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 1.16 was 5 months, 14 days before

10 best perl distributions created at 2021 (metacpan rating)

This list contains distributions created at 2021

1. Crypt::Passphrase (+9)
2. PLS (+7)
3. List::Keywords (+7)
4. Syntax::Keyword::Defer (+6)
5. Feature::Compat::Try (+6)
6. App::perlimports (+6)
7. CGI::Tiny (+5)
8. Acme::ConspiracyTheory::Random (+5)
9. XS::Parse::Keyword (+4)
10. Text::Table::More (+4)

metacpan most voted distributions in 2021

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2021

1. Mojolicious (+41)
2. perl (+30)
3. Object::Pad (+18)
4. libwww::perl (+9)
5. Scalar::List::Utils (+9)
6. Path::Tiny (+9)
7. MCE (+9)
8. IO::Async (+9)
9. Dancer2 (+9)
10. Crypt::Passphrase (+9)
11. Type::Tiny (+8)
12. Template::Toolkit (+8)
13. Perl::LanguageServer (+8)
14. PDL (+8)
15. Minion (+8)
16. Future::AsyncAwait (+8)
17. Yancy (+7)
18. Perl::Critic (+7)
19. PLS (+7)
20. List::Keywords (+7)

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2021 group by month

• 2021-01

Mojolicious (+8)
perl (+4)


• 2021-02

Acme::ConspiracyTheory::Random (+3)
Mojolicious (+3)


• 2021-03

Data::Printer (+5)
Mojolicious (+4)


• 2021-04

Mojolicious (+4)
App::perlimports (+3)


• 2021-05

perl (+7)
Faster::Maths (+4)


• 2021-06

Object::Pad (+5)
Mojolicious (+3)


• 2021-07

Mojolicious (+6)
PLS (+4)


• 2021-08

Mojolicious (+5)
IO::Async (+4)


• 2021-09

App::cpanminus::reporter (+3)


• 2021-10

Dist::Zilla::MintingProfile::FFI (+3)


• 2021-11

perl (+4)
App::plx (+3)


• 2021-12

RxPerl (+3)

20 best Perl questions at stackoverflow in 2021

This is the ten most rated questions at 2021 Stack Overflow.
Between brackets: question score & answers count
Built date: 2022/01/01 12:28:30 GMT

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1. What does 0 plus a pointer mean? - [37/2]
2. Perl conditional (ternary) operator does no shortcut evaluation - [26/3]
3. python regex where a set of options can occur at most once in a list, in any order - [19/8]
4. How do I release a Perl module to CPAN? - [12/1]
5. Why do Inline::Python functions that print fail to be redirected? - [9/2]
6. "no autovivication" pragma fails with grep in Perl - [8/2]
7. Try::Tiny and $SIG{__DIE__} in perl? - [8/2]
8. Not able to run git svn command in windows - [17/2]
9. Perl - evaluation order of list elements, with assignment inside the list - [8/1]
10. What is the best way in Perl to iterate a loop and extract pairs or triples - [7/6]
11. Change any number of delimiters in found pattern with sed - [7/5]
12. Perl sorting Alpha characters in a special way - [6/3]
13. dynamically add leading underscore to existing sub - [7/2]
14. No error or warning for trying to print to an already closed filehandle - [7/2]
15. Pretending an Autoloaded Function has a Block Prototype - [7/1]
16. Mojo::UserAgent - Inspect the Content-Encoding header before decoding - [7/1]
17. How do you catch a buggy sig die handler if the mechanism to debug code that everyone uses overrides it? - [6/1]
18. How to code a sub with the same signature as sort or reduce in List::Util - [6/1]
19. Find out which scripts are calling a perl package - [7/1]
20. Return value of `ref qr/.../` - [7/1]

(dxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-01-01 12:27:08 GMT

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1. Why is 00 equal to 0 in perl? - [3/2]
2. Cannot have plain array after removal ones in multi dimensional array - [3/1]
3. Perl hangs up on while loop - [2/2]
4. Running strace with a -o (redirect the trace output) parse the trace output while printing the stdout - [2/2]
5. How can I organize data in rows and columns with Perl? - [2/0]
6. How to protect the executable perl files from PAR::Packer? - [2/0]
7. Execute perl script in remote server process builder in java - [2/0]
8. Linux - Delete all lines from a given line number - [1/3]
9. Get XSI Type from XML in Perl - [1/2]
10. how can a script be made to run automatically every hour, such that it performs exactly as on the command line? - [1/2]