(ccclxxxv) 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. Catmandu - a data toolkit
   • Version: 1.2019 on 2022-03-21
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.2018 was 12 days before
2. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
   • Version: 0.54 on 2022-03-24
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 0.53 was 2 months, 9 days before
3. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 5.08 on 2022-03-25
   • Votes: 29
   • Previous version: 5.05 was 2 months, 19 days before
4. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20220320 on 2022-03-20
   • Votes: 37
   • Previous version: 5.20220313 was 5 days before
5. Mojo::SQLite - A tiny Mojolicious wrapper for SQLite
   • Version: 3.009 on 2022-03-23
   • Votes: 24
   • Previous version: 3.008 was 3 months, 25 days before
6. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 9.23 on 2022-03-25
   • Votes: 468
   • Previous version: 9.22 was 5 months, 4 days before
7. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
   • Version: 5.05 on 2022-03-25
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 5.02 was 4 months, 4 days before
8. POE - Portable, event-loop agnostic eventy networking and multitasking.
   • Version: 1.370 on 2022-03-23
   • Votes: 51
   • Previous version: 1.368 was 2 years, 1 month, 21 days before
9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.9509 on 2022-03-23
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 0.9508 was 19 days before
10. ZMQ::FFI - version agnostic Perl bindings for zeromq using ffi
    • Version: 1.18 on 2022-03-21
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 1.17 was 3 years, 7 days before

(d) metacpan weekly report - Starman

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 71

Week's winner: Starman (+2)

Build date: 2022/03/26 14:42:21 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::perlvars - CLI tool to detect unused variables in Perl modules
• Class::Generic - Class Generic
• Dancer2::Plugin::CSRF - CSRF tokens generation and validation
• Dancer2::Plugin::Deferred - Defer messages or data across redirections
• Dancer2::Plugin::Shutdown - Graceful shutdown your Dancer2 application
• Mo::utils - Mo utilities.
• XS::libcatch - Catch test library for XS

Increasing its reputation:

• Alien::ImageMagick (+1=12)
• App::cpanminus (+1=261)
• App::Daemon (+1=7)
• App::perlimports (+1=8)
• autouse (+1=6)
• AWS::Lambda (+1=7)
• bareword::filehandles (+1=3)
• Carton (+1=109)
• CGI::Ajax (+1=2)
• CGI::Tiny (+1=7)
• Class::Autouse (+1=2)
• Daemon::Generic (+1=2)
• Dancer2 (+1=127)
• Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::Extensible (+1=6)
• Dancer2::Plugin::Database (+1=6)
• Dancer2::Plugin::DBIC (+1=13)
• Dancer2::Session::Redis (+1=3)
• Dancer2::Template::Xslate (+1=4)
• Dancer::Plugin::Auth::Extensible (+1=9)
• Data::FormValidator (+1=13)
• Data::TableReader (+1=4)
• Date (+1=7)
• DBD::MariaDB (+1=7)
• DBIx::Class::Helpers (+1=48)
• DBIx::Class::ResultSet::HashRef (+1=4)
• Devel::PPPort (+1=11)
• Dist::Zilla (+1=175)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git (+1=43)
• Email::Mailer (+1=2)
• Email::Simple (+1=17)
• FindBin (+1=2)
• Getopt::Long (+1=108)
• Getopt::Long::Descriptive (+1=48)
• Import::Into (+1=35)
• Log::Dispatch (+1=44)
• Log::ger (+1=6)
• MCE (+1=90)
• Net::OpenSSH (+1=37)
• Net::OpenSSH::Parallel (+1=7)
• Net::Ping (+1=12)
• Params::Validate (+1=33)
• PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot (+1=10)
• Plack (+1=225)
• Progress::Any (+1=10)
• Regex::Object (+1=3)
• Regexp::Common (+1=54)
• Return::Type (+1=4)
• Sodium::FFI (+1=2)
• Sort::Key (+1=26)
• Sort::Naturally (+1=18)
• Spreadsheet::GenerateXLSX (+1=3)
• Starman (+2=111)
• Sub::Retry (+1=12)
• Task::Kensho (+1=110)
• Template::Mustache (+1=4)
• Template::Toolkit (+1=136)
• Test::Mojo::WithRoles (+1=8)
• Text::ParseWords (+1=12)
• Type::Tiny::XS (+1=15)
• Win32::LongPath (+1=7)
• WWW::YouTube::Download (+1=20)
• XML::LibXML (+1=94)
• XS::Parse::Keyword (+1=6)

(dxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-03-26 14:41:23 GMT

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1. Where is the uninitialized value in the compare function? - [4/1]
2. Getting individual key values from Perl JSON one at a time - [3/2]
3. How can I shorten a [ qw( ... ) ] construct in Perl? - [3/2]
4. Perl 5.34.0 regular expression for word matching language Hebrew - [3/1]
5. Regex does not match in Perl, while it does in other programs - [2/2]

(ccclxxxiv) 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: 2.48 on 2022-03-13
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 2.47 was 6 days before
2. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
   • Version: 0.400000 on 2022-03-14
   • Votes: 127
   • Previous version: 0.301004 was 9 months, 8 days before
3. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.52 on 2022-03-17
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 2.51 was 4 months, 26 days before
4. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.57 on 2022-03-16
   • Votes: 42
   • Previous version: 0.56 was 1 month, 21 days before
5. HTML::Parser - HTML parser class
   • Version: 3.77 on 2022-03-14
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 3.76 was 1 year, 10 days before
6. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
   • Version: v3.1.16 on 2022-03-13
   • Votes: 54
   • Previous version: v3.1.15 was 1 month, 13 days before
7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20220313 on 2022-03-15
   • Votes: 37
   • Previous version: 5.20220220 was 23 days before
8. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
   • Version: 4.27 on 2022-03-15
   • Votes: 68
   • Previous version: 4.26 was 6 months, 7 days before
9. PDL - Perl Data Language
   • Version: 2.077 on 2022-03-16
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 2.076 was 19 days before
10. utf8 - The Perl 5 language interpreter
    • Version: 5.034001 on 2022-03-13
    • Votes: 388
    • Previous version: 5.34.0 was 9 months, 24 days before
11. PerlX::Maybe - return a pair only if they are both defined
    • Version: 1.202 on 2022-03-14
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 1.201 was 3 years, 3 months, 19 days before
12. Sub::Util - Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
    • Version: 1.62 on 2022-03-17
    • Votes: 158
    • Previous version: 1.61 was 1 month, 1 day before

(dxxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-03-19 21:10:57 GMT

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1. How To Set ChromeOptions (or goog:ChromeOptions) for Selenium::Chrome in Perl - [3/1]
2. Why does grep not work when searching array for value if the value has a special character? - [2/2]
3. Template in Mojolicious controller not found - [2/1]
4. How to create a circular linked list in Perl without using arrays? - [2/1]
5. Perl backticks subprocess is causing EOF on STDIN - [2/1]

(ccclxxxiii) 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
   • Version: 2.47 on 2022-03-07
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 2.47 was before
2. Catmandu - a data toolkit
   • Version: 1.2018 on 2022-03-09
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.2016 was 5 months, 22 days before
3. Data::MessagePack - MessagePack serializing/deserializing
   • Version: 1.02 on 2022-03-11
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.01 was 1 year, 11 months, 25 days before
4. Git::CPAN::Patch - Patch CPAN modules using Git
   • Version: 2.5.0 on 2022-03-06
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.4.0 was 5 months, 17 days before
5. Net::OpenSSH - Perl SSH client package implemented on top of OpenSSH
   • Version: 0.82 on 2022-03-05
   • Votes: 37
   • Previous version: 0.82 was before
6. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
   • Version: 3.8004 on 2022-03-07
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 3.8003 was 2 days before
7. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.63 on 2022-03-07
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 0.62 was 6 days before
8. YAML::PP - YAML 1.2 Processor
   • Version: 0.032 on 2022-03-08
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.031 was 2 months, 14 days before

(dxxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-03-12 14:53:45 GMT

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1. Why is a bareword following the concatenation operator a string in Perl? - [4/1]
2. __FILE__ in perl returns paths without disk letter in visual studio code powershell - [2/2]
3. Perl Tk Formatting Text in a button - [2/1]
4. Perl XS: create and return array of strings (char*) taken from calling a C function or undef on failure - [2/1]
5. While executing the following snippet. I could see an error Global symbol "$colors" requires explicit package name. Key and value has to be printed - [2/1]

(ccclxxxii) 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. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
   • Version: 0.997009 on 2022-03-01
   • Votes: 57
   • Previous version: 0.997007 was 5 months, 8 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.052002 on 2022-02-28
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.052001 was 27 days before
3. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
   • Version: 1.57 on 2022-03-03
   • Votes: 204
   • Previous version: 1.55 was 2 months, 11 days before
4. HTTP::Daemon - A simple http server class
   • Version: 6.14 on 2022-03-03
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 6.13 was 22 days before
5. Inline::C - C Language Support for Inline
   • Version: 0.82 on 2022-03-02
   • Votes: 33
   • Previous version: 0.81 was 2 years, 9 months, 22 days before
6. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
   • Version: 3.8003 on 2022-03-05
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 3.8002 was 2 months, 30 days before
7. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.62 on 2022-03-01
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 0.61 was 13 days before
8. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.9508 on 2022-03-04
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 0.9507 was 8 days before
9. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
   • Version: v8.1.0 on 2022-03-01
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: v8.0.0 was 1 month, 18 days before
10. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302190 on 2022-03-04
    • Votes: 173
    • Previous version: 1.302189 was 7 days before
11. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000145 on 2022-03-04
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 0.000144 was 3 months, 1 day before

(cdxcix) metacpan weekly report - CGI::Tiny

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 58

Week's winners (+3): CGI::Tiny 

Build date: 2022/03/05 19:35:32 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Affinity - Compute the affinity between two people
• CPAN::Perl::Releases - Mapping Perl releases on CPAN to the location of the tarballs
• Database::DumpTruck - Relaxing interface to SQLite
• DTA::CAB - "Cascaded Analysis Broker" for robust linguistic analysis
• Mac::FSEvents - Monitor a directory structure for changes
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Future - use Future in Mojolicious applications
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Route - Plugin to loader files of routes
• ODS - Object Data Store
• Sodium::FFI - FFI implementation of libsodium
• WARC -

Increasing its reputation:

• Acme::Working::Out::Dependencies::From::META::files::Will::Be::Wrong::At::Some::Point::Like::This::Module::For::Instance (+1=2)
• Alien::Build (+1=21)
• App::perlimports (+1=7)
• Archive::Tar (+1=15)
• Carton (+1=108)
• CGI::Tiny (+3=7)
• Coro (+1=73)
• CryptX (+1=45)
• Dancer (+1=145)
• Data::Dump (+1=36)
• DBIx::Class (+1=279)
• Device::SerialPort (+1=3)
• EV (+1=43)
• Feature::Compat::Try (+1=7)
• File::Copy::Recursive (+1=17)
• File::Find::Rule (+1=36)
• Future (+1=55)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=42)
• Getopt::Long::Complete (+1=13)
• Imager::QRCode (+1=2)
• Importer (+1=14)
• Inline (+1=35)
• Inline::CPP (+1=6)
• Inline::Python (+1=12)
• IO::Async (+1=66)
• mod_perl (+1=22)
• Net::Google::Drive (+1=4)
• Net::SSL::ExpireDate (+1=8)
• Object::Pad (+2=25)
• Parallel::Pipes (+1=3)
• Paws (+1=50)
• PDL::HMM (+1=4)
• PLS (+1=10)
• Raisin (+1=42)
• Sereal::Decoder (+1=21)
• Sereal::Encoder (+1=20)
• SMS::Send::Twilio (+1=4)
• SPVM (+1=23)
• Test2::Suite (+1=32)
• Test::Compile (+1=8)
• Text::ANSITable (+1=17)
• Text::Markdown::Discount (+1=9)
• Text::Table::More (+1=5)
• UUID4::Tiny (+1=2)
• XS::Parse::Keyword (+1=5)

(dxxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-03-05 19:34:00 GMT

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1. Perl (... (*ACCEPT) ...)+ never matches - [4/1]
2. Import symbols from package defined in the same file - [3/1]
3. Is there any function in Perl that shifts the array element without removing them? - [2/4]
4. Refer to a subroutine with a scalar - [2/2]
5. How can I print only a specific format name in a Perl POD? - [2/2]