(cccxcviii) 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: 2.50 on 2022-06-23
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 2.48 was 3 months, 10 days before
2. Encode - character encodings in Perl
   • Version: 3.18 on 2022-06-25
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 3.17 was 2 months, 18 days before
3. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 1.58 on 2022-06-19
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 1.57 was 8 days before
4. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
   • Version: 1.018 on 2022-06-19
   • Votes: 61
   • Previous version: 1.017 was 5 days before
5. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
   • Version: 2.201 on 2022-06-25
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 2.106 was 2 months, 13 days before
6. JSON - JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder
   • Version: 4.07 on 2022-06-24
   • Votes: 96
   • Previous version: 4.06 was 1 month, 2 days before
7. JSON::PP - JSON::XS compatible pure-Perl module.
   • Version: 4.10 on 2022-06-24
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 4.09 was 1 month, 2 days before
8. Minion - Job queue
   • Version: 10.25 on 2022-06-24
   • Votes: 89
   • Previous version: 10.24 was 1 month, 26 days before
9. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20220620 on 2022-06-20
   • Votes: 38
   • Previous version: 5.20220527 was 23 days before
10. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9612 on 2022-06-23
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9608 was 8 days before
11. Teng - very simple DBI wrapper/ORMapper
    • Version: 0.33 on 2022-06-21
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 0.32 was 2 years, 2 months, 27 days before
12. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.615 on 2022-06-20
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.613 was 1 year, 5 months, 11 days before

(dxii) metacpan weekly report - perl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 49

Week's winners (+3): perl 

Build date: 2022/06/25 22:32:43 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• ABNF::Grammar - Validator and generator module for ABNF grammars
• Alt::Acme::Math::XS::ModuleBuild - Math is HARD (faster)
• DBD::PgLite - PostgreSQL emulation mode for SQLite
• Term::TUI - simple tool for building text-based user interfaces
• UI::Various - graphical/non-graphical user interface without external programs
• WebService::Gravatar - Perl interface to Gravatar API

Increasing its reputation:

• Amazon::S3 (+1=3)
• B::Hooks::AtRuntime (+1=4)
• Chart::GGPlot (+1=9)
• Class::Accessor::Lite (+1=8)
• CPAN::Site (+1=4)
• Dancer2 (+1=129)
• Data::Frame (+1=8)
• DBD::Firebird (+1=11)
• DBD::SQLite (+1=97)
• DBI (+1=254)
• DBIx::Class::DeploymentHandler (+1=21)
• Dist::Milla (+1=35)
• File::HomeDir (+1=32)
• File::ShareDir::Install (+1=8)
• Firefox::Marionette (+1=12)
• Function::Parameters (+1=55)
• HTML::Tree (+1=32)
• Inline::Module (+1=14)
• InlineX::CPP2XS (+1=4)
• lib::relative (+1=13)
• Log::Log4perl::Layout::JSON (+1=2)
• Minilla (+1=55)
• Mojo::Run (+1=5)
• MooseX::Extended (+2=7)
• Paws (+1=53)
• perl (+3=398)
• PPI (+1=56)
• SPVM (+1=27)
• Template::Toolkit (+1=137)
• Term::Size::Any (+1=4)
• Test2::Suite (+2=36)
• Test::Simple (+1=177)
• Text::CSV_XS (+1=95)
• Text::Table::Tiny (+1=14)
• Time::Piece (+1=51)
• Tk (+1=27)
• URI::db (+1=9)
• W3C::LinkChecker (+1=4)
• Zilla::Dist (+1=6)

(dxl) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-06-25 22:31:06 GMT

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1. How to pass a variable from powershell to a perl script - [3/3]
2. How to split a list in two over a condition? - [3/2]
3. How to check system tray availability programmatically? - [3/1]
4. Perl - How to remove mulitline numbers with a Regex - [2/2]
5. How to print 10 lines above if specific string found in a file? - [2/2]

(cccxcvii) 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. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.30 on 2022-06-16
   • Votes: 40
   • Previous version: 4.29 was 20 days before
2. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 1.57 on 2022-06-16
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 1.56 was 7 months, 19 days before
3. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.37 on 2022-06-14
   • Votes: 61
   • Previous version: 6.36 was 5 months, 9 days before
4. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
   • Version: 1.017 on 2022-06-14
   • Votes: 61
   • Previous version: 1.015 was 1 month, 7 days before
5. lib::relative - Add paths relative to the current file to @INC
   • Version: 1.001 on 2022-06-15
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 1.000 was 3 years, 2 months, 28 days before
6. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
   • Version: 6.67 on 2022-06-14
   • Votes: 156
   • Previous version: 6.66 was 27 days before
7. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
   • Version: 20220613 on 2022-06-13
   • Votes: 125
   • Previous version: 20220217 was 3 months, 26 days before
8. Software::License - packages that provide templated software licenses
   • Version: 0.104002 on 2022-06-14
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.104001 was 10 months, 12 days before
9. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.9608 on 2022-06-15
   • Votes: 27
   • Previous version: 0.9605 was 8 days before
10. Text::Table::Tiny - generate simple text tables from 2D arrays
    • Version: 1.03 on 2022-06-17
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.02 was 1 year, 9 months, 4 days before
11. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.09 on 2022-06-14
    • Votes: 92
    • Previous version: 2.08 was 15 days before

(dxi) metacpan weekly report - Test2::Suite

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 46

Week's winner (+3): Test2::Suite

Build date: 2022/06/18 15:57:23 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::YoutubeDlUtils - Utilities (mostly wrappers) related to youtube-dl
• Dancer2::Plugin::Flash - flash message for Dancer2
• Mojo::Run3 - Run a subprocess and read/write to it
• Rex::Interface::Shell::Idrac4 - Rex module to support iDRAC 4.00.00.00
• Rex::Interface::Shell::Ilo - Rex module to support iLO
• Shell::Completer - Easily add tab completion to existing CLI program
• Termux::API - Termux::API wrapper

Increasing its reputation:

• Alien::wxWidgets (+1=11)
• Android::ADB (+1=2)
• App::CLI (+1=4)
• Class::XSAccessor (+1=26)
• CPAN::Audit (+1=7)
• Data::Focus (+1=3)
• DBI (+1=253)
• Dist::Zilla (+1=177)
• Google::BigQuery (+1=2)
• HTML::Mason (+1=11)
• HTTP::Tinyish (+1=7)
• IO::Prompter (+1=24)
• JSON::MaybeXS (+1=46)
• Linux::Inotify2 (+1=9)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=93)
• Mason (+1=24)
• Mom (+1=3)
• MooseX::Extended (+1=5)
• Mouse (+1=60)
• Music::FretboardDiagram (+1=2)
• Music::Note (+1=2)
• namespace::autoclean (+1=27)
• Net::SSL::ExpireDate (+2=10)
• Object::ID (+1=4)
• Ouch (+1=13)
• Package::Stash::XS (+1=7)
• Perl::Critic (+1=119)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=125)
• Sys::Virt (+1=16)
• TermReadKey (+1=18)
• Test2::Suite (+3=35)
• Test::Simple (+1=176)
• Want (+1=12)
• WWW::Mechanize (+1=92)
• WWW::Telegram::BotAPI (+1=13)
• XS::Parse::Keyword (+1=7)

(dxxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-06-18 15:48:59 GMT

---

1. Closures vs. local `sub`s - [2/3]
2. Module::Build Cache Cleanup - [2/2]
3. Is there a map() equivalent for PDL without doing pdl( map {} unpdl)? - [2/1]
4. Does Perl PDL have an equavelent of Math::Round::nearest()? - [2/1]
5. DBD::Firebird encoding/decoding - [2/1]

(cccxcvi) 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. Devel::Cover - Code coverage metrics for Perl
   • Version: 1.38 on 2022-06-05
   • Votes: 100
   • Previous version: 1.36 was 2 years, 17 days before
2. Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information
   • Version: 12.42 on 2022-06-07
   • Votes: 35
   • Previous version: 12.30 was 9 months, 26 days before
3. Mojolicious::Plugin::Authentication - A plugin to make authentication a bit easier
   • Version: 1.39 on 2022-06-10
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 1.37 was 1 year before
4. Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ - interact with RabbitMQ over AMQP using librabbitmq
   • Version: 2.40010 on 2022-06-11
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 2.40009 was 7 months, 19 days before
5. Specio - Type constraints and coercions for Perl
   • Version: 0.48 on 2022-06-11
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.47 was 1 year, 4 months, 13 days before
6. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.9605 on 2022-06-09
   • Votes: 27
   • Previous version: 0.9601 was 8 days before
7. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
   • Version: v8.4.0 on 2022-06-09
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: v8.3.0 was 1 month, 5 days before
8. Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
   • Version: 2.06 on 2022-06-05
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 2.05 was 14 days before
9. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
   • Version: 1.012005 on 2022-06-07
   • Votes: 130
   • Previous version: 1.012004 was 10 months, 9 days before

(dx) metacpan weekly report - Log::ger

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 60

Week's winner: Log::ger (+3)

Build date: 2022/06/11 19:54:37 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• FreeBSD::FsStat - Query a FreeBSD system for the list of mounted filesystems
• Log::Basic - Perl extension for simple logging.
• Mail::SPF - An object-oriented implementation of Sender Policy Framework
• Net::ClamAV::Client - A client class for the ClamAV clamd virus scanner daemon
• Net::DNS::SPF::Expander - Expands DNS SPF records, so you don't have to.
• Net::SAML2 - SAML bindings and protocol implementation
• Plack::Session::State::URI - uri-based session state
• Statistics::KernelEstimation - Kernel Density Estimates and Histograms
• Statistics::PCA - A simple Perl implementation of Principal Component Analysis.
• Sys::Filesystem - Retrieve list of filesystems and their properties
• Term::Tmux::Layout - Create tmux layout strings programmatically

Increasing its reputation:

• BSD::Resource (+1=8)
• Carton (+1=115)
• CSS::Minifier::XS (+1=7)
• Curses::UI (+1=18)
• Dancer2 (+1=128)
• Data::UUID (+1=27)
• Devel::NYTProf (+1=176)
• Dist::Zilla (+1=176)
• Email::Valid (+1=33)
• Exporter (+1=26)
• Filter::signatures (+1=3)
• Getopt::App (+1=3)
• Git::Raw (+1=31)
• IO::Async (+1=67)
• JavaScript::Minifier::XS (+1=4)
• JSON::MaybeXS (+1=45)
• List::Compare (+1=14)
• Log::ger (+3=10)
• Math::Round (+1=15)
• Metabrik::Repository (+1=3)
• Mojolicious (+1=471)
• Moo (+1=288)
• MooseX::Extended (+1=4)
• Mozilla::CA (+1=18)
• Net::Netmask (+1=5)
• Net::SSLeay (+1=21)
• Number::Bytes::Human (+1=8)
• Padre (+1=37)
• perl (+1=396)
• Perl::Critic (+1=118)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=124)
• Plack::Middleware::Session::Simple (+1=7)
• Plack::Middleware::SizeLimit (+1=4)
• PLS (+1=11)
• Rex::Hook::File::Diff (+1=2)
• RPi::Pin (+1=2)
• RPi::WiringPi (+1=9)
• Sisimai (+1=2)
• SPVM (+1=27)
• SQL::Statement (+1=7)
• Task::Kensho (+1=112)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=55)
• Test2::Suite (+1=33)
• Test::Spec (+1=19)
• Try::Tiny (+1=167)
• Type::Tiny (+1=130)
• WebDriver::Tiny (+1=2)

(dxxxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-06-11 19:28:03 GMT

---

1. Perl calls using system abruptly start failing - [4/2]
2. extract text between the two blocks using regex - [3/4]
3. Can you tie() a filehandle without a bareword glob? - [3/1]
4. Is there a way to match all adjacent words in a sentence? - [2/3]
5. How Mojolicious modifies Perl syntax - [2/1]

(cccxcv) 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: 2.052007 on 2022-06-03
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.052006 was 17 days before
2. Catalyst::Plugin::Session - Generic Session plugin - ties together server side storage and client side state required to maintain session data.
   • Version: 0.43 on 2022-06-03
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 0.40 was 7 years, 4 months, 7 days before
3. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
   • Version: 6.88 on 2022-06-02
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 6.86 was 6 months, 17 days before
4. Email::Valid - Check validity of Internet email addresses
   • Version: 1.203 on 2022-05-29
   • Votes: 32
   • Previous version: 1.202 was 5 years, 8 months, 3 days before
5. Log::Log4perl - Log4j implementation for Perl
   • Version: 1.55 on 2022-06-01
   • Votes: 92
   • Previous version: 1.54 was 1 year, 3 months, 23 days before
6. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
   • Version: v3.1.19 on 2022-06-03
   • Votes: 54
   • Previous version: v3.1.18 was 24 days before
7. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
   • Version: 1.34 on 2022-05-30
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 1.33 was 5 months, 14 days before
8. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
   • Version: 3.8005 on 2022-06-01
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 3.8004 was 2 months, 25 days before
9. OpenAPI::Client - A client for talking to an Open API powered server
   • Version: 1.04 on 2022-06-03
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.03 was 8 months, 1 day before
10. Paws - A Perl SDK for AWS (Amazon Web Services) APIs
    • Version: 0.45 on 2022-06-01
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 0.44 was 10 months, 18 days before
11. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9601 on 2022-06-01
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.96 was 6 days before
12. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.08 on 2022-05-30
    • Votes: 91
    • Previous version: 2.07 was 1 month, 1 day before

(dix) metacpan weekly report - Getopt::App

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 50

Week's winner (+3):  Getopt::App

Build date: 2022/06/04 19:42:03 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Generate::ManifestSkip - Generate a MANIFEST.SKIP file for your distribution
• File::chmod::Recursive - Run chmod recursively against directories
• Linux::Perl - Linux system calls with pure Perl
• Plack::Middleware::Access - Restrict access depending on remote ip or other parameters

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpanminus (+1=265)
• App::cpm (+1=59)
• App::perlimports (+1=11)
• Archive::Extract (+1=7)
• Archive::Tar::Wrapper (+1=5)
• boolean (+1=19)
• CGI::Capture (+2=2)
• Config::INI (+1=18)
• Config::Tiny (+1=31)
• CPAN (+1=35)
• cpan::listchanges (+1=13)
• Dancer2::Plugin::FormValidator (+1=4)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PPPort (+1=5)
• Email::Sender (+1=45)
• File::pushd (+1=11)
• Getopt::App (+3=3)
• GIS::Distance (+1=3)
• Hashids (+1=8)
• HTML::FillInForm (+1=6)
• local::lib (+1=87)
• Menlo (+1=14)
• Module::CPANfile (+1=59)
• Module::Load (+1=28)
• Mojolicious (+1=470)
• MooseX::Extended (+1=3)
• MsOffice::Word::HTML::Writer (+1=4)
• Neo4j::Driver (+1=4)
• Net::OpenSSH (+1=38)
• Parallel::ForkManager::Scaled (+1=2)
• perl (+2=395)
• PerlPowerTools (+1=34)
• Plack (+1=226)
• Plack::Middleware::Antibot (+1=2)
• Pod::Usage (+1=43)
• re::engine::RE2 (+1=11)
• REST::Client (+1=16)
• Rex (+1=80)
• Test2::Harness (+1=13)
• Text::Balanced (+1=15)
• Text::Fuzzy (+1=17)
• Web::Scraper (+1=42)
• WWW::Mechanize (+1=91)

(dxxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-06-04 19:38:11 GMT

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1. How do I copy list elements to hash keys in perl? - [5/4]
2. Check Array and Hash is Empty or Not - [4/2]
3. Perl for loop iteration in batch - [3/4]
4. Perl: undef element in array - [3/1]
5. Perl: compare current time to a specific time to - [2/1]