(cdvii) 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. App::Ack - A grep-like program for searching source code
   • Version: v3.6.0 on 2022-08-21
   • Votes: 126
   • Previous version: v3.5.0 was 1 year, 5 months, 8 days before
2. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
   • Version: 0.077 on 2022-08-21
   • Votes: 45
   • Previous version: 0.076 was 7 months, 14 days before
3. Exporter::Tiny - an exporter with the features of Sub::Exporter but only core dependencies
   • Version: 1.004000 on 2022-08-26
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.002002 was 2 years, 4 months, 2 days before
4. GraphViz - Interface to AT&T's GraphViz. Deprecated. See GraphViz2
   • Version: 2.25 on 2022-08-20
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.25 was before
5. MetaCPAN::Client - A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
   • Version: 2.030000 on 2022-08-22
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 2.029000 was 1 year, 8 months, 2 days before
6. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.9645 on 2022-08-25
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 0.9643 was 7 days before
7. Struct::Dumb - make simple lightweight record-like structures
   • Version: 0.13 on 2022-08-27
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.12 was 2 years, 4 months, 7 days before
8. Tickit - Terminal Interface Construction KIT
   • Version: 0.73 on 2022-08-26
   • Votes: 24
   • Previous version: 0.72 was 1 year, 8 days before
9. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
   • Version: 2.15 on 2022-08-21
   • Votes: 93
   • Previous version: 2.14 was 6 days before

(dxx) metacpan weekly report - Try::Tiny

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 90

Week's winner (+3): Try::Tiny

Build date: 2022/08/27 21:22:13 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Don::t - The opposite of do
• Alias - aspirations for Alias
• App::pnc - Simple netcat clone implemented in Perl.
• App::YoutubeDlIf - Download videos using youtube-dl with extra selection/filtering
• Devel::Cover::Report::Codecov - Backend for Codecov reporting of coverage statistics
• Feature::Compat::Class - make class syntax available
• Google::reCAPTCHA::v3 - A simple Perl API for Google reCAPTCHA v3
• JSON::Patch - JSON Patch (rfc6902) for perl structures
• Math::Round::Fair - distribute rounding errors fairly
• Optimization::NSGAII - non dominant sorting genetic algorithm for multi-objective optimization
• SVG::Parser - XML Parser for SVG documents
• Term::Screen - A Simple all perl Term::Cap based screen positioning module

Increasing its reputation:

• AnyEvent::FTP (+1=5)
• AnyEvent::WebSocket::Server (+1=4)
• Apache::Solr (+1=2)
• App::cpanminus (+1=268)
• App::week (+1=3)
• Cache::Memcached (+1=8)
• Cache::Memcached::Fast (+1=20)
• Carp (+1=67)
• CGI::Simple (+1=9)
• Config::INI::Tiny (+1=2)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+1=41)
• Dancer2 (+1=130)
• Data::Util (+1=9)
• Data::UUID (+2=29)
• Data::UUID::MT (+1=6)
• DBD::BlackHole (+1=2)
• DBD::mysql (+1=52)
• Dist::Zilla (+1=178)
• Exception::Base (+1=2)
• File::Map (+1=18)
• File::Rsync (+1=14)
• forks::BerkeleyDB (+1=4)
• Gazelle (+1=25)
• Getopt::Long::Descriptive (+1=51)
• IO::Pipely (+1=5)
• IO::Prompt (+1=9)
• JSON::XS (+1=111)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=94)
• Mail::SpamAssassin::4.0.0::rc1 (+1=0)
• Math::Complex (+1=8)
• MIME::Base64 (+1=23)
• Minilla (+1=56)
• Mojo::MySQL5 (+1=4)
• Mojo::Pg (+1=69)
• Mojolicious (+2=474)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Authorization (+1=10)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Loco (+1=3)
• Moo (+2=292)
• MooX::TO_JSON (+1=5)
• Music::AtonalUtil (+1=3)
• new (+1=7)
• Object::Pad (+1=31)
• OpenAPI::Client (+1=15)
• OptArgs (+1=14)
• OptArgs2 (+1=6)
• PAR::Packer (+1=40)
• Parallel::ForkManager (+1=93)
• Parallel::Loops (+1=4)
• Path::Class (+1=82)
• PathTools (+1=76)
• Perl::Build (+1=21)
• Perl::Critic (+1=122)
• Perl::MinimumVersion (+2=21)
• PerlIO::gzip (+1=12)
• Pod::Coverage (+1=12)
• Promise::XS (+1=8)
• Quantum::Superpositions (+1=7)
• SPVM (+1=26)
• strictures (+1=21)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=57)
• Test::Exception (+1=39)
• Test::Simple (+1=179)
• threads (+1=13)
• threads::shared (+1=9)
• Time::HiRes (+1=60)
• Time::Piece (+1=53)
• Try::Tiny (+3=170)
• Types::Interface (+1=2)
• Unix::setuid (+1=2)
• URI::db (+1=10)
• WWW::Mechanize (+1=93)
• YAML (+1=67)

(dxlviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-08-27 21:20:02 GMT

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1. What does `/regex/o` really mean (once there was once, but it seems gone now)? - [5/2]
2. Regex (or bash), get pipes between quotes (perl) - [2/6]
3. How to get date of two month old date from current date - [2/1]
4. DbiX::Class / Creating tree of test data without persisting - [2/1]
5. How can I format boolean operators with perltidy? - [2/1]

(cdvi) 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
   • Version: 2.59 on 2022-08-16
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.56 was 3 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.055000 on 2022-08-17
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.053007 was 8 days before
3. Chart::Plotly - Generate html/javascript charts from perl data using javascript library plotly.js
   • Version: 0.042 on 2022-08-15
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 0.041 was 1 year, 9 months, 14 days before
4. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.53 on 2022-08-14
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 2.52 was 4 months, 28 days before
5. IO::Async - Asynchronous event-driven programming
   • Version: 0.802 on 2022-08-15
   • Votes: 68
   • Previous version: 0.801 was 8 months before
6. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 5.10 on 2022-08-17
   • Votes: 30
   • Previous version: 5.08 was 4 months, 23 days before
7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20220820 on 2022-08-20
   • Votes: 38
   • Previous version: 5.20220720 was 30 days before
8. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
   • Version: 5.07 on 2022-08-17
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 5.05 was 4 months, 23 days before
9. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
   • Version: 0.52 on 2022-08-17
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 0.51 was 1 month, 9 days before
10. OpenAPI::Client - A client for talking to an Open API powered server
    • Version: 1.05 on 2022-08-17
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.04 was 2 months, 14 days before
11. Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
    • Version: 1.66 on 2022-08-20
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 1.65 was 4 months before
12. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9643 on 2022-08-18
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9638 was 8 days before
13. Template::Toolkit - comprehensive template processing system
    • Version: 3.101 on 2022-08-16
    • Votes: 137
    • Previous version: 3.100 was 3 months, 20 days before
14. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.016008 on 2022-08-14
    • Votes: 131
    • Previous version: 1.016007 was 10 days before
15. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.14 on 2022-08-15
    • Votes: 93
    • Previous version: 2.13 was 17 days before

(cdv) 18 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: 2.53 on 2022-08-12
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.51 was 10 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.053007 on 2022-08-09
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.053005 was 5 days before
3. App::Sqitch - Sensible database change management
   • Version: v1.3.0 on 2022-08-12
   • Votes: 40
   • Previous version: v1.2.1 was 8 months, 7 days before
4. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.32 on 2022-08-13
   • Votes: 40
   • Previous version: 4.30 was 1 month, 27 days before
5. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
   • Version: 3.16.0 on 2022-08-08
   • Votes: 87
   • Previous version: 3.15.1 was 5 months, 22 days before
6. Digest::SHA - Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512
   • Version: 6.03 on 2022-08-08
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 6.02 was 4 years, 3 months, 18 days before
7. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 2.00 on 2022-08-12
   • Votes: 57
   • Previous version: 1.58 was 1 month, 23 days before
8. IPC::Run - system() and background procs w/ piping, redirs, ptys (Unix, Win32)
   • Version: 20220807.0 on 2022-08-07
   • Votes: 35
   • Previous version: 20200505.0 was 2 years, 3 months, 2 days before
9. Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
   • Version: 1.10 on 2022-08-11
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 1.09 was 10 days before
10. Minion::Backend::SQLite - SQLite backend for Minion job queue
    • Version: v5.0.7 on 2022-08-13
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v5.0.6 was 9 months before
11. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.68 on 2022-08-13
    • Votes: 30
    • Previous version: 0.66 was 1 month, 7 days before
12. Pithub - Github v3 API
    • Version: 0.01039 on 2022-08-08
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.01038 was 5 days before
13. PPR - Pattern-based Perl Recognizer
    • Version: 0.001004 on 2022-08-08
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.001002 was 5 days before
14. Proc::Fork - simple, intuitive interface to the fork() system call
    • Version: 0.807 on 2022-08-10
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.05 was 20 years, 4 months, 26 days before
15. Scalar::List::Utils - Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
    • Version: 1.63 on 2022-08-08
    • Votes: 159
    • Previous version: 1.62 was 4 months, 22 days before
16. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9638 on 2022-08-10
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9635 was 6 days before
17. Test::Warn - Perl extension to test methods for warnings
    • Version: 0.37 on 2022-08-13
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.36 was 4 years, 1 month, 20 days before
18. Text::CSV - comma-separated values manipulator (using XS or PurePerl)
    • Version: 2.02 on 2022-08-07
    • Votes: 70
    • Previous version: 2.01 was 1 year, 1 month, 18 days before

(dxix) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 44

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2022/08/13 19:53:38 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::perlsh - a simple perl REPL based on Lexical::Persistence
• DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::TimePiece - Auto-create Time::Piece objects from integer columns
• mb - Can easy script in Big5, Big5-HKSCS, GBK, Sjis(also CP932), UHC, UTF-8, ...
• Net::Wire10 - Pure Perl driver for MySQL, Sphinx and Drizzle.
• Term::Menu::Hierarchical - Perl extension for creating hierarchical menus
• URN::OASIS::SAML2 - Constants for urn:oasis SAML2 implementations

Increasing its reputation:

• Apache::ConfigParser (+1=2)
• App::ansiecho (+1=2)
• CBOR::Free (+1=4)
• DBD::Mock (+1=11)
• DBIx::Class (+1=280)
• Excel::ValueWriter::XLSX (+1=2)
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::Go (+1=5)
• File::Find::Rule (+1=37)
• Getopt::Long::Descriptive (+1=50)
• HTML::Tree (+1=35)
• JIRA::REST (+1=13)
• Lexical::Persistence (+1=3)
• Math::AnyNum (+1=6)
• Math::BigInt (+1=11)
• Math::BigRat (+1=5)
• Math::Complex (+1=8)
• Memoize (+1=25)
• Mojo::Run3 (+1=2)
• MooseX::Extended (+1=10)
• MooX::Log::Any (+1=5)
• MooX::TO_JSON (+1=4)
• MooX::TypeTiny (+1=10)
• Mu::Tiny (+1=2)
• Net::Google::Spreadsheets (+1=4)
• PAR::Packer (+1=40)
• Perl::LanguageServer (+1=26)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=127)
• PPR (+1=18)
• Protocol::WebSocket::Fast (+1=2)
• Role::Inspector (+1=3)
• Role::Tiny (+1=66)
• Syntax::Keyword::MultiSub (+1=2)
• Test2::Suite (+1=37)
• Test::Deep (+1=50)
• Test::Simple (+1=178)
• Try::Tiny (+1=167)
• UniEvent (+1=2)
• XML::Smart (+1=4)

(dxlvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-08-13 19:51:22 GMT

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1. Perl installed via conda snakemake shell error: Can't open perl script .. no such file or directory - [3/2]
2. Installing Perl in VSCode - [3/0]
3. Perl: Display STDOUT and STDERR in different colors on Windows - [2/1]
4. Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch [PERL] - [2/1]
5. Determining the parts that match a regex in perl - [2/1]

(cdiv) 14 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: 2.51 on 2022-08-03
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.51 was before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.053005 on 2022-08-04
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.052010 was 8 days before
3. App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
   • Version: 0.96 on 2022-07-31
   • Votes: 170
   • Previous version: 0.95 was 2 months, 16 days before
4. Catalyst::View::TT - Template View Class
   • Version: 0.46 on 2022-08-03
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 0.45 was 2 years, 12 days before
5. Encode - character encodings in Perl
   • Version: 3.19 on 2022-08-04
   • Votes: 57
   • Previous version: 3.18 was 1 month, 9 days before
6. JSON - JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder
   • Version: 4.09 on 2022-08-01
   • Votes: 97
   • Previous version: 4.07 was 1 month, 7 days before
7. JSON::PP - JSON::XS compatible pure-Perl module.
   • Version: 4.11 on 2022-07-31
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 4.10 was 1 month, 7 days before
8. Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
   • Version: 1.09 on 2022-08-01
   • Votes: 24
   • Previous version: 1.03 was 10 years, 3 months, 9 days before
9. Net::SSH2 - Support for the SSH 2 protocol via libssh2.
   • Version: 0.73 on 2022-08-03
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 0.72 was 1 year, 7 months, 12 days before
10. Pithub - Github v3 API
    • Version: 0.01038 on 2022-08-03
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.01037 was 14 days before
11. PPR - Pattern-based Perl Recognizer
    • Version: 0.001002 on 2022-08-03
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 0.000028 was 2 years, 1 month, 5 days before
12. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9635 on 2022-08-04
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9630 was 6 days before
13. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.016007 on 2022-08-04
    • Votes: 131
    • Previous version: 1.016006 was 10 days before
14. XML::Compile::SOAP - SOAP version 1.1
    • Version: 3.28 on 2022-08-01
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 3.27 was 1 year, 3 months, 24 days before

(dxviii) metacpan weekly report - Algorithm::Line::Bresenham

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 32

Week's winner: Algorithm::Line::Bresenham (+2)

Build date: 2022/08/06 21:12:25 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Apache::ConfigParser - Load Apache configuration files
• App::PFT - Hacker friendly static blog generator
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::SyncCPANfile - Sync a cpanfile with the prereqs listed in dist.ini
• Excel::ValueWriter::XLSX - generating data-only Excel workbooks in XLSX format, fast
• Search::Fzf - Ported Fzf using perl.
• Test2::Tools::HTTP::UA::Mojo - Mojo user agent wrapper for Test2::Tools::HTTP

Increasing its reputation:

• Algorithm::Line::Bresenham (+2=2)
• App::perlbrew (+1=170)
• B::Hooks::AtRuntime (+1=5)
• Devel::NYTProf (+1=178)
• Devel::ptkdb (+1=8)
• Devel::StrictMode (+1=7)
• Excel::Writer::XLSX (+1=57)
• Feature::Compat::Try (+1=11)
• Form::Diva (+1=4)
• Math::AnyNum (+1=6)
• Mojolicious (+1=472)
• Net::Google::Spreadsheets (+1=3)
• Net::SFTP::Foreign (+1=23)
• PadWalker (+1=24)
• PAR::Packer (+1=40)
• PDF::Reuse (+1=9)
• Promise::Me (+1=2)
• Search::Elasticsearch (+1=44)
• Storable::Improved (+1=3)
• Sub::HandlesVia (+1=8)
• Sub::Quote (+1=8)
• Sys::Binmode (+1=5)
• Text::Markdown::Hoedown (+1=13)
• Time::HiRes (+1=59)
• Variable::Magic (+1=24)

(dxlvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-08-06 21:10:40 GMT

---

1. Perl: speed of s/// with variable in replacement - [7/2]
2. Perl regex capture groups and nth occurence - [3/4]
3. How can I pass prove (Test::More) an argument, e.g. an API URL? - [2/2]
4. Perl regex combining capture groups & nth string - [2/2]
5. Linux grep command in Perl script now working - [2/2]