(cdxi) 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: 2.70 on 2022-09-23
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.68 was 18 days before
2. App::lcpan - Manage your local CPAN mirror
   • Version: 1.071 on 2022-09-19
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.070 was 4 months, 10 days before
3. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.057001 on 2022-09-24
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.055001 was 22 days before
4. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.54 on 2022-09-24
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 2.53 was 1 month, 10 days before
5. FFI::CheckLib - Check that a library is available for FFI
   • Version: 0.30 on 2022-09-22
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.29 was 12 days before
6. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.59 on 2022-09-23
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 0.58 was 4 months, 24 days before
7. Inline::Python - Write Perl subs and classes in Python.
   • Version: 0.57 on 2022-09-18
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.56 was 5 years, 1 month, 14 days before
8. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20220920 on 2022-09-21
   • Votes: 38
   • Previous version: 5.20220820 was 1 month, 1 day before
9. Pithub - Github v3 API
   • Version: 0.01040 on 2022-09-23
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 0.01039 was 1 month, 15 days before
10. Test::Most - Most commonly needed test functions and features.
    • Version: 0.38 on 2022-09-24
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 0.37 was 2 years, 5 months, 20 days before
11. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 2.000000 on 2022-09-23
    • Votes: 132
    • Previous version: 1.016010 was 23 days before
12. Variable::Magic - Associate user-defined magic to variables from Perl.
    • Version: 0.63 on 2022-09-20
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 0.62 was 4 years, 10 months, 16 days before

(dxxiv) metacpan weekly report

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

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2022/09/24 21:01:22 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::pwhich - Perl-only `which`
• Keyword::Pluggable - define new keywords in pure Perl
• Net::HAProxy - control HAProxy through a socket

Increasing its reputation:

• app::paperback (+1=3)
• Carmel (+1=25)
• DateTime::Format::Natural (+1=17)
• DBIx::Mint (+1=6)
• Digest (+1=10)
• Digest::MD5 (+1=29)
• Digest::SHA (+1=24)
• Faster::Maths (+1=5)
• File::Which (+1=25)
• FindBin (+1=3)
• Firefox::Marionette (+1=14)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=43)
• GD (+1=26)
• Git::CPAN::Patch (+1=13)
• GitLab::API::v4 (+1=8)
• Image::ExifTool (+1=38)
• IO::All (+1=68)
• Jenkins::API (+1=7)
• Keyword::Simple (+1=16)
• libnet (+1=29)
• Mail::Sender::Easy (+1=2)
• Minion (+1=89)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::WithCSRFProtection (+1=2)
• Moo (+1=293)
• Moose (+1=322)
• Plack (+1=228)
• Term::ProgressBar (+1=28)
• Test::MockTime (+1=13)
• Type::Tiny (+1=132)
• WWW::Mechanize (+1=94)
• XML::XSH2 (+1=3)

(dlii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-09-24 20:59:55 GMT

---

1. cross-platform techniques to determine screen dimensions - [3/2]
2. How to detect XSS Reflect with Perl - [3/1]
3. Perl regex capture each character as one group - [2/3]
4. Perl :: Translate String "yyyy.mm.dd.hh.mm.ss" into DateTime object? - [2/2]
5. How can I regexp capture the string between 2 specific sets of double underscores? - [2/2]

(cdx) 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::IPerl - Perl language kernel for Jupyter
   • Version: 0.012 on 2022-09-14
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.011 was 8 months, 21 days before
2. Exporter::Tiny - an exporter with the features of Sub::Exporter but only core dependencies
   • Version: 1.004002 on 2022-09-16
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.004001 was 7 days before
3. HTTP::BrowserDetect - Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
   • Version: 3.37 on 2022-09-15
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 3.36 was 15 days before
4. JSON::MaybeXS - Use Cpanel::JSON::XS with a fallback to JSON::XS and JSON::PP
   • Version: 1.004004 on 2022-09-17
   • Votes: 46
   • Previous version: 1.004003 was 1 year, 10 months, 4 days before
5. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 9.27 on 2022-09-12
   • Votes: 475
   • Previous version: 9.26 was 3 months, 20 days before
6. OpenAPI::Client - A client for talking to an Open API powered server
   • Version: 1.06 on 2022-09-11
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 1.05 was 25 days before
7. Regexp::Grammars - Add grammatical parsing features to Perl 5.10 regexes
   • Version: 1.058 on 2022-09-15
   • Votes: 36
   • Previous version: 1.057 was 2 years, 3 months, 24 days before
8. Starman - High-performance preforking PSGI/Plack web server
   • Version: 0.4016 on 2022-09-13
   • Votes: 111
   • Previous version: 0.4015 was 3 years, 3 months, 23 days before
9. YAML::LibYAML - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
   • Version: 0.85 on 2022-09-12
   • Votes: 46
   • Previous version: 0.84 was 9 days before

(dxxiii) metacpan weekly report - app::paperback

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 33

Week's winner: app::paperback (+2)

Build date: 2022/09/17 20:19:14 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Inabajun::Utils - The great new Acme::Inabajun::Utils!
• Alien::Libtensorflow - Alien for Libtensorflow machine learning library C API
• App::bookmarks - Export browser bookmarks as plain text.
• App::Greple::subst - Greple module for text search and substitution
• App::Greple::update - Greple module to update file content
• App::GUI::Harmonograph - sculpting beautiful circular drawings
• Mojo::Darkpan - A Mojolicious web service frontend leveraging OrePAN2

Increasing its reputation:

• AI::MXNet (+1=35)
• Android::Build (+1=7)
• API::Google (+1=5)
• app::paperback (+2=3)
• App::plenv (+1=2)
• Data::ULID (+1=4)
• Data::Validate::IP (+1=11)
• DBIx::Connector (+1=44)
• Google::reCAPTCHA::v3 (+1=2)
• Log::Dispatch::FileRotate (+1=4)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=96)
• Mite (+1=6)
• Mojolicious (+1=475)
• Net::Google::Drive (+1=5)
• next::XS (+1=7)
• Object::Pad (+1=31)
• PDF::Tiny (+1=4)
• PDL (+1=47)
• POE (+1=52)
• Regexp::Grammars (+1=36)
• SPVM (+1=27)
• Term::Twiddle (+1=2)
• Term::VTerm (+1=2)
• ZooKeeper (+1=4)

(dli) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-09-17 20:17:22 GMT

---

1. Is anything inside the string changed after binding operations? - [4/1]
2. Parsing time stamps and calculating difference - [3/2]
3. How do I call a named parameter Python function from Perl? - [2/3]
4. Perl :: Accessing Members of an Object with `use strict` Set? - [2/2]
5. Read from process before write with open3 in perl - [2/1]

(cdix) 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: 2.68 on 2022-09-05
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.67 was 2 days before
2. Exporter::Tiny - an exporter with the features of Sub::Exporter but only core dependencies
   • Version: 1.004001 on 2022-09-09
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.004000 was 14 days before
3. FFI::CheckLib - Check that a library is available for FFI
   • Version: 0.29 on 2022-09-10
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.28 was 1 year, 3 months, 25 days before
4. IO::AIO - Asynchronous/Advanced Input/Output
   • Version: 4.78 on 2022-09-06
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 4.76 was 1 year, 1 month, 10 days before
5. Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability
   • Version: 2.75 on 2022-09-05
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.74 was 1 year, 11 months, 26 days before
6. OrePAN2 - Yet another DarkPAN manager.
   • Version: 0.49 on 2022-09-06
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.48 was 1 year, 6 months, 9 days before
7. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
   • Version: 1.056 on 2022-09-05
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 1.055 was 2 months, 2 days before
8. Plack - Perl Superglue for Web frameworks and Web Servers (PSGI toolkit)
   • Version: 1.0050 on 2022-09-05
   • Votes: 227
   • Previous version: 1.0049 was 4 days before
9. PPR - Pattern-based Perl Recognizer
   • Version: 0.001006 on 2022-09-08
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 0.001004 was 1 month before
10. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9652 on 2022-09-09
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9650 was 7 days before
11. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000133 on 2022-09-07
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.000128 was 5 days before

(dxxii) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 22

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2022/09/10 20:57:55 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Attribute::Lexical - sane scoping of function/variable attributes
• Test2::Tools::DOM - Tools to test HTML/XML-based DOM representations
• Text::Pipe - Common text filter API
• USCIS::Case - Perl extensions to check USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) case status. More features would be added in the future.

Increasing its reputation:

• accessors (+1=5)
• Carton (+1=118)
• Config::General (+1=27)
• Data::Dumper (+1=98)
• Linux::Capabilities (+1=2)
• List::MoreUtils (+1=111)
• Net::DNS (+1=24)
• Net::SSLeay (+1=23)
• Net::TacacsPlus (+1=2)
• Parser::MGC (+1=12)
• perl (+1=398)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=160)
• Software::License (+1=13)
• Test::MockObject (+1=24)
• Test::utf8 (+1=8)
• Text::CSV (+1=71)
• Unicode::LineBreak (+1=10)
• YAML::LibYAML (+1=46)

(dl) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-09-10 20:56:26 GMT

---

1. Using Dist::Zilla dist.ini how can I have files that I only use for testing? - [2/2]
2. How to split an array of bytes avoiding to truncate in the middle of an unicode extended grapheme cluster - [2/1]
3. Using Dist::Zilla dist.ini how can I set alternate dependencies? - [2/1]
4. Default Perl accessor for objects - [2/1]
5. Plot Graph in Console by printing special character say * and spaces using matrix structure in Perl - [2/1]

(cdviii) 23 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: 2.66 on 2022-09-01
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.65 was 2 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.055001 on 2022-09-02
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.055000 was 16 days before
3. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
   • Version: 6.89 on 2022-09-01
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 6.88 was 2 months, 29 days before
4. DBIx::Connector - Fast, safe DBI connection and transaction management
   • Version: 0.58 on 2022-08-29
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 0.56 was 6 years, 5 months, 13 days before
5. Devel::MAT - Perl Memory Analysis Tool
   • Version: 0.48 on 2022-08-30
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 0.47 was 4 months, 28 days before
6. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 2.01 on 2022-08-30
   • Votes: 57
   • Previous version: 2.01 was before
7. HTTP::BrowserDetect - Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
   • Version: 3.36 on 2022-08-31
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 3.35 was 10 months, 12 days before
8. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.075 on 2022-09-02
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 2.074 was 7 months, 26 days before
9. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 5.11 on 2022-08-30
   • Votes: 30
   • Previous version: 5.10 was 13 days before
10. Log::Log4perl - Log4j implementation for Perl
    • Version: 1.56 on 2022-09-02
    • Votes: 95
    • Previous version: 1.55 was 3 months, 1 day before
11. Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
    • Version: 1.13 on 2022-08-30
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 1.03 was 10 years, 4 months, 8 days before
12. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.8006 on 2022-09-03
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 3.8005 was 3 months, 2 days before
13. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.124 on 2022-09-02
    • Votes: 172
    • Previous version: 0.122 was 7 months, 17 days before
14. Plack - Perl Superglue for Web frameworks and Web Servers (PSGI toolkit)
    • Version: 1.0049 on 2022-09-01
    • Votes: 227
    • Previous version: 1.0048 was 1 year, 9 months, 1 day before
15. PLS - Perl Language Server
    • Version: 0.902 on 2022-08-30
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.899 was 5 months, 28 days before
16. Proc::Fork - simple, intuitive interface to the fork() system call
    • Version: 0.808 on 2022-09-03
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.807 was 24 days before
17. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 5.001 on 2022-09-03
    • Votes: 60
    • Previous version: 4.025 was 1 month, 6 days before
18. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 5.001 on 2022-09-03
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 4.025 was 1 month, 6 days before
19. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 5.001 on 2022-09-03
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 4.025 was 1 month, 6 days before
20. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9650 on 2022-09-02
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9645 was 8 days before
21. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000128 on 2022-09-02
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.000125 was 1 month, 24 days before
22. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.016010 on 2022-08-31
    • Votes: 131
    • Previous version: 1.016009 was 4 days before
23. YAML::LibYAML - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
    • Version: 0.84 on 2022-09-03
    • Votes: 45
    • Previous version: 0.83 was 1 year, 3 months, 26 days before

(dxxi) metacpan weekly report - Data::Dumper

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 73

Week's winners (+3): Data::Dumper

Build date: 2022/09/03 20:28:59 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Dot - Call methods with the dot operator
• Date::Darian::Mars - the Darian calendar for Mars
• FTN::Packet - Reading or writing Fidonet Technology Networks (FTN) packets.
• Hydrogen - utilities for the simplest elements of Perl
• Test::HTTP::MockServer::Once - Implement a one shot mock HTTP server for use in tests
• Unicode::SetAutomaton - UTF-8 based DFAs and Regexps from Unicode sets

Increasing its reputation:

• app::paperback (+2=2)
• App::perlbrew (+1=171)
• App::Sqitch (+1=41)
• Badger (+1=3)
• Bible::OBML (+1=2)
• Carp (+1=68)
• Compress::LZW (+1=3)
• Config::Tiny (+1=32)
• Data::Dumper (+3=98)
• DateTime (+1=206)
• DBD::CSV (+1=23)
• Devel::Kit (+1=6)
• Devel::KYTProf (+1=7)
• Devel::REPL (+1=63)
• Encoding::FixLatin (+1=4)
• Encoding::FixLatin::XS (+1=2)
• English::Script (+1=2)
• FFmpeg (+1=2)
• File::Path (+1=44)
• File::Temp (+1=58)
• File::Util (+1=3)
• Filesys::DiskUsage (+1=3)
• Forks::Queue (+1=3)
• Forks::Super (+1=11)
• Gantry (+1=2)
• IO::Tty (+1=6)
• JSON::Path (+1=10)
• libnet (+1=28)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=95)
• Log::Minimal (+1=12)
• Math::AnyNum (+1=7)
• Math::Complex (+1=9)
• Minilla (+1=57)
• Moose (+1=321)
• Net::CLI::Interact (+1=6)
• Net::OpenSSH (+1=39)
• Net::Ping (+1=13)
• Net::Wireless::802_11::WPA::CLI (+1=2)
• Object::Remote (+2=20)
• PAR::Packer (+1=41)
• PLS (+1=12)
• Pod::Markdown (+1=32)
• Regexp::Util (+1=8)
• Search::Tools (+1=7)
• Sereal (+1=60)
• Sereal::Decoder (+1=22)
• Sereal::Encoder (+1=21)
• Smart::Comments (+1=42)
• Sub::Override (+1=13)
• Sys::Syslog (+1=7)
• Test::Most (+1=38)
• Text::CSV_XS (+1=96)
• Tie::Simple (+1=2)
• Time::HiRes (+1=60)
• ToolSet (+1=8)
• Try::Tiny (+1=170)
• Type::Tiny (+1=131)
• Unicode::Normalize (+1=9)
• Unicode::UTF8 (+1=20)
• URI::Router (+1=3)
• VideoLAN::LibVLC (+1=2)
• Vlc::Engine (+1=2)
• WebService::Dropbox (+1=7)

(dxlix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-09-03 20:26:18 GMT

---

1. How can I wrap a Perl function but still use it as a reference? - [6/2]
2. How to make a function that takes a block which requires $a and $b but is in different package than caller in perl? - [2/2]
3. Load zlib compressed data from a file with data offset in Perl - [2/1]
4. Perl/Catalyst $c->uri_for() issue in Windows IIS10/FastCGI - [2/1]
5. What is a "handle" in Perl? - [1/3]