(cdxxiv) 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: 2.75 on 2022-12-22
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.74 was 25 days before
2. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.306 on 2022-12-23
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.304 was 2 months, 11 days before
3. Data::Alias - Comprehensive set of aliasing operations
   • Version: 1.28 on 2022-12-21
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 1.27 was 19 days before
4. Data::Printer - colored & full-featured pretty print of Perl data structures and objects
   • Version: 1.001000 on 2022-12-22
   • Votes: 143
   • Previous version: 1.000004 was 1 year, 9 months, 19 days before
5. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.62 on 2022-12-20
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 0.61 was 29 days before
6. JavaScript::V8 - Perl interface to the V8 JavaScript engine
   • Version: 0.11 on 2022-12-19
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 0.10 was 1 year, 7 months, 26 days before
7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20221220 on 2022-12-20
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 5.20221120 was 1 month before
8. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 9.31 on 2022-12-21
   • Votes: 476
   • Previous version: 9.30 was 28 days before
9. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.77 on 2022-12-19
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 0.75 was 5 days before
10. Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
    • Version: 1.146 on 2022-12-22
    • Votes: 126
    • Previous version: 1.144 was 16 days before
11. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9672 on 2022-12-23
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9667 was 7 days before

(dxxxvii) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 37

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2022/12/24 13:15:41 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• AI::TensorFlow::Libtensorflow - Bindings for Libtensorflow deep learning library
• constant::more - Assign values to constants from the command arguments
• Net::Wait - Wait on startup until the specified ports are listening

Increasing its reputation:

• Algorithm::Combinatorics (+1=24)
• App::elsquid (+1=2)
• App::tcpproxy (+1=2)
• CPAN::Changes (+1=30)
• Crypt::JWT (+1=21)
• DBD::Pg (+1=90)
• DBI (+1=260)
• Devel::Kit (+1=7)
• Digest::SHA3 (+1=7)
• Dumbbench (+1=15)
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::Rust (+1=9)
• HTTP::Proxy (+1=4)
• Limper (+1=6)
• Math::BigInt (+1=12)
• Math::Prime::Util (+1=20)
• Modern::Perl (+1=49)
• Mojo::JWT (+1=16)
• Mojo::Pg (+1=70)
• Mojolicious::Command::Author::generate::cpanfile (+1=3)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Bcrypt (+1=8)
• MongoDB (+1=87)
• Net::Proxy (+1=6)
• Net::SSH2 (+1=24)
• OptArgs (+1=16)
• OptArgs2 (+1=7)
• PathTools (+1=78)
• PDF::API2 (+1=28)
• Sys::Info::Base (+1=4)
• Task::Kensho (+1=115)
• Text::ANSITable (+1=19)
• Text::MultiMarkdown (+1=12)
• Types::Path::Tiny (+1=14)
• Util::H2O (+1=7)
• Util::H2O::More (+1=3)

(dlxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-12-24 13:10:53 GMT

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1. Hiding Warnings that Relate to Intentional Code in Perl - [4/1]
2. Why is the Hashref passed to the Net::Ping constructor, set to an empty hashref after Net::Ping->new($args)? - [3/1]
3. Perl version changes? - [3/1]
4. perl oneliner print the array and other match in same print statement - [3/1]
5. Is there a difference betwen qq(<text>) and "<text>" in Perl? - [2/3]

(cdxxiii) 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. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.060003 on 2022-12-14
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.060000 was 5 days before
2. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.57 on 2022-12-14
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.56 was 1 month, 16 days before
3. File::Slurper - A simple, sane and efficient module to slurp a file
   • Version: 0.014 on 2022-12-16
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 0.013 was 11 months, 22 days before
4. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.078 on 2022-12-11
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 2.077 was 20 days before
5. List::SomeUtils - Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
   • Version: 0.59 on 2022-12-11
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 0.58 was 3 years, 1 month, 16 days before
6. Log::Any - Bringing loggers and listeners together
   • Version: 1.713 on 2022-12-12
   • Votes: 61
   • Previous version: 1.712 was 3 days before
7. match::simple - simplified clone of smartmatch operator
   • Version: 0.011 on 2022-12-13
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.010 was 5 years, 10 months, 13 days before
8. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.76 on 2022-12-16
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 0.74 was 12 days before
9. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.9667 on 2022-12-16
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 0.9665 was 7 days before
10. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000141 on 2022-12-15
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.000138 was 9 days before

(dxxxvi) metacpan weekly report - Catalyst::Runtime

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 48

Week's winner: Catalyst::Runtime (+2)

Build date: 2022/12/18 13:37:52 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::Prove::Plugin::PassEnv - a prove plugin to pass environment variables
• Bio::FastParsers - Classes for parsing bioinformatic programs output
• Bundle::Camelcade - Bundle of modules used by Perl5 plugin for IntelliJ IDEs
• LibUI - Simple, Portable, Native GUI Library
• oo_sub - Enable OOP for supported Perl functions
• String::Numeric::Whatever - It's a test implement to ignore the difference between E and cmp
• Try::ALRM - Provides try_once and retry semantics to CORE::alarm, similar to Try::Tiny.

Increasing its reputation:

• AnyEvent (+1=158)
• AWS::Lambda (+1=8)
• Carp::Assert (+1=6)
• Catalyst::Runtime (+2=154)
• CPAN::Meta (+1=25)
• CPAN::Reporter (+1=12)
• CPAN::Uploader (+1=23)
• Data::Dump (+1=38)
• Data::Printer (+1=143)
• Data::Xslate (+1=5)
• Date::ICal (+1=2)
• DBD::Pg (+1=89)
• Dist::Zilla (+1=179)
• Excel::Writer::XLSX (+1=58)
• ExtUtils::CBuilder (+1=7)
• ExtUtils::Manifest (+1=3)
• IO::FD (+1=3)
• IO::Prompter (+1=26)
• JSON::PP (+1=18)
• JSON::XS (+1=115)
• LaTeXML (+1=5)
• Make (+1=3)
• Minilla (+1=59)
• Module::Load (+1=29)
• Mojolicious (+1=476)
• Moose (+1=325)
• perl (+1=400)
• perl5i (+1=31)
• Perl::Examples (+1=2)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=130)
• Rex (+1=82)
• String::Random (+1=22)
• Sys::Cmd (+1=3)
• System::Command (+1=17)
• Task::Kensho (+1=114)
• Test::Simple (+1=180)
• Time::Piece (+1=54)
• Util::H2O (+1=6)
• Value::Diff (+1=3)
• YAML::PP (+1=14)

(dlxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-12-18 13:36:30 GMT

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1. In Perl, is there a limit to the number of capture groups in a Regular Expression? - [4/3]
2. How to empty the $table every iteration drawn using Text::SimpleTable - [3/1]
3. How can I detect end of file on a pipe in a Perl script? - [3/1]
4. How to expand a shell variable in a Perl command - [2/3]
5. Find last occurrences of a string from multiple files in a directory using perl - [2/2]

(cdxxii) 16 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: 2.060000 on 2022-12-09
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.059001 was 13 days before
2. experimental - Experimental features made easy
   • Version: 0.030 on 2022-12-10
   • Votes: 31
   • Previous version: 0.029 was 1 month, 16 days before
3. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 5.13 on 2022-12-09
   • Votes: 31
   • Previous version: 5.12 was 1 month, 14 days before
4. Log::Any - Bringing loggers and listeners together
   • Version: 1.712 on 2022-12-09
   • Votes: 61
   • Previous version: 1.711 was 17 days before
5. Module::Build - Build and install Perl modules
   • Version: 0.4232 on 2022-12-08
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 0.4231 was 2 years, 10 months, 10 days before
6. Mojo::IRC - IRC Client for the Mojo IOLoop
   • Version: 0.47 on 2022-12-09
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.46 was 1 year, 9 months, 20 days before
7. Mojo::mysql - Mojolicious and Async MySQL/MariaDB
   • Version: 1.26 on 2022-12-09
   • Votes: 36
   • Previous version: 1.25 was 1 year, 17 days before
8. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
   • Version: 5.08 on 2022-12-09
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 5.07 was 3 months, 23 days before
9. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.74 on 2022-12-04
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 0.72 was 4 days before
10. parent - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
    • Version: 0.239 on 2022-12-06
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.238 was 2 years, 9 months, 28 days before
11. Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
    • Version: 1.144 on 2022-12-06
    • Votes: 126
    • Previous version: 1.142 was 7 days before
12. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9665 on 2022-12-09
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9664 was 9 days before
13. Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.28 on 2022-12-08
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 0.27 was 9 months, 16 days before
14. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v8.10.0 on 2022-12-08
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: v8.9.0 was 1 month, 5 days before
15. Test::WWW::Mechanize - Testing-specific WWW::Mechanize subclass
    • Version: 1.60 on 2022-12-05
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 1.58 was 7 months, 6 days before
16. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000138 on 2022-12-06
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.000136 was 7 days before

(dxxxv) metacpan weekly report - Value::Diff

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 47

Week's winner (+3): Value::Diff

Build date: 2022/12/10 20:33:58 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• DateTime::TimeZone::Catalog::Extend - Extend DateTime::TimeZone catalog
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Babble - EXPERIMENTAL Automatic Babble substitution in Dist::Zilla
• Geo::UK::Postcode::Regex - regular expressions for handling British postcodes
• Git::Lint - lint git commits and messages
• Mojolicious::Plugin::HTMX - Mojolicious Plugin for htmx
• Text::Password::AutoMigration - generate and verify Password with any contexts

Increasing its reputation:

• App::CGIThis (+2=3)
• App::sdview (+1=5)
• Babble (+1=2)
• Catmandu (+1=21)
• Data::Frame (+1=9)
• Data::Printer (+1=142)
• Feature::Compat::Try (+1=14)
• File::Temp (+1=60)
• Hash::Wrap (+1=6)
• IO::FD (+1=2)
• KCP (+1=2)
• Mango (+1=43)
• Math::Prime::Util (+1=19)
• MCE (+2=93)
• Module::CoreList (+1=41)
• Net::GitHub (+1=27)
• Number::Range (+1=4)
• Object::Pad (+2=34)
• Padre (+1=38)
• Path::Tiny (+1=172)
• perl (+1=399)
• Perl::Critic (+1=126)
• Pithub (+1=20)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=164)
• Syntax::Keyword::Match (+1=5)
• Syntax::Keyword::Try (+1=38)
• Term::Graille (+1=4)
• Term::ProgressBar::Simple (+1=8)
• Test::Deep::Type (+1=4)
• Time::Piece (+1=53)
• Try::Tiny (+1=171)
• URL::Social (+1=5)
• Util::H2O (+1=5)
• Util::H2O::More (+1=2)
• Value::Diff (+3=3)
• XML::LibXML (+1=96)

(dlxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-12-10 20:31:03 GMT

---

1. How do I extract an array from a 2D array in Perl? - [5/1]
2. Get a list of classes derived from given base class in Perl - [3/2]
3. `perl -pe` match only start of file? - [3/2]
4. Perl executable crashes even though file is not missing - [3/1]
5. In perl is \*STDIN the same as STDIN? - [2/2]

(cdxxi) 16 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: 2.74 on 2022-11-27
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.73 was 7 days before
2. Data::Alias - Comprehensive set of aliasing operations
   • Version: 1.27 on 2022-12-02
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 1.25 was 1 year, 6 months, 22 days before
3. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
   • Version: 6.90 on 2022-12-02
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 6.89 was 3 months, 1 day before
4. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
   • Version: 1.33 on 2022-11-27
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 0.77 was 3 years, 4 months, 20 days before
5. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
   • Version: 1.882 on 2022-12-03
   • Votes: 91
   • Previous version: 1.881 was 1 month, 20 days before
6. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
   • Version: 1.879 on 2022-12-03
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.878 was 1 month, 24 days before
7. Net::Server - Extensible Perl internet server
   • Version: 2.013 on 2022-12-03
   • Votes: 31
   • Previous version: 2.010 was 1 year, 8 months, 12 days before
8. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
   • Version: 3.8007 on 2022-12-02
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 3.8006 was 2 months, 29 days before
9. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.73 on 2022-12-03
   • Votes: 32
   • Previous version: 0.71 was 1 month, 2 days before
10. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
    • Version: 1.057 on 2022-11-29
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 1.056 was 2 months, 24 days before
11. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.144 on 2022-12-01
    • Votes: 171
    • Previous version: 0.142 was 22 days before
12. Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
    • Version: 1.142 on 2022-11-29
    • Votes: 125
    • Previous version: 1.140 was 1 year, 8 months, 5 days before
13. Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
    • Version: 1.67 on 2022-11-27
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.66 was 3 months, 7 days before
14. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9664 on 2022-11-30
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9662 was 15 days before
15. Term::ReadLine::Gnu - Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library
    • Version: 1.45 on 2022-11-27
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 1.44 was 21 days before
16. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000136 on 2022-11-29
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.000133 was 2 months, 22 days before

(dxxxiv) metacpan weekly report - Perl::Dist::APPerl

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

Week's winner: Perl::Dist::APPerl (+2)

Build date: 2022/12/04 07:50:38 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• IO::FD - Faster accept, socket, listen with file descriptors, not handles
• IO::Tee - Multiplex output to multiple output handles
• KCP - Perl extension for skywind3000/kcp
• Linux::Joystick -
• Logging::Simple - Simple debug logging by number, with customizable labels and formatting
• results - why throw exceptions when you can return them?
• Role::RunAlone - prevent multiple instances of a script from running
• SPVM::Numpy - Numpy is the Python/NumPy porting to Perl/SPVM
• Template::Plugin::Cache - cache output of templates
• Terminal::Identify - Perl extension for recognising the terminal emulator in use.

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpm (+1=62)
• App::CSVUtils (+1=4)
• App::grindperl (+1=5)
• bareword::filehandles (+1=4)
• Capture::Tiny (+1=97)
• Class::Tiny (+1=34)
• Coro (+1=76)
• Crypt::JWT (+1=20)
• DateTime::Tiny (+1=10)
• Devel::REPL (+1=65)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Run (+1=9)
• Email::Sender (+1=48)
• Email::Simple (+1=21)
• ExtUtils::ParseXS (+1=4)
• Hash::Ordered (+1=31)
• HTML::Parser (+1=44)
• indirect (+1=9)
• IPC::Run (+1=36)
• JSON::XS (+1=114)
• Log::Any (+1=61)
• Log::ger (+1=11)
• Metrics::Any (+1=3)
• Moo (+1=292)
• MooseX::Getopt (+1=21)
• multidimensional (+1=4)
• Net::IMAP::Simple (+1=8)
• Net::Server (+1=31)
• PDF::Builder (+1=5)
• Perl::Critic (+1=125)
• Perl::Critic::Bangs (+1=6)
• Perl::Critic::Community (+1=5)
• Perl::Critic::Pulp (+1=3)
• Perl::Critic::TooMuchCode (+1=8)
• Perl::Dist::APPerl (+2=5)
• perlfaq (+1=11)
• Plack::Middleware::Greylist (+1=2)
• Pod::Tree (+1=3)
• strictures (+1=22)
• Tee (+1=2)
• Test::Deep (+1=52)
• Test::Harness (+1=59)
• URI (+1=107)
• UTF8::R2 (+1=3)
• Vlc::Engine (+1=3)
• XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint (+1=3)

(dlxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-12-04 07:49:14 GMT

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1. Hash key is storing only the last element of loop - [3/1]
2. Is there a way to reformat w/ zero-fill a regex match group? - [3/1]
3. perl code to search and replace a pattern - [2/3]
4. XMPP connection fails using perl client and ejabberd/ecs container - [1/2]
5. Why is my last line is always output twice? - [1/2]