(cdxxix) 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. App::cpanminus::reporter - send cpanm output to CPAN Testers
   • Version: 0.18 on 2023-01-23
   • Votes: 36
   • Previous version: 0.17 was 6 years, 8 months, 29 days before
2. autodie - Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
   • Version: 2.35 on 2023-01-27
   • Votes: 58
   • Previous version: 2.34 was 2 years, 5 days before
3. Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
   • Version: 5.77 on 2023-01-23
   • Votes: 27
   • Previous version: 5.74 was 3 years, 3 days before
4. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
   • Version: 1.35 on 2023-01-22
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 0.77 was 3 years, 6 months, 15 days before
5. Function::Parameters - define functions and methods with parameter lists ("subroutine signatures")
   • Version: 2.001005 on 2023-01-27
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 2.001004 was 7 days before
6. IO - Perl core IO modules
   • Version: 1.51 on 2023-01-23
   • Votes: 57
   • Previous version: 1.50 was 8 months, 20 days before
7. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.081 on 2023-01-25
   • Votes: 46
   • Previous version: 2.080 was 7 days before
8. Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert CSS, Less, Sass, JavaScript and CoffeeScript files
   • Version: 2.14 on 2023-01-27
   • Votes: 49
   • Previous version: 2.13 was 1 year, 10 months, 14 days before
9. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
   • Version: 2.2203 on 2023-01-22
   • Votes: 325
   • Previous version: 2.2202 was 8 days before
10. Net::OpenSSH - Perl SSH client package implemented on top of OpenSSH
    • Version: 0.83 on 2023-01-22
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 0.82 was 10 months, 17 days before
11. PLS - Perl Language Server
    • Version: 0.905 on 2023-01-21
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.902 was 4 months, 22 days before
12. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9686 on 2023-01-27
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9683 was 7 days before
13. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000142 on 2023-01-25
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.000141 was 1 month, 10 days before
14. Tie::File - Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
    • Version: 1.06 on 2023-01-23
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.05 was 2 years, 11 months, 27 days before
15. YAML::LibYAML - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
    • Version: 0.86 on 2023-01-26
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 0.85 was 4 months, 14 days before

(dxlii) metacpan weekly report

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

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2023/01/28 20:50:55 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Alien::Role::Dino - Experimental support for dynamic share Alien install
• AnyEvent::RipeRedis::Cluster - Non-blocking Redis Cluster client
• AnyEvent::Stomper - Flexible non-blocking STOMP client
• Chemistry::Harmonia - Decision of simple and difficult chemical puzzles.
• Lingua::RU::Numeral - Perl extension for generate Russian wording of numerals from the natural numbers and 0 (zero).
• Math::Assistant - functions for various exact algebraic calculations
• Task::BeLike::RJBS - be more like RJBS -- use the modules he likes!

Increasing its reputation:

• ack (+1=127)
• AnyEvent::RipeRedis (+1=3)
• App::Cmd (+1=45)
• App::cpanminus (+1=271)
• App::perlbrew (+1=172)
• Archive::Tar::Wrapper (+1=6)
• Ask (+1=11)
• autodie (+1=58)
• autovivification (+1=26)
• Bitcoin::BIP39 (+1=2)
• CPAN (+1=37)
• Devel::MAT (+1=29)
• Devel::MAT::Tool::Object::Pad (+1=2)
• Domain::PublicSuffix (+1=7)
• Exporter::Easy (+1=5)
• ExtUtils::MakeMaker (+1=52)
• Feature::Compat::Class (+1=2)
• IO::Async (+1=69)
• libintl::perl (+1=9)
• Memory::Stats (+1=2)
• Memory::Usage (+1=7)
• Minion (+1=92)
• Mo (+1=40)
• Mojolicious (+1=478)
• MOP (+1=10)
• Neo4j::Bolt (+1=2)
• Neo4j::Driver (+1=4)
• Net::Domain::ExpireDate (+1=3)
• Net::SFTP::Foreign (+1=24)
• Net::SFTP::Foreign::Backend::Net_SSH2 (+1=3)
• Number::Bytes::Human (+1=9)
• PadWalker (+1=26)
• Paws (+1=55)
• Proc::Simple (+1=3)
• Redis::ClusterRider (+1=3)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=59)
• Text::CSV (+1=72)
• Type::Tiny (+1=134)
• WordPress::XMLRPC (+1=2)

(dlxx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-28 20:49:22 GMT

---

1. Open a scalar as a file in Perl - [4/1]
2. Perl JSON arrays within a parent key - [3/2]
3. Get the first item of the list returned by function - [2/3]
4. How to use File-Rename aka Perl's rename in Windows? - [2/1]
5. Cast array into list - [2/1]

(cdxxviii) 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
   • Version: 2.77 on 2023-01-20
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.76 was 22 days before
2. Class::Method::Modifiers - Provides Moose-like method modifiers
   • Version: 2.14 on 2023-01-16
   • Votes: 29
   • Previous version: 2.13 was 3 years, 5 months, 6 days before
3. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
   • Version: 6.030 on 2023-01-19
   • Votes: 179
   • Previous version: 6.029 was 1 month, 24 days before
4. Function::Parameters - define functions and methods with parameter lists ("subroutine signatures")
   • Version: 2.001004 on 2023-01-20
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 2.001003 was 5 years, 2 months, 9 days before
5. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.080 on 2023-01-18
   • Votes: 46
   • Previous version: 2.078 was 1 month, 7 days before
6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20230120 on 2023-01-20
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 5.20221220 was 1 month before
7. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.9683 on 2023-01-20
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 0.9681 was 7 days before
8. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
   • Version: v9.0.0 on 2023-01-16
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: v8.10.0 was 1 month, 8 days before
9. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
   • Version: 2.002001 on 2023-01-20
   • Votes: 133
   • Previous version: 2.002000 was 19 days before

(dxli) metacpan weekly report - IO::Socket::SSL

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 53

Week's winner: IO::Socket::SSL (+2)

Build date: 2023/01/21 20:28:45 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• CPU::Z80::Disassembler - Disassemble the flow of a Z80 program
• Dancer2::Logger::Log4perl - Dancer2 logger interface for Log4perl.
• Fl - Bindings for the Stable 1.3.x Branch of the Fast Light Toolkit
• Lingua::RU::Antimat - Perl Module for removal Russian slang from chat, guestbooks, etc.
• Lingua::RU::Preposition - Lingua::RU::Preposition - Russian preposition choosing
• Test::Pod::LinkCheck::Lite - Test POD links

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpanminus (+1=270)
• AppConfig (+1=7)
• Capture::Tiny (+1=98)
• Carmel (+1=28)
• CGI::Application::Plugin::ValidateRM (+1=2)
• Config::INI (+1=20)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+1=44)
• Crypt::Rijndael (+1=8)
• Dancer2 (+1=131)
• Data::Page (+1=18)
• DBM::Deep (+1=26)
• Devel::Camelcadedb (+1=6)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CopyFilesFromBuild (+1=9)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaProvides::Package (+1=4)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodWeaver (+1=15)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::Kwalitee (+1=8)
• Email::MIME::Kit (+1=10)
• FASTX::Reader (+1=5)
• File::MimeInfo (+1=9)
• HTML5::DOM (+1=12)
• Import::Base (+1=17)
• IO::Socket::SSL (+2=46)
• IO::Tty (+1=7)
• IUP (+1=12)
• Lingua::Identify (+1=2)
• Lingua::RU::Inflect (+1=3)
• Linux::FD (+1=3)
• Mail::Message (+1=2)
• MailTools (+1=9)
• Mo (+1=39)
• Myriad (+1=6)
• Net::DNS (+1=25)
• Path::Tiny (+1=173)
• perl (+1=401)
• Perl::Build (+1=22)
• Perl::Critic::Pulp (+1=4)
• Perl::Dist::APPerl (+1=6)
• Perl::PrereqScanner (+1=22)
• Proc::Simple (+1=2)
• Task::Kensho (+1=115)
• Text::ASCIITable (+1=18)
• Text::Markdown::Hoedown (+1=14)
• Tickit (+1=25)
• Tie::Hash::DBD (+1=5)
• Util::H2O (+1=8)
• Web::Query (+1=30)

(dlxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-21 20:26:32 GMT

---

1. Printing hash of array as values with Dumper leads to infinite recursion - [4/1]
2. Importing subroutines from parent class - [3/2]
3. Can you print the subroutine's argument name in Perl? - [2/2]
4. Why doesn't Perl recognize the file name? - [2/1]
5. Convert text to value hexadecimal - [2/1]

(cdxxvii) 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::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.313 on 2023-01-13
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.309 was 7 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.060004 on 2023-01-11
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.060003 was 28 days before
3. Config::INI - simple .ini-file format
   • Version: 0.029 on 2023-01-14
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 0.028 was 13 days before
4. CPAN::Uploader - upload things to the CPAN
   • Version: 0.103018 on 2023-01-14
   • Votes: 24
   • Previous version: 0.103017 was 13 days before
5. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
   • Version: 1.15 on 2023-01-12
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 1.14 was 13 days before
6. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodWeaver - weave your Pod together from configuration and Dist::Zilla
   • Version: 4.010 on 2023-01-12
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 4.009 was 1 year, 6 months, 23 days before
7. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::ReportPrereqs - Report on prerequisite versions during automated testing
   • Version: 0.029 on 2023-01-08
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.028 was 2 years, 4 months, 27 days before
8. Email::Address - RFC 2822 Address Parsing and Creation
   • Version: 1.913 on 2023-01-10
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 1.912 was 4 years, 10 days before
9. Email::MIME - easy MIME message handling
   • Version: 1.953 on 2023-01-09
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 1.952 was 1 year, 26 days before
10. Email::Simple - simple parsing of RFC2822 message format and headers
    • Version: 2.218 on 2023-01-09
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 2.216 was 4 years, 7 months, 3 days before
11. Email::Stuffer - A more casual approach to creating and sending Email:: emails
    • Version: 0.020 on 2023-01-11
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.018 was 2 years, 6 months, 8 days before
12. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
    • Version: 2.2202 on 2023-01-14
    • Votes: 325
    • Previous version: 2.2201 was 1 year, 2 months, 7 days before
13. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.78 on 2023-01-12
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 0.77 was 24 days before
14. Pod::Weaver - weave together a Pod document from an outline
    • Version: 4.019 on 2023-01-12
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 4.018 was 1 year, 6 months, 23 days before
15. Redis - Perl binding for Redis database
    • Version: 2.000 on 2023-01-13
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 1.999 was 11 months, 30 days before
16. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9681 on 2023-01-13
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9680 was 7 days before

(dxl) metacpan weekly report - Test::Named

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 27

Week's winner: Test::Named (+2)

Build date: 2023/01/14 20:12:27 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Anki::Import - Anki note generation made easy.
• App::ansicolumn - ANSI sequence aware column command

Increasing its reputation:

• AI::MXNet (+1=36)
• App::Licensecheck (+1=3)
• autovivification (+1=25)
• AWS::Signature4 (+1=5)
• Carmel (+1=27)
• Data::Printer (+1=144)
• ExtUtils::MakeMaker (+1=51)
• IO::Pager (+1=7)
• Mail::IMAPClient (+1=11)
• Mojolicious (+1=477)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::NYTProf (+1=17)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::RenderFile (+1=18)
• Number::Phone (+1=16)
• Perl::Critic::Community (+1=6)
• Pod::Simple (+1=18)
• Pod::Weaver (+1=33)
• Scope::Upper (+1=13)
• Syntax::Keyword::Dynamically (+1=6)
• Template::Toolkit (+1=140)
• Test2::Suite (+1=38)
• Test::Named (+2=2)
• Text::Markdown (+1=24)
• XML::Loy (+1=7)
• XS::Parse::Sublike (+1=2)

(dlxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-14 20:09:45 GMT

---

1. Perl print "$(" - [3/1]
2. How to shorten this Perl expression - [3/1]
3. What happens if I assign two DBI connections in a row to a variable? - [2/2]
4. Combine category with code name [DS code format] - [2/2]
5. regex which will identify text containing a | but only if it is not within ' anywhere else in the text - [2/2]

(cdxxvi) 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. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.309 on 2023-01-06
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.307 was 5 days before
2. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
   • Version: 4.55 on 2023-01-03
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 4.54 was 11 months before
3. Dancer - lightweight yet powerful web application framework
   • Version: 1.3520 on 2023-01-02
   • Votes: 145
   • Previous version: 1.3513 was 2 years, 11 months, 4 days before
4. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
   • Version: 0.60 on 2023-01-06
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 0.59 was 1 year, 5 days before
5. Devel::TraceUse - show the modules your program loads, recursively
   • Version: 2.097 on 2023-01-04
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.096 was 4 years, 5 days before
6. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
   • Version: 1.884 on 2023-01-05
   • Votes: 94
   • Previous version: 1.882 was 1 month, 2 days before
7. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
   • Version: 1.880 on 2023-01-04
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.879 was 1 month, 1 day before
8. Modern::Perl - enable all of the features of Modern Perl with one import
   • Version: 1.20230106 on 2023-01-06
   • Votes: 50
   • Previous version: 1.20220515 was 7 months, 22 days before
9. Moo - Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
   • Version: 2.005005 on 2023-01-05
   • Votes: 294
   • Previous version: 2.005004 was 1 year, 9 months, 7 days before
10. Params::ValidationCompiler - Build an optimized subroutine parameter validator once, use it forever
    • Version: 0.31 on 2023-01-07
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.30 was 4 years, 5 months, 7 days before
11. Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
    • Version: 1.148 on 2023-01-07
    • Votes: 126
    • Previous version: 1.146 was 16 days before
12. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
    • Version: 1.48 on 2023-01-02
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 1.47 was 7 months, 28 days before
13. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
    • Version: 0.85 on 2023-01-04
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.84 was 1 year, 10 months, 6 days before
14. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9680 on 2023-01-06
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9675 was 10 days before
15. Test::Deep - Extremely flexible deep comparison
    • Version: 1.204 on 2023-01-07
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 1.130 was 2 years, 10 months, 6 days before
16. Test::Routine - composable units of assertion
    • Version: 0.030 on 2023-01-06
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.029 was 5 days before
17. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.49 on 2023-01-03
    • Votes: 96
    • Previous version: 1.48 was 7 months, 9 days before
18. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 2.002000 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 133
    • Previous version: 2.002000 was before

(dxxxix) 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: 2023/01/08 07:13:20 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::GUI::Cellgraph - draw pattern by cellular automata
• Dancer2::Template::MojoTemplate - Mojo::Template wrapper for Dancer2
• MooseX::App::Plugin::ZshCompletion - zsh completion for your MooseX::App applications
• Regexp::Melody - Melody is a language that compiles to regular expressions, while aiming to be more readable and maintainable

Increasing its reputation:

• Acme::Bleach (+1=10)
• autodie (+1=57)
• Chart::Gnuplot (+1=9)
• Class::Plain (+1=3)
• Config::Tiny (+1=33)
• Dancer::Plugin::NYTProf (+1=9)
• Dancer::Template::MojoTemplate (+1=2)
• Devel::StackTrace (+1=25)
• Devel::Trace (+1=22)
• Devel::TraceUse (+1=14)
• Dumbbench (+1=16)
• Exception::Class (+1=25)
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::Rust (+1=10)
• Import::Into (+1=37)
• Iterator::Simple (+1=7)
• libnet (+1=30)
• MCE (+1=94)
• Minion (+1=91)
• Modern::Perl (+1=50)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::NYTProf (+1=16)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Status (+1=13)
• Paws (+1=54)
• perl (+1=401)
• Quiq (+1=2)
• SQL::Abstract (+1=72)
• SQL::Abstract::Pg (+1=3)
• Statistics::Descriptive (+1=20)
• Storable::Improved (+1=4)
• Test::Modern (+1=9)
• XML::Loy (+1=6)

(dlxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-08 07:12:02 GMT

---

1. How do I wrap this shell command in Perl? - [2/3]
2. Can anyone spot the problem in my for loop in Perl? - [2/3]
3. Resolving a symlink without readlink utility - [2/3]
4. perl Curses and unicode: why addstr prints fine whereas addstring prints garbage? - [2/1]
5. Fastest way to transpose large, space delimited text file - [1/1]

metacpan most voted distributions in 2022

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2022

1. perl (+21)
2. Mojolicious (+18)
3. Object::Pad (+14)
4. MooseX::Extended (+11)
5. Carmel (+11)
6. Perl::Critic (+10)
7. Log::Log4perl (+10)
8. Getopt::Long (+10)
9. DBI (+10)
10. Carton (+10)
11. SPVM (+9)
12. Moo (+9)
13. libwww::perl (+8)
14. WWW::Mechanize (+8)
15. Feature::Compat::Try (+8)
16. Devel::NYTProf (+8)
17. App::cpanminus (+8)
18. Util::H2O (+7)
19. Type::Tiny (+7)
20. Text::Table (+7)

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2022 group by month

• 2022-01

Crypt::Passphrase (+3)
perl (+3)


• 2022-02

Net::Prometheus (+2)
Parallel::Pipes (+2)


• 2022-03

CGI::Tiny (+2)
Carton (+2)


• 2022-04

Email::Simple (+3)
Acme::Inabajun::Utils (+2)


• 2022-05

Carmel (+9)
perl (+5)


• 2022-06

MooseX::Extended (+7)
Test2::Suite (+5)


• 2022-07

DBI (+4)
Object::Pad (+3)


• 2022-08

PAR::Packer (+4)
Try::Tiny (+4)


• 2022-09

app::paperback (+3)
App::GUI::Harmonograph (+2)


• 2022-10

Text::Table (+5)
perl (+4)


• 2022-11

Getopt::Long (+4)
Perl::Dist::APPerl (+4)


• 2022-12

IO::FD (+3)
Util::H2O (+3)

13 best perl distributions created at 2022 (metacpan rating)

This list contains distributions created at 2022

1. MooseX::Extended (+11)
2. Term::Graille (+5)
3. Perl::Dist::APPerl (+5)
4. Dancer2::Plugin::FormValidator (+5)
5. pEFL (+3)
6. Value::Diff (+3)
7. Syntax::Operator::In (+3)
8. Storable::Improved (+3)
9. Regex::Object (+3)
10. JavaScript::QuickJS (+3)
11. IO::FD (+3)
12. Getopt::App (+3)
13. App::GUI::Harmonograph (+3)

10 best Perl questions at stackoverflow in 2022

This is the ten most rated questions at 2022 Stack Overflow.
Between brackets: question score & answers count
Built date: 2023/01/01 12:19:05 GMT

---

1. Why does Perl allow functions to be declared without being defined? - [21/5]
2. Difference in Perl regex variable $+{name} and $-{name} - [10/1]
3. What does `/regex/o` really mean (once there was once, but it seems gone now)? - [8/2]
4. Editing the last instance in a file - [7/6]
5. Perl/Raku succinct webserver one-liner? - [7/3]
6. Perl: speed of s/// with variable in replacement - [7/2]
7. Do all my perl module .pm files need a `$VERSION` definition? - [7/2]
8. Autoload'd calls fail via Inline::Perl5 in Raku - [7/1]
9. What does this perl snippet with unary plus do? join( '/', splice @t, 0, +@d ) - [6/3]
10. How can I wrap a Perl function but still use it as a reference? - [6/2]

(cdxxv) 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: 2.76 on 2022-12-29
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.75 was 7 days before
2. App::Cmd - write command line apps with less suffering
   • Version: 0.335 on 2022-12-31
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 0.334 was 1 year, 6 months, 12 days before
3. App::Uni - command-line utility to find or display Unicode characters
   • Version: 9.006 on 2022-12-31
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 9.005 was 1 year, 6 months, 12 days before
4. Config::INI - simple .ini-file format
   • Version: 0.028 on 2023-01-01
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 0.027 was 1 year, 6 months, 8 days before
5. CPAN::Uploader - upload things to the CPAN
   • Version: 0.103017 on 2023-01-01
   • Votes: 24
   • Previous version: 0.103016 was 1 year, 2 months, 1 day before
6. Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
   • Version: 0.005 on 2022-12-26
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.004 was 11 months, 28 days before
7. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
   • Version: 1.14 on 2022-12-30
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 1.13 was 11 months, 7 days before
8. Excel::Writer::XLSX - Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
   • Version: 1.10 on 2022-12-30
   • Votes: 58
   • Previous version: 1.09 was 1 year, 7 months, 16 days before
9. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
   • Version: 7.66 on 2022-12-25
   • Votes: 50
   • Previous version: 7.64 was 1 year, 8 days before
10. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
    • Version: 1.34 on 2022-12-30
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.33 was 1 month, 3 days before
11. Getopt::Long::Descriptive - Getopt::Long, but simpler and more powerful
    • Version: 0.111 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 0.110 was 1 year, 2 months, 1 day before
12. JSON::PP - JSON::XS compatible pure-Perl module.
    • Version: 4.16 on 2022-12-30
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 4.12 was 2 months, 22 days before
13. Marpa::R2 - Release 2 of Marpa
    • Version: 12.000000 on 2022-12-25
    • Votes: 48
    • Previous version: 10.000000 was 5 months, 26 days before
14. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.36 on 2022-12-30
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 1.35 was 2 months, 26 days before
15. Perl::PrereqScanner - a tool to scan your Perl code for its prerequisites
    • Version: 1.025 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.024 was 1 year, 5 months, 29 days before
16. Pod::Man - Convert POD data to various other formats
    • Version: 5.01 on 2022-12-25
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 5.00 was 1 month before
17. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
    • Version: 8.00 on 2022-12-29
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 7.717 was 5 months, 1 day before
18. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9675 on 2022-12-27
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9672 was 4 days before
19. Sub::Exporter - a sophisticated exporter for custom-built routines
    • Version: 0.989 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 0.988 was 1 year, 6 months, 12 days before
20. Sub::Install - install subroutines into packages easily
    • Version: 0.929 on 2022-12-31
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.928 was 8 years, 6 months, 5 days before
21. Test::Fatal - incredibly simple helpers for testing code with exceptions
    • Version: 0.017 on 2022-12-31
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 0.016 was 2 years, 4 months, 22 days before
22. Test::Routine - composable units of assertion
    • Version: 0.029 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.028 was 1 year, 6 months, 12 days before
23. Throwable - a role for classes that can be thrown
    • Version: 1.001 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 1.000 was 1 year, 6 months, 5 days before

(dxxxviii) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 20

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2023/01/01 09:50:08 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Data::Dimensions - Strongly type values with physical units
• Data::SIprefixes - This helps with working with numbers with SI prefixed measures.
• DateTime::Format::Bork - Bork! Bork! Bork!
• Math::Calc::Units - Human-readable unit-aware calculator
• Test::Named - Perl extension for named tests. Inspired on this:

Increasing its reputation:

• App::Cmd (+1=44)
• Array::Utils (+1=11)
• Bitcoin::RPC::Client (+1=8)
• CPAN::Upload::Tiny (+1=3)
• CPAN::Uploader (+1=24)
• DateTime::Format::Natural (+1=18)
• HTTP::Message (+1=62)
• libwww::perl (+1=160)
• Mojolicious (+1=476)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::SetUserGroup (+1=3)
• Moo (+1=294)
• Net::CIDR::Lite (+1=6)
• Physics::Unit (+1=5)
• strictures (+1=23)
• Text::QRCode (+1=6)

(dlxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-01 09:49:01 GMT

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1. Why does a variable in Perl not respect a `package` statement? - [6/2]
2. Perl: Filehandle storing the full file content and not each line - [3/2]
3. Perl: What does this "=~s|" mean in Perl? - [2/0]
4. Reading from a File Based on a String Input - [1/3]
5. Parsing data using Perl - [1/1]