(cdxxxiii) 13 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: 2.316 on 2023-02-19, with 12 votes
   • Previous version: 2.315 was 6 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.060005 on 2023-02-21, with 14 votes
   • Previous version: 2.060004 was 1 month, 10 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
3. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.35 on 2023-02-22, with 44 votes
   • Previous version: 4.32 was 6 months, 9 days before
   • Author: RURBAN
4. Digest::SHA - Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512
   • Version: 6.04 on 2023-02-25, with 24 votes
   • Previous version: 6.03 was 6 months, 17 days before
   • Author: MSHELOR
5. HTTP::Daemon - A simple http server class
   • Version: 6.16 on 2023-02-24, with 12 votes
   • Previous version: 6.14 was 11 months, 21 days before
   • Author: OALDERS
6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20230220 on 2023-02-20, with 41 votes
   • Previous version: 5.20230120 was 1 month before
   • Author: BINGOS
7. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
   • Version: 5.09 on 2023-02-20, with 41 votes
   • Previous version: 5.08 was 2 months, 11 days before
   • Author: JHTHORSEN
8. Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
   • Version: 1.68 on 2023-02-25, with 37 votes
   • Previous version: 1.67001 was 13 days before
   • Author: KARASIK
9. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
   • Version: 0.87 on 2023-02-22, with 29 votes
   • Previous version: 0.86 was 15 days before
   • Author: HMBRAND
10. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9692 on 2023-02-20, with 27 votes
    • Previous version: 0.9691 was 12 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
11. SQL::Translator - SQL DDL transformations and more
    • Version: 1.63 on 2023-02-23, with 42 votes
    • Previous version: 1.62 was 2 years, 5 months, 9 days before
    • Author: VEESH
12. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000148 on 2023-02-23, with 13 votes
    • Previous version: 1.000145 was 7 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
13. Tie::File - Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
    • Version: 1.07 on 2023-02-20, with 14 votes
    • Previous version: 1.06 was 28 days before
    • Author: TODDR

(dxlvi) metacpan weekly report - Env::Assert

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 39

Week's winner (+3): Env::Assert

Build date: 2023/02/25 21:26:08 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• BibTeX::Parser - A pure perl BibTeX parser
• Changes - Changes file management
• English::Name - ${^ENGLISH_NAME} for magic variables
• Env::Dot - Read environment variables from .env file
• Mail::RFC822::Address - Perl extension for validating email addresses according to RFC822
• Math::Formula - Expressions on steriods
• PDF::Collage - PDF manipulation with scissors and glue
• Thread::GoChannel - Fast thread queues with go-like semantics

Increasing its reputation:

• autobox (+1=27)
• Crypt::LE (+1=11)
• Env::Assert (+3=3)
• Game::Entities (+1=3)
• HTTP::Tiny (+1=106)
• HTTP::Tiny::UA (+1=4)
• IO::Async (+1=70)
• IPC::Shm::Simple (+1=2)
• latest (+1=5)
• libwww::perl (+2=160)
• Linux::LXC (+1=4)
• Method::Signatures (+1=38)
• MooseX::Extended (+1=10)
• perl (+1=402)
• perl5i (+1=31)
• POSIX::2008 (+1=2)
• Prima (+1=37)
• Promises (+1=41)
• Sereal (+1=61)
• Slack::WebHook (+1=3)
• SPVM (+1=27)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=61)
• Test::Exception (+1=40)
• true (+1=7)
• VideoLAN::LibVLC (+1=3)
• Vlc::Engine (+1=3)
• XML::RSS (+1=7)
• YAML::LibYAML (+1=46)

(dlxxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-02-25 21:24:38 GMT

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1. Remote Perl CGI interactive debugging on VSCode - [3/1]
2. perl grep output from file - [3/1]
3. perl read data from textfile - [2/2]
4. perl get matched pattern in text file - [2/2]
5. Comparing two undefs in Perl - [2/2]

(cdxxxii) 8 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: 2.315 on 2023-02-13
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.314 was 10 days before
2. Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
   • Version: 0.007 on 2023-02-12
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.006 was 4 days before
3. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.64 on 2023-02-14
   • Votes: 45
   • Previous version: 0.62 was 1 month, 25 days before
4. match::simple - simplified clone of smartmatch operator
   • Version: 0.012 on 2023-02-15
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.011 was 2 months, 2 days before
5. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
   • Version: v3.1.21 on 2023-02-17
   • Votes: 59
   • Previous version: v3.1.20 was 3 months, 4 days before
6. parent - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
   • Version: 0.241 on 2023-02-14
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 0.239 was 2 months, 8 days before
7. Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
   • Version: 1.67001 on 2023-02-12
   • Votes: 36
   • Previous version: 1.67 was 2 months, 15 days before
8. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
   • Version: 1.000145 on 2023-02-16
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 1.000142 was 22 days before

(dxlv) metacpan weekly report - XS::Parse::Keyword::FromPerl

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

Week's winner: XS::Parse::Keyword::FromPerl (+2)

Build date: 2023/02/18 22:14:23 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Alien::Boost::Headers - Find or build Boost Headers
• Alien::Rust - Find or build Rust
• Class::Discover - detect MooseX::Declare's 'class' keyword in files.
• Devel::Deprecations::Environmental - deprecations for your code's surroundings
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Prereqs::AuthorDeps - Add Dist::Zilla authordeps to META files as develop prereqs
• Neo4j::Cypher::Abstract - Generate Cypher queries in Perl
• PAUSE::Packages - interface to PAUSE's packages file (02packages.details.txt)
• Pod::Elemental - work with nestable Pod elements
• Project2::Gantt - Generate Gantt images
• Task::BeLike::RWP - Perl modules bundle to install from CPAN
• Unicode::EastAsianWidth::Detect - Detect CJK Language

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpm (+1=64)
• Dist::Zilla::Config::Slicer (+1=6)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaProvides (+1=3)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaProvides::Class (+1=3)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaProvides::Package (+1=5)
• Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::DAGOLDEN (+1=8)
• Email::Valid (+1=33)
• Feature::Compat::Class (+1=3)
• Graph (+1=27)
• Module::Build (+1=45)
• Mojar::Cron (+1=2)
• Neo4j::Bolt (+1=2)
• Net::IP::XS (+1=4)
• perl (+1=402)
• Perl::LanguageServer (+1=27)
• Pod::Elemental::Transformer::List (+1=8)
• SPVM (+1=26)
• Term::Prompt (+1=3)
• Text::VisualWidth::PP (+1=2)
• Unicode::EastAsianWidth (+1=6)
• Workflow (+1=6)
• XS::Parse::Keyword::FromPerl (+2=2)

(dlxxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-02-18 22:06:41 GMT

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1. Confusion about using perl @_ variable with regex capture - [3/1]
2. DBI: are schema and table-name enough for a qualified table name? - [3/0]
3. Perl 5: How to suppress @var interpolation in regex patterns - [2/3]
4. How to distinguish numbers from ip addresses in regular expressions? - [2/3]
5. How to access a tag in xml that ends with specific text using ends-with - [2/2]

(cdxxxi) 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. Catmandu - a data toolkit
   • Version: 1.2020 on 2023-02-08
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.2019 was 10 months, 18 days before
2. Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
   • Version: 0.006 on 2023-02-08
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.005 was 1 month, 13 days before
3. Dancer - lightweight yet powerful web application framework
   • Version: 1.3521 on 2023-02-08
   • Votes: 146
   • Previous version: 1.3520 was 1 month, 6 days before
4. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
   • Version: 0.400001 on 2023-02-05
   • Votes: 131
   • Previous version: 0.400000 was 10 months, 22 days before
5. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
   • Version: 0.9726 on 2023-02-11
   • Votes: 27
   • Previous version: 0.9725 was 1 year, 4 months, 1 day before
6. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
   • Version: 2.204 on 2023-02-08
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 2.201 was 7 months, 13 days before
7. Perl::LanguageServer - Language Server and Debug Protocol Adapter for Perl
   • Version: v2.5.0 on 2023-02-05
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 2.4.0 was 2 months, 17 days before
8. Rex - the friendly automation framework
   • Version: 1.14.0 on 2023-02-05
   • Votes: 82
   • Previous version: 1.13.4 was 1 year, 7 months before
9. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
   • Version: 5.003 on 2023-02-08
   • Votes: 60
   • Previous version: 5.002 was 7 days before
10. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 5.003 on 2023-02-08
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 5.002 was 7 days before
11. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 5.003 on 2023-02-08
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 5.002 was 7 days before
12. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
    • Version: 0.86 on 2023-02-07
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.85 was 1 month, 3 days before
13. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9691 on 2023-02-08
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9689 was 7 days before
14. Struct::Dumb - make simple lightweight record-like structures
    • Version: 0.14 on 2023-02-11
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.13 was 5 months, 15 days before
15. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.16 on 2023-02-11
    • Votes: 94
    • Previous version: 2.15 was 5 months, 21 days before

(dxliv) metacpan weekly report - Object::Pad

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 57

Week's winner: Object::Pad (+2)

Build date: 2023/02/11 21:21:15 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::RWP - Add [@RWP] plugin bundle into dist.ini
• Games::Go::Coordinate - Represents a board coordinate in the game of Go
• Games::Go::Referee - Check the moves of a game of Go for rule violations.
• Games::Go::Sgf2Dg - Sgf2Dg.pm
• Games::Go::SGF2misc - Reads SGF files and produces usable output in many formats
• Games::Go::SGF2misc::SVG - Package to simplify SGF game rendering using Image::LibrSVG
• Graphics::Grid - An incomplete port of the R "grid" library to Perl
• jacode -
• Lingua::JA::Sort::JIS - compares and sorts strings encoded in UTF-8
• Mail::DMARC::Iterator - validate mails against DMARC policy the asynchronous way
• Net::Whois::IANA - Net::Whois::IANA - A universal WHOIS data extractor.
• oo_sub - Enable OOP for supported Perl functions
• sealed - Subroutine attribute for compile-time method lookups on its typed lexicals.
• ShiftJIS::Collate - collation of Shift-JIS strings
• ShiftJIS::CP932::MapUTF - transcode between Microsoft CP932 and Unicode
• ShiftJIS::Regexp - regular expressions in Shift-JIS
• ShiftJIS::String - functions to manipulate Shift-JIS strings
• ShiftJIS::X0213::MapUTF - conversion between Shift_JIS-2004/Shift_JISX0213 and Unicode
• String::Multibyte - manipulation of multibyte character strings
• WebService::UK::Parliament - Query the UK Parliament API

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpanminus (+1=272)
• App::cpm (+1=63)
• autodie (+1=59)
• builtins (+1=2)
• Carton (+1=118)
• Code::TidyAll (+1=39)
• cpan::outdated (+1=35)
• Dancer (+1=146)
• Date::Japanese::Era (+1=2)
• Date::Japanese::Holiday (+1=2)
• DBIx::Class (+1=281)
• Devel::CheckOS (+1=17)
• Devel::REPL (+1=66)
• experimentals (+1=3)
• Feature::Compat::Class (+1=3)
• Graph (+1=27)
• LWP::Authen::OAuth2 (+1=5)
• Mail::SPF::Iterator (+1=2)
• mb (+1=2)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Prometheus (+1=8)
• Object::Pad (+2=35)
• Parse::ErrorString::Perl (+1=4)
• perl (+1=402)
• Perl6::Export::Attrs (+1=4)
• Set::Object (+1=11)
• Set::Scalar (+1=17)
• SQL::Abstract::Complete (+1=4)
• Starman (+1=112)
• Storable (+1=50)
• System::Command (+1=18)
• Task::Perl::Critic (+1=2)
• Test::Perl::Critic::Progressive (+1=4)
• Tie::IxHash (+1=18)
• Time::HiRes (+1=61)
• Unicode::Regex::Set (+1=2)
• Zydeco (+1=19)

(cdxxx) 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. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.314 on 2023-02-03
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.313 was 21 days before
2. autodie - Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
   • Version: 2.36 on 2023-01-30
   • Votes: 58
   • Previous version: 2.35 was 3 days before
3. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
   • Version: 1.16 on 2023-02-04
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 1.15 was 23 days before
4. Devel::CheckOS - a script to package Devel::AssertOS modules with your code.
   • Version: 1.96 on 2023-02-04
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 1.95 was 3 months, 6 days before
5. experimental - Experimental features made easy
   • Version: 0.031 on 2023-01-31
   • Votes: 31
   • Previous version: 0.030 was 1 month, 21 days before
6. HTML::Parser - HTML parser class
   • Version: 3.81 on 2023-01-31
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 3.80 was 2 months, 30 days before
7. Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
   • Version: 1.16 on 2023-01-29
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 1.03 was 10 years, 9 months, 7 days before
8. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
   • Version: 5.002 on 2023-02-01
   • Votes: 60
   • Previous version: 5.001 was 4 months, 28 days before
9. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
   • Version: 5.002 on 2023-02-01
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 5.001 was 4 months, 28 days before
10. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 5.002 on 2023-02-01
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 5.001 was 4 months, 28 days before
11. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9689 on 2023-02-01
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9686 was 5 days before
12. String::Util - String processing utility functions
    • Version: 1.34 on 2023-02-01
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.32 was 1 year, 10 months, 6 days before
13. System::Command - Object for running system commands
    • Version: 1.122 on 2023-02-04
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 1.121 was 2 years, 8 months, 1 day before
14. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302192 on 2023-02-02
    • Votes: 180
    • Previous version: 1.302191 was 6 months, 24 days before

(dxliii) metacpan weekly report - Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 64

Week's winner: Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub (+2)

Build date: 2023/02/04 22:41:43 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Crypt::PK::ECC::Schnorr - Public key cryptography based on EC with Schnorr signatures
• Data::Validate::OpenAPI - Validate and untaint input parameters via OpenAPI schema
• Device::Chip::CC1101 - chip driver for a CC1101
• Device::Modbus::TCP - Distribution for Modbus TCP communications
• Dist::Zilla::Role::ModuleMetadata - A role for plugins that use Module::Metadata
• Domain::Details - Domain class with DNS/SSL/WHOIS fields
• Future::Queue - a FIFO queue of values that uses Futures
• Graph::Maker::Other - Create Graph.pm graph theory graphs of various kinds.
• OpenAPI::Render - Render OpenAPI specifications as documents
• Syntax::Operator::Divides - an infix operator for division test
• Syntax::Operator::ExistsOr - an infix operator sensitive to hash element existence
• Test2::Tools::Rustfmt - Test that bundled Rust code is formatted according to Rust style guidelines
• Text::Treesitter - Perl binding for tree-sitter
• Version::Dotted - Bump a dotted version, check if version is trial

Increasing its reputation:

• Babble (+1=3)
• BackPAN::Index (+1=5)
• Commandable (+1=2)
• Convert::Color (+1=8)
• CPAN::Changes (+1=31)
• Curses::UI (+1=19)
• DateTime (+1=209)
• DBI::Log (+1=2)
• Device::Chip (+1=2)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ChangelogFromGit (+1=7)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git (+1=44)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub (+2=16)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GithubMeta (+1=9)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::InstallGuide (+1=4)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::NextVersion::Semantic (+1=4)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::OnlyCorePrereqs (+1=5)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Twitter (+1=4)
• Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::ETHER (+1=4)
• Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::LEONT (+1=2)
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::Rust (+1=10)
• Firefox::Marionette (+1=14)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=45)
• Hash::Ordered (+1=32)
• Math::Matrix::MaybeGSL (+1=2)
• Module::Metadata (+1=14)
• MooseX::Has::Sugar (+1=2)
• MooseX::Types::URI (+1=5)
• Myriad (+1=7)
• PAR::Packer (+1=41)
• Path::Tiny (+1=174)
• Plack::Middleware::CrossOrigin (+1=5)
• Struct::Dumb (+1=14)
• SUPER (+1=6)
• Syntax::Construct (+1=10)
• Syntax::Keyword::Dynamically (+1=7)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=60)
• Test2::Plugin::NoWarnings (+1=3)
• Test::Directory (+1=2)
• Test::PerlTidy (+1=3)
• Text::Abbrev (+1=2)
• Text::CSV (+1=73)
• Text::Template (+1=23)
• Text::Xslate (+1=69)
• Tickit::Widgets (+1=6)
• Tk (+1=28)
• Try::Tiny (+1=172)
• Unix::Sudo (+1=2)
• UTF8::R2 (+1=4)
• With::Roles (+1=5)

(dlxxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-02-04 22:39:41 GMT

---

1. How to check if an array has an element that is not integer? - [3/3]
2. Remove upfront zeros from floating point lower than 1 in Perl - [3/2]
3. Perl: How to copy directory without any files? - [3/1]
4. Perl 5.18 | Archive::ZIP 1.68 | Recursive files not included in ZIP - [3/0]
5. Using gawk or sed to inplace change line after or before every other match - [2/5]