# where we turn Perl inside out: marzo 2023

26 mar 2023

(cdxxxvii) 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.

App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
- Version: 2.322 on 2023-03-23, with 12 votes
- Previous version: 2.320 was 9 days before
- Author: KUERBIS
Archive::Tar - Manipulates TAR archives
- Version: 3.00 on 2023-03-25, with 16 votes
- Previous version: 2.40 was 1 year, 7 months, 29 days before
- Author: BINGOS
Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
- Version: 0.012 on 2023-03-22, with 13 votes
- Previous version: 0.010 was 8 days before
- Author: LEONT
DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
- Version: 2.59 on 2023-03-24, with 19 votes
- Previous version: 2.57 was 3 months, 10 days before
- Author: DROLSKY
Devel::MAT - Perl Memory Analysis Tool
- Version: 0.51 on 2023-03-23, with 29 votes
- Previous version: 0.50 was 20 days before
- Author: PEVANS
Excel::Writer::XLSX - Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
- Version: 1.11 on 2023-03-19, with 58 votes
- Previous version: 1.10 was 2 months, 20 days before
- Author: JMCNAMARA
Exporter::Tiny - an exporter with the features of Sub::Exporter but only core dependencies
- Version: 1.006001 on 2023-03-24, with 21 votes
- Previous version: 1.006000 was 4 months, 3 days before
- Author: TOBYINK
ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
- Version: 7.70 on 2023-03-26, with 52 votes
- Previous version: 7.68 was 12 days before
- Author: BINGOS
File::Map - Memory mapping made simple and safe.
- Version: 0.68 on 2023-03-25, with 19 votes
- Previous version: 0.67 was 2 years, 9 months before
- Author: LEONT
Net::Cmd - Collection of network protocol modules
- Version: 3.15 on 2023-03-20, with 30 votes
- Previous version: 3.14 was 9 months, 29 days before
- Author: SHAY
Log::Any - Bringing loggers and listeners together
- Version: 1.714 on 2023-03-20, with 61 votes
- Previous version: 1.713 was 3 months, 8 days before
- Author: PREACTION
Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
- Version: 5.20230320 on 2023-03-21, with 41 votes
- Previous version: 5.20230220 was 1 month, 1 day before
- Author: BINGOS
PDL - Perl Data Language
- Version: 2.082 on 2023-03-22, with 47 votes
- Previous version: 2.081 was 4 months, 28 days before
- Author: ETJ
Scope::Upper - Act on upper scopes.
- Version: 0.34 on 2023-03-26, with 13 votes
- Previous version: 0.33 was 1 year, 3 months, 6 days before
- Author: VPIT
SPVM - SPVM Language
- Version: 0.9696 on 2023-03-22, with 28 votes
- Previous version: 0.9695 was 16 days before
- Author: KIMOTO
Term::Choose - Choose items from a list interactively.
- Version: 1.759 on 2023-03-26, with 14 votes
- Previous version: 1.758 was 9 days before
- Author: KUERBIS
Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
- Version: 0.000150 on 2023-03-21, with 40 votes
- Previous version: 0.000148 was 16 days before
- Author: EXODIST
YAML::Tiny - Read/Write YAML files with as little code as possible
- Version: 1.74 on 2023-03-23, with 31 votes
- Previous version: 1.73 was 5 years, 1 month, 2 days before
- Author: ETHER

(dl) metacpan weekly report - Prima

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 54

Week's winner (+3): Prima

Build date: 2023/03/26 17:47:43 GMT

Clicked for first time:

AnyEvent::MPV - remote control mpv (https://mpv.io)
AsposeCellsCloud::CellsApi - Aspose.Cells Cloud SDK for Perl
DBD::RAM - a DBI driver for files and data structures
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Keywords - Add keywords to metadata in your distribution
Lingua::Jspell - Perl interface to the Jspell morphological analyser.
Mail::Action - base for building modules that act on incoming mail
SPVM::IO - File IO, Socket, Select/Polling.

Increasing its reputation:

App::Pod (+1=2)
Class::Accessor (+1=20)
Const::Fast (+1=34)
Crypt::Passphrase (+1=13)
Data::Password::zxcvbn (+1=7)
Date::ICal (+1=2)
DBD::AnyData (+1=3)
Devel::REPL (+2=68)
Dist::Zilla (+1=182)
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CheckChangesHasContent (+1=8)
enum (+1=12)
experimentals (+1=4)
Glib::Object::Introspection (+1=15)
Lingy (+1=3)
List::Gen (+1=22)
match::simple (+1=14)
Math::Formula (+1=2)
Minion (+1=94)
Mojolicious (+2=481)
MooseX::Types::Structured (+1=8)
MooX::Types::MooseLike (+1=19)
namespace::clean (+1=27)
Net::Google::OAuth (+1=2)
Object::Pad (+1=36)
oo_sub (+1=2)
Pango (+1=6)
Parallel::Pipes (+2=5)
Perl::Tidy (+1=132)
PerlPowerTools (+1=36)
Prima (+3=42)
Selenium::Remote::Driver (+1=47)
strictures (+1=24)
Term::Choose (+1=14)
Term::ReadLine (+1=8)
Test2::Suite (+1=40)
Time::Moment (+1=72)
TOML::Tiny (+1=7)
Twiggy (+1=28)
URI (+1=108)
XML::Fast (+1=14)
XML::LibXML (+1=96)
XXX (+1=14)

(dlxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-03-26 17:46:05 GMT

removing ^M and new line while reading XML document - [2/2]
Perl Gtk2::Window->list_toplevels - [2/2]
Running perl script and getting "Error in option spec:" - [2/1]
<STDIN> vs $name substring search - one works other doesn't - [1/2]
Workarounds to print .00001 in perl - [1/1]

19 mar 2023

(cdxxxvi) 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.

App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
- Version: 2.320 on 2023-03-14, with 12 votes
- Previous version: 2.316 was 23 days before
- Author: KUERBIS
Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
- Version: 0.010 on 2023-03-14, with 12 votes
- Previous version: 0.009 was 5 days before
- Author: LEONT
ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
- Version: 7.68 on 2023-03-14, with 52 votes
- Previous version: 7.66 was 2 months, 20 days before
- Author: BINGOS
FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
- Version: 2.07 on 2023-03-14, with 58 votes
- Previous version: 2.05 was 3 months, 28 days before
- Author: PLICEASE
Future - represent an operation awaiting completion
- Version: 0.50 on 2023-03-17, with 56 votes
- Previous version: 0.49 was 5 months before
- Author: PEVANS
Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
- Version: 0.65 on 2023-03-17, with 45 votes
- Previous version: 0.64 was 1 month, 3 days before
- Author: PEVANS
Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
- Version: 1.37 on 2023-03-13, with 25 votes
- Previous version: 1.36 was 2 months, 14 days before
- Author: NLNETLABS
Net::Server - Extensible Perl internet server
- Version: 2.014 on 2023-03-14, with 31 votes
- Previous version: 2.013 was 3 months, 11 days before
- Author: RHANDOM
Term::Choose - Choose items from a list interactively.
- Version: 1.758 on 2023-03-17, with 13 votes
- Previous version: 1.757 was 8 months before
- Author: KUERBIS
Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
- Version: 1.302194 on 2023-03-14, with 182 votes
- Previous version: 1.302193 was 8 days before
- Author: EXODIST

(dxlix) metacpan weekly report - Playwright

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 40

Week's winner: Playwright (+2)

Build date: 2023/03/19 07:07:48 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Affix - A Foreign Function Interface eXtension
Data::Roundtrip - convert between Perl data structures, YAML and JSON with unicode support (I believe ...)
Lingua::RU::Numeral - Perl extension for generate Russian wording of numerals from the natural numbers and 0 (zero).
Mojolicious::Plugin::DirectoryServer - Serve static files from document root with directory index
Net::Google::OAuth - Simple Google oauth api module
Parse::Deb::Control - parse and manipulate debian/control in a controlable way
PerlX::ScopeFunction - new keywords for creating scopes.
Terse - Lightweight Web Framework
WWW::Contact - Get contacts/addressbook from Web
WWW::Google::Contacts - Google Contacts Data API

Increasing its reputation:

app::paperback (+1=4)
App::RecordStream (+1=11)
Business::ISMN (+1=2)
Cassandra::Client (+1=4)
Chart::GGPlot (+1=10)
CPANPLUS (+1=13)
Data::Compare (+1=11)
Data::Frame (+1=9)
Games::Chess (+1=2)
Google::RestApi (+1=4)
Hydrogen (+1=2)
Imager (+1=62)
MCE (+1=96)
Net::MQTT::Simple (+1=4)
Nice::Try (+1=7)
PDL::Graphics::Prima (+1=7)
Perldoc::Server (+1=5)
Playwright (+2=5)
Search::Elasticsearch (+1=45)
Syntax::Keyword::Defer (+1=10)
Template::Toolkit (+1=141)
Time::Moment (+1=71)
Twitter::API (+1=6)
UNIVERSAL::Object (+1=13)
Venus (+1=2)
WWW::Mechanize (+1=95)
WWW::Mechanize::Chrome (+1=19)
WWW::Mechanize::Firefox (+1=23)
X11::Protocol (+1=5)

(dlxxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-03-19 07:05:48 GMT

11 mar 2023

(cdxxxv) 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.

Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
- Version: 2.78 on 2023-03-07, with 22 votes
- Previous version: 2.77 was 1 month, 18 days before
- Author: PLICEASE
App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
- Version: 2.060010 on 2023-03-10, with 14 votes
- Previous version: 2.060007 was 7 days before
- Author: OLIVER
Class::Method::Modifiers - Provides Moose-like method modifiers
- Version: 2.15 on 2023-03-05, with 29 votes
- Previous version: 2.15 was before
- Author: ETHER
Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
- Version: 0.009 on 2023-03-09, with 12 votes
- Previous version: 0.007 was 25 days before
- Author: LEONT
DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
- Version: 3.16.1 on 2023-03-06, with 92 votes
- Previous version: 3.16.0 was 6 months, 29 days before
- Author: TURNSTEP
JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
- Version: 5.14 on 2023-03-06, with 31 votes
- Previous version: 5.13 was 2 months, 28 days before
- Author: JHTHORSEN
Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
- Version: 3.9001 on 2023-03-07, with 16 votes
- Previous version: 3.9000 was 2 days before
- Author: DCANTRELL
Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
- Version: 20230309 on 2023-03-08, with 132 votes
- Previous version: 20221112 was 3 months, 27 days before
- Author: SHANCOCK
Rex - the friendly automation framework
- Version: 1.14.1 on 2023-03-05, with 82 votes
- Previous version: 1.14.0 was 1 month, 6 days before
- Author: FERKI
SPVM - SPVM Language
- Version: 0.9695 on 2023-03-06, with 28 votes
- Previous version: 0.9694 was 3 days before
- Author: KIMOTO
Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
- Version: 1.302193 on 2023-03-06, with 182 votes
- Previous version: 1.302192 was 1 month, 4 days before
- Author: EXODIST
Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
- Version: 1.000151 on 2023-03-08, with 13 votes
- Previous version: 1.000150 was 7 days before
- Author: EXODIST
Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
- Version: 0.000148 on 2023-03-05, with 39 votes
- Previous version: 0.000147 was 7 days before
- Author: EXODIST

(dxlviii) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 45

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2023/03/11 22:14:10 GMT

Clicked for first time:

App::PerlNitpick - change-suggester about insignificant details.
jacode - Perl program for Japanese character code conversion
MsOffice::Word::Template - generate Microsoft Word documents from Word templates
WWW::PiHole - Perl interface to Pi-hole

Increasing its reputation:

AI::MXNet (+1=37)
Algorithm::Combinatorics (+1=25)
App::cpanminus (+1=274)
App::Pod (+1=2)
Carton (+1=119)
CGI (+1=42)
common::sense (+1=23)
CPAN::Audit (+1=8)
Data::Table (+1=20)
Data::UUID (+1=30)
DBD::Pg (+1=92)
Digest::SHA (+1=25)
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CopyFilesFromBuild (+1=10)
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Pod2Readme (+1=6)
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ReadmeFromPod (+1=7)
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ReadmeMarkdownFromPod (+1=4)
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Run (+1=10)
Email::MIME (+1=19)
Faker (+1=11)
File::Slurp (+1=72)
Inline (+1=37)
local::lib (+1=89)
MIME::Lite (+1=32)
Mojolicious::Plugin::OAuth2 (+1=18)
MooseX::Extended (+1=10)
Net::Todoist (+1=2)
PDF::API2 (+1=29)
PDF::Builder (+1=6)
PDF::WebKit (+1=14)
Perl::Tidy (+1=132)
PPR (+1=19)
Prima (+1=39)
Quiq (+1=3)
Syntax::Keyword::Defer (+1=9)
Test2::Suite (+1=39)
Test::Nginx (+1=2)
Test::Simple (+1=182)
Time::Piece (+1=54)
WebService::GoogleAPI::Client (+1=2)
WWW::Mechanize (+1=94)
XS::Parse::Keyword::FromPerl (+1=3)

(dlxxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-03-11 22:12:37 GMT

5 mar 2023

(cdxxxiv) 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.

App::Ack - A grep-like program for searching source code
- Version: v3.7.0 on 2023-02-27, with 127 votes
- Previous version: v3.6.0 was 6 months, 6 days before
- Author: PETDANCE
App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
- Version: 2.060007 on 2023-03-03, with 14 votes
- Previous version: 2.060005 was 10 days before
- Author: OLIVER
CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
- Version: 4.56 on 2023-03-03, with 41 votes
- Previous version: 4.55 was 2 months before
- Author: LEEJO
Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
- Version: 4.36 on 2023-03-02, with 44 votes
- Previous version: 4.35 was 8 days before
- Author: RURBAN
Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
- Version: 6.91 on 2023-03-01, with 17 votes
- Previous version: 6.90 was 2 months, 30 days before
- Author: SBECK
Devel::MAT - Perl Memory Analysis Tool
- Version: 0.50 on 2023-03-03, with 29 votes
- Previous version: 0.49 was 5 months before
- Author: PEVANS
GraphViz - Interface to AT&T's GraphViz. Deprecated. See GraphViz2
- Version: 2.26 on 2023-03-03, with 14 votes
- Previous version: 2.25 was 6 months, 14 days before
- Author: ETJ
HTTP::BrowserDetect - Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
- Version: 3.38 on 2023-03-03, with 22 votes
- Previous version: 3.37 was 5 months, 18 days before
- Author: OALDERS
LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
- Version: 6.68 on 2023-02-27, with 160 votes
- Previous version: 6.67 was 8 months, 13 days before
- Author: OALDERS
Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
- Version: 1.150 on 2023-03-05, with 127 votes
- Previous version: 1.148 was 1 month, 29 days before
- Author: PETDANCE
PPR - Pattern-based Perl Recognizer
- Version: 0.001007 on 2023-03-02, with 18 votes
- Previous version: 0.001006 was 5 months, 24 days before
- Author: DCONWAY
Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
- Version: 1.68002 on 2023-03-02, with 38 votes
- Previous version: 1.68 was 5 days before
- Author: KARASIK
SPVM - SPVM Language
- Version: 0.9694 on 2023-03-03, with 28 votes
- Previous version: 0.9692 was 11 days before
- Author: KIMOTO
Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
- Version: 1.000150 on 2023-03-01, with 13 votes
- Previous version: 1.000148 was 6 days before
- Author: EXODIST
Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
- Version: 0.000147 on 2023-03-04, with 38 votes
- Previous version: 0.000145 was 1 year before
- Author: EXODIST
Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
- Version: 1.50 on 2023-03-01, with 96 votes
- Previous version: 1.49 was 1 month, 29 days before
- Author: HMBRAND

(dxlvii) metacpan weekly report - Env::Assert

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 52

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

Build date: 2023/03/05 12:33:41 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Antsy - Streaming ANSI escape sequences
File::KDBX - Encrypted database to store secret text and files
Music::CreatingRhythms - Combinatorial algorithms to generate rhythms
Object::Pad::Keyword::Accessor - declare lvalue accessors on Object::Pad classes
PDL::PrimaImage - interface between PDL scalars and Prima images
Weather::Meteo - Interface to https://open-meteo.com for historical weather data
WWW::PiHole - Perl interface to Pi-hole
WWW::Shorten - Interface to URL shortening sites.

Increasing its reputation:

Acme::Comment (+1=3)
Alien (+1=4)
App::cpanminus (+1=273)
App::financeta (+1=3)
Carmel (+1=29)
Changes (+1=2)
Compress::Zstd (+1=6)
Devel::Size (+1=21)
Dist::Zilla (+1=181)
Env::Assert (+3=5)
Env::Dot (+1=2)
Ethereum::RPC::Client (+1=3)
FindBin (+1=5)
HTML::Mason (+1=12)
IO (+1=58)
libwww::perl (+1=160)
local::lib (+1=88)
Mason (+1=26)
Mojo::IRC (+1=14)
Net::MQTT::Simple (+1=3)
Params::Check (+1=5)
Perl::Critic (+1=127)
Perl::Tidy (+1=131)
Perlanet (+1=4)
Prima (+1=38)
Reply::Plugin (+1=0)
Rex::Test::Spec (+1=3)
RxPerl (+1=11)
Sendmail::PMilter (+1=2)
Sentinel (+1=7)
Slack::WebHook (+1=4)
Spreadsheet::Read (+1=30)
SPVM (+1=28)
SQL::Abstract::Pg (+1=4)
String::Util (+1=14)
Test::Harness (+1=60)
Test::Simple (+1=181)
Thread::GoChannel (+1=2)
Toadfarm (+1=19)
URI (+1=107)
Web::API (+1=4)
WWW::Google::Translate (+1=2)

(dlxxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-03-05 12:32:39 GMT