(cdxlv) 5 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::HTTPThis - Export the current directory over HTTP
   • Version: 0.006 on 2023-05-25, with 23 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.004 was 10 days before
   • Author: DAVECROSS
2. Number::Format - Perl extension for formatting numbers
   • Version: 1.76 on 2023-05-26, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.75 was 7 years, 11 months, 1 day before
   • Author: RJBS
3. PDL - Perl Data Language
   • Version: 2.084 on 2023-05-21, with 51 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.083 was 21 days before
   • Author: ETJ
4. Software::License - packages that provide templated software licenses
   • Version: 0.104004 on 2023-05-24, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.104003 was 5 days before
   • Author: LEONT
5. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.985 on 2023-05-26, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.980 was 6 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO

(dlvii) metacpan weekly report - OpenAIGPT4

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 28

Week's winner (+3): OpenAIGPT4 

Build date: 2023/05/27 18:10:59 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Syntax::Kamelon - A versatile and fully programmable textual content parser that is extremely well suited for syntax highlighting and code folding

Increasing its reputation:

• AI::MXNet (+1=40)
• App::HTTPThis (+2=23)
• Data::MessagePack (+1=16)
• DBI (+1=263)
• Email::MIME (+1=20)
• Email::Sender (+1=49)
• Excel::Writer::XLSX (+1=60)
• Getopt::Long::Complete (+1=14)
• JIRA::REST (+1=15)
• Minion (+1=97)
• Mock::LWP::Request (+1=2)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack (+1=50)
• Net::DNS (+1=26)
• Net::IMAP::Client (+1=7)
• Net::OpenSSH (+1=41)
• Net::SSH (+1=5)
• Object::Pad (+1=37)
• OpenAIGPT4 (+3=4)
• PAR::Packer (+1=43)
• Path::Tiny (+1=178)
• Test2::Harness (+1=15)
• Win32::GUI (+1=9)
• XML::Twig (+1=59)
• XS::Parse::Sublike (+1=3)
• Zilla::Dist (+1=7)

(cdxliv) 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::HTTPThis - Export the current directory over HTTP
   • Version: 0.004 on 2023-05-15, with 21 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.002 was 12 years, 9 months, 17 days before
   • Author: DAVECROSS
2. CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
   • Version: 2.36 on 2023-05-14, with 38 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.35 was 17 days before
   • Author: ANDK
3. Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls - coveralls backend for Devel::Cover
   • Version: 0.32.1 on 2023-05-19, with 18 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.32 was 24 days before
   • Author: MIKIHOSHI
4. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.083 on 2023-05-18, with 47 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.081 was 3 months, 24 days before
   • Author: SULLR
5. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
   • Version: 0.53 on 2023-05-17, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.52 was 9 months before
   • Author: SYP
6. Perl::Build - perl builder
   • Version: 1.34 on 2023-05-16, with 22 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.33 was 1 year, 11 days before
   • Author: SKAJI
7. Pod::Simple - framework for parsing Pod
   • Version: 3.45 on 2023-05-15, with 18 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.43 was 1 year, 10 months, 17 days before
   • Author: KHW
8. Software::License - packages that provide templated software licenses
   • Version: 0.104003 on 2023-05-19, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.104002 was 11 months, 5 days before
   • Author: LEONT
9. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.980 on 2023-05-20, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.977 was 9 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO
10. Term::Choose - Choose items from a list interactively.
    • Version: 1.762 on 2023-05-16, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.761 was 18 days before
    • Author: KUERBIS

(dlvi) metacpan weekly report - Lingy

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

Week's winner: Lingy (+2)

Build date: 2023/05/20 20:32:46 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Declare::Constraints::Simple - Declarative Validation of Data Structures
• Lip::Pod - Convert Literate Perl to POD
• Mac::Alias - Read or create macOS alias files
• Mac::AppleScript - Perl extension to execute applescript commands on OS X
• Mac::Carbon - Carbon API for perl on Mac OS X
• Mac::CocoaDialog - script with CocoaDialog
• Mac::Glue - Control Mac apps with Apple event terminology
• Mac::iPhoto - reads in photo albums plist files of iPhoto.app on MacOS X and presents them as perl data structure.
• Mac::iTunes - interact with and control iTunes
• Mac::SleepEvent - run Perl code on Mac OS X sleep and wake events
• Net::Flickr::API - base API class for Net::Flickr::* libraries
• Pod::LaTeX - Convert Pod data to formatted Latex

Increasing its reputation:

• Alien::wxWidgets (+1=12)
• App::Dex (+1=4)
• App::FatPacker (+1=43)
• assign (+1=5)
• CAM::PDF (+1=11)
• Data::Dump (+1=39)
• Data::Printer (+1=145)
• DBD::Oracle (+1=31)
• File::HomeDir (+1=33)
• Flickr::API (+1=5)
• Flickr::API2 (+1=2)
• GD (+1=27)
• Lingy (+2=5)
• Mac::FindFile (+1=2)
• Memoize (+1=26)
• Module::Build (+1=46)
• Music::CreatingRhythms (+1=2)
• Net::SNMP (+1=11)
• Nice::Try (+1=9)
• OpenGL (+1=13)
• PDF::API2 (+1=29)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=134)
• Pod::Pdf (+1=4)
• Pod::S5 (+1=2)
• Pod::Server (+1=3)
• Pod::Tidy (+1=3)
• Pod::Tree (+1=4)
• Pod::Webserver (+1=3)
• podlators (+1=13)
• Readonly (+1=19)
• Rex (+1=83)
• Set::Bag (+1=4)
• Set::Equivalence (+1=2)
• Set::Object (+1=12)
• Set::Scalar (+1=18)
• Sys::Binmode (+1=6)
• Text::CSV_XS (+1=97)
• UI::Notify::Cocoa (+1=2)
• version (+1=21)
• WWW::Mechanize (+1=96)

(dlxxxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-05-20 20:30:43 GMT

---

1. Perl Regular expression to read square bracket - [3/2]
2. Want to change prefix characters, then add suffixed characters in changed string - [2/3]
3. Perl : Creating hash using array value - [1/3]
4. Convert the given time to site specific time in Perl - [1/1]
5. Error using my $json_data = decode_json(<$fh>); - [1/1]

(cdxliii) 28 great CPAN modules released last 2 weeks

Updates for great CPAN modules released last 2 weeks. 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: 2.80 on 2023-05-11, with 22 votes
   • Previous version: 2.78 was 2 months, 4 days before
   • Author: PLICEASE
2. App::cpanminus::reporter - send cpanm output to CPAN Testers
   • Version: 0.20 on 2023-05-07, with 37 votes
   • Previous version: 0.18 was 3 months, 15 days before
   • Author: GARU
3. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.324 on 2023-05-02, with 12 votes
   • Previous version: 2.322 was 1 month, 10 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
4. App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
   • Version: 0.97 on 2023-05-12, with 174 votes
   • Previous version: 0.96 was 9 months, 12 days before
   • Author: GUGOD
5. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
   • Version: 4.57 on 2023-05-02, with 42 votes
   • Previous version: 4.56 was 1 month, 30 days before
   • Author: LEEJO
6. Config::Any - Load configuration from different file formats, transparently
   • Version: 0.33 on 2023-05-03, with 26 votes
   • Previous version: 0.32 was 6 years, 10 days before
   • Author: HAARG
7. CPAN::Reporter - Adds CPAN Testers reporting to CPAN.pm
   • Version: 1.2019 on 2023-05-01, with 12 votes
   • Previous version: 1.2018 was 6 years, 10 months, 10 days before
   • Author: GARU
8. Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
   • Version: 0.016 on 2023-05-03, with 13 votes
   • Previous version: 0.015 was 29 days before
   • Author: LEONT
9. Devel::Cover - Code coverage metrics for Perl
   • Version: 1.40 on 2023-04-30, with 100 votes
   • Previous version: 1.39 was 2 days before
   • Author: PJCJ
10. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub - Plugins to integrate Dist::Zilla with GitHub
    • Version: 0.49 on 2023-04-30, with 16 votes
    • Previous version: 0.48 was 2 years, 2 months, 10 days before
    • Author: ETHER
11. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 2.08 on 2023-05-05, with 59 votes
    • Previous version: 2.07 was 1 month, 22 days before
    • Author: PLICEASE
12. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
    • Version: 1.37 on 2023-04-30, with 14 votes
    • Previous version: 0.77 was 3 years, 9 months, 23 days before
    • Author: DDICK
13. Getopt::Long::Complete - A drop-in replacement for Getopt::Long, with shell tab completion
    • Version: 0.317 on 2023-05-10, with 13 votes
    • Previous version: 0.316 was 1 year, 2 months, 23 days before
    • Author: PERLANCAR
14. JSON::MaybeXS - Use Cpanel::JSON::XS with a fallback to JSON::XS and JSON::PP
    • Version: 1.004005 on 2023-04-30, with 46 votes
    • Previous version: 1.004004 was 7 months, 13 days before
    • Author: ETHER
15. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.70 on 2023-04-30, with 162 votes
    • Previous version: 6.69 was 1 day before
    • Author: SIMBABQUE
16. Log::Any - Bringing loggers and listeners together
    • Version: 1.715 on 2023-05-04, with 61 votes
    • Previous version: 1.714 was 1 month, 15 days before
    • Author: PREACTION
17. Module::Build::Tiny - A tiny replacement for Module::Build
    • Version: 0.045 on 2023-04-30, with 15 votes
    • Previous version: 0.044 was 2 days before
    • Author: LEONT
18. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.32 on 2023-05-08, with 481 votes
    • Previous version: 9.31 was 4 months, 18 days before
    • Author: SRI
19. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.38 on 2023-05-09, with 25 votes
    • Previous version: 1.37 was 1 month, 27 days before
    • Author: NLNETLABS
20. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.79 on 2023-05-09, with 36 votes
    • Previous version: 0.78 was 3 months, 28 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
21. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.083 on 2023-04-30, with 51 votes
    • Previous version: 2.019 was 4 years, 11 months, 25 days before
    • Author: ETJ
22. Proc::ProcessTable - Perl extension to access the unix process table
    • Version: 0.635 on 2023-05-08, with 21 votes
    • Previous version: 0.634 was 1 year, 7 months, 12 days before
    • Author: JWB
23. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.14.2 on 2023-05-05, with 82 votes
    • Previous version: 1.14.1 was 2 months before
    • Author: FERKI
24. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.977 on 2023-05-11, with 31 votes
    • Previous version: 0.971008 was 14 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
25. UNIVERSAL::Object - A useful base class
    • Version: 0.17 on 2023-05-07, with 14 votes
    • Previous version: 0.16 was 4 years, 7 months, 15 days before
    • Author: STEVAN
26. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.19 on 2023-04-30, with 109 votes
    • Previous version: 5.18 was 1 day before
    • Author: SIMBABQUE
27. YAML::LibYAML - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
    • Version: 0.88 on 2023-05-12, with 50 votes
    • Previous version: 0.86 was 3 months, 17 days before
    • Author: INGY
28. YAML::PP - YAML 1.2 Processor
    • Version: 0.036 on 2023-05-10, with 15 votes
    • Previous version: 0.035 was 7 months, 10 days before
    • Author: TINITA

(dlv) metacpan weekly report - assign

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 150

Week's winners (+4): assign

Build date: 2023/05/13 19:48:07 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Onion - .🧅 file extension in Perl.
• App::td - Manipulate table data
• Clone::Util - Utilities related to cloning
• CPAN::Testers::Common::DBUtils - Basic Database Wrapper used by CPAN Testers modules
• CPAN::Testers::Data::Generator - CPAN Testers cpanstats Database Generator
• CPU::x86_64::InstructionWriter - Pure-perl API-driven assembler for x86-64
• DataStore::CAS::FS - Virtual Filesystem backed by Content-Addressable Storage
• DBIx::Class::FormTools - Helper module for building forms with multiple related DBIx::Class objects.
• Exporter::Extensible - Create extensible modules which export things
• Exporter::VA - Improved Exporter featuring Versioning and Aliasing.
• Flickr::Tools - Tools to assist using the Flickr API
• generics - pragmatic module for perl-ish generics
• JSON::SIMD - JSON serialising/deserialising, done correctly and faster
• Lingua::Guess - Guess the language of text
• Mac::Macbinary - Decodes Macbinary files
• Mac::Spotlight - Make a query into OS X Spotlight
• Markdown::ODF - Create ODF documents from Markdown
• Net::Flickr::Backup - OOP for backing up your Flickr photos locally
• OpenAI::API - Perl interface to OpenAI API
• overload::reify - Provide named methods for inherited overloaded operators
• Require::Util - Utilities related to require()
• slots - A simple pragma for managing class slots.
• Symbol::Table - An easy interface to symbol tables (no eval(), no *typeglobs )
• Symbol::Util - Additional utils for Perl symbols manipulation
• Tie::Symbol - Tied interface to the symbol table
• Util::CommandLine - Command-line interface helper utility
• Wikibase::Datatype::Print - Wikibase data types print.

Increasing its reputation:

• AI::MXNet (+1=39)
• AI::TensorFlow::Libtensorflow (+1=3)
• App::cpanminus (+1=275)
• App::cpanminus::reporter (+1=37)
• App::cpm (+2=67)
• App::perlbrew (+1=174)
• App::Pod (+1=3)
• App::tldr (+1=2)
• assign (+4=4)
• autobox::Core (+1=23)
• Carmel (+1=31)
• Carp::Always (+1=35)
• CHI (+1=54)
• Child (+1=8)
• CLI::Osprey (+1=8)
• Code::TidyAll (+1=40)
• Commandable (+1=3)
• Convert::Binary::C (+1=14)
• CPAN::Digger (+1=3)
• Dancer2 (+1=134)
• Data::TableReader (+1=5)
• Data::Util (+1=11)
• Data::Verifier (+1=8)
• DataStore::CAS (+1=2)
• Date::Manip (+1=18)
• DBD::Pg (+1=93)
• DBD::SQLite (+1=99)
• DBI (+1=262)
• decorators (+1=3)
• dip (+1=7)
• Elastic::Model (+1=10)
• Env::Dot (+2=6)
• Eval::Closure (+1=10)
• Excel::Writer::XLSX (+1=59)
• Filter::Simple (+1=5)
• Finance::Quote (+1=9)
• Git::Helpers (+1=2)
• Hash::Wrap (+1=7)
• HTML::FormHandler (+1=42)
• HTML::Restrict (+1=12)
• Image::ExifTool (+1=39)
• IO::Async (+1=72)
• Language::Expr (+1=2)
• Language::FormulaEngine (+1=2)
• LINQ (+1=3)
• Lucy (+1=16)
• LWP::ConsoleLogger (+1=11)
• Map::Tube (+1=7)
• Math::Expression (+1=3)
• MCE (+1=98)
• MIME::Types (+1=9)
• Minion (+1=96)
• Modern::Perl (+1=51)
• Mojolicious (+1=481)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Authentication (+1=18)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::HTMX (+1=2)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OAuth2 (+1=19)
• Moose (+1=326)
• MooseX::Types (+1=31)
• Net::Async::HTTP (+1=7)
• Net::Fastly (+1=5)
• Net::OAuth (+1=6)
• Net::RDAP (+1=2)
• OAuth::Cmdline (+1=8)
• Object::Util (+1=10)
• Open::This (+1=10)
• Operator::Util (+1=3)
• Parallel::Pipes (+1=6)
• Params::Validate (+1=36)
• parent (+1=24)
• Paws (+1=56)
• PDL (+3=51)
• perl (+2=408)
• Perl6::Slurp (+1=10)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=133)
• Plack::Debugger (+1=9)
• Plack::Middleware::XSRFBlock (+1=9)
• Plagger (+1=5)
• Plerd (+1=2)
• Prophet (+1=4)
• PSGI (+1=51)
• Readonly (+1=18)
• roles (+1=2)
• SemanticWeb::Schema (+1=7)
• Sidef (+1=8)
• Silki (+1=3)
• SPVM (+2=31)
• Starch (+1=3)
• Starman (+1=114)
• stockmonkey (+1=5)
• String::Tokenizer (+1=2)
• Symbol::Get (+1=2)
• Symbol::Values (+1=2)
• Term::ProgressBar::Simple (+1=9)
• Test2::Suite (+1=42)
• Test::MockModule (+1=15)
• Text::Haml (+1=6)
• Tie::Trace (+1=9)
• Tk (+1=30)
• Toadfarm (+1=20)
• Type::Tiny (+1=134)
• Types::Mojo (+1=2)
• UNIVERSAL::Object (+1=14)
• UR (+1=8)
• Util::Any (+1=4)
• Util::H2O (+1=9)
• Util::Underscore (+1=2)
• Venus (+1=3)
• Wasm (+1=5)
• Web::PerlDistSite (+1=3)
• WWW::Crawler::Mojo (+1=5)
• YAML::LibYAML (+2=50)
• Yancy (+1=43)

(dlxxx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-05-13 19:45:50 GMT

---

1. Errors with git clone in perl script - [3/1]
2. Skip a get request in perl if it takes more than a specified time - [2/3]
3. Put nested arrays on one line with regex - [2/1]
4. Can I assume that strptime will always fill in missing values with 0? - [2/1]
5. perl split problem with repeated delimiter (comma) - [2/1]