(cdlxxxix) 4 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. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20240329.002 on 2024-03-29, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20240318.001 was 10 days before
   • Author: BDFOY
2. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.989096 on 2024-03-27, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.989092 was 4 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO
3. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
   • Version: 5.28 on 2024-03-27, with 113 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.27 was 1 month, 18 days before
   • Author: OALDERS
4. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
   • Version: 0.73 on 2024-03-29, with 22 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.72 was 4 months, 8 days before
   • Author: CORION

(dlxxxiv) metacpan weekly report - perl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 58

Week's winner: perl (+2)

Build date: 2024/03/30 21:50:19 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Devel::Confess::Patch::UseDataDumpSkipObjects - Use Data::Dump::SkipObjects to stringify some objects
• File::DirList - provide a sorted list of directory content
• GDS2 - Process GDS2 files
• String::Secret - secret string wrapper to mask secret from logger

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpm (+1=71)
• App::perlimports (+1=14)
• App::PerlNitpick (+1=3)
• assign (+1=10)
• Bio::Phylo (+1=8)
• Carp (+1=71)
• Carp::Always (+1=36)
• CGI (+1=44)
• Data::Formatter::Text (+1=2)
• Data::Validate::IP (+1=13)
• DBIx::Simple (+1=36)
• Devel::Confess (+1=36)
• Devel::ebug (+1=11)
• Devel::IPerl (+1=23)
• Devel::ptkdb (+1=9)
• Devel::REPL (+1=70)
• Dotenv (+1=10)
• Error::Pure (+1=2)
• FFI::Platypus (+1=64)
• File::Listing (+1=5)
• Furl (+1=43)
• GD (+1=28)
• GeoIP2 (+1=16)
• Google::API::Client (+1=6)
• HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath (+1=23)
• IO::Interactive (+1=16)
• IO::Socket::SSL (+1=49)
• Jenkins::API (+1=8)
• JIRA::REST (+1=17)
• JSON::XS (+1=118)
• Mojo::SQLite (+1=26)
• MooseX::Role::Parameterized (+1=23)
• Net::Domain::TLD (+1=2)
• Net::FTPSSL (+1=4)
• Object::Pad (+1=42)
• PadWalker (+1=27)
• Path::Tiny (+1=188)
• perl (+2=418)
• REST::Client (+1=19)
• Spreadsheet::ParseExcel (+1=40)
• SQL::Translator (+1=43)
• StreamFinder (+1=6)
• Symbol::Table (+1=2)
• Syntax::Keyword::Try (+1=42)
• Template::Tiny (+1=10)
• Text::CSV::Hashify (+1=2)
• Text::ParseWords (+1=14)
• Thread::CSP (+1=3)
• Variable::OnDestruct (+1=2)
• XML::Feed (+1=10)
• XML::LibXML (+1=100)
• XML::TreePP (+1=6)
• XML::Twig (+1=62)

(dcvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2024-03-30 21:49:18 GMT

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1. Cross compiling perl for Android ld.lld: error: unable to find library -lpthread - [2/0]
2. Regex for deconstructing SQL where statement - [1/2]
3. Perl with Selenium: cannot save the Web page with Ctrl+S - [1/0]
4. How to ignore perm errors with Path::Tiny 'visit'? (Windows) - [1/0]
5. Strawberry Perl using a separate winlibs distro - [0/1]

(cdlxxxviii) 12 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: 2.074001 on 2024-03-19, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.073001 was 6 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
2. Catalyst::Manual - The Catalyst developer's manual
   • Version: 5.9013 on 2024-03-22, with 49 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.9012 was 1 month, 19 days before
   • Author: ETHER
3. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
   • Version: 4.64 on 2024-03-18, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.63 was 12 days before
   • Author: LEEJO
4. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20240318.001 on 2024-03-19, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20240307.001 was 10 days before
   • Author: BDFOY
5. Data::UUID - Globally/Universally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs/UUIDs)
   • Version: 1.227 on 2024-03-18, with 32 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.226 was 3 years, 11 months, 6 days before
   • Author: GTERMARS
6. DBD::mysql - A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
   • Version: 5.004 on 2024-03-19, with 55 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.003 was 3 months, 18 days before
   • Author: DVEEDEN
7. Minion - Job queue
   • Version: 10.29 on 2024-03-19, with 106 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 10.28 was 3 months, 21 days before
   • Author: SRI
8. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20240320 on 2024-03-20, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.20240223 was 26 days before
   • Author: BINGOS
9. Pod::Weaver - weave together a Pod document from an outline
   • Version: 4.020 on 2024-03-21, with 34 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.019 was 1 year, 2 months, 9 days before
   • Author: RJBS
10. Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX - parse XLSX files
    • Version: 0.35 on 2024-03-19, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.34 was 6 days before
    • Author: NUDDLEGG
11. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989092 on 2024-03-23, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989087 was 8 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
12. Variable::Magic - Associate user-defined magic to variables from Perl.
    • Version: 0.64 on 2024-03-18, with 24 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.63 was 1 year, 5 months, 28 days before
    • Author: VPIT

(cdlxxxvii) 12 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: 2.407 on 2024-03-11, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.405 was 28 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.073001 on 2024-03-13, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.072003 was 28 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
3. DBIx::DataModel - UML-based Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework
   • Version: 3.10 on 2024-03-11, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.09 was 1 month, 15 days before
   • Author: DAMI
4. HTML::Parser - HTML parser class
   • Version: 3.82 on 2024-03-13, with 47 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.81 was 1 year, 1 month, 13 days before
   • Author: OALDERS
5. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
   • Version: 6.77 on 2024-03-11, with 167 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.76 was 1 month, 17 days before
   • Author: OALDERS
6. LWP::Protocol::https - Provide https support for LWP::UserAgent
   • Version: 6.14 on 2024-03-11, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.13 was 1 month, 5 days before
   • Author: OALDERS
7. MetaCPAN::Client - A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
   • Version: 2.031001 on 2024-03-11, with 24 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.031000 was 4 months, 11 days before
   • Author: MICKEY
8. Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format
   • Version: 20240313 on 2024-03-13, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20231213 was 3 months before
   • Author: LWP
9. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
   • Version: 1.063 on 2024-03-15, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.062 was 10 days before
   • Author: RSCHUPP
10. PPI - Parse, Analyze and Manipulate Perl (without perl)
    • Version: 1.278 on 2024-03-11, with 58 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.277 was 5 months, 19 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
11. Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX - parse XLSX files
    • Version: 0.34 on 2024-03-13, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.33 was 5 days before
    • Author: NUDDLEGG
12. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989087 on 2024-03-15, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989085 was 6 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO

(dlxxxiii) metacpan weekly report - Spreadsheet::ParseExcel

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 33

Week's winners (+3): Spreadsheet::ParseExcel 

Build date: 2024/03/17 08:26:48 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• File::CounterFile - Persistent counter class
• Image::Magick::Thumbnail::PDF - make thumbnail of a page in a pdf document
• Qhull - Interface to the Qhull convex hull, Delauny triangulation, Voronoi diagram software suite
• XML::OPDS - OPDS (Open Publication Distribution System) feed creation

Increasing its reputation:

• App::scan_prereqs_cpanfile (+1=20)
• App::UpdateCPANfile (+1=4)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+1=45)
• Crypt::Passphrase (+1=16)
• Data::UUID (+1=32)
• Excel::Writer::XLSX (+1=64)
• Expect (+1=28)
• File::Find::Rule (+1=39)
• File::Path::Tiny (+1=6)
• File::Temp (+1=67)
• HTML::Tree (+1=36)
• HTTP::Server::Simple (+1=8)
• Lingua::Romana::Perligata (+1=9)
• Math::Prime::Util (+1=22)
• Moose (+1=329)
• MooseX::Method::Signatures (+1=13)
• Net::Kafka (+1=6)
• Path::Tiny (+1=186)
• perl (+2=422)
• Perl::MinimumVersion (+1=24)
• Search::Elasticsearch (+1=48)
• Spreadsheet::ParseExcel (+3=40)
• Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX (+1=19)
• Spreadsheet::XLSX (+1=20)
• Test::Differences (+1=21)
• Test::Exception (+1=42)

(dcvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2024-03-17 08:25:15 GMT

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1. Issue transitioning to EXPORT_OK from EXPORT - [5/2]
2. Converting int to bytes, with confusion over significant bits and endianness - [2/0]
3. "Cannot run test (h_c: is_deeply($n, $s)) with active children at /usr/lib/perl5/5.18.2/Test/More.pm line 1020" - [1/3]
4. Perl SSL_verify_mode warning - [1/2]
5. Timeout with HTML::TreeBuilder - [1/1]

(cdlxxxvi) 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. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
   • Version: 4.63 on 2024-03-06, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.62 was 5 days before
   • Author: LEEJO
2. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20240307.001 on 2024-03-09, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20240302.001 was 6 days before
   • Author: BDFOY
3. Devel::MAT - Perl Memory Analysis Tool
   • Version: 0.53 on 2024-03-07, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.52 was 1 month, 25 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
4. Expect - automate interactions with command line programs that expose a text terminal interface.
   • Version: 1.38 on 2024-03-08, with 28 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.36 was 14 days before
   • Author: JACOBY
5. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
   • Version: 1.53 on 2024-03-03, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.53 was before
   • Author: DDICK
6. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 9.36 on 2024-03-08, with 493 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 9.35 was 4 months, 12 days before
   • Author: SRI
7. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
   • Version: 4.0002 on 2024-03-08, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.0001 was 2 months, 29 days before
   • Author: DCANTRELL
8. PAR - Perl Archive Toolkit
   • Version: 1.020 on 2024-03-04, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.019 was 4 months, 3 days before
   • Author: RSCHUPP
9. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
   • Version: 1.062 on 2024-03-05, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.061 was 2 months, 21 days before
   • Author: RSCHUPP
10. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.044 on 2024-03-03, with 39 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.044 was before
    • Author: BRIANDFOY
11. Redis::Fast - Perl binding for Redis database
    • Version: 0.37 on 2024-03-08, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.36 was 8 months, 3 days before
    • Author: SHOGO
12. Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX - parse XLSX files
    • Version: 0.33 on 2024-03-08, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.31 was 1 month, 21 days before
    • Author: NUDDLEGG
13. Spreadsheet::XLSX - Perl extension for reading MS Excel 2007 files.
    • Version: 0.18 on 2024-03-09, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.17 was 2 years, 4 months, 6 days before
    • Author: ASB
14. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989085 on 2024-03-09, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989082 was 8 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
15. SQL::Abstract::More - extension of SQL::Abstract with more constructs and more flexible API
    • Version: 1.43 on 2024-03-05, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.42 was 1 month, 14 days before
    • Author: DAMI

(cdlxxxv) 7 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. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
   • Version: 4.62 on 2024-03-01, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.61 was 1 month, 24 days before
   • Author: LEEJO
2. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20240302.001 on 2024-03-03, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20240215.001 was 16 days before
   • Author: BDFOY
3. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
   • Version: 6.95 on 2024-03-01, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.94 was 1 month, 23 days before
   • Author: SBECK
4. Encode - character encodings in Perl
   • Version: 3.21 on 2024-02-25, with 61 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.20 was 3 months, 15 days before
   • Author: DANKOGAI
5. Excel::Writer::XLSX - Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
   • Version: 1.12 on 2024-02-26, with 63 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.11 was 11 months, 7 days before
   • Author: JMCNAMARA
6. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.989082 on 2024-03-01, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.989080 was 7 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO
7. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
   • Version: v10.1.0 on 2024-03-01, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v10.0.0 was 1 month, 15 days before
   • Author: DANBERR

(dlxxxii) metacpan weekly report - HTTP::Server::Simple

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

Week's winner (+3): HTTP::Server::Simple

Build date: 2024/03/03 07:42:12 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acrux - Southern crucis constellation for your applications
• Finance::Bank::ID::BCA - Check your BCA accounts from Perl
• PDL::Opt::GLPK - PDL interface to the GNU Linear Programming Kit
• PPI::XS - (Minor) XS acceleration for PPI
• Redis::Cluster::Fast - A fast perl binding for Redis Cluster
• Slick - A PSGI framework for building REST api's in Perl.
• Telegram::Bot - A base class to make your very own Telegram bot

Increasing its reputation:

• aliased (+1=34)
• assign (+1=9)
• BioPerl (+1=31)
• Class::Tiny::Antlers (+1=3)
• CommonMark (+1=8)
• CSS::Minifier::XS (+1=8)
• Data::HexDump (+1=2)
• DBD::Pg (+1=96)
• HTML::SocialMeta (+1=3)
• HTTP::OAI (+1=4)
• HTTP::Server::Simple (+3=8)
• JSON::Validator (+1=35)
• Log::Dispatch (+1=47)
• Math::Random::Discrete (+1=4)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI (+2=45)
• Moo (+1=303)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=140)
• PLS (+1=13)
• Pod::Simple (+1=20)
• PPI (+1=58)
• Statocles (+1=32)
• Template::Toolkit (+1=144)
• Test::Exception (+1=42)
• Test::Fatal (+1=40)
• Text::MultiMarkdown (+1=13)
• Type::Tiny (+1=140)
• Win32::GUI (+1=10)

(dcv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2024-03-03 07:40:51 GMT

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1. Is it possible to make Test::more report the line of an indirect caller (level-n caller)? - [2/4]
2. How to embed s/\A{/LB/ in the EXPR of s{...}{EXPR}e? - [2/2]
3. Mojo::Home where is the spew method? - [1/2]
4. How to connect oracle DB using JDBC URL or connection String in Perl script - [1/1]
5. Perl: WWW::Google::CustomSearch: Missing required arguments? - [1/1]