(dxxviii) 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::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.420 on 2024-12-27, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.419 was 7 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
2. experimental - Experimental features made easy
   • Version: 0.033 on 2024-12-23, with 32 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.032 was 7 months, 28 days before
   • Author: LEONT
3. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
   • Version: 1.49 on 2024-12-27, with 27 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.48 was 1 month, 19 days before
   • Author: NLNETLABS
4. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.818 on 2024-12-23, with 45 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.816 was 28 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
5. PDL::Stats - a collection of statistics modules in Perl Data Language, with a quick-start guide for non-PDL people.
   • Version: 0.852 on 2024-12-28, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.84 was 7 months, 1 day before
   • Author: ETJ
6. Perl::Critic::Freenode - Community-inspired Perl::Critic policies (DEPRECATED)
   • Version: v1.0.4 on 2024-12-28, with 18 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.033 was 4 years, 6 days before
   • Author: DBOOK
7. PPI - Parse, Analyze and Manipulate Perl (without perl)
   • Version: 1.281 on 2024-12-27, with 60 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.279 was 4 months, 4 days before
   • Author: MITHALDU
8. Specio - Type constraints and coercions for Perl
   • Version: 0.49 on 2024-12-23, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.48 was 2 years, 6 months, 12 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
9. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
   • Version: 1.302207 on 2024-12-28, with 190 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.302206 was 8 days before
   • Author: EXODIST
10. XML::Hash::XS - Simple and fast hash to XML and XML to hash conversion written in C
    • Version: 0.62 on 2024-12-28, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.59 was 7 days before
    • Author: YOREEK

(dxcvi) metacpan weekly report - perl

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

Week's winner: perl (+3)

Build date: 2024/12/29 17:27:21 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Alien::NLopt - Build and Install the NLopt library
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::V - Documentation and tools for using Platypus with the V programming language
• Math::Symbolic::Custom::CollectSimplify - Simplify Math::Symbolic expressions using Math::Symbolic::Custom::Collect
• Microsoft::Teams::WebHook - Microsoft Teams WebHook with AdaptiveCards for formatting notifications

Increasing its reputation:

• Alien::TALib (+1=2)
• Anonymous::Object (+1=2)
• App::Music::ChordPro (+1=3)
• App::perlimports (+1=19)
• Carp (+1=74)
• Class::Method::Modifiers (+1=30)
• Devel::Symdump (+1=9)
• e (+1=4)
• End (+1=4)
• File::KDBX (+1=2)
• File::Open (+1=6)
• Getopt::Long::Descriptive (+1=58)
• Math::Symbolic (+1=5)
• Method::Assert (+1=2)
• Mojo::Redis (+1=18)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::DBViewer (+1=8)
• Object::Pad (+1=45)
• Parallel::ForkManager (+1=99)
• Path::Tiny (+2=191)
• PDL::IO::CSV (+1=6)
• perl (+3=425)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=142)
• Plack::Middleware::OpenTelemetry (+1=2)
• Poz (+2=2)
• Proc::Fork (+1=15)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=175)
• Syntax::Keyword::Try (+1=44)
• Task::MemManager (+1=3)
• Telegram::Bot (+1=3)
• Time::HiRes (+1=64)
• Time::Moment (+1=73)
• Zydeco (+1=21)

(dcxxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the three most rated questions at Stack Overflow last weeks.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2024-12-29 17:24:44 GMT

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1. Unexpected behavior of do - [2/1]
2. Does 'use warnings' change $^W? - [1/1]
3. Easy way to replace all keys in a data structure with a standard one - [1/1]

(dxxvii) 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::Ack - A grep-like program for searching source code
   • Version: v3.8.0 on 2024-12-21, with 131 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v3.7.0 was 1 year, 9 months, 22 days before
   • Author: PETDANCE
2. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.419 on 2024-12-20, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.417 was 1 month, 3 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
3. Capture::Tiny - Capture STDOUT and STDERR from Perl, XS or external programs
   • Version: 0.50 on 2024-12-19, with 104 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.48 was 6 years, 7 months, 27 days before
   • Author: DAGOLDEN
4. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 2.10 on 2024-12-18, with 65 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.09 was 3 months, 30 days before
   • Author: PLICEASE
5. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.70 on 2024-12-20, with 48 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.69 was 3 months, 2 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
6. Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information
   • Version: 13.10 on 2024-12-20, with 42 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 13.00 was 1 month, 22 days before
   • Author: EXIFTOOL
7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20241220 on 2024-12-20, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.20241120 was 1 month before
   • Author: BINGOS
8. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.817 on 2024-12-20, with 45 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.816 was 25 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
9. Prima - a Perl graphic toolkit
   • Version: 1.75 on 2024-12-21, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.74 was 4 months, 2 days before
   • Author: KARASIK
10. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990033 on 2024-12-17, with 34 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990032 was 15 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
11. Sub::Name - (Re)name a sub
    • Version: 0.28 on 2024-12-15, with 30 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.27 was 1 year, 7 months, 16 days before
    • Author: ETHER
12. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302206 on 2024-12-20, with 191 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.302204 was 3 months, 5 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
13. XML::Hash::XS - Simple and fast hash to XML and XML to hash conversion written in C
    • Version: 0.59 on 2024-12-21, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.57 was 2 months, 24 days before
    • Author: YOREEK
14. YAML::Tiny - Read/Write YAML files with as little code as possible
    • Version: 1.76 on 2024-12-16, with 32 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.74 was 1 year, 8 months, 24 days before
    • Author: ETHER

(dxxvi) 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. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
   • Version: 0.997021 on 2024-12-11, with 73 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.997020 was 17 days before
   • Author: SKAJI
2. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20241208.001 on 2024-12-08, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20240910.001 was 2 months, 28 days before
   • Author: BDFOY
3. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.39 on 2024-12-12, with 45 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.38 was 6 months, 15 days before
   • Author: RURBAN
4. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
   • Version: 4.0005 on 2024-12-12, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.0004 was 3 months, 2 days before
   • Author: DCANTRELL
5. parent - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
   • Version: 0.244 on 2024-12-13, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.243 was 15 days before
   • Author: CORION
6. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
   • Version: 1.048 on 2024-12-09, with 40 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.047 was 2 months, 9 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
7. XML::Twig - XML, The Perl Way
   • Version: 3.53 on 2024-12-13, with 62 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.52 was 8 years, 20 days before
   • Author: MIROD

(dxcv) metacpan weekly report - Path::Tiny

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

Week's winner: Path::Tiny (+2)

Build date: 2024/12/14 21:06:47 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Free::API::ChuckNorris - Perl API client for the Chuck Norris Quote API service, https://api.chucknorris.io.
• Acme::Free::API::Stonks - Perl API client for the, top 50 stocks discussed on le'Reddit subeddit - r/Wallstreetbets, https://tradestie.com/apps/reddit/api/.
• Acme::Free::API::Ye - Perl API client for the Kanye Rest Quote API service, https://kanye.rest/.
• Acme::Free::Dog::API - Perl API client for the Dog API service, https://dog.ceo/dog-api.
• Acme::Free::Public::APIs - Perl API client for FreePublicAPI.com's API for for listing APIs.
• Dispatch::Fu - Converts any complicated conditional dispatch situation into familiar static hash-key based dispatch
• Math::Symbolic::Custom::Collect - Collect up Math::Symbolic expressions
• Music::Dice - Define and roll musical dice
• WordList::HTTP::UserAgentString::PERLANCAR - A selection of some HTTP User-Agent strings

Increasing its reputation:

• autobox::Core (+1=24)
• Crypt::JWT (+1=26)
• Data::Grid (+1=3)
• Data::Rx (+1=4)
• Extism (+1=3)
• Inline::C (+1=37)
• JSON::Schema::Modern (+1=4)
• OpenMP (+1=2)
• OpenMP::Environment (+1=3)
• OpenMP::Simple (+1=2)
• Parallel::WorkUnit (+1=7)
• Path::Tiny (+2=190)
• Perl::Metrics::Simple (+1=9)
• SPVM (+1=34)
• Sub::Genius (+1=3)
• Sub::Identify (+1=10)
• Task::MemManager (+1=2)
• Text::ASCII::Convert (+1=3)
• Time::HiRes (+1=63)
• Try::ALRM (+1=2)
• URI::Escape::XS (+1=9)
• Util::H2O::More (+1=4)
• Webservice::KeyVal::API (+1=2)

(dxxv) 3 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. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
   • Version: 6.96 on 2024-12-04, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.95 was 9 months, 3 days before
   • Author: SBECK
2. Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert CSS, Less, Sass, JavaScript and CoffeeScript files
   • Version: 2.15 on 2024-12-06, with 50 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.14 was 1 year, 10 months, 10 days before
   • Author: SRI
3. SPVM - The SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.990032 on 2024-12-02, with 33 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.990031 was 16 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO

(dxciv) metacpan weekly report - App::Changelog

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

Week's winner: App::Changelog (+2)

Build date: 2024/12/07 21:07:28 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Bluesky - The Bluesky Social Network
• Class::AutoAccess - Zero code dynamic accessors implementation.
• Class::Fields - Inspect the fields of a class.
• IO::Compress::Brotli - Read/write Brotli buffers/streams
• PDL::FFTW3 - PDL interface to the Fastest Fourier Transform in the West
• Perl::Examples::Accessors - A collection of example classes using various accessor generators

Increasing its reputation:

• App::Changelog (+2=2)
• Class::Plain (+1=4)
• Data::Grid (+1=2)
• DBD::mysql (+1=58)
• DBIx::Lite (+1=30)
• GraphQL (+1=21)
• Hook::AfterRuntime (+1=5)
• HTML5::DOM (+1=13)
• Log::Dispatch::FileRotate (+1=5)
• MCE (+1=107)
• Mojo::Pg (+1=73)
• Mojolicious (+1=499)
• MOP4Import::Declare (+1=2)
• Nginx::Perl (+1=14)
• OpenAI::API (+1=4)
• Parallel::Fork::BossWorkerAsync (+1=6)
• PathTools (+1=82)
• Paws (+1=58)
• Ref::Util (+1=30)
• RxPerl (+1=13)
• Sub::Mage (+1=2)
• Text::CSV (+1=81)
• Thread::Queue (+1=10)
• URI::Escape::XS (+1=8)
• URI::Fast (+1=9)
• YAML::LibYAML (+1=56)

(dxxiv) 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. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
   • Version: 0.997020 on 2024-11-24, with 73 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.997019 was 8 days before
   • Author: SKAJI
2. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
   • Version: 1.1.2 on 2024-11-25, with 137 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.1.1 was 4 months, 7 days before
   • Author: CROMEDOME
3. IO::Socket::IP - Family-neutral IP socket supporting both IPv4 and IPv6
   • Version: 0.43 on 2024-11-25, with 21 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.42 was 1 year, 4 months before
   • Author: PEVANS
4. MetaCPAN::Client - A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
   • Version: 2.033000 on 2024-11-25, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.032000 was 6 months, 10 days before
   • Author: MICKEY
5. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.816 on 2024-11-25, with 45 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.815 was 12 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
6. parent - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
   • Version: 0.243 on 2024-11-28, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.242 was 3 months, 15 days before
   • Author: CORION
7. Parser::MGC - build simple recursive-descent parsers
   • Version: 0.23 on 2024-11-25, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.22 was 1 month, 14 days before
   • Author: PEVANS

(dxciii) metacpan weekly report - MCE

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 63

Week's winner (+3): MCE

Build date: 2024/12/01 15:02:37 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Anonymous::Object - Generate Anonymous Objects
• App::PasswordManager - Simple password manager for adding, listing, editing, deleting, and copying passwords to the clipboard
• App::Pfind - A Perl based find replacement
• App::TodoList - Simple command-line to-do list manager written in Perl
• Catalyst::View::EmbeddedPerl::PerRequest - Catalyst View wrapper for Template::EmbeddedPerl
• Data::Password::Common - Check a password against a list of common passwords
• Str::Iter - Generate a coderef iterator to iterate a string one (or more) character(s) at a time

Increasing its reputation:

• AI::Genetic::Pro (+1=5)
• AnyEvent::XSPromises (+1=2)
• App::CGIThis (+1=4)
• App::cpm (+1=73)
• App::Easer (+1=3)
• App::EPAN (+1=3)
• App::Netdisco (+1=17)
• App::RewriteVersion (+1=2)
• App::sourcepan (+1=4)
• Archive::Zip (+1=37)
• BerkeleyDB (+1=14)
• Coro::Multicore (+1=8)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+1=45)
• Crypt::JWT (+1=25)
• Crypt::LE (+1=12)
• Crypt::OpenSSL::X509 (+1=8)
• Crypt::PBKDF2 (+1=9)
• DateTime (+1=219)
• DBD::mysql (+1=57)
• DBD::mysqlPP (+1=5)
• DBD::Pg (+1=98)
• DBD::SQLite (+1=105)
• DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::Serializer (+1=13)
• Devel::NYTProf (+2=191)
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::Zig (+1=2)
• File::Tail (+1=8)
• File::Temp (+1=68)
• Kelp (+1=45)
• Locale::XGettext (+1=2)
• MCE (+3=107)
• MIME::Base64 (+1=24)
• Mojolicious (+1=499)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenTelemetry (+1=3)
• Net::Async::WebSocket (+1=6)
• Number::Phone (+1=19)
• Object::Container (+1=2)
• OpenAI::API (+1=3)
• OpenTelemetry (+1=4)
• Password::OWASP (+1=2)
• PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot (+1=10)
• Perlmazing (+1=2)
• Plack::App::Directory::Markdown (+1=3)
• Promises (+1=42)
• Redis::Fast (+1=14)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=174)
• SNMP::Info (+1=8)
• SQL::Translator (+1=44)
• Task::Kensho (+1=119)
• Test::Simple (+2=191)
• Test::Warnings (+1=17)
• Text::Treesitter (+1=4)
• Valiant (+1=4)

(dcxx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last weeks.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2024-12-01 15:01:09 GMT

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1. Perl DBIC: extend resultset with a virtual column - [2/1]
2. No printf() output from .t program under "make test" for a Perl module - [0/3]
3. Perl DBI with Mariadb Maxscale - [0/1]