(cdxcv) 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. DBD::Oracle - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
   • Version: 1.90 on 2024-05-07, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.83 was 2 years, 3 months, 21 days before
   • Author: ZARQUON
2. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
   • Version: 1.57 on 2024-05-06, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.77 was 4 years, 9 months, 30 days before
   • Author: DDICK
3. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
   • Version: 1.005 on 2024-05-06, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.004 was 6 months, 6 days before
   • Author: PREACTION
4. Path::Tiny - File path utility
   • Version: 0.146 on 2024-05-08, with 188 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.144 was 1 year, 5 months, 7 days before
   • Author: DAGOLDEN
5. PDL - Perl Data Language
   • Version: 2.089 on 2024-05-11, with 52 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.088 was 20 days before
   • Author: ETJ
6. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
   • Version: 20240511 on 2024-05-10, with 140 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20240202 was 3 months, 9 days before
   • Author: SHANCOCK
7. Prima - a Perl graphic toolkit
   • Version: 1.73 on 2024-05-09, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.72 was 3 months, 9 days before
   • Author: KARASIK
8. SPVM - The SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.990006 on 2024-05-09, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.990003 was 8 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO

(dcx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2024-05-12 07:32:36 GMT

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1. Is there a Perl module / a simple way to wrap methods of an object in a subroutine? - [2/3]
2. Is it possible to optionally match paired quotations marks (before and after a string)? - [1/2]
3. Perl break out of while loop, print a result, then restart the loop - [1/2]
4. APR.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got handshake key 0xeb00080, needed 0xce00080) - [1/1]
5. Reusing grid coordinates in perl Tk - [1/1]

(cdxciv) 17 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: 0.997017 on 2024-04-28, with 72 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.997015 was 3 months, 24 days before
   • Author: SKAJI
2. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.410 on 2024-05-04, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.407 was 1 month, 24 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
3. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.076004 on 2024-05-03, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.076001 was 9 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
4. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20240503.001 on 2024-05-03, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20240414.001 was 18 days before
   • Author: BDFOY
5. CPAN::Changes - Parser for CPAN style change logs
   • Version: 0.500004 on 2024-05-02, with 32 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.500003 was 2 months, 9 days before
   • Author: HAARG
6. DBD::mysql - A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
   • Version: 5.005 on 2024-05-01, with 55 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.004 was 1 month, 13 days before
   • Author: DVEEDEN
7. DBIx::DataModel - UML-based Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework
   • Version: 3.11 on 2024-04-28, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.10 was 1 month, 17 days before
   • Author: DAMI
8. Devel::CheckOS - a script to package Devel::AssertOS modules with your code.
   • Version: 2.01 on 2024-05-02, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.96 was 1 year, 2 months, 26 days before
   • Author: DCANTRELL
9. Email::MIME - easy MIME message handling
   • Version: 1.954 on 2024-05-02, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.953 was 1 year, 3 months, 24 days before
   • Author: RJBS
10. GD - Perl interface to the libgd graphics library
    • Version: 2.81 on 2024-05-03, with 28 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.78 was 9 months, 30 days before
    • Author: RURBAN
11. Module::Build::Tiny - A tiny replacement for Module::Build
    • Version: 0.048 on 2024-04-28, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.047 was 7 months before
    • Author: LEONT
12. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.45 on 2024-05-02, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.44 was 2 months, 16 days before
    • Author: NLNETLABS
13. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.045 on 2024-04-30, with 39 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.044 was 1 month, 27 days before
    • Author: BRIANDFOY
14. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990003 on 2024-05-01, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990001 was 5 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
15. Syntax::Keyword::Match - a match/case syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.14 on 2024-04-30, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.13 was 9 months, 10 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
16. Term::Choose - Choose items from a list interactively.
    • Version: 1.765 on 2024-05-02, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.764 was 12 days before
    • Author: KUERBIS
17. version - Structured version objects
    • Version: 0.9932 on 2024-04-28, with 21 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.9931 was 1 day before
    • Author: LEONT

(cdxciii) 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. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.076001 on 2024-04-24, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.075003 was 12 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
2. Devel::Cover - Code coverage metrics for Perl
   • Version: 1.42 on 2024-04-26, with 101 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.40 was 11 months, 26 days before
   • Author: PJCJ
3. Devel::Size - Perl extension for finding the memory usage of Perl variables
   • Version: 0.84 on 2024-04-25, with 21 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.83 was 5 years, 2 days before
   • Author: NWCLARK
4. experimental - Experimental features made easy
   • Version: 0.032 on 2024-04-25, with 32 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.031 was 1 year, 2 months, 25 days before
   • Author: LEONT
5. HTML5::DOM - Super fast html5 DOM library with css selectors (based on Modest/MyHTML)
   • Version: 1.26 on 2024-04-25, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.25 was 2 years, 9 months, 19 days before
   • Author: ZHUMARIN
6. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
   • Version: 2.212 on 2024-04-27, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.211 was 21 days before
   • Author: PMQS
7. JSON::Path - search nested hashref/arrayref structures using JSONPath
   • Version: 1.0.6 on 2024-04-26, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.0.4 was 4 months, 15 days before
   • Author: POPEFELIX
8. MIME::Body - Tools to manipulate MIME messages
   • Version: 5.515 on 2024-04-24, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.514 was 2 months, 18 days before
   • Author: DSKOLL
9. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20240420 on 2024-04-27, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.20240320 was 1 month, 7 days before
   • Author: BINGOS
10. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.088 on 2024-04-21, with 52 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.019 was 5 years, 11 months, 16 days before
    • Author: ETJ
11. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990001 on 2024-04-26, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989104 was 6 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
12. Test::MockModule - Override subroutines in a module for unit testing
    • Version: v0.178.0 on 2024-04-26, with 17 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.177.0 was 2 years, 7 months, 19 days before
    • Author: GFRANKS
13. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302199 on 2024-04-25, with 190 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.302198 was 4 months, 25 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
14. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000162 on 2024-04-25, with 47 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.000159 was 6 months before
    • Author: EXODIST
15. version - Structured version objects
    • Version: 0.9931 on 2024-04-27, with 21 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.9930 was 7 months, 16 days before
    • Author: LEONT

(dlxxxvi) metacpan weekly report - App::perlimports

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 75

Week's winner (+4): App::perlimports

Build date: 2024/04/28 07:04:22 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acrux::DBI - Database independent interface for Acrux applications
• Alien::xz - Find or build xz
• Apache::SharedMem - Share data between Apache children processes through the shared memory
• Authen::Simple::Passwd - Simple Passwd authentication
• Bio::Minimizer - minimizer package
• Export::XS - Replacement for Exporter.pm + const.pm in XS, with C++ API.
• Koha::Contrib::ARK - ARK Management
• Markdown::Perl - Very configurable Markdown processor written in pure Perl, supporting the CommonMark spec and many extensions
• Net::Async::OpenExchRates - Interaction with OpenExchangeRates API
• Net::OSV - search known vulnerabilities on the Open Source Vulnerabilities Database (OSV)
• Runtime::Debugger - Easy to use REPL with existing lexical support and DWIM tab completion.
• Struct::Conditional - A Conditional language within a perl struct.
• Tiny::Prof - Perl profiling made simple to use.
• WWW::Spotify - Spotify Web API Wrapper
• XS::Framework - Framework for building C++ XS modules with shared code, typemaps and C++ perl API.

Increasing its reputation:

• AnyEvent::Filesys::Notify (+1=9)
• App::cpm (+1=72)
• App::Greple (+1=3)
• App::local::lib::helper (+1=4)
• App::perlimports (+4=18)
• App::pmuninstall (+1=36)
• Auth::GoogleAuth (+1=4)
• Auth::GoogleAuthenticator (+1=2)
• Authen::Captcha (+1=2)
• Authen::Simple (+1=3)
• Bio::Kmer (+1=2)
• Carmel (+1=34)
• CPAN::Changes (+1=32)
• CPAN::Perl::Releases (+1=3)
• Data::Dx (+1=5)
• ExtUtils::Install (+1=9)
• Finance::Quote (+1=10)
• Git::Wrapper (+1=16)
• Google::API::Client (+1=7)
• grpc::xs (+1=4)
• HealthCheck (+1=3)
• HTML::Tree (+1=37)
• HTTP::Server::Simple (+1=9)
• Imager (+1=65)
• JSON::Path (+2=12)
• local::lib (+1=93)
• Mashtree (+1=2)
• MetaCPAN::Client (+1=25)
• Module::Build (+2=49)
• Mojolicious (+3=496)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI::Modern (+1=2)
• Net::CVE (+1=2)
• Net::Whois::Raw (+1=10)
• OAuth::Cmdline (+1=9)
• Parallel::Pipes (+1=7)
• Pinto (+1=62)
• Plack (+1=236)
• RPC::XML (+1=4)
• Simple::Accessor (+1=3)
• Stow (+1=7)
• Sys::Virt (+1=17)
• Template::Toolkit (+2=147)
• Test::PostgreSQL (+1=7)
• Test::Script (+1=10)
• Test::Smoke (+1=5)
• UniEvent (+1=3)
• urpmi (+1=3)
• WebService::HashiCorp::Vault (+1=2)
• Win32::ServiceManager (+1=4)
• XML::XSH2 (+1=4)
• XS::Manifesto (+1=2)
• YAML::PP (+1=16)

(dcix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2024-04-28 07:03:15 GMT

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1. Problem getting Mojolicious routes to work - [6/1]
2. How can I reinstall a partially installed Perl module? - [2/1]
3. perl: replacing all unicode x2103 (degree Celsius) in Perl6::Slurp-ed file - [1/1]
4. How to avoid `scalar` of empty array returning `undef`? - [0/2]
5. perl regex negative lookahead replacement with wildcard - [0/1]

(cdxcii) 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. Alien::ImageMagick - cpanm compatible Image::Magick packaging.
   • Version: 0.10 on 2024-04-18, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.09 was 1 year, 9 months, 20 days before
   • Author: AMBS
2. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20240414.001 on 2024-04-15, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20240410.001 was 5 days before
   • Author: BDFOY
3. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.989104 on 2024-04-20, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.989101 was 7 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO
4. Term::Choose - Choose items from a list interactively.
   • Version: 1.764 on 2024-04-20, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.763 was 3 months, 2 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
5. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
   • Version: 1.54 on 2024-04-18, with 101 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.53 was 4 months, 25 days before
   • Author: HMBRAND

(cdxci) 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. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.075003 on 2024-04-12, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.074001 was 24 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
2. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20240410.001 on 2024-04-10, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20240401.002 was 9 days before
   • Author: BDFOY
3. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.989101 on 2024-04-13, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.989098 was 9 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO
4. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
   • Version: v10.2.0 on 2024-04-08, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v10.1.0 was 1 month, 7 days before
   • Author: DANBERR

(dcviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2024-04-14 07:55:19 GMT

---

1. How does the 'use utf8' interfere with the 'Method::Signatures::Simple' module? - [3/1]
2. Changing pixel color with perl GD - [2/2]
3. How can I preserve state in a `use`d module relatively to the `use`ing module without refactoring? - [2/2]
4. What is the 'DEFAULT' behaviour for perl signals? - [2/1]
5. Perl Comparison string - [1/1]

(cdxc) 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. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20240401.002 on 2024-04-01, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20240329.002 was 2 days before
   • Author: BDFOY
2. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
   • Version: 1.55 on 2024-04-06, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.77 was 4 years, 8 months, 30 days before
   • Author: DDICK
3. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
   • Version: 1.024 on 2024-04-06, with 65 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.023 was 2 months, 18 days before
   • Author: TONYC
4. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
   • Version: 2.211 on 2024-04-06, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.207 was 1 month, 17 days before
   • Author: PMQS
5. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
   • Version: 0.56 on 2024-04-01, with 18 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.55 was 6 months, 11 days before
   • Author: SYP
6. PDL - Perl Data Language
   • Version: 2.087 on 2024-04-05, with 52 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.085 was 2 months, 6 days before
   • Author: ETJ
7. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.989098 on 2024-04-04, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.989096 was 8 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO

(dlxxxv) metacpan weekly report - Firefox::Marionette

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 55

Week's winner: Firefox::Marionette (+2)

Build date: 2024/04/07 06:36:52 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Amazon::Sites - A class to represent Amazon sites
• AnyEvent::Monitor::CPU - monitors your process CPU usage, with high/low watermark triggers
• DateTime::Format::PDF - PDF DateTime Parser and Formatter.
• lib::root - find perl root and push lib modules path to @INC
• Runtime::Debugger - Easy to use REPL with existing lexical support and DWIM tab completion.

Increasing its reputation:

• AnyEvent::AIO (+1=6)
• App::local::lib::Win32Helper (+1=2)
• autovivification (+1=29)
• BioPerl (+1=33)
• Capture::Tiny (+1=103)
• Catalyst::Controller::ActionRole (+1=2)
• Chart::Plotly (+1=17)
• Class::Tiny::Immutable (+1=4)
• Dancer (+1=149)
• Data::Compare (+1=13)
• DateTime (+1=215)
• DBD::Pg (+1=97)
• Devel::IPerl (+1=24)
• Devel::NYTProf (+1=189)
• Encode (+1=63)
• Env::Dot (+1=8)
• ExtUtils::MakeMaker (+1=57)
• Firefox::Marionette (+2=16)
• Furl (+1=43)
• GIS::Distance (+1=4)
• Guacamole (+1=8)
• IO (+1=64)
• IO::Prompter (+1=27)
• IO::Socket::IP (+1=21)
• LWP::Curl (+1=7)
• Mail::SpamAssassin::4.0.1::rc1l (+1=0)
• Mojo::Server::Threaded (+1=5)
• Mojolicious (+1=493)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::InputValidation (+1=2)
• MongoDB (+1=88)
• Moose (+1=329)
• Net::Curl (+1=18)
• Net::Server (+1=33)
• NetAddr::IP (+1=14)
• perl (+1=419)
• Proc::CPUUsage (+1=6)
• Redis (+1=42)
• Role::Tiny (+1=70)
• Starman (+1=115)
• Supervisord::Client (+1=2)
• Syntax::Keyword::Match (+1=12)
• Syntax::Operator::In (+1=5)
• Template::Toolkit (+1=145)
• Test::More::UTF8 (+1=8)
• Test::mysqld (+1=11)
• Test::WWW::Mechanize (+1=19)
• Time::Piece (+1=57)
• W3C::LinkChecker (+1=5)
• WWW::Mechanize (+1=101)

(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

---

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

---

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

---

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]

(cdlxxxiv) 9 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::Changes - Parser for CPAN style change logs
   • Version: 0.500003 on 2024-02-22, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.500002 was 3 months, 27 days before
   • Author: HAARG
2. Expect - automate interactions with command line programs that expose a text terminal interface.
   • Version: 1.36 on 2024-02-23, with 27 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.35 was 6 years, 9 months, 5 days before
   • Author: JACOBY
3. IO::AIO - Asynchronous/Advanced Input/Output
   • Version: 4.81 on 2024-02-20, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.8 was 10 months, 19 days before
   • Author: MLEHMANN
4. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
   • Version: 2.207 on 2024-02-18, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.206 was 6 months, 24 days before
   • Author: PMQS
5. Log::ger - A lightweight, flexible logging framework
   • Version: 0.042 on 2024-02-23, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.041 was 18 days before
   • Author: PERLANCAR
6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20240223 on 2024-02-23, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.20240129 was 25 days before
   • Author: BINGOS
7. OrePAN2 - Yet another DarkPAN manager.
   • Version: 0.52 on 2024-02-19, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.51 was 7 days before
   • Author: OALDERS
8. perlfaq - Frequently asked questions about Perl
   • Version: 5.20240218 on 2024-02-18, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.20230812 was 6 months, 6 days before
   • Author: ETHER
9. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.989080 on 2024-02-23, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.989073 was 8 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO

(cdlxxxiii) 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::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.405 on 2024-02-12, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.404 was 11 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.072003 on 2024-02-14, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.072002 was 24 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
3. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20240215.001 on 2024-02-16, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20240209.001 was 6 days before
   • Author: BDFOY
4. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
   • Version: 1.44 on 2024-02-15, with 26 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.43 was 20 days before
   • Author: NLNETLABS
5. OrePAN2 - Yet another DarkPAN manager.
   • Version: 0.51 on 2024-02-12, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.50 was 2 days before
   • Author: OALDERS
6. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
   • Version: 0.90 on 2024-02-13, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.89 was 1 month, 11 days before
   • Author: HMBRAND
7. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.989073 on 2024-02-15, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.989070 was 5 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO

(dlxxxi) metacpan weekly report - Type::Tiny

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 56

Week's winner (+3):  Type::Tiny

Build date: 2024/02/18 07:41:35 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Curses::Marquee::Extensions - Extensions for Acme::Curses::Marquee
• Alien::Qhull - Build and Install the Qhull library
• App::IndonesianBankingUtils - CLIs related to Indonesian banking
• Business::Barcode::EAN13 - Perform simple validation of an EAN-13 barcode
• Dist::Setup - Simple opinionated tool to set up a Perl distribution directory.
• Error::Pure - Perl module for structured errors.
• Net::MacMap - a module used to determine the vendor of an interface based on the MAC address.
• PDL::Algorithm::Center - Various methods of finding the center of a sample
• Project2::Gantt - Generate Gantt images
• Text::Minify::XS - Remove indentation and trailing whitespace from multi-line text
• WebService::Tumblr - A Perl interface to the Tumblr web API

Increasing its reputation:

• Acme::Bleach (+1=11)
• App::Cmd (+1=49)
• App::findeps (+1=2)
• Carton (+1=128)
• Config::Tiny (+1=35)
• Coro (+1=79)
• CPAN::Audit (+2=13)
• DateTime::Format::HTTP (+1=7)
• Email::Address::XS (+1=4)
• Email::Simple (+1=22)
• Feature::Compat::Class (+1=5)
• Feature::Compat::Try (+1=18)
• Furl (+1=42)
• Getopt::Long::Descriptive (+1=56)
• HTML::Parser (+1=47)
• Image::ExifTool (+1=41)
• IO (+1=63)
• libnet (+2=31)
• Log::ger (+1=13)
• MIME::tools (+1=13)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::HTMX (+1=6)
• Moo (+1=303)
• Net::Ping (+1=15)
• Net::Telnet (+1=4)
• Path::Tiny (+2=185)
• Perl::LanguageServer (+1=29)
• Regexp::Assemble (+1=35)
• Rex (+1=86)
• Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX (+1=19)
• Test::Script (+1=10)
• Type::Tiny (+3=140)
• UnQLite (+1=6)
• URI (+1=113)
• URI::Encode (+1=3)
• usw (+1=2)
• WebGPU::Direct::0.10 (+1=0)
• WebService::Discord::Webhook (+1=2)
• WebService::Pinterest (+1=2)
• WWW::Tumblr (+1=4)

(dciv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2024-02-18 07:39:14 GMT

---

1. What is the best way to ignore elements in a list assignment? - [3/3]
2. Remove quotes from hash key with expression - [2/2]
3. How to use alarm perl function to set a timeout on a Python command running on Windows? - [2/1]
4. Perl DBI::SQLite: How to Dump a table with column names? - [2/1]
5. Strawberry perl - input file streaming issue - [2/1]

(cdlxxxii) 9 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::Sqitch - Sensible database change management
   • Version: v1.4.1 on 2024-02-04, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v1.4.0 was 6 months, 3 days before
   • Author: DWHEELER
2. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20240209.001 on 2024-02-10, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20240117.001 was 24 days before
   • Author: BDFOY
3. Log::ger - A lightweight, flexible logging framework
   • Version: 0.041 on 2024-02-05, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.040 was 1 year, 7 months, 25 days before
   • Author: PERLANCAR
4. LWP::Protocol::https - Provide https support for LWP::UserAgent
   • Version: 6.13 on 2024-02-06, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.12 was 15 days before
   • Author: OALDERS
5. MIME::Body - Tools to manipulate MIME messages
   • Version: 5.503 on 2024-02-06, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.513 was 12 days before
   • Author: DSKOLL
6. OrePAN2 - Yet another DarkPAN manager.
   • Version: 0.50 on 2024-02-10, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.49 was 1 year, 5 months, 4 days before
   • Author: OALDERS
7. Software::License - packages that provide templated software licenses
   • Version: 0.104006 on 2024-02-09, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.104005 was 2 months, 18 days before
   • Author: LEONT
8. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.989070 on 2024-02-10, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.989068 was 19 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO
9. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
   • Version: 5.27 on 2024-02-09, with 113 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.26 was 7 days before
   • Author: OALDERS