(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

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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