(dxxxix) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 34

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2023/01/08 07:13:20 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::GUI::Cellgraph - draw pattern by cellular automata
• Dancer2::Template::MojoTemplate - Mojo::Template wrapper for Dancer2
• MooseX::App::Plugin::ZshCompletion - zsh completion for your MooseX::App applications
• Regexp::Melody - Melody is a language that compiles to regular expressions, while aiming to be more readable and maintainable

Increasing its reputation:

• Acme::Bleach (+1=10)
• autodie (+1=57)
• Chart::Gnuplot (+1=9)
• Class::Plain (+1=3)
• Config::Tiny (+1=33)
• Dancer::Plugin::NYTProf (+1=9)
• Dancer::Template::MojoTemplate (+1=2)
• Devel::StackTrace (+1=25)
• Devel::Trace (+1=22)
• Devel::TraceUse (+1=14)
• Dumbbench (+1=16)
• Exception::Class (+1=25)
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::Rust (+1=10)
• Import::Into (+1=37)
• Iterator::Simple (+1=7)
• libnet (+1=30)
• MCE (+1=94)
• Minion (+1=91)
• Modern::Perl (+1=50)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::NYTProf (+1=16)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Status (+1=13)
• Paws (+1=54)
• perl (+1=401)
• Quiq (+1=2)
• SQL::Abstract (+1=72)
• SQL::Abstract::Pg (+1=3)
• Statistics::Descriptive (+1=20)
• Storable::Improved (+1=4)
• Test::Modern (+1=9)
• XML::Loy (+1=6)

(dlxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-08 07:12:02 GMT

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1. How do I wrap this shell command in Perl? - [2/3]
2. Can anyone spot the problem in my for loop in Perl? - [2/3]
3. Resolving a symlink without readlink utility - [2/3]
4. perl Curses and unicode: why addstr prints fine whereas addstring prints garbage? - [2/1]
5. Fastest way to transpose large, space delimited text file - [1/1]

metacpan most voted distributions in 2022

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2022

1. perl (+21)
2. Mojolicious (+18)
3. Object::Pad (+14)
4. MooseX::Extended (+11)
5. Carmel (+11)
6. Perl::Critic (+10)
7. Log::Log4perl (+10)
8. Getopt::Long (+10)
9. DBI (+10)
10. Carton (+10)
11. SPVM (+9)
12. Moo (+9)
13. libwww::perl (+8)
14. WWW::Mechanize (+8)
15. Feature::Compat::Try (+8)
16. Devel::NYTProf (+8)
17. App::cpanminus (+8)
18. Util::H2O (+7)
19. Type::Tiny (+7)
20. Text::Table (+7)

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2022 group by month

• 2022-01

Crypt::Passphrase (+3)
perl (+3)


• 2022-02

Net::Prometheus (+2)
Parallel::Pipes (+2)


• 2022-03

CGI::Tiny (+2)
Carton (+2)


• 2022-04

Email::Simple (+3)
Acme::Inabajun::Utils (+2)


• 2022-05

Carmel (+9)
perl (+5)


• 2022-06

MooseX::Extended (+7)
Test2::Suite (+5)


• 2022-07

DBI (+4)
Object::Pad (+3)


• 2022-08

PAR::Packer (+4)
Try::Tiny (+4)


• 2022-09

app::paperback (+3)
App::GUI::Harmonograph (+2)


• 2022-10

Text::Table (+5)
perl (+4)


• 2022-11

Getopt::Long (+4)
Perl::Dist::APPerl (+4)


• 2022-12

IO::FD (+3)
Util::H2O (+3)

13 best perl distributions created at 2022 (metacpan rating)

This list contains distributions created at 2022

1. MooseX::Extended (+11)
2. Term::Graille (+5)
3. Perl::Dist::APPerl (+5)
4. Dancer2::Plugin::FormValidator (+5)
5. pEFL (+3)
6. Value::Diff (+3)
7. Syntax::Operator::In (+3)
8. Storable::Improved (+3)
9. Regex::Object (+3)
10. JavaScript::QuickJS (+3)
11. IO::FD (+3)
12. Getopt::App (+3)
13. App::GUI::Harmonograph (+3)

10 best Perl questions at stackoverflow in 2022

This is the ten most rated questions at 2022 Stack Overflow.
Between brackets: question score & answers count
Built date: 2023/01/01 12:19:05 GMT

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1. Why does Perl allow functions to be declared without being defined? - [21/5]
2. Difference in Perl regex variable $+{name} and $-{name} - [10/1]
3. What does `/regex/o` really mean (once there was once, but it seems gone now)? - [8/2]
4. Editing the last instance in a file - [7/6]
5. Perl/Raku succinct webserver one-liner? - [7/3]
6. Perl: speed of s/// with variable in replacement - [7/2]
7. Do all my perl module .pm files need a `$VERSION` definition? - [7/2]
8. Autoload'd calls fail via Inline::Perl5 in Raku - [7/1]
9. What does this perl snippet with unary plus do? join( '/', splice @t, 0, +@d ) - [6/3]
10. How can I wrap a Perl function but still use it as a reference? - [6/2]

(cdxxv) 23 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::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
   • Version: 2.76 on 2022-12-29
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.75 was 7 days before
2. App::Cmd - write command line apps with less suffering
   • Version: 0.335 on 2022-12-31
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 0.334 was 1 year, 6 months, 12 days before
3. App::Uni - command-line utility to find or display Unicode characters
   • Version: 9.006 on 2022-12-31
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 9.005 was 1 year, 6 months, 12 days before
4. Config::INI - simple .ini-file format
   • Version: 0.028 on 2023-01-01
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 0.027 was 1 year, 6 months, 8 days before
5. CPAN::Uploader - upload things to the CPAN
   • Version: 0.103017 on 2023-01-01
   • Votes: 24
   • Previous version: 0.103016 was 1 year, 2 months, 1 day before
6. Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
   • Version: 0.005 on 2022-12-26
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.004 was 11 months, 28 days before
7. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
   • Version: 1.14 on 2022-12-30
   • Votes: 18
   • Previous version: 1.13 was 11 months, 7 days before
8. Excel::Writer::XLSX - Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
   • Version: 1.10 on 2022-12-30
   • Votes: 58
   • Previous version: 1.09 was 1 year, 7 months, 16 days before
9. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
   • Version: 7.66 on 2022-12-25
   • Votes: 50
   • Previous version: 7.64 was 1 year, 8 days before
10. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
    • Version: 1.34 on 2022-12-30
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.33 was 1 month, 3 days before
11. Getopt::Long::Descriptive - Getopt::Long, but simpler and more powerful
    • Version: 0.111 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 0.110 was 1 year, 2 months, 1 day before
12. JSON::PP - JSON::XS compatible pure-Perl module.
    • Version: 4.16 on 2022-12-30
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 4.12 was 2 months, 22 days before
13. Marpa::R2 - Release 2 of Marpa
    • Version: 12.000000 on 2022-12-25
    • Votes: 48
    • Previous version: 10.000000 was 5 months, 26 days before
14. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.36 on 2022-12-30
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 1.35 was 2 months, 26 days before
15. Perl::PrereqScanner - a tool to scan your Perl code for its prerequisites
    • Version: 1.025 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.024 was 1 year, 5 months, 29 days before
16. Pod::Man - Convert POD data to various other formats
    • Version: 5.01 on 2022-12-25
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 5.00 was 1 month before
17. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
    • Version: 8.00 on 2022-12-29
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 7.717 was 5 months, 1 day before
18. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9675 on 2022-12-27
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9672 was 4 days before
19. Sub::Exporter - a sophisticated exporter for custom-built routines
    • Version: 0.989 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 0.988 was 1 year, 6 months, 12 days before
20. Sub::Install - install subroutines into packages easily
    • Version: 0.929 on 2022-12-31
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.928 was 8 years, 6 months, 5 days before
21. Test::Fatal - incredibly simple helpers for testing code with exceptions
    • Version: 0.017 on 2022-12-31
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 0.016 was 2 years, 4 months, 22 days before
22. Test::Routine - composable units of assertion
    • Version: 0.029 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.028 was 1 year, 6 months, 12 days before
23. Throwable - a role for classes that can be thrown
    • Version: 1.001 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 1.000 was 1 year, 6 months, 5 days before

(dxxxviii) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 20

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2023/01/01 09:50:08 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Data::Dimensions - Strongly type values with physical units
• Data::SIprefixes - This helps with working with numbers with SI prefixed measures.
• DateTime::Format::Bork - Bork! Bork! Bork!
• Math::Calc::Units - Human-readable unit-aware calculator
• Test::Named - Perl extension for named tests. Inspired on this:

Increasing its reputation:

• App::Cmd (+1=44)
• Array::Utils (+1=11)
• Bitcoin::RPC::Client (+1=8)
• CPAN::Upload::Tiny (+1=3)
• CPAN::Uploader (+1=24)
• DateTime::Format::Natural (+1=18)
• HTTP::Message (+1=62)
• libwww::perl (+1=160)
• Mojolicious (+1=476)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::SetUserGroup (+1=3)
• Moo (+1=294)
• Net::CIDR::Lite (+1=6)
• Physics::Unit (+1=5)
• strictures (+1=23)
• Text::QRCode (+1=6)

(dlxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-01 09:49:01 GMT

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1. Why does a variable in Perl not respect a `package` statement? - [6/2]
2. Perl: Filehandle storing the full file content and not each line - [3/2]
3. Perl: What does this "=~s|" mean in Perl? - [2/0]
4. Reading from a File Based on a String Input - [1/3]
5. Parsing data using Perl - [1/1]

(cdxxiv) 11 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::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
   • Version: 2.75 on 2022-12-22
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.74 was 25 days before
2. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.306 on 2022-12-23
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.304 was 2 months, 11 days before
3. Data::Alias - Comprehensive set of aliasing operations
   • Version: 1.28 on 2022-12-21
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 1.27 was 19 days before
4. Data::Printer - colored & full-featured pretty print of Perl data structures and objects
   • Version: 1.001000 on 2022-12-22
   • Votes: 143
   • Previous version: 1.000004 was 1 year, 9 months, 19 days before
5. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.62 on 2022-12-20
   • Votes: 44
   • Previous version: 0.61 was 29 days before
6. JavaScript::V8 - Perl interface to the V8 JavaScript engine
   • Version: 0.11 on 2022-12-19
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 0.10 was 1 year, 7 months, 26 days before
7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20221220 on 2022-12-20
   • Votes: 41
   • Previous version: 5.20221120 was 1 month before
8. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 9.31 on 2022-12-21
   • Votes: 476
   • Previous version: 9.30 was 28 days before
9. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.77 on 2022-12-19
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 0.75 was 5 days before
10. Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
    • Version: 1.146 on 2022-12-22
    • Votes: 126
    • Previous version: 1.144 was 16 days before
11. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9672 on 2022-12-23
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9667 was 7 days before

(dxxxvii) metacpan weekly report

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

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2022/12/24 13:15:41 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• AI::TensorFlow::Libtensorflow - Bindings for Libtensorflow deep learning library
• constant::more - Assign values to constants from the command arguments
• Net::Wait - Wait on startup until the specified ports are listening

Increasing its reputation:

• Algorithm::Combinatorics (+1=24)
• App::elsquid (+1=2)
• App::tcpproxy (+1=2)
• CPAN::Changes (+1=30)
• Crypt::JWT (+1=21)
• DBD::Pg (+1=90)
• DBI (+1=260)
• Devel::Kit (+1=7)
• Digest::SHA3 (+1=7)
• Dumbbench (+1=15)
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::Rust (+1=9)
• HTTP::Proxy (+1=4)
• Limper (+1=6)
• Math::BigInt (+1=12)
• Math::Prime::Util (+1=20)
• Modern::Perl (+1=49)
• Mojo::JWT (+1=16)
• Mojo::Pg (+1=70)
• Mojolicious::Command::Author::generate::cpanfile (+1=3)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Bcrypt (+1=8)
• MongoDB (+1=87)
• Net::Proxy (+1=6)
• Net::SSH2 (+1=24)
• OptArgs (+1=16)
• OptArgs2 (+1=7)
• PathTools (+1=78)
• PDF::API2 (+1=28)
• Sys::Info::Base (+1=4)
• Task::Kensho (+1=115)
• Text::ANSITable (+1=19)
• Text::MultiMarkdown (+1=12)
• Types::Path::Tiny (+1=14)
• Util::H2O (+1=7)
• Util::H2O::More (+1=3)