(cccxi) 15 CPAN great modules released last week

This is a list of 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: 2.046005 on 2020-10-17
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 2.046002 was 2 months, 10 days before
2. Applify - Write object oriented scripts with ease
   • Version: 0.22 on 2020-10-13
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 0.21 was 10 months, 1 day before
3. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.42 on 2020-10-16
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 2.41 was 9 days before
4. Devel::CheckOS - require that we are running on a particular OS
   • Version: 1.85 on 2020-10-15
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 1.84 was 10 days before
5. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
   • Version: 2.57 on 2020-10-15
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.54 was 6 days before
6. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 4.10 on 2020-10-13
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 4.06 was 3 days before
7. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 8.63 on 2020-10-13
   • Votes: 434
   • Previous version: 8.61 was 11 days before
8. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
   • Version: 0.46 on 2020-10-13
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 0.45 was 4 months, 12 days before
9. Pod::Simple - framework for parsing Pod
   • Version: 3.41 on 2020-10-12
   • Votes: 15
   • Previous version: 3.40 was 11 months, 17 days before
10. Pod::Usage - extracts POD documentation and shows usage information
    • Version: 2.01 on 2020-10-13
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.70 was 6 months, 29 days before
11. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0924 on 2020-10-15
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0918 was 8 days before
12. Statistics::Descriptive - Module of basic descriptive statistical functions.
    • Version: 3.0800 on 2020-10-17
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 3.0702 was 1 year, 11 months, 23 days before
13. String::Random - Perl module to generate random strings based on a pattern
    • Version: 0.31 on 2020-10-17
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.30 was 2 years, 4 months, 26 days before
14. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.02 on 2020-10-13
    • Votes: 83
    • Previous version: 2.01 was 25 days before
15. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.612 on 2020-10-10
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.611 was 17 days before

(cdxxxix) metacpan weekly report - Net::Curl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 31

Week's winner: Net::Curl (+2)

Build date: 2020/10/17 21:55:39 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• AHA - Access modules for AVM's home automation system
• App::swaks -
• GraphViz2::Data::Grapher - Use GraphViz2 to visualize Perl data structures
• Text::ANSI::Printf - printf function for string with ANSI sequence
• Util::Medley - A collection of commonly used utilities.

Increasing its reputation:

• Applify (+1=12)
• Catalyst::Plugin::StatusMessage (+1=3)
• Convert::ASN1 (+1=3)
• Data::Printer (+1=131)
• DBIx::Class::Migration (+1=27)
• DBIx::Class::ParameterizedJoinHack (+1=4)
• ExtUtils::MakeMaker (+1=47)
• HTML::Template (+1=14)
• Mojo::PDF (+1=7)
• Monitoring::Plugin (+1=5)
• Moose (+1=315)
• Net::Curl (+2=16)
• perl (+1=363)
• Redis::ClusterRider (+1=2)
• Sentry::Raven (+1=3)
• Stepford (+1=6)
• Storable (+1=46)
• Sys::SigAction (+1=9)
• Term::Size (+1=4)
• Test2::Suite (+1=28)
• Test::PerlTidy (+1=2)
• Text::ANSITable (+1=15)
• Type::Tiny (+1=122)
• WWW::Mechanize::Chrome (+1=14)
• WWW::Telegram::BotAPI (+1=11)

(cdlxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-10-17 21:48:16 GMT

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1. How to request permission access from user without asking the user to insert information Google Sign-Up - [7/0]
2. Repeated regex replacements with overlapping lookbehinds - [3/2]
3. Iterate through a file multiple times, each time finding a regex and returning one line (perl) - [2/2]
4. Printing the result of the script(running in background) on the terminal - [1/3]
5. How to add substring to some (not all) fasta headers - [1/3]
6. Replacing a hash with a variable when calling a function - [1/3]
7. PERL : I take mday value from locatime as below , . How can I subtract 1 from mday which I take from localtime - [1/2]
8. In Perl, why is the $[ variable in Perl v5.16.0 a problem? - [1/2]
9. How to go one up folder level using perl? - [1/2]
10. Get Customer Review with Net::Amazon::Attribute::Review - [1/1]

(cccx) 17 CPAN great modules released last week

This is a list of 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: 4.51 on 2020-10-05
   • Votes: 38
   • Previous version: 4.50 was 3 months, 13 days before
2. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.41 on 2020-10-07
   • Votes: 17
   • Previous version: 2.39 was 5 months, 13 days before
3. Devel::CheckOS - a script to package Devel::AssertOS modules with your code.
   • Version: 1.84 on 2020-10-05
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 1.83 was 7 months, 19 days before
4. Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD-5 algorithm
   • Version: 2.58 on 2020-10-05
   • Votes: 29
   • Previous version: 2.55 was 4 years, 6 months, 27 days before
5. Email::Sender - a library for sending email
   • Version: 1.300035 on 2020-10-10
   • Votes: 45
   • Previous version: 1.300034 was 10 months, 7 days before
6. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
   • Version: 7.48 on 2020-10-04
   • Votes: 46
   • Previous version: 7.46 was 3 months, 16 days before
7. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.44 on 2020-10-09
   • Votes: 32
   • Previous version: 0.43 was 3 months, 3 days before
8. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
   • Version: 2.54 on 2020-10-09
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.50 was 7 days before
9. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 4.06 on 2020-10-10
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 4.04 was 12 days before
10. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 3.40 on 2020-10-10
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 3.36 was 18 days before
11. RapidApp - Turnkey ajaxy webapps
    • Version: 1.3301 on 2020-10-06
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 1.3300 was 2 months before
12. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.13.0 on 2020-10-05
    • Votes: 71
    • Previous version: 1.12.2 was 1 month before
13. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0918 on 2020-10-07
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0914 was 11 days before
14. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v6.8.0 on 2020-10-05
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v6.3.0 was 5 months before
15. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302182 on 2020-10-06
    • Votes: 170
    • Previous version: 1.302181 was 22 days before
16. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000136 on 2020-10-06
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.000135 was 1 month, 20 days before
17. Text::ANSITable - Create nice formatted tables using extended ASCII and ANSI colors
    • Version: 0.601 on 2020-10-05
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.600 was 22 days before

(cdxxxviii) metacpan weekly report - Mojo::PDF

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 74

Week's winner (+3): Mojo::PDF

Build date: 2020/10/10 19:50:28 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• AnyEvent::SerialPort - AnyEvent::Handle subclass for serial ports
• English::Script - Parse English subset and convert to data or code
• EWS::Client - Microsoft Exchange Web Services Client
• InfluxDB::LineProtocol - Write and read InfluxDB LineProtocol
• lib::archive - load pure-Perl modules directly from TAR archives
• MIME::Lite::HT::HTML - Create HTML mail with MIME::Lite and HTML::Template
• MIME::Lite::TT::HTML - Create html mail with MIME::Lite and TT
• Mojo::Transmission - Client for talking with Transmission BitTorrent daemon
• Text::WrapAsUtf8 - temporarily wraps output to stdout as the UTF-8 binmode.
• usw - use utf8; use strict; use warnings; in one line.
• WWW::WebKit2 - Perl extension for controlling an embedding WebKit2 engine
• Z - collection of modules for rapid app development

Increasing its reputation:

• AnyEvent (+2=147)
• AnyEvent::ReadLine::Gnu (+1=3)
• B::Keywords (+1=5)
• Bot::IRC (+1=2)
• Catalyst::Runtime (+1=144)
• Chart::Plotly (+1=12)
• Config::Tiny (+1=28)
• Convert::Binary::C (+1=13)
• Data::Fake (+1=11)
• DateTime::Format::Natural (+1=14)
• Digest::MD5 (+1=29)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ContributorCovenant (+1=4)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git (+1=42)
• Email::Sender (+1=45)
• File::Path::Tiny (+1=4)
• File::Slurper (+1=38)
• Google::ProtocolBuffers::Dynamic (+1=6)
• GraphViz2 (+1=12)
• JSON (+1=92)
• Lingua::EN::Inflect (+1=14)
• Lingua::EN::Inflexion (+1=8)
• Mail::IMAPClient (+1=9)
• Module::Build (+1=44)
• Module::CPANfile (+1=55)
• Mojo::mysql (+1=34)
• Mojo::PDF (+3=7)
• Mojolicious (+1=434)
• Moose (+1=314)
• MooX::Press (+1=5)
• Nice::Try (+1=3)
• Parallel::ForkManager::Segmented (+1=2)
• Pepper (+1=4)
• Perl::Critic::Freenode (+1=18)
• Perl::Critic::TooMuchCode (+1=4)
• PerlX::Maybe (+1=33)
• Plack (+1=215)
• PPR (+1=16)
• Prima (+1=31)
• Release::Checklist (+2=5)
• RxPerl (+1=3)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=148)
• SemVer (+1=7)
• Spellunker (+1=7)
• Spreadsheet::Read (+1=27)
• SPVM (+1=21)
• SQL::Abstract (+1=68)
• Test::CPAN::Meta (+1=3)
• Test::MinimumVersion::Fast (+1=2)
• Test::Number::Delta (+1=9)
• Test::PAUSE::Permissions (+1=2)
• Thorium (+1=2)
• Tk::TableMatrix (+1=4)
• Tree::R (+1=2)
• Types::Algebraic (+1=3)
• Types::DateTime (+1=3)
• Types::Numbers (+1=2)
• Vroom (+1=17)
• Zydeco (+1=15)

(cdlxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-10-10 19:40:21 GMT

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1. Mojolicious one liner to service status files with listing directory - [5/1]
2. How do I use the "three line version of the RSA algorithm" written in Perl? - [5/0]
3. regex only match content outside all kinds of brackets - [3/3]
4. Get a record based on Updated time and Severity - [3/2]
5. Pattern matching in PERL ending with period "." - [3/2]
6. Using map and grep to find file names with underscores - [3/1]
7. Perl subtract values from two 2D arrays - [2/2]
8. Unable to Write into file within WHILE Loop in Perl - [2/2]
9. perl conditional substitution according to nearest certain html tag content - [2/2]
10. How can updating hash attribute, updates other hash attributes in Perl Moose - [2/2]

(cccix) 15 CPAN great modules released last week

This is a list of great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. Algorithm::Diff - Compute `intelligent' differences between two files / lists but use the old (<=0.59) interface.
   • Version: 1.200 on 2020-09-27
   • Votes: 20
   • Previous version: 1.1903 was 2 years, 7 months, 2 days before
2. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.24 on 2020-10-02
   • Votes: 37
   • Previous version: 4.23 was 27 days before
3. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 1.33 on 2020-09-28
   • Votes: 53
   • Previous version: 1.32 was 7 days before
4. File::HomeDir - Find your home and other directories on any platform
   • Version: 1.006 on 2020-09-28
   • Votes: 30
   • Previous version: 1.004 was 2 years, 4 months, 26 days before
5. File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely
   • Version: 0.2311 on 2020-10-03
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 0.2310 was 7 days before
6. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
   • Version: 4.04 on 2020-09-28
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 4.03 was 14 days before
7. MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
   • Version: 3.16 on 2020-09-27
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 3.15 was 5 years, 8 months, 15 days before
8. Module::Load - Load modules in a DWIM style
   • Version: 0.36 on 2020-09-29
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 0.34 was 1 year, 7 months, 19 days before
9. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
   • Version: 4.20 on 2020-10-02
   • Votes: 66
   • Previous version: 4.19 was 4 months, 2 days before
10. Mojo::Redis - Redis driver based on Mojo::IOLoop
    • Version: 3.25 on 2020-10-02
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 3.24 was 1 year, 4 months, 26 days before
11. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.61 on 2020-10-02
    • Votes: 434
    • Previous version: 8.59 was 19 days before
12. Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ - interact with RabbitMQ over AMQP using librabbitmq
    • Version: 2.40008 on 2020-10-01
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.40007 was 5 months, 1 day before
13. Net::OpenSSH - Perl SSH client package implemented on top of OpenSSH
    • Version: 0.80 on 2020-09-28
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 0.79 was 4 months, 29 days before
14. PadWalker - play with other peoples' lexical variables
    • Version: 2.5 on 2020-09-27
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 2.4 was 1 day before
15. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20201001 on 2020-09-28
    • Votes: 119
    • Previous version: 20200907 was 22 days before

(cdlxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-10-03 15:34:47 GMT

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1. Can anyone explain how to print all keys if two keys are same but with different values? - [5/4]
2. Perl: How to check the max width of word present in columns of array after reading from file? - [4/3]
3. Perl: is there a way to programmaticly set file test operators? (i.e. -X) - [3/3]
4. After scoped `no autodie` the program fails at `*STDOUT` - [3/1]
5. in perl, why does push cause a regex created by qr to be changed when not put into double quotes? - [2/3]
6. Perl How to use DBIx::Class to return data beautifully - [2/3]
7. How can I validate that a website sends a 2XX response using selenium in perl? - [2/2]
8. Where is the memory leak in my Perl XS code? - [2/1]
9. pp (perl compiler) issue - still has a dependency - [2/1]
10. How to replace Log::Dispatch::File with ::FileRotate? - [2/1]

(cccviii) 15 CPAN great modules released last week

This is a list of 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: 2.33 on 2020-09-21
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.32 was 10 days before
2. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
   • Version: 1.11 on 2020-09-23
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.10 was 2 months, 27 days before
3. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 1.32 on 2020-09-21
   • Votes: 53
   • Previous version: 1.31 was 2 months, 20 days before
4. File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely
   • Version: 0.2310 on 2020-09-26
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 0.2309 was 1 year, 8 months, 20 days before
5. GD - Perl interface to the gd2 graphics library
   • Version: 2.73 on 2020-09-24
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 2.72 was 2 months, 6 days before
6. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
   • Version: 6.49 on 2020-09-24
   • Votes: 148
   • Previous version: 6.47 was 1 month, 6 days before
7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20200920 on 2020-09-20
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 5.20200820 was 1 month before
8. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
   • Version: 3.36 on 2020-09-22
   • Votes: 37
   • Previous version: 3.35 was 1 month, 11 days before
9. PadWalker - play with other peoples' lexical variables
   • Version: 2.4 on 2020-09-26
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 2.3 was 2 years, 10 months, 16 days before
10. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
    • Version: 0.82 on 2020-09-26
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.81 was 1 year, 1 month, 1 day before
11. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0914 on 2020-09-26
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0912 was 12 days before
12. Type::Tiny::XS - provides an XS boost for some of Type::Tiny's built-in type constraints
    • Version: 0.022 on 2020-09-25
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.021 was 1 month, 7 days before
13. version - Structured version objects
    • Version: 0.9928 on 2020-09-22
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.9927 was 1 month, 2 days before
14. WWW::YouTube::Download - WWW::YouTube::Download - Very simple YouTube video download interface
    • Version: 0.64 on 2020-09-20
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.63 was 2 months, 27 days before
15. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.611 on 2020-09-23
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.608 was 6 days before

(cdlxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-09-26 18:02:13 GMT

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1. How to separate the Hex 8 bits into two 4 bits - [3/3]
2. Why does perl regex with /mg modifier match past end-of-line? - [3/3]
3. Perl : Regular Expression with changing decimal to hexadecimal - [3/2]
4. How do you check to see if an object overloads an operator in XS? - [3/1]
5. How to rename perl __ANON__ sub without disabling strict 'refs'? - [3/1]
6. How to make a script for two txt files with different names in perl - [2/3]
7. CORE::GLOBAL::die redefinition inside BEGIN - [2/2]
8. Perl: Perl6::Form format - [2/1]
9. Perl "my $bar if 0;" vs "my $bar = undef if 0;" - [2/1]
10. Python use regex match object in if statement and then access capture groups like Perl - [2/1]