(cdxvi) 16 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: 2.72 on 2022-10-26
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.71 was 22 days before
2. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
   • Version: 1.59 on 2022-10-23
   • Votes: 208
   • Previous version: 1.58 was 6 months, 5 days before
3. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.56 on 2022-10-29
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.55 was 17 days before
4. Devel::CheckOS - a script to package Devel::AssertOS modules with your code.
   • Version: 1.95 on 2022-10-29
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.94 was 3 months, 5 days before
5. Email::Sender - a library for sending email
   • Version: 2.600 on 2022-10-23
   • Votes: 45
   • Previous version: 2.500 was 1 year, 3 months, 19 days before
6. experimental - Experimental features made easy
   • Version: 0.029 on 2022-10-25
   • Votes: 31
   • Previous version: 0.028 was 5 months, 29 days before
7. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 2.03 on 2022-10-28
   • Votes: 57
   • Previous version: 2.02 was 4 days before
8. Git::Raw - Perl bindings to the Git linkable library (libgit2)
   • Version: 0.90 on 2022-10-27
   • Votes: 31
   • Previous version: 0.88 was 1 year, 2 months, 19 days before
9. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.44 on 2022-10-26
   • Votes: 61
   • Previous version: 6.43 was 4 days before
10. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 5.12 on 2022-10-26
    • Votes: 30
    • Previous version: 5.11 was 1 month, 27 days before
11. Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
    • Version: 1.15 on 2022-10-23
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 1.03 was 10 years, 6 months, 1 day before
12. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.70 on 2022-10-29
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.68 was 2 months, 16 days before
13. OpenAPI::Client - A client for talking to an Open API powered server
    • Version: 1.07 on 2022-10-26
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 1.06 was 1 month, 15 days before
14. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.081 on 2022-10-25
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 2.019 was 4 years, 5 months, 20 days before
15. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9659 on 2022-10-28
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9657 was 7 days before
16. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.617 on 2022-10-23
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.616 was 3 months, 4 days before

(dxxix) metacpan weekly report - Text::Table

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 39

Week's winner: Text::Table (+3)

Build date: 2022/10/29 19:17:07 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Color::Rust - Color example class using Rust + FFI
• Memcached::RateLimit - Sliding window rate limiting with Memcached
• Music::BachChoralHarmony - Parse the UCI Bach choral harmony data set
• MySQL::Dump::Parser::XS - mysqldump SQL parser
• XML::TMX::CWB - TMX interface with Open Corpus Workbench

Increasing its reputation:

• Array::Utils (+1=10)
• Call::Context (+1=2)
• Config::Any (+1=26)
• Data::Dumper (+1=100)
• Data::Page (+1=17)
• DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader (+1=45)
• DBM::Deep (+1=25)
• Devel::Size (+1=20)
• Dotenv (+1=8)
• FindBin (+1=4)
• Getopt::Long (+1=111)
• Getopt::Long::Descriptive (+1=52)
• Git::Hooks (+1=11)
• Hash::MultiValue (+1=18)
• Hook::LexWrap (+1=8)
• HTTP::Tiny (+1=105)
• libwww::perl (+1=159)
• List::MoreUtils (+1=112)
• List::MoreUtils::XS (+1=3)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=98)
• Memory::Usage (+1=6)
• Module::Find (+1=9)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Prometheus (+1=7)
• Params::Validate (+1=35)
• Params::ValidationCompiler (+1=23)
• Rose::HTML::Objects (+1=3)
• Syntax::Operator::In (+1=3)
• Test::Trap (+1=9)
• Text::Table (+3=20)
• Type::Tiny (+1=133)
• X::Tiny (+1=5)
• XML::Twig (+1=58)

(dlvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-10-29 19:15:24 GMT

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1. In Perl POD, what is the proper way to link to an internal function? - [3/3]
2. Regex only inside multiline match - [2/3]
3. autovivify non-sequential array/list in Python like Perl - [2/1]
4. Can't run "compgen -c" from perl script - [1/2]
5. How can I convert an integer to a float value in Perl? - [1/2]

(cdxv) 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: 2.057008 on 2022-10-18
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.057007 was 14 days before
2. Clone - recursively copy Perl datatypes
   • Version: 0.46 on 2022-10-19
   • Votes: 29
   • Previous version: 0.45 was 2 years, 5 months, 26 days before
3. Future - represent an operation awaiting completion
   • Version: 0.49 on 2022-10-17
   • Votes: 56
   • Previous version: 0.48 was 8 months, 22 days before
4. GraphViz - Interface to AT&T's GraphViz. Deprecated. See GraphViz2
   • Version: 2.25 on 2022-10-22
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.25 was 2 months, 2 days before
5. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.43 on 2022-10-22
   • Votes: 61
   • Previous version: 6.41 was 10 days before
6. Log::Log4perl - Log4j implementation for Perl
   • Version: 1.57 on 2022-10-21
   • Votes: 97
   • Previous version: 1.56 was 1 month, 19 days before
7. Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
   • Version: 1.14 on 2022-10-15
   • Votes: 25
   • Previous version: 1.14 was before
8. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20221020 on 2022-10-20
   • Votes: 40
   • Previous version: 5.20220920 was 29 days before
9. Params::Validate - Validate method/function parameters
   • Version: 1.31 on 2022-10-22
   • Votes: 34
   • Previous version: 1.30 was 2 years, 4 days before
10. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.130 on 2022-10-20
    • Votes: 171
    • Previous version: 0.124 was 1 month, 18 days before
11. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9657 on 2022-10-21
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9655 was 9 days before
12. Type::Tiny::XS - provides an XS boost for some of Type::Tiny's built-in type constraints
    • Version: 0.025 on 2022-10-19
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.022 was 2 years, 24 days before

(dxxviii) metacpan weekly report - Text::Table

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 48

Week's winners (+3): Text::Table 

Build date: 2022/10/22 20:34:40 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Apache::ParseLog - Object-oriented Perl extension for parsing Apache log files
• App::Gimei - CLI for Data::Gimei
• Call::Context - Sanity-check calling context
• CPAN::FindDependencies - generate reports when modules' dependencies get new releases
• Data::Gimei - a Perl port of Ruby's gimei generates fake data in Japanese.
• RPM::Tools - compare installed rpms with up-to-date distribution

Increasing its reputation:

• Acme::Inabajun::Utils (+1=2)
• AnyEvent (+1=157)
• App::cpanminus (+1=269)
• App::Staticperl (+1=20)
• Config::General (+1=28)
• Data::Dumper (+1=99)
• Data::Page (+1=16)
• Data::Section::Simple (+1=15)
• DBIx::Class::ParameterizedJoinHack (+1=5)
• DBM::Deep (+1=24)
• Devel::Size (+1=19)
• Dotenv (+1=7)
• GBK (+1=3)
• HTTP::CookieJar (+1=9)
• HTTP::Tiny (+1=104)
• IO::AIO (+1=16)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=97)
• Math::Prime::Util (+1=19)
• mb::JSON (+1=3)
• Memory::Usage (+1=5)
• Minion (+1=90)
• Mojolicious (+2=475)
• Moo (+1=291)
• Net::Curl (+1=17)
• Net::Curl::Promiser (+1=4)
• Net::IDN::Encode (+1=7)
• Net::LastFM (+1=4)
• Plack::Middleware::XSRFBlock (+1=8)
• Promise::ES6 (+1=6)
• Raisin (+1=43)
• Rex (+1=81)
• RPM::Packager (+1=2)
• Test::Deep (+1=51)
• Text::Iconv (+1=4)
• Text::Table (+2=17)
• URI (+1=106)
• UTF8::R2 (+1=3)
• Weather::GHCN::Fetch (+1=2)
• X::Tiny (+1=4)

(dlvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-10-22 20:33:03 GMT

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1. Perl, use regex to find a match and replace just the last character of the match (in this case a line break) - [3/3]
2. Perl symmetric difference aka disjunctive union of two sets - [2/3]
3. How to stack function definitions in perl (call them all at once)? - [2/2]
4. Test::More failing test with equal strings - [2/1]
5. Why can't I reference a (particular) Perl array as I'd expect? - [2/1]

(cdxiv) 13 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: 2.304 on 2022-10-12
   • Votes: 12
   • Previous version: 2.303 was 2 months, 21 days before
2. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.55 on 2022-10-12
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2.54 was 18 days before
3. Exporter::Tiny - an exporter with the features of Sub::Exporter but only core dependencies
   • Version: 1.004004 on 2022-10-15
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 1.004003 was 15 days before
4. HTML::Parser - HTML parser class
   • Version: 3.79 on 2022-10-12
   • Votes: 43
   • Previous version: 3.78 was 6 months, 15 days before
5. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.41 on 2022-10-12
   • Votes: 61
   • Previous version: 6.39 was 4 days before
6. JSON - JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder
   • Version: 4.10 on 2022-10-09
   • Votes: 98
   • Previous version: 4.09 was 2 months, 8 days before
7. JSON::PP - JSON::XS compatible pure-Perl module.
   • Version: 4.12 on 2022-10-08
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: 4.12 was before
8. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
   • Version: 1.881 on 2022-10-14
   • Votes: 91
   • Previous version: 1.879 was 4 months, 21 days before
9. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
   • Version: 1.878 on 2022-10-10
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 1.877 was 4 months, 17 days before
10. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.28 on 2022-10-14
    • Votes: 474
    • Previous version: 9.27 was 1 month, 2 days before
11. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9655 on 2022-10-12
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9654 was 7 days before
12. Text::Table - Organize Data in Tables
    • Version: 1.135 on 2022-10-12
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 1.134 was 2 years, 4 months, 28 days before
13. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.16 on 2022-10-12
    • Votes: 105
    • Previous version: 5.13 was 6 days before

(dxxvii) metacpan weekly report - mb::JSON

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 52

Week's winners (+3): mb::JSON

Build date: 2022/10/15 19:56:27 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::CPANModules::PortedFrom::Ruby - Modules/applications that are ported from (or inspired by) Ruby libraries
• App::wsgetmail - Fetch mail from the cloud using webservices
• cPanel::APIClient - cPanel APIs, à la TIMTOWTDI!
• EAV::XS - Email Address Validation Library
• Mail::Log::Parse - Parse and return info in maillogs.
• Math::Numerical - Algorithms for numerical functions (solver, root findings, etc.)

Increasing its reputation:

• AnyEvent (+1=156)
• API::Plesk (+1=2)
• App::dateseq (+1=2)
• App::DBBrowser (+1=12)
• App::GhostWork (+1=2)
• App::GUI::Harmonograph (+1=3)
• BioPerl (+1=30)
• CHI (+1=53)
• CHI::Driver::Redis (+1=3)
• common::sense (+1=22)
• Config::Crontab (+1=6)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+1=42)
• cPanel::PublicAPI (+1=4)
• cPanel::TaskQueue (+1=2)
• DateTime (+1=208)
• enum (+1=12)
• Exporter::Simple (+1=3)
• IPC::Pipeline (+1=7)
• Jacode (+1=3)
• Jacode4e (+1=3)
• Jacode4e::RoundTrip (+1=3)
• JSON::XS (+1=112)
• libwww::perl (+1=158)
• List::Keywords (+1=9)
• List::UtilsBy (+1=38)
• mb (+1=2)
• mb::Encode (+1=2)
• mb::JSON (+3=3)
• Modern::Open (+1=3)
• Module::CoreList (+1=40)
• perl (+2=398)
• perlfaq (+1=10)
• PerlIO::gzip (+1=13)
• Promise::ES6 (+1=5)
• Rex::Group::Lookup::Nagios (+1=2)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=163)
• Selenium::Remote::Driver (+1=46)
• Syntax::Operator::Equ (+1=4)
• Syntax::Operator::In (+1=2)
• Template::Toolkit (+1=138)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=58)
• Unicode::Normalize (+1=10)
• Win32::LongPath (+1=7)

(dlv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-10-15 19:54:51 GMT

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1. (Perl) How to turn string into date format and find most recent? - [2/3]
2. Is there a way to use balloon on radiobutton in Perl Tk? - [2/2]
3. Why Perl regex doesn't match "\n" with a following character? - [2/1]
4. Read file into chunks and process the chunks in parallel - [2/1]
5. Remove string after finding specific character - [1/2]

(cdxiii) 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: 2.71 on 2022-10-04
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 2.70 was 11 days before
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.057007 on 2022-10-04
   • Votes: 14
   • Previous version: 2.057006 was 4 days before
3. Devel::MAT - Perl Memory Analysis Tool
   • Version: 0.49 on 2022-10-03
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 0.48 was 1 month, 4 days before
4. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
   • Version: 6.39 on 2022-10-08
   • Votes: 61
   • Previous version: 6.37 was 3 months, 24 days before
5. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
   • Version: 1.001 on 2022-10-05
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 1.000 was 9 months, 15 days before
6. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
   • Version: 1.35 on 2022-10-04
   • Votes: 24
   • Previous version: 1.34 was 4 months, 5 days before
7. Net::GitHub - Perl Interface for github.com
   • Version: 1.05 on 2022-10-03
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 1.03 was 5 months, 16 days before
8. SPVM - SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.9654 on 2022-10-05
   • Votes: 27
   • Previous version: 0.9653 was 9 days before
9. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
   • Version: v8.8.0 on 2022-10-05
   • Votes: 16
   • Previous version: v8.5.0 was 3 months, 1 day before
10. Term::ProgressBar - provide a progress meter on a standard terminal
    • Version: 2.23 on 2022-10-08
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 2.22 was 4 years, 4 months, 27 days before
11. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.13 on 2022-10-06
    • Votes: 105
    • Previous version: 5.12 was 2 months, 27 days before