(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

(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

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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)