26 dic 2020

(cccxxi) 17 CPAN great 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: 2.047000 on 2020-12-23
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.046006 was 1 month, 23 days before
  2. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
    • Version: 2.46 on 2020-12-23
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.44 was 1 month, 17 days before
  3. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.58 on 2020-12-21
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 7.56 was 1 month, 2 days before
  4. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9714 on 2020-12-25
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 0.9713 was 6 days before
  5. Net::Cmd - Collection of network protocol modules
    • Version: 3.13 on 2020-12-23
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 3.12 was 14 days before
  6. MetaCPAN::Client - A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
    • Version: 2.029000 on 2020-12-20
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 2.028000 was 3 months, 27 days before
  7. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.23 on 2020-12-19
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.22 was 1 day before
  8. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20201220 on 2020-12-20
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20201120 was 1 month before
  9. Mojo::mysql - Mojolicious and Async MySQL/MariaDB
    • Version: 1.22 on 2020-12-22
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 1.20 was 3 months, 17 days before
  10. Net::SSH2 - Support for the SSH 2 protocol via libssh2.
    • Version: 0.72 on 2020-12-22
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.71 was 8 months, 12 days before
  11. PDL::Stats - a collection of statistics modules in Perl Data Language, with a quick-start guide for non-PDL people.
    • Version: 0.76 on 2020-12-19
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.75 was 4 years, 6 months, 20 days before
  12. Perl::Critic::Freenode - Perl::Critic policies inspired by #perl on freenode IRC
    • Version: 0.033 on 2020-12-22
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.032 was 1 year, 1 month, 11 days before
  13. Net::LDAP - LDAP client library
    • Version: 0.67 on 2020-12-26
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.66 was 1 year, 8 months, 10 days before
  14. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
    • Version: 0.83 on 2020-12-21
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.82 was 2 months, 25 days before
  15. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0929 on 2020-12-23
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0928 was 14 days before
  16. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.45 on 2020-12-24
    • Votes: 92
    • Previous version: 1.44 was 5 months, 2 days before
  17. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.068 on 2020-12-19
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 1.067 was 1 month, 3 days before

19 dic 2020

(cccxx) 13 CPAN great 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. Algorithm::Diff - Compute `intelligent' differences between two files / lists
    • Version: 1.201 on 2020-12-13
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.200 was 2 months, 16 days before
  2. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
    • Version: 1.56 on 2020-12-14
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.54 was 2 days before
  3. CPANPLUS - Ameliorated interface to the CPAN
    • Version: 0.9910 on 2020-12-19
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.9908 was 8 months, 7 days before
  4. DateTime::Format::Strptime - Parse and format strp and strf time patterns
    • Version: 1.78 on 2020-12-15
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 1.77 was 9 months, 15 days before
  5. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
    • Version: 0.57 on 2020-12-17
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.56 was 12 days before
  6. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.50 on 2020-12-16
    • Votes: 149
    • Previous version: 6.49 was 2 months, 22 days before
  7. LWP::Protocol::https - Provide https support for LWP::UserAgent
    • Version: 6.10 on 2020-12-17
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 6.09 was 5 months, 1 day before
  8. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.22 on 2020-12-18
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.21 was 4 months, 17 days before
  9. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
    • Version: 2.2014 on 2020-12-19
    • Votes: 316
    • Previous version: 2.2013 was 4 months, 29 days before
  10. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
    • Version: 0.48 on 2020-12-14
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.47 was 1 month, 11 days before
  11. RapidApp - Turnkey ajaxy webapps
    • Version: 1.3400 on 2020-12-17
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 1.3302 was 1 month, 27 days before
  12. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.74 on 2020-12-12
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.73 was 3 months, 15 days before
  13. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000139 on 2020-12-16
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.000138 was 1 month, 25 days before

(cdxlvii) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious::Plugin::SecureCORS

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 30

Week's winner: Mojolicious::Plugin::SecureCORS (+2)

Build date: 2020/12/19 12:59:55 GMT


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(cdlxxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-12-19 12:57:42 GMT


  1. Why do `join` and/or `JSON::to_json` convert my data silently from integer to string? - [6/2]
  2. Add "m" modifier to qr pattern passed as parameter - [5/4]
  3. Error installing perl using perlbrew on Big Sur - [4/2]
  4. Most efficient way to read first and last number of bytes of a file in Perl - [3/3]
  5. How to install Perl DBD::Oracle with Oracle Instant Client on macOS Catalina - [3/1]
  6. trying to get last 4 distinct values from a dynamic NF file - [2/6]
  7. How to pass arguments to a Perl test when run using Module::Build - [2/1]
  8. Perl Hash Value - [2/1]
  9. Can variable declarations be placed in a common script - [2/1]
  10. Is it possible to rename PascalCase1.wav to kebab-case-1.wav with a single perl regex? - [1/4]

12 dic 2020

(cccxix) 12 CPAN great 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: 0.996 on 2020-12-06
    • Votes: 50
    • Previous version: 0.995 was 8 days before
  2. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
    • Version: 1.54 on 2020-12-12
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.51 was 1 month, 1 day before
  3. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9712 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 0.9711 was 8 days before
  4. Net::Cmd - Collection of network protocol modules
    • Version: 3.12 on 2020-12-09
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 3.11 was 3 years, 25 days before
  5. Lingua::EN::Inflect - Convert singular to plural. Select "a" or "an".
    • Version: 1.905 on 2020-12-08
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.904 was 1 year, 7 months, 11 days before
  6. Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
    • Version: 2.10 on 2020-12-11
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 2.09 was 3 months, 5 days before
  7. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20201207 on 2020-12-06
    • Votes: 120
    • Previous version: 20201202 was 4 days before
  8. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.13.2 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 73
    • Previous version: 1.13.1 was 1 month before
  9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0928 on 2020-12-09
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0927 was 19 days before
  10. Test::WWW::Mechanize - Testing-specific WWW::Mechanize subclass
    • Version: 1.54 on 2020-12-09
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 1.52 was 2 years, 4 days before
  11. Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
    • Version: 2.04 on 2020-12-11
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.03 was 5 years, 9 months, 7 days before
  12. Text::Fuzzy - Partial string matching using edit distances
    • Version: 0.29 on 2020-12-10
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.28 was 2 years, 2 months, 6 days before

(cdxlvi) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 41

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2020/12/12 17:59:34 GMT


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5 dic 2020

(cccxviii) 14 CPAN great 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. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
    • Version: 6.83 on 2020-11-30
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 6.82 was 5 months, 29 days before
  2. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
    • Version: 1.54 on 2020-12-04
    • Votes: 197
    • Previous version: 1.53 was 25 days before
  3. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
    • Version: 0.56 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.55 was 4 months, 9 days before
  4. Encode - character encodings in Perl
    • Version: 3.08 on 2020-12-02
    • Votes: 55
    • Previous version: 3.07 was 4 months, 8 days before
  5. Feersum - A PSGI engine for Perl based on EV/libev
    • Version: 1.410 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.407 was 1 year, 5 months, 26 days before
  6. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.47 on 2020-11-29
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 0.46 was 20 days before
  7. IO::AIO - Asynchronous/Advanced Input/Output
    • Version: 4.73 on 2020-12-04
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 4.72 was 1 year, 8 months, 1 day before
  8. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.67 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 435
    • Previous version: 8.65 was 24 days before
  9. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.7000 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 3.6006 was 3 months, 1 day before
  10. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
    • Version: 1.051 on 2020-11-29
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 1.050 was 8 months, 11 days before
  11. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20201202 on 2020-12-02
    • Votes: 120
    • Previous version: 20201001 was 2 months, 4 days before
  12. Plack - Perl Superglue for Web frameworks and Web Servers (PSGI toolkit)
    • Version: 1.0048 on 2020-11-30
    • Votes: 220
    • Previous version: 1.0047 was 2 years, 9 months, 20 days before
  13. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v6.10.0 on 2020-12-01
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v6.8.0 was 1 month, 27 days before
  14. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.65 on 2020-11-30
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.63 was 2 days before

(cdxlv) metacpan weekly report - Plack

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 45

Week's winner: Plack (+3)

Build date: 2020/12/05 20:03:50 GMT


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(cdlxx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-12-05 19:31:10 GMT


  1. How can I wrap require and use? - [8/4]
  2. Regular expression to match exactly and only n times - [3/3]
  3. log4perl: How to write ERROR message to file and DEBUG message to stderr? - [3/1]
  4. Properly detecting if Perl subroutine argument is array - [2/1]
  5. Regex: capture anything within parenthesis, also nested parenthesis - [2/1]
  6. How to ignore an exit(1) on a perl subroutine - tried eval but didn't work - [2/1]
  7. Can chrome know if there is a window maximized or not in front during selenium automation? - [2/0]
  8. Is there a way to read comments/notes of a cell in an excel file with ParseExcel/ParseXLSX? - [2/0]
  9. How send and received string, array and hash in perl function - [1/2]
  10. How can I get the local time modification of a file with File::stat in perl? - [1/2]

28 nov 2020

(cccxvii) 9 CPAN great 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: 0.995 on 2020-11-28
    • Votes: 49
    • Previous version: 0.994 was 21 days before
  2. App::TimeTracker - time tracking for impatient and lazy command line lovers
    • Version: 3.005 on 2020-11-22
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 3.004 was 3 months, 12 days before
  3. Convert::Binary::C - Binary Data Conversion using C Types
    • Version: 0.84 on 2020-11-23
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.83 was 4 days before
  4. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9711 on 2020-11-27
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.9708 was 21 days before
  5. Mojo::JWT - JSON Web Token the Mojo way
    • Version: 0.09 on 2020-11-22
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.08 was 1 year, 11 months, 18 days before
  6. Moo - Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
    • Version: 2.004004 on 2020-11-25
    • Votes: 277
    • Previous version: 2.004003 was 4 days before
  7. Package::Stash - Routines for manipulating stashes
    • Version: 0.39 on 2020-11-22
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.38 was 1 year, 10 months, 22 days before
  8. Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.20 on 2020-11-24
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.18 was 3 months, 23 days before
  9. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.63 on 2020-11-28
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.61 was 25 days before

(cdxliv) metacpan weekly report - Plack

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 36

Week's winners (+3): Plack

Build date: 2020/11/28 15:51:00 GMT


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(cdlxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-11-28 15:35:26 GMT


  1. Perl: Best way to open a file exclusively? - [4/1]
  2. Store and read string with newline from Config::Simple config file - [3/2]
  3. (Windows 10) Trying to Install Perl Modules both PPM and CPAN fail? - [3/0]
  4. atom feed: script to combine multiple <author> items into one? - [2/2]
  5. Why does File::Slurp get UTF8 characters wrong when I use open ':std', ':encoding(UTF-8)';? - [2/2]
  6. create a hash of occurrences in an array with map - [2/2]
  7. What difference does curly brace make in accessing an object - [2/1]
  8. How do I change a Perl Readonly scalar in a module for a unit test? - [2/1]
  9. Perl load module BEGIN - [2/1]
  10. Monitoring stdout of a forked process in perl by character - [2/0]

21 nov 2020

(cccxvi) 11 CPAN great 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. Convert::Binary::C - Binary Data Conversion using C Types
    • Version: 0.83 on 2020-11-19
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.79 was 6 months before
  2. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.56 on 2020-11-19
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 7.54 was 7 days before
  3. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
    • Version: 2.62 on 2020-11-16
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.61 was 8 days before
  4. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20201120 on 2020-11-20
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20201020 was 1 month before
  5. Moo - Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
    • Version: 2.004003 on 2020-11-21
    • Votes: 277
    • Previous version: 2.004000 was 7 months, 12 days before
  6. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.29 on 2020-11-18
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.28 was 26 days before
  7. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.025 on 2020-11-19
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 2.024 was 2 months, 2 days before
  8. Pod::Simple - framework for parsing Pod
    • Version: 3.42 on 2020-11-14
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 3.41 was 1 month, 2 days before
  9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0927 on 2020-11-20
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0926 was 14 days before
  10. WWW::YouTube::Download - WWW::YouTube::Download - Very simple YouTube video download interface
    • Version: 0.65 on 2020-11-19
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.64 was 1 month, 29 days before
  11. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.067 on 2020-11-16
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 1.066 was 3 months, 8 days before

(cdxliii) metacpan weekly report - Tickit::Widgets

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 60

Week's winner (+3): Tickit::Widgets

Build date: 2020/11/21 14:22:09 GMT


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(cdlxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-11-21 14:12:14 GMT


  1. How to avoid "deep recursion" error/warning in Type::Tiny::_build_coercion - [4/1]
  2. perl shebang: `Too late for "-Mstrict"` - [3/2]
  3. How can I operate on a list which is identified by a string? - [3/2]
  4. 500 Can't connect to url with lwp in perl - [3/1]
  5. Using FIND & EXEC to execute a filename-required Perl script over multiple files - [2/3]
  6. How can I get the directory two levels up in a path in Perl? - [2/2]
  7. Perl: parsing text output into array of hashes - [2/2]
  8. How can I assign STDOUT to a var and print to that while using 'use strict'? - [2/2]
  9. Is possible iteration over undefined dereferenced array a bug or a feature? - [2/2]
  10. How to catch ctrl+c and close file descriptor in Perl - [2/2]

14 nov 2020

(cccxv) 11 CPAN great 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. Amon2 - lightweight web application framework
    • Version: 6.15 on 2020-11-09
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 6.14 was 6 months, 24 days before
  2. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
    • Version: 1.51 on 2020-11-11
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.50 was 5 days before
  3. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
    • Version: 1.53 on 2020-11-09
    • Votes: 196
    • Previous version: 1.52 was 8 months, 9 days before
  4. Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls - coveralls backend for Devel::Cover
    • Version: 0.20 on 2020-11-08
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.15 was 6 months, 5 days before
  5. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.54 on 2020-11-12
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 7.52 was 8 days before
  6. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.46 on 2020-11-09
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 0.45 was 18 days before
  7. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
    • Version: 0.44 on 2020-11-09
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.43 was 2 days before
  8. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
    • Version: 2.61 on 2020-11-08
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.60 was 4 days before
  9. JSON::MaybeXS - Use Cpanel::JSON::XS with a fallback to JSON::XS and JSON::PP
    • Version: 1.004003 on 2020-11-13
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 1.004002 was 5 months, 27 days before
  10. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.65 on 2020-11-11
    • Votes: 435
    • Previous version: 8.64 was 5 days before
  11. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.03 on 2020-11-10
    • Votes: 84
    • Previous version: 2.02 was 28 days before

7 nov 2020

(cccxiv) 20 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: 2.37 on 2020-11-02
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 2.33 was 1 month, 11 days before
  2. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
    • Version: 0.994 on 2020-11-07
    • Votes: 49
    • Previous version: 0.993 was 5 months, 25 days before
  3. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
    • Version: 1.50 on 2020-11-06
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.49 was 7 months, 14 days before
  4. Chart::Plotly - Generate html/javascript charts from perl data using javascript library plotly.js
    • Version: 0.041 on 2020-11-01
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.040 was 14 days before
  5. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
    • Version: 2.44 on 2020-11-06
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.43 was 16 days before
  6. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
    • Version: 6.017 on 2020-11-03
    • Votes: 174
    • Previous version: 6.015 was 5 months, 5 days before
  7. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.52 on 2020-11-04
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 7.50 was 14 days before
  8. File::Path - Create or remove directory trees
    • Version: 2.18 on 2020-11-05
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 2.17 was 3 months, 18 days before
  9. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9708 on 2020-11-06
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.9707 was 6 days before
  10. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
    • Version: 0.43 on 2020-11-07
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.41 was 3 months, 2 days before
  11. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
    • Version: 2.60 on 2020-11-04
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.59 was 4 days before
  12. Markdent - An event-based Markdown parser toolkit
    • Version: 0.38 on 2020-11-07
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.37 was 4 months, 4 days before
  13. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
    • Version: 4.22 on 2020-11-06
    • Votes: 66
    • Previous version: 4.21 was 12 days before
  14. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.64 on 2020-11-06
    • Votes: 435
    • Previous version: 8.63 was 24 days before
  15. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
    • Version: 0.47 on 2020-11-03
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.46 was 21 days before
  16. Params::Util - Simple, compact and correct param-checking functions
    • Version: 1.102 on 2020-11-02
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.101 was 11 days before
  17. Pod::Markdown - Convert POD to Markdown
    • Version: 3.300 on 2020-10-31
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 3.200 was 1 year, 22 days before
  18. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.13.1 on 2020-11-05
    • Votes: 72
    • Previous version: 1.13.0 was 1 month before
  19. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0926 on 2020-11-06
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0924 was 22 days before
  20. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.61 on 2020-11-03
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.60 was 2 months, 10 days before

(cdxlii) metacpan weekly report - IO::Pager

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

Week's winner: IO::Pager (+2)

Build date: 2020/11/07 18:59:27 GMT


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(cdlxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-11-07 18:21:26 GMT


  1. Is it possible to modify word character class or \b boundary to exclude underscore character? - [4/3]
  2. Passing large values to modules - [4/1]
  3. How to sort huge CSV file? - [3/2]
  4. How do I assign an element of @ARGV to a $variable, then print it? - [3/1]
  5. Perl Net::SFTP::Foreign disconnect not closing the connection - [3/1]
  6. Excel::Writer::XLSX adds an unexpected @ in formula - [3/1]
  7. IO::Socket::SSL seems to be ignoring SSL_VERIFY_NONE - [3/1]
  8. How can I lift an attribute constraint depending on another attribute from a trigger into a type refinement? - [3/1]
  9. Excel::Writer::XLSX adds an unexpected @ in formula (part 2) - [3/1]
  10. How to resolve this warning in Perl - [2/3]

31 oct 2020

(cccxiii) 9 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::GitGot - A tool to make it easier to manage multiple git repositories.
    • Version: 1.339 on 2020-10-30
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.337 was 6 months, 5 days before
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.046006 on 2020-10-31
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.046005 was 14 days before
  3. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
    • Version: 4.25 on 2020-10-28
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 4.24 was 26 days before
  4. JSON::XS - JSON serialising/deserialising, done correctly and fast
    • Version: 4.03 on 2020-10-27
    • Votes: 108
    • Previous version: 4.02 was 1 year, 7 months, 21 days before
  5. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.14 on 2020-10-25
    • Votes: 79
    • Previous version: 10.13 was 2 months, 25 days before
  6. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
    • Version: 4.21 on 2020-10-25
    • Votes: 66
    • Previous version: 4.20 was 23 days before
  7. Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
    • Version: 1.60 on 2020-10-31
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 1.59 was 5 months, 4 days before
  8. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.012000 on 2020-10-28
    • Votes: 123
    • Previous version: 1.010006 was 1 month, 24 days before
  9. YAML::Syck - Fast, lightweight YAML loader and dumper
    • Version: 1.34 on 2020-10-26
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 1.32 was 8 months, 30 days before

(cdxli) metacpan weekly report - Ask

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 35

Week's winner: Ask (+4)

Build date: 2020/10/31 15:39:59 GMT


Clicked for first time:

  • CAD::Mesh3D - Create and Manipulate 3D Vertexes and Meshes and output for 3D printing
  • Encode::Base58 - Base58 encodings (for Flickr short URI)
  • Gtk3::ImageView - Image viewer widget for Gtk3
  • JSON5 - The JSON5 implementation for Perl 5

Increasing its reputation:

(cdlxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-10-31 15:19:25 GMT


  1. Why using utf8 patterns within perl substitute(s) and match(m) operators within one-liners does not work? - [4/1]
  2. Perl "do { ... } if ... " as expression - [2/4]
  3. How to access data in JSON by key - [2/2]
  4. How to capture regions flanking string region in Perl? - [2/2]
  5. Best way to go to any line number we want in Perl - [2/2]
  6. Is there a way to find out the name of the file stdout is redirected to in Perl? - [2/2]
  7. How to install Carton module into local project with perlbrew? - [2/1]
  8. Matching methods from LWP::UserAgent to Mojo::UserAgent - [2/1]
  9. How do I merge hashes from an array of hashes - [2/1]
  10. Regex works in terminal but not in Perl script - [1/3]

24 oct 2020

(cccxii) 21 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::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
    • Version: 0.89 on 2020-10-19
    • Votes: 165
    • Previous version: 0.88 was 8 months, 21 days before
  2. Chart::Plotly - Generate html/javascript charts from perl data using javascript library plotly.js
    • Version: 0.040 on 2020-10-18
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.039 was 8 months, 1 day before
  3. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
    • Version: 2.43 on 2020-10-21
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.42 was 5 days before
  4. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.50 on 2020-10-21
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 7.48 was 17 days before
  5. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.34 on 2020-10-23
    • Votes: 53
    • Previous version: 1.33 was 25 days before
  6. File::ShareDir - Locate per-dist and per-module shared files
    • Version: 1.118 on 2020-10-21
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.116 was 2 years, 3 months, 27 days before
  7. Future - represent an operation awaiting completion
    • Version: 0.46 on 2020-10-19
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 0.45 was 5 months, 27 days before
  8. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.45 on 2020-10-22
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 0.44 was 13 days before
  9. Glib::Object::Introspection - Dynamically create Perl language bindings
    • Version: 0.049 on 2020-10-21
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.048 was 10 months, 11 days before
  10. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9706 on 2020-10-20
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.9704 was 5 years, 13 days before
  11. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
    • Version: 2.58 on 2020-10-19
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.57 was 4 days before
  12. List::MoreUtils - Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
    • Version: 0.430 on 2020-10-21
    • Votes: 108
    • Previous version: 0.428 was 2 years, 10 months, 10 days before
  13. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20201020 on 2020-10-20
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20200920 was 1 month before
  14. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.28 on 2020-10-23
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.27 was 1 month, 12 days before
  15. Params::Util - Simple, compact and correct param-checking functions
    • Version: 1.101 on 2020-10-22
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.07 was 8 years, 7 months, 11 days before
  16. Params::Validate - Validate method/function parameters
    • Version: 1.30 on 2020-10-18
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 1.29 was 3 years, 4 months, 7 days before
  17. RapidApp - Turnkey ajaxy webapps
    • Version: 1.3302 on 2020-10-21
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 1.3301 was 15 days before
  18. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
    • Version: 1.38 on 2020-10-19
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 1.37 was 8 months, 1 day before
  19. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302183 on 2020-10-22
    • Votes: 170
    • Previous version: 1.302182 was 16 days before
  20. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000138 on 2020-10-22
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.000136 was 16 days before
  21. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.05 on 2020-10-21
    • Votes: 102
    • Previous version: 1.76 was 1 year, 9 months, 12 days before

(cdxl) metacpan weekly report - Getopt::Kingpin

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 27

Week's winner: Getopt::Kingpin (+2)

Build date: 2020/10/24 13:47:25 GMT


Clicked for first time:


Increasing its reputation:

(cdlxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-10-24 13:38:55 GMT


  1. How to remove and ID from a string - [3/4]
  2. reset state variables on next file in `perl -n` one-liner - [3/1]
  3. How to cut the second column of a string in an array using Perl - [2/5]
  4. Read the file check the sequence - [2/3]
  5. How to create a numeric ruler and evenly spaced numeric width markers - [2/2]
  6. Perl Win32::API - dependent DLL not detected - [2/1]
  7. Is there a way to do matching pattern using array in perl? - [2/1]
  8. How can I wait for an animation to be finished without using a sleep in selenium using perl? - [2/0]
  9. Reading a line from a file using perl - [1/3]
  10. Perl - Extract string from text block - [1/3]