28 mar 2020

(cclxxxii) 16 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::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
    • Version: 0.990 on 2020-03-27
    • Votes: 45
    • Previous version: 0.989 was 4 months, 20 days before
  2. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
    • Version: 1.49 on 2020-03-23
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.48 was 11 months, 12 days before
  3. Cache::Memcached::Fast - Perl client for memcached, in C language
    • Version: 0.26 on 2020-03-26
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.25 was 3 years, 11 days before
  4. Config::IniFiles - A module for reading .ini-style configuration files.
    • Version: 3.000003 on 2020-03-24
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 3.000002 was 1 year, 10 days before
  5. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
    • Version: 3.10.5 on 2020-03-23
    • Votes: 82
    • Previous version: 3.10.4 was 1 month, 20 days before
  6. Future - represent an operation awaiting completion
    • Version: 0.44 on 2020-03-25
    • Votes: 50
    • Previous version: 0.43 was 2 months, 18 days before
  7. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.39 on 2020-03-27
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 0.37 was 17 days before
  8. IPC::System::Simple - Run commands simply, with detailed diagnostics
    • Version: 1.30 on 2020-03-24
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 1.27 was 3 days before
  9. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 3.25 on 2020-03-25
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 3.24 was 22 days before
  10. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 3.30 on 2020-03-24
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 3.28 was 14 days before
  11. Mouse - Moose minus the antlers
    • Version: v2.5.10 on 2020-03-28
    • Votes: 57
    • Previous version: v2.5.9 was 7 months, 2 days before
  12. Net::GitHub - Perl Interface for github.com
    • Version: 0.99 on 2020-03-26
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 0.98 was 7 days before
  13. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
    • Version: 6.80 on 2020-03-25
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 6.00 was 2 years, 4 months, 11 days before
  14. Teng - very simple DBI wrapper/ORMapper
    • Version: 0.32 on 2020-03-25
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.31 was 2 years, 3 months, 10 days before
  15. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302173 on 2020-03-27
    • Votes: 167
    • Previous version: 1.302172 was 18 days before
  16. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.516 on 2020-03-24
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.514 was 21 days before

(cdxiii) metacpan weekly report - Statistics::Covid

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 41
Week's winner: Statistics::Covid
Build date: 2020/03/28 18:07:36 GMT

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(cdxxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-03-28 18:04:47 GMT

  1. Can I use Text::CSV_XS to parse a csv-format string without writing it to disk? - [4/3]
  2. how to manage myself SIGINT and SIGTERM signals? - [3/1]
  3. How do I get DateTime::Format::Strptime to parse the date/times of leap seconds? - [3/1]
  4. Perl regex exclude optional word from match - [2/6]
  5. Perl LibXML findvalues(...) concatenates values - [2/2]
  6. dmake is not recognized command when installing module from CPAN - [2/1]
  7. How to pause every iteration of the loop using sleep? - [2/1]
  8. Is it possible to bundle Perl with a macOS application? - [2/1]
  9. Perl function for slicing string with start, end and step - [1/3]
  10. Regexp to replace star at beginning of line if preceding line doesn't begin with star - [1/2]

21 mar 2020

(cclxxxi) 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.17 on 2020-03-20
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 2.12 was 11 days before
  2. Data::MessagePack - MessagePack serializing/deserializing
    • Version: 1.01 on 2020-03-17
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.00 was 3 years, 6 months, 27 days before
  3. Encode - character encodings in Perl
    • Version: 3.05 on 2020-03-18
    • Votes: 53
    • Previous version: 3.04 was 8 days before
  4. EV - perl interface to libev, a high performance full-featured event loop
    • Version: 4.33 on 2020-03-18
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 4.32 was 1 month, 25 days before
  5. Gtk3 - Perl interface to the 3.x series of the gtk+ toolkit
    • Version: 0.037 on 2020-03-17
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.036 was 6 months, 21 days before
  6. HTTP::BrowserDetect - Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
    • Version: 3.26 on 2020-03-16
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 3.25 was 3 months, 26 days before
  7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20200320 on 2020-03-20
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20200314 was 6 days before
  8. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.35 on 2020-03-21
    • Votes: 421
    • Previous version: 8.33 was 1 month, 10 days before
  9. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.23 on 2020-03-18
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.22 was 1 month, 5 days before
  10. Net::GitHub - Perl Interface for github.com
    • Version: 0.98 on 2020-03-19
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 0.96 was 13 days before
  11. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
    • Version: 1.050 on 2020-03-18
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.049 was 9 months, 18 days before
  12. vars - The Perl 5 language interpreter
    • Version: 5.030002 on 2020-03-14
    • Votes: 356
    • Previous version: 5.030002 was 6 days before
  13. Pod::Usage - Pod::Usage extracts POD documentation and shows usage information
    • Version: 1.70 on 2020-03-15
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.69 was 3 years, 9 months, 23 days before
  14. Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
    • Version: 1.58 on 2020-03-15
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 1.57 was 3 months, 28 days before
  15. Test::Warnings - Test for warnings and the lack of them
    • Version: 0.030 on 2020-03-21
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.029 was 7 days before
  16. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.010001 on 2020-03-16
    • Votes: 117
    • Previous version: 1.010000 was 26 days before
  17. XML::LibXML - Interface to Gnome libxml2 xml parsing and DOM library
    • Version: 2.0204 on 2020-03-17
    • Votes: 88
    • Previous version: 2.0203 was 6 days before

(cdxii) metacpan weekly report - Zydeco

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 42
Week's winners (+3): Zydeco
Build date: 2020/03/21 14:49:26 GMT

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(cdxxxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-03-21 14:33:15 GMT

  1. Create an array of n elements - [5/2]
  2. Error message "Signal SIGCHLD received, but no signal handler set." - [4/2]
  3. Perl assigning @ARGV array to a variable - [2/3]
  4. How to reset $1 perl variable? - [2/2]
  5. perl regex matching challenge finding size of folder and sub-folders on Windows - [2/1]
  6. Perl adding array to hash table - [1/4]
  7. perl hash ref return: { 'a' =>1, % { sub() } } - [1/3]
  8. How to use pseudo hash in modern perl? - [1/3]
  9. Perl script (api) not returning the data fetched from mysql to html - [1/1]
  10. SOLVED: Hash content access is inconsistent with different perl version - [1/1]

14 mar 2020

(cclxxx) 13 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: 2.12 on 2020-03-09
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 2.08 was 22 days before
  2. Archive::Zip - Provide an interface to ZIP archive files.
    • Version: 1.68 on 2020-03-12
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 1.67 was 5 months, 5 days before
  3. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
    • Version: 0.068 on 2020-03-10
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 0.067 was 1 month, 9 days before
  4. Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls - coveralls backend for Devel::Cover
    • Version: 0.14 on 2020-03-14
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.13 was 1 month, 15 days before
  5. Encode - character encodings in Perl
    • Version: 3.04 on 2020-03-10
    • Votes: 53
    • Previous version: 3.03 was 8 days before
  6. File::Slurp - Simple and Efficient Reading/Writing/Modifying of Complete Files
    • Version: 9999.30 on 2020-03-09
    • Votes: 65
    • Previous version: 9999.29 was 3 months, 12 days before
  7. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.37 on 2020-03-10
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.36 was 1 month, 25 days before
  8. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 3.28 on 2020-03-10
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 3.24 was 4 days before
  9. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
    • Version: 0.44 on 2020-03-14
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.43 was 1 month, 25 days before
  10. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v6.1.0 on 2020-03-10
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: v6.0.0 was 1 month, 25 days before
  11. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302172 on 2020-03-09
    • Votes: 167
    • Previous version: 1.302171 was 1 month, 23 days before
  12. Test::Warnings - Test for warnings and the lack of them
    • Version: 0.029 on 2020-03-14
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.028 was 2 months, 24 days before
  13. XML::LibXML - Interface to Gnome libxml2 xml parsing and DOM library
    • Version: 2.0203 on 2020-03-11
    • Votes: 88
    • Previous version: 2.0202 was 1 month, 29 days before

(cdxi) metacpan weekly report - String::Util

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 64
Week's winner: String::Util (+2)
Build date: 2020/03/14 12:12:25 GMT

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(cdxxxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-03-14 12:10:28 GMT

  1. What is a "string-ending newline" in relation to the $ metacharacter? - [2/4]
  2. Perl - Join Elements of array till a specified length - [2/3]
  3. Advanced searching for functions in @INC - [2/2]
  4. Perl catching STDERR and STDOUT of subprocess - [2/1]
  5. How do you create a blessed reference to a constant hash? - [2/0]
  6. Process an array and group rows by one field from a csv - [1/3]
  7. Find average of hash values Perl - [1/2]
  8. How to get a user-configurable buffer for printing? - [1/2]
  9. Issue with goto statement along with if else condition - [1/2]
  10. Strip out comma from position variable - [1/2]

7 mar 2020

(cclxxix) 16 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. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
    • Version: 6.81 on 2020-03-02
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 6.79 was 3 months before
  2. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
    • Version: 1.52 on 2020-02-29
    • Votes: 193
    • Previous version: 1.51 was 10 months, 8 days before
  3. DateTime::Format::Strptime - Parse and format strp and strf time patterns
    • Version: 1.77 on 2020-02-29
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 1.76 was 1 year, 22 days before
  4. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
    • Version: 6.014 on 2020-03-01
    • Votes: 171
    • Previous version: 6.012 was 1 year, 10 months, 10 days before
  5. Encode - character encodings in Perl
    • Version: 3.03 on 2020-03-02
    • Votes: 53
    • Previous version: 3.02 was 2 months, 8 days before
  6. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 3.24 on 2020-03-03
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 3.23 was 13 days before
  7. List::AllUtils - Combines List::Util, List::SomeUtils and List::UtilsBy in one bite-sized package
    • Version: 0.16 on 2020-03-01
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 0.15 was 1 year, 2 months, 22 days before
  8. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 3.24 on 2020-03-06
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 2.21 was 1 month, 13 days before
  9. Net::GitHub - Perl Interface for github.com
    • Version: 0.96 on 2020-03-06
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 0.95 was 1 year, 11 months, 7 days before
  10. Paws::SDK::Config - A Perl SDK for AWS (Amazon Web Services) APIs
    • Version: 0.42 on 2020-03-02
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 0.41 was 7 months, 22 days before
  11. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.021 on 2020-03-01
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 2.020 was 2 months, 20 days before
  12. Redis - Perl binding for Redis database
    • Version: 1.996 on 2020-03-05
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 1.995 was 7 months, 14 days before
  13. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.8.2 on 2020-03-05
    • Votes: 69
    • Previous version: 1.8.1 was 1 month before
  14. Test::Deep - Extremely flexible deep comparison
    • Version: 1.130 on 2020-03-01
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 1.128 was 1 year, 10 months, 12 days before
  15. Test::LWP::UserAgent - A LWP::UserAgent suitable for simulating and testing network calls
    • Version: 0.034 on 2020-03-06
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.033 was 2 years, 9 months, 19 days before
  16. TimeDate - miscellaneous timezone manipulations routines
    • Version: 2.32 on 2020-03-04
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 2.31 was 1 month, 19 days before

(cdx) metacpan weekly report - local::lib

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 120
Week's winner (+3): local::lib
Build date: 2020/03/07 12:38:05 GMT

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(cdxxxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-03-07 12:35:30 GMT

  1. Transpose in Perl's PDL::Complex - [3/1]
  2. passing a hash to a subroutine(s) - [2/3]
  3. Regex to non-greedily match across multiple lines up to a line that starts with a specific string - [2/3]
  4. How can I know if diamond operator moved to the next file? - [2/3]
  5. Perl: Expression precedence and evaluation - [2/3]
  6. Changing Perl @ISA dynamically? - [2/2]
  7. How to disable perl's garbage collector? - [2/2]
  8. Why does this snippet complain about 'Can't locate object method "this" via package "t"' and not just fail to run? - [2/2]
  9. Find and replace a string in Perl - [2/1]
  10. "First steps with PDL" image created with Gnuplot differs from the one in PDL Book - [2/0]