27 jun 2020

(ccxcv) 18 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. Archive::Tar - Manipulates TAR archives
    • Version: 2.38 on 2020-06-25
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.36 was 4 months, 23 days before
  2. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
    • Version: 4.50 on 2020-06-22
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 4.49 was 14 days before
  3. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
    • Version: 0.029 on 2020-06-22
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.028 was 8 days before
  4. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
    • Version: 1.10 on 2020-06-26
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.09 was 1 month, 9 days before
  5. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.46 on 2020-06-23
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 7.44 was 5 months, 12 days before
  6. File::Map - Memory mapping made simple and safe.
    • Version: 0.67 on 2020-06-25
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 0.66 was 1 year, 6 months, 7 days before
  7. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.46 on 2020-06-23
    • Votes: 147
    • Previous version: 6.45 was 15 days before
  8. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20200620 on 2020-06-20
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20200603 was 11 days before
  9. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.56 on 2020-06-26
    • Votes: 430
    • Previous version: 8.55 was 8 days before
  10. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.25 on 2020-06-26
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.24 was 30 days before
  11. Net::SFTP::Foreign - Secure File Transfer Protocol client
    • Version: 1.91 on 2020-06-24
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.90 was 1 year, 4 months, 30 days before
  12. perl - The Perl 5 language interpreter
    • Version: 5.032000 on 2020-06-20
    • Votes: 360
    • Previous version: 5.30.3 was 19 days before
  13. PPR - Pattern-based Perl Recognizer
    • Version: 0.000027 on 2020-06-25
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.000026 was 2 months, 1 day before
  14. Raisin - A REST API microframework for Perl.
    • Version: 0.90 on 2020-06-22
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 0.89 was 6 months, 26 days before
  15. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
    • Version: 6.81 on 2020-06-26
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 6.80 was 3 months, 1 day before
  16. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0704 on 2020-06-25
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0445 was 5 months, 16 days before
  17. WWW::YouTube::Download - WWW::YouTube::Download - Very simple YouTube video download interface
    • Version: 0.63 on 2020-06-23
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.62 was 8 months, 13 days before
  18. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.064 on 2020-06-26
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.062 was 9 days before

(cdxxvi) metacpan weekly report - Role::Tiny

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 93

Week's winner: Role::Tiny (+9)

Build date: 2020/06/27 14:05:34 GMT


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(cdxlix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-06-27 14:03:21 GMT


  1. How to get list of known Unicode characters names - [4/1]
  2. How to search a file for the last block of consecutive lines that contain a keyword in Perl - [3/3]
  3. What is the difference between {} and ->{} in Perl? - [3/2]
  4. Change first key of multi-dimensional Hash in perl - [3/1]
  5. Pattern matching perl - [2/2]
  6. Accessing Moose object in package to be called explicitly outside - [2/2]
  7. How to specify stride for array in Perl - [2/2]
  8. How do you use shell I/O redirection to pass in arguments into Perl scripts? - [2/2]
  9. Parallel execution of command using Parallel::ForkManager - [2/2]
  10. How to negate perl regex with lookbehind? - [2/2]

20 jun 2020

(ccxciv) 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: 2.26 on 2020-06-16
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 2.25 was 6 days before
  2. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
    • Version: 0.028 on 2020-06-14
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.027 was 10 days before
  3. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
    • Version: 3.13.0 on 2020-06-17
    • Votes: 82
    • Previous version: 3.12.3 was 12 days before
  4. DBIx::Class - Extensible and flexible object <-> relational mapper.
    • Version: 0.082842 on 2020-06-16
    • Votes: 273
    • Previous version: 0.082841 was 2 years, 4 months, 18 days before
  5. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.30 on 2020-06-16
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 1.29 was 10 days before
  6. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.41 on 2020-06-20
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 0.40 was 2 months, 5 days before
  7. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
    • Version: 1.012 on 2020-06-14
    • Votes: 59
    • Previous version: 1.011 was 1 year, 3 months, 7 days before
  8. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
    • Version: 1.872 on 2020-06-15
    • Votes: 80
    • Previous version: 1.868 was 1 month, 4 days before
  9. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
    • Version: 1.872 on 2020-06-15
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.871 was 1 month, 2 days before
  10. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.08 on 2020-06-17
    • Votes: 76
    • Previous version: 10.06 was 15 days before
  11. Minion::Backend::SQLite - SQLite backend for Minion job queue
    • Version: v5.0.1 on 2020-06-18
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 4.005 was 10 months, 13 days before
  12. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.55 on 2020-06-18
    • Votes: 428
    • Previous version: 8.53 was 8 days before
  13. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20200619 on 2020-06-19
    • Votes: 116
    • Previous version: 20200110 was 5 months, 10 days before
  14. Rose::DB::Object - Extensible, high performance object-relational mapper (ORM).
    • Version: 0.819 on 2020-06-16
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.818 was 8 days before
  15. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.062 on 2020-06-17
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.061 was 7 days before

(cdxxv) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 34

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2020/06/20 12:14:40 GMT


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(cdxlviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-06-20 12:12:54 GMT


  1. Continue instead of 'or die' in Perl - [3/4]
  2. How to check if any of the value returned is 1 in Perl - [3/3]
  3. How to remove non-printable character ^@ in perl - [3/2]
  4. How does prctl, set_pdeathsig work in perl? - [3/1]
  5. Efficient way to remove text after a regular expression match - [3/1]
  6. How to run shell command in Perl5, like Raku? - [3/1]
  7. Using IO::Socket::IP with Mojo::IOLoop - [3/0]
  8. How to merge two seperate arrays into hash in perl without loosing redundant values? - [2/3]
  9. Perl Join Array After Second Element - [2/2]
  10. Parsing Symphony Chat with Perl - [2/2]

13 jun 2020

(ccxciii) 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: 2.25 on 2020-06-10
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 2.23 was 26 days before
  2. App::lcpan - Manage your local CPAN mirror
    • Version: 1.061 on 2020-06-11
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.058 was 16 days before
  3. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
    • Version: 4.49 on 2020-06-08
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 4.48 was 6 days before
  4. CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
    • Version: 2.28 on 2020-06-13
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 2.27 was 11 months, 10 days before
  5. CPAN::Uploader - upload things to the CPAN
    • Version: 0.103014 on 2020-06-07
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.103013 was 3 years, 9 months, 1 day before
  6. Devel::Gladiator - Walk Perl's arena
    • Version: 0.08 on 2020-06-11
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.07 was 5 years, 7 months, 23 days before
  7. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.29 on 2020-06-06
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 1.28 was 17 days before
  8. Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information
    • Version: 12.00 on 2020-06-11
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 11.85 was 4 months, 14 days before
  9. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 4.00 on 2020-06-08
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 3.25 was 2 months, 14 days before
  10. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.45 on 2020-06-08
    • Votes: 147
    • Previous version: 6.44 was 1 month, 24 days before
  11. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20200603 on 2020-06-09
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20200602 was 8 days before
  12. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.53 on 2020-06-10
    • Votes: 427
    • Previous version: 8.52 was 7 days before
  13. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 3.33 on 2020-06-08
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 3.31 was 2 months, 8 days before
  14. Rose::DB::Object - Extensible, high performance object-relational mapper (ORM).
    • Version: 0.818 on 2020-06-08
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.817 was 2 months, 3 days before
  15. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 4.014 on 2020-06-11
    • Votes: 55
    • Previous version: 4.011 was 4 months, 7 days before
  16. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 4.014 on 2020-06-11
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 4.011 was 4 months, 7 days before
  17. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 4.014 on 2020-06-11
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 4.011 was 4 months, 7 days before
  18. Test::MockModule - Override subroutines in a module for unit testing
    • Version: v0.173.0 on 2020-06-12
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v0.172.0 was 3 months, 22 days before
  19. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.00 on 2020-06-09
    • Votes: 83
    • Previous version: 1.97 was 26 days before
  20. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.061 on 2020-06-10
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.058 was 7 days before

(cdxxiv) metacpan weekly report - Acme::ful

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 28

Week's winner: Acme::ful (+2)

Build date: 2020/06/13 15:35:35 GMT


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(cdxlvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-06-13 15:34:19 GMT


  1. Is split what I want to use here or pop? - [8/2]
  2. How do I remove the special characters within multiple lines in Regex? - [6/3]
  3. How do I reverse words in a sentence in Perl? - [4/1]
  4. Use HTML::TreeBuilder in Perl to extract all instances of a specific span class - [3/2]
  5. Perl newbie first experience with Unicode (in filename, -e operator, open operator, and cmd window) - [3/2]
  6. Perl REGEX substitute every ! with ~ only when surrounded by quotes - [3/1]
  7. Using Method within a method - [2/3]
  8. Perl: How get multiple regex captures in a structured way? - [2/2]
  9. utf8 seems to break regex rule in Perl? - [2/2]
  10. Perl Issue: contents deleted after grep - [2/2]

6 jun 2020

(ccxcii) 19 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: 2.045007 on 2020-06-05
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.045006 was 12 days before
  2. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
    • Version: 4.48 on 2020-06-02
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 4.47 was 1 month, 1 day before
  3. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
    • Version: 0.027 on 2020-06-04
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.026 was 4 months, 2 days before
  4. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
    • Version: 6.82 on 2020-06-01
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 6.81 was 2 months, 30 days before
  5. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
    • Version: 3.12.3 on 2020-06-05
    • Votes: 82
    • Previous version: 3.12.0 was 29 days before
  6. DBIx::Class::Migration - Tools to make migrating your DBIx::Class databases easier
    • Version: 0.075 on 2020-06-02
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.074 was 11 months, 21 days before
  7. Excel::Writer::XLSX - Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
    • Version: 1.04 on 2020-05-31
    • Votes: 53
    • Previous version: 1.03 was 5 months, 5 days before
  8. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.06 on 2020-06-02
    • Votes: 76
    • Previous version: 10.04 was 4 months, 3 days before
  9. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20200602 on 2020-06-01
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20200428 was 1 month, 3 days before
  10. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
    • Version: 4.19 on 2020-05-31
    • Votes: 66
    • Previous version: 4.18 was 4 months, 1 day before
  11. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.52 on 2020-06-03
    • Votes: 427
    • Previous version: 8.50 was 9 days before
  12. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
    • Version: 0.45 on 2020-06-01
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.44 was 2 months, 18 days before
  13. perl - The Perl 5 language interpreter
    • Version: 5.030003 on 2020-06-01
    • Votes: 358
    • Previous version: 5.30.2 was 2 months, 18 days before
  14. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.11.0 on 2020-06-05
    • Votes: 71
    • Previous version: 1.10.0 was 1 month before
  15. SQL::Abstract - Generate SQL from Perl data structures
    • Version: 1.87 on 2020-06-02
    • Votes: 67
    • Previous version: 1.86 was 1 year, 10 months, 24 days before
  16. System::Command - Object for running system commands
    • Version: 1.121 on 2020-06-03
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 1.119 was 2 years, 2 months, 1 day before
  17. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000130 on 2020-05-30
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.000129 was 3 months, 30 days before
  18. Text::Xslate - Scalable template engine for Perl5
    • Version: v3.5.8 on 2020-06-01
    • Votes: 67
    • Previous version: v3.5.7 was 6 months, 6 days before
  19. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.058 on 2020-06-03
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 1.056 was 1 month, 7 days before

(cdxxiii) metacpan weekly report - App::lcpan

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 44

Week's winners (+3): App::lcpan

Build date: 2020/06/06 13:21:06 GMT


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(cdxlvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-06-06 13:10:46 GMT


  1. Compare 2 CSV Huge CSV Files and print the differences to another csv file using perl - [4/2]
  2. How do you delete or change the display on the last print on perl? - [4/2]
  3. Perl stash output - [3/2]
  4. What does it mean when 'can' function is used in this way? - [3/2]
  5. Passing arguments containing spaces from one script to another in Perl - [3/1]
  6. Perl - Convert IPv4 address to hexadecimal - [3/1]
  7. Block inclusion of a Perl module unless explicitly included - [3/1]
  8. issue accessing elements of hash in perl - [2/2]
  9. Verifying hashed password vs user input with crypt builtin - [2/1]
  10. Extract complete index from PDF book - [2/0]