28 ago 2020

(ccciv) 7 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. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
    • Version: 0.069 on 2020-08-25
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 0.068 was 5 months, 15 days before
  2. HTML::Parser - HTML parser class
    • Version: 3.73 on 2020-08-25
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 3.72 was 4 years, 7 months, 6 days before
  3. MetaCPAN::Client - A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
    • Version: 2.028000 on 2020-08-24
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 2.027000 was 14 days before
  4. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.73 on 2020-08-28
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.72 was 7 days before
  5. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.010005 on 2020-08-26
    • Votes: 120
    • Previous version: 1.010004 was 8 days before
  6. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.60 on 2020-08-24
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.59 was 3 days before
  7. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.519 on 2020-08-25
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.518 was 3 months, 24 days before

(cdlviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-08-28 15:23:44 GMT


  1. Extracting and storing the the values in key value pair from a text in file in perl - [4/3]
  2. Is possible to access ATTR for Perl packages without defining a getter? - [3/2]
  3. Perl Gtk3::ScrolledWindow that contains more than one Gtk3::TreeView child. How do you disable child from scrolling to the top when selecting a row? - [3/1]
  4. perl array unique values - [3/1]
  5. Is there any risk of memory leaking not defining a DESTROY method in perl classes? - [3/0]
  6. Formatting a hash content to generate a report - [2/3]
  7. How to (if possible) set a breakpoint to a specific closure? - [2/2]
  8. Perl inheritance - Subroutine override - [2/2]
  9. How to overload operator in non-class package? - [2/2]
  10. Perl regex interval to match strings that correspond to hexadecimal numbers - [2/2]

22 ago 2020

(ccciii) 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. CPAN::Uploader - upload things to the CPAN
    • Version: 0.103015 on 2020-08-21
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.103014 was 2 months, 14 days before
  2. Getopt::Long - Module to handle parsing command line options
    • Version: 2.52 on 2020-08-18
    • Votes: 104
    • Previous version: 2.51 was 1 year, 6 days before
  3. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.47 on 2020-08-18
    • Votes: 148
    • Previous version: 6.46 was 1 month, 25 days before
  4. List::Compare - Compare elements of two or more lists
    • Version: 0.55 on 2020-08-16
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.53 was 5 years, 2 months, 9 days before
  5. Mail::Box - complete E-mail handling suite
    • Version: 3.009 on 2020-08-18
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 3.008 was 10 months, 14 days before
  6. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
    • Version: 1.874 on 2020-08-18
    • Votes: 81
    • Previous version: 1.873 was 17 days before
  7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20200820 on 2020-08-20
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20200717 was 1 month, 2 days before
  8. Module::ScanDeps - Recursively scan Perl code for dependencies
    • Version: 1.29 on 2020-08-16
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.28 was 10 days before
  9. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20200822 on 2020-08-22
    • Votes: 116
    • Previous version: 20200619 was 2 months, 3 days before
  10. Redis - Perl binding for Redis database
    • Version: 1.998 on 2020-08-18
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 1.996 was 5 months, 13 days before
  11. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.72 on 2020-08-21
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.71 was 3 months, 19 days before
  12. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000135 on 2020-08-17
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.000132 was 10 days before
  13. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.010004 on 2020-08-18
    • Votes: 120
    • Previous version: 1.010003 was 10 days before
  14. Type::Tiny::XS - provides an XS boost for some of Type::Tiny's built-in type constraints
    • Version: 0.021 on 2020-08-18
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.019 was 13 days before
  15. version - Structured version objects
    • Version: 0.9927 on 2020-08-20
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.9924 was 2 years, 4 months, 1 day before
  16. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.59 on 2020-08-21
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.58 was 2 months, 28 days before

(cdxxxiv) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 17

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2020/08/22 14:29:37 GMT


Clicked for first time:


Increasing its reputation:

(cdlvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-08-22 14:27:45 GMT


  1. How can I set the level of precision for Raku's sqrt? - [6/1]
  2. How to store data from hash in file and use it for another hash - [3/3]
  3. How to call subroutines with parameters from unix shell - [3/2]
  4. Compiling OpenSSL 1.1.1g on 32bit Platforms. MSYS2 - fails - [3/0]
  5. regex match does not produce the output in perl - [2/4]
  6. Perl: Add hash as sub hash to simple hash - [2/3]
  7. Is this a standard Perl language construction or a customization: open HANDLE, ">$fname" - [2/3]
  8. perl check nested hash reference - [2/2]
  9. Perl: Use backreferences in a replacement string variable - [2/2]
  10. How can I test subs in a perl programs with Test::More without losing the programs exit code? - [2/1]

15 ago 2020

(cccii) 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.29 on 2020-08-10
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 2.28 was 5 days before
  2. App::lcpan - Manage your local CPAN mirror
    • Version: 1.062 on 2020-08-13
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.061 was 2 months, 2 days before
  3. App::TimeTracker - time tracking for impatient and lazy command line lovers
    • Version: 3.004 on 2020-08-10
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 3.003 was 8 days before
  4. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
    • Version: 4.21 on 2020-08-13
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 4.19 was 6 months, 7 days before
  5. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
    • Version: 3.14.2 on 2020-08-13
    • Votes: 82
    • Previous version: 3.14.0 was 24 days before
  6. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::ReportPrereqs - Report on prerequisite versions during automated testing
    • Version: 0.028 on 2020-08-12
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.027 was 3 years, 3 months, 4 days before
  7. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 4.02 on 2020-08-11
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 4.01 was 1 month, 11 days before
  8. MetaCPAN::Client - A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
    • Version: 2.027000 on 2020-08-10
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 2.026000 was 1 year, 4 months, 27 days before
  9. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.58 on 2020-08-10
    • Votes: 432
    • Previous version: 8.57 was 24 days before
  10. Mojolicious::Plugin::NYTProf - Auto handling of Devel::NYTProf in your Mojolicious app
    • Version: 0.23 on 2020-08-10
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.22 was 1 year, 1 month, 9 days before
  11. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 3.35 on 2020-08-11
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 3.34 was 6 days before
  12. MongoDB - Official MongoDB Driver for Perl (EOL)
    • Version: v2.2.2 on 2020-08-13
    • Votes: 85
    • Previous version: v2.2.1 was 8 months before
  13. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0907 on 2020-08-12
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0906 was 8 days before
  14. Test::Fatal - incredibly simple helpers for testing code with exceptions
    • Version: 0.016 on 2020-08-09
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 0.014 was 5 years, 8 months before
  15. Time::HiRes - High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval timers
    • Version: 1.9764 on 2020-08-10
    • Votes: 58
    • Previous version: 1.9760 was 1 year, 5 months, 20 days before
  16. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.010003 on 2020-08-08
    • Votes: 120
    • Previous version: 1.010002 was 3 months, 7 days before

(cdxxxiii) metacpan weekly report - Regexp::Common::Markdown

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

Week's winners (+3): Regexp::Common::Markdown

Build date: 2020/08/15 12:21:30 GMT


Clicked for first time:

  • CSS::Object - CSS Object Oriented
  • Device::XBee::API - Object-oriented Perl interface to Digi XBee module API mode.
  • InlineX::XS - Auto-convert Inline::C based modules to XS
  • Lox - A Perl implementation of the Lox programming language
  • Mom - Moo objects minimally
  • Net::EtcDv2 - A object oriented Perl module to interact with the EtcD version 2 API
  • RestAPI - a base module to interact with a REST API interface
  • Test::Nginx - Data-driven test scaffold for Nginx C module and Nginx/OpenResty-based libraries and applications

Increasing its reputation:

(cdlvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-08-15 11:41:01 GMT


  1. Perl die() call mysteriously not dying - [8/1]
  2. retrieve patterns that exactly match all regex in Perl - [6/3]
  3. Return from sort block gives "Use of uninitialized value in sort" warning, but only with explicit return - [4/1]
  4. regex command line with single-line flag - [2/3]
  5. Parsing XML file with duplicate tags - [2/2]
  6. perl command line one liner to do find/replace, but *not* print lines that don't match? - [2/2]
  7. Can I write some results to a file using Log::Log4perl without depnending on the default levels? - [2/1]
  8. Can I specify the output in Test2 test - [2/1]
  9. Perl regex for a character NOT within string characters - [2/0]
  10. Installing Chart::Plotly on Strawberry Perl 5.28 - [2/0]

8 ago 2020

(ccci) 25 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: 2.28 on 2020-08-05
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 2.26 was 1 month, 19 days before
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.046002 on 2020-08-07
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.046001 was 28 days before
  3. App::TimeTracker - time tracking for impatient and lazy command line lovers
    • Version: 3.003 on 2020-08-02
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 3.002 was 8 months, 25 days before
  4. DBIx::Custom - DBI extension to execute insert, update, delete, and select easily
    • Version: 0.44 on 2020-08-03
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.43 was 4 months, 2 days before
  5. Excel::Writer::XLSX - Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
    • Version: 1.07 on 2020-08-06
    • Votes: 54
    • Previous version: 1.05 was 7 days before
  6. Galileo - A simple modern CMS built on Mojolicious
    • Version: 0.043 on 2020-08-06
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 0.042 was 3 years, 4 months, 21 days before
  7. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
    • Version: 0.41 on 2020-08-05
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.40 was 2 months, 27 days before
  8. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
    • Version: 1.873 on 2020-08-01
    • Votes: 81
    • Previous version: 1.872 was 1 month, 16 days before
  9. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
    • Version: 1.873 on 2020-08-01
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.872 was 1 month, 16 days before
  10. Minion::Backend::SQLite - SQLite backend for Minion job queue
    • Version: v5.0.3 on 2020-08-02
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: v5.0.2 was 10 days before
  11. Module::ScanDeps - Recursively scan Perl code for dependencies
    • Version: 1.28 on 2020-08-06
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.27 was 1 year, 6 months, 22 days before
  12. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 3.34 on 2020-08-05
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 3.33 was 1 month, 27 days before
  13. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.26 on 2020-08-06
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.25 was 1 month, 10 days before
  14. RapidApp - Turnkey ajaxy webapps
    • Version: 1.3300 on 2020-08-06
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 1.3202 was 1 month, 8 days before
  15. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.12.1 on 2020-08-05
    • Votes: 71
    • Previous version: 1.12.0 was 1 month before
  16. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 4.018 on 2020-08-03
    • Votes: 57
    • Previous version: 4.017 was 25 days before
  17. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 4.018 on 2020-08-03
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 4.017 was 25 days before
  18. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 4.018 on 2020-08-03
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 4.017 was 25 days before
  19. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0906 on 2020-08-04
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0904 was 6 days before
  20. Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.18 on 2020-08-01
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.17 was 1 day before
  21. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302177 on 2020-08-07
    • Votes: 169
    • Previous version: 1.302175 was 3 months, 24 days before
  22. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000132 on 2020-08-07
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.000130 was 2 months, 8 days before
  23. Text::Table::Tiny - generate simple text tables from 2D arrays
    • Version: 1.00 on 2020-08-07
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.05 was 1 year, 6 months, 13 days before
  24. Type::Tiny::XS - provides an XS boost for some of Type::Tiny's built-in type constraints
    • Version: 0.019 on 2020-08-05
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.017 was 3 months, 7 days before
  25. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.066 on 2020-08-08
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.065 was 9 days before

(cdxxxii) metacpan weekly report

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

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2020/08/08 21:22:52 GMT


Clicked for first time:


Increasing its reputation:

(cdlv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-08-08 21:09:23 GMT


  1. Why is this regex so slow in java - [24/4]
  2. Is possible to use next inside of map in perl? - [3/1]
  3. Why does the program shown in "7.2.39 IPC::Open2" of Programming Perl actually ends? - [3/1]
  4. Perl Hashes: $hash{key} vs $hash->{key} - [3/1]
  5. perl: redirect STDERR of qx() - [3/0]
  6. How to find out if there is at least one key in a hash - [2/4]
  7. How to get minimum values key from hash in Perl - [2/2]
  8. Is it possible to push a key-value pair directly to hash in perl? - [2/2]
  9. how to restore globals $1, $2, $3 while debugging? - [2/2]
  10. capture bash output values inside perl script - [2/2]

1 ago 2020

(ccc) 12 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. Catalyst::Devel - Catalyst Development Tools
    • Version: 1.40 on 2020-07-27
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 1.40 was 5 months before
  2. Coro - the only real threads in perl
    • Version: 6.57 on 2020-07-29
    • Votes: 69
    • Previous version: 6.55 was 1 year, 10 days before
  3. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
    • Version: 0.55 on 2020-07-27
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.54 was 1 year, 8 months, 29 days before
  4. Excel::Writer::XLSX - Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
    • Version: 1.05 on 2020-07-30
    • Votes: 54
    • Previous version: 1.04 was 1 month, 30 days before
  5. Hash::Merge - Merges arbitrarily deep hashes into a single hash
    • Version: 0.302 on 2020-07-30
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.301 was 21 days before
  6. HTTP::BrowserDetect - Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
    • Version: 3.31 on 2020-07-29
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 3.30 was 9 days before
  7. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
    • Version: 2.096 on 2020-07-31
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.095 was 11 days before
  8. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.13 on 2020-07-31
    • Votes: 76
    • Previous version: 10.11 was 7 days before
  9. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.21 on 2020-08-01
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.20 was 3 months, 12 days before
  10. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0904 on 2020-07-29
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0903 was 9 days before
  11. Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.17 on 2020-07-31
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.16 was 8 days before
  12. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.065 on 2020-07-30
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.064 was 1 month, 4 days before

(cdxxxi) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 22

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2020/08/01 12:21:07 GMT


Clicked for first time:


Increasing its reputation:

(cdliv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-08-01 10:52:08 GMT


  1. Perl: subroutine parameter parsing: @ARG vs Underscore: @_ - [3/2]
  2. How to hide method from base class in a way `can` do not see it? - [3/2]
  3. Is there a way to mix @variables with placeholders in Perl using DBI and MySQL/MyISAM? - [3/1]
  4. Perl CLI in-place string substitution/replacement of multiple lines with special characters - [3/1]
  5. What does the command "cpan reports" do exactly? - [2/2]
  6. How to set the background color in a Gtk3::TreeViewColumn? - [2/2]
  7. How to have sub use $_ when parameter omitted? - [2/2]
  8. How to encapsulate library handle in Perl XS - [2/2]
  9. Perl Syntax combining `foreach` and `if`: Shouldn't it work, i.e.: Why doesn't it work? - [2/2]
  10. How to stop perl message "XXX is deprecated use YYY instead" from going to stderr? - [2/1]