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


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  • 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

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(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


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(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]

17 oct 2020

(cccxi) 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. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.046005 on 2020-10-17
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.046002 was 2 months, 10 days before
  2. Applify - Write object oriented scripts with ease
    • Version: 0.22 on 2020-10-13
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.21 was 10 months, 1 day before
  3. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
    • Version: 2.42 on 2020-10-16
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.41 was 9 days before
  4. Devel::CheckOS - require that we are running on a particular OS
    • Version: 1.85 on 2020-10-15
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.84 was 10 days before
  5. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
    • Version: 2.57 on 2020-10-15
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.54 was 6 days before
  6. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 4.10 on 2020-10-13
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 4.06 was 3 days before
  7. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.63 on 2020-10-13
    • Votes: 434
    • Previous version: 8.61 was 11 days before
  8. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
    • Version: 0.46 on 2020-10-13
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.45 was 4 months, 12 days before
  9. Pod::Simple - framework for parsing Pod
    • Version: 3.41 on 2020-10-12
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 3.40 was 11 months, 17 days before
  10. Pod::Usage - extracts POD documentation and shows usage information
    • Version: 2.01 on 2020-10-13
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.70 was 6 months, 29 days before
  11. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0924 on 2020-10-15
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0918 was 8 days before
  12. Statistics::Descriptive - Module of basic descriptive statistical functions.
    • Version: 3.0800 on 2020-10-17
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 3.0702 was 1 year, 11 months, 23 days before
  13. String::Random - Perl module to generate random strings based on a pattern
    • Version: 0.31 on 2020-10-17
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.30 was 2 years, 4 months, 26 days before
  14. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.02 on 2020-10-13
    • Votes: 83
    • Previous version: 2.01 was 25 days before
  15. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.612 on 2020-10-10
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.611 was 17 days before

(cdxxxix) metacpan weekly report - Net::Curl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 31

Week's winner: Net::Curl (+2)

Build date: 2020/10/17 21:55:39 GMT


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(cdlxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-10-17 21:48:16 GMT


  1. How to request permission access from user without asking the user to insert information Google Sign-Up - [7/0]
  2. Repeated regex replacements with overlapping lookbehinds - [3/2]
  3. Iterate through a file multiple times, each time finding a regex and returning one line (perl) - [2/2]
  4. Printing the result of the script(running in background) on the terminal - [1/3]
  5. How to add substring to some (not all) fasta headers - [1/3]
  6. Replacing a hash with a variable when calling a function - [1/3]
  7. PERL : I take mday value from locatime as below , . How can I subtract 1 from mday which I take from localtime - [1/2]
  8. In Perl, why is the $[ variable in Perl v5.16.0 a problem? - [1/2]
  9. How to go one up folder level using perl? - [1/2]
  10. Get Customer Review with Net::Amazon::Attribute::Review - [1/1]

10 oct 2020

(cccx) 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. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
    • Version: 4.51 on 2020-10-05
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 4.50 was 3 months, 13 days before
  2. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
    • Version: 2.41 on 2020-10-07
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.39 was 5 months, 13 days before
  3. Devel::CheckOS - a script to package Devel::AssertOS modules with your code.
    • Version: 1.84 on 2020-10-05
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.83 was 7 months, 19 days before
  4. Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD-5 algorithm
    • Version: 2.58 on 2020-10-05
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 2.55 was 4 years, 6 months, 27 days before
  5. Email::Sender - a library for sending email
    • Version: 1.300035 on 2020-10-10
    • Votes: 45
    • Previous version: 1.300034 was 10 months, 7 days before
  6. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.48 on 2020-10-04
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 7.46 was 3 months, 16 days before
  7. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.44 on 2020-10-09
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 0.43 was 3 months, 3 days before
  8. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
    • Version: 2.54 on 2020-10-09
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.50 was 7 days before
  9. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 4.06 on 2020-10-10
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 4.04 was 12 days before
  10. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 3.40 on 2020-10-10
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 3.36 was 18 days before
  11. RapidApp - Turnkey ajaxy webapps
    • Version: 1.3301 on 2020-10-06
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 1.3300 was 2 months before
  12. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.13.0 on 2020-10-05
    • Votes: 71
    • Previous version: 1.12.2 was 1 month before
  13. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0918 on 2020-10-07
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0914 was 11 days before
  14. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v6.8.0 on 2020-10-05
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v6.3.0 was 5 months before
  15. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302182 on 2020-10-06
    • Votes: 170
    • Previous version: 1.302181 was 22 days before
  16. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000136 on 2020-10-06
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.000135 was 1 month, 20 days before
  17. Text::ANSITable - Create nice formatted tables using extended ASCII and ANSI colors
    • Version: 0.601 on 2020-10-05
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.600 was 22 days before

(cdxxxviii) metacpan weekly report - Mojo::PDF

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 74

Week's winner (+3): Mojo::PDF

Build date: 2020/10/10 19:50:28 GMT


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(cdlxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-10-10 19:40:21 GMT


  1. Mojolicious one liner to service status files with listing directory - [5/1]
  2. How do I use the "three line version of the RSA algorithm" written in Perl? - [5/0]
  3. regex only match content outside all kinds of brackets - [3/3]
  4. Get a record based on Updated time and Severity - [3/2]
  5. Pattern matching in PERL ending with period "." - [3/2]
  6. Using map and grep to find file names with underscores - [3/1]
  7. Perl subtract values from two 2D arrays - [2/2]
  8. Unable to Write into file within WHILE Loop in Perl - [2/2]
  9. perl conditional substitution according to nearest certain html tag content - [2/2]
  10. How can updating hash attribute, updates other hash attributes in Perl Moose - [2/2]

3 oct 2020

(cccix) 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. Algorithm::Diff - Compute `intelligent' differences between two files / lists but use the old (<=0.59) interface.
    • Version: 1.200 on 2020-09-27
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.1903 was 2 years, 7 months, 2 days before
  2. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
    • Version: 4.24 on 2020-10-02
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 4.23 was 27 days before
  3. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.33 on 2020-09-28
    • Votes: 53
    • Previous version: 1.32 was 7 days before
  4. File::HomeDir - Find your home and other directories on any platform
    • Version: 1.006 on 2020-09-28
    • Votes: 30
    • Previous version: 1.004 was 2 years, 4 months, 26 days before
  5. File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely
    • Version: 0.2311 on 2020-10-03
    • Votes: 56
    • Previous version: 0.2310 was 7 days before
  6. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 4.04 on 2020-09-28
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 4.03 was 14 days before
  7. MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
    • Version: 3.16 on 2020-09-27
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 3.15 was 5 years, 8 months, 15 days before
  8. Module::Load - Load modules in a DWIM style
    • Version: 0.36 on 2020-09-29
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.34 was 1 year, 7 months, 19 days before
  9. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
    • Version: 4.20 on 2020-10-02
    • Votes: 66
    • Previous version: 4.19 was 4 months, 2 days before
  10. Mojo::Redis - Redis driver based on Mojo::IOLoop
    • Version: 3.25 on 2020-10-02
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 3.24 was 1 year, 4 months, 26 days before
  11. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.61 on 2020-10-02
    • Votes: 434
    • Previous version: 8.59 was 19 days before
  12. Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ - interact with RabbitMQ over AMQP using librabbitmq
    • Version: 2.40008 on 2020-10-01
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.40007 was 5 months, 1 day before
  13. Net::OpenSSH - Perl SSH client package implemented on top of OpenSSH
    • Version: 0.80 on 2020-09-28
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 0.79 was 4 months, 29 days before
  14. PadWalker - play with other peoples' lexical variables
    • Version: 2.5 on 2020-09-27
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 2.4 was 1 day before
  15. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20201001 on 2020-09-28
    • Votes: 119
    • Previous version: 20200907 was 22 days before

(cdlxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-10-03 15:34:47 GMT


  1. Can anyone explain how to print all keys if two keys are same but with different values? - [5/4]
  2. Perl: How to check the max width of word present in columns of array after reading from file? - [4/3]
  3. Perl: is there a way to programmaticly set file test operators? (i.e. -X) - [3/3]
  4. After scoped `no autodie` the program fails at `*STDOUT` - [3/1]
  5. in perl, why does push cause a regex created by qr to be changed when not put into double quotes? - [2/3]
  6. Perl How to use DBIx::Class to return data beautifully - [2/3]
  7. How can I validate that a website sends a 2XX response using selenium in perl? - [2/2]
  8. Where is the memory leak in my Perl XS code? - [2/1]
  9. pp (perl compiler) issue - still has a dependency - [2/1]
  10. How to replace Log::Dispatch::File with ::FileRotate? - [2/1]