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]