26 dic 2020

(cccxxi) 17 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::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.047000 on 2020-12-23
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.046006 was 1 month, 23 days before
  2. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
    • Version: 2.46 on 2020-12-23
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.44 was 1 month, 17 days before
  3. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.58 on 2020-12-21
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 7.56 was 1 month, 2 days before
  4. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9714 on 2020-12-25
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 0.9713 was 6 days before
  5. Net::Cmd - Collection of network protocol modules
    • Version: 3.13 on 2020-12-23
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 3.12 was 14 days before
  6. MetaCPAN::Client - A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
    • Version: 2.029000 on 2020-12-20
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 2.028000 was 3 months, 27 days before
  7. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.23 on 2020-12-19
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.22 was 1 day before
  8. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20201220 on 2020-12-20
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20201120 was 1 month before
  9. Mojo::mysql - Mojolicious and Async MySQL/MariaDB
    • Version: 1.22 on 2020-12-22
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 1.20 was 3 months, 17 days before
  10. Net::SSH2 - Support for the SSH 2 protocol via libssh2.
    • Version: 0.72 on 2020-12-22
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.71 was 8 months, 12 days before
  11. PDL::Stats - a collection of statistics modules in Perl Data Language, with a quick-start guide for non-PDL people.
    • Version: 0.76 on 2020-12-19
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.75 was 4 years, 6 months, 20 days before
  12. Perl::Critic::Freenode - Perl::Critic policies inspired by #perl on freenode IRC
    • Version: 0.033 on 2020-12-22
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.032 was 1 year, 1 month, 11 days before
  13. Net::LDAP - LDAP client library
    • Version: 0.67 on 2020-12-26
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.66 was 1 year, 8 months, 10 days before
  14. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
    • Version: 0.83 on 2020-12-21
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.82 was 2 months, 25 days before
  15. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0929 on 2020-12-23
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0928 was 14 days before
  16. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.45 on 2020-12-24
    • Votes: 92
    • Previous version: 1.44 was 5 months, 2 days before
  17. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.068 on 2020-12-19
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 1.067 was 1 month, 3 days before

19 dic 2020

(cccxx) 13 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. Algorithm::Diff - Compute `intelligent' differences between two files / lists
    • Version: 1.201 on 2020-12-13
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.200 was 2 months, 16 days before
  2. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
    • Version: 1.56 on 2020-12-14
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.54 was 2 days before
  3. CPANPLUS - Ameliorated interface to the CPAN
    • Version: 0.9910 on 2020-12-19
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.9908 was 8 months, 7 days before
  4. DateTime::Format::Strptime - Parse and format strp and strf time patterns
    • Version: 1.78 on 2020-12-15
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 1.77 was 9 months, 15 days before
  5. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
    • Version: 0.57 on 2020-12-17
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.56 was 12 days before
  6. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.50 on 2020-12-16
    • Votes: 149
    • Previous version: 6.49 was 2 months, 22 days before
  7. LWP::Protocol::https - Provide https support for LWP::UserAgent
    • Version: 6.10 on 2020-12-17
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 6.09 was 5 months, 1 day before
  8. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.22 on 2020-12-18
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.21 was 4 months, 17 days before
  9. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
    • Version: 2.2014 on 2020-12-19
    • Votes: 316
    • Previous version: 2.2013 was 4 months, 29 days before
  10. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
    • Version: 0.48 on 2020-12-14
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.47 was 1 month, 11 days before
  11. RapidApp - Turnkey ajaxy webapps
    • Version: 1.3400 on 2020-12-17
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 1.3302 was 1 month, 27 days before
  12. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.74 on 2020-12-12
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.73 was 3 months, 15 days before
  13. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000139 on 2020-12-16
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.000138 was 1 month, 25 days before

(cdxlvii) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious::Plugin::SecureCORS

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 30

Week's winner: Mojolicious::Plugin::SecureCORS (+2)

Build date: 2020/12/19 12:59:55 GMT


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(cdlxxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-12-19 12:57:42 GMT


  1. Why do `join` and/or `JSON::to_json` convert my data silently from integer to string? - [6/2]
  2. Add "m" modifier to qr pattern passed as parameter - [5/4]
  3. Error installing perl using perlbrew on Big Sur - [4/2]
  4. Most efficient way to read first and last number of bytes of a file in Perl - [3/3]
  5. How to install Perl DBD::Oracle with Oracle Instant Client on macOS Catalina - [3/1]
  6. trying to get last 4 distinct values from a dynamic NF file - [2/6]
  7. How to pass arguments to a Perl test when run using Module::Build - [2/1]
  8. Perl Hash Value - [2/1]
  9. Can variable declarations be placed in a common script - [2/1]
  10. Is it possible to rename PascalCase1.wav to kebab-case-1.wav with a single perl regex? - [1/4]

12 dic 2020

(cccxix) 12 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: 0.996 on 2020-12-06
    • Votes: 50
    • Previous version: 0.995 was 8 days before
  2. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
    • Version: 1.54 on 2020-12-12
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.51 was 1 month, 1 day before
  3. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9712 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 0.9711 was 8 days before
  4. Net::Cmd - Collection of network protocol modules
    • Version: 3.12 on 2020-12-09
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 3.11 was 3 years, 25 days before
  5. Lingua::EN::Inflect - Convert singular to plural. Select "a" or "an".
    • Version: 1.905 on 2020-12-08
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.904 was 1 year, 7 months, 11 days before
  6. Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
    • Version: 2.10 on 2020-12-11
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 2.09 was 3 months, 5 days before
  7. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20201207 on 2020-12-06
    • Votes: 120
    • Previous version: 20201202 was 4 days before
  8. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.13.2 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 73
    • Previous version: 1.13.1 was 1 month before
  9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0928 on 2020-12-09
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0927 was 19 days before
  10. Test::WWW::Mechanize - Testing-specific WWW::Mechanize subclass
    • Version: 1.54 on 2020-12-09
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 1.52 was 2 years, 4 days before
  11. Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
    • Version: 2.04 on 2020-12-11
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.03 was 5 years, 9 months, 7 days before
  12. Text::Fuzzy - Partial string matching using edit distances
    • Version: 0.29 on 2020-12-10
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.28 was 2 years, 2 months, 6 days before

(cdxlvi) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 41

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2020/12/12 17:59:34 GMT


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5 dic 2020

(cccxviii) 14 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. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
    • Version: 6.83 on 2020-11-30
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 6.82 was 5 months, 29 days before
  2. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
    • Version: 1.54 on 2020-12-04
    • Votes: 197
    • Previous version: 1.53 was 25 days before
  3. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
    • Version: 0.56 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.55 was 4 months, 9 days before
  4. Encode - character encodings in Perl
    • Version: 3.08 on 2020-12-02
    • Votes: 55
    • Previous version: 3.07 was 4 months, 8 days before
  5. Feersum - A PSGI engine for Perl based on EV/libev
    • Version: 1.410 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.407 was 1 year, 5 months, 26 days before
  6. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.47 on 2020-11-29
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 0.46 was 20 days before
  7. IO::AIO - Asynchronous/Advanced Input/Output
    • Version: 4.73 on 2020-12-04
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 4.72 was 1 year, 8 months, 1 day before
  8. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.67 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 435
    • Previous version: 8.65 was 24 days before
  9. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.7000 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 3.6006 was 3 months, 1 day before
  10. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
    • Version: 1.051 on 2020-11-29
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 1.050 was 8 months, 11 days before
  11. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20201202 on 2020-12-02
    • Votes: 120
    • Previous version: 20201001 was 2 months, 4 days before
  12. Plack - Perl Superglue for Web frameworks and Web Servers (PSGI toolkit)
    • Version: 1.0048 on 2020-11-30
    • Votes: 220
    • Previous version: 1.0047 was 2 years, 9 months, 20 days before
  13. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v6.10.0 on 2020-12-01
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v6.8.0 was 1 month, 27 days before
  14. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.65 on 2020-11-30
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.63 was 2 days before

(cdxlv) metacpan weekly report - Plack

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

Week's winner: Plack (+3)

Build date: 2020/12/05 20:03:50 GMT


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(cdlxx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-12-05 19:31:10 GMT


  1. How can I wrap require and use? - [8/4]
  2. Regular expression to match exactly and only n times - [3/3]
  3. log4perl: How to write ERROR message to file and DEBUG message to stderr? - [3/1]
  4. Properly detecting if Perl subroutine argument is array - [2/1]
  5. Regex: capture anything within parenthesis, also nested parenthesis - [2/1]
  6. How to ignore an exit(1) on a perl subroutine - tried eval but didn't work - [2/1]
  7. Can chrome know if there is a window maximized or not in front during selenium automation? - [2/0]
  8. Is there a way to read comments/notes of a cell in an excel file with ParseExcel/ParseXLSX? - [2/0]
  9. How send and received string, array and hash in perl function - [1/2]
  10. How can I get the local time modification of a file with File::stat in perl? - [1/2]