25 dic 2021

(ccclxxiii) 13 great CPAN 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. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
    • Version: 0.075 on 2021-12-25
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 0.074 was 1 month, 19 days before
  2. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
    • Version: 1.55 on 2021-12-23
    • Votes: 204
    • Previous version: 1.54 was 1 year, 19 days before
  3. DBD::Oracle - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
    • Version: 1.81 on 2021-12-24
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 1.80 was 2 years, 4 months, 30 days before
  4. Devel::IPerl - Perl language kernel for Jupyter
    • Version: 0.011 on 2021-12-24
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.010 was 8 months, 19 days before
  5. File::Slurper - A simple, sane and efficient module to slurp a file
    • Version: 0.013 on 2021-12-25
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 0.012 was 3 years, 10 months, 5 days before
  6. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
    • Version: 2.073 on 2021-12-22
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 2.072 was 4 months, 6 days before
  7. JIRA::REST - Thin wrapper around Jira's REST API
    • Version: 0.022 on 2021-12-19
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.021 was 10 months, 13 days before
  8. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 1.000 on 2021-12-21
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.33 was 6 days before
  9. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20211220 on 2021-12-20
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 5.20211120 was 29 days before
  10. Scope::Upper - Act on upper scopes.
    • Version: 0.33 on 2021-12-20
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.32 was 2 years, 5 months, 12 days before
  11. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9102 on 2021-12-24
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9018 was 11 days before
  12. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.47 on 2021-12-21
    • Votes: 93
    • Previous version: 1.46 was 8 months, 28 days before
  13. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.088 on 2021-12-19
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 1.087 was 5 days before

(cdxciv) metacpan weekly report - RxPerl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 47

Week's winner (+3): RxPerl

Build date: 2021/12/25 15:56:56 GMT


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(dxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-12-25 15:46:26 GMT


  1. Eliminate whitespace around single letters - [4/2]
  2. Change a specified bit to 0 - [2/4]
  3. Only find multiline C comment but not single line C comments - [2/2]
  4. Extract a word between brackets and replace it in a sentence - [1/6]
  5. Time interval between two dates with Perl - [1/2]
  6. A regex to parse regex string - [1/2]
  7. Combine 'if' and 'if not' in perl - [1/1]
  8. Perl must do break return to calling code line outside recursive - [1/1]
  9. How can one remove (or at least put into selection) several lines containing Text1 between nearest delimiters, using sed/grep/awk/perl? - [0/2]
  10. How to generate output files of excel format for each column of A i.e output files for App and Data each using perl code - [0/1]

18 dic 2021

(ccclxxii) 15 great CPAN 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. DBIx::Custom - DBI extension to execute insert, update, delete, and select easily
    • Version: 0.45 on 2021-12-16
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.44 was 1 year, 4 months, 13 days before
  2. Email::MIME - easy MIME message handling
    • Version: 1.952 on 2021-12-14
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 1.949 was 1 year, 6 months, 21 days before
  3. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.64 on 2021-12-17
    • Votes: 49
    • Previous version: 7.62 was 8 months, 4 days before
  4. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.55 on 2021-12-16
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 0.54 was 1 month, 21 days before
  5. IO::Async - Asynchronous event-driven programming
    • Version: 0.801 on 2021-12-15
    • Votes: 65
    • Previous version: 0.800 was 1 month, 4 days before
  6. JSON - JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder
    • Version: 4.04 on 2021-12-17
    • Votes: 95
    • Previous version: 4.03 was 10 months, 24 days before
  7. JSON::PP - JSON::XS compatible pure-Perl module.
    • Version: 4.07 on 2021-12-17
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 4.06 was 10 months, 25 days before
  8. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.60 on 2021-12-17
    • Votes: 153
    • Previous version: 6.59 was 15 days before
  9. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.33 on 2021-12-15
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.32 was 4 days before
  10. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.33 on 2021-12-16
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 1.32 was 5 months before
  11. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.59 on 2021-12-15
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.58 was 20 days before
  12. REST::Client - A simple client for interacting with RESTful http/https resources
    • Version: 281 on 2021-12-17
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 273 was 6 years, 4 months, 12 days before
  13. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9018 on 2021-12-13
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9017 was 3 days before
  14. Template::Toolkit - comprehensive template processing system
    • Version: 3.010 on 2021-12-13
    • Votes: 135
    • Previous version: 3.009 was 1 year, 5 months before
  15. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.087 on 2021-12-14
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 1.085 was 10 days before

11 dic 2021

(ccclxxi) 8 great CPAN 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::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
    • Version: 0.94 on 2021-12-04
    • Votes: 167
    • Previous version: 0.94 was 7 days before
  2. App::Sqitch - Sensible database change management
    • Version: v1.2.1 on 2021-12-05
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: v1.2.0 was 15 days before
  3. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 5.04 on 2021-12-09
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 5.03 was 19 days before
  4. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.32 on 2021-12-11
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.30 was 11 days before
  5. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.8002 on 2021-12-06
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 3.8001 was 2 months, 15 days before
  6. PDF::API2 - Create, modify, and examine PDF files
    • Version: 2.043 on 2021-12-08
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 2.042 was 2 months, 22 days before
  7. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9017 on 2021-12-10
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9015 was 2 months, 16 days before
  8. Unicode::Tussle - Tom's Unicode Scripts So Life is Easier
    • Version: 1.115 on 2021-12-11
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.111 was 5 years, 6 months, 4 days before

(dxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-12-11 22:30:55 GMT


  1. How to convert between the unicode forms: string, name, number - [4/3]
  2. Perl: How is to be interpreted a negation of an array and scalar? - [2/1]
  3. cpan says App::cpanminus is up to date but cpanm doesn't come up in /usr/bin - [2/1]
  4. Perl's rpm version differs from "perl -v" - [1/2]
  5. Is there a way to remote to a different machine, and run multiple commands there in series (using perl)? - [1/2]
  6. Perl issue when encoding mysql data from UTF-8 to UCS-2 for SMPP - [1/2]
  7. Wrapper generator SWIG (C++/Perl): How to access "blessed" objects in a 1d vector<double>in Perl? - [1/2]
  8. Perl: Can't use string ("XXX") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use - [1/2]
  9. Perl: match regex from the file - [1/1]
  10. Perl Regex return named groups in capture Group one - [1/1]

4 dic 2021

(ccclxx) 12 great CPAN 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.46 on 2021-11-30
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 2.45 was 1 month, 2 days before
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.052000 on 2021-11-30
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.051005 was 5 days before
  3. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
    • Version: 0.034 on 2021-11-28
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.033 was 6 months, 27 days before
  4. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.59 on 2021-12-02
    • Votes: 153
    • Previous version: 6.58 was 1 month, 8 days before
  5. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
    • Version: 1.876 on 2021-12-02
    • Votes: 89
    • Previous version: 1.875 was 16 days before
  6. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
    • Version: 1.875 on 2021-12-03
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.873 was 1 year, 4 months, 2 days before
  7. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.30 on 2021-11-30
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.29 was 5 months, 23 days before
  8. Mojo::SQLite - A tiny Mojolicious wrapper for SQLite
    • Version: 3.008 on 2021-11-28
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 3.007 was 3 months, 26 days before
  9. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
    • Version: 1.46 on 2021-12-04
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 1.45 was 1 month, 14 days before
  10. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v7.10.0 on 2021-12-01
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v7.9.0 was 29 days before
  11. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000144 on 2021-12-03
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.000142 was 18 days before
  12. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.085 on 2021-12-04
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 1.084 was 1 month, 1 day before

(cdxciii) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 26

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+2)

Build date: 2021/12/04 16:26:06 GMT


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(dxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-12-04 16:19:09 GMT


  1. Why would you ever need (?(R)...|...) if condition in a regex? - [5/1]
  2. MultiDimensional array Input to Single array in Perl - [2/2]
  3. Perl code executed alongside C program writes incorrect byte length to memory in Windows - [2/1]
  4. Perl way to allocate some memory inglobal array - [2/1]
  5. Perl Dynaloader gives Usage error while calling function with parameters - [2/0]
  6. In Mojolicious can I forward to another action? - [2/0]
  7. How do I search and replace a string after an arbitrary amount of white space in bash? - [1/4]
  8. How to avoid line insert to the file if the line is already present in the file? - [1/4]
  9. Perl match and extract phone number with (312) 555-1212 format - [1/2]
  10. Perl: What is the preferred way of evaluating expressions besides eval? - [1/2]

27 nov 2021

(ccclxix) 12 great CPAN 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: 2.051005 on 2021-11-25
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.051001 was 11 days before
  2. App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
    • Version: 0.93 on 2021-11-22
    • Votes: 167
    • Previous version: 0.92 was 7 months, 7 days before
  3. App::Sqitch - Sensible database change management
    • Version: v1.2.0 on 2021-11-20
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: v1.1.0 was 1 year, 6 months before
  4. Code::TidyAll - Engine for tidyall, your all-in-one code tidier and validator
    • Version: 0.80 on 2021-11-26
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 0.78 was 1 year, 7 months, 1 day before
  5. CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
    • Version: 2.29 on 2021-11-23
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 2.28 was 1 year, 5 months, 10 days before
  6. CPANPLUS - Ameliorated interface to the CPAN
    • Version: 0.9914 on 2021-11-23
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.9912 was 3 months, 2 days before
  7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20211120 on 2021-11-21
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 5.20211020 was 1 month before
  8. Mojo::mysql - Mojolicious and Async MySQL/MariaDB
    • Version: 1.25 on 2021-11-22
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.24 was 1 month, 17 days before
  9. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 5.02 on 2021-11-21
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 5.01 was 1 day before
  10. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.58 on 2021-11-25
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 0.57 was 7 days before
  11. RapidApp - Turnkey ajaxy webapps
    • Version: 1.3500 on 2021-11-22
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 1.3404 was 2 months, 5 days before
  12. Try::Tiny - Minimal try/catch with proper preservation of $@
    • Version: 0.31 on 2021-11-23
    • Votes: 168
    • Previous version: 0.30 was 3 years, 11 months, 2 days before

(cdxcii) metacpan weekly report - DBD::Pg

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 24

Week's winner: DBD::Pg (+2)

Build date: 2021/11/27 16:53:53 GMT


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(dxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-11-27 15:58:04 GMT


  1. Understanding the difference in behaviour between perl's assign-or operator and the combination of assignment and logical-or operators - [3/2]
  2. Mojo::UserAgent fails to verify certificate, where LWP::UserAgent succeeds - [2/1]
  3. Dump WWW::Curl::Easy request - [2/1]
  4. 2-Way-TLS support - [2/0]
  5. In Perl, can I put unlimited conditions with the ternary conditional operator? - [1/3]
  6. Multiple inheritance - wrong overload selected - [1/3]
  7. How can I modify this Perl subroutine so that it prints the contents of the file, using print_file? - [1/2]
  8. How to push an array into another array? - [1/2]
  9. Extract HTTP body from curl response - [1/2]
  10. CPAN fails to install Algorithm::CurveFit - [1/1]

20 nov 2021

(ccclxviii) 9 great CPAN 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: 2.051001 on 2021-11-14
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.050003 was 26 days before
  2. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
    • Version: 6.86 on 2021-11-15
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 6.85 was 8 months, 14 days before
  3. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 5.03 on 2021-11-20
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 5.02 was 1 month, 14 days before
  4. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
    • Version: 1.875 on 2021-11-16
    • Votes: 87
    • Previous version: 1.874 was 1 year, 2 months, 29 days before
  5. Mojo::Redis - Redis driver based on Mojo::IOLoop
    • Version: 3.27 on 2021-11-20
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 3.26 was 8 months, 19 days before
  6. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 5.01 on 2021-11-20
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 5.00 was 1 month, 18 days before
  7. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.57 on 2021-11-18
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.56 was 27 days before
  8. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.063 on 2021-11-19
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 2.061 was 8 days before
  9. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000142 on 2021-11-15
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.000141 was 3 months, 20 days before

(cdxci) metacpan weekly report - App::sdview

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

Week's winner: App::sdview (+3)

Build date: 2021/11/20 15:03:15 GMT


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14 nov 2021

(ccclxvii) 6 great CPAN 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. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
    • Version: 6.35 on 2021-11-11
    • Votes: 59
    • Previous version: 6.33 was 4 months, 13 days before
  2. IO::Async - Asynchronous event-driven programming
    • Version: 0.800 on 2021-11-11
    • Votes: 65
    • Previous version: 0.79 was 3 months, 6 days before
  3. Minion::Backend::SQLite - SQLite backend for Minion job queue
    • Version: v5.0.6 on 2021-11-13
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v5.0.5 was 4 months, 27 days before
  4. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
    • Version: 2.2201 on 2021-11-07
    • Votes: 319
    • Previous version: 2.2200 was 7 days before
  5. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.061 on 2021-11-11
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 2.058 was 5 days before
  6. perlsecret - Perl secret operators and constants
    • Version: 1.017 on 2021-11-08
    • Votes: 49
    • Previous version: 1.016 was 2 years, 5 months, 11 days before

(cdxc) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 48

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2021/11/13 23:44:22 GMT


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(dx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-11-13 23:33:51 GMT


  1. Performance while reading 2 files in parallel in perl - [2/1]
  2. How to setting a favicon in pod2html - [2/1]
  3. How do I run this Bismark Bisulfite Sequencing program? - [2/1]
  4. subroutines returning references to an array or hash and the role of + operator - [2/0]
  5. How to find and replace a pattern string using sed/perl/awk? - [1/6]
  6. How can I validate a Perl regex in user input? - [1/2]
  7. How can I use the Win32::LongPath module in Perl to manipulate long path names? - [1/1]
  8. I need to refactor an ancient piece of Perl code with defined(@array) and defined(%hash) - [1/1]
  9. Perl-printing a 2-d matrix from a file - [1/1]
  10. SSL connect attempt failed because of handshake problems using Net::FTPSSL - [1/0]

6 nov 2021

(ccclxvi) 9 great CPAN 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. CPAN::Uploader - upload things to the CPAN
    • Version: 0.103016 on 2021-10-31
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.103015 was 1 year, 2 months, 10 days before
  2. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
    • Version: 0.074 on 2021-11-06
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 0.073 was 3 months, 19 days before
  3. Getopt::Long::Descriptive - Getopt::Long, but simpler and more powerful
    • Version: 0.110 on 2021-10-31
    • Votes: 48
    • Previous version: 0.109 was 7 months, 15 days before
  4. HTTP::Tiny - A small, simple, correct HTTP/1.1 client
    • Version: 0.080 on 2021-11-05
    • Votes: 101
    • Previous version: 0.078 was 3 months, 3 days before
  5. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
    • Version: 2.2200 on 2021-10-31
    • Votes: 319
    • Previous version: 2.2015 was 7 months before
  6. Spreadsheet::XLSX - Perl extension for reading MS Excel 2007 files;
    • Version: 0.17 on 2021-11-03
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.16 was 9 days before
  7. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v7.9.0 on 2021-11-02
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v7.8.0 was 1 month, 1 day before
  8. Text::Xslate - Scalable template engine for Perl5
    • Version: v3.5.9 on 2021-10-31
    • Votes: 68
    • Previous version: v3.5.8 was 1 year, 4 months, 30 days before
  9. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.084 on 2021-11-03
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 1.082 was 5 days before

(cdlxxxix) metacpan weekly report - MojoX::DirectoryListing

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 55

Week's winners (+3): MojoX::DirectoryListing

Build date: 2021/11/06 16:34:25 GMT


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30 oct 2021

(ccclxv) 12 great CPAN 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.45 on 2021-10-28
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 2.44 was 8 days before
  2. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.56 on 2021-10-28
    • Votes: 55
    • Previous version: 1.55 was 2 months, 30 days before
  3. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.54 on 2021-10-26
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 0.53 was 2 months before
  4. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.58 on 2021-10-25
    • Votes: 153
    • Previous version: 6.57 was 1 month, 5 days before
  5. Mojolicious::Plugin::OAuth2 - Auth against OAuth2 APIs including OpenID Connect
    • Version: 2.01 on 2021-10-28
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 1.59 was 8 months, 12 days before
  6. Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ - interact with RabbitMQ over AMQP using librabbitmq
    • Version: 2.40009 on 2021-10-23
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 2.40008 was 1 year, 22 days before
  7. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.120 on 2021-10-24
    • Votes: 165
    • Previous version: 0.118 was 8 months, 19 days before
  8. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20211029 on 2021-10-29
    • Votes: 121
    • Previous version: 20210717 was 3 months, 12 days before
  9. Spreadsheet::XLSX - Perl extension for reading MS Excel 2007 files;
    • Version: 0.16 on 2021-10-25
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.15 was 5 years, 11 months, 25 days before
  10. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.10 on 2021-10-25
    • Votes: 103
    • Previous version: 5.09 was 7 months, 22 days before
  11. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.06 on 2021-10-25
    • Votes: 88
    • Previous version: 2.05 was 1 month, 4 days before
  12. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.082 on 2021-10-29
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 1.078 was 12 days before

(cdlxxxviii) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

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

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+2)

Build date: 2021/10/30 13:49:27 GMT


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(dix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2021-10-30 13:42:01 GMT


  1. How do you delete a file that does not have a file extension? - [3/3]
  2. Limiting a for loop in perl - [3/2]
  3. Best practice for writing exception classes in modern Perl - [3/1]
  4. Can't use "Git add -i" - [3/1]
  5. PerlXS: Possible crash trying to free() - [3/0]
  6. How to unpack bytes in "pairwise reversed" order BA DC? - [2/2]
  7. Perl Net::Server Log Buffer cuts off at 4096 characters - [2/1]
  8. Perl script fails from crontab but not command line - [2/0]
  9. How to sort output from Data::Printer? - [1/1]
  10. How do I do a search in Perl? - [1/1]

23 oct 2021

(ccclxiv) 11 great CPAN 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.44 on 2021-10-20
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 2.42 was 21 days before
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.050003 on 2021-10-19
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.050001 was 7 days before
  3. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
    • Version: 2.51 on 2021-10-22
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.50 was 7 days before
  4. HTTP::BrowserDetect - Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
    • Version: 3.35 on 2021-10-19
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 3.34 was 2 months, 16 days before
  5. local::lib - create and use a local lib/ for perl modules with PERL5LIB
    • Version: 2.000028 on 2021-10-17
    • Votes: 84
    • Previous version: 2.000027 was 3 days before
  6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20211020 on 2021-10-21
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 5.20210920 was 1 month, 1 day before
  7. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.22 on 2021-10-21
    • Votes: 462
    • Previous version: 9.21 was 2 months, 8 days before
  8. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.56 on 2021-10-22
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.55 was 11 days before
  9. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
    • Version: 7.715 on 2021-10-20
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 7.714 was 2 months, 11 days before
  10. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
    • Version: 1.45 on 2021-10-21
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 1.44 was 6 months, 25 days before
  11. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.078 on 2021-10-17
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 1.077 was 1 month, 11 days before

17 oct 2021

(ccclxiii) 10 great CPAN 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: 2.050001 on 2021-10-12
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.049009 was 6 days before
  2. CHI - Unified cache handling interface
    • Version: 0.61 on 2021-10-13
    • Votes: 51
    • Previous version: 0.60 was 6 years, 4 months, 6 days before
  3. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
    • Version: 4.27 on 2021-10-14
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 4.26 was 6 months, 2 days before
  4. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
    • Version: 2.50 on 2021-10-15
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.49 was 13 days before
  5. Encode - character encodings in Perl
    • Version: 3.16 on 2021-10-13
    • Votes: 54
    • Previous version: 3.15 was 5 days before
  6. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9725 on 2021-10-10
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9724 was 27 days before
  7. local::lib - create and use a local lib/ for perl modules with PERL5LIB
    • Version: 2.000027 on 2021-10-14
    • Votes: 84
    • Previous version: 2.000024 was 4 years, 6 days before
  8. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.55 on 2021-10-11
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.54 was 4 days before
  9. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.027 on 2021-10-11
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 1.025 was 3 months, 25 days before
  10. Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.26 on 2021-10-12
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 0.25 was 4 months, 11 days before

(cdlxxxvii) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 27

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2021/10/17 07:52:38 GMT


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(dviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2021-10-17 06:44:32 GMT


  1. Perl optional capture groups not working? - [3/3]
  2. How do I format qw lists using perltidy? - [3/1]
  3. Perl one-liner regex doesn't substitute correctly - returns error - [3/1]
  4. Automate values from text files to each sheet of excel file - [2/2]
  5. Perl LWP::UserAgent parse response JSON - [2/2]
  6. perl regex to remove initial all-whitespace lines from a string: why does it work? - [2/2]
  7. Why doesn't my XPath expression find a newly added node in an XML document? - [2/1]
  8. Perl eval scope - [2/1]
  9. In Mojolicious how do I have a route override a static path? - [2/0]
  10. Is the use of "||" in a substring search prohibited? - [1/3]

10 oct 2021

(ccclxii) 7 great CPAN 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: 2.049009 on 2021-10-06
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.049005 was 27 days before
  2. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
    • Version: 2.49 on 2021-10-02
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.49 was before
  3. Encode - character encodings in Perl
    • Version: 3.15 on 2021-10-08
    • Votes: 54
    • Previous version: 3.12 was 1 month, 30 days before
  4. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 5.02 on 2021-10-06
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 5.00 was 4 days before
  5. Mojo::mysql - Mojolicious and Async MySQL/MariaDB
    • Version: 1.24 on 2021-10-05
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.23 was 24 days before
  6. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.54 on 2021-10-07
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.53 was 9 days before
  7. Sub::Util - Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
    • Version: 1.60 on 2021-10-08
    • Votes: 157
    • Previous version: 1.59 was 26 days before

(cdlxxxvi) metacpan weekly report - Dist::Zilla::MintingProfile::FFI

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 39

Week's winners (+3): Dist::Zilla::MintingProfile::FFI

Build date: 2021/10/09 22:38:11 GMT


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(dvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2021-10-09 21:41:38 GMT


  1. python regex where a set of options can occur at most once in a list, in any order - [11/7]
  2. Force Perl to stop special processing of command line arguments if -e eval switch is used - [5/1]
  3. How do I get it to stop removing what was previously in the text file? - [4/2]
  4. How to define multiple Perl packages in one file that are inter-dependent - [3/3]
  5. Searching Perl array with regex and return single capturing group only - [3/3]
  6. How to use Perl's Text::Aspell to spellcheck a text? - [3/2]
  7. In Moose, how do I create a rw proxy attribute for another rw attribute - [3/1]
  8. sed and Perl regexp replaces once, with multiple replacements flag - [2/5]
  9. How to Iterate through multiple Perl arrays - [2/3]
  10. How to grep/perl/awk overlapping regex - [2/3]