30 ene 2021

(cccxxvi) 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::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
    • Version: 0.997002 on 2021-01-26
    • Votes: 51
    • Previous version: 0.997000 was 18 days before
  2. App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
    • Version: 0.89 on 2021-01-29
    • Votes: 166
    • Previous version: 0.89 was 3 months, 10 days before
  3. App::TimeTracker - time tracking for impatient and lazy command line lovers
    • Version: 3.009 on 2021-01-24
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 3.008 was 19 days before
  4. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
    • Version: 0.300005 on 2021-01-26
    • Votes: 120
    • Previous version: 0.300004 was 7 months, 30 days before
  5. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
    • Version: 2.47 on 2021-01-24
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.46 was 1 month, 1 day before
  6. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9717 on 2021-01-27
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.9716 was 26 days before
  7. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
    • Version: 0.46 on 2021-01-27
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 0.44 was 2 months, 18 days before
  8. JSON - JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder
    • Version: 4.03 on 2021-01-24
    • Votes: 93
    • Previous version: 4.02 was 1 year, 11 months, 1 day before
  9. JSON::PP - JSON::XS compatible pure-Perl module.
    • Version: 4.06 on 2021-01-23
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 4.05 was 6 months, 15 days before
  10. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 4.13 on 2021-01-28
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 4.10 was 3 months, 15 days before
  11. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20210123 on 2021-01-24
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20210120 was 3 days before
  12. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.72 on 2021-01-27
    • Votes: 443
    • Previous version: 8.71 was 10 days before
  13. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 3.41 on 2021-01-24
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 3.40 was 3 months, 14 days before
  14. Role::Tiny - Roles: a nouvelle cuisine portion size slice of Moose
    • Version: 2.002004 on 2021-01-24
    • Votes: 62
    • Previous version: 2.002003 was 13 days before
  15. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0930 on 2021-01-28
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0929 was 1 month, 5 days before
  16. SQL::Abstract::More - extension of SQL::Abstract with more constructs and more flexible API
    • Version: 1.37 on 2021-01-29
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.34 was 28 days before
  17. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.07 on 2021-01-29
    • Votes: 103
    • Previous version: 5.06 was 15 days before

(cdlii) metacpan weekly report - perl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 63

Week's winner (+3): perl

Build date: 2021/01/30 15:07:03 GMT


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(cdlxxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-01-30 15:05:16 GMT


  1. Perl - evaluation order of list elements, with assignment inside the list - [4/1]
  2. Efficiently counting tokens column-wise in Bash/Awk/Perl - [3/4]
  3. Insert linebreak in a file after a string - [3/4]
  4. How to save the white spaces in emptied columns while reading a file? - [3/2]
  5. Remove special character while reading file in perl - [3/1]
  6. Why does the package qualification of symbols result in less memory used, even if the symbols are imported locally? - [3/1]
  7. How to do `defined` with a hash slice - [3/1]
  8. Converting CSV file to XML with Perl - [2/2]
  9. How to join lines in between 2 conditions - [2/2]
  10. perl die if a variable is set to undef, correct? - [2/2]

23 ene 2021

(cccxxv) 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. autodie - Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
    • Version: 2.34 on 2021-01-22
    • Votes: 56
    • Previous version: 2.32 was 1 year, 6 days before
  2. Catmandu - a data toolkit
    • Version: 1.2015 on 2021-01-22
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.2014 was 7 days before
  3. Gtk3 - Perl interface to the 3.x series of the gtk+ toolkit
    • Version: 0.038 on 2021-01-20
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.037 was 10 months, 3 days before
  4. Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information
    • Version: 12.16 on 2021-01-21
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 12.00 was 7 months, 10 days before
  5. IO::Async - Asynchronous event-driven programming
    • Version: 0.78 on 2021-01-22
    • Votes: 58
    • Previous version: 0.77 was 8 months, 9 days before
  6. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
    • Version: 2.069 on 2021-01-22
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 2.068 was 9 months, 22 days before
  7. Kelp - A web framework light, yet rich in nutrients.
    • Version: 1.05 on 2021-01-21
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 1.03 was 9 days before
  8. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20210120 on 2021-01-21
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20201220 was 1 month, 1 day before
  9. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.71 on 2021-01-17
    • Votes: 441
    • Previous version: 8.70 was 18 days before
  10. Net::SFTP::Foreign - Secure File Transfer Protocol client
    • Version: 1.93 on 2021-01-19
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.91 was 6 months, 25 days before
  11. Net::SSLeay - Perl extension for using OpenSSL
    • Version: 1.90 on 2021-01-21
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.88 was 1 year, 8 months, 11 days before
  12. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.116 on 2021-01-22
    • Votes: 157
    • Previous version: 0.114 was 8 months, 26 days before
  13. perl-5.32.1 - The Perl 5 language interpreter
    • Version: 5.032001 on 2021-01-23
    • Votes: 365
    • Previous version: 5.32.0 was 7 months, 3 days before
  14. Image::Magick - objected-oriented Perl interface to ImageMagick. Use it to read, manipulate, or write an image or image sequence from within a Perl script.
    • Version: v7.0.10 on 2021-01-23
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 6.9.11 was 7 days before
  15. SQL::Abstract - Generate SQL from Perl data structures
    • Version: 2.000001 on 2021-01-23
    • Votes: 69
    • Previous version: 1.87 was 7 months, 21 days before
  16. Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.21 on 2021-01-22
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.20 was 1 month, 28 days before
  17. Twiggy - AnyEvent HTTP server for PSGI
    • Version: 0.1026 on 2021-01-21
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.1025 was 6 years, 18 days before

(cdli) metacpan weekly report - LWP

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

Week's winners (+3): LWP 

Build date: 2021/01/23 22:23:25 GMT


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(cdlxxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-01-23 22:21:47 GMT


  1. Mojo::UserAgent - Inspect the Content-Encoding header before decoding - [7/1]
  2. How do you catch a buggy sig die handler if the mechanism to debug code that everyone uses overrides it? - [6/1]
  3. How to do chained regex in Perl? - [4/2]
  4. How to do sum of hash reference slice? - [4/1]
  5. How can I get my Perl one-liner to show only the first regex match in the file? - [3/4]
  6. How do I extract quoted portions from a text in perl? - [3/2]
  7. HTTP::Daemon: How to set a custom value for Server in HTTP-Header? - [3/1]
  8. How to enforce Perl create unsigned integer overflows without warnings, e.g. that $a+$b is simply calculated as ($a+$b) modulo 2**64? - [3/0]
  9. sed unterminated address regex - [2/1]
  10. Speed in replacing a set of words in text in perl - [2/1]

16 ene 2021

(cccxxiv) 15 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.38 on 2021-01-11
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 2.37 was 2 months, 9 days before
  2. Catmandu - a data toolkit
    • Version: 1.2014 on 2021-01-15
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.2013 was 6 months, 6 days before
  3. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
    • Version: 0.031 on 2021-01-10
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.030 was 2 days before
  4. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
    • Version: 2.65 on 2021-01-09
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.64 was 8 days before
  5. Kelp - A web framework light, yet rich in nutrients.
    • Version: 1.03 on 2021-01-12
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 1.02 was 3 years, 8 days before
  6. Module::ScanDeps - Recursively scan Perl code for dependencies
    • Version: 1.30 on 2021-01-13
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.29 was 4 months, 28 days before
  7. PAR - Perl Archive Toolkit
    • Version: 1.017 on 2021-01-13
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 1.016 was 1 year, 7 months, 24 days before
  8. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
    • Version: 1.052 on 2021-01-13
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 1.051 was 1 month, 14 days before
  9. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20210111 on 2021-01-10
    • Votes: 120
    • Previous version: 20201207 was 1 month, 4 days before
  10. Image::Magick - objected-oriented Perl interface to ImageMagick. Use it to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images from within a Perl script.
    • Version: v6.9.11 on 2021-01-16
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 6.89-1 was 6 years, 3 months, 25 days before
  11. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.022 on 2021-01-11
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 1.020 was 3 months, 26 days before
  12. Role::Tiny - Roles: a nouvelle cuisine portion size slice of Moose
    • Version: 2.002003 on 2021-01-11
    • Votes: 62
    • Previous version: 2.001004 was 1 year, 2 months, 17 days before
  13. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v7.0.0 on 2021-01-15
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v6.10.0 was 1 month, 14 days before
  14. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.012001 on 2021-01-10
    • Votes: 124
    • Previous version: 1.012000 was 2 months, 13 days before
  15. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.06 on 2021-01-14
    • Votes: 103
    • Previous version: 5.05 was 2 months, 24 days before

(cdl) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 61

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+2)

Build date: 2021/01/16 22:35:36 GMT


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(cdlxxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-01-16 22:33:17 GMT


  1. Is there a succinct list of all perl stateful operators and modifiers? - [4/2]
  2. Anyway to tell if perl script is run via do? - [3/1]
  3. How to make perl Makefile.PL use a given C compiler when compiling an XS module? - [2/3]
  4. How to rename multiple files in a folder with a specific format? - [2/2]
  5. Undefined subroutine &main::header called at /opt/alu-rp/www/cgi/munin-cgi-html - [2/1]
  6. How can I tell if an object has a specific overloaded method? - [2/1]
  7. Unable to install perl modules via cpanm in conda environments - [2/1]
  8. Is it really so easy to fix Devel::ptkdb to support lvalue sub's? (rfce) - [2/0]
  9. How can I find a specific piece of a webpage using MOJO::Dom? - [2/0]
  10. perl sorting according to multiple columns (order of column matters) - [1/3]

9 ene 2021

(cccxxiii) 16 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: 0.997000 on 2021-01-08
    • Votes: 51
    • Previous version: 0.996 was 1 month, 2 days before
  2. App::TimeTracker - time tracking for impatient and lazy command line lovers
    • Version: 3.008 on 2021-01-05
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 3.007 was 8 days before
  3. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
    • Version: 0.030 on 2021-01-08
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.029 was 6 months, 16 days before
  4. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
    • Version: 6.27 on 2021-01-05
    • Votes: 59
    • Previous version: 6.26 was 3 months, 25 days before
  5. IO - Perl core IO modules
    • Version: 1.45 on 2021-01-04
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 1.42 was 11 months, 15 days before
  6. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
    • Version: 2.100 on 2021-01-07
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.096 was 5 months, 7 days before
  7. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.52 on 2021-01-07
    • Votes: 149
    • Previous version: 6.51 was 9 days before
  8. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.15 on 2021-01-03
    • Votes: 80
    • Previous version: 10.14 was 2 months, 9 days before
  9. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
    • Version: 4.23 on 2021-01-03
    • Votes: 66
    • Previous version: 4.22 was 1 month, 27 days before
  10. Mojolicious::Plugin::Status - Mojolicious server status
    • Version: 1.13 on 2021-01-03
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.12 was 6 months, 21 days before
  11. Net::LDAP - LDAP client library
    • Version: 0.68 on 2021-01-03
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.67 was 8 days before
  12. RapidApp - Turnkey ajaxy webapps
    • Version: 1.3401 on 2021-01-08
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 1.3400 was 22 days before
  13. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
    • Version: 1.39 on 2021-01-08
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 1.38 was 2 months, 20 days before
  14. Test::LeakTrace - Traces memory leaks
    • Version: 0.17 on 2021-01-05
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.16 was 3 years, 6 months, 17 days before
  15. Test::MockModule - Override subroutines in a module for unit testing
    • Version: v0.176.0 on 2021-01-05
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v0.175.0 was 3 months, 18 days before
  16. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.613 on 2021-01-09
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.612 was 2 months, 30 days before

(cdxlix) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 62

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+3)

Build date: 2021/01/09 21:32:29 GMT


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(cdlxxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-01-09 21:30:36 GMT


  1. Pretending an Autoloaded Function has a Block Prototype - [6/1]
  2. The smartmatch operator is not working as expected - [3/2]
  3. What is the minimum perl script for Selenium? - [3/1]
  4. dynamically add leading underscore to existing sub - [3/1]
  5. Perl:How to insert line in a file? - [2/3]
  6. In mrskew, can I calculate human readable timestamps from tim? - [2/2]
  7. How to append content of a file multiple times into one file in perl script - [2/2]
  8. How to use patchperl when compiling an old perl distribution? - [2/1]
  9. Inline Python support for passing filehandle from perl - [2/1]
  10. Spreadsheet::WriteExcel - Values are changed to scientific notation despite cell being formatted as Text - [2/1]

2 ene 2021

10 best perl distributions created at 2020 (metacpan rating)

10 best perl distributions created at 2020 (metacpan rating)

This list contains distributions created at 2020

  1. Zydeco (+20)
  2. Code::ART (+8)
  3. Devel::Wherefore (+6)
  4. Guacamole (+6)
  5. SQL::Bind (+6)
  6. MLPerl (+5)
  7. Sub::MultiMethod (+5)
  8. TOML::Tiny (+5)
  9. Pepper (+4)
  10. RxPerl (+4)

metacpan most voted distributions in 2020

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2020

  1. Mojolicious (+42)
  2. Zydeco (+20)
  3. perl (+17)
  4. Type::Tiny (+15)
  5. Future::AsyncAwait (+13)
  6. Path::Tiny (+12)
  7. Plack (+9)
  8. Regexp::Debugger (+9)
  9. Rex (+9)
  10. Role::Tiny (+9)
  11. Yancy (+9)
  12. Code::ART (+8)
  13. Dancer2 (+8)
  14. Log::Log4perl (+8)
  15. MCE (+8)
  16. Minion (+8)
  17. Moose (+8)
  18. Sereal (+8)
  19. Template::Toolkit (+8)
  20. Text::CSV_XS (+8)

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2020 group by month

20 best Perl questions at stackoverflow in 2020

This is the ten most rated questions at 2020 Stack Overflow.
Between brackets: question score & answers count
Built date: 2021/01/02 13:55:42 GMT


  1. Why is this regex so slow in java - [51/4]
  2. How can I wrap require and use? - [11/4]
  3. Perl can't use last with the while statement modifier - [11/2]
  4. Find and Increment a Number in an XML File - [10/5]
  5. Is split what I want to use here or pop? - [10/2]
  6. Can anyone explain how to print all keys if two keys are same but with different values? - [9/4]
  7. Add "m" modifier to qr pattern passed as parameter - [9/4]
  8. How can I set the level of precision for Raku's sqrt? - [9/2]
  9. How to emulate wc -l in Raku - [9/1]
  10. Can I use Text::CSV_XS to parse a csv-format string without writing it to disk? - [8/3]
  11. How do I turn the Perl 5 module Data::Printer&'s `show_tied` option off when using it in Raku? - [8/1]
  12. Perl die() call mysteriously not dying - [8/1]
  13. cut first sunday to saturday of each month in a year - [8/7]
  14. How to remove and ID from a string - [7/4]
  15. How do I disable Devel::Cover for forked child processes? - [7/2]
  16. What does local do on the standard streams / bareword word filehandles: STDIN? - [7/2]
  17. How to request permission access from user without asking the user to insert information Google Sign-Up - [7/0]
  18. Multiple filehandles opening the same file - is it a good practice? - [6/3]
  19. How do I remove the special characters within multiple lines in Regex? - [6/3]
  20. retrieve patterns that exactly match all regex in Perl - [6/3]

(cccxxii) 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::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.047002 on 2020-12-30
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.047000 was 7 days before
  2. App::TimeTracker - time tracking for impatient and lazy command line lovers
    • Version: 3.007 on 2020-12-28
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 3.005 was 1 month, 6 days before
  3. Future - represent an operation awaiting completion
    • Version: 0.47 on 2021-01-01
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 0.46 was 2 months, 13 days before
  4. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9716 on 2021-01-01
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 0.9714 was 7 days before
  5. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
    • Version: 2.64 on 2021-01-01
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.62 was 1 month, 15 days before
  6. IO::AIO - Asynchronous/Advanced Input/Output
    • Version: 4.75 on 2020-12-30
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 4.73 was 26 days before
  7. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.51 on 2020-12-29
    • Votes: 149
    • Previous version: 6.50 was 13 days before
  8. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.70 on 2020-12-30
    • Votes: 435
    • Previous version: 8.67 was 25 days before
  9. SQL::Abstract::More - extension of SQL::Abstract with more constructs and more flexible API
    • Version: 1.34 on 2021-01-01
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.33 was 2 years, 11 months, 18 days before
  10. Term::ReadLine::Gnu - Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library
    • Version: 1.37 on 2020-12-27
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.36 was 1 year, 11 months, 13 days before
  11. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.75 on 2020-12-28
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.74 was 16 days before
  12. XS::Tutorial - documentation with examples for learning Perl XS
    • Version: 0.04 on 2020-12-28
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.03 was 2 years, 7 months, 27 days before

(cdxlviii) metacpan weekly report - XS::Tutorial

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 53

Week's winner: XS::Tutorial (+3)

Build date: 2021/01/02 13:58:36 GMT


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(cdlxxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-01-02 13:54:19 GMT


  1. Title Case for a sentence ending with parentheses - [3/1]
  2. Run perl CGI script in Apache on Docker container - [3/0]
  3. How to use Getopt::Long to store options in complex hash - [2/3]
  4. How can I detect empty fields in a hash in Perl? - [2/2]
  5. Rounding floating equal to 5 - [2/2]
  6. Generate pseudo-random list in Perl - [2/1]
  7. Compare two hashes by value to get keys/values where the 2nd is greater - [1/4]
  8. How to accomplish this byte munging in perl? - [1/2]
  9. Azure table service: authorize in REST API from Perl - [1/1]
  10. How can I add a string before every match? - [1/1]