27 feb 2021

(cccxxx) 18 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: 0.997003 on 2021-02-23
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 0.997002 was 28 days before
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.047005 on 2021-02-24
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.047004 was 9 days before
  3. Data::Fake - Declaratively generate fake structured data for testing
    • Version: 0.006 on 2021-02-26
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.005 was 4 months, 25 days before
  4. Data::Printer - colored & full-featured pretty print of Perl data structures and objects
    • Version: 1.000001 on 2021-02-25
    • Votes: 131
    • Previous version: 0.40 was 3 years, 6 months, 23 days before
  5. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub - Plugins to integrate Dist::Zilla with GitHub
    • Version: 0.48 on 2021-02-20
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.47 was 2 years, 5 months, 4 days before
  6. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.49 on 2021-02-24
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 0.48 was 22 days before
  7. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
    • Version: 2.66 on 2021-02-21
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.65 was 1 month, 12 days before
  8. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
    • Version: 2.101 on 2021-02-20
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.100 was 1 month, 13 days before
  9. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
    • Version: 2.070 on 2021-02-26
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 2.069 was 1 month, 4 days before
  10. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 4.14 on 2021-02-23
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 4.13 was 26 days before
  11. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20210220 on 2021-02-20
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20210123 was 27 days before
  12. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
    • Version: 4.25 on 2021-02-20
    • Votes: 66
    • Previous version: 4.24 was 14 days before
  13. Mojolicious::Plugin::Status - Mojolicious server status
    • Version: 1.15 on 2021-02-20
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.14 was 11 days before
  14. OpenAPI::Client - A client for talking to an Open API powered server
    • Version: 1.00 on 2021-02-23
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.25 was 7 months, 23 days before
  15. OrePAN2 - Yet another DarkPAN manager.
    • Version: 0.48 on 2021-02-25
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.47 was 2 years, 3 months, 23 days before
  16. Perl::LanguageServer - Language Server and Debug Protocol Adapter for Perl
    • Version: v2.2.0 on 2021-02-21
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.1.0 was 7 months, 24 days before
  17. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
    • Version: 0.84 on 2021-02-26
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.83 was 2 months, 5 days before
  18. Term::ReadLine::Gnu - Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library
    • Version: 1.40 on 2021-02-23
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.37 was 1 month, 27 days before

(cdlvi) metacpan weekly report - Text::Table::More

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 57

Week's winners (+3): Text::Table::More

Build date: 2021/02/27 18:35:17 GMT


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(cdlxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-02-27 18:29:49 GMT


  1. No error or warning for trying to print to an already closed filehandle - [5/2]
  2. Ternary producing different results than If - [4/1]
  3. How to create many hash references with identical data? - [4/1]
  4. How to Perl calculate array column data? - [2/2]
  5. Count the number of non-whitespace characters in a string in Perl - [2/2]
  6. Perl repeat string which has repeated substring - [2/1]
  7. In Perl, how can query a JSON::Path object and return the paths of the matched elements? - [2/1]
  8. Cannot install DBD::Oracle on macOS Big Sur => dependent dylib '@rpath/libclntsh.dylib.19.1' not found - [2/1]
  9. I need to serialize in Perl with PHP format - [2/1]
  10. Perl 5 OOP programming - [2/1]

20 feb 2021

(cccxxix) 19 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: 2.047004 on 2021-02-15
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.047002 was 1 month, 16 days before
  2. Dumbbench - More reliable benchmarking with the least amount of thinking
    • Version: 0.501 on 2021-02-15
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.111 was 3 years, 7 months, 28 days before
  3. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.60 on 2021-02-17
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 7.58 was 1 month, 27 days before
  4. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
    • Version: 0.49 on 2021-02-15
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 0.48 was 10 days before
  5. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
    • Version: 6.28 on 2021-02-19
    • Votes: 59
    • Previous version: 6.27 was 1 month, 14 days before
  6. Log::Any - Bringing loggers and listeners together
    • Version: 1.709 on 2021-02-17
    • Votes: 58
    • Previous version: 1.708 was 1 year, 1 month, 4 days before
  7. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.16 on 2021-02-16
    • Votes: 80
    • Previous version: 10.15 was 1 month, 13 days before
  8. Minion::Backend::SQLite - SQLite backend for Minion job queue
    • Version: v5.0.4 on 2021-02-16
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: v5.0.3 was 6 months, 14 days before
  9. Mojo::IRC - IRC Client for the Mojo IOLoop
    • Version: 0.46 on 2021-02-17
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.45 was 2 years, 8 months, 10 days before
  10. Mojo::SQLite - A tiny Mojolicious wrapper for SQLite
    • Version: 3.005 on 2021-02-16
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 3.004 was 6 months, 24 days before
  11. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.01 on 2021-02-16
    • Votes: 444
    • Previous version: 8.73 was 10 days before
  12. Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
    • Version: 2.11 on 2021-02-19
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 2.10 was 2 months, 8 days before
  13. Mojolicious::Plugin::OAuth2 - Auth against OAuth2 APIs
    • Version: 1.59 on 2021-02-16
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 1.58 was 1 year, 7 months, 13 days before
  14. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 4.00 on 2021-02-17
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 3.41 was 24 days before
  15. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.026 on 2021-02-13
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 2.025 was 3 months before
  16. Test::Class - Easily create test classes in an xUnit/JUnit style
    • Version: 0.52 on 2021-02-17
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.50 was 5 years, 8 months, 10 days before
  17. Text::ANSITable - Create nice formatted tables using extended ASCII and ANSI colors
    • Version: 0.602 on 2021-02-19
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.601 was 4 months, 14 days before
  18. Tk - Tk - a Graphical User Interface Toolkit
    • Version: 804.036 on 2021-02-14
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 804.035 was 10 months, 17 days before
  19. XML::Hash::XS - Simple and fast hash to XML and XML to hash conversion written in C
    • Version: 0.56 on 2021-02-13
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.55 was 11 months, 11 days before

(cdlv) metacpan weekly report - Teng

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

Week's winners (+3): Teng

Build date: 2021/02/20 14:03:38 GMT


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(cdlxxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-02-20 13:55:05 GMT


  1. Perl and parameterised statements - [3/2]
  2. Using IPC::Run with timeouts results in Modification of a read-only value error - [3/1]
  3. Perl's odd behavior of index() when called with empty substr with vs without Encode::decode() - [3/1]
  4. How does the PRELOAD (and other) constants/symbols work in Test2::API::Instance? - [3/0]
  5. perl - range between with regex - [2/4]
  6. UTF8 output from Strawberry Perl - [2/4]
  7. Perl XPath: use "and" to return two nodes - [2/3]
  8. Perl script to test all posible dates backwards - [2/2]
  9. Why does this Perl shuffle function not shuffle? - [2/2]
  10. Convert deprecated Perl&'s Net::IRC codes to AnyEvent::IRC::Client inquiry - [2/1]

13 feb 2021

(cccxxviii) 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. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
    • Version: 0.070 on 2021-02-12
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 0.069 was 5 months, 18 days before
  2. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
    • Version: 0.58 on 2021-02-10
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.57 was 1 month, 24 days before
  3. Log::Log4perl - Log4j implementation for Perl
    • Version: 1.54 on 2021-02-06
    • Votes: 89
    • Previous version: 1.53 was 4 months, 19 days before
  4. Markdent - An event-based Markdown parser toolkit
    • Version: 0.39 on 2021-02-12
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.38 was 3 months, 5 days before
  5. Mojolicious::Plugin::Status - Mojolicious server status
    • Version: 1.14 on 2021-02-09
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.13 was 1 month, 6 days before
  6. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.023 on 2021-02-10
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 1.022 was 30 days before
  7. Pithub - Github v3 API
    • Version: 0.01036 on 2021-02-08
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.01035 was 1 year, 2 months, 15 days before
  8. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
    • Version: 7.711 on 2021-02-11
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 7.30 was 4 months, 26 days before
  9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0932 on 2021-02-08
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0931 was 2 days before
  10. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.77 on 2021-02-10
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.75 was 1 month, 13 days before
  11. Test::Class::Moose - Serious testing for serious Perl
    • Version: 0.99 on 2021-02-07
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.98 was 1 year, 3 months, 12 days before

(cdliv) metacpan weekly report

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

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2021/02/13 16:22:37 GMT


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(cdlxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-02-13 16:20:21 GMT


  1. "no autovivication" pragma fails with grep in Perl - [7/2]
  2. Can I autobox a single variable in perl? - [3/1]
  3. Perl not recognizing module / module path for root user - [3/1]
  4. IPC::Open2 output to already open file handle as per doc example - [3/1]
  5. add to JSON ($payload={}) on condition - [3/1]
  6. PERL CLOSING the file after slurping and "perl -0777"s translation to a complete perl file - [2/2]
  7. How to print only the capture groups of all matches in perl? - [2/2]
  8. Convert the position of a character in a string to account for "gaps" (i.e., non alphanumeric characters in the string) - [2/1]
  9. How to add more JSON entries into file with right format? - [2/1]
  10. Perl: assignment within scalar and string matching (regex) - [2/1]

6 feb 2021

(cccxxvii) 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. App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
    • Version: 0.91 on 2021-01-31
    • Votes: 166
    • Previous version: 0.90 was 2 days before
  2. BioPerl - Perl modules for biology
    • Version: 1.7.8 on 2021-02-03
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 1.7.7 was 1 year, 1 month, 27 days before
  3. Config::Tiny - Read/Write .ini style files with as little code as possible
    • Version: 2.26 on 2021-02-01
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 2.24 was 1 year, 7 months, 14 days before
  4. DBIx::DataModel - UML-based Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework
    • Version: 3.01 on 2021-02-02
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 3.0 was 2 years, 11 months, 7 days before
  5. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.48 on 2021-02-02
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 0.47 was 2 months, 3 days before
  6. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
    • Version: 0.48 on 2021-02-05
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 0.46 was 9 days before
  7. IO::Interactive - Utilities for interactive I/O
    • Version: 1.023 on 2021-02-03
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 1.022 was 4 years, 4 months, 29 days before
  8. JIRA::REST - Thin wrapper around Jira's REST API
    • Version: 0.021 on 2021-02-06
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.020 was 1 year, 3 months, 3 days before
  9. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
    • Version: 4.24 on 2021-02-06
    • Votes: 66
    • Previous version: 4.23 was 1 month, 3 days before
  10. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.73 on 2021-02-06
    • Votes: 444
    • Previous version: 8.72 was 10 days before
  11. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.7001 on 2021-02-04
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 3.7000 was 1 month, 30 days before
  12. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.118 on 2021-02-05
    • Votes: 159
    • Previous version: 0.116 was 14 days before
  13. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0931 on 2021-02-06
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0930 was 9 days before

(cdliii) metacpan weekly report - Acme::ConspiracyTheory::Random

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

Week's winner: Acme::ConspiracyTheory::Random (+5)

Build date: 2021/02/06 19:40:42 GMT


Clicked for first time:

  • Feature::Compat::Try - make try/catch syntax available
  • libalarm - Module handling tying of %SIG for alarm extensions.
  • Net::RDAP - an interface to the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP).
  • PDF::Imposition - Perl module to manage the PDF imposition
  • Random::Any - Try to use Data::Entropy::Algorithms::rand(), fallback on builtin rand()
  • SNMP - The Perl5 'SNMP' Extension Module for the Net-SNMP SNMP package.
  • SQL::Tree - Generate a trigger-based SQL tree implementation
  • Template::Plugin::XML::Feed - Plugin interface to XML::Feed

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