27 mar 2021

(cccxxxiv) 20 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::opan - A CPAN overlay for darkpan and pinning purposes
    • Version: 0.003003 on 2021-03-21
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.003002 was 1 year, 10 months, 12 days before
  2. Devel::MAT - Perl Memory Analysis Tool
    • Version: 0.44 on 2021-03-27
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 0.43 was 11 months, 3 days before
  3. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9720 on 2021-03-25
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 0.9718 was 12 days before
  4. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 4.16 on 2021-03-24
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 4.14 was 1 month, 1 day before
  5. Markdent - An event-based Markdown parser toolkit
    • Version: 0.40 on 2021-03-21
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.39 was 1 month, 9 days before
  6. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
    • Version: v3.1.12 on 2021-03-25
    • Votes: 50
    • Previous version: v3.1.11 was 6 months, 13 days before
  7. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.21 on 2021-03-20
    • Votes: 82
    • Previous version: 10.20 was 6 days before
  8. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20210320 on 2021-03-21
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20210220 was 1 month, 1 day before
  9. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.14 on 2021-03-23
    • Votes: 447
    • Previous version: 9.12 was 3 days before
  10. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 4.02 on 2021-03-24
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 4.00 was 1 month, 7 days before
  11. Mojolicious::Plugin::Status - Mojolicious server status
    • Version: 1.17 on 2021-03-23
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.16 was 5 days before
  12. Moo - Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
    • Version: 2.005003 on 2021-03-21
    • Votes: 280
    • Previous version: 2.004004 was 3 months, 26 days before
  13. Net::Server - Extensible Perl internet server
    • Version: 2.010 on 2021-03-22
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 2.009 was 3 years, 7 months, 12 days before
  14. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.032 on 2021-03-24
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 2.029 was 12 days before
  15. Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
    • Version: 1.140 on 2021-03-24
    • Votes: 111
    • Previous version: 1.138 was 1 year, 2 months before
  16. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
    • Version: 7.712 on 2021-03-25
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 7.711001 was 24 days before
  17. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
    • Version: 1.44 on 2021-03-27
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 1.42 was 10 days before
  18. String::Util - String processing utility functions
    • Version: 1.32 on 2021-03-26
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.31 was 7 months, 30 days before
  19. Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.23 on 2021-03-27
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 0.21 was 2 months, 5 days before
  20. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.46 on 2021-03-24
    • Votes: 92
    • Previous version: 1.45 was 3 months before

(cdlx) metacpan weekly report - Hash::Flatten

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 52

Week's winners (+3): Hash::Flatten

Build date: 2021/03/27 17:43:05 GMT


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(cdlxxxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-03-27 17:32:37 GMT


  1. Pass scalar and hash to subroutine in Perl - [4/1]
  2. Get unique elements from HoA values and print - [3/1]
  3. Perl: Fastest match of anything? - [2/3]
  4. Perl - How to omit lines from a text file? - [2/3]
  5. perl getting 0 instead of output - [2/2]
  6. exempting a piece of perl code from strict pragma - [2/2]
  7. How to send HTTP POST data in multipart/form-data to REST API in Perl - [2/2]
  8. Perl Template Toolkit - how to join / concat multiple variables (into one) - [2/1]
  9. How can I combine two patterns in Perl - [2/1]
  10. Isolating hash values with same key inside an array, inside of an anonymous hash - [2/1]

20 mar 2021

(cccxxxiii) 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. App::Cmd - write command line apps with less suffering
    • Version: 0.333 on 2021-03-14
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 0.332 was 1 day before
  2. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
    • Version: 0.032 on 2021-03-18
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.031 was 2 months, 8 days before
  3. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
    • Version: 0.301001 on 2021-03-17
    • Votes: 122
    • Previous version: 0.300005 was 1 month, 22 days before
  4. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
    • Version: 1.12 on 2021-03-19
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.11 was 5 months, 26 days before
  5. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.43 on 2021-03-17
    • Votes: 53
    • Previous version: 1.38 was 8 days before
  6. File::Which - Perl implementation of the which utility as an API
    • Version: 1.24 on 2021-03-19
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 1.23 was 2 years, 2 months, 19 days before
  7. Getopt::Long::Descriptive - Getopt::Long, but simpler and more powerful
    • Version: 0.109 on 2021-03-16
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 0.106 was 3 days before
  8. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.20 on 2021-03-14
    • Votes: 82
    • Previous version: 10.19 was 4 days before
  9. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.11 on 2021-03-20
    • Votes: 447
    • Previous version: 9.08 was 8 days before
  10. Mojolicious::Plugin::Status - Mojolicious server status
    • Version: 1.16 on 2021-03-18
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.15 was 26 days before
  11. MooseX::Getopt - A Moose role for processing command line options
    • Version: 0.75 on 2021-03-16
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.74 was 2 years, 5 months, 23 days before
  12. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.024 on 2021-03-19
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 1.023 was 1 month, 9 days before
  13. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
    • Version: 1.42 on 2021-03-17
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 1.40 was 9 days before
  14. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.79 on 2021-03-19
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.77 was 1 month, 9 days before

(cdlix) metacpan weekly report - GD::Graph

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 49

Week's winners (+3): GD::Graph

Build date: 2021/03/20 19:45:51 GMT


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  • App::lupapona - a simple static Gemini server
  • Avro - the official Perl API for the Apache Avro project's serialization and RPC framework
  • Encode::Base2N - fast base64, base32, base16 encode/decode functions
  • Geo::GDAL::FFI - A foreign function interface to GDAL
  • List::Helpers::XS - Perl extension to provide some usefull functions with arrays
  • RT::BugTracker - Adds a UI designed for bug-tracking for developers to RT
  • Types::TypedCodeRef - Type constraint for any typed subroutine.

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(cdlxxxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-03-20 19:44:26 GMT


  1. Try::Tiny and $SIG{__DIE__} in perl? - [7/2]
  2. How best to handle previously installed modules when upgrading Perl version with homebrew - [5/1]
  3. How to force Text::CSV to store number as text? - [5/0]
  4. Validating a path in Perl - [3/2]
  5. How can I optimize the end of done_testing in TAP and the evaluation of the results in a test in perl? - [3/0]
  6. Regexp::Grammars Succeeds with Debug and Fails Without - [2/1]
  7. use sipgate Rest API to post a voicemail greeting - [2/0]
  8. Using perl to round number - [1/2]
  9. G-Code post Processing script using Perl to lessen paste 3D printer ooze - [1/1]
  10. Object attribute access in Perl - [1/1]

13 mar 2021

(cccxxxii) 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. App::Ack - A grep-like program for searching source code
    • Version: v3.5.0 on 2021-03-13
    • Votes: 124
    • Previous version: v3.4.0 was 8 months, 13 days before
  2. App::Cmd - write command line apps with less suffering
    • Version: 0.332 on 2021-03-13
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 0.331 was 4 years, 7 months, 27 days before
  3. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.38 on 2021-03-09
    • Votes: 53
    • Previous version: 1.34 was 4 months, 20 days before
  4. Getopt::Long::Descriptive - Getopt::Long, but simpler and more powerful
    • Version: 0.106 on 2021-03-13
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 0.105 was 1 year, 17 days before
  5. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9718 on 2021-03-13
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.9717 was 1 month, 17 days before
  6. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.53 on 2021-03-07
    • Votes: 153
    • Previous version: 6.52 was 2 months before
  7. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.19 on 2021-03-10
    • Votes: 81
    • Previous version: 10.17 was 4 days before
  8. Mojo::IOLoop::ForkCall - (DEPRECATED) run blocking functions asynchronously by forking
    • Version: 0.21 on 2021-03-08
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.20 was 2 years, 5 months, 24 days before
  9. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.08 on 2021-03-12
    • Votes: 446
    • Previous version: 9.02 was 11 days before
  10. Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert CSS, Less, Sass, JavaScript and CoffeeScript files
    • Version: 2.13 on 2021-03-13
    • Votes: 48
    • Previous version: 2.11 was 22 days before
  11. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.7002 on 2021-03-09
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 3.7001 was 1 month, 5 days before
  12. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.029 on 2021-03-12
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 2.027 was 6 days before
  13. Perl::Build - perl builder
    • Version: 1.32 on 2021-03-10
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 1.31 was 7 months, 29 days before
  14. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
    • Version: 1.40 on 2021-03-08
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 1.39 was 2 months before
  15. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0933 on 2021-03-11
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0932 was 1 month, 3 days before

(cdlviii) metacpan weekly report - Crypt::Passphrase

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 56

Week's winner: Crypt::Passphrase (+3)

Build date: 2021/03/13 21:39:31 GMT


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(cdlxxxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-03-13 21:35:26 GMT


  1. Find out which scripts are calling a perl package - [6/1]
  2. Perl hash of hashes rationale - [4/2]
  3. Declaring a hash using elements of the same hash - [3/3]
  4. Sorting list of hashes in Perl with sort - [2/2]
  5. Merge of subsequent lines based on conditions in linux - [2/2]
  6. Perl File::NFSLock fails to acquire lock with error EACCESS - [2/1]
  7. Perl unexpected behavior: croak vs. try catch - [2/1]
  8. how can I perform both negative lookahead and negative lookbehind in a single perl regx? - [2/1]
  9. What are the consequences of explicitly "use"-ing various Perl versions? - [2/1]
  10. Ubuntu: Perl is misreading filenames with Cyrillic characters - [2/1]

6 mar 2021

(cccxxxi) 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. Data::Printer - colored & full-featured pretty print of Perl data structures and objects
    • Version: 1.000004 on 2021-03-03
    • Votes: 134
    • Previous version: 1.000001 was 6 days before
  2. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
    • Version: 6.85 on 2021-03-01
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 6.83 was 3 months, 1 day before
  3. HTML::Parser - HTML parser class
    • Version: 3.76 on 2021-03-04
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 3.75 was 6 months, 5 days before
  4. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
    • Version: 6.29 on 2021-03-06
    • Votes: 59
    • Previous version: 6.28 was 15 days before
  5. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
    • Version: 2.102 on 2021-02-28
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.101 was 8 days before
  6. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.17 on 2021-03-06
    • Votes: 81
    • Previous version: 10.16 was 18 days before
  7. Mojo::Redis - Redis driver based on Mojo::IOLoop
    • Version: 3.26 on 2021-03-01
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 3.25 was 4 months, 30 days before
  8. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.02 on 2021-03-01
    • Votes: 444
    • Previous version: 9.01 was 13 days before
  9. PDF::API2 - Facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files
    • Version: 2.039 on 2021-03-04
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 2.038 was 6 months, 4 days before
  10. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.027 on 2021-03-06
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 2.026 was 21 days before
  11. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.13.3 on 2021-03-05
    • Votes: 76
    • Previous version: 1.13.2 was 3 months before
  12. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
    • Version: 7.711001 on 2021-03-01
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 7.711 was 18 days before
  13. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v7.1.0 on 2021-03-01
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v7.0.0 was 1 month, 17 days before
  14. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.09 on 2021-03-03
    • Votes: 103
    • Previous version: 5.07 was 1 month, 5 days before
  15. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.069 on 2021-03-04
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 1.068 was 2 months, 16 days before

(cdlvii) metacpan weekly report - Data::Printer

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 44

Week's winners (+3): Data::Printer

Build date: 2021/03/06 19:32:41 GMT


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(cdlxxx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-03-06 19:29:07 GMT


  1. Change any number of delimiters in found pattern with sed - [6/5]
  2. Cannot install Test::File on Perl 5.32.0 MacOS Sierra - [5/1]
  3. Why is perltidy going to stdout? - [4/2]
  4. get hahes key to string in perl - [3/3]
  5. Removal of special characters from string using perl script - [3/2]
  6. Perl multithreading slower when memory usage getting high - [3/2]
  7. Optimizing the script to process faster in perl - [3/2]
  8. 8 queen problem in old TPJ aritcle is missing link to main module Queen - [3/1]
  9. How to delete specific directories using Getopt::Long in PERL - [2/3]
  10. Why do I not have to use "use Math::Trig" for atan2 and the like? - [2/2]