24 abr 2021

(cccxxxviii) 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. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
    • Version: 0.301002 on 2021-04-18
    • Votes: 124
    • Previous version: 0.301001 was 1 month, 1 day before
  2. Data::Alias - Comprehensive set of aliasing operations
    • Version: 1.21 on 2021-04-22
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.21 was 3 years, 4 months, 14 days before
  3. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9721 on 2021-04-18
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9720 was 24 days before
  4. JavaScript::V8 - Perl interface to the V8 JavaScript engine
    • Version: 0.10 on 2021-04-23
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.09 was 2 years, 12 days before
  5. List::AllUtils - Combines List::Util, List::SomeUtils and List::UtilsBy in one bite-sized package
    • Version: 0.19 on 2021-04-23
    • Votes: 30
    • Previous version: 0.18 was 7 months, 18 days before
  6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20210420 on 2021-04-21
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20210320 was 1 month before
  7. Module::ScanDeps - Recursively scan Perl code for dependencies
    • Version: 1.31 on 2021-04-21
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.30 was 3 months, 8 days before
  8. Mojolicious::Plugin::Authentication - A plugin to make authentication a bit easier
    • Version: 1.36 on 2021-04-21
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 1.33 was 3 years before
  9. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.039 on 2021-04-24
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 2.037 was 8 days before
  10. PDL::Stats - a collection of statistics modules in Perl Data Language, with a quick-start guide for non-PDL people.
    • Version: 0.78 on 2021-04-24
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.76 was 4 months, 5 days before
  11. Perl::MinimumVersion - Find a minimum required version of perl for Perl code
    • Version: 1.40 on 2021-04-22
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 1.38 was 6 years, 8 months before
  12. Pod::Weaver - weave together a Pod document from an outline
    • Version: 4.017 on 2021-04-17
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 4.015 was 4 years, 6 months, 2 days before
  13. Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
    • Version: 1.61 on 2021-04-23
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 1.60 was 5 months, 23 days before
  14. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0946 on 2021-04-23
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0942 was 8 days before
  15. SVG - Perl extension for generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) documents.
    • Version: 2.86 on 2021-04-22
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 2.85 was 9 months, 20 days before

(cdlxiv) metacpan weekly report - App::perlimports

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

Week's winners (+3): App::perlimports 

Build date: 2021/04/24 19:10:30 GMT


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(cdlxxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-04-24 18:59:34 GMT


  1. Perl: Make declaration of a duplicate hash key a fatal error? - [3/2]
  2. Why do some variables require initialization and some don't in the same script? - [3/1]
  3. Sort hash by values - [3/1]
  4. Elegant way to set an environment variable in Perl - [2/4]
  5. Perl: How to grep with Hash Slices? - [2/1]
  6. Linking macos's frameworks in Inline::C - [2/1]
  7. Perl: Converting Formula To Perl Code What Should It Look Like? - [2/1]
  8. Perl: Cross-references in nested datastructures? - [1/3]
  9. Merging of duplicate path values of a Perl HOH - [1/3]
  10. I want to do a search replace in perl. My file has strings like “time1”, “+time1”, “+time11”, “time11”.How do I differentiate between these 4 strings - [1/2]

17 abr 2021

(cccxxxvii) 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::opan - A CPAN overlay for darkpan and pinning purposes
    • Version: 0.003005 on 2021-04-13
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.003003 was 23 days before
  2. App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
    • Version: 0.92 on 2021-04-15
    • Votes: 166
    • Previous version: 0.91 was 2 months, 15 days before
  3. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
    • Version: 4.26 on 2021-04-12
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 4.25 was 5 months, 15 days before
  4. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.62 on 2021-04-13
    • Votes: 49
    • Previous version: 7.60 was 1 month, 24 days before
  5. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.24 on 2021-04-12
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.23 was 3 months, 24 days before
  6. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.17 on 2021-04-13
    • Votes: 451
    • Previous version: 9.16 was 4 days before
  7. PDF::API2 - Facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files
    • Version: 2.040 on 2021-04-13
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 2.039 was 1 month, 9 days before
  8. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.037 on 2021-04-16
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 2.034 was 16 days before
  9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0942 on 2021-04-15
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0937 was 9 days before
  10. Statocles - A static site generator
    • Version: 0.098 on 2021-04-11
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.097 was 1 year, 10 days before
  11. version - Structured version objects
    • Version: 0.9929 on 2021-04-16
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.9928 was 6 months, 24 days before
  12. XML::LibXML - Interface to Gnome libxml2 xml parsing and DOM library
    • Version: 2.0207 on 2021-04-17
    • Votes: 91
    • Previous version: 2.0206 was 7 months, 2 days before

(cdlxiii) metacpan weekly report - XS::Parse::Keyword

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

Week's winner: XS::Parse::Keyword (+3)

Build date: 2021/04/17 19:17:49 GMT


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(cdlxxxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-04-17 19:05:08 GMT


  1. Is it possible to have an 'or' or 'and' operator inside an 'eq' or 'ne' comparison in perl? - [3/1]
  2. reinitializing environment in shared library - [3/0]
  3. Modification of a read-only value attempted at ... line .... in a foreach loop - [3/0]
  4. FastCGI, Perl and Exit - [2/1]
  5. Automation on current tab with WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - [2/1]
  6. Execute python script and read its JSON output - [2/1]
  7. Perl replace multiple strings in a file - [2/1]
  8. Variable substitution in Perl with Perl special characters - [2/1]
  9. Can't find a valid termcap file - [2/0]
  10. How to mock a full module? - [1/2]

10 abr 2021

(cccxxxvi) 6 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. Devel::IPerl - Perl language kernel for Jupyter
    • Version: 0.010 on 2021-04-05
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.009 was 3 years, 3 months, 19 days before
  2. Devel::NYTProf - Powerful fast feature-rich Perl source code profiler
    • Version: 6.07 on 2021-04-06
    • Votes: 167
    • Previous version: 6.06 was 2 years, 10 months, 2 days before
  3. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
    • Version: 0.50 on 2021-04-08
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.49 was 1 month, 21 days before
  4. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.16 on 2021-04-09
    • Votes: 450
    • Previous version: 9.14 was 17 days before
  5. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0937 on 2021-04-06
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0936 was 3 days before
  6. XML::Compile::SOAP - SOAP version 1.1
    • Version: 3.27 on 2021-04-07
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 3.26 was 1 year, 4 months, 17 days before

(cdlxii) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 40

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+2)

Build date: 2021/04/10 19:01:29 GMT


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(cdlxxxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-04-10 18:54:30 GMT


  1. Single quotes in a variable name in Perl? - [4/1]
  2. How to make multiple variables readonly in Perl? - [3/2]
  3. Matching a string with Regexp Grammars - [3/0]
  4. Prepend a String to a Regex Match Using Bash - [2/3]
  5. How merge multiple files using Perl? - [2/2]
  6. Mac M1 Homebrew Perl Carton Net::SSLeay is loading libcrypto in an unsafe way - [2/0]
  7. Makefile.PL meta.json prereqs for OS so module won&'t be installed on Windows - [2/0]
  8. perl sort function efficiency - [1/2]
  9. Sum of Primes always returns 0 - [1/2]
  10. My Perl can't find local::lib after upgrading from Perl 5.14 to 5.28 - [1/2]

3 abr 2021

(cccxxxv) 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. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
    • Version: 0.071 on 2021-03-30
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 0.070 was 1 month, 18 days before
  2. Excel::Writer::XLSX - Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
    • Version: 1.08 on 2021-03-31
    • Votes: 55
    • Previous version: 1.07 was 7 months, 25 days before
  3. Moo - Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
    • Version: 2.005004 on 2021-03-29
    • Votes: 281
    • Previous version: 2.005003 was 7 days before
  4. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
    • Version: 2.2015 on 2021-03-31
    • Votes: 316
    • Previous version: 2.2014 was 3 months, 12 days before
  5. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.30 on 2021-03-30
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.29 was 4 months, 12 days before
  6. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.034 on 2021-03-31
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 2.032 was 7 days before
  7. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20210402 on 2021-04-01
    • Votes: 120
    • Previous version: 20210111 was 2 months, 22 days before
  8. Sub::Util - Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
    • Version: 1.56 on 2021-03-30
    • Votes: 151
    • Previous version: 1.55 was 11 months, 18 days before
  9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0936 on 2021-04-03
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0933 was 23 days before
  10. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v7.2.0 on 2021-04-01
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v7.1.0 was 1 month before
  11. Win32::OLE - OLE Automation extensions
    • Version: 0.1713 on 2021-04-03
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.1712 was 6 years, 10 months, 20 days before
  12. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.66 on 2021-03-30
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.65 was 4 months before

(cdlxi) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 65

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+2)

Build date: 2021/04/03 13:26:54 GMT


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(cdlxxxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-04-03 13:15:37 GMT


  1. how to pass command line arguments to perl script file in one-line - [3/3]
  2. How to make a non-interpolate string interpolate in Perl - [3/2]
  3. Can I make a variable optional in a perl sub prototype? - [3/2]
  4. How to create and to throw exceptions in Perl? - [3/1]
  5. How can I dynamically load Perl modules and use their functions? - [2/3]
  6. Dynamic variable names and hash keys - [2/1]
  7. Perl code to delete a multi line XML node - [1/3]
  8. Search in an array of hashes by the hash key and its sorting in Perl - [1/2]
  9. Why is Perl giving "Can't modify string in scalar output" error? - [1/2]
  10. How to add zeros into my file using Perl to make lines the same length? - [1/2]