29 may 2021

(cccxliii) 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::lcpan - Manage your local CPAN mirror
    • Version: 1.065 on 2021-05-25
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.062 was 9 months, 12 days before
  2. Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval
    • Version: 2.181 on 2021-05-26
    • Votes: 91
    • Previous version: 2.180 was 9 days before
  3. DateTime::Format::Flexible - DateTime::Format::Flexible - Flexibly parse strings and turn them into DateTime objects.
    • Version: 0.33 on 2021-05-27
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.32 was 1 year, 8 months, 13 days before
  4. Devel::CheckOS - a script to package Devel::AssertOS modules with your code.
    • Version: 1.87 on 2021-05-25
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.86 was 5 days before
  5. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
    • Version: 2.071 on 2021-05-23
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 2.070 was 2 months, 25 days before
  6. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.26 on 2021-05-27
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.25 was 5 days before
  7. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.18 on 2021-05-23
    • Votes: 452
    • Previous version: 9.17 was 1 month, 10 days before
  8. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.048 on 2021-05-23
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 2.047 was 15 days before
  9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9005 on 2021-05-27
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9002 was 7 days before
  10. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.072 on 2021-05-26
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 1.070 was 17 days before

(cdlxix) metacpan weekly report - List::Keywords

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 37

Week's winner (+3): List::Keywords

Build date: 2021/05/29 18:35:20 GMT


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  • Algorithm::MasterMind - Framework for algorithms that solve the MasterMind game
  • Encoding::BER - Perl module for encoding/decoding data using ASN.1 Basic Encoding Rules (BER)
  • Game::Entities - A simple entity registry for ECS designs
  • GitHub::Crud - Create, Read, Update, Delete files, commits, issues, and web hooks on GitHub.

Increasing its reputation:

(cdxcii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-05-29 18:21:44 GMT


  1. RegEx, Substituting a variable number of replacements - [3/3]
  2. Splitting large text files with Perl - [3/1]
  3. Perl Passing Variable to subroutines - [2/3]
  4. How to extract certain data using Perl from a file? - [2/3]
  5. map a string in each element of an array and assigning in another array in perl - [2/2]
  6. Meaning of if(!$_) - [2/1]
  7. Not Getting Response while initiating Session on Net::SNMP while accessing the device with snmpv3 credentials using AES-256 - [2/0]
  8. Split String in 3 By REGEX Groups - [1/3]
  9. How do I parse an xml dictionary with XML::LibXML - [1/2]
  10. Perl Dancer and Mason2 - [1/1]

22 may 2021

(cccxlii) 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. Cache::Memcached::Fast - Perl client for memcached, in C language
    • Version: 0.27 on 2021-05-22
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.26 was 1 year, 1 month, 27 days before
  2. Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval
    • Version: 2.180 on 2021-05-17
    • Votes: 91
    • Previous version: 2.173 was 2 years, 6 months, 12 days before
  3. DateTime::Format::MySQL - Parse and format MySQL dates and times
    • Version: 0.0701 on 2021-05-22
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.06 was 5 years, 3 months, 10 days before
  4. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
    • Version: 3.15.0 on 2021-05-21
    • Votes: 85
    • Previous version: 3.14.2 was 9 months, 8 days before
  5. Devel::CheckOS - a script to package Devel::AssertOS modules with your code.
    • Version: 1.86 on 2021-05-20
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.85 was 7 months, 5 days before
  6. Encode - character encodings in Perl
    • Version: 3.10 on 2021-05-18
    • Votes: 54
    • Previous version: 3.09 was 4 days before
  7. FFI::CheckLib - Check that a library is available for FFI
    • Version: 0.28 on 2021-05-16
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.27 was 1 year, 5 days before
  8. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
    • Version: 6.32 on 2021-05-18
    • Votes: 59
    • Previous version: 6.31 was 7 days before
  9. Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information
    • Version: 12.26 on 2021-05-21
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 12.16 was 4 months before
  10. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.25 on 2021-05-22
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.24 was 1 month, 10 days before
  11. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20210521 on 2021-05-21
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20210420 was 1 month before
  12. less - The Perl 5 language interpreter
    • Version: 5.034000 on 2021-05-20
    • Votes: 376
    • Previous version: 5.32.1 was 3 months, 29 days before
  13. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9002 on 2021-05-20
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9001 was 8 days before
  14. Test::Differences - Test strings and data structures and show differences if not ok
    • Version: 0.68 on 2021-05-18
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.67 was 2 years, 2 months, 12 days before
  15. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302185 on 2021-05-19
    • Votes: 169
    • Previous version: 1.302183 was 6 months, 28 days before

(cdlxviii) metacpan weekly report - perl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 50

Week's winner: perl (+4)

Build date: 2021/05/22 19:27:20 GMT


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(cdxci) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-05-22 19:19:08 GMT


  1. Perl, unknown result of the `map` function - [5/2]
  2. How to slice only defined values? - [5/2]
  3. How to get the number of the corresponding characters at the start of a string - [3/3]
  4. Managing a process with a non-returning script on a remote host - [3/2]
  5. Perl one liner to add text at last but one line of a large file - [3/2]
  6. Why does repeatedly opening, appending and closing a text file cause the lines to be written in reverse order? - [3/2]
  7. Ideas to complete a script to search in two files and extract a section of data - [2/2]
  8. Store perl regex capture groups in bash variables - [2/1]
  9. Pass html file as a route in perl dancer2 MVC framework - [2/1]
  10. Mojolicious source IP and user agent - [2/1]

15 may 2021

(cccxli) 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.40 on 2021-05-13
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 2.38 was 4 months, 2 days before
  2. Data::Alias - Comprehensive set of aliasing operations
    • Version: 1.25 on 2021-05-11
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 1.24 was 10 days before
  3. Devel::NYTProf - Powerful fast feature-rich Perl source code profiler
    • Version: 6.10 on 2021-05-09
    • Votes: 168
    • Previous version: 6.07 was 1 month, 3 days before
  4. Encode - character encodings in Perl
    • Version: 3.09 on 2021-05-14
    • Votes: 54
    • Previous version: 3.08 was 5 months, 12 days before
  5. Excel::Writer::XLSX - Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
    • Version: 1.09 on 2021-05-14
    • Votes: 55
    • Previous version: 1.08 was 1 month, 14 days before
  6. Furl - Lightning-fast URL fetcher
    • Version: 3.14 on 2021-05-13
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 3.13 was 3 years, 7 months, 24 days before
  7. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
    • Version: 6.31 on 2021-05-11
    • Votes: 59
    • Previous version: 6.29 was 2 months, 5 days before
  8. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
    • Version: 0.49 on 2021-05-13
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.48 was 4 months, 30 days before
  9. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.047 on 2021-05-08
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 2.046 was 4 days before
  10. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9001 on 2021-05-12
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0951 was 5 days before
  11. Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.24 on 2021-05-10
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 0.23 was 1 month, 14 days before
  12. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000140 on 2021-05-12
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.000139 was 4 months, 27 days before
  13. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.012003 on 2021-05-09
    • Votes: 127
    • Previous version: 1.012002 was 7 days before
  14. YAML::LibYAML - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
    • Version: 0.83 on 2021-05-08
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 0.82 was 1 year, 6 days before
  15. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.070 on 2021-05-09
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 1.070 was before

(cdlxvii) metacpan weekly report - Type::Tiny

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 36

Week's winner: Type::Tiny (+2)

Build date: 2021/05/15 18:56:34 GMT


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(cdxc) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-05-15 18:49:47 GMT


  1. Perl 5.32.1 GDBM_File is incredibly slow - [4/0]
  2. Array push and references - [3/2]
  3. Use PPI to rewrite a subroutine in a package - [3/0]
  4. Regular expression to get a number on a line - [2/3]
  5. perl - access elements in hash of arrays of arrays - [2/2]
  6. Perl Script did not find the newest file - [1/3]
  7. Regex to capture multilines from specific expression until first blank line in Perl - [1/3]
  8. Perl script to count positive values doesn't report all positive values - [1/2]
  9. Devel::Peek output results in STDERR - [1/1]
  10. Perl PAR PP - Don't work /tmp/par-726f6f74/inc/lib/Mojo/resources/html_entities.txt - [1/1]

8 may 2021

(cccxl) 17 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. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
    • Version: 4.52 on 2021-05-04
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 4.51 was 6 months, 30 days before
  2. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
    • Version: 0.033 on 2021-05-01
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.032 was 1 month, 14 days before
  3. Data::Alias - Comprehensive set of aliasing operations
    • Version: 1.24 on 2021-05-05
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 1.23 was 7 days before
  4. DateTime::Format::Strptime - Parse and format strp and strf time patterns
    • Version: 1.79 on 2021-05-02
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 1.78 was 4 months, 18 days before
  5. Devel::NYTProf - Powerful fast feature-rich Perl source code profiler
    • Version: 6.09 on 2021-05-02
    • Votes: 168
    • Previous version: 6.08 was 8 days before
  6. Exception::Class - A module that allows you to declare real exception classes in Perl
    • Version: 1.45 on 2021-05-02
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 1.44 was 3 years, 4 months, 23 days before
  7. experimental - Experimental features made easy
    • Version: 0.024 on 2021-05-01
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.023 was 1 day before
  8. File::Which - Perl implementation of the which utility as an API
    • Version: 1.27 on 2021-05-07
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 1.24 was 1 month, 19 days before
  9. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.54 on 2021-05-06
    • Votes: 153
    • Previous version: 6.53 was 1 month, 30 days before
  10. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.31 on 2021-05-02
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.30 was 1 month, 3 days before
  11. Paws::SDK::Config - A Perl SDK for AWS (Amazon Web Services) APIs
    • Version: 0.43 on 2021-05-06
    • Votes: 48
    • Previous version: 0.42 was 1 year, 2 months, 4 days before
  12. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.046 on 2021-05-04
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 2.044 was 3 days before
  13. Raisin - A REST API microframework for Perl.
    • Version: 0.93 on 2021-05-05
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 0.91 was 7 days before
  14. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0951 on 2021-05-07
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0949 was 7 days before
  15. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v7.3.0 on 2021-05-04
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v7.2.0 was 1 month, 3 days before
  16. Term::ReadLine::Gnu - Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library
    • Version: 1.42 on 2021-05-07
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.41 was 6 days before
  17. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.012002 on 2021-05-02
    • Votes: 126
    • Previous version: 1.012001 was 3 months, 23 days before

(cdlxvi) metacpan weekly report - Faster::Maths

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

Week's winner: Faster::Maths (+4)

Build date: 2021/05/08 17:39:31 GMT


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(cdlxxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-05-08 17:31:46 GMT


  1. Iterating over an array of directories and performing mkdir on each one in a special way - [3/1]
  2. Lemmatize multiple MB of raw text with Spacy and Inline::Python in Perl. Why is this slow? - [3/1]
  3. How to check if one path exists under another path in the file system in Perl? - [2/1]
  4. perl pdf::api2 checking if a pdf file is encrypted - [2/1]
  5. Compiling/transpiling perl5 to readable (not executable) javascript (or perl5 to raku/perl6 to javascript) - [2/0]
  6. How to shift block (key and value) from hash in Perl? - [1/4]
  7. Why isn't this regex executing? - [1/3]
  8. Regex in Perl not matching a Unicode String - [1/2]
  9. Expand multiple for loop embedded inside Perl code - [1/1]
  10. SFTP from web service through Cygwin fails - [1/1]

1 may 2021

(cccxxxix) 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. Beam::Wire - Lightweight Dependency Injection Container
    • Version: 1.024 on 2021-04-27
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 1.023 was 2 years, 1 month, 4 days before
  2. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
    • Version: 0.072 on 2021-04-29
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 0.071 was 30 days before
  3. Data::Alias - Comprehensive set of aliasing operations
    • Version: 1.21 on 2021-04-30
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 1.22 was 8 days before
  4. Devel::NYTProf - Powerful fast feature-rich Perl source code profiler
    • Version: 6.08 on 2021-04-27
    • Votes: 168
    • Previous version: 6.07 was 23 days before
  5. experimental - Experimental features made easy
    • Version: 0.023 on 2021-04-30
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.022 was 11 months, 26 days before
  6. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.50 on 2021-04-30
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 0.49 was 2 months, 6 days before
  7. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 4.17 on 2021-04-28
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 4.16 was 1 month, 4 days before
  8. Mojo::mysql - Mojolicious and Async MySQL/MariaDB
    • Version: 1.21 on 2021-04-28
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 1.22 was 4 months, 6 days before
  9. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 4.03 on 2021-04-28
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 4.02 was 1 month, 4 days before
  10. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.044 on 2021-05-01
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 2.039 was 7 days before
  11. Raisin - A REST API microframework for Perl.
    • Version: 0.91 on 2021-04-28
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 0.90 was 10 months, 6 days before
  12. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0949 on 2021-04-30
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0946 was 7 days before

(cdlxv) metacpan weekly report - List::Keywords

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 34

Week's winner: List::Keywords (+3)

Build date: 2021/05/01 14:33:20 GMT


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(cdlxxxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-05-01 14:26:11 GMT


  1. Is there a way to have dependencies defined by OS in a CPAN distribution? - [6/1]
  2. How can I quickly count the maximum number of consecutive single characters in a string? - [3/4]
  3. What does scalar mean in perl? - [3/2]
  4. Take Longitude/Latitude and get UTC Offset in Perl - [3/1]
  5. Perl PAWS SelectObjectContent - "Precondition Failed" - [3/0]
  6. What means "Can't locate object method.." in this specific example using Perl? - [2/2]
  7. how to terminate a command that has started in a perl script, using 'system()' - [2/1]
  8. There are two files, pm and pl under one file. If you run the pl file, the pm package call is unsuccessful - [2/1]
  9. How to know when a PSGI nonblocking streaming writer is ready for more data in a PSGI compatible way? - [2/0]
  10. Script correction for count positive values in text file - [1/2]