26 jun 2021

(cccxlvii) 11 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: 2.41 on 2021-06-22
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 2.41 was before
  2. Config::INI - simple .ini-file format
    • Version: 0.027 on 2021-06-23
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 0.025 was 6 years, 7 months, 7 days before
  3. Data::Dump - Pretty printing of data structures
    • Version: 1.25 on 2021-06-26
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 1.23 was 6 years, 17 days before
  4. Email::Sender - a library for sending email
    • Version: 1.500 on 2021-06-21
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 1.300036 was 4 days before
  5. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.46 on 2021-06-22
    • Votes: 53
    • Previous version: 1.46 was before
  6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20210620 on 2021-06-20
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 5.20210521 was 30 days before
  7. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.41 on 2021-06-20
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.40 was 18 days before
  8. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20210625 on 2021-06-24
    • Votes: 121
    • Previous version: 20210402 was 2 months, 23 days before
  9. Rose::DB::Object - Extensible, high performance object-relational mapper (ORM).
    • Version: 0.820 on 2021-06-26
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.819 was 1 year, 10 days before
  10. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9007 on 2021-06-25
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9006 was 14 days before
  11. XXX - See Your Data in the Nude
    • Version: 0.38 on 2021-06-23
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.37 was 4 days before

(cdlxxiii) metacpan weekly report - Object::Pad

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

Week's winner: Object::Pad (+2)

Build date: 2021/06/26 15:11:54 GMT


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(cdxcvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-06-26 15:05:49 GMT


  1. In Perl, what's the underlying difference between a hash and a blessed reference? - [4/2]
  2. Not a HASH reference in Perl - [4/1]
  3. Can anybody explain why this Perl one-liner of fibonacci is working? - [3/2]
  4. How to sum up all value returned by an array of threads in perl? - [3/1]
  5. How to set TTL on outgoing packets in perl? - [3/1]
  6. perl regex unexpected behaviour of /m modifier - [3/1]
  7. What does "!$@" mean in Perl? - [2/4]
  8. Check whether a file's content is changed or not using Perl - [2/1]
  9. Use perl WWW:Mechanize on MacOS Big Sur - [2/1]
  10. Reading gzip line from line on a mac - [2/1]

19 jun 2021

(cccxlvi) 25 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::Cmd - write command line apps with less suffering
    • Version: 0.334 on 2021-06-19
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 0.333 was 3 months, 5 days before
  2. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
    • Version: 0.997004 on 2021-06-13
    • Votes: 53
    • Previous version: 0.997003 was 3 months, 18 days before
  3. App::Uni - command-line utility to find or display Unicode characters
    • Version: 9.005 on 2021-06-19
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 9.004 was 11 months, 16 days before
  4. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
    • Version: 6.020 on 2021-06-14
    • Votes: 175
    • Previous version: 6.017 was 7 months, 11 days before
  5. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodWeaver - weave your Pod together from configuration and Dist::Zilla
    • Version: 4.009 on 2021-06-19
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 4.008 was 5 years, 1 month, 25 days before
  6. Email::Sender - a library for sending email
    • Version: 1.300036 on 2021-06-17
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 1.300035 was 8 months, 7 days before
  7. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 4.20 on 2021-06-18
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 4.17 was 1 month, 20 days before
  8. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.55 on 2021-06-17
    • Votes: 153
    • Previous version: 6.54 was 1 month, 11 days before
  9. MIME::Lite - Handy-dandy MIME mailing class
    • Version: 3.033 on 2021-06-12
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 3.031 was 1 year, 7 months, 17 days before
  10. Minion::Backend::SQLite - SQLite backend for Minion job queue
    • Version: v5.0.5 on 2021-06-16
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: v5.0.4 was 4 months before
  11. Mojo::SQLite - A tiny Mojolicious wrapper for SQLite
    • Version: 3.006 on 2021-06-16
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 3.005 was 4 months before
  12. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 4.04 on 2021-06-17
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 4.03 was 1 month, 19 days before
  13. OpenAPI::Client - A client for talking to an Open API powered server
    • Version: 1.01 on 2021-06-17
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.00 was 3 months, 22 days before
  14. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.051 on 2021-06-14
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 2.050 was 12 days before
  15. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.025 on 2021-06-16
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 1.024 was 2 months, 28 days before
  16. Pod::Weaver - weave together a Pod document from an outline
    • Version: 4.018 on 2021-06-19
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 4.017 was 2 months, 2 days before
  17. POE::Component::IRC - A fully event-driven IRC client module
    • Version: 6.93 on 2021-06-15
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 6.92 was 7 days before
  18. Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
    • Version: 1.62 on 2021-06-16
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 1.61 was 1 month, 23 days before
  19. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
    • Version: 7.713 on 2021-06-14
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 7.712 was 2 months, 20 days before
  20. Sub::Exporter - a sophisticated exporter for custom-built routines
    • Version: 0.988 on 2021-06-19
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 0.987 was 7 years, 8 months, 1 day before
  21. Test::Routine - composable units of assertion
    • Version: 0.028 on 2021-06-19
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.027 was 2 years, 9 months, 23 days before
  22. Text::CSV - comma-separated values manipulator (using XS or PurePerl)
    • Version: 2.01 on 2021-06-19
    • Votes: 69
    • Previous version: 2.00 was 2 years, 1 month, 8 days before
  23. Throwable - a role for classes that can be thrown
    • Version: 0.201 on 2021-06-19
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 0.200013 was 5 years, 11 months, 18 days before
  24. Toadfarm - One Mojolicious app to rule them all
    • Version: 0.83 on 2021-06-17
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.82 was 1 year, 8 months, 28 days before
  25. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.074 on 2021-06-18
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 1.073 was 11 days before

(cdlxxii) metacpan weekly report - Object::Pad

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

Week's winners (+3): Object::Pad 

Build date: 2021/06/19 16:31:02 GMT


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(cdxcv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-06-19 16:21:19 GMT


  1. Replacing all occurrence after nth occurrence in a line in perl - [3/7]
  2. What version of Perl introduced try / catch? - [3/2]
  3. Parsing command line args, but not validating - [3/1]
  4. Overlooping script: how to solve? - [2/5]
  5. How to properly parse regular expression in Perl? - [2/3]
  6. Why does Test::LeakTrace say this Perl code is leaking memory? - [2/1]
  7. Intellij Perl5 add Perl5 interpreter - [2/1]
  8. Regex on Perl to capture this type of value (a)(2) - [2/1]
  9. Test::BDD::Cucumber::Harness::Html breaks UTF-8 characters - [2/0]
  10. sed or Perl one liner + how to replace path in file only when full match - [1/4]

12 jun 2021

(cccxlv) 8 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: 1.068 on 2021-06-05
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.067 was before
  2. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
    • Version: 0.301004 on 2021-06-06
    • Votes: 125
    • Previous version: 0.301003 was 3 days before
  3. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.22 on 2021-06-10
    • Votes: 84
    • Previous version: 10.21 was 2 months, 21 days before
  4. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.29 on 2021-06-07
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.28 was 3 days before
  5. Mojolicious::Plugin::Authentication - A plugin to make authentication a bit easier
    • Version: 1.37 on 2021-06-10
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 1.36 was 1 month, 19 days before
  6. POE::Component::IRC - A fully event-driven IRC client module
    • Version: 6.92 on 2021-06-08
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 6.91 was 3 days before
  7. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9006 on 2021-06-11
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9005 was 15 days before
  8. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.073 on 2021-06-07
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 1.072 was 12 days before

(cdlxxi) metacpan weekly report - Perl::LanguageServer

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 149

Week's winners (+3): Perl::LanguageServer 

Build date: 2021/06/12 14:33:40 GMT


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(cdxciv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-06-12 13:39:23 GMT


  1. What is the best way in Perl to iterate a loop and extract pairs or triples - [7/6]
  2. Perl sorting Alpha characters in a special way - [6/3]
  3. Trimming carriage return (\r) in Perl - [5/4]
  4. Is there any way to change the value of constant in Perl? - [5/3]
  5. search for a key value pair and append the value to other keys in unix - [3/6]
  6. Read a file line by line for an exact match using perl script - [3/3]
  7. Counting number of lines with conditions - [2/4]
  8. How do I use Perl IPC::Run3 to read stdout and stderr from a subprocess? - [2/3]
  9. Using Conditional Operators inside push in Perl - [2/1]
  10. Error Git SVN clone: Use of uninitialized value $sha1 - [1/1]

5 jun 2021

(cccxliv) 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::lcpan - Manage your local CPAN mirror
    • Version: 1.066 on 2021-05-31
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.034 was 1 year, 11 months, 10 days before
  2. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
    • Version: 4.53 on 2021-06-03
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 4.52 was 30 days before
  3. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
    • Version: 0.301003 on 2021-06-03
    • Votes: 125
    • Previous version: 0.301002 was 1 month, 15 days before
  4. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.51 on 2021-05-31
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 0.50 was 1 month, 1 day before
  5. Git::Repository - Perl interface to Git repositories
    • Version: 1.325 on 2021-05-31
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 1.324 was 1 year, 9 months before
  6. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.28 on 2021-06-04
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.26 was 8 days before
  7. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.19 on 2021-06-02
    • Votes: 452
    • Previous version: 9.18 was 10 days before
  8. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.7003 on 2021-06-02
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 3.7002 was 2 months, 24 days before
  9. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.050 on 2021-06-02
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 2.048 was 10 days before
  10. POE::Component::IRC - A fully event-driven IRC client module
    • Version: 6.91 on 2021-06-05
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 6.90 was 3 years, 9 months before
  11. Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.25 on 2021-06-01
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 0.24 was 22 days before
  12. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v7.4.0 on 2021-06-04
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v7.3.0 was 1 month before

(cdlxx) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 107

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2021/06/05 14:35:54 GMT


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(cdxciii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-06-05 14:22:18 GMT


  1. raku, library was not found - [5/1]
  2. perl regex, remove what is captured - [3/3]
  3. Given a number of variables to test for definedness, how to (easily) find out the one which was left undefined? - [3/3]
  4. How do I get the name of the currently-running Perl script? - [2/3]
  5. How can I insert a blob and timestamp into a table in Oracle using Perl? - [2/2]
  6. matching cond in perl using double exclaimation - [2/2]
  7. How to read Excel file in Perl by sheet name - [2/1]
  8. What would be the python equivalent of this Perl if condition? - [2/1]
  9. How do I set breakpoints in Komodo IDE? - [2/1]
  10. Updating the stack on Heroku - [2/0]