24 jul 2021

(cccli) 9 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::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
    • Version: 0.997006 on 2021-07-22
    • Votes: 54
    • Previous version: 0.997004 was 1 month, 9 days before
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.047008 on 2021-07-21
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.047007 was 7 days before
  3. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
    • Version: 0.073 on 2021-07-18
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 0.072 was 2 months, 19 days before
  4. DBD::SQLite - Self Contained SQLite RDBMS in a DBI Driver
    • Version: 1.68 on 2021-07-22
    • Votes: 96
    • Previous version: 1.66 was 10 months, 23 days before
  5. Encode - character encodings in Perl
    • Version: 3.11 on 2021-07-23
    • Votes: 54
    • Previous version: 3.10 was 2 months, 5 days before
  6. HTTP::BrowserDetect - Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
    • Version: 3.33 on 2021-07-21
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 3.31 was 11 months, 23 days before
  7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20210723 on 2021-07-23
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 5.20210620 was 1 month, 3 days before
  8. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.46 on 2021-07-21
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.45 was 4 days before
  9. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.81 on 2021-07-18
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.79 was 3 months, 30 days before

(cdlxxvii) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 39

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2021/07/24 18:42:05 GMT


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(d) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-07-24 18:23:16 GMT


  1. Match a character only when not in a quoted field or in between 2 quotes - [4/3]
  2. Regex matching characters of one string in another in any order - [3/7]
  3. How do I convert an array or a list into a hashref? - [3/5]
  4. How to turn a string into a modified hex representation? - [3/5]
  5. Advice on Perl map function - [3/2]
  6. Proper Way to Provide Variable to Objects below the present calling subroutine? - [3/1]
  7. Perl regex /o optimization or bug? - [3/1]
  8. in perl, why does sprintf(Dumper \%hash) throw a warning when the hash contains a long string? - [3/1]
  9. A system call from my Perl script truncates the address - [2/3]
  10. Perl DBI / MS ODBC Driver (LinuxL:RHEL) / SQL-Server: How to insert/update BLOB varbinary(max) data? - [2/1]

17 jul 2021

(cccl) 9 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::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.047007 on 2021-07-14
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.047005 was 4 months, 18 days before
  2. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.53 on 2021-07-12
    • Votes: 54
    • Previous version: 1.52 was 11 days before
  3. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.52 on 2021-07-13
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 0.51 was 1 month, 13 days before
  4. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.32 on 2021-07-16
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.31 was 2 months, 14 days before
  5. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.44 on 2021-07-15
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.43 was 12 days before
  6. Paws - A Perl SDK for AWS (Amazon Web Services) APIs
    • Version: 0.44 on 2021-07-14
    • Votes: 48
    • Previous version: 0.43 was 2 months, 8 days before
  7. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20210717 on 2021-07-17
    • Votes: 121
    • Previous version: 20210625 was 23 days before
  8. Test::Warnings - Test for warnings and the lack of them
    • Version: 0.031 on 2021-07-13
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.030 was 1 year, 3 months, 23 days before
  9. TheSchwartz - reliable job queue
    • Version: 1.16 on 2021-07-16
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.15 was 1 year, 5 months, 19 days before

(cdlxxvi) metacpan weekly report - Object::Pad

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 43

Week's winner: Object::Pad (+3)

Build date: 2021/07/17 18:13:49 GMT


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(cdxcix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-07-17 17:32:41 GMT


  1. "Redundant argument in printf" warning - [4/1]
  2. Is it possible to nest associative arrays in Perl - [3/2]
  3. where is perl eval "...propagated" documented - [3/2]
  4. Extracting information from HTML file using perl script - [3/1]
  5. Hash inside \Q and \E - [2/1]
  6. Serving ionic vue build through perl server is not working - [2/1]
  7. Why base.pm is not visible on file list on github? - [2/1]
  8. DateTime Won't Load Properly Unless a Module Using Moo Launches First - [2/0]
  9. Perl can't install Glib on Mac Big Sur - [2/0]
  10. How do I get all possible combinations (not permutations) from two different arrays in Perl? - [1/2]

10 jul 2021

(cccxlix) 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. Beam::Wire - Lightweight Dependency Injection Container
    • Version: 1.025 on 2021-07-08
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 1.024 was 2 months, 11 days before
  2. Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval
    • Version: 2.183 on 2021-07-05
    • Votes: 92
    • Previous version: 2.182 was 5 days before
  3. DateTime::Format::Flexible - DateTime::Format::Flexible - Flexibly parse strings and turn them into DateTime objects.
    • Version: 0.34 on 2021-07-07
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.33 was 1 month, 11 days before
  4. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
    • Version: 6.023 on 2021-07-07
    • Votes: 175
    • Previous version: 6.022 was 9 days before
  5. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git - Update your git repository after release
    • Version: 2.048 on 2021-07-10
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 2.047 was 9 months, 28 days before
  6. Email::Sender - a library for sending email
    • Version: 2.500 on 2021-07-04
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 1.500 was 13 days before
  7. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9722 on 2021-07-04
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9721 was 2 months, 16 days before
  8. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
    • Version: 0.51 on 2021-07-04
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.50 was 2 months, 26 days before
  9. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 4.21 on 2021-07-10
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 4.20 was 22 days before
  10. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 4.05 on 2021-07-10
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 4.04 was 23 days before
  11. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.43 on 2021-07-03
    • Votes: 12
  12. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.052 on 2021-07-04
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 2.051 was 20 days before
  13. Perl::PrereqScanner - a tool to scan your Perl code for its prerequisites
    • Version: 1.024 on 2021-07-03
    • Votes: 21
  14. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.13.4 on 2021-07-05
    • Votes: 77
    • Previous version: 1.13.3 was 4 months before
  15. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.67 on 2021-07-09
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.66 was 3 months, 10 days before

(cdlxxv) metacpan weekly report - PLS

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

Week's winner: PLS (+2)

Build date: 2021/07/10 20:52:10 GMT


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(cdxcviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-07-10 20:44:02 GMT


  1. What's the correct way to deal with multiple inheritence of modules sharing a common "ancestor" in Perl? - [4/2]
  2. Perl Checksum Calculation Migration to Java - [3/1]
  3. Dynamically extract pattern unique to each string in a list of strings in bash - [2/4]
  4. Perl - How do you type/execute/run Perl statements directly in the Perl shell/interpreter? - [2/3]
  5. Perl OOP: Is it a good idea to outsource methods in your own modules - [2/2]
  6. Printing content of hash of arrays of arrays - [2/1]
  7. How to keep child process active when parent is killed/finished (in windows) - [2/1]
  8. How to tell MakeMaker to add exactly the libraries I want? - [2/1]
  9. Python subprocess using perl for formatting is giving incomplete output - [2/1]
  10. Perl - How to calculate CRC16 of N bytes from array M-dimensional (with N<M) using Digest::CRC - [1/2]

3 jul 2021

(cccxlviii) 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. Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval
    • Version: 2.182 on 2021-06-30
    • Votes: 92
    • Previous version: 2.181 was 1 month, 8 days before
  2. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
    • Version: 6.022 on 2021-06-28
    • Votes: 175
    • Previous version: 6.020 was 14 days before
  3. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.52 on 2021-07-01
    • Votes: 53
    • Previous version: 1.46 was 9 days before
  4. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
    • Version: 6.33 on 2021-06-28
    • Votes: 59
    • Previous version: 6.32 was 1 month, 10 days before
  5. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.42 on 2021-07-01
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.41 was 11 days before
  6. Pod::Simple - framework for parsing Pod
    • Version: 3.43 on 2021-06-28
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 3.42 was 7 months, 14 days before
  7. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9009 on 2021-06-29
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9007 was 4 days before
  8. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v7.5.0 on 2021-07-02
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v7.4.0 was 28 days before
  9. Task::Kensho - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl
    • Version: 0.41 on 2021-07-03
    • Votes: 107
    • Previous version: 0.40 was 2 years, 7 months, 2 days before
  10. Throwable - a role for classes that can be thrown
    • Version: 1.000 on 2021-06-26
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 1.000 was before

(cdlxxiv) metacpan weekly report - PLS

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 38

Week's winners (+3): PLS

Build date: 2021/07/03 15:09:49 GMT


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(cdxcvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2021-07-03 14:58:26 GMT


  1. How do I release a Perl module to CPAN? - [9/1]
  2. Can&'t locate object method <var name> via package <file name> error - [4/1]
  3. what does -w specifies in perl script process execution - [3/1]
  4. How to specify external library file locations when installing CPAN modules - [3/1]
  5. 'PERL_EXECUTABLE-NOTFOUND' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file - [3/0]
  6. How to execute template tooklit script? - [2/1]
  7. Perlbrew can't find @INC - [2/1]
  8. error while improving Chromedriver undetectability - [2/0]
  9. Perl/tk sans-serif font missing in Linux - [2/0]
  10. rpm dependencies required even though they are there - [1/3]