25 dic 2021

(ccclxxiii) 13 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. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
    • Version: 0.075 on 2021-12-25
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 0.074 was 1 month, 19 days before
  2. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
    • Version: 1.55 on 2021-12-23
    • Votes: 204
    • Previous version: 1.54 was 1 year, 19 days before
  3. DBD::Oracle - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
    • Version: 1.81 on 2021-12-24
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 1.80 was 2 years, 4 months, 30 days before
  4. Devel::IPerl - Perl language kernel for Jupyter
    • Version: 0.011 on 2021-12-24
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.010 was 8 months, 19 days before
  5. File::Slurper - A simple, sane and efficient module to slurp a file
    • Version: 0.013 on 2021-12-25
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 0.012 was 3 years, 10 months, 5 days before
  6. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
    • Version: 2.073 on 2021-12-22
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 2.072 was 4 months, 6 days before
  7. JIRA::REST - Thin wrapper around Jira's REST API
    • Version: 0.022 on 2021-12-19
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.021 was 10 months, 13 days before
  8. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 1.000 on 2021-12-21
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.33 was 6 days before
  9. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20211220 on 2021-12-20
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 5.20211120 was 29 days before
  10. Scope::Upper - Act on upper scopes.
    • Version: 0.33 on 2021-12-20
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.32 was 2 years, 5 months, 12 days before
  11. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9102 on 2021-12-24
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9018 was 11 days before
  12. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.47 on 2021-12-21
    • Votes: 93
    • Previous version: 1.46 was 8 months, 28 days before
  13. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.088 on 2021-12-19
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 1.087 was 5 days before

(cdxciv) metacpan weekly report - RxPerl

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

Week's winner (+3): RxPerl

Build date: 2021/12/25 15:56:56 GMT


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(dxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-12-25 15:46:26 GMT


  1. Eliminate whitespace around single letters - [4/2]
  2. Change a specified bit to 0 - [2/4]
  3. Only find multiline C comment but not single line C comments - [2/2]
  4. Extract a word between brackets and replace it in a sentence - [1/6]
  5. Time interval between two dates with Perl - [1/2]
  6. A regex to parse regex string - [1/2]
  7. Combine 'if' and 'if not' in perl - [1/1]
  8. Perl must do break return to calling code line outside recursive - [1/1]
  9. How can one remove (or at least put into selection) several lines containing Text1 between nearest delimiters, using sed/grep/awk/perl? - [0/2]
  10. How to generate output files of excel format for each column of A i.e output files for App and Data each using perl code - [0/1]

18 dic 2021

(ccclxxii) 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. DBIx::Custom - DBI extension to execute insert, update, delete, and select easily
    • Version: 0.45 on 2021-12-16
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.44 was 1 year, 4 months, 13 days before
  2. Email::MIME - easy MIME message handling
    • Version: 1.952 on 2021-12-14
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 1.949 was 1 year, 6 months, 21 days before
  3. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.64 on 2021-12-17
    • Votes: 49
    • Previous version: 7.62 was 8 months, 4 days before
  4. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.55 on 2021-12-16
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 0.54 was 1 month, 21 days before
  5. IO::Async - Asynchronous event-driven programming
    • Version: 0.801 on 2021-12-15
    • Votes: 65
    • Previous version: 0.800 was 1 month, 4 days before
  6. JSON - JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder
    • Version: 4.04 on 2021-12-17
    • Votes: 95
    • Previous version: 4.03 was 10 months, 24 days before
  7. JSON::PP - JSON::XS compatible pure-Perl module.
    • Version: 4.07 on 2021-12-17
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 4.06 was 10 months, 25 days before
  8. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.60 on 2021-12-17
    • Votes: 153
    • Previous version: 6.59 was 15 days before
  9. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.33 on 2021-12-15
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.32 was 4 days before
  10. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.33 on 2021-12-16
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 1.32 was 5 months before
  11. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects
    • Version: 0.59 on 2021-12-15
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.58 was 20 days before
  12. REST::Client - A simple client for interacting with RESTful http/https resources
    • Version: 281 on 2021-12-17
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 273 was 6 years, 4 months, 12 days before
  13. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9018 on 2021-12-13
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9017 was 3 days before
  14. Template::Toolkit - comprehensive template processing system
    • Version: 3.010 on 2021-12-13
    • Votes: 135
    • Previous version: 3.009 was 1 year, 5 months before
  15. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.087 on 2021-12-14
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 1.085 was 10 days before

11 dic 2021

(ccclxxi) 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::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
    • Version: 0.94 on 2021-12-04
    • Votes: 167
    • Previous version: 0.94 was 7 days before
  2. App::Sqitch - Sensible database change management
    • Version: v1.2.1 on 2021-12-05
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: v1.2.0 was 15 days before
  3. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 5.04 on 2021-12-09
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 5.03 was 19 days before
  4. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.32 on 2021-12-11
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.30 was 11 days before
  5. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.8002 on 2021-12-06
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 3.8001 was 2 months, 15 days before
  6. PDF::API2 - Create, modify, and examine PDF files
    • Version: 2.043 on 2021-12-08
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 2.042 was 2 months, 22 days before
  7. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9017 on 2021-12-10
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9015 was 2 months, 16 days before
  8. Unicode::Tussle - Tom's Unicode Scripts So Life is Easier
    • Version: 1.115 on 2021-12-11
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.111 was 5 years, 6 months, 4 days before

(dxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-12-11 22:30:55 GMT


  1. How to convert between the unicode forms: string, name, number - [4/3]
  2. Perl: How is to be interpreted a negation of an array and scalar? - [2/1]
  3. cpan says App::cpanminus is up to date but cpanm doesn't come up in /usr/bin - [2/1]
  4. Perl's rpm version differs from "perl -v" - [1/2]
  5. Is there a way to remote to a different machine, and run multiple commands there in series (using perl)? - [1/2]
  6. Perl issue when encoding mysql data from UTF-8 to UCS-2 for SMPP - [1/2]
  7. Wrapper generator SWIG (C++/Perl): How to access "blessed" objects in a 1d vector<double>in Perl? - [1/2]
  8. Perl: Can't use string ("XXX") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use - [1/2]
  9. Perl: match regex from the file - [1/1]
  10. Perl Regex return named groups in capture Group one - [1/1]

4 dic 2021

(ccclxx) 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.46 on 2021-11-30
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 2.45 was 1 month, 2 days before
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.052000 on 2021-11-30
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.051005 was 5 days before
  3. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
    • Version: 0.034 on 2021-11-28
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.033 was 6 months, 27 days before
  4. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.59 on 2021-12-02
    • Votes: 153
    • Previous version: 6.58 was 1 month, 8 days before
  5. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
    • Version: 1.876 on 2021-12-02
    • Votes: 89
    • Previous version: 1.875 was 16 days before
  6. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
    • Version: 1.875 on 2021-12-03
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.873 was 1 year, 4 months, 2 days before
  7. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.30 on 2021-11-30
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.29 was 5 months, 23 days before
  8. Mojo::SQLite - A tiny Mojolicious wrapper for SQLite
    • Version: 3.008 on 2021-11-28
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 3.007 was 3 months, 26 days before
  9. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
    • Version: 1.46 on 2021-12-04
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 1.45 was 1 month, 14 days before
  10. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v7.10.0 on 2021-12-01
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v7.9.0 was 29 days before
  11. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000144 on 2021-12-03
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.000142 was 18 days before
  12. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.085 on 2021-12-04
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 1.084 was 1 month, 1 day before

(cdxciii) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 26

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+2)

Build date: 2021/12/04 16:26:06 GMT


Clicked for first time:


Increasing its reputation:

(dxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2021-12-04 16:19:09 GMT


  1. Why would you ever need (?(R)...|...) if condition in a regex? - [5/1]
  2. MultiDimensional array Input to Single array in Perl - [2/2]
  3. Perl code executed alongside C program writes incorrect byte length to memory in Windows - [2/1]
  4. Perl way to allocate some memory inglobal array - [2/1]
  5. Perl Dynaloader gives Usage error while calling function with parameters - [2/0]
  6. In Mojolicious can I forward to another action? - [2/0]
  7. How do I search and replace a string after an arbitrary amount of white space in bash? - [1/4]
  8. How to avoid line insert to the file if the line is already present in the file? - [1/4]
  9. Perl match and extract phone number with (312) 555-1212 format - [1/2]
  10. Perl: What is the preferred way of evaluating expressions besides eval? - [1/2]