29 ene 2022

(ccclxxvii) 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. AnyEvent::Fork - everything you wanted to use fork() for, but couldn't
    • Version: 1.32 on 2022-01-26
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 1.31 was 5 years, 2 months, 16 days before
  2. App::cpanminus - get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN
    • Version: 1.7045 on 2022-01-27
    • Votes: 260
    • Previous version: 1.7044 was 3 years, 9 months, 8 days before
  3. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
    • Version: 1.13 on 2022-01-23
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.12 was 10 months, 4 days before
  4. Future - represent an operation awaiting completion
    • Version: 0.48 on 2022-01-26
    • Votes: 54
    • Previous version: 0.47 was 1 year, 25 days before
  5. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.56 on 2022-01-26
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 0.55 was 1 month, 10 days before
  6. GD - Perl interface to the gd2 graphics library
    • Version: 2.75 on 2022-01-25
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 2.73 was 1 year, 4 months, 1 day before
  7. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
    • Version: 1.054 on 2022-01-27
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 1.052 was 1 year, 14 days before
  8. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.070 on 2022-01-28
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 2.068 was 14 days before
  9. PPI - Parse, Analyze and Manipulate Perl (without perl)
    • Version: 1.271 on 2022-01-25
    • Votes: 54
    • Previous version: 1.270 was 2 years, 6 months, 16 days before
  10. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9132 on 2022-01-28
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 0.9126 was 7 days before

(dxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-01-29 20:35:53 GMT


  1. Why does Perl allow functions to be declared without being defined? - [18/4]
  2. Why does combining Perl hashes in and each expression not work? - [5/2]
  3. Cpan, address already in use error when installing IO::Socket::Timeout - [4/1]
  4. Perl numeric comparison of numeric strings understanding and debugging - [4/1]
  5. How to not export all functions/methods from a package in perl? - [3/1]

22 ene 2022

(ccclxxvi) 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. DBD::Oracle - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
    • Version: 1.83 on 2022-01-17
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 1.82 was 19 days before
  2. Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls - coveralls backend for Devel::Cover
    • Version: 0.30 on 2022-01-18
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.20 was 1 year, 2 months, 10 days before
  3. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.61 on 2022-01-21
    • Votes: 153
    • Previous version: 6.60 was 1 month, 4 days before
  4. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.23 on 2022-01-20
    • Votes: 88
    • Previous version: 10.22 was 7 months, 10 days before
  5. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20220120 on 2022-01-20
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 5.20211220 was 1 month before
  6. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.122 on 2022-01-16
    • Votes: 168
    • Previous version: 0.120 was 2 months, 23 days before
  7. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.028 on 2022-01-19
    • Votes: 30
    • Previous version: 1.027 was 3 months, 8 days before
  8. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9126 on 2022-01-21
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 0.9121 was 6 days before
  9. Test::LWP::UserAgent - A LWP::UserAgent suitable for simulating and testing network calls
    • Version: 0.036 on 2022-01-16
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.035 was 1 day before

(cdxcvi) metacpan weekly report - Regex::Object

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

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

Build date: 2022/01/22 21:01:12 GMT


Clicked for first time:


Increasing its reputation:

(dxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-01-22 20:58:33 GMT


  1. Difference in Perl regex variable $+{name} and $-{name} - [8/1]
  2. what does this perl -ane mean in the find command of shell script? - [2/2]
  3. Extracting data from Excel XML files using perl XML::Twig handlers when tags (nodes) contain prefix - [2/1]
  4. Perl Exec/System passing parameter - [2/1]
  5. How to control logging for Mojolicious web server - [2/1]

15 ene 2022

(ccclxxv) 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. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
    • Version: 0.53 on 2022-01-15
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.52 was 4 months, 12 days before
  2. JSON - JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder
    • Version: 4.05 on 2022-01-14
    • Votes: 96
    • Previous version: 4.04 was 28 days before
  3. Net::SSLeay - Perl bindings for OpenSSL and LibreSSL
    • Version: 1.92 on 2022-01-12
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.90 was 11 months, 22 days before
  4. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.068 on 2022-01-14
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 2.019 was 3 years, 8 months, 9 days before
  5. PDL::Stats - a collection of statistics modules in Perl Data Language, with a quick-start guide for non-PDL people.
    • Version: 0.81 on 2022-01-11
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.80 was 3 months, 9 days before
  6. Redis - Perl binding for Redis database
    • Version: 1.999 on 2022-01-14
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 1.998 was 1 year, 4 months, 27 days before
  7. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9120 on 2022-01-14
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9112 was 7 days before
  8. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v8.0.0 on 2022-01-14
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v7.10.0 was 1 month, 13 days before
  9. Test::LWP::UserAgent - A LWP::UserAgent suitable for simulating and testing network calls
    • Version: 0.035 on 2022-01-15
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.034 was 1 year, 10 months, 9 days before

(cdxcv) metacpan weekly report - Crypt::Passphrase

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 56

Week's winners (+3):  Crypt::Passphrase

Build date: 2022/01/15 20:43:56 GMT


Clicked for first time:


Increasing its reputation:

(dxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-01-15 20:42:04 GMT


  1. Using Perl look-ahead assertion to find individual list - [3/1]
  2. Perl - Correcting char encoding on command line input - [2/2]
  3. Using foreach instead of map and grep in perl - [2/2]
  4. How to interrupt a read of a lexical filehandle in Perl? - [2/1]
  5. Appropriate way to return an arrayref from a sub with optional sorting in Perl version 5.20 - [2/1]

8 ene 2022

(ccclxxvi) 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. Config::Tiny - Read/Write .ini style files with as little code as possible
    • Version: 2.28 on 2022-01-04
    • Votes: 30
    • Previous version: 2.27 was 3 months, 12 days before
  2. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
    • Version: 0.076 on 2022-01-07
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 0.075 was 13 days before
  3. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
    • Version: 6.36 on 2022-01-05
    • Votes: 59
    • Previous version: 6.35 was 1 month, 24 days before
  4. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
    • Version: 2.074 on 2022-01-07
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 2.073 was 16 days before
  5. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 5.05 on 2022-01-06
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 5.04 was 28 days before
  6. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
    • Version: v3.1.14 on 2022-01-07
    • Votes: 53
    • Previous version: v3.1.12 was 9 months, 13 days before
  7. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9112 on 2022-01-07
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9103 was 7 days before
  8. Test::Differences - Test strings and data structures and show differences if not ok
    • Version: 0.69 on 2022-01-07
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.68 was 7 months, 20 days before
  9. Text::ANSITable - Create nice formatted tables using extended ASCII and ANSI colors
    • Version: 0.607 on 2022-01-05
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.606 was 4 months, 9 days before

(dxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-01-08 22:09:37 GMT


  1. Capturing group regex with grep - [3/4]
  2. Find nearest option in a Perl Hash - [3/3]
  3. Count trailing newlines with POSIX utilities or Perl - [2/5]
  4. A 'my' issue, it cannot work even in clear PL rule - [2/1]
  5. How can I get table height from PDF::Table? - [2/1]
  6. Perl wrong UTF-8 output - [2/1]
  7. Perl: Repair utf8 xml file which contains octal or hexadecimal codes - [2/1]
  8. Howto sort inline POD entries of a Perl package documentation for IMenu or a final documentation - [2/0]
  9. Perl 5 signatures: Passing multiple arrays - [1/2]
  10. How to get regex to work in a perl script? - [1/2]

1 ene 2022

(ccclxxiv) 5 great CPAN modules released last week

Not too many released, so this is a bonus material:



Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.
  1. curry - Create automatic curried method call closures for any class or object
    • Version: 2.000001 on 2021-12-30
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 1.001000 was 4 years, 6 months, 7 days before
  2. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
    • Version: 0.59 on 2022-01-01
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 0.58 was 10 months, 19 days before
  3. DBD::Oracle - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
    • Version: 1.82 on 2021-12-29
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 1.80 was 2 years, 5 months, 4 days before
  4. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9103 on 2021-12-31
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.9102 was 7 days before
  5. TheSchwartz - reliable job queue
    • Version: 1.17 on 2021-12-30
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.16 was 5 months, 14 days before

10 best perl distributions created at 2021 (metacpan rating)

This list contains distributions created at 2021

  1. Crypt::Passphrase (+9)
  2. PLS (+7)
  3. List::Keywords (+7)
  4. Syntax::Keyword::Defer (+6)
  5. Feature::Compat::Try (+6)
  6. App::perlimports (+6)
  7. CGI::Tiny (+5)
  8. Acme::ConspiracyTheory::Random (+5)
  9. XS::Parse::Keyword (+4)
  10. Text::Table::More (+4)

metacpan most voted distributions in 2021

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2021

  1. Mojolicious (+41)
  2. perl (+30)
  3. Object::Pad (+18)
  4. libwww::perl (+9)
  5. Scalar::List::Utils (+9)
  6. Path::Tiny (+9)
  7. MCE (+9)
  8. IO::Async (+9)
  9. Dancer2 (+9)
  10. Crypt::Passphrase (+9)
  11. Type::Tiny (+8)
  12. Template::Toolkit (+8)
  13. Perl::LanguageServer (+8)
  14. PDL (+8)
  15. Minion (+8)
  16. Future::AsyncAwait (+8)
  17. Yancy (+7)
  18. Perl::Critic (+7)
  19. PLS (+7)
  20. List::Keywords (+7)

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2021 group by month

20 best Perl questions at stackoverflow in 2021

This is the ten most rated questions at 2021 Stack Overflow.
Between brackets: question score & answers count
Built date: 2022/01/01 12:28:30 GMT


  1. What does 0 plus a pointer mean? - [37/2]
  2. Perl conditional (ternary) operator does no shortcut evaluation - [26/3]
  3. python regex where a set of options can occur at most once in a list, in any order - [19/8]
  4. How do I release a Perl module to CPAN? - [12/1]
  5. Why do Inline::Python functions that print fail to be redirected? - [9/2]
  6. "no autovivication" pragma fails with grep in Perl - [8/2]
  7. Try::Tiny and $SIG{__DIE__} in perl? - [8/2]
  8. Not able to run git svn command in windows - [17/2]
  9. Perl - evaluation order of list elements, with assignment inside the list - [8/1]
  10. What is the best way in Perl to iterate a loop and extract pairs or triples - [7/6]
  11. Change any number of delimiters in found pattern with sed - [7/5]
  12. Perl sorting Alpha characters in a special way - [6/3]
  13. dynamically add leading underscore to existing sub - [7/2]
  14. No error or warning for trying to print to an already closed filehandle - [7/2]
  15. Pretending an Autoloaded Function has a Block Prototype - [7/1]
  16. Mojo::UserAgent - Inspect the Content-Encoding header before decoding - [7/1]
  17. How do you catch a buggy sig die handler if the mechanism to debug code that everyone uses overrides it? - [6/1]
  18. How to code a sub with the same signature as sort or reduce in List::Util - [6/1]
  19. Find out which scripts are calling a perl package - [7/1]
  20. Return value of `ref qr/.../` - [7/1]

(dxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-01-01 12:27:08 GMT


  1. Why is 00 equal to 0 in perl? - [3/2]
  2. Cannot have plain array after removal ones in multi dimensional array - [3/1]
  3. Perl hangs up on while loop - [2/2]
  4. Running strace with a -o (redirect the trace output) parse the trace output while printing the stdout - [2/2]
  5. How can I organize data in rows and columns with Perl? - [2/0]
  6. How to protect the executable perl files from PAR::Packer? - [2/0]
  7. Execute perl script in remote server process builder in java - [2/0]
  8. Linux - Delete all lines from a given line number - [1/3]
  9. Get XSI Type from XML in Perl - [1/2]
  10. how can a script be made to run automatically every hour, such that it performs exactly as on the command line? - [1/2]