26 mar 2022

(ccclxxxv) 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. Catmandu - a data toolkit
    • Version: 1.2019 on 2022-03-21
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.2018 was 12 days before
  2. GraphQL - Perl implementation of GraphQL
    • Version: 0.54 on 2022-03-24
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.53 was 2 months, 9 days before
  3. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 5.08 on 2022-03-25
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 5.05 was 2 months, 19 days before
  4. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20220320 on 2022-03-20
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 5.20220313 was 5 days before
  5. Mojo::SQLite - A tiny Mojolicious wrapper for SQLite
    • Version: 3.009 on 2022-03-23
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 3.008 was 3 months, 25 days before
  6. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.23 on 2022-03-25
    • Votes: 468
    • Previous version: 9.22 was 5 months, 4 days before
  7. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 5.05 on 2022-03-25
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 5.02 was 4 months, 4 days before
  8. POE - Portable, event-loop agnostic eventy networking and multitasking.
    • Version: 1.370 on 2022-03-23
    • Votes: 51
    • Previous version: 1.368 was 2 years, 1 month, 21 days before
  9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9509 on 2022-03-23
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.9508 was 19 days before
  10. ZMQ::FFI - version agnostic Perl bindings for zeromq using ffi
    • Version: 1.18 on 2022-03-21
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 1.17 was 3 years, 7 days before

(d) metacpan weekly report - Starman

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 71

Week's winner: Starman (+2)

Build date: 2022/03/26 14:42:21 GMT


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(dxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-03-26 14:41:23 GMT


  1. Where is the uninitialized value in the compare function? - [4/1]
  2. Getting individual key values from Perl JSON one at a time - [3/2]
  3. How can I shorten a [ qw( ... ) ] construct in Perl? - [3/2]
  4. Perl 5.34.0 regular expression for word matching language Hebrew - [3/1]
  5. Regex does not match in Perl, while it does in other programs - [2/2]

19 mar 2022

(ccclxxxiv) 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: 2.48 on 2022-03-13
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 2.47 was 6 days before
  2. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
    • Version: 0.400000 on 2022-03-14
    • Votes: 127
    • Previous version: 0.301004 was 9 months, 8 days before
  3. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
    • Version: 2.52 on 2022-03-17
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.51 was 4 months, 26 days before
  4. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.57 on 2022-03-16
    • Votes: 42
    • Previous version: 0.56 was 1 month, 21 days before
  5. HTML::Parser - HTML parser class
    • Version: 3.77 on 2022-03-14
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 3.76 was 1 year, 10 days before
  6. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
    • Version: v3.1.16 on 2022-03-13
    • Votes: 54
    • Previous version: v3.1.15 was 1 month, 13 days before
  7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20220313 on 2022-03-15
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 5.20220220 was 23 days before
  8. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
    • Version: 4.27 on 2022-03-15
    • Votes: 68
    • Previous version: 4.26 was 6 months, 7 days before
  9. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.077 on 2022-03-16
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 2.076 was 19 days before
  10. utf8 - The Perl 5 language interpreter
    • Version: 5.034001 on 2022-03-13
    • Votes: 388
    • Previous version: 5.34.0 was 9 months, 24 days before
  11. PerlX::Maybe - return a pair only if they are both defined
    • Version: 1.202 on 2022-03-14
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 1.201 was 3 years, 3 months, 19 days before
  12. Sub::Util - Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
    • Version: 1.62 on 2022-03-17
    • Votes: 158
    • Previous version: 1.61 was 1 month, 1 day before

(dxxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-03-19 21:10:57 GMT


  1. How To Set ChromeOptions (or goog:ChromeOptions) for Selenium::Chrome in Perl - [3/1]
  2. Why does grep not work when searching array for value if the value has a special character? - [2/2]
  3. Template in Mojolicious controller not found - [2/1]
  4. How to create a circular linked list in Perl without using arrays? - [2/1]
  5. Perl backticks subprocess is causing EOF on STDIN - [2/1]

12 mar 2022

(ccclxxxiii) 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.47 on 2022-03-07
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 2.47 was before
  2. Catmandu - a data toolkit
    • Version: 1.2018 on 2022-03-09
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.2016 was 5 months, 22 days before
  3. Data::MessagePack - MessagePack serializing/deserializing
    • Version: 1.02 on 2022-03-11
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.01 was 1 year, 11 months, 25 days before
  4. Git::CPAN::Patch - Patch CPAN modules using Git
    • Version: 2.5.0 on 2022-03-06
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.4.0 was 5 months, 17 days before
  5. Net::OpenSSH - Perl SSH client package implemented on top of OpenSSH
    • Version: 0.82 on 2022-03-05
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 0.82 was before
  6. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.8004 on 2022-03-07
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 3.8003 was 2 days before
  7. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.63 on 2022-03-07
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 0.62 was 6 days before
  8. YAML::PP - YAML 1.2 Processor
    • Version: 0.032 on 2022-03-08
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.031 was 2 months, 14 days before

(dxxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-03-12 14:53:45 GMT


  1. Why is a bareword following the concatenation operator a string in Perl? - [4/1]
  2. __FILE__ in perl returns paths without disk letter in visual studio code powershell - [2/2]
  3. Perl Tk Formatting Text in a button - [2/1]
  4. Perl XS: create and return array of strings (char*) taken from calling a C function or undef on failure - [2/1]
  5. While executing the following snippet. I could see an error Global symbol "$colors" requires explicit package name. Key and value has to be printed - [2/1]

5 mar 2022

(ccclxxxii) 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. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
    • Version: 0.997009 on 2022-03-01
    • Votes: 57
    • Previous version: 0.997007 was 5 months, 8 days before
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.052002 on 2022-02-28
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.052001 was 27 days before
  3. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
    • Version: 1.57 on 2022-03-03
    • Votes: 204
    • Previous version: 1.55 was 2 months, 11 days before
  4. HTTP::Daemon - A simple http server class
    • Version: 6.14 on 2022-03-03
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 6.13 was 22 days before
  5. Inline::C - C Language Support for Inline
    • Version: 0.82 on 2022-03-02
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 0.81 was 2 years, 9 months, 22 days before
  6. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.8003 on 2022-03-05
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 3.8002 was 2 months, 30 days before
  7. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.62 on 2022-03-01
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 0.61 was 13 days before
  8. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.9508 on 2022-03-04
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.9507 was 8 days before
  9. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v8.1.0 on 2022-03-01
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v8.0.0 was 1 month, 18 days before
  10. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302190 on 2022-03-04
    • Votes: 173
    • Previous version: 1.302189 was 7 days before
  11. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000145 on 2022-03-04
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 0.000144 was 3 months, 1 day before

(cdxcix) metacpan weekly report - CGI::Tiny

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 58

Week's winners (+3): CGI::Tiny 

Build date: 2022/03/05 19:35:32 GMT


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(dxxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-03-05 19:34:00 GMT


  1. Perl (... (*ACCEPT) ...)+ never matches - [4/1]
  2. Import symbols from package defined in the same file - [3/1]
  3. Is there any function in Perl that shifts the array element without removing them? - [2/4]
  4. Refer to a subroutine with a scalar - [2/2]
  5. How can I print only a specific format name in a Perl POD? - [2/2]