26 jun 2022

(cccxcviii) 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: 2.50 on 2022-06-23
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 2.48 was 3 months, 10 days before
  2. Encode - character encodings in Perl
    • Version: 3.18 on 2022-06-25
    • Votes: 56
    • Previous version: 3.17 was 2 months, 18 days before
  3. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.58 on 2022-06-19
    • Votes: 56
    • Previous version: 1.57 was 8 days before
  4. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
    • Version: 1.018 on 2022-06-19
    • Votes: 61
    • Previous version: 1.017 was 5 days before
  5. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
    • Version: 2.201 on 2022-06-25
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 2.106 was 2 months, 13 days before
  6. JSON - JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder
    • Version: 4.07 on 2022-06-24
    • Votes: 96
    • Previous version: 4.06 was 1 month, 2 days before
  7. JSON::PP - JSON::XS compatible pure-Perl module.
    • Version: 4.10 on 2022-06-24
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 4.09 was 1 month, 2 days before
  8. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.25 on 2022-06-24
    • Votes: 89
    • Previous version: 10.24 was 1 month, 26 days before
  9. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20220620 on 2022-06-20
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 5.20220527 was 23 days before
  10. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9612 on 2022-06-23
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9608 was 8 days before
  11. Teng - very simple DBI wrapper/ORMapper
    • Version: 0.33 on 2022-06-21
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 0.32 was 2 years, 2 months, 27 days before
  12. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.615 on 2022-06-20
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.613 was 1 year, 5 months, 11 days before

(dxii) metacpan weekly report - perl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 49

Week's winners (+3): perl 

Build date: 2022/06/25 22:32:43 GMT


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(dxl) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-06-25 22:31:06 GMT


  1. How to pass a variable from powershell to a perl script - [3/3]
  2. How to split a list in two over a condition? - [3/2]
  3. How to check system tray availability programmatically? - [3/1]
  4. Perl - How to remove mulitline numbers with a Regex - [2/2]
  5. How to print 10 lines above if specific string found in a file? - [2/2]

18 jun 2022

(cccxcvii) 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. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
    • Version: 4.30 on 2022-06-16
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 4.29 was 20 days before
  2. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.57 on 2022-06-16
    • Votes: 56
    • Previous version: 1.56 was 7 months, 19 days before
  3. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
    • Version: 6.37 on 2022-06-14
    • Votes: 61
    • Previous version: 6.36 was 5 months, 9 days before
  4. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
    • Version: 1.017 on 2022-06-14
    • Votes: 61
    • Previous version: 1.015 was 1 month, 7 days before
  5. lib::relative - Add paths relative to the current file to @INC
    • Version: 1.001 on 2022-06-15
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.000 was 3 years, 2 months, 28 days before
  6. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.67 on 2022-06-14
    • Votes: 156
    • Previous version: 6.66 was 27 days before
  7. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20220613 on 2022-06-13
    • Votes: 125
    • Previous version: 20220217 was 3 months, 26 days before
  8. Software::License - packages that provide templated software licenses
    • Version: 0.104002 on 2022-06-14
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.104001 was 10 months, 12 days before
  9. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9608 on 2022-06-15
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9605 was 8 days before
  10. Text::Table::Tiny - generate simple text tables from 2D arrays
    • Version: 1.03 on 2022-06-17
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.02 was 1 year, 9 months, 4 days before
  11. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.09 on 2022-06-14
    • Votes: 92
    • Previous version: 2.08 was 15 days before

(dxi) metacpan weekly report - Test2::Suite

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 46

Week's winner (+3): Test2::Suite

Build date: 2022/06/18 15:57:23 GMT


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(dxxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-06-18 15:48:59 GMT


  1. Closures vs. local `sub`s - [2/3]
  2. Module::Build Cache Cleanup - [2/2]
  3. Is there a map() equivalent for PDL without doing pdl( map {} unpdl)? - [2/1]
  4. Does Perl PDL have an equavelent of Math::Round::nearest()? - [2/1]
  5. DBD::Firebird encoding/decoding - [2/1]

11 jun 2022

(cccxcvi) 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. Devel::Cover - Code coverage metrics for Perl
    • Version: 1.38 on 2022-06-05
    • Votes: 100
    • Previous version: 1.36 was 2 years, 17 days before
  2. Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information
    • Version: 12.42 on 2022-06-07
    • Votes: 35
    • Previous version: 12.30 was 9 months, 26 days before
  3. Mojolicious::Plugin::Authentication - A plugin to make authentication a bit easier
    • Version: 1.39 on 2022-06-10
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 1.37 was 1 year before
  4. Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ - interact with RabbitMQ over AMQP using librabbitmq
    • Version: 2.40010 on 2022-06-11
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 2.40009 was 7 months, 19 days before
  5. Specio - Type constraints and coercions for Perl
    • Version: 0.48 on 2022-06-11
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.47 was 1 year, 4 months, 13 days before
  6. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9605 on 2022-06-09
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9601 was 8 days before
  7. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v8.4.0 on 2022-06-09
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: v8.3.0 was 1 month, 5 days before
  8. Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
    • Version: 2.06 on 2022-06-05
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 2.05 was 14 days before
  9. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.012005 on 2022-06-07
    • Votes: 130
    • Previous version: 1.012004 was 10 months, 9 days before

(dx) metacpan weekly report - Log::ger

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 60

Week's winner: Log::ger (+3)

Build date: 2022/06/11 19:54:37 GMT


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(dxxxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-06-11 19:28:03 GMT


  1. Perl calls using system abruptly start failing - [4/2]
  2. extract text between the two blocks using regex - [3/4]
  3. Can you tie() a filehandle without a bareword glob? - [3/1]
  4. Is there a way to match all adjacent words in a sentence? - [2/3]
  5. How Mojolicious modifies Perl syntax - [2/1]

4 jun 2022

(cccxcv) 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::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.052007 on 2022-06-03
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.052006 was 17 days before
  2. Catalyst::Plugin::Session - Generic Session plugin - ties together server side storage and client side state required to maintain session data.
    • Version: 0.43 on 2022-06-03
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.40 was 7 years, 4 months, 7 days before
  3. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
    • Version: 6.88 on 2022-06-02
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 6.86 was 6 months, 17 days before
  4. Email::Valid - Check validity of Internet email addresses
    • Version: 1.203 on 2022-05-29
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 1.202 was 5 years, 8 months, 3 days before
  5. Log::Log4perl - Log4j implementation for Perl
    • Version: 1.55 on 2022-06-01
    • Votes: 92
    • Previous version: 1.54 was 1 year, 3 months, 23 days before
  6. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
    • Version: v3.1.19 on 2022-06-03
    • Votes: 54
    • Previous version: v3.1.18 was 24 days before
  7. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.34 on 2022-05-30
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 1.33 was 5 months, 14 days before
  8. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.8005 on 2022-06-01
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 3.8004 was 2 months, 25 days before
  9. OpenAPI::Client - A client for talking to an Open API powered server
    • Version: 1.04 on 2022-06-03
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.03 was 8 months, 1 day before
  10. Paws - A Perl SDK for AWS (Amazon Web Services) APIs
    • Version: 0.45 on 2022-06-01
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 0.44 was 10 months, 18 days before
  11. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9601 on 2022-06-01
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.96 was 6 days before
  12. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.08 on 2022-05-30
    • Votes: 91
    • Previous version: 2.07 was 1 month, 1 day before

(dix) metacpan weekly report - Getopt::App

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 50

Week's winner (+3):  Getopt::App

Build date: 2022/06/04 19:42:03 GMT


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(dxxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-06-04 19:38:11 GMT


  1. How do I copy list elements to hash keys in perl? - [5/4]
  2. Check Array and Hash is Empty or Not - [4/2]
  3. Perl for loop iteration in batch - [3/4]
  4. Perl: undef element in array - [3/1]
  5. Perl: compare current time to a specific time to - [2/1]