30 jul 2022

(cdiii) 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::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.052010 on 2022-07-27
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.052008 was 15 days before
  2. Devel::CheckOS - require that we are running on a particular OS
    • Version: 1.94 on 2022-07-24
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.93 was 2 months, 29 days before
  3. HTTP::Tiny - A small, simple, correct HTTP/1.1 client
    • Version: 0.082 on 2022-07-25
    • Votes: 103
    • Previous version: 0.080 was 8 months, 20 days before
  4. Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
    • Version: 1.08 on 2022-07-28
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 1.05 was 5 days before
  5. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
    • Version: 7.717 on 2022-07-28
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 7.715 was 9 months, 8 days before
  6. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 4.025 on 2022-07-28
    • Votes: 59
    • Previous version: 4.023 was 5 months, 8 days before
  7. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 4.025 on 2022-07-28
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 4.023 was 5 months, 8 days before
  8. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 4.025 on 2022-07-28
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 4.023 was 5 months, 8 days before
  9. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9630 on 2022-07-29
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9627 was 7 days before
  10. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.016006 on 2022-07-25
    • Votes: 131
    • Previous version: 1.016005 was 2 days before
  11. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.13 on 2022-07-29
    • Votes: 93
    • Previous version: 2.12 was 9 days before

(dxvii) metacpan weekly report - Storable::Improved

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 41

Week's winner (+3): Storable::Improved 

Build date: 2022/07/30 19:39:07 GMT


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(dxlv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-07-30 19:36:39 GMT


  1. Perl regex capture groups and reshuffle pattern - [3/3]
  2. Can't install some POE perl module in Strawberry Perl - [3/0]
  3. Replace newline if condition is met in next line in text file with linux command line tools - [2/3]
  4. Calculate the difference between two dates as years-and-days but without months? - [2/1]
  5. Perl 5 : assignment of an anonymous arrayref, where the array is still empty = copy-construction? - [2/1]

23 jul 2022

(cdii) 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. Catalyst::Runtime - The Catalyst Framework Runtime
    • Version: 5.90129 on 2022-07-23
    • Votes: 150
    • Previous version: 5.90128 was 1 year, 10 months, 12 days before
  2. DBIx::DataModel - UML-based Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework
    • Version: 3.03 on 2022-07-23
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 3.01 was 1 year, 5 months, 21 days before
  3. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
    • Version: 2.67 on 2022-07-21
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.66 was 1 year, 5 months before
  4. Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
    • Version: 1.04 on 2022-07-22
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 1.03 was 10 years, 3 months before
  5. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20220720 on 2022-07-21
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 5.20220620 was 1 month, 1 day before
  6. Pithub - Github v3 API
    • Version: 0.01037 on 2022-07-20
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.01036 was 1 year, 5 months, 12 days before
  7. PPI - Parse, Analyze and Manipulate Perl (without perl)
    • Version: 1.276 on 2022-07-19
    • Votes: 56
    • Previous version: 1.274 was 2 months, 17 days before
  8. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9627 on 2022-07-22
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9623 was 7 days before
  9. SQL::Abstract::More - extension of SQL::Abstract with more constructs and more flexible API
    • Version: 1.39 on 2022-07-22
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.38 was 3 months, 19 days before
  10. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.016005 on 2022-07-23
    • Votes: 131
    • Previous version: 1.014000 was 26 days before
  11. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.12 on 2022-07-20
    • Votes: 93
    • Previous version: 2.10 was 16 days before
  12. Zydeco - Jazz up your Perl
    • Version: 0.616 on 2022-07-19
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.615 was 29 days before

(dxvi) metacpan weekly report - Perl::Critic

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

Week's winner: Perl::Critic (+2)

Build date: 2022/07/23 17:38:39 GMT


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(dxliv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-07-23 17:37:14 GMT


  1. Why is the "lazy_build" feature in Moose discouraged? - [4/1]
  2. Is there a way to execute a file and one line of program in perl? - [2/2]
  3. Moose - Retain the original value of an attribute in a second attribute - [2/2]
  4. Calculate next business date by adding hours to a date now in perl - [2/1]
  5. Perl upload dies when the file is compressed - [2/1]

16 jul 2022

(cdi) 3 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: 2.052008 on 2022-07-12
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.052007 was 1 month, 9 days before
  2. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9623 on 2022-07-15
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9620 was 7 days before
  3. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.12 on 2022-07-10
    • Votes: 105
    • Previous version: 5.10 was 8 months, 16 days before

(dxv) metacpan weekly report - Object::Pad

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

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

Build date: 2022/07/16 20:17:18 GMT


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(dxliii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-07-16 20:13:45 GMT


  1. How to generate a XML tag without tail "/"? - [3/1]
  2. How to add newline for each XML output? - [2/2]
  3. How to add Child and Grandchild XML tags by XML::LibXML? - [2/1]
  4. Add optional Parameter to Prototype - [2/1]
  5. How do I add new lines after deleting a large amount of text in Perl windows? - [2/1]

9 jul 2022

(cd) 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. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
    • Version: 1.019 on 2022-07-09
    • Votes: 61
    • Previous version: 1.018 was 20 days before
  2. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
    • Version: 0.51 on 2022-07-08
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 0.50 was 4 months, 21 days before
  3. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.66 on 2022-07-06
    • Votes: 28
    • Previous version: 0.65 was 1 month, 27 days before
  4. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
    • Version: 1.055 on 2022-07-03
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 1.054 was 5 months, 7 days before
  5. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9620 on 2022-07-08
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9616 was 7 days before
  6. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v8.5.0 on 2022-07-04
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: v8.4.0 was 25 days before
  7. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302191 on 2022-07-09
    • Votes: 177
    • Previous version: 1.302190 was 4 months, 5 days before
  8. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000125 on 2022-07-09
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.000124 was 3 months, 1 day before
  9. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.11 on 2022-07-04
    • Votes: 105
    • Previous version: 5.10 was 8 months, 10 days before
  10. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.10 on 2022-07-04
    • Votes: 93
    • Previous version: 2.09 was 20 days before

(dxiv) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 41

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2022/07/09 18:38:35 GMT


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(dxlii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-07-09 18:37:22 GMT


  1. How to rewrite uses of given/when so to eliminate "experimental" warnings for their use - [4/2]
  2. `last` while reading file from external command crashes perl - [4/1]
  3. Difference between PDL::Core and PDL::Core ':Internal' - [3/2]
  4. Best practice for accessing data in PDL objects - [3/2]
  5. Perl not subtituting strings with newline - [2/1]

2 jul 2022

(cccxcix) 6 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::ImageMagick - cpanm compatible Image::Magick packaging.
    • Version: 0.09 on 2022-06-28
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.08 was 1 year, 2 months, 16 days before
  2. App::revealup - HTTP Server application for viewing Markdown formatted text as slides
    • Version: 0.23 on 2022-06-29
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.22 was 2 years, 4 months, 23 days before
  3. Marpa::R2 - Release 2 of Marpa
    • Version: 10.000000 on 2022-06-29
    • Votes: 48
    • Previous version: 8.000000 was 3 years, 6 months, 12 days before
  4. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9616 on 2022-07-01
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9612 was 8 days before
  5. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.014000 on 2022-06-27
    • Votes: 131
    • Previous version: 1.012005 was 20 days before
  6. YAML::PP - YAML 1.2 Processor
    • Version: 0.034 on 2022-06-30
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.032 was 3 months, 22 days before

(dxiii) metacpan weekly report - HTML::Tree

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 55

Week's winner (+3): HTML::Tree

Build date: 2022/07/02 14:54:38 GMT


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  • HTTP::Promise - Asynchronous HTTP Request and Promise
  • Lingua::Translate - Translate text from one language to another
  • Syntax::Operator::In - placeholder module for infix element-of-list meta-operator
  • Util::H2O::More - like if bless created accessors for you. Intended for hash reference-based Perl OOP only. This module uses Util::H2O::h2o as the basis for actual object creation; but there's no reason other accessor makers couldn't have been used or can be used. I just really like h2o. :-)
  • WordList::Password::10Million::Top100000 - Top 100,000 passwords from 10_million_password_list

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(dxli) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-07-02 14:42:01 GMT


  1. Is Perl slower when compiled with DDEBUGGING? - [5/1]
  2. Perl Moose, How to initialize a instance attribute that is Hash - [4/1]
  3. How to debug DBIx::Class? - [3/2]
  4. 2D Array Printing as Reference - [3/1]
  5. Can't use an array as a reference when installing perl module - [2/1]