27 nov 2022

(cdxx) 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.73 on 2022-11-20
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 2.72 was 25 days before
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.059001 on 2022-11-26
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.058003 was 22 days before
  3. DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader - Create a DBIx::Class::Schema based on a database
    • Version: 0.07051 on 2022-11-23
    • Votes: 45
    • Previous version: 0.07049 was 4 years, 8 months, 2 days before
  4. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
    • Version: 6.029 on 2022-11-25
    • Votes: 178
    • Previous version: 6.028 was 16 days before
  5. Exporter::Tiny - an exporter with the features of Sub::Exporter but only core dependencies
    • Version: 1.006000 on 2022-11-21
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.004004 was 1 month, 6 days before
  6. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.61 on 2022-11-21
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 0.59 was 1 month, 28 days before
  7. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
    • Version: 2.077 on 2022-11-21
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 2.076 was 7 days before
  8. Log::Any - Bringing loggers and listeners together
    • Version: 1.711 on 2022-11-22
    • Votes: 60
    • Previous version: 1.710 was 1 year, 3 months, 20 days before
  9. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20221120 on 2022-11-20
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 5.20221020 was 1 month before
  10. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.30 on 2022-11-23
    • Votes: 475
    • Previous version: 9.29 was 12 days before
  11. Pod::Man - Convert POD data to various other formats
    • Version: 5.00 on 2022-11-25
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 4.14 was 2 years, 10 months, 21 days before

(dxxxiii) metacpan weekly report - Perl::Critic

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 42

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

Build date: 2022/11/27 07:55:57 GMT


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(dlxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2022-11-27 07:54:48 GMT


  1. perldoc does not display text between section - [2/2]
  2. How to access multiple option values from hash specification - [2/1]
  3. Perl :: Can You Have a Lists of Objects Within a Hash? - [2/1]
  4. How to Bless Objects in a List Passed to a Subroutine? - [2/1]
  5. Restore pack value from hex string - [2/1]

19 nov 2022

(cdxix) 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. Code::TidyAll - Engine for tidyall, your all-in-one code tidier and validator
    • Version: 0.83 on 2022-11-19
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 0.82 was 7 months, 4 days before
  2. Devel::NYTProf - Powerful fast feature-rich Perl source code profiler
    • Version: 6.12 on 2022-11-16
    • Votes: 180
    • Previous version: 6.11 was 1 year, 1 month, 27 days before
  3. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 2.05 on 2022-11-16
    • Votes: 58
    • Previous version: 2.04 was 11 days before
  4. Getopt::Long - Module to handle parsing command line options
    • Version: 2.54 on 2022-11-17
    • Votes: 114
    • Previous version: 2.52 was 2 years, 2 months, 30 days before
  5. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
    • Version: 2.076 on 2022-11-14
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 2.075 was 2 months, 12 days before
  6. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
    • Version: v3.1.20 on 2022-11-13
    • Votes: 58
    • Previous version: v3.1.19 was 5 months, 10 days before
  7. Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format
    • Version: 20221114 on 2022-11-14
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 20211001 was 1 year, 1 month, 13 days before
  8. PDF::API2 - Create, modify, and examine PDF files
    • Version: 2.044 on 2022-11-16
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 2.043 was 11 months, 8 days before
  9. Perl::LanguageServer - Language Server and Debug Protocol Adapter for Perl
    • Version: v2.4.0 on 2022-11-18
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 2.3.0 was 1 year, 1 month, 22 days before
  10. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9662 on 2022-11-15
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9659 was 18 days before

(dxxxii) metacpan weekly report - Perl::Dist::APPerl

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

Week's winner (+3): Perl::Dist::APPerl

Build date: 2022/11/19 22:16:45 GMT


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(dlx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2022-11-19 22:15:27 GMT


  1. How do I define a subclass in Perl when I'm using a closure to limit access to the properties? - [3/1]
  2. In Perl, are user-provided format specifiers always safe? - [3/1]
  3. Split() on newline AND space characters? - [2/3]
  4. Does Python have a maximum group refer for regex (like Perl)? - [2/2]
  5. How to extract coding between two tags using RegEx in perlscript - [2/1]

12 nov 2022

(cdxviii) 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. Catalyst::Runtime - The Catalyst Framework Runtime
    • Version: 5.90130 on 2022-11-09
    • Votes: 152
    • Previous version: 5.90129 was 3 months, 17 days before
  2. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
    • Version: 6.028 on 2022-11-09
    • Votes: 178
    • Previous version: 6.025 was 5 months, 12 days before
  3. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
    • Version: 1.32 on 2022-11-08
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.77 was 3 years, 4 months, 1 day before
  4. Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information
    • Version: 12.50 on 2022-11-09
    • Votes: 38
    • Previous version: 12.42 was 5 months, 2 days before
  5. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.29 on 2022-11-11
    • Votes: 475
    • Previous version: 9.28 was 28 days before
  6. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.142 on 2022-11-09
    • Votes: 171
    • Previous version: 0.130 was 20 days before
  7. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20221112 on 2022-11-11
    • Votes: 129
    • Previous version: 20220613 was 4 months, 28 days before
  8. Term::ReadLine::Gnu - Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library
    • Version: 1.44 on 2022-11-06
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 1.43 was 1 month, 5 days before

(dxxxi) metacpan weekly report - Getopt::Long

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 37

Week's winners (+3): Getopt::Long

Build date: 2022/11/12 22:47:36 GMT


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  • App::BatParser - Parse DOS .bat and .cmd files
  • Data::XLSX::Parser - faster XLSX parser
  • Nginx::Log::Entry - This class represents a single line from the Nginx combined access log (the default access log format). It provides methods to extract information from the log entry, such as the browser, operating system, request type, ip address and more. If you want to gather statistics about an Nginx log, consider using Nginx::Log::Statistics which uses this class.
  • OpenSSH::Fingerprint - The great new OpenSSH::Fingerprint!
  • Porbo - Porbo HTTP development psgi server
  • Quiq - Class library for rapid development
  • Wx::WidgetMaker - a CGI.pm-like library for wxPerl

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(dlix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2022-11-12 22:46:27 GMT


  1. How to spawn pre-loaded mojolicious applications from a mojolicious application? - [4/1]
  2. How to escape a regular expression when I include it in another regular expression? - [3/1]
  3. Explaining perl split with backslash in string pattern - [2/2]
  4. How to insert an element into array shifting all others right? - [2/2]
  5. Tagging words in a corpus - [2/2]

5 nov 2022

(cdxvii) 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. Amon2 - lightweight web application framework
    • Version: 6.16 on 2022-11-01
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 6.15 was 1 year, 11 months, 22 days before
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.058003 on 2022-11-04
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.057008 was 17 days before
  3. DBD::SQLite - Self Contained SQLite RDBMS in a DBI Driver
    • Version: 1.72 on 2022-11-03
    • Votes: 97
    • Previous version: 1.70 was 1 year, 3 months, 2 days before
  4. DBIx::DataModel - UML-based Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework
    • Version: 3.04 on 2022-11-05
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 3.03 was 3 months, 13 days before
  5. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 2.04 on 2022-11-05
    • Votes: 58
    • Previous version: 2.03 was 8 days before
  6. HTML::Parser - HTML parser class
    • Version: 3.80 on 2022-11-01
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 3.79 was 20 days before
  7. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.71 on 2022-11-01
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 0.70 was 3 days before
  8. SQL::Maker - Yet another SQL builder
    • Version: 1.22 on 2022-11-01
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.21 was 7 years, 10 months, 10 days before
  9. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v8.9.0 on 2022-11-03
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: v8.8.0 was 29 days before
  10. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.83 on 2022-10-30
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.82 was 1 year, 2 months, 7 days before
  11. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.17 on 2022-11-02
    • Votes: 107
    • Previous version: 5.16 was 21 days before

(dxxx) metacpan weekly report - pEFL

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 24

Week's winner: pEFL (+3)

Build date: 2022/11/05 21:10:10 GMT


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(dlviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2022-11-05 21:04:45 GMT


  1. Do all my perl module .pm files need a `$VERSION` definition? - [5/2]
  2. Suppressing output after SSH to another server - [2/2]
  3. Cannot get multi-line regex to match string - [2/2]
  4. Can mojolicious output the prepared sql query? - [2/1]
  5. How to find if an array has a value not found in list - [2/1]