17 sept 2023

(cdlxi) 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. CBOR::XS - Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR, RFC7049)
    • Version: 1.87 on 2023-09-10, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.86 was 1 year, 10 months, 6 days before
    • Author: MLEHMANN
  2. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
    • Version: 1.889 on 2023-09-13, with 102 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.888 was 2 months, 22 days before
    • Author: MARIOROY
  3. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
    • Version: 1.886 on 2023-09-13, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.885 was 3 months, 4 days before
    • Author: MARIOROY
  4. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 1.002 on 2023-09-11, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.001 was 11 months, 6 days before
    • Author: PREACTION
  5. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.34 on 2023-09-11, with 490 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 9.33 was 2 months, 27 days before
    • Author: SRI
  6. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20230912 on 2023-09-12, with 136 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20230909 was 4 days before
    • Author: SHANCOCK
  7. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989042 on 2023-09-14, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989041 was 5 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  8. Starman - High-performance preforking PSGI/Plack web server
    • Version: 0.4017 on 2023-09-13, with 114 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.4016 was 1 year before
    • Author: MIYAGAWA
  9. Teng - very simple DBI wrapper/ORMapper
    • Version: 0.34 on 2023-09-14, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.33 was 1 year, 2 months, 23 days before
    • Author: ANATOFUZ
  10. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000156 on 2023-09-13, with 44 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.000155 was 4 months, 15 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
  11. version - Structured version objects
    • Version: 0.9930 on 2023-09-11, with 21 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.9929 was 2 years, 4 months, 25 days before
    • Author: LEONT

(dxciv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-09-17 06:42:34 GMT


  1. Why are "1...2" and "1....2" not syntax errors? - [18/2]
  2. What is the difference between $var[1] and @var[1]? - [4/2]
  3. How does one consistently set rpath on a dynamic library and compile time? - [3/1]
  4. Reverse dump of a compact string into variable in Perl - [2/2]
  5. CGI::param called in list context and Undefined subroutine &CGI::Plus::randword called errors - [2/2]

9 sept 2023

(cdlx) 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: 2.065002 on 2023-09-03, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.065001 was 21 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
  2. CPAN::Mini - create a minimal mirror of CPAN
    • Version: 1.111017 on 2023-09-03, with 42 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.111016 was 9 years, 26 days before
    • Author: RJBS
  3. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
    • Version: 1.44 on 2023-09-03, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.77 was 4 years, 1 month, 27 days before
    • Author: DDICK
  4. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.66 on 2023-09-08, with 47 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.65 was 5 months, 22 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
  5. HTTP::BrowserDetect - Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
    • Version: 3.39 on 2023-09-08, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.38 was 6 months, 5 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
  6. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 4.0000 on 2023-09-03, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.9002 was 2 months, 19 days before
    • Author: DCANTRELL
  7. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20230909 on 2023-09-08, with 136 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20230701 was 2 months, 7 days before
    • Author: SHANCOCK
  8. Prima - a Perl graphic toolkit
    • Version: 1.70 on 2023-09-03, with 43 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.69 was 3 months, 4 days before
    • Author: KARASIK
  9. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989041 on 2023-09-09, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989038 was 11 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  10. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v9.7.0 on 2023-09-07, with 17 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v9.4.0 was 3 months, 5 days before
    • Author: DANBERR
  11. Tickit - Terminal Interface Construction KIT
    • Version: 0.74 on 2023-09-04, with 27 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.73 was 1 year, 9 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
  12. Web::Query - Yet another scraping library like jQuery
    • Version: 1.00 on 2023-09-06, with 30 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.39 was 5 years, 16 days before
    • Author: YANICK

(dlxvi) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 78

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+3)

Build date: 2023/09/09 20:34:42 GMT


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(dxcii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-09-09 20:30:45 GMT


  1. Perl's "Package::->method()" (colon-colon-arrow) notation - [5/1]
  2. Randomize txt file in Linux but guarantee no repetition of lines - [4/7]
  3. multi-line string substitution only if group matches - [3/1]
  4. Pod link L<Module::Subfile> does not link to lib/Module/Subfile.pod - [3/1]
  5. How to protect Perl program from abort() call in a module? - [3/0]

2 sept 2023

(cdlix) 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. DBM::Deep - A pure perl multi-level hash/array DBM that supports transactions
    • Version: 2.0017 on 2023-09-01, with 27 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.0016 was 5 years, 3 months, 12 days before
    • Author: DCANTRELL
  2. Glib - Perl wrappers for the GLib utility and Object libraries
    • Version: 1.3294 on 2023-08-28, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.3293 was 3 years, 2 months, 22 days before
    • Author: XAOC
  3. Glib::Object::Introspection - Dynamically create Perl language bindings
    • Version: 0.051 on 2023-08-28, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.050 was 5 months, 1 day before
    • Author: XAOC
  4. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.40 on 2023-08-30, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.39 was 2 months, 29 days before
    • Author: NLNETLABS
  5. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.038 on 2023-08-27, with 37 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.037 was 27 days before
    • Author: BDFOY
  6. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989038 on 2023-08-29, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989035 was 13 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO

26 ago 2023

(cdlviii) 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. App::Cmd - write command line apps with less suffering
    • Version: 0.336 on 2023-08-26, with 47 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.335 was 7 months, 26 days before
    • Author: RJBS
  2. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
    • Version: 2.340 on 2023-08-26, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.339 was 6 days before
    • Author: KUERBIS
  3. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
    • Version: 3.17.0 on 2023-08-24, with 93 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.16.3 was 4 months, 20 days before
    • Author: TURNSTEP
  4. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20230820 on 2023-08-20, with 43 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20230820 was before
    • Author: BINGOS
  5. Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format
    • Version: 20230821 on 2023-08-21, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20230807 was 14 days before
    • Author: LWP
  6. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.802 on 2023-08-22, with 40 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.801 was 12 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
  7. Pithub - Github v3 API
    • Version: 0.01041 on 2023-08-24, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.01040 was 11 months, 1 day before
    • Author: OALDERS
  8. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.21 on 2023-08-23, with 110 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.19 was 3 months, 23 days before
    • Author: OALDERS

(dxci) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-08-26 20:42:31 GMT


  1. Why can't I use quotes in perl tr/// expressions? - [4/2]
  2. What is the most efficient file modification method? Adding many lines to the same file, or reading in, processing, and writing out the file? - [3/1]
  3. perlcritic: "require" statement with library name as string Use a bareword instead - [1/3]
  4. Is there a `use` equivalent of `-T` (taint) used in shebang? - [1/1]
  5. perl process inlude files recursively - [1/1]

20 ago 2023

(cdlvii) 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. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
    • Version: 2.339 on 2023-08-20, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.337 was 12 days before
    • Author: KUERBIS
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.065001 on 2023-08-13, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.064001 was 19 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
  3. App::perlimports - Make implicit imports explicit
    • Version: 0.000052 on 2023-08-19, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.000051 was 2 months, 18 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
  4. Log::Any - Bringing loggers and listeners together
    • Version: 1.717 on 2023-08-17, with 61 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.716 was 1 month, 21 days before
    • Author: PREACTION
  5. ORLite - Extremely light weight SQLite-specific ORM
    • Version: 2.00 on 2023-08-19, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.98 was 10 years, 10 months, 19 days before
    • Author: ETHER
  6. perlfaq - Frequently asked questions about Perl
    • Version: 5.20230812 on 2023-08-12, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20230701 was 1 month, 11 days before
    • Author: ETHER
  7. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989035 on 2023-08-16, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989033 was 8 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  8. Test::Harness - contributing to TAP::Harness
    • Version: 3.47 on 2023-08-13, with 61 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.46 was 6 days before
    • Author: LEONT

(dlxv) metacpan weekly report - Scalar::Util

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 76

Week's winner (+4): Scalar::Utils 

Build date: 2023/08/20 09:21:21 GMT


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(dxc) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-08-20 09:20:16 GMT


  1. Perl Mojolicious: limit concurrency with all_settled - [4/1]
  2. How to use search and replace from second occurrence - [1/6]
  3. docker build fails when running cpanm - [1/3]
  4. Calling a Perl function from a module from CLI - [1/2]
  5. Convert a date stamp with hour from edt to gmt using datetime module - [1/1]

12 ago 2023

(cdlvi) 13 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: 0.997014 on 2023-08-11, with 68 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.997013 was 6 days before
    • Author: SKAJI
  2. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
    • Version: 2.337 on 2023-08-08, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.336 was 13 days before
    • Author: KUERBIS
  3. App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
    • Version: 0.98 on 2023-08-11, with 174 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.97 was 2 months, 30 days before
    • Author: GUGOD
  4. Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format
    • Version: 20230807 on 2023-08-07, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20230801 was 6 days before
    • Author: LWP
  5. Net::SSH::Perl - Perl client Interface to SSH
    • Version: 2.142 on 2023-08-07, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.141 was 13 days before
    • Author: BDFOY
  6. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.801 on 2023-08-10, with 39 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.79 was 3 months, 1 day before
    • Author: PEVANS
  7. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.14.3 on 2023-08-05, with 84 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.14.3 was before
    • Author: FERKI
  8. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989033 on 2023-08-08, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989032 was 4 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  9. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.86 on 2023-08-11, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.84 was 18 days before
    • Author: EHUELS
  10. Test::Harness - contributing to TAP::Harness
    • Version: 3.46 on 2023-08-07, with 60 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.44 was 1 year, 3 months, 20 days before
    • Author: LEONT
  11. Text::CSV - comma-separated values manipulator (using XS or PurePerl)
    • Version: 2.03 on 2023-08-11, with 76 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.02 was 1 year, 4 days before
    • Author: ISHIGAKI
  12. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.51 on 2023-08-07, with 97 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.50 was 5 months, 6 days before
    • Author: HMBRAND
  13. Text::MultiMarkdown - Convert MultiMarkdown syntax to (X)HTML
    • Version: 1.001 on 2023-08-08, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000035 was 9 years, 20 days before
    • Author: BDFOY

(dlxiv) metacpan weekly report - Syntax::Keyword::Match

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

Week's winner (+3): Syntax::Keyword::Match

Build date: 2023/08/12 16:19:09 GMT


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5 ago 2023

(cdlv) 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::cpanminus - get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN
    • Version: 1.7047 on 2023-07-30, with 277 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.7046 was 1 year, 3 months, 3 days before
    • Author: MIYAGAWA
  2. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
    • Version: 0.997013 on 2023-08-05, with 68 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.997012 was 28 days before
    • Author: SKAJI
  3. App::Sqitch - Sensible database change management
    • Version: v1.4.0 on 2023-08-01, with 43 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v1.3.1 was 10 months before
    • Author: DWHEELER
  4. Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Schema - DBIx::Class::Schema Model Class
    • Version: 0.66 on 2023-07-30, with 17 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.65 was 8 years, 10 months, 26 days before
    • Author: HAARG
  5. Data::Printer - colored & full-featured pretty print of Perl data structures and objects
    • Version: 1.001001 on 2023-07-30, with 147 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.001000 was 7 months, 8 days before
    • Author: GARU
  6. DateTime::Format::MySQL - Parse and format MySQL dates and times
    • Version: 0.08 on 2023-08-01, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.0701 was 2 years, 2 months, 10 days before
    • Author: XMIKEW
  7. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
    • Version: 1.43 on 2023-08-05, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.41 was 13 days before
    • Author: DDICK
  8. Module::ScanDeps - Recursively scan Perl code for dependencies
    • Version: 1.33 on 2023-08-04, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.32 was 30 days before
    • Author: RSCHUPP
  9. Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format
    • Version: 20230801 on 2023-08-01, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20221114 was 8 months, 17 days before
    • Author: LWP
  10. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.037 on 2023-07-31, with 37 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.036 was 9 days before
    • Author: BDFOY
  11. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989032 on 2023-08-04, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989030 was 7 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  12. ZMQ::FFI - version agnostic Perl bindings for zeromq using ffi
    • Version: 1.19 on 2023-08-04, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.18 was 1 year, 4 months, 14 days before
    • Author: GHENRY

(dlxxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-08-05 18:57:29 GMT


  1. Is it possible to execute code before a worker is forced to close for timeout to send output to connected clients? - [5/0]
  2. /:$foovar/ What does this do in Perl? - [3/2]
  3. Is lowercase "begin" a Perl keyword? - [3/1]
  4. How to detect duplicate code references in an array? - [2/3]
  5. read file as a set of lines in Perl - [2/2]

29 jul 2023

(cdliv) 14 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::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
    • Version: 2.336 on 2023-07-26, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.335 was 19 days before
    • Author: KUERBIS
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.064001 on 2023-07-25, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.064000 was 3 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
  3. Data::DPath - DPath is not XPath!
    • Version: 0.59 on 2023-07-24, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.58 was 3 years, 10 months, 27 days before
    • Author: SCHWIGON
  4. DBIx::DataModel - UML-based Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework
    • Version: 3.05 on 2023-07-26, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.04 was 8 months, 21 days before
    • Author: DAMI
  5. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
    • Version: 1.41 on 2023-07-23, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.77 was 4 years, 16 days before
    • Author: DDICK
  6. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
    • Version: 2.206 on 2023-07-25, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.205 was 9 days before
    • Author: PMQS
  7. IO::Socket::IP - Family-neutral IP socket supporting both IPv4 and IPv6
    • Version: 0.42 on 2023-07-25, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.41 was 2 years, 10 months, 10 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
  8. lib::relative - Add paths relative to the current file to @INC
    • Version: 1.002 on 2023-07-24, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.001 was 1 year, 1 month, 9 days before
    • Author: DBOOK
  9. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
    • Version: 2.2206 on 2023-07-23, with 326 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.2203 was 6 months, 1 day before
    • Author: ETHER
  10. Net::SSH::Perl - Perl client Interface to SSH
    • Version: 2.141 on 2023-07-25, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.14 was 5 years, 11 months, 1 day before
    • Author: BDFOY
  11. Perl::LanguageServer - Language Server and Debug Protocol Adapter for Perl
    • Version: v2.6.1 on 2023-07-26, with 27 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.5.0 was 5 months, 21 days before
    • Author: GRICHTER
  12. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989030 on 2023-07-28, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989027 was 6 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  13. TAP::Formatter::HTML - TAP Test Harness output delegate for html output
    • Version: 0.13 on 2023-07-26, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.11 was 10 years, 6 months, 7 days before
    • Author: SCHWIGON
  14. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.84 on 2023-07-24, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.83 was 8 months, 25 days before
    • Author: EHUELS

(dlxiii) metacpan weekly report - Lingy

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 25

Week's winner: Lingy (+2)

Build date: 2023/07/29 21:23:19 GMT


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(dlxxxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-07-29 21:19:51 GMT


  1. Getting rid of repeated "Use of unititialized value $foo in pattern match" errors in big set of substitutions - [3/2]
  2. using sed/awk/perl to replace multiline string - [2/7]
  3. Need explanation of below Negative LookBehind - [2/1]
  4. Value of CGI parameter is incorrect - [1/3]
  5. Perl Net Interface and Perl newt in openSUSE - [1/2]

22 jul 2023

(cdliii) 13 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::cpanminus::reporter - send cpanm output to CPAN Testers
    • Version: 0.21 on 2023-07-19, with 37 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.20 was 2 months, 12 days before
    • Author: GARU
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.064000 on 2023-07-22, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.063004 was 7 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
  3. Catalyst::Runtime - The Catalyst Framework Runtime
    • Version: 5.90131 on 2023-07-20, with 155 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.90130 was 8 months, 11 days before
    • Author: JJNAPIORK
  4. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
    • Version: 1.40 on 2023-07-18, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.77 was 4 years, 11 days before
    • Author: DDICK
  5. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
    • Version: 2.205 on 2023-07-16, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.204 was 5 months, 8 days before
    • Author: PMQS
  6. IO::Prompter - Prompt for input, read it, clean it, return it.
    • Version: 0.005001 on 2023-07-16, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.005000 was 12 days before
    • Author: DCONWAY
  7. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.72 on 2023-07-17, with 163 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 6.71 was 27 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
  8. Mail::Box - complete E-mail handling suite
    • Version: 3.010 on 2023-07-18, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.009 was 2 years, 11 months before
    • Author: MARKOV
  9. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20230720 on 2023-07-20, with 43 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20230520 was 18 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
  10. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
    • Version: 1.059 on 2023-07-20, with 43 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.058 was 1 month, 8 days before
    • Author: RSCHUPP
  11. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.036 on 2023-07-22, with 37 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.035 was 1 month, 7 days before
    • Author: BDFOY
  12. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989026 on 2023-07-21, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989024 was 7 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  13. Sub::Exporter - a sophisticated exporter for custom-built routines
    • Version: 0.990 on 2023-07-22, with 35 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989 was 6 months, 21 days before
    • Author: RJBS

(dlxii) metacpan weekly report - AI::TensorFlow::Libtensorflow

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

Week's winner (+3): AI::TensorFlow::Libtensorflow target="_blank"

Build date: 2023/07/22 21:16:20 GMT


Clicked for first time:


Increasing its reputation:

(dlxxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-07-22 21:14:01 GMT


  1. How to debug a Perl BEGIN block or modue - [3/2]
  2. How to launch interactive commands from Perl while allowing Perl to parse the command output - [2/1]
  3. Powershell misinterprets perl -M flag - [2/0]
  4. Perl regex read line and search or compare each element in the array or hash - [1/2]
  5. Converting hex to ASCII with perl -e - [1/2]

15 jul 2023

(cdlii) 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. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.063004 on 2023-07-15, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.063001 was 17 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
  2. Function::Parameters - define functions and methods with parameter lists ("subroutine signatures")
    • Version: 2.002004 on 2023-07-15, with 58 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.002003 was 2 months, 26 days before
    • Author: MAUKE
  3. HTTP::Tiny - A small, simple, correct HTTP/1.1 client
    • Version: 0.088 on 2023-07-11, with 109 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.086 was 19 days before
    • Author: DAGOLDEN
  4. LWP::Protocol::https - Provide https support for LWP::UserAgent
    • Version: 6.11 on 2023-07-09, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 6.10 was 2 years, 6 months, 23 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
  5. Math::BigInt - Pure Perl module to test Math::BigInt with scalars
    • Version: 1.999839 on 2023-07-14, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.999838 was 3 months, 14 days before
    • Author: PJACKLAM
  6. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989024 on 2023-07-14, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989020 was 7 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  7. Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.29 on 2023-07-13, with 39 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.28 was 7 months, 5 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
  8. Text::ANSITable - Create nice formatted tables using extended ASCII and ANSI colors
    • Version: 0.609 on 2023-07-13, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.608 was 1 year, 4 months, 27 days before
    • Author: PERLANCAR
  9. XML::LibXML - Interface to Gnome libxml2 xml parsing and DOM library
    • Version: 2.0209 on 2023-07-15, with 96 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.0208 was 9 months, 15 days before
    • Author: SHLOMIF

8 jul 2023

(cdli) 19 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: 0.997012 on 2023-07-08, with 67 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.997011 was 1 year, 2 months, 12 days before
    • Author: SKAJI
  2. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
    • Version: 2.335 on 2023-07-07, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.327 was 1 month, 5 days before
    • Author: KUERBIS
  3. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
    • Version: 4.37 on 2023-07-04, with 44 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 4.36 was 4 months, 2 days before
    • Author: RURBAN
  4. DBIx::Connector - Fast, safe DBI connection and transaction management
    • Version: 0.59 on 2023-07-02, with 44 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.56 was 7 years, 3 months, 17 days before
    • Author: ARISTOTLE
  5. Dist::Milla - Distribution builder, Opinionated but Unobtrusive
    • Version: v1.0.22 on 2023-07-05, with 35 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v1.0.21 was 1 year, 4 months, 20 days before
    • Author: MIYAGAWA
  6. GD - Perl interface to the libgd graphics library
    • Version: 2.78 on 2023-07-04, with 27 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.77 was 1 month, 6 days before
    • Author: RURBAN
  7. HTTP::Date - HTTP::Date - date conversion routines
    • Version: 6.06 on 2023-07-06, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 6.05 was 3 years, 7 months, 17 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
  8. IO::Interactive - Utilities for interactive I/O
    • Version: 1.025 on 2023-07-05, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.023 was 2 years, 5 months, 2 days before
    • Author: BDFOY
  9. IO::Prompter - Prompt for input, read it, clean it, return it.
    • Version: 0.005000 on 2023-07-04, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.004015 was 4 years, 6 months, 24 days before
    • Author: DCONWAY
  10. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
    • Version: v3.1.22 on 2023-07-08, with 60 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v3.1.21 was 4 months, 19 days before
    • Author: SYOHEX
  11. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20230520 on 2023-07-02, with 43 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20230423 was 2 months, 9 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
  12. Module::ScanDeps - Recursively scan Perl code for dependencies
    • Version: 1.32 on 2023-07-05, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.31 was 2 years, 2 months, 14 days before
    • Author: RSCHUPP
  13. Net::OpenSSH - Perl SSH client package implemented on top of OpenSSH
    • Version: 0.84 on 2023-07-02, with 41 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.83 was 5 months, 11 days before
    • Author: SALVA
  14. perl - The Perl 5 language interpreter
    • Version: 5.038000 on 2023-07-02, with 414 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.36.1 was 2 months, 9 days before
    • Author: RJBS
  15. Redis::Fast - Perl binding for Redis database
    • Version: 0.36 on 2023-07-05, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.35 was 7 months, 16 days before
    • Author: SHOGO
  16. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989020 on 2023-07-07, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989017 was 7 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  17. Statistics::Descriptive - Module of basic descriptive statistical functions.
    • Version: 3.0801 on 2023-07-02, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.0800 was 2 years, 8 months, 16 days before
    • Author: SHLOMIF
  18. Test::Differences - Test strings and data structures and show differences if not ok
    • Version: 0.70 on 2023-07-07, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.69 was 1 year, 6 months before
    • Author: DCANTRELL
  19. Test::Output - Utilities to test STDOUT and STDERR messages.
    • Version: 1.034 on 2023-07-05, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.033 was 2 years, 4 months, 22 days before
    • Author: BDFOY

(dlxxxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-07-08 17:33:58 GMT


  1. Perl: named capturing group defaults at replacement string - [3/2]
  2. What does 1 inside eval body mean in perl? - [3/1]
  3. Perl - opening a file in binary with final character 0x1A/EOF/Ctrl-Z - [3/1]
  4. How do I configure IDEA to run Perl Scripts or Perl Tests directly from Scratch Files - [2/0]
  5. Trying to create a Status Menu app with Platypus.app - [1/1]

1 jul 2023

(cdl) 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. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.063001 on 2023-06-28, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.062003 was 8 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
  2. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9727 on 2023-06-25, with 27 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.9704 was 7 years, 8 months, 18 days before
    • Author: ETJ
  3. Log::Any - Bringing loggers and listeners together
    • Version: 1.716 on 2023-06-26, with 61 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.715 was 1 month, 22 days before
    • Author: PREACTION
  4. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20230701 on 2023-07-01, with 134 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20230309 was 3 months, 24 days before
    • Author: SHANCOCK
  5. perlfaq - Frequently asked questions about Perl
    • Version: 5.20230701 on 2023-07-01, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20210520 was 2 years, 1 month, 12 days before
    • Author: ETHER
  6. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989017 on 2023-06-30, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989010 was 8 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  7. Term::ReadLine::Gnu - Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library
    • Version: 1.46 on 2023-07-01, with 23 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.45 was 7 months, 4 days before
    • Author: HAYASHI
  8. Vroom - Slide Shows in Vim
    • Version: 0.42 on 2023-06-27, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.37 was 8 years, 9 months, 19 days before
    • Author: INGY