19 mar 2023

(cdxxxvi) 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. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
    • Version: 2.320 on 2023-03-14, with 12 votes
    • Previous version: 2.316 was 23 days before
    • Author: KUERBIS
  2. Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
    • Version: 0.010 on 2023-03-14, with 12 votes
    • Previous version: 0.009 was 5 days before
    • Author: LEONT
  3. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.68 on 2023-03-14, with 52 votes
    • Previous version: 7.66 was 2 months, 20 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
  4. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 2.07 on 2023-03-14, with 58 votes
    • Previous version: 2.05 was 3 months, 28 days before
    • Author: PLICEASE
  5. Future - represent an operation awaiting completion
    • Version: 0.50 on 2023-03-17, with 56 votes
    • Previous version: 0.49 was 5 months before
    • Author: PEVANS
  6. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.65 on 2023-03-17, with 45 votes
    • Previous version: 0.64 was 1 month, 3 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
  7. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.37 on 2023-03-13, with 25 votes
    • Previous version: 1.36 was 2 months, 14 days before
    • Author: NLNETLABS
  8. Net::Server - Extensible Perl internet server
    • Version: 2.014 on 2023-03-14, with 31 votes
    • Previous version: 2.013 was 3 months, 11 days before
    • Author: RHANDOM
  9. Term::Choose - Choose items from a list interactively.
    • Version: 1.758 on 2023-03-17, with 13 votes
    • Previous version: 1.757 was 8 months before
    • Author: KUERBIS
  10. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302194 on 2023-03-14, with 182 votes
    • Previous version: 1.302193 was 8 days before
    • Author: EXODIST

(dxlix) metacpan weekly report - Playwright

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 40

Week's winner: Playwright (+2)

Build date: 2023/03/19 07:07:48 GMT


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(dlxxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-03-19 07:05:48 GMT


  1. Subroutine with same name in 2 different CPAN modules - [4/2]
  2. Where in the perl documentation does it mention 0.0001, 0.00001 printing differences? - [4/1]
  3. How do you use globbing in perl for a one-liner with many files, avoiding xargs/find/etc - [3/3]
  4. why do @- and @+ have different sizes after perl regex match - [3/1]
  5. Using a module or a feature in another package than where it is supposed to be used - [2/4]

11 mar 2023

(cdxxxv) 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.78 on 2023-03-07, with 22 votes
    • Previous version: 2.77 was 1 month, 18 days before
    • Author: PLICEASE
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.060010 on 2023-03-10, with 14 votes
    • Previous version: 2.060007 was 7 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
  3. Class::Method::Modifiers - Provides Moose-like method modifiers
    • Version: 2.15 on 2023-03-05, with 29 votes
    • Previous version: 2.15 was before
    • Author: ETHER
  4. Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
    • Version: 0.009 on 2023-03-09, with 12 votes
    • Previous version: 0.007 was 25 days before
    • Author: LEONT
  5. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
    • Version: 3.16.1 on 2023-03-06, with 92 votes
    • Previous version: 3.16.0 was 6 months, 29 days before
    • Author: TURNSTEP
  6. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 5.14 on 2023-03-06, with 31 votes
    • Previous version: 5.13 was 2 months, 28 days before
    • Author: JHTHORSEN
  7. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.9001 on 2023-03-07, with 16 votes
    • Previous version: 3.9000 was 2 days before
    • Author: DCANTRELL
  8. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20230309 on 2023-03-08, with 132 votes
    • Previous version: 20221112 was 3 months, 27 days before
    • Author: SHANCOCK
  9. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.14.1 on 2023-03-05, with 82 votes
    • Previous version: 1.14.0 was 1 month, 6 days before
    • Author: FERKI
  10. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9695 on 2023-03-06, with 28 votes
    • Previous version: 0.9694 was 3 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  11. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302193 on 2023-03-06, with 182 votes
    • Previous version: 1.302192 was 1 month, 4 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
  12. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000151 on 2023-03-08, with 13 votes
    • Previous version: 1.000150 was 7 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
  13. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000148 on 2023-03-05, with 39 votes
    • Previous version: 0.000147 was 7 days before
    • Author: EXODIST

(dxlviii) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 45

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2023/03/11 22:14:10 GMT


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(dlxxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-03-11 22:12:37 GMT


  1. Is it possible to use Smart::Comments:from<Perl5> in a raku program? - [6/0]
  2. Perl exclude words with pattern - [2/5]
  3. Determine width in terminal of asian/japanese characters? - [2/1]
  4. collision between objects and addition of onomatopoeias(splat) - [2/1]
  5. How can I ask for the username and password only the first time I need it? - [2/1]

5 mar 2023

(cdxxxiv) 16 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::Ack - A grep-like program for searching source code
    • Version: v3.7.0 on 2023-02-27, with 127 votes
    • Previous version: v3.6.0 was 6 months, 6 days before
    • Author: PETDANCE
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.060007 on 2023-03-03, with 14 votes
    • Previous version: 2.060005 was 10 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
  3. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
    • Version: 4.56 on 2023-03-03, with 41 votes
    • Previous version: 4.55 was 2 months before
    • Author: LEEJO
  4. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
    • Version: 4.36 on 2023-03-02, with 44 votes
    • Previous version: 4.35 was 8 days before
    • Author: RURBAN
  5. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
    • Version: 6.91 on 2023-03-01, with 17 votes
    • Previous version: 6.90 was 2 months, 30 days before
    • Author: SBECK
  6. Devel::MAT - Perl Memory Analysis Tool
    • Version: 0.50 on 2023-03-03, with 29 votes
    • Previous version: 0.49 was 5 months before
    • Author: PEVANS
  7. GraphViz - Interface to AT&T's GraphViz. Deprecated. See GraphViz2
    • Version: 2.26 on 2023-03-03, with 14 votes
    • Previous version: 2.25 was 6 months, 14 days before
    • Author: ETJ
  8. HTTP::BrowserDetect - Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
    • Version: 3.38 on 2023-03-03, with 22 votes
    • Previous version: 3.37 was 5 months, 18 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
  9. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.68 on 2023-02-27, with 160 votes
    • Previous version: 6.67 was 8 months, 13 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
  10. Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
    • Version: 1.150 on 2023-03-05, with 127 votes
    • Previous version: 1.148 was 1 month, 29 days before
    • Author: PETDANCE
  11. PPR - Pattern-based Perl Recognizer
    • Version: 0.001007 on 2023-03-02, with 18 votes
    • Previous version: 0.001006 was 5 months, 24 days before
    • Author: DCONWAY
  12. Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
    • Version: 1.68002 on 2023-03-02, with 38 votes
    • Previous version: 1.68 was 5 days before
    • Author: KARASIK
  13. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9694 on 2023-03-03, with 28 votes
    • Previous version: 0.9692 was 11 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  14. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000150 on 2023-03-01, with 13 votes
    • Previous version: 1.000148 was 6 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
  15. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000147 on 2023-03-04, with 38 votes
    • Previous version: 0.000145 was 1 year before
    • Author: EXODIST
  16. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.50 on 2023-03-01, with 96 votes
    • Previous version: 1.49 was 1 month, 29 days before
    • Author: HMBRAND

(dxlvii) metacpan weekly report - Env::Assert

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 52

Week's winner: Env::Assert (+3)

Build date: 2023/03/05 12:33:41 GMT


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(dlxxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-03-05 12:32:39 GMT


  1. Getting URL content in chunks with callback function - [4/2]
  2. Where does this \r\n come from when I redirect STDOUT to a PTY in Perl? - [4/2]
  3. Passing a value from PHP script to Perl CGI, the simplest way wanted - [3/1]
  4. Can I pop elements from the stack depending on whether they are used in a subroutine in Perl? - [3/1]
  5. Keys of hash as arrays and keys values into arrays after match - [2/2]

25 feb 2023

(cdxxxiii) 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::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
    • Version: 2.316 on 2023-02-19, with 12 votes
    • Previous version: 2.315 was 6 days before
    • Author: KUERBIS
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.060005 on 2023-02-21, with 14 votes
    • Previous version: 2.060004 was 1 month, 10 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
  3. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
    • Version: 4.35 on 2023-02-22, with 44 votes
    • Previous version: 4.32 was 6 months, 9 days before
    • Author: RURBAN
  4. Digest::SHA - Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512
    • Version: 6.04 on 2023-02-25, with 24 votes
    • Previous version: 6.03 was 6 months, 17 days before
    • Author: MSHELOR
  5. HTTP::Daemon - A simple http server class
    • Version: 6.16 on 2023-02-24, with 12 votes
    • Previous version: 6.14 was 11 months, 21 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
  6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20230220 on 2023-02-20, with 41 votes
    • Previous version: 5.20230120 was 1 month before
    • Author: BINGOS
  7. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI - OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
    • Version: 5.09 on 2023-02-20, with 41 votes
    • Previous version: 5.08 was 2 months, 11 days before
    • Author: JHTHORSEN
  8. Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
    • Version: 1.68 on 2023-02-25, with 37 votes
    • Previous version: 1.67001 was 13 days before
    • Author: KARASIK
  9. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
    • Version: 0.87 on 2023-02-22, with 29 votes
    • Previous version: 0.86 was 15 days before
    • Author: HMBRAND
  10. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9692 on 2023-02-20, with 27 votes
    • Previous version: 0.9691 was 12 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  11. SQL::Translator - SQL DDL transformations and more
    • Version: 1.63 on 2023-02-23, with 42 votes
    • Previous version: 1.62 was 2 years, 5 months, 9 days before
    • Author: VEESH
  12. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000148 on 2023-02-23, with 13 votes
    • Previous version: 1.000145 was 7 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
  13. Tie::File - Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
    • Version: 1.07 on 2023-02-20, with 14 votes
    • Previous version: 1.06 was 28 days before
    • Author: TODDR

(dxlvi) metacpan weekly report - Env::Assert

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

Week's winner (+3): Env::Assert

Build date: 2023/02/25 21:26:08 GMT


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(dlxxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-02-25 21:24:38 GMT


  1. Remote Perl CGI interactive debugging on VSCode - [3/1]
  2. perl grep output from file - [3/1]
  3. perl read data from textfile - [2/2]
  4. perl get matched pattern in text file - [2/2]
  5. Comparing two undefs in Perl - [2/2]

18 feb 2023

(cdxxxii) 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: 2.315 on 2023-02-13
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.314 was 10 days before
  2. Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
    • Version: 0.007 on 2023-02-12
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.006 was 4 days before
  3. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.64 on 2023-02-14
    • Votes: 45
    • Previous version: 0.62 was 1 month, 25 days before
  4. match::simple - simplified clone of smartmatch operator
    • Version: 0.012 on 2023-02-15
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.011 was 2 months, 2 days before
  5. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
    • Version: v3.1.21 on 2023-02-17
    • Votes: 59
    • Previous version: v3.1.20 was 3 months, 4 days before
  6. parent - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
    • Version: 0.241 on 2023-02-14
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.239 was 2 months, 8 days before
  7. Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
    • Version: 1.67001 on 2023-02-12
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 1.67 was 2 months, 15 days before
  8. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000145 on 2023-02-16
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.000142 was 22 days before

(dxlv) metacpan weekly report - XS::Parse::Keyword::FromPerl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 34

Week's winner: XS::Parse::Keyword::FromPerl (+2)

Build date: 2023/02/18 22:14:23 GMT


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(dlxxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-02-18 22:06:41 GMT


  1. Confusion about using perl @_ variable with regex capture - [3/1]
  2. DBI: are schema and table-name enough for a qualified table name? - [3/0]
  3. Perl 5: How to suppress @var interpolation in regex patterns - [2/3]
  4. How to distinguish numbers from ip addresses in regular expressions? - [2/3]
  5. How to access a tag in xml that ends with specific text using ends-with - [2/2]

11 feb 2023

(cdxxxi) 15 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: 1.2020 on 2023-02-08
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.2019 was 10 months, 18 days before
  2. Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
    • Version: 0.006 on 2023-02-08
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.005 was 1 month, 13 days before
  3. Dancer - lightweight yet powerful web application framework
    • Version: 1.3521 on 2023-02-08
    • Votes: 146
    • Previous version: 1.3520 was 1 month, 6 days before
  4. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
    • Version: 0.400001 on 2023-02-05
    • Votes: 131
    • Previous version: 0.400000 was 10 months, 22 days before
  5. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9726 on 2023-02-11
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.9725 was 1 year, 4 months, 1 day before
  6. Compress::Zlib - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
    • Version: 2.204 on 2023-02-08
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 2.201 was 7 months, 13 days before
  7. Perl::LanguageServer - Language Server and Debug Protocol Adapter for Perl
    • Version: v2.5.0 on 2023-02-05
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 2.4.0 was 2 months, 17 days before
  8. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.14.0 on 2023-02-05
    • Votes: 82
    • Previous version: 1.13.4 was 1 year, 7 months before
  9. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 5.003 on 2023-02-08
    • Votes: 60
    • Previous version: 5.002 was 7 days before
  10. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 5.003 on 2023-02-08
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 5.002 was 7 days before
  11. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 5.003 on 2023-02-08
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 5.002 was 7 days before
  12. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
    • Version: 0.86 on 2023-02-07
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.85 was 1 month, 3 days before
  13. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9691 on 2023-02-08
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9689 was 7 days before
  14. Struct::Dumb - make simple lightweight record-like structures
    • Version: 0.14 on 2023-02-11
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.13 was 5 months, 15 days before
  15. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.16 on 2023-02-11
    • Votes: 94
    • Previous version: 2.15 was 5 months, 21 days before

(dxliv) metacpan weekly report - Object::Pad

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 57

Week's winner: Object::Pad (+2)

Build date: 2023/02/11 21:21:15 GMT


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4 feb 2023

(cdxxx) 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: 2.314 on 2023-02-03
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.313 was 21 days before
  2. autodie - Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
    • Version: 2.36 on 2023-01-30
    • Votes: 58
    • Previous version: 2.35 was 3 days before
  3. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
    • Version: 1.16 on 2023-02-04
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 1.15 was 23 days before
  4. Devel::CheckOS - a script to package Devel::AssertOS modules with your code.
    • Version: 1.96 on 2023-02-04
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 1.95 was 3 months, 6 days before
  5. experimental - Experimental features made easy
    • Version: 0.031 on 2023-01-31
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.030 was 1 month, 21 days before
  6. HTML::Parser - HTML parser class
    • Version: 3.81 on 2023-01-31
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 3.80 was 2 months, 30 days before
  7. Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
    • Version: 1.16 on 2023-01-29
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 1.03 was 10 years, 9 months, 7 days before
  8. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 5.002 on 2023-02-01
    • Votes: 60
    • Previous version: 5.001 was 4 months, 28 days before
  9. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 5.002 on 2023-02-01
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 5.001 was 4 months, 28 days before
  10. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 5.002 on 2023-02-01
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 5.001 was 4 months, 28 days before
  11. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9689 on 2023-02-01
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9686 was 5 days before
  12. String::Util - String processing utility functions
    • Version: 1.34 on 2023-02-01
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.32 was 1 year, 10 months, 6 days before
  13. System::Command - Object for running system commands
    • Version: 1.122 on 2023-02-04
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 1.121 was 2 years, 8 months, 1 day before
  14. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302192 on 2023-02-02
    • Votes: 180
    • Previous version: 1.302191 was 6 months, 24 days before

(dxliii) metacpan weekly report - Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 64

Week's winner: Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub (+2)

Build date: 2023/02/04 22:41:43 GMT


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(dlxxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-02-04 22:39:41 GMT


  1. How to check if an array has an element that is not integer? - [3/3]
  2. Remove upfront zeros from floating point lower than 1 in Perl - [3/2]
  3. Perl: How to copy directory without any files? - [3/1]
  4. Perl 5.18 | Archive::ZIP 1.68 | Recursive files not included in ZIP - [3/0]
  5. Using gawk or sed to inplace change line after or before every other match - [2/5]

28 ene 2023

(cdxxix) 15 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: 0.18 on 2023-01-23
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 0.17 was 6 years, 8 months, 29 days before
  2. autodie - Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
    • Version: 2.35 on 2023-01-27
    • Votes: 58
    • Previous version: 2.34 was 2 years, 5 days before
  3. Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
    • Version: 5.77 on 2023-01-23
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 5.74 was 3 years, 3 days before
  4. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
    • Version: 1.35 on 2023-01-22
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.77 was 3 years, 6 months, 15 days before
  5. Function::Parameters - define functions and methods with parameter lists ("subroutine signatures")
    • Version: 2.001005 on 2023-01-27
    • Votes: 56
    • Previous version: 2.001004 was 7 days before
  6. IO - Perl core IO modules
    • Version: 1.51 on 2023-01-23
    • Votes: 57
    • Previous version: 1.50 was 8 months, 20 days before
  7. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
    • Version: 2.081 on 2023-01-25
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 2.080 was 7 days before
  8. Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert CSS, Less, Sass, JavaScript and CoffeeScript files
    • Version: 2.14 on 2023-01-27
    • Votes: 49
    • Previous version: 2.13 was 1 year, 10 months, 14 days before
  9. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
    • Version: 2.2203 on 2023-01-22
    • Votes: 325
    • Previous version: 2.2202 was 8 days before
  10. Net::OpenSSH - Perl SSH client package implemented on top of OpenSSH
    • Version: 0.83 on 2023-01-22
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 0.82 was 10 months, 17 days before
  11. PLS - Perl Language Server
    • Version: 0.905 on 2023-01-21
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.902 was 4 months, 22 days before
  12. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9686 on 2023-01-27
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9683 was 7 days before
  13. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000142 on 2023-01-25
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 1.000141 was 1 month, 10 days before
  14. Tie::File - Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
    • Version: 1.06 on 2023-01-23
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.05 was 2 years, 11 months, 27 days before
  15. YAML::LibYAML - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
    • Version: 0.86 on 2023-01-26
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 0.85 was 4 months, 14 days before

(dxlii) metacpan weekly report

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

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2023/01/28 20:50:55 GMT


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(dlxx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-28 20:49:22 GMT


  1. Open a scalar as a file in Perl - [4/1]
  2. Perl JSON arrays within a parent key - [3/2]
  3. Get the first item of the list returned by function - [2/3]
  4. How to use File-Rename aka Perl's rename in Windows? - [2/1]
  5. Cast array into list - [2/1]

21 ene 2023

(cdxxviii) 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.77 on 2023-01-20
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 2.76 was 22 days before
  2. Class::Method::Modifiers - Provides Moose-like method modifiers
    • Version: 2.14 on 2023-01-16
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 2.13 was 3 years, 5 months, 6 days before
  3. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
    • Version: 6.030 on 2023-01-19
    • Votes: 179
    • Previous version: 6.029 was 1 month, 24 days before
  4. Function::Parameters - define functions and methods with parameter lists ("subroutine signatures")
    • Version: 2.001004 on 2023-01-20
    • Votes: 56
    • Previous version: 2.001003 was 5 years, 2 months, 9 days before
  5. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
    • Version: 2.080 on 2023-01-18
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 2.078 was 1 month, 7 days before
  6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20230120 on 2023-01-20
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 5.20221220 was 1 month before
  7. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9683 on 2023-01-20
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9681 was 7 days before
  8. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v9.0.0 on 2023-01-16
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: v8.10.0 was 1 month, 8 days before
  9. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 2.002001 on 2023-01-20
    • Votes: 133
    • Previous version: 2.002000 was 19 days before