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

(dxli) metacpan weekly report - IO::Socket::SSL

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 53

Week's winner: IO::Socket::SSL (+2)

Build date: 2023/01/21 20:28:45 GMT


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(dlxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-21 20:26:32 GMT


  1. Printing hash of array as values with Dumper leads to infinite recursion - [4/1]
  2. Importing subroutines from parent class - [3/2]
  3. Can you print the subroutine's argument name in Perl? - [2/2]
  4. Why doesn't Perl recognize the file name? - [2/1]
  5. Convert text to value hexadecimal - [2/1]

14 ene 2023

(cdxxvii) 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::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
    • Version: 2.313 on 2023-01-13
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.309 was 7 days before
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.060004 on 2023-01-11
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.060003 was 28 days before
  3. Config::INI - simple .ini-file format
    • Version: 0.029 on 2023-01-14
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.028 was 13 days before
  4. CPAN::Uploader - upload things to the CPAN
    • Version: 0.103018 on 2023-01-14
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 0.103017 was 13 days before
  5. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
    • Version: 1.15 on 2023-01-12
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 1.14 was 13 days before
  6. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodWeaver - weave your Pod together from configuration and Dist::Zilla
    • Version: 4.010 on 2023-01-12
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 4.009 was 1 year, 6 months, 23 days before
  7. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::ReportPrereqs - Report on prerequisite versions during automated testing
    • Version: 0.029 on 2023-01-08
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.028 was 2 years, 4 months, 27 days before
  8. Email::Address - RFC 2822 Address Parsing and Creation
    • Version: 1.913 on 2023-01-10
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 1.912 was 4 years, 10 days before
  9. Email::MIME - easy MIME message handling
    • Version: 1.953 on 2023-01-09
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 1.952 was 1 year, 26 days before
  10. Email::Simple - simple parsing of RFC2822 message format and headers
    • Version: 2.218 on 2023-01-09
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 2.216 was 4 years, 7 months, 3 days before
  11. Email::Stuffer - A more casual approach to creating and sending Email:: emails
    • Version: 0.020 on 2023-01-11
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.018 was 2 years, 6 months, 8 days before
  12. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
    • Version: 2.2202 on 2023-01-14
    • Votes: 325
    • Previous version: 2.2201 was 1 year, 2 months, 7 days before
  13. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.78 on 2023-01-12
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 0.77 was 24 days before
  14. Pod::Weaver - weave together a Pod document from an outline
    • Version: 4.019 on 2023-01-12
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 4.018 was 1 year, 6 months, 23 days before
  15. Redis - Perl binding for Redis database
    • Version: 2.000 on 2023-01-13
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 1.999 was 11 months, 30 days before
  16. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9681 on 2023-01-13
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9680 was 7 days before

(dxl) metacpan weekly report - Test::Named

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 27

Week's winner: Test::Named (+2)

Build date: 2023/01/14 20:12:27 GMT


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(dlxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-14 20:09:45 GMT


  1. Perl print "$(" - [3/1]
  2. How to shorten this Perl expression - [3/1]
  3. What happens if I assign two DBI connections in a row to a variable? - [2/2]
  4. Combine category with code name [DS code format] - [2/2]
  5. regex which will identify text containing a | but only if it is not within ' anywhere else in the text - [2/2]

8 ene 2023

(cdxxvi) 18 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: 2.309 on 2023-01-06
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.307 was 5 days before
  2. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
    • Version: 4.55 on 2023-01-03
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 4.54 was 11 months before
  3. Dancer - lightweight yet powerful web application framework
    • Version: 1.3520 on 2023-01-02
    • Votes: 145
    • Previous version: 1.3513 was 2 years, 11 months, 4 days before
  4. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
    • Version: 0.60 on 2023-01-06
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.59 was 1 year, 5 days before
  5. Devel::TraceUse - show the modules your program loads, recursively
    • Version: 2.097 on 2023-01-04
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.096 was 4 years, 5 days before
  6. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
    • Version: 1.884 on 2023-01-05
    • Votes: 94
    • Previous version: 1.882 was 1 month, 2 days before
  7. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
    • Version: 1.880 on 2023-01-04
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.879 was 1 month, 1 day before
  8. Modern::Perl - enable all of the features of Modern Perl with one import
    • Version: 1.20230106 on 2023-01-06
    • Votes: 50
    • Previous version: 1.20220515 was 7 months, 22 days before
  9. Moo - Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
    • Version: 2.005005 on 2023-01-05
    • Votes: 294
    • Previous version: 2.005004 was 1 year, 9 months, 7 days before
  10. Params::ValidationCompiler - Build an optimized subroutine parameter validator once, use it forever
    • Version: 0.31 on 2023-01-07
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.30 was 4 years, 5 months, 7 days before
  11. Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
    • Version: 1.148 on 2023-01-07
    • Votes: 126
    • Previous version: 1.146 was 16 days before
  12. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
    • Version: 1.48 on 2023-01-02
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 1.47 was 7 months, 28 days before
  13. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
    • Version: 0.85 on 2023-01-04
    • Votes: 29
    • Previous version: 0.84 was 1 year, 10 months, 6 days before
  14. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9680 on 2023-01-06
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9675 was 10 days before
  15. Test::Deep - Extremely flexible deep comparison
    • Version: 1.204 on 2023-01-07
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 1.130 was 2 years, 10 months, 6 days before
  16. Test::Routine - composable units of assertion
    • Version: 0.030 on 2023-01-06
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.029 was 5 days before
  17. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.49 on 2023-01-03
    • Votes: 96
    • Previous version: 1.48 was 7 months, 9 days before
  18. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 2.002000 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 133
    • Previous version: 2.002000 was before

(dxxxix) metacpan weekly report

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

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2023/01/08 07:13:20 GMT


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(dlxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-08 07:12:02 GMT


  1. How do I wrap this shell command in Perl? - [2/3]
  2. Can anyone spot the problem in my for loop in Perl? - [2/3]
  3. Resolving a symlink without readlink utility - [2/3]
  4. perl Curses and unicode: why addstr prints fine whereas addstring prints garbage? - [2/1]
  5. Fastest way to transpose large, space delimited text file - [1/1]

1 ene 2023

metacpan most voted distributions in 2022

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2022

  1. perl (+21)
  2. Mojolicious (+18)
  3. Object::Pad (+14)
  4. MooseX::Extended (+11)
  5. Carmel (+11)
  6. Perl::Critic (+10)
  7. Log::Log4perl (+10)
  8. Getopt::Long (+10)
  9. DBI (+10)
  10. Carton (+10)
  11. SPVM (+9)
  12. Moo (+9)
  13. libwww::perl (+8)
  14. WWW::Mechanize (+8)
  15. Feature::Compat::Try (+8)
  16. Devel::NYTProf (+8)
  17. App::cpanminus (+8)
  18. Util::H2O (+7)
  19. Type::Tiny (+7)
  20. Text::Table (+7)

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2022 group by month

13 best perl distributions created at 2022 (metacpan rating)

This list contains distributions created at 2022

  1. MooseX::Extended (+11)
  2. Term::Graille (+5)
  3. Perl::Dist::APPerl (+5)
  4. Dancer2::Plugin::FormValidator (+5)
  5. pEFL (+3)
  6. Value::Diff (+3)
  7. Syntax::Operator::In (+3)
  8. Storable::Improved (+3)
  9. Regex::Object (+3)
  10. JavaScript::QuickJS (+3)
  11. IO::FD (+3)
  12. Getopt::App (+3)
  13. App::GUI::Harmonograph (+3)

10 best Perl questions at stackoverflow in 2022

This is the ten most rated questions at 2022 Stack Overflow.
Between brackets: question score & answers count
Built date: 2023/01/01 12:19:05 GMT


  1. Why does Perl allow functions to be declared without being defined? - [21/5]
  2. Difference in Perl regex variable $+{name} and $-{name} - [10/1]
  3. What does `/regex/o` really mean (once there was once, but it seems gone now)? - [8/2]
  4. Editing the last instance in a file - [7/6]
  5. Perl/Raku succinct webserver one-liner? - [7/3]
  6. Perl: speed of s/// with variable in replacement - [7/2]
  7. Do all my perl module .pm files need a `$VERSION` definition? - [7/2]
  8. Autoload'd calls fail via Inline::Perl5 in Raku - [7/1]
  9. What does this perl snippet with unary plus do? join( '/', splice @t, 0, +@d ) - [6/3]
  10. How can I wrap a Perl function but still use it as a reference? - [6/2]

(cdxxv) 23 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: 2.76 on 2022-12-29
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 2.75 was 7 days before
  2. App::Cmd - write command line apps with less suffering
    • Version: 0.335 on 2022-12-31
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 0.334 was 1 year, 6 months, 12 days before
  3. App::Uni - command-line utility to find or display Unicode characters
    • Version: 9.006 on 2022-12-31
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 9.005 was 1 year, 6 months, 12 days before
  4. Config::INI - simple .ini-file format
    • Version: 0.028 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.027 was 1 year, 6 months, 8 days before
  5. CPAN::Uploader - upload things to the CPAN
    • Version: 0.103017 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 0.103016 was 1 year, 2 months, 1 day before
  6. Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
    • Version: 0.005 on 2022-12-26
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.004 was 11 months, 28 days before
  7. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
    • Version: 1.14 on 2022-12-30
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 1.13 was 11 months, 7 days before
  8. Excel::Writer::XLSX - Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
    • Version: 1.10 on 2022-12-30
    • Votes: 58
    • Previous version: 1.09 was 1 year, 7 months, 16 days before
  9. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.66 on 2022-12-25
    • Votes: 50
    • Previous version: 7.64 was 1 year, 8 days before
  10. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
    • Version: 1.34 on 2022-12-30
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.33 was 1 month, 3 days before
  11. Getopt::Long::Descriptive - Getopt::Long, but simpler and more powerful
    • Version: 0.111 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 0.110 was 1 year, 2 months, 1 day before
  12. JSON::PP - JSON::XS compatible pure-Perl module.
    • Version: 4.16 on 2022-12-30
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 4.12 was 2 months, 22 days before
  13. Marpa::R2 - Release 2 of Marpa
    • Version: 12.000000 on 2022-12-25
    • Votes: 48
    • Previous version: 10.000000 was 5 months, 26 days before
  14. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.36 on 2022-12-30
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 1.35 was 2 months, 26 days before
  15. Perl::PrereqScanner - a tool to scan your Perl code for its prerequisites
    • Version: 1.025 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.024 was 1 year, 5 months, 29 days before
  16. Pod::Man - Convert POD data to various other formats
    • Version: 5.01 on 2022-12-25
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 5.00 was 1 month before
  17. Search::Elasticsearch - The official client for Elasticsearch
    • Version: 8.00 on 2022-12-29
    • Votes: 44
    • Previous version: 7.717 was 5 months, 1 day before
  18. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.9675 on 2022-12-27
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 0.9672 was 4 days before
  19. Sub::Exporter - a sophisticated exporter for custom-built routines
    • Version: 0.989 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 0.988 was 1 year, 6 months, 12 days before
  20. Sub::Install - install subroutines into packages easily
    • Version: 0.929 on 2022-12-31
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 0.928 was 8 years, 6 months, 5 days before
  21. Test::Fatal - incredibly simple helpers for testing code with exceptions
    • Version: 0.017 on 2022-12-31
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 0.016 was 2 years, 4 months, 22 days before
  22. Test::Routine - composable units of assertion
    • Version: 0.029 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.028 was 1 year, 6 months, 12 days before
  23. Throwable - a role for classes that can be thrown
    • Version: 1.001 on 2023-01-01
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 1.000 was 1 year, 6 months, 5 days before

(dxxxviii) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 20

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2023/01/01 09:50:08 GMT


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(dlxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2023-01-01 09:49:01 GMT


  1. Why does a variable in Perl not respect a `package` statement? - [6/2]
  2. Perl: Filehandle storing the full file content and not each line - [3/2]
  3. Perl: What does this "=~s|" mean in Perl? - [2/0]
  4. Reading from a File Based on a String Input - [1/3]
  5. Parsing data using Perl - [1/1]