28 sept 2024

(dxv) 5 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: 0.997018 on 2024-09-23, with 72 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.997017 was 4 months, 25 days before
    • Author: SKAJI
  2. Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format
    • Version: 20240924 on 2024-09-24, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20240730 was 1 month, 25 days before
    • Author: LWP
  3. Plack::Middleware::Session - Middleware for session management
    • Version: 0.34 on 2024-09-23, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.33 was 5 years, 6 months, 14 days before
    • Author: MIYAGAWA
  4. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990012 on 2024-09-26, with 33 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990010 was 8 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  5. XML::Hash::XS - Simple and fast hash to XML and XML to hash conversion written in C
    • Version: 0.57 on 2024-09-27, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.56 was 3 years, 7 months, 14 days before
    • Author: YOREEK

21 sept 2024

(dxiv) 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. DBD::mysql - A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
    • Version: 5.009 on 2024-09-19, with 56 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.008 was 1 month, 20 days before
    • Author: DVEEDEN
  2. DBIx::Lite - Chained and minimal ORM
    • Version: 0.35 on 2024-09-18, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.34 was 6 days before
    • Author: AAR
  3. Feersum - A PSGI engine for Perl based on EV/libev
    • Version: 1.503 on 2024-09-17, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.502 was 8 days before
    • Author: EGOR
  4. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.69 on 2024-09-18, with 48 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.68 was 20 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
  5. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.31 on 2024-09-21, with 106 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 10.30 was 3 months, 16 days before
    • Author: SRI
  6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20240920 on 2024-09-20, with 43 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20240829 was 22 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
  7. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.47 on 2024-09-18, with 27 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.46 was 30 days before
    • Author: NLNETLABS
  8. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.814 on 2024-09-20, with 45 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.813 was 17 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
  9. Sub::Util - Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
    • Version: 1.66 on 2024-09-19, with 170 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.65 was 1 month, 13 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
  10. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990010 on 2024-09-18, with 33 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990009 was 5 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  11. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302204 on 2024-09-15, with 190 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.302203 was 10 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
  12. Test::Vars - Detects unused variables in perl modules
    • Version: 0.017 on 2024-09-16, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.015 was 3 years, 4 months, 26 days before
    • Author: JKEENAN
  13. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 2.19 on 2024-09-16, with 101 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.18 was 7 months, 17 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
  14. YAML::LibYAML - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
    • Version: v0.902.0 on 2024-09-20, with 55 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.901.0 was 14 days before
    • Author: TINITA

14 sept 2024

(dxiii) 11 great CPAN modules released last week

Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

  1. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.079001 on 2024-09-13, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.078000 was 17 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
  2. Beam::Wire - Lightweight Dependency Injection Container
    • Version: 1.026 on 2024-09-13, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.025 was 3 years, 2 months, 5 days before
    • Author: PREACTION
  3. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
    • Version: 20240910.001 on 2024-09-10, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20240826.002 was 15 days before
    • Author: BDFOY
  4. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
    • Version: 0.081 on 2024-09-08, with 51 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.080 was 11 months, 4 days before
    • Author: MIK
  5. DBIx::Lite - Chained and minimal ORM
    • Version: 0.34 on 2024-09-12, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.33 was 3 years, 5 days before
    • Author: AAR
  6. Feersum - A PSGI engine for Perl based on EV/libev
    • Version: 1.502 on 2024-09-09, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.501 was 6 days before
    • Author: EGOR
  7. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
    • Version: 1.900 on 2024-09-10, with 104 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.889 was 11 months, 27 days before
    • Author: MARIOROY
  8. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
    • Version: 1.893 on 2024-09-10, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.886 was 11 months, 27 days before
    • Author: MARIOROY
  9. meta - meta-programming API
    • Version: 0.009 on 2024-09-13, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.006 was 6 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
  10. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 4.0004 on 2024-09-10, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 4.0003 was 3 months, 3 days before
    • Author: DCANTRELL
  11. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990009 on 2024-09-13, with 33 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990007 was 11 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO

(dxc) metacpan weekly report - lazy

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

Week's winner: lazy (+4)

Build date: 2024/09/14 19:33:30 GMT


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Increasing its reputation:

(dcxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the five most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2024-09-14 19:31:17 GMT


  1. perl debugger and utf8 variable names - [4/1]
  2. How can you prevent forked child processes from disconnecting DBD::Pg connections, when you have no access to $dbh? - [3/1]
  3. Perl search and replace words in file - [2/3]
  4. Destructive @_ operation and passing @_ in the same statement - [2/2]
  5. Can perl automaticly delete a scalar and replace with arrayref? - [1/2]

7 sept 2024

(dxii) 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::cpanminus::reporter - send cpanm output to CPAN Testers
    • Version: 0.22 on 2024-09-03, with 37 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.21 was 1 year, 1 month, 15 days before
    • Author: GARU
  2. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
    • Version: 2.415 on 2024-09-05, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.414 was 2 months, 22 days before
    • Author: KUERBIS
  3. App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
    • Version: 0.99 on 2024-09-07, with 176 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.98 was 1 year, 27 days before
    • Author: GUGOD
  4. autobox - call methods on native types
    • Version: v3.0.2 on 2024-09-03, with 28 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.86 was 6 years, 4 months, 13 days before
    • Author: CHOCOLATE
  5. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
    • Version: 2.63 on 2024-09-07, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.62 was 7 months, 5 days before
    • Author: DROLSKY
  6. DBI - Database independent interface for Perl
    • Version: 1.645 on 2024-09-03, with 273 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.644 was 11 days before
    • Author: HMBRAND
  7. Feersum - A PSGI engine for Perl based on EV/libev
    • Version: 1.501 on 2024-09-03, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.500 was 11 days before
    • Author: EGOR
  8. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9732 on 2024-09-02, with 27 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.9704 was 8 years, 10 months, 26 days before
    • Author: ETJ
  9. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
    • Version: 1.899 on 2024-09-06, with 104 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.898 was 16 days before
    • Author: MARIOROY
  10. Module::Build::Tiny - A tiny replacement for Module::Build
    • Version: 0.051 on 2024-09-06, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.048 was 4 months, 8 days before
    • Author: LEONT
  11. Net::SSH2 - Support for the SSH 2 protocol via libssh2.
    • Version: 0.74 on 2024-09-02, with 25 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.73 was 2 years, 30 days before
    • Author: RKITOVER
  12. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.813 on 2024-09-03, with 45 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.812 was 5 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
  13. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.092 on 2024-09-07, with 57 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.090 was 15 days before
    • Author: ETJ
  14. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20240903 on 2024-09-03, with 141 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20240511 was 3 months, 24 days before
    • Author: SHANCOCK
  15. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990007 on 2024-09-02, with 33 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990006 was 3 months, 24 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  16. String::Util - String processing utility functions
    • Version: 1.35 on 2024-09-04, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.34 was 1 year, 7 months, 3 days before
    • Author: BAKERSCOT
  17. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302203 on 2024-09-05, with 190 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.302201 was 23 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
  18. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.29 on 2024-09-05, with 114 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.28 was 5 months, 9 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
  19. YAML::LibYAML - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
    • Version: v0.901.0 on 2024-09-06, with 55 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.89 was 7 months, 10 days before
    • Author: TINITA