12 dic 2020

(cdxlvi) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 41

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2020/12/12 17:59:34 GMT


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5 dic 2020

(cccxviii) 14 CPAN great 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. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
    • Version: 6.83 on 2020-11-30
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 6.82 was 5 months, 29 days before
  2. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
    • Version: 1.54 on 2020-12-04
    • Votes: 197
    • Previous version: 1.53 was 25 days before
  3. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
    • Version: 0.56 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.55 was 4 months, 9 days before
  4. Encode - character encodings in Perl
    • Version: 3.08 on 2020-12-02
    • Votes: 55
    • Previous version: 3.07 was 4 months, 8 days before
  5. Feersum - A PSGI engine for Perl based on EV/libev
    • Version: 1.410 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.407 was 1 year, 5 months, 26 days before
  6. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
    • Version: 0.47 on 2020-11-29
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 0.46 was 20 days before
  7. IO::AIO - Asynchronous/Advanced Input/Output
    • Version: 4.73 on 2020-12-04
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 4.72 was 1 year, 8 months, 1 day before
  8. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.67 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 435
    • Previous version: 8.65 was 24 days before
  9. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 3.7000 on 2020-12-05
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 3.6006 was 3 months, 1 day before
  10. PAR::Packer - PAR Packager
    • Version: 1.051 on 2020-11-29
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 1.050 was 8 months, 11 days before
  11. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20201202 on 2020-12-02
    • Votes: 120
    • Previous version: 20201001 was 2 months, 4 days before
  12. Plack - Perl Superglue for Web frameworks and Web Servers (PSGI toolkit)
    • Version: 1.0048 on 2020-11-30
    • Votes: 220
    • Previous version: 1.0047 was 2 years, 9 months, 20 days before
  13. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v6.10.0 on 2020-12-01
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v6.8.0 was 1 month, 27 days before
  14. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.65 on 2020-11-30
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.63 was 2 days before

(cdxlv) metacpan weekly report - Plack

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

Week's winner: Plack (+3)

Build date: 2020/12/05 20:03:50 GMT


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(cdlxx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-12-05 19:31:10 GMT


  1. How can I wrap require and use? - [8/4]
  2. Regular expression to match exactly and only n times - [3/3]
  3. log4perl: How to write ERROR message to file and DEBUG message to stderr? - [3/1]
  4. Properly detecting if Perl subroutine argument is array - [2/1]
  5. Regex: capture anything within parenthesis, also nested parenthesis - [2/1]
  6. How to ignore an exit(1) on a perl subroutine - tried eval but didn't work - [2/1]
  7. Can chrome know if there is a window maximized or not in front during selenium automation? - [2/0]
  8. Is there a way to read comments/notes of a cell in an excel file with ParseExcel/ParseXLSX? - [2/0]
  9. How send and received string, array and hash in perl function - [1/2]
  10. How can I get the local time modification of a file with File::stat in perl? - [1/2]

28 nov 2020

(cccxvii) 9 CPAN great 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: 0.995 on 2020-11-28
    • Votes: 49
    • Previous version: 0.994 was 21 days before
  2. App::TimeTracker - time tracking for impatient and lazy command line lovers
    • Version: 3.005 on 2020-11-22
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 3.004 was 3 months, 12 days before
  3. Convert::Binary::C - Binary Data Conversion using C Types
    • Version: 0.84 on 2020-11-23
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.83 was 4 days before
  4. Graph - graph data structures and algorithms
    • Version: 0.9711 on 2020-11-27
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.9708 was 21 days before
  5. Mojo::JWT - JSON Web Token the Mojo way
    • Version: 0.09 on 2020-11-22
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.08 was 1 year, 11 months, 18 days before
  6. Moo - Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
    • Version: 2.004004 on 2020-11-25
    • Votes: 277
    • Previous version: 2.004003 was 4 days before
  7. Package::Stash - Routines for manipulating stashes
    • Version: 0.39 on 2020-11-22
    • Votes: 27
    • Previous version: 0.38 was 1 year, 10 months, 22 days before
  8. Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
    • Version: 0.20 on 2020-11-24
    • Votes: 31
    • Previous version: 0.18 was 3 months, 23 days before
  9. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.63 on 2020-11-28
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 0.61 was 25 days before

(cdxliv) metacpan weekly report - Plack

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 36

Week's winners (+3): Plack

Build date: 2020/11/28 15:51:00 GMT


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(cdlxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-11-28 15:35:26 GMT


  1. Perl: Best way to open a file exclusively? - [4/1]
  2. Store and read string with newline from Config::Simple config file - [3/2]
  3. (Windows 10) Trying to Install Perl Modules both PPM and CPAN fail? - [3/0]
  4. atom feed: script to combine multiple <author> items into one? - [2/2]
  5. Why does File::Slurp get UTF8 characters wrong when I use open ':std', ':encoding(UTF-8)';? - [2/2]
  6. create a hash of occurrences in an array with map - [2/2]
  7. What difference does curly brace make in accessing an object - [2/1]
  8. How do I change a Perl Readonly scalar in a module for a unit test? - [2/1]
  9. Perl load module BEGIN - [2/1]
  10. Monitoring stdout of a forked process in perl by character - [2/0]

21 nov 2020

(cccxvi) 11 CPAN great 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. Convert::Binary::C - Binary Data Conversion using C Types
    • Version: 0.83 on 2020-11-19
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.79 was 6 months before
  2. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.56 on 2020-11-19
    • Votes: 47
    • Previous version: 7.54 was 7 days before
  3. GraphViz2 - A wrapper for AT&T's Graphviz
    • Version: 2.62 on 2020-11-16
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.61 was 8 days before
  4. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20201120 on 2020-11-20
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20201020 was 1 month before
  5. Moo - Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
    • Version: 2.004003 on 2020-11-21
    • Votes: 277
    • Previous version: 2.004000 was 7 months, 12 days before
  6. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.29 on 2020-11-18
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 1.28 was 26 days before
  7. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.025 on 2020-11-19
    • Votes: 37
    • Previous version: 2.024 was 2 months, 2 days before
  8. Pod::Simple - framework for parsing Pod
    • Version: 3.42 on 2020-11-14
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 3.41 was 1 month, 2 days before
  9. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
    • Version: 0.0927 on 2020-11-20
    • Votes: 21
    • Previous version: 0.0926 was 14 days before
  10. WWW::YouTube::Download - WWW::YouTube::Download - Very simple YouTube video download interface
    • Version: 0.65 on 2020-11-19
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 0.64 was 1 month, 29 days before
  11. Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best CMS
    • Version: 1.067 on 2020-11-16
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 1.066 was 3 months, 8 days before

(cdxliii) metacpan weekly report - Tickit::Widgets

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 60

Week's winner (+3): Tickit::Widgets

Build date: 2020/11/21 14:22:09 GMT


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(cdlxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-11-21 14:12:14 GMT


  1. How to avoid "deep recursion" error/warning in Type::Tiny::_build_coercion - [4/1]
  2. perl shebang: `Too late for "-Mstrict"` - [3/2]
  3. How can I operate on a list which is identified by a string? - [3/2]
  4. 500 Can't connect to url with lwp in perl - [3/1]
  5. Using FIND & EXEC to execute a filename-required Perl script over multiple files - [2/3]
  6. How can I get the directory two levels up in a path in Perl? - [2/2]
  7. Perl: parsing text output into array of hashes - [2/2]
  8. How can I assign STDOUT to a var and print to that while using 'use strict'? - [2/2]
  9. Is possible iteration over undefined dereferenced array a bug or a feature? - [2/2]
  10. How to catch ctrl+c and close file descriptor in Perl - [2/2]