cpan-outdated-fresh This application bears much resemblance to cpan-outdated, but with a few important differences. * MetaCPAN Driven * "--dev" supported * Temporal difference comparison. Temporal difference comparison One of the big features of using the "MetaCPAN" API, is the ability to filter results into a time bracket. As such, this application can tell you only about updates that happened to things you have installed "IF" they've been recently updated. For instance, one problem I kept facing was this: $ cpan-outdated # Broken::Package $ cpanm Broken::Package # Broken::Package is broken! ... wait a few days $ cpan-outdated # Broken::Package $ cpanm Broken::Package # Broken::Package is broken! ... doh ... repeat. With this app, as soon as "Broken::Package" falls outside the "age" window, you stop getting told about it. DU;DC - Didn't Update, Don't Care. This also has a benefit that if you run it very frequently, you can get a speed boost by narrowing the update window. $ time # 12:00 $ cpan-outdated # install ALL the things ... wait a while $ time # 1:00 $ cpan-outdated-fresh -a 1h # One update Essentially rewarding you for frequent use by being fast for frequent use. Downside Unfortunately, this optimization has a trade-off, namely, it scales very poorly vs time, due to exponential growth. "cpan-outdated" uses "02packages", which has its limits, and its inefficiencies, but the inefficiencies are effectively constant due to old packages getting pruned from "02packages" as newer versions replace them. So: cpan-outdated-fresh -a 30d Will take substantially more time to execute than cpan-outdated We've tried to combat this by trimming some cycles, but they may still prove over-zealous. However, this approach is still going to give you "--dev" results that "cpan-outdated" can't deliver. INSTALLATION This is a Perl module distribution. It should be installed with whichever tool you use to manage your installation of Perl, e.g. any of cpanm . cpan . cpanp -i . Consult http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html for further instruction. Should you wish to install this module manually, the procedure is perl Makefile.PL make make test make install COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Kent Fredric . This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.