use Perl

David Golden writes:

I'd like to be able to easily smoke test at least the volatile 100
list for the 5.10.1 RC's. Is there an easy way I can get a list in
the form:

DAGOLDEN/Sub-Uplevel-0.2002.tar.gz

Just a text file would be fine, or JSON or whatever. Just something
with AUTHOR/DISTNAME-VERSION.SUFFIX.

The Volatile 100 is my replacement for the Phalanx 100. Where the Phalanx 100 represented major functional modules that people might depend on directly the most and was curated by humans, the Volatile 100 in a graph-weighted list of the 100 most depended on distributions and is continuously updated automatically.

Finding information of the kind David needs is exactly why I created the CPANDB module. His query can be boiled down to just a single line of code.

use CPANDB;
 
my @releases = map { $_->release }
               CPANDB::Distribution->select('order by volatility desc limit 100');