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December 14th-20th
Updates
Additional grant reports from Dave Mitchell [1]here. Almost 29 hours on 4
tickets, compiler warnings, and smoke failures.
Steve Hay created meta ticket [2]Perl #126920 to track all the possible
blockers to Perl 5.22.2.
Craig A. Berry [3]updated the list that Perl 5.22.1 binary kits are now
available.
Karl Williamson [4]updated about the Adopt-A-Character program Unicode
launched.
David Golden [5]requested that people make sure perldelta is up-to-date
with their changes, preparing for Perl 5.23.6.
Bugs
Reported bugs
* [6]Perl #126933: Fix use of == to compare string in perlref, applied.
* [7]Perl #126958: Bleadperl fails to build on OpenIndiana, a
derivative
of OpenSolaris.
* RT#126957: Incompatibility of [8]Tie::Scalar and [9]threads.
Resolved bugs
* [10]Perl #124364: Some version strings in [11]Module::CoreList's
delta
contain trailing spaces, causing warnings.
* [12]Perl #126843: Add note about scope to [13]strict documentation.
* [14]Perl #126813: TrailingCommas feature request to [15]Data::Dumper.
* [16]Perl #126820: [17]www.cpan.org is not up-to-date on latest
supported Perl versions.
* [18]Perl #124097: Attempt to free unreferenced scalar.
* [19]Perl #126240: a panic happening after freeing the env after a
fork.
* [20]Perl #126933: Fix use of == to compare string in perlref,
applied.
Proposed patches
Tony Cook and Dave Mitchell continued on a breakage with [21]ddb in
bleadperl, and Dave provided a patch in [22]Perl #126633.
Mariusz Zaborski proposed another patch in [23]Perl #126847.
Tony Cook provides a patch for fixing a failed compilation on El Capitan
in [24]Perl #126706.
Tony Cook applied a patch to resolve [25]Perl #123994, a null pointer
dereference, which will be smoked soon.
Chad Granum submitted a patch in [26]Perl #126953 to add renaming
capabilities to [27]Exporter. James E. Keenan is already smoking it.
Discussion
Karl Williamson raised a short discussion on how to phrase a deprecation
warning for using bitwise operations on strings with code points above
0xFF. The result is available in [28]this commit.
Christian Millour [29]writes to the list about using a my $b in sort and
the documentation for this behavior.
Chad Granum [30]proposed making a change to [31]Exporter to allow
renaming
when exporting. This generated a very interesting thread, involving a
discussion on what qualifies as a change worthy of added to core and the
role of CPAN in this.
References
1. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233329
2. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126920
3. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233376
4. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233384
5. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233410
6. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126933
7. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126958
8. https://metacpan.org/pod/Tie::Scalar
9. https://metacpan.org/pod/threads
10. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124364
11. https://metacpan.org/pod/Module::CoreList
12. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126843
13. https://metacpan.org/pod/strict
14. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126813
15. https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Dumper
16. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126820
17. http://www.cpan.org/
18. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124097
19. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126240
20. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126933
21. https://metacpan.org/pod/ddb
22. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126633
23. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126847
24. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126706
25. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123994
26. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126953
27. https://metacpan.org/pod/Exporter
28.
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/87e05d1a4c512d5f08d9963b13e202483e002366#patch4
29. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233380
30. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233391
31. https://metacpan.org/pod/Exporter
