Blogs:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/04/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-march-28th---april-4th.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/717318481516081152
March 28th - April 4th
News and updates
Dave Mitchell provides his [1]grant [2]reports, and his [3]monthly grant
report as well.
Tony provides his [4]grant [5]reports.
Perl 5.24 blockers can be found [6]here and [7]here.
Issues
New issues
* [8]Perl #127805: Let programs adjust buffer size of read filehandles.
* [9]Perl #127829: Bleadperl breaks [10]Pod::Usage::Return.
* [11]Perl #127810: Provide -Dfortify_inc Configure option to remove .
from @INC.
Resolved issues
* [12]Perl #127790: Segfault involving [13]Data::Dumper, anonymous sub,
and scalar ref.
* [14]Perl #127231: Bleadperl breaks [15]App::JobLog.
* [16]Perl #127727: Bleadperl breaks [17]RPerl.
* [18]Perl #77990: fileno() fails to return descriptor of filehandle.
* [19]Perl #8979: "Ambiguous use" isn't.
* [20]Perl #28019: Non-compliant Syslog UDP packets.
* [21]Perl #126206: SIGFPE integer divide by zero in S_make_trie.
* [22]Perl #127760: [23]File::Path fails tests in non-threaded
builds on
smoke testing.
* [24]Perl #126182: Regex causing memory leak.
* [25]Perl #127799: Bleadperl breaks [26]Module::Build::Pluggable.
Proposed patches
Matthew Horsfall [27]raises that PERL_MEM_LOG doesn't seem to work
anymore
and provides a sample patch in [28]Perl #127819, which was merged.
Aaron Crane provides a patch in [29]Perl #127821 to make it possible to
import lround() from [30]POSIX.
Shlomi Fish provides a patch in [31]Perl #127830 to correct some spelling
errors in lib/unicore/mktables.
Tony Cook provides a patch for [32]Perl #126162 (stat() behaves
differently when passed an array in argument list).
Dave Mitchell provides a patch for [33]Perl #127746 (charset.t fails on
Solaris).
Discussion
Karl Williamson is covering the recent failures on [34]AIX and [35]HP-UX.
We received a nice thank-you [36]email from Nicolas Graf. Fun to read!
Todd Rinaldo suggested a patch in [37]Perl #127810 to be able to compile
Perl so it does not also load the current directory into @INC. There is a
conversation ongoing on the ticket.
References
1. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235496
2. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235601
3. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235534
4. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235587
5. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235589
6. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235501
7. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235537
8. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127805
9. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127829
10. https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::Usage::Return
11. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127810
12. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127790
13. https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Dumper
14. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127231
15. https://metacpan.org/pod/App::JobLog
16. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127727
17. https://metacpan.org/pod/RPerl
18. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77990
19. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8979
20. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28019
21. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126206
22. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127760
23. https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Path
24. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126182
25. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127799
26. https://metacpan.org/pod/Module::Build::Pluggable
27. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235541
28. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127819
29. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127821
30. https://metacpan.org/pod/POSIX
31. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127830
32. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126162
33. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127746
34. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235521
35. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235523
36. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/235565
37. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127810
