Blog:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/05/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-april-28th---may-1st.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/727062272670064642
April 28th - May 1st
Since this covers only a few days, it is rather short.
News and updates
Steve Hay [1]released Perl 5.22.2!
All the blockers for 5.24.0 are tracked in [2]Perl #128021.
Issues
Resolved issues
* [3]Perl #72330: Assertion failures when running with -t switch and
tainted @INC.
* [4]Perl #127961: Upgrade to [5]threads 2.06.
* [6]Perl #127963: Upgrade to [7]threads::shared 1.51.
* [8]Perl #127964: Upgrade to [9]Thread::Queue 3.08.
Proposed patches
Andreas Voegele provided a patch in [10]Perl #128012 to fix failing tests
in perl5db.t when using [11]mandoc.
Niko Tyni provided a patch in [12]Perl #128020 to wrap lines at 900
characters to make sure it plays better with MTAs.
Father Chrysostomos provided a patched for the slowness described in
[13]Perl #127999.
Discussion
Karl Williamson [14]clarified what his main concern is with regard to
unsupported locales.
Dave Mitchell [15]provided his analysis of [16]Perl #127999 (slowdown in
split + list assign).
References
1. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/236120
2. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128021
3. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72330
4. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127961
5. https://metacpan.org/pod/threads
6. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127963
7. https://metacpan.org/pod/threads::shared
8. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127964
9. https://metacpan.org/pod/Thread::Queue
10. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128012
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandoc
12. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128020
13. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127999
14. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/236083
15. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/236106
16. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127999
