Blog:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/11/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-november-17th-20th.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/800659572377554944
November 17th-20th
News and highlights
Chad Granum [1]released 5.25.7!
Sawyer X [2]proposed Tony Cook's suggestion to remove thee search.pl
utility.
Sulliven Beck [3]provided a patch to update [4]Locale::Codes from version
3.40 to 3.41.
Issues
New issues
* [5]Perl #130132: Bleadperl v5.25.6-266-ga083329 breaks
SBECK/Date-Manip-6.56.tar.gz.
Resolved issues
* [6]Perl #116775: Broken test t/op/groups.t.
Suggested patches
John Lightsey provided a patch in [7]Perl #130122 to remove all remaining
two-arg open calls.
Niko Tyni provided a patch in [8]Perl #130133 to clean up
$Config{longdblinfbytes}, which seems much trickier.
Andy Lester's continued work on supporting clang's -Weverything has
reached the point of seeking comments, as Andy [9]provided the fruits of
his labor.
James Keenan [10]provided a patch to [11]Perl #129345 (perlmod doc
bug wrt
package scope).
Aaron Crane [12]provided a patch for the Unicode bug in the range
operator.
Discussion
Andy Lester [13]asked about usage of TRUE and FALSE in core.
References
1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241120
2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241072
3. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241087
4. http://metacpan.org/pod/Locale::Codes
5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130132
6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=116775
7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130122
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130133
9. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241083
10. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241096
11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129345
12. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241118
13. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241121
