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http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/12/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-december-1st-7th.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/806846152951861249
December 1st-7th
News and highlights
This holiday season you can adopt a Unicode character, news from the
Unicode Consortium [1]shared by Karl Williamson.
Yves Orton [2]introduced (Hybrid OAATH variant for short keys,
Siphash 1-3
for longer keys) a change to Perl's hashing. Interesting details.
Thorsten Behrens [3]raised a [4]problem with BashOnWindows and
[5]File::Find, incorrectly identifying the operating system. Leon
Timmermans [6]provided an update that this was already resolved by
Microsoft.
Sawyer X [7]wondered whether [8]Module::Runtime should be introduced into
core.
Grant reports
* Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 [9]report #152.
* Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 October/November 2016 [10]report.
Issues
New issues
* [11]Perl #130230: stack-overflow S_regatom.
* [12]Perl #130247: Perl_rpeep(OP *): Assertion failed.
* [13]Perl #130254: 5.24.1 - Memory leak in regexp.
* [14]Perl #130263: Aliasing does not work with closures.
* [15]Perl #130270: Fuzzing testcase triggers LeakSanitizer over 101
byte memory leak.
Resolved issues
* [16]Perl #122136: Bleadperl v5.21.0-424-ge35475d breaks
LEOCHARRE/PDF-Burst-1.20.tar.gz.
* [17]Perl #127494: Bleadperl v5.23.7-331-g000814d breaks
NEILB/Module-Info-0.37.tar.gz.
* [18]Perl #127616: Bleadperl v5.23.7-209-g2e2d740 breaks
TNT/Syntax-Feature-Try-1.003.tar.gz.
* [19]Perl #127752: [Win32] bleadperl breaks [20]Module::Build.
* [21]Perl #129953: lib/locale.t: Test failures and segfaulting on
FreeBSD-11 and FreeBSD-12.
* [22]Perl #129224: Bleadperl v5.25.4-85-gf441d7d breaks
XMATH/Data-Swap-0.08.tar.gz.
* [23]Perl #129345: perlmod doc bug wrt package scope.
* [24]Perl #129788: [PATCH] Fix possible memory leak in [25]IO::Poll.
* [26]Perl #130194: [PATCH] Organize files in pod/.gitignore correctly.
* [27]Perl #130247: Perl_rpeep(OP *): Assertion failed.
Suggested patches
Tony Cook provided a patch (and revised it again) for [28]Perl #127663
(Safety for -i option).
Discussion
Sam Kington [29]asked why does the debugger use single quotes when
dumping
strings?
Peter John Acklam [30]asked (Math-BigInt OO design (again)) about an
alternative name for the upcoming Math::BigReal.
References
1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241290
2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241468
3. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241336
4. https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/186
5. http://metacpan.org/pod/File::Find
6. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241446
7. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241364
8. http://metacpan.org/pod/Module::Runtime
9. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241401
10. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241402
11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130230
12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130247
13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130254
14. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130263
15. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130270
16. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122136
17. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127494
18. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127616
19. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127752
20. http://metacpan.org/pod/Module::Build
21. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129953
22. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129224
23. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129345
24. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129788
25. http://metacpan.org/pod/IO::Poll
26. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130194
27. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130247
28. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127663
29. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241333
30. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241355
