Blog:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/05/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-may-9th-16th.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/864801247727165440
May 9th-16th
News
Perl 5.26.0-RC1 was [1]released and tested thoroughly. We will need to
also release RC2.
Dave Mitchell [2]took another stab at the idea of short-string PVs. The
new approach seems promising.
Grant reports
* Dave Mitchell Grant #2 [3]reports #172, #173, #174.
* Dave Mitchell Grant #2 [4]report #175.
* Dave Mitchell Grant #2 [5]report for April 2017.
Issues
New issues
* [6]Perl #131221: Cannot clone handle with via layer.
* [7]Perl #131224: Bleadperl breaks HARDAKER/QWizard-3.15.tar.gz on
Windows.
* [8]Perl #131258: [9]IO::Uncompress::Gunzip silently does not process
utf8 strings. This was then filed against the distribution [10]here.
* [11]Perl #131263: Perl mess with UTF8 flag of GV.
* [12]Perl #131291: Slowdown in integer loops.
* [13]Perl #131314: "unused parameter" warning when building with g++.
* [14]Perl #131315: [15]Net::Ping in bleadperl broken on Windows XP.
* [16]Perl #131316: perlbug should identify trackable module better.
Resolved Issues
* [17]Perl #128420: Changes in regex recursion in 5.24.
Suggested patches
Kent Fredric opened a ticket ([18]Perl #131304 to collect the
additionally
discussed prose regarding . in @INC.
Jim Keenan [19]provided a patch to fix a Makefile.PL issue in
[20]Time::HiRes with the issue of . in @INC.
Discussion
Zakariyya Mughal [21]asked about supporting file path names under
Windows.
The task seems more involved than one might think as explained by Leon
Timmermans in the thread.
Karl Williamson [22]suggests (RFC: Add new string comparison macros in
handy.h) adding new string comparison macros.
References
1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/244337
2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/244296
3. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/244319
4. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/244386
5. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/244320
6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131221
7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131224
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131258
9. http://metacpan.org/pod/IO::Uncompress::Gunzip
10. https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=121545
11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131263
12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131291
13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131314
14. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131315
15. http://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Ping
16. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131316
17. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128420
18. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131304
19. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131202
20. http://metacpan.org/pod/Time::HiRes
21. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/244316
22. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/244335
