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http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/07/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-june-29th---july-2nd.html
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June 29th - July 2nd
News
Perl 5.22.4 is now finally [1]available!
Perl 5.24.2 is now finally [2]available!
Karl Williamson [3]updates us that LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S is now
officially recognized.
Grant Reports
* Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 [4]report 3.
* Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 [5]report 4.
* Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 [6]report 182.
Issues
New Issues
* [7]Perl #131679: our sub Foo::Bar spits a different error message
from
the one for my sub Foo::Bar.
* [8]Perl #131687: Deparsed object constants lose blessedness.
* [9]Perl #131688: Instructions on how to patch Configure unclear.
* [10]Perl #131689: Configure should probe for __builtin_add_overflow.
* [11]Perl #131690: sysopen() sets $! on success.
Resolved Issues
* [12]Perl #131645: pp_sys.c: Assertion failure.
* [13]Perl #131679: our sub Foo::Bar spits a different error message
from the one for my sub Foo::Bar.
Patches
Lukas Mai provided a patch for [14]Perl #131689 (Configure should probe
for__builtin_add_overflow).
Pali provided patches in [15]Perl #131683
(Encode::ONLY_PRAGMA_WARNINGS in
$PerlIO::encoding::fallback) to address the mess in warnings provided by
[16]Encode.
Discussion
Pali also [17]provided patches in [18]Perl #131685 (Rename
utf8::is_utf8()
and other functions) to revise the utf8::is_utf8() set of functions.
There
is a discussion around that and what that will mean.
References
1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245293
2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245292
3. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245280
4. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245275
5. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245276
6. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245320
7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131679
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131687
9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131688
10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131689
11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131690
12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131645
13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131679
14. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131689
15. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131683
16. http://metacpan.org/pod/Encode
17. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245286
18. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131685
