This Week on perl5-porters (19-25 September 2005)

2005-09-26 Thread David Landgren
) working correctly on the smoke tests. http://xrl.us/hqyt About this summary This summary was written by David Landgren. Information concerning bugs referenced in this summary (as #n) may be viewed at http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=n Information concerning patches

This Week on perl5-porters (6-12 March 2006)

2006-03-17 Thread David Landgren
keen on the idea. http://xrl.us/kgnb http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Compile/ About this summary This summary was written by David Landgren. Information concerning bugs referenced in this summary (as #n) may be viewed at http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=n

This Week on perl5-porters (20-26 March 2006)

2006-03-30 Thread David Landgren
by David Landgren. Information concerning bugs referenced in this summary (as #n) may be viewed at http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=n Information concerning patches to maint or blead referenced in this summary (as #n) may be viewed at http://public.activestate.com

This Week on perl5-porters (27 March-2 April 2006)

2006-04-07 Thread David Landgren
is that the VMS port currently doesn't offer the list form of piped open. http://xrl.us/kqrg About this summary This summary was written by David Landgren. I will be getting a life^W^W^Wtaking a break next week so the next summary will be for the fortnight 3-16 April. If you want

This Fortnight on perl5-porters (3-16 April 2006)

2006-04-19 Thread David Landgren
a bug in Coverity's analysis, and whether it should be reported to Coverity. David Landgren noted that on the postfix-users mailing list, Wietse Venema had announced a new release of Postfix, that in part dealt with Coverity findings, many of which were false positives. Wietse's thoughts

This Week on perl5-porters (15-21 May 2006)

2006-05-26 Thread David Landgren
. http://xrl.us/mrda About this summary This summary was written by David Landgren. If you want a bookmarklet approach to viewing bugs and change reports, there are a couple of bookmarklets that you might find useful on my page of Perl stuff: http://www.landgren.net/perl

This Week on perl5-porters - (3-9 July 2006)

2006-07-11 Thread David Landgren
. http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2006-07/msg00347.html About this summary This summary was written by David Landgren. Last week's thread: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2006-07/msg00203.html received a comment from Jan Dubois clarifying

This Week on perl5-porters - 20-26 January 2008

2008-01-31 Thread David Landgren
() *is* available on Win32, and has been for quite some time (as in, prior to 5.8). only the documentation was buggy http://xrl.us/bev4e About this summary This summary was written by David Landgren. In last week's summary, I explained that Moritz Lenz was disappointed that a regexp would

This Week on perl5-porters - 24-29 February 2008

2008-03-06 Thread David Landgren
on non-existing package (#51092) David Landgren thought that the test that Rafael Garcia-Suarez added as part of the fix for this bug should have had the RT bug number embedded in it somewhere. In other other news, we discovered that there are 485 subscribers to perl5-porters. http

This Week on perl5-porters - 1-8 March 2008

2008-03-14 Thread David Landgren
to confirm or refute the hypothesis that Perl runs on EBCDIC. 24-29 February 2008 http://xrl.us/bhpww About this summary This summary was written by David Landgren. Weekly summaries are published on http://use.perl.org/ and posted on a mailing list, (subscription: [EMAIL PROTECTED

This Fortnight on perl5-porters - 13-27 April 2008

2008-05-03 Thread David Landgren
April 2008 http://xrl.us/bj2wz About this summary This summary was written by David Landgren. Weekly summaries are published on http://use.perl.org/ and posted on a mailing list, (subscription: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). The archive is at http://dev.perl.org/perl5/list-summaries/. Corrections

This Week on perl5-porters - 4-10 May 2008

2008-05-15 Thread David Landgren
be possible to plug in a custom MRO handler that would do what Lyle wanted. http://xrl.us/bkkdr File::Path::mkpath() incompatibility in perl-5.10 Gisle Aas demonstrated a problem in the 2.x version of File::Path's mkpath creating unwanted directories. David Landgren offered a work

This Week on perl5-porters - 25-31 May 2008

2008-06-05 Thread David Landgren
() incompatibility in perl-5.10 David Landgren replied to Jan Dubois on the subject of inodes on Win32. perlport says the second value in the return list from stat is always 0, and this throws off the code that detects race conditions. As such, there's no way to determine if an attacker

This Week on perl5-porters - 8-14 September 2008

2008-09-23 Thread David Landgren
behaviour) in a patch, which Rafaƫl Garcia-Suarez applied. http://xrl.us/oru7z Unicode::UCD::casefold() does not work as documented (#58430) In response to Karl Williamson's description of the possible options available to him to solve the problem of Unicode case folding, David Landgren

This Week on perl5-porters - 15-21 September 2008

2008-09-28 Thread David Landgren
This summary was written by David Landgren. Weekly summaries are published on http://use.perl.org/ and posted on a mailing list, (subscription: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). The archive is at http://dev.perl.org/perl5/list-summaries/. Corrections and comments are welcome. If you found this summary