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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
August 7, 2011 23:09
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.14 is dead
Message ID:
20110808080938.15a00473@pc09.procura.nl
On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 13:52:31 -0700, Father Chrysostomos
<sprout@cpan.org> wrote:
> (I’m hoping that subject will draw attention.)
>
> Look at the maint-5.14 branch. There have been exactly 0 commits
> since 5.14.1. Am I the only one interested in 5.14.2?
On Jesse's request, I went to all of those, and +1'd the ones I am
comfortable with. I also added one of my own:
9cfd094e Support gcc-4.x on HP-UX PA-RISC/64
> I have a list of nominated patches, which I submitted a couple of
> weeks ago. I have had no responses.
>
> In addition, this new commit fixes a regression from 5.12:
>
> f8b0429 [perl #95748] IPC::Open3::open3(..., '-') broken
>
> Here are the others:
>
> > Except for 043d1e6, these are all regressions of one sort or another.
> >
> > c533395 [perl #90160] U* gives ‘U0 mode on an empty string’
> > b2b7346 2nd try: [perl #91834] utf8::decode does not respect copy-on-write
> > a0aa607 Allow lvalue subs to return COWs in list context
> > 043d1e6 move "garbage collection" glossary entry where it belongs
> > a130272 Allow lvalue subs to return COWs in reference context
> > e5accad Allow COW values to be deleted from restricted hashes
> > fb2352e Allow restricted hashes containing COWs to be cleared
> > b2b95e4 Stop localised ties from becoming ro when COW
> > 47d6f3d Get PerlIO::scalar to write to COWs
> > 4ab5bd5 Make Devel::Peek::fill_mstats work on COWs
> > 71edc89 [perl #92258] <$fh> hangs on a glob copy
> > f5d1ed1 Fix my + attrs + list assignment
> > 4dbb339 Allow ‘sub x :lvalue’ to apply to XSUBs and stubs
> > 21690b7 Make it possible to have read-only glob copies
> >
> > These two go together, as the first one only partially fixed the bug:
> >
> > d34a666 [perl #91880] $_ refcounting problems in @INC filters
> > 339c6c6 Follow-up to d34a6664
> >
> > These four need some explanation:
> >
> > a991bd3 Make Storable freeze COWs properly
> > d5c6c69 Fix a Storable test to work in 5.8.9-
> > fa819c1 Make SvIsCOW honest about globs
> > 3e89ba1 Make Internals::SvREADONLY smarter
> >
> > a991bd3 includes a test, but that test triggers the bug fixed by
> 3e89ba1. So if both are backported, either the tests from a991bd3
> should be left out, or d5c6c69 should be backported as well. 3e89ba1
> depends on fa819c1.
--
H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/
using 5.00307 through 5.14 and porting perl5.15.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00,
11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.4 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3.
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