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From:
Shlomi Fish
Date:
March 24, 2014 19:42
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.20.0 Blockers, 2014-03-24
Message ID:
20140324214222.5ff4cb6f@telaviv1.shlomifish.org
Hi all,

On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:08:16 -0400
Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:

> Today is March 24, 2014. There are approximately 57 days until the expected
> release of Perl 5.20.0.  A summary of blockers follows.
> 
> ## Critical Behavior Changes or Bugs
> 
> 1.  $!, UTF8, and locales
>     https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=119499
> 
>     I hope to make a post about this soon.
> 
> 2.  /m causing false negative
>     https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121484
> 
>     This is a big deal and needs fixing.
> 

In addition to these, I recommend applying the patches I submitted
based on Hiroo Hayashi’s work here:

* https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=121456

They fix a major usability problem with the "perl -d" debugger and shouldn't be
hard to apply.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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