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From:

Ricardo Signes

Date:

March 31, 2014 15:02

Subject:

Perl 5.20.0 Blockers, 2014-03-31

Message ID:

20140331150217.GA16629@cancer.codesimply.com

Today is March 31, 2014. There are approximately 50 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
2.  Gconvert() obeys LC_NUMERIC without "use locale"
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121317

    I believe both these changes should be reverted, restoring the 5.18
    behavior.  Karl has suggested more substantial changes to make in early
    5.21, which I believe will be the right thing.

3.  "Make perlbug Unicode-aware" broke perlbug on Win32
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121277

    I'd rather not revert the change, but we need this to work on Win32.  There
    has been some discussion about the fix, but so far it's not fixed.

## Other Bugs

4.  IO::Socket getsockopt subroutine on AIX
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=120835

    We have a patch.  It needs review, application, and testing.  Still.

5.  p /x in debugger yields memory fault
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=120998

    This real bug is still a real bug, in need of debugger debugging.

## BBC Reports

6.  PERLER/JavaScript-Dumper-0.011.tar.gz
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121013

    This is part of locale fixes for stringifying numbers.  My gut instinct is
    to think that this is bound to be something for PERLER to fix downstream.

    Anyone else?

7.  YVES/Data-Dump-Streamer-2.37.tar.gz
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121139

    YVES said he'd follow up.  Hey, Yves, what's the word? :)

8.  RYBSKEJ/forks-0.34.tar.gz
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121352

    I have no idea what's up here.  Broken by "Make set-magic handle vstrings
    properly."  This needs eyes on it.

9.  perl5db.pl does not set new filehandles into ReadLine after pager
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121456

    Just patches to be applied!

10. .pmc not loaded if @INC has a trailing slash
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121512

    Matthew Horsfall has supplied a patch to fix this, awaiting review and
    application.

11. Can't build perl with gcc4.9 due to UB in sv.c
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121505

    sv.c is hitting undefined behavior.  Patch supplied!  Needs review.

## Minor Issues

12. speed up miniperl @INC, buildsitecustomize
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121119

    Without definitive review, this seems bound for 5.21 instead.

13. core tests fail when built on FAT drive with Win32 OS on NTFS
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21442

    I think the actual course of action for 5.20.0 is to add a Known Problems
    entry.  Thoughts?

## To Observe Only

These don't block 5.20.0, but are collected as things to keep an eye on.

13. New copy-on-write breaks CPAN
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=115910

    I think that this has become an informational ticket.  There are still some
    things broken, but "that's their problem."  We would like to see them
    fixed, and will help if we can, but this isn't really *blocking* the next
    release.

14. Our Asian documentation should be updated
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=117765

    This is informational for me.  I am going to make a renewed call for the
    un-updated documentation *today*.  No matter what, I will close this ticket
    (possibly replacing it with more specific tickets) at or around 5.20.0.

-- 
rjbs

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