Re: DAVEM TPF Grant#2 April 2017 report

+1 !


Thank you for the report and the work, Dave! :)


On 05/09/2017 10:13 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> The main things I did last month were:
>
> * Fixd require's "Can't locate" error message so that it only mentions
>   @INC if @INC was actually searched, and only gives the "you may need to
>   install" hint if the filename maps to a valid module name.
>
> * fixed up the usage of 'do' in core and made tests run without '.' in
>   @INC.  It turns out that all core tests were being run with '.' in @INC
>   even when that was no longer set by default by the perl interpreter. I
>   removed that, and then fixed up the issues it revealed.
>
> * I made a start on a proof-of-concept branch which stores short strings
>   directly in the body of an SV.
>
>
> SUMMARY:
>      14:28 RT #131098 Error message for require "./base.pm" is wrong
>       2:26 RT #131124 threads::shared panic
>       2:09 RT #131126 various 5.24.1 test failure issues
>       6:44 fix up usage of 'do' in core
>       6:00 investigate short-string PVs
>       7:30 make tests run without '.' in @INC
>       3:01 perldelta entry for the dot-in-@INC issue
>       0:31 process p5p mailbox
>     ------
>      42:49 TOTAL (HH::MM)
>
>
>  185.0 weeks
> 2591.8 total hours
>   14.0 average hours per week
>
> There are 208 hours left on the grant
>

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