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From:
Sawyer X
Date:
May 20, 2017 09:37
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.26.0-RC1 is now available!
Message ID:
64e2bb91-c8d3-674a-8807-a208870f7787@gmail.com
On 05/19/2017 10:24 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
> On 05/18/2017 09:31 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
>> On 05/17/2017 11:17 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
>>> On 05/17/2017 08:54 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Karl Williamson
>>>> <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 05/17/2017 07:16 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 04:13:33PM +0200, Sawyer X wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Are you in a position to be able to coalesce soon? If not I could
>>>>>>>> have a
>>>>>>>> go.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, worth noting: I *have* coalesced them, just with some
>>>>>>> mistakes.
>>>>>>> Feel free to add it yourself to perldelta directly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah sorry, I realised that later - I must have been looking at the
>>>>>> wrong
>>>>>> branch when I saw an emptyish perldelta.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll do it today/tomorrow. I have additional cleanups to do. We
>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>> have another RC soon, so I think by then we'll have ironed out
>>>>>>> everything.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you find anything else, please let me know. I'll go over it
>>>>>>> again and
>>>>>>> again, hopefully cleaning it up properly.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Would you like me to merge your text?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd suggest that first, Ævar merges his branch as-is (any
>>>>>> bikeshedding
>>>>>> of it can be accommodated with further commits to blead rather than
>>>>>> updating a separate branch).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then I'll merge in my @INC text,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then people can tweak anything as they see fit.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> I've just done that. Yves had a patch on top which I squashed into
>>>> mine and changed him to be the author (since the text was all his at
>>>> that point), sans a typo in a commit message and a minor whitespace
>>>> fix what I pushed was what I noted above.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks everyone for the feedback!
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have made some updates to perldelta, but have run out of time
>>> tonight.
>>> There's a lot more work needed than I realized.
>>>
>>> The commit messages indicate things I hope others will look at.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I pushed a couple of nits fixes. I'm only about 10% of the way
>> through the file.
>>
>
> I've pushed a few more changes, stopping when my eyes started to glaze
> over reading the thing.
>
> I believe the section on documentation changes needs extensive
> changes. The stuff in there is mostly useless. "Removed redundand dSP
> from an example" may be true, but its not really useful. And
> specifying these would lead a reader to think that the section really
> is extremely detailed and accurate, whereas, what is in it is kind of
> random.
I think this has grown from a people documenting what was important on a
particular dev release. When merged together for 5.26.0, the changes are
now competing on the whole, and render themselves relatively useless.
> The rewrite of the first part of perlre and removal of the final part
> were not mentioned at all, and are far more important than most of
> what is in there.
+1
> If we are going to have this section, the various pod files should be
> examined for commits that occurred in this release. I would go to the
> history links like
>
> https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/history/HEAD:/pod/perlre.pod
I would like to release RC2 soon. (As in, as soon as possible.) How long
of a process might this be?
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