develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from May 2017

Re: perldelta [ was: Re: Perl 5.26.0-RC1 is now available!]

Thread Previous | Thread Next
From:
James E Keenan
Date:
May 24, 2017 15:17
Subject:
Re: perldelta [ was: Re: Perl 5.26.0-RC1 is now available!]
Message ID:
6f24e97e-43dd-d98f-4e2a-09a432d9fd4e@pobox.com
On 05/24/2017 09:58 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> 
> I've just pushed my last set of reviews of perldelta.
> 
> A couple of things I wasn't clear about.
> 
> In
>      =head2 Platform-Specific Notes
> 
> there are separate entries for
> 
>      =item Darwin
>      =item OS X
>      =item macOS (specifially macOS 10.12)
> 
> Are all these essentially the same platform? (I'm not very familiar with
> Macs).
> 
> Similarly, there are separate entries for
> 
>      =item Windows
>      =item Win32
> 
> should these all be under 'Windows'?
> 
> Finally under
> 
>      =head1 Reporting Bugs
> 
> it starts off:
> 
>      If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles recently
>      posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at
>      L<https://rt.perl.org/>  .
> 
> I think we've been removing mentions of newsgroups on the grounds that
> they're no longer the main goto point for perl pregrammers. I suggest I
> remove it. I'm not sure how it keeps getting there - does
> Porting/new-perldelta.pl extract it from an older perldelta?

Apparently it does.  I just ran that program in a clean checkout and saw 
that the comp.lang.perl.misc line was added to newly created file 
pod/perl5260delta.pod.

Going back to a clean checkout, I call:

$ ack -l 'comp.*lang.*perl.*misc' ./pod | ack perl52 |sort
pod/perl5200delta.pod
pod/perl5201delta.pod
pod/perl5202delta.pod
pod/perl5203delta.pod
pod/perl5220delta.pod
pod/perl5221delta.pod
pod/perl5222delta.pod
pod/perl5223delta.pod
pod/perl5240delta.pod
pod/perl5241delta.pod
pod/perl5250delta.pod
pod/perl5251delta.pod

Those last two look suspicious.  But I find that even if I edit 
perl5250delta.pod and perl5251delta.pod to remove the reference to 
comp.lang.perl.misc and then re-run Porting/new-perldelta.pl, I get a 
brand new file, pod/perl5260delta.pod, that retains the clpm reference 
-- but pod/perldelta.pod is now clean.

Puzzled.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

Thread Previous | Thread Next


nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About