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On 05/24/2017 11:17 AM, James E Keenan wrote: > 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 At this point, I think we should simply manually edit these 3 files: $ ack -C1 'comp.*lang.*perl.*misc' pod/perldelta.pod pod/perl525* pod/perldelta.pod 3287-If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles recently 3288:posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at 3289-L<https://rt.perl.org/> . There may also be information at pod/perl5250delta.pod 69-If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles recently 70:posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at 71-L<https://rt.perl.org/> . There may also be information at pod/perl5251delta.pod 395-If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles recently 396:posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at 397-L<https://rt.perl.org/> . There may also be information atThread Previous | Thread Next