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Sawyer X
Date:
July 10, 2017 16:47
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.24.2-RC1 is now available!
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a9a33d7a-da4a-04c6-a8e9-2b289c433e7f@gmail.com


On 07/04/2017 09:07 AM, Steve Hay via perl5-porters wrote:
> On 4 July 2017 at 11:38, Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> wrote:
>> Great stuff, thanks!
>>
>> I note that the base.pm commit from Aristotle does not appear in
>> blead yet (or maint-5.26). It's lesss urgent there given that the
>> defaults changed but it still has applicability there given that
>> people could unset -Ddefault_inc_excludes_dot.
>>
>> Of course none of this should block the release of the 5.24.2 or
>> 5.22.4, but would be good if it didn't get forgotten - and indeed
>> perlpolicy at least implies that all maint fixes should come via blead.
>>
> I think this was deliberate, e.g. on 17 March Sawyer said (in reply to
> Dave M) that nothing else on perl #127834 needs doing for 5.26.0
> (https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127834#txn-1453921), and
> on 24 March Dave M reverted the various dot-in-INC changes that were
> then current in base.pm (commit 6ee05a9b91).
>
> The latter was done under perl #128769. Originally, the intent there
> was to revert the patches thus far in favour of Aristotle's
> forthcoming patch, but then it ended up going like this:
>
> Graham Knop:
>> Can't we just revert the base.pm changes without putting anything
>> extra in place?  We're already removing . from @INC globally.  There's
>> little need for base.pm to have its own protections, especially given
>> how broken the current implementation is.
> Sawyer:
>> This makes sense.
>> I spoke to Graham more about this on #p5p. There's no need to have an altered base.pm with 5.26.0 (because safe @INC is turned on by default anyway). When base.pm is released separately, it will simply be a different (and up-to-date) version.
>> So we should undo the changes to base.pm in blead. Post 5.26 we could sync it with CPAN.
> However, I agree that it would make sense for the final base.pm
> changes to be ported forward to 5.26 (and blead, pending a new CPAN
> release of base?) because of the possibility of people unsetting the
> default exclusion of dot in @INC.
>
> If there is agreement on that (or at least, no disagreement) then I
> will go ahead with that shortly, when I get things moving on 5.26.0.

I agree. Thank you, Dominic, for raising this, and Steve, for handling it.

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