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Perl 5 Porters Mailing List Summary: October 10th-15th

From:
Sawyer X
Date:
October 16, 2017 18:25
Subject:
Perl 5 Porters Mailing List Summary: October 10th-15th
Message ID:
e5c21e11-8edf-30fa-889c-f4f2e53f18dd@gmail.com
Blog:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/10/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-october-10th-15th.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/919992195947614208

                               October 10th-15th

News and Updates

   This past week we held the 2nd Perl 5 Core Hackathon (P5Hack). We are
   organizing the information to prepare our report for this hackathon.

   Meanwhile You can read the [1]previous report.

Grant Reports

     * Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 [2]report 18.
     * Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 [3]report 19 (TONYC TPF Grant 9 report 19).

Issues

  New Issues

     * [4]Perl #132158: negative-size-param in S_scan_formline.
     * [5]Perl #132255: 5.26.1 Perl_fp_class_denorm still incompatible with
       CentOS 5.
     * [6]Perl #132272: qw() differs from split " " with OGHAM SPACE MARK.
     * [7]Perl #132277: re eval stack unwinding.
     * [8]Perl #132298: Provide a way for distro maintainers to skip
       t/porting/customized.t.
     * [9]Perl #132301: a built-in startswith($string, $prefix) function.
     * [10]Perl #132304: Some code does not work under debugger.

  Resolved Issues

     * [11]Perl #124349: [12]Sys::Hostname::hostname warn on spurious
       arguments.
     * [13]Perl #131000: splice doesn't honor Internals::SvREADONLY.
     * [14]Perl #131982: getpriority and setpriority are underdocumented.
     * [15]Perl #132159: Use preprocessor check for some DEBUG_X_TEST calls
       in sv.c and toke.c.

Suggested Patches

   Nick Koston provided a patch in [16]Perl #132274 to improve [17]Carp
   backtrace performance.

References

   1.
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/02/perl-5-core-hackathon-p5hack-report.html
   2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/246671
   3. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/246674
   4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132158
   5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132255
   6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132272
   7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132277
   8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132298
   9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132301
  10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132304
  11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124349
  12. http://metacpan.org/pod/Sys::Hostname
  13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131000
  14. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131982
  15. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132159
  16. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132274
  17. http://metacpan.org/pod/Carp



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