This Fortnight on perl5-porters - 10-23 November 2008

This Fortnight on perl5-porters - 10-23 November 2008
Topics of Interest

-Re: Deprecating Time::Local?
-Re: char16 datatype
-Re: on expectations of privacy
-Re: future maintenance plans for 5.8.x
-Re: Interface to maintain modules for multiple versions of Perl (Re: Change PREFIX to INSTALL_BASE in perlfaq8 and perlmodinstall)
-Re: syntax for macros / function composition at compile time
-Re: Sequestered perl installs
-Re: [RFC] Regular expression character classes and unicode.
-Re: Clone fails to build with blead@34780
Fwd: Re: Change 34798: Add an acknowledgements section.
Fwd: Re: Change 34800: Note that panic: sv_chop %s is new.
5.8.9 RC1
[RFC]package name consistency
Patch for hints/aix.sh / 5.8.9
Why not make close receive a list of FH?
5.8.9 RC1 report
Heisenfailure with lib/Thread/Queue/t/07_lock.t
Man page conversion warnings in 5.8.9.
Out of date CPAN modules in 5.8.9
Wrong/missing module versions in 5.8.9's perldelta.
Alpha versions in 5.8.9 modules.
Problem with quoted spaces and system()
perl-5.10.x + bignum assertion
Re: Perl 'make test' fails in Storable module (HP-UX B.11.31) perl5.8.x
Re: UNIVERSAL::VERSION and version.pm
MM_VMS and File::Spec::VMS.pm intertanglement.
File::Temp / File::Path interaction
git?
git workflow (was Re: git?)
-Re: Suggested revision for perlfunc.pod.
Re: B-Generate-1.12_10 stable & uploaded
CGI patch for some documentation issues
MRO tests for isa() and package aliases
Conflation of "ASCII" , "utf8" with other things in perl.
Storable and tied/compressed files
Respecting inc_version_list while processing VENDORLIB_STEM
Re: Error during compiling Perl
Re: debugger saved lines regression
Perl.git "So, Tomorrow?" Release
t/op/pat.t
Respecting inc_version_list while processing PERL_VENDORLIB_STEM
Recent versions of Time::HiRes regularly breaks blead build process on Win32
RE: Change 34822
? Bug in macro UTF_START_MARK when U8 > 8 bits
t/op/regexp_unicode_prop_thr.t marked as binary in APC
versions in README.macosx
Re: For 5.12: tail calls for methods
Hard-coded Perl_pp_entersub and Perl_pp_entereval should usePL_ppaddr
[patch@34896] vms readdir() fixes for UNIX/EFS mode
Matching multi-character folds
maint-5.8 breaks NYTProf 2.07

TODO of the week
Patches of Interest

-on expectations of privacy (was Re: [perl #XXX] [PATCH] local $SIG{FOO} = sub {...}; sets signal handler to SIG_DFL)
[PATCH] Relocations errors with Intel CC 10 on 64 bits archs
Avoid duplicate vendorlib [PATCH]
[PATCH] Deparse inlined constants.
[PATCH pod/perldiag.pod] Typo in error
[PATCH] Add TODO test for :lvalue under -d.
[PATCH] Test::Harness should clean up after itself
-[PATCH] Remove "LVALUE functions in the debugger" from perltodo.
[PATCH] Future-proof hints/linux.sh against Sun's cc -V output.
Warn on occluded global - question [PATCH]
[PATCH] Fix a missing single quote in hints/solaris_2.sh

Watching the smoke signals

Smoke [5.11.0] 34874 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP3 (x86/2 cpu)
Smoke [5.11.0] 34896 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP3 (x86/2 cpu)

New and old bugs from RT

[PATCH] Draft: Allow tied $, (#948)
shifting of bitvecs considered broken (#969)
-pi doesn't sanely handle write errors (#1154)
Memory leak in IO::Socket ? (#1376)
"Filehandle Foo::BAR opened only for output" inconsistency (#3221)
overloaded iterator <> does not recognize list context (#6748)
lvalue subs not working inside debugger (#7013)
no warning for useless /d in tr/0-9//d (#7911)
misleading "use of uninitialized value" warnings (#19284)
Suggested revision for perlfunc.pod. (#21568)
solaris open file descriptor recursive lib loading error. (#23042)
setreuid and friends borked on darwin/osx (#24122)
taint propagation regression, tests fail to spot this (#24248)
perl-5.8.1: threads::shared and objects (#24411)
ndbm gdbm problem in make test (#24444)
Problem with system() on Win9x/ME (perl 5.8.0 - 5.9.1) (#28512)
Perl regexp state gets clobbered (includes a fix) (#37102)
Performance problem with object creation in 64 bit perl 5.8.8 on linux (#45529)
Re: [PATCH blead] Re: $1 suddenly tainted after regexp on utf-8 string (#47195)
Unable to include multiple -I options in a #! line in a script (#51282)
Unary minus on 'numeric' inputs like '-1' (#57706)
Unicode bug: More questions about coding (#58182)
Unicode bug: code review request (#58182)
[PATCH] Unicode::UCD::charinfo() does not work on 21Han codepoints (#58428)
Re: PATCH chr(0400) =~ /\400/ fails for >= 400 (#59342)
RE: Errors in compilation (#59922)
TARG vs. TAINT - seems like a general problem (#59998)
Re: [PATCH] crypt() returns tainted data even wheninput strings are detainted (#59998)
Re: croak(0) crashes (#60262)
Re: [PATCH] local $SIG{FOO} = sub {...}; sets signalhandler to SIG_DFL (#60360)
Invalid RE match in 5.10.0 (regression from 5.8.8) (#60464)
Module Encode degrades in Perl 5.10 (#60472)
open() does not return 0 on failed pipe executing (#60476)
"deprecated" warning with 'no warnings "deprecated" enabled. (#60486)
Please Help (#60496)
Which perldelta in 5.8.9 RC1 README? (#60504)
Assertion rx->sublen >= (s - rx->subbeg) + i failed: file "regcomp.c" (#60508)
sv_upgrade() loses 64-bit alignment, causing SIGBUS on sparc (#60574)
Perl 5.10 memory leak: 'use Scalar::Util qw(weaken); weaken({}) while 1' (#60680)
Segmentation fault in Perl_csighandler when receiving SIGCHLD during thread creation (#60724)
Should invalid regex brace syntax be interpreted literally with no warning? (#60726)
Something missing in Config(3perl) (#60738)
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