=head1 This Fortnight on perl5-porters - 10-23 November 2008

=head1 Topics of Interest

=head2 -----Re: Deprecating Time::Local?

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00418.html

=head2 -Re: char16 datatype

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00486.html

=head2 -----Re: on expectations of privacy

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00802.html

=head2 --Re: future maintenance plans for 5.8.x

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00594.html

=head2 -----Re: Interface to maintain modules for multiple versions of Perl (Re: Change PREFIX to INSTALL_BASE in perlfaq8 and perlmodinstall)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00595.html

=head2 ----Re: syntax for macros / function composition at compile time

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00597.html

=head2 --Re: Sequestered perl installs

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00452.html

=head2 -Re: [RFC] Regular expression character classes and unicode.

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00313.html

=head2 --Re: Clone fails to build with blead@34780

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00312.html

=head2 Fwd: Re: Change 34798: Add an acknowledgements section.

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00314.html

=head2 Fwd: Re: Change 34800: Note that panic: sv_chop %s is new.

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00315.html

=head2 5.8.9 RC1

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00317.html

=head2 [RFC]package name consistency

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00322.html

=head2 Patch for hints/aix.sh / 5.8.9

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00326.html

=head2 Why not make close receive a list of FH?

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00327.html

=head2 5.8.9 RC1 report

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00360.html

=head2 Heisenfailure with lib/Thread/Queue/t/07_lock.t

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00364.html

=head2 Man page conversion warnings in 5.8.9.

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00365.html

=head2 Out of date CPAN modules in 5.8.9

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00367.html

=head2 Wrong/missing module versions in 5.8.9's perldelta.

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00371.html

=head2 Alpha versions in 5.8.9 modules.

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00372.html

=head2 Problem with quoted spaces and system()

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00376.html

=head2 perl-5.10.x + bignum assertion

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00393.html

=head2 Re: Perl 'make test' fails in Storable module (HP-UX B.11.31) perl5.8.x

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00395.html

=head2 Re: UNIVERSAL::VERSION and version.pm

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00412.html

=head2 MM_VMS and File::Spec::VMS.pm intertanglement.

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00427.html

=head2 File::Temp / File::Path interaction

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00454.html

=head2 git?

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00479.html

=head2 git workflow (was Re: git?)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00506.html

=head2 --Re: Suggested revision for perlfunc.pod.

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00788.html

=head2 Re: B-Generate-1.12_10 stable & uploaded

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00570.html

=head2 CGI patch for some documentation issues

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00576.html

=head2 MRO tests for isa() and package aliases

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00600.html

=head2 Conflation of "ASCII" , "utf8" with other things  in perl.

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00624.html

=head2 Storable and tied/compressed files

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00727.html

=head2 Respecting inc_version_list while processing VENDORLIB_STEM

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00730.html

=head2 Re: Error during compiling Perl

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00704.html

=head2 Re: debugger saved lines regression

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00708.html

=head2 Perl.git "So, Tomorrow?" Release

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00711.html

=head2 t/op/pat.t

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00715.html

=head2 Respecting inc_version_list while processing PERL_VENDORLIB_STEM

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00733.html

=head2 Recent versions of Time::HiRes regularly breaks blead build process on Win32

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00735.html

=head2 RE: Change 34822

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00742.html

=head2 ? Bug in macro UTF_START_MARK when U8 E<gt> 8 bits

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00753.html

=head2 t/op/regexp_unicode_prop_thr.t marked as binary in APC

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00760.html

=head2 versions in README.macosx

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00775.html

=head2 Re: For 5.12: tail calls for methods

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00781.html

=head2 Hard-coded Perl_pp_entersub and Perl_pp_entereval should usePL_ppaddr

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00793.html

=head2 [patch@34896] vms readdir() fixes for UNIX/EFS mode

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00833.html

=head2 Matching multi-character folds

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00847.html

=head2 maint-5.8 breaks NYTProf 2.07

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00849.html

=head1 TODO of the week

TODO

=head1 Patches of Interest

=head2 -----on expectations of privacy (was Re: [perl #XXX] [PATCH] local $SIG{FOO} = sub {...}; sets signal handler to SIG_DFL)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00777.html

=head2 [PATCH] Relocations errors with Intel CC 10 on 64 bits archs

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00342.html

=head2 Avoid duplicate vendorlib [PATCH]

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00396.html

=head2 [PATCH] Deparse inlined constants.

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00449.html

=head2 [PATCH pod/perldiag.pod] Typo in error

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00424.html

=head2 [PATCH] Add TODO test for :lvalue under -d.

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00533.html

=head2 [PATCH] Test::Harness should clean up after itself

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00522.html

=head2 -[PATCH] Remove "LVALUE functions in the debugger" from perltodo.

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00617.html

=head2 [PATCH] Future-proof hints/linux.sh against Sun's cc -V output.

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00552.html

=head2 Warn on occluded global - question [PATCH]

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00566.html

=head2 [PATCH] Fix a missing single quote in hints/solaris_2.sh

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00700.html

=head1 Watching the smoke signals

=head2 Smoke [5.11.0] 34874 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP3 (x86/2 cpu)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00709.html

=head2 Smoke [5.11.0] 34896 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP3 (x86/2 cpu)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00812.html

=head1 New and old bugs from RT

=head2 [PATCH] Draft: Allow tied $, (#948)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00481.html

=head2 shifting of bitvecs considered broken (#969)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00537.html

=head2 -pi doesn't sanely handle write errors (#1154)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00731.html

=head2 Memory leak in IO::Socket ? (#1376)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00726.html

=head2 "Filehandle Foo::BAR opened only for output" inconsistency (#3221)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00335.html

=head2 overloaded iterator E<lt>E<gt> does not recognize list context (#6748)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00729.html

=head2 lvalue subs not working inside debugger (#7013)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00556.html

=head2 no warning for useless /d in tr/0-9//d (#7911)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00734.html

=head2 misleading "use of uninitialized value" warnings (#19284)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00540.html

=head2 Suggested revision for perlfunc.pod. (#21568)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00557.html

=head2 solaris open file descriptor recursive lib loading error. (#23042)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00578.html

=head2 setreuid and friends borked on darwin/osx (#24122)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00558.html

=head2 taint propagation regression, tests fail to spot this (#24248)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00618.html

=head2 perl-5.8.1: threads::shared and objects (#24411)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00572.html

=head2 ndbm gdbm problem in make test (#24444)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00577.html

=head2 Problem with system() on Win9x/ME (perl 5.8.0 - 5.9.1) (#28512)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00573.html

=head2 Perl regexp state gets clobbered (includes a fix) (#37102)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00559.html

=head2 Performance problem with object creation in 64 bit perl 5.8.8 on linux (#45529)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00792.html

=head2 Re: [PATCH blead] Re: $1 suddenly tainted after regexp on utf-8 string (#47195)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00610.html

=head2 Unable to include multiple -I options in a #! line in a script (#51282)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00511.html

=head2 Unary minus on 'numeric' inputs like '-1' (#57706)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00311.html

=head2 Unicode bug: More questions about coding (#58182)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00759.html

=head2 Unicode bug: code review request (#58182)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00835.html

=head2 [PATCH] Unicode::UCD::charinfo() does not work on 21Han codepoints (#58428)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00647.html

=head2 Re: PATCH chr(0400) =~ /\400/ fails for E<gt>= 400 (#59342)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00405.html

=head2 RE: Errors in compilation (#59922)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00451.html

=head2 TARG vs. TAINT - seems like a general problem (#59998)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00512.html

=head2 Re: [PATCH] crypt() returns tainted data even wheninput strings are detainted (#59998)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00657.html

=head2 Re: croak(0) crashes (#60262)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00714.html

=head2 Re: [PATCH] local $SIG{FOO} = sub {...}; sets signalhandler to SIG_DFL (#60360)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00318.html

=head2 Invalid RE match in 5.10.0 (regression from 5.8.8) (#60464)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00337.html

=head2 Module Encode degrades in Perl 5.10 (#60472)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00339.html

=head2 open() does not return 0 on failed pipe executing (#60476)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00333.html

=head2 "deprecated" warning with 'no warnings "deprecated" enabled. (#60486)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00402.html

=head2 Please Help (#60496)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00453.html

=head2 Which perldelta in 5.8.9 RC1 README? (#60504)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00457.html

=head2 Assertion rx-E<gt>sublen E<gt>= (s - rx-E<gt>subbeg) + i failed: file "regcomp.c" (#60508)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00448.html

=head2 sv_upgrade() loses 64-bit alignment, causing SIGBUS on sparc (#60574)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00627.html

=head2 Perl 5.10 memory leak: 'use Scalar::Util qw(weaken); weaken({}) while 1' (#60680)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00798.html

=head2 Segmentation fault in Perl_csighandler when receiving SIGCHLD during thread creation (#60724)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00813.html

=head2 Should invalid regex brace syntax be interpreted literally with no warning? (#60726)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00818.html

=head2 Something missing in Config(3perl) (#60738)

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00846.html

=head2 Perl5 Bug Summary

  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00686.html
  http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html

=head1 This is the BBC

=over 4

=item *

=back

=head1 New Core Modules

=over 4

=item *

=back

=head1 In Brief

=head2 Last week's summary

  This Week on perl5-porters - 3-9 November 2008
  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00757.html

  feedback for This Week on perl5-porters - 27 October-2 November 2008
  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-11/msg00379.html

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