This Week on perl5-porters - 26 January-1 February 2009

Topics of Interest

Re: merging make_ext and make_ext_cross

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00013.html

Need advice on gotchas on upgrading unicode db to 5.1

  Yves Orton reminded Karl Williamson that the filenames produced by the
  Unicode build phase need to behave correctly in the light of
  case-insensitive filesystems. Karl explained that "mktables" goes as
  far as ensuring compatibility with 8.3 filesystems.

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00789.html
    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00014.html

Deprecate "UNIVERSAL->import"

  Ricardo Signes introduced a lexical "this is deprecated" warning for
  people who write "UNIVERSAL->import", since they're not supposed to
  anyway. Surprisingly, the test suite didn't complain.

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00785.html

5.10.0 Source Tree Update Problem

  Dave Mitchell needs to merge the git config tweaks in blead back into
  5.10 to allow testers to smoke anew. Jerry D. Hedden pointed to a
  patch that needs to be applied to fix the patchnum situation.

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00814.html

"Storable::nstore_fd" + '>:raw' pragma

  David Williams reported a 20x slowdown when writing out a "Storable"
  data structure. Eric Brine and Bo Lindbergh suggested that this was
  more a problem of documentation than anything else.

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00815.html

Make t/win32/system.t use the more common compiler check

  Max Maischein tweaked the Win32 test suite to follow the existing best
  practices for identifying the compiler used. Andy Dougherty pointed
  out that the current best practices were sub-optimal and there was a
  better way, that Win32 would do well to adhere to, even if Unix-like
  platforms don't right now.

  In the final analysis, Andy wondered why tests even cared which
  compiler was used to build perl.

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00797.html

Git commits and branches

  Jerry D. Hedden was puzzled by a commit reporting itself as apparently
  belonging to a 5.8 change, and wondered why it didn't in fact report
  itself as a 5.10 change. Rafaël Garcia-Suarez explained why it was so,
  and Sam Vilain explained what it would take in order straighten out
  the history

    a bit of graft
    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00820.html

Understanding merge history

  And on the subject of git, Dave Mitchell professed to being a bit lost
  in the brave new world of git, and was looking for clues to help him
  figure out what (and how) to cherry-pick commits from blead for 5.10.

  The problem appears to be sufficiently hairy that, while there is
  little doubt that git can do it, the question is how to ask for it.

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00830.html

"perldelta" omission for 5.8.9?

  Ricardo Signes was surprised the "qr/.../m" improvement in blead and
  5.10 made it back in time for the 5.8.9 release, and that it didn't
  rate a mention in the "perldelta" file, since it is a behavioural
  change.

    but it's for the better
    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00844.html

"PerlIO::via" open fails for certain names

  Scott Lanning want to use IO layers and ran into peculiar problems
  that were difficult to diagnose. After some discussion, Rafaël thought
  he had a fix for the matter.

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00903.html

CPAN.pm 1.93_03

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00011.html

[RFC] Bringing Perl more into line with Unicode 5.1

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00014.html

[blead-473-g3b333d0] vms stat patches (take 2)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00000.html

[Encode] 2.28 released!

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00005.html

--[Encode] 2.29 released! -- to make PAUSE happy

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00007.html

CPAN.pm 1.93_03

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00011.html

TODO of the week

Patches of Interest

-----Re: [PATCH] show -E in error message when called with -E

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00746.html

---Re: [PATCH] Fix mktables time stamp test

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00766.html

-Re: [PATCH] Code refs aren't lockable

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00735.html

-Re: [PATCH: perl@8482] partial support for dynaloading on OS/390

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00782.html

Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] File::Copy & permission bits.

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00741.html

[PATCH] Re: Fix memory leak I introduced, forgot attachment

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00772.html

[PATCH] setpgrp() should extend the stack before modifying it

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00783.html

[PATCH] pare down UNIVERSAL docs in perlobj

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00784.html

[PATCH] Silence verbosity in lib/File/Copy.t during 'make test' in core

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00793.html

[PATCH] Makefile in lib/unicore didn't clean sub-sub directories

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00804.html

[PATCH]  Use Unicode 5.1 files consistently

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00807.html

[PATCH] DB_File 1.818

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00907.html

[PATCH] Fix array out-of-bounds error in utfebcdic.h

Smoke [5.11.0] 2009-01-27.07:38:08 FAIL(F) netbsd 5.0_BETA (i386/2 cpu)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00827.html

Smoke [5.10.0] 2009-01-06.00:10:05 FAIL(M) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP3 (x86/2 cpu)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00909.html

Smoke [5.11.0] 2009-02-31.21:38:08 FAIL(F) openbsd 4.4 (i386/1 cpu)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00002.html

Smoke [5.11.0] 2009-01-31.21:38:08 FAIL(F) openbsd 4.4 (i386/1 cpu)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00002.html

New and old bugs from RT

Re: Including XSUB.h before perl.h gives nasty error (#57176)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00751.html

'Data::Dumper' reports double value as string. (#62694)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00738.html

pack/unpack error (#62696)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00739.html

large speed difference in simple regex between pcre and GNU regex (#62718)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00742.html

Perl_my_atof does not "correctly round" (#62746)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00760.html

ugly English docs (#62848)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00839.html

printf does not print a warning when a lone %s conversion is used (#62874)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00847.html

Perl5 Bug Summary

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00781.html
    http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html

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This Week on perl5-porters - d-d Month 2009

Topics of Interest

--Re: perldelta5101

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00778.html

-----Where is Cross.pm? (was Re: merging make_ext and make_ext_cross)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00878.html

-----Re: Need advice on gotchas on upgrading unicode db to 5.1

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00789.html

-Re: [blead-358-g3319632] vms glob patches

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00754.html

----Re: a plan for ext/

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00733.html

-Re: a plan for pod/

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00734.html

Works On My Machine: lib/Tie/RefHash/threaded.t passes on Win32/MinGWgcc

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00740.html

Re: patch@blead vms fileify_dirspec refactor / Unix mode fixes

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00769.html

Unbreak build on Windows

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00756.html

doc patch for PerlIO

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00748.html

What should /\p{CanonicalCombiningClass:AL}/ match?

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00768.html

Fix memory leak I introduced

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00771.html

deprecate UNIVERSAL->import

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00785.html

5.10.0 Source Tree Update Problem

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00814.html

Storable::nstore_fd + '>:raw' pragma

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00815.html

int localtime_r(const time_t*, struct tm*);

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00795.html

Make t/win32/system.t use the more common compiler check

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00797.html

[blead-442-gc6d234b] VMS stat fixes.

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00819.html

Git commits and branches

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00820.html

understanding merge history

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00830.html

perldelta omission for 5.8.9?

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00844.html

Re: perldelta omission for 5.8.9?

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00859.html

[blead-435-ga979ce9] vmspath without thread context.

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00865.html

Re: do_exec() is a mathom, so call its replacement directly

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00871.html

Re: do_exec() is a mathom, so call its replacement directly

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00872.html

a condition that is always true?

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00879.html

Re: a condition that is always true?

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00882.html

RE: a condition that is always true?

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00891.html

PerlIO::via open fails for certain names

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00903.html

[blead-473-g3b333d0] vms stat patches (take 2)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00000.html

Re: merging make_ext and make_ext_cross

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00013.html

[RFC] Bringing Perl more into line with Unicode 5.1

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00014.html

[blead-473-g3b333d0] vms stat patches (take 2)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00000.html

Patches of Interest

-----Re: [PATCH] show -E in error message when called with -E

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00746.html

---Re: [PATCH] Fix mktables time stamp test

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00766.html

-Re: [PATCH] Code refs aren't lockable

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00735.html

-Re: [PATCH: perl@8482] partial support for dynaloading on OS/390

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00782.html

Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] File::Copy & permission bits.

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00741.html

[PATCH] setpgrp() should extend the stack before modifying it

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00783.html

[PATCH] pare down UNIVERSAL docs in perlobj

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00784.html

[PATCH] Silence verbosity in lib/File/Copy.t during 'make test' in core

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00793.html

[PATCH] Makefile in lib/unicore didn't clean sub-sub directories

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00804.html

[PATCH]  Use Unicode 5.1 files consistently

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00807.html

[PATCH] DB_File 1.818

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00907.html

[PATCH] Fix array out-of-bounds error in utfebcdic.h

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00908.html

Watching the Smoke Signals

Smoke [5.11.0] 2009-01-27.07:38:08 FAIL(F) netbsd 5.0_BETA (i386/2 cpu)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00827.html

Smoke [5.10.0] 2009-01-06.00:10:05 FAIL(M) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP3 (x86/2 cpu)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00909.html

Smoke [5.11.0] 2009-02-31.21:38:08 FAIL(F) openbsd 4.4 (i386/1 cpu)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00002.html

Smoke [5.11.0] 2009-01-31.21:38:08 FAIL(F) openbsd 4.4 (i386/1 cpu)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00002.html

New and old bugs from RT

Including XSUB.h before perl.h gives nasty error (#57176)

    not any more!
    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00751.html

"Data::Dumper" reports double value as string (#62694)

    % perl -MData::Dumper -e 'print Dumper(1.0)'
    $VAR1 = '1';

  Anatoly Grishaev feels that this should produce "$VAR1 = 1;".

    been that way awhile, methinks
    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00738.html

"pack"/"unpack" error (#62696)

  Anatoly also reported problems with unpackable packed strings.

    wa wa na wa
    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00739.html

"Perl_my_atof" does not "correctly round" (#62746)

  Chris Hall pointed out some inconsistencies in Perl's implementation
  of text-to-native-floating-point conversions. One minor hassle that
  Nicholas Clark remembers about the matter is that it is impossible to
  have an implementation compatible with both C89 and C99 since they are
  mutually inconsistent.

    pick your poison
    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00760.html

ugly English docs (#62848)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00839.html

ugly English docs (#62848)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00904.html

printf does not print a warning when a lone %s conversion is used (#62874)

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00847.html

Perl5 Bug Summary

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00781.html
    http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html

New Core Modules

  --[Encode] 2.29 released! -- to make PAUSE happy
        http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00007.html

  CPAN.pm 1.93_03
        http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00011.html

In Brief

  Dave Mitchell is starting the arduous task of producing perldelta5101,
  the changes in perl 5.10.1.

    volunteers sought
    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00778.html

  Nicholas Clark would like to know where is Cross.pm, in the context of
  merging "make_ext" and "make_ext_cross".

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00878.html

  Max Maischein has probably succeeded in getting
  lib/Tie/RefHash/threaded.t to pass on Win32/MinGWgcc.

    works for me
    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00740.html

  Max also unbroke the build on Windows that had suffered at the hands
  of to a refactoring of make_patchnum.pl.

    just so you know who to blame
    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00756.html

  Scott Lanning tweaked the grammar via a doc patch for "PerlIO".

    gooder
    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00748.html

  That Karl Williamson doesn know what
  "/\p{CanonicalCombiningClass:AL}/" should match probably points to an
  error in "mktables".

    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00768.html

Last week's summary

    This Week on perl5-porters - 18-25 January 2009
    http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-02/msg00009.html

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