December 2012 Archives

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: December 17-December 23, 2012

Happy New Year! Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list.

Topics this week include:

  • perl 5.17.7 is now available
  • Solaris smoke testers wanted
  • Parrot 4.11.0 "All together - Happy Birthday Lovebird" Released!
  • successful s///e clobbers $! on MSWin32
  • JROBINSON grant report, #13
  • POSIX wrapper for strptime()
  • Is this a known unicode bug in 5.16.2?

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: December 10-December 16, 2012

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list.

Topics this week include:

  • RFC: Adding a prototype attribute
  • Undocumented %ENV behaviour
  • rand() on Windows only uses 15 bits of entropy

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: December 3-December 9, 2012

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list.

Topics this week include:

  • security notice: Storable
  • security notice: Locale::Maketext
  • Does Unicode mandate a collation order?
  • a job for someone? SvREFCNT_dec_NN()
  • CERT Perl Secure Coding Standard

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: November 26-December 2, 2012

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list.

Topics this week include:

  • rand() on Windows only uses 15 bits of entropy
  • RFC: Removing several undocumented functions from the Perl core
  • 5.18 VT in \s
  • Comment period extended for Unicode's changing some common characters from Punctuation to Symbol

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: November 19-November 25, 2012

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Sorry I didn't publish a summary last week. Although there was list traffic I didn't find any messages I wanted to summarize.

This week's topics include:

  • perl 5.17.6 is now available!
  • On deprecating unescaped literal left brace
  • Parrot 4.10.0 released
  • Perl in Git on Windows?
  • Move tests not using t/test.pl into a separate directory
  • Hash randomisation breaks CPAN

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