May 2013 Archives

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: May 20-26, 2013

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

Topics this week include:

  • perl v5.19.0 is now available
  • blead is now thawed
  • RFC: Deprecating Module::Build
  • Perl 5 Porters BOF at YAPC
  • Committers: PLEASE run test_porting before pushing
  • RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution
  • I made t/podcheck.t less sensitive and fixed various pod issues

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: May 13-19, 2013

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

The topic of the week on P5P was the clean up and release of perl 5.18.0 which was released on 5-18 for North Americans. RJBS in a seperate email said blead would be reopen for patches on Tuesday, as 5.19.0 is scheduled to be released on Monday (May 20).

Read the release announcement

Read perldelta

Download a tarball

Congratulations to the perl5 team for this new release!

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: May 6-12, 2013

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. The big news this week is the release of perl-5.18.0-RC1 and RC2.

Topics this week include:

  • perl-5.18.0-RC2 is now available
  • Proposal: initial type annotation in SV
  • What does PERL_HASH_SEED do?
  • Designing an API
  • Should we make hashes return keys in FIFO order?
  • Release timing drift

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: April 29-May 5, 2013

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

Topics this week include:

  • Sequence (?#...) not recognized in regex
  • How on earth did we manage to break pack() so badly?
  • DAVEM TPF Grant April Report
  • Problems with Carp::longmess() in 5.17.10 and before
  • What does PERL_HASH_SEED do?

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