Hey everyone,

Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week and a half.

Enjoy!

November 2nd-12th

News and Updates

If your company uses Perl 5 and would like to contribute to show support and to assure its sustained maintenance and development, The Perl Foundation is looking for more donations to the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. You can read more here.

Zefram started work on his maintenance grant!

Karl Williamson has published a basic implementation of script runs!

Karl had also requested (RFC: make utf16 to/from utf8 functions private to the core) to make the UTF 16 from/to UTF 8 functions in core be core-only.

Grant Reports

• Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 report 23.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 report 24.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 October report.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #132390: multiconcat breaks blead on VMS.
• Perl #132393: attributes affect listiness of declarations.
• Perl #132394: state stub doesn't get init-once behaviour.
• Perl #132395: BBC: Commit 7a831b72 breaks UNIVERAL::isa tests.
• Perl #132397: Deparse -x3 loses for initialiser.
• Perl #132403: Long @INC gets replaced with executable.
• Perl #132408: BBC: Commit c1b0c18 breaks DBD::SQLite.
• Perl #132413: PL_keyword_plugin needs thread-safe wrap setter.
• Perl #132414: eval in package DB can't see caller's lexicals in certain cases.
• Perl #132415: _MEM_WRAP_NEEDS_RUNTIME_CHECK (malloc wrapping) in handy.h broken.
• Perl #132420: Best way to disable installation of man pages.
• Perl #132425: Suggested warning on attempt to use with arguments when no import() subroutine exists.
• Perl #132429: B::Deparse generated code affected by use vars?
• Perl #132430: Multiconcat breaks AIX builds.
• Perl #132432: t/porting/globvar.t failing with v5.27.5-313-g1e5c5f6924 to v5.27.5-322-g7d65f652cb.
• Perl #132433: segfault in S_check_uni.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #93102: keys is not always an lvalue.
• Perl #105908: Get-magic is ignored on retval of @INC hook.
• Perl #115880: redundant SvUPGRADE in perl_construct?
• Perl #116286: *pvs SV functions don't take const char *s.
• Perl #121351: Replace use of PL_statbuf and PL_timesbuf with auto variables.
• Perl #122096: Reduce # of calls to errno.
• Perl #121438: B::Deparse incorrectly deparses newlines in regex (?{..}) constructs.
• Perl #122368: Improve docs about mortal in perlguts.
• Perl #125774: do EXPR on dir fails but has no error code $!.
• Perl #126414: perl rounds inode in PP stat.
• Perl #130087: Reduce module dependencies of B and O to simplify compiler second guessing.
• Perl #131852: Blead breaks Sereal-Encoder-3.015.
• Perl #131895: stat() doesn't fail on filenames containing \0 / NUL.
• Perl #132150: ... (yada-yada) parsing is inconsistent.
• Perl #132272: qw() differs from split " " with OGHAM SPACE MARK.
• Perl #132408: BBC: Commit c1b0c18 breaks DBD::SQLite.
• Perl #132432: t/porting/globvar.t failing with v5.27.5-313-g1e5c5f6924 to v5.27.5-322-g7d65f652cb.
• Perl #132433: segfault in S_check_uni.

Rejected Issues

• Perl #132434: print $outfh <$infh> gives Syntax Error.

Suggested Patches

Andrew Fresh provided a patch in Perl #132401 to support Time::HiRes in File::Copy.

John Lightsey provided a patch in Perl #132405 to fix a typo that prevents deparsing some transliterations.

A patch by Nicholas R. (Atoomic) in Perl #132418 to introduce macros to simply @INC setting

Tomasz Konojacki provided a patch in Perl #132421 to fix compilation errors under non-english Visual C++ 2015/2017.

Chase Whitener provided a patch in Perl #132422 to modernize IO::Socket Documentation.

David Cantrell provided a documentation patch for experimental::lexical_topic.

Todd Rinaldo provided a patch for Perl #132429 (B::Deparse generated code affected by use vars?)

Discussion

Nicholas R. provided a patch in Perl #132406: to raise discussion of not loading Config in Storable just for detecting FLOCK support.