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

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February 12th-18th

News

Karl Williamson shares (Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now final for 2018).

Grant Reports

• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 195-197 reports.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 January 2018 report.
• Zefram TPF Grant 2018 week 6.
• Zefram TPF Grant 2018 week 7.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #132859: Dead link in perldoc.perl.org MRO documentation.
• Perl #132860: RFC on windows build status.
• Perl #132866: File::Copy::copy() "works" when given a directory as a from parameter.
• Perl #132867: t/io/openpid.t makes test harness sluggish; reduce sleep time.
• Perl #132873: Blead Breaks CPAN: JOHNH/Fsdb-2.64.tar.gz.
• Perl #132875: Blead Breaks CPAN: ZDM/Pcore-v0.56.5.tar.gz.
• Perl #132876: ppport.h breaks croak_xs_usage() on old Perls.
• Perl #132879: commit "Add API function Perl_langinfo()" breaks XS-APItest/t/locale.t:ALT_DIGITS test.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #121028: [PATCH] t/io/closepid.t hangs for test timeout (50 seconds) under harness.
• Perl #132788: Blead Breaks CPAN: LEMBARK/Object-Trampoline-1.42.tar.gz.
• Perl #132839: [PATCH] ExtUtils::ParseXS::Eval Fix variable name ALIAS in documentation.
• Perl #132843: v5.27.8-242-ge0280e4921 fails tests.
• Perl #132849: Perl build process leaves random files in system.
• Perl #132859: Dead link in perldoc.perl.org MRO documentation.
• Perl #132867: t/io/openpid.t makes test harness sluggish; reduce sleep time.

Rejected Issues

• Perl #132768: OP_ENTERSUB is not called for constructor of tied object.

Suggested Patches

Bulk88 provided a patch in Perl #132878: to remove unused variables in sv_eq_flags.