Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

February 19th - March 4th

News

Perl 5.27.9 is now available!

Encode 2.97 is now available.

All modules by Mark Jason Dominus (MJD) are now up for adoption!

Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters are now ready for adoption!

Grant Reports

• Zefram TPF Grant 2018 Week 8 report.
• Zefram TPF Grant 2018 Week 9 report.
• Zefram TPF Grant 2018 February report.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 report 11.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 report 12.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 week 198-199 report.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 February 2018 report.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #132795: t/porting/bench.t uses system perl's /lib during testing.
• Perl #132892: Possibly memory leak when matching strings using pre-compiled regexes stored in hash key (perl >= v5.26).
• Perl #132893: Storable build hangs when building 5.27.9 on Windows XP.
• Perl #132894: Blead Breaks CPAN: MAROS/DateTime-Format-CLDR-1.19.tar.gz.
• Perl #132899: MakeMaker 7.32 breaks darwin.
• Perl #132900: Blead Breaks CPAN: FELIPE/Crypt-Perl-0.17.tar.gz.
• Perl #132901: setlocale's return value is broken.
• Perl #132902: Blead Breaks CPAN: Class::Std.
• Perl #132903: Broken 5.27.9 after updating version.pm.
• Perl #132906: Devel::PPPort migration to dist/ is incomplete.
• Perl #132908: String/Number interpretation of a string.
• Perl #132913: t/op/sprintf2.t: 6 test failures when compiling with g++7.
• Perl #132920: Assertion SvTYPE(sv) != (svtype)SVTYPEMASK failed.
• Perl #132931: Blead Breaks CPAN: GUIDO/libintl-perl-1.29.tar.gz.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #124032: I18N::Langinfo not documented as not available on MSWin32.
• Perl #125351: null ptr deref.
• Perl #132745: Langinfo.t fails on FreeBSD 9.2.
• Perl #132772: Blead Breaks CPAN: TIMB/Geo-StreetAddress-US-1.04.tar.gz.
• Perl #132776: lvalue + signature example: should not return read-only value.
• Perl #132783: Blead Breaks CPAN: ADAMK/SQL-String-0.02.tar.gz.
• Perl #132793: $a.="$b" doesn't stringify $b.
• Perl #132801: Duplicate of #132385.
• Perl #132827: Duplicate of #132385.
• Perl #132828: Tricky code can bypass Carp overload protections and trigger exceptions.
• Perl #132833: COW bug in :encoding layer.
• Perl #132834: Blead Breaks CPAN: SMUELLER/ExtUtils-InferConfig-1.04.tar.gz.
• Perl #132849: Perl build process leaves random files in system.
• Perl #132853: PathTools: test descriptions; makefile updates; etc.
• Perl #132860: RFC on windows build status.
• Perl #132879: commit "Add API function Perl_langinfo()" breaks XS-APItest/t/locale.t:ALT_DIGITS test.
• Perl #132892: Possibly memory leak when matching strings using pre-compiled regexes stored in hash key (perl >= v5.26).
• Perl #132893: Storable build hangs when building 5.27.9 on Windows XP.
• Perl #132899: MakeMaker 7.32 breaks darwin.
• Perl #132900: Blead Breaks CPAN: FELIPE/Crypt-Perl-0.17.tar.gz.
• Perl #132901: setlocale's return value is broken.
• Perl #132902: Blead Breaks CPAN: Class::Std.
• Perl #132931: Blead Breaks CPAN: GUIDO/libintl-perl-1.29.tar.gz.

Rejected Issues

Suggested Patches

Tony Cook provided a patch for Perl #132870 (Storable dclone() broken (latest VS 2017 32-bit)).

Tony also provided one for Perl #132876 (ppport.h breaks croak_xs_usage() on old Perls).

And Tony also provided a patch for Perl #132683 (Use of uninitialized value in warn() with constant folding and overloaded numbers).

Several patches provided by Bulk88:

• Perl #132912 to remove unreferences copies char * swash_property_names[].
• Perl #132924: regen/regcomp.pl: close FH before unlink.
• Perl #132925: regen_lib.pl dont output Windows path seps on Windows.
• Perl #132926: to remove unused duplicate data symbols, reducing binary bloat.
• Perl #132928: to reduce the size under Windows.

Linda Walsh provided ([perl #132923] RFE: enhancement of corelist script) a patch for a suggested enhancement to Module::CoreList.