Hello everyone, and Happy New Year!

Previously, on "RPerl Around The World", the team was in Paris for a meeting with the Paris Perl Mongers, and then left for the London Perl Workshop.

We are now back in Paris for another meeting at the FPH building (Fondation pour le Progrès de l'Homme). Every Thursday, the FPH hosts a Linux technical meeting, providing a place for programmers to work on their various projects. Thanks to Emmanuel Seyman, we got to meet two of the Linux programmers, Stéphane Gigandet and Pierre Slamich. They work on a collaborative open source Perl proje…

Only a few days after our Paris presentation, RPerl Team went to London for the London Perl Workshop.

If you missed the talk, here's a quick summary: Perl 11 is not (yet) a version of Perl, but is a philosophy, or a way of thinking about Perl toward reuniting Perl 5 and Perl 6. There are several projects that fall under the Perl 11 philosophy, RPerl, cperl, and WebPerl for example.

A quick Q&A followed, which continued at the RPerl booth. Als…

The RPerl team is back! On November 21st, Will "the Chill" Braswell gave a presentation to the Paris Perl Mongers, at the Fondation pour le Progrès de l'Homme, or FPH. For those of you who've been to Paris, it is located in the Bastille area, not far from the opera house. The Foundation exists thanks to the generous legacy of Charles Leopold Mayer, and hosts a Linux meeting every Thursday. We were able to use this place thanks to Emmanuel Seyman, member of the Paris Perl Mongers, who organized this meeting.

The bullet points of Will's presentation were:

- The RPerl compiler,…

Final day... and the RPerl live demo works! We can show how fast the compiler runs, and some people even asked if it’s for real. It is! Will and Mahrez did a great job, but they didn’t stop there; RPM installation packages are now available for programmers to try RPerl on their own code. CentOS 7 is currently supported, with more RedHat and Debian operating systems coming up next.

http://rperl.org/get_rperl.html

RPerl is an open source project, meant to benefit the whole community, and even if I don’t really get it, I’m…

I came to my first ever Perl Conference to run a booth, which is quite the intimidating task, as I am but a humble Perl newbie.

I was representing RPerl, Will Braswell's Perl 5 compiler, and did my best to try and explain its purpose to the intrigued visitors. In case you missed the booth, I'll do a quick recap. RPerl can do two things: first, it can optimize the speed of normal Perl 5 apps to over 400 times in some tests; and second, RPerl can protect the intellectual property and source code of your software.

Between the conference days, I helped Will set up a Linux VM th…

On the second day of my newbie adventures in Glasgow, I had the pleasure to talk to Larry Wall, who stopped by our table and told me about the time he was a booth babe himself. That conference is really full of surprises.

We used this day to deliver new fliers, give more information about RPerl, and especially the different possibilities for programmers to try it, through Cloudforfree.org, rperl.org and our new packages.rperl.org installation files. Mahrez is working from day one with Will Braswell to get us a demo on a VM, and they’re making good progress.

Thank you Chris…

This is a first. First Perl Conference for me, and first time the RPerl compiler is represented at YAPC, also known as The Perl Conference. We had a table, fliers, chocolates, and a computer! Go team RPerl!!!

You may ask : what the heck is RPerl? Very good question, but please watch your tongue. It’s the Perl compiler, for Perl 5 software (and Perl 6 soon), and it’s the work of Will Braswell, long-time member of the Perl community. Its goal is to make your code run faster. Way faster. And it does.

Although not a programmer myself, I discovered the event and the community,…

This is the C::Blocks Advent Calendar, in which I release a new treat each day about the C::Blocks library. Yesterday I showed how to get information across the boundary between Perl and C. Today I show how to do that for a number of types, including packed arrays, with minimal boiler-plate.

Hey everyone,

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

March 15th-27th

News and updates

Perl 5.23.9 is now out!

All tickets blocking 5.25.1 are now collected in Perl #127731.

Ricardo Signes and the team are reviewing all the 5.24 blockers here and here.

Steve Hay is organizing the voting file for 5.22.2.

Tony Cook providing his grant reports. In total about 38 hours and approximately 18 tickets were reviews or worked on, and 3 patches applied.

Dave Mitchell providing his grant report.

Term::ANSIColor 4.05 is now out.

podlators 4.07 is now out.

version.pm was upgraded in core to 0.9914.

Encode 2.83 is now out.

Matthew Horsfall is adding more macros from handy.h to Devel::PPPort so they are available in earlier versions of Perl.

Issues

New issues

• Perl #127743: Storable loses information on large strings.
• Perl #127739: ExtUtils::ParseXS breaks compilation of XS modules on 5.8.5 with -Duseithreads -Doptimize='-g' -DDEBUGGING on GCC 5.3.1.
• Perl #127742: Hash keys are limited to 2 GB.
• Perl #127727: Bleadperl breaks RPerl.
• Perl #127759: die inside sort comparitor causes SV error.
• Perl #127760: File::Path fails tests in non-threaded builds on smoke testing.
• Perl #127746: charset.t fails on Solaris.
• Perl #127788: scalar %hash shows/uses HvTOTALKEYS and not HvUSEDKEYS.
• Perl #127790: Segfault involving Data::Dumper, anonymous sub, and scalar ref.
• Perl #127780: Document that backticks and qx return octets, not characters.
• Perl #127794: Strange behavior when forking in BEGIN.

Resolved issues

• Perl #127705: Segfault / strange match with recursive subpattern.
• Perl #127231: Bleadperl breaks App::JobLog.
• Perl #57512: Implicit close()s are silently unchecked for error.
• Perl #127690: Add contributing/VCS repository to Carp.
• Perl #125303: Bleadperl breaks IPC::Run.
• Perl #127543: dtrace/-DDEBUGGING builds now fail on Solaris.
• Perl #127455: Regexp fails to compile on Solaris x64 debugging optimized builds.
• Perl #127764: Perl with -Dusebacktrace doesn't compile on Darwin.
• Perl #124430: Bleadperl breaks App::assh.
• Perl #126484: Bleadperl breaks Lexical::SealRequireHints.
• Perl #126545: Bleadperl breaks perl5i.
• Perl #127713: Bleadperl breaks Unicode::Unihan.
• Perl #127316: lib/File/Copy.t fails when running in non-root.
• Perl #125887: Warning: PERL_UNUSED_DECL redefined.
• Perl #125972: Segfault on bareword as loop index.
• Perl #127783: perlport POD "portable filename characters" chart missing "s".
• Perl #127183: Non-canonical hexadecimal floats are parsed prematurely.
• Perl #127751: Error building ODBM_File.
• Perl #127773: Assertion failure in perl build with -Dusebacktrace.
• Perl #127553: autouse misbehaves if target module is already loaded.

Proposed patches

Bulk88 provides a patch in Perl #127791 to silence warnings in inline.h on Win64 VC build. It was merged.

Discussion

In a conversation around Perl #127712, it was suggested that a future version of Perl might incorporate a fix for the vivification problem, perhaps using a perl-version feature bundle. The problem is that is that autovivification doesn't always respect lvalue vs. rvalue.

The discussion revolving a new type of word boundary continues. One suggested, raised by Abigail, is to provide a class of new boundaries - word boundaries being only one of them. Continue to read the thread here.

Karl Williamson is looking for help from anyone in updating perlhacktips.

There seems to be a solution to the problem of using dlltool to create DLLs on Win32, described in Perl #78395.

Achim Gratz described a problem he's been chasing with a library that misbehaves on Cywgin, due to how ld searches for libraries vs. the search algorithm of Configure.

Dave Mitchell resolved require statements with barewords with leading colons.

Laurent Dami provides another opinion regarding the change Steve Hay is making, putting Winsock errors into $^E.

Dave Mitchell, Aristotle Pagaltzis, and Karl Williamson worked on improving the perldiag message for implicit close warning.

Yves Orton asks why we keep some generated files in .gitignore but some we do not. Zefram offers the explanation.

Dave Mitchell suggested adding optional types to subroutine signatures. Zefram would like the options to stay open for something broader and the conversation contains a few ideas on what can be done in the future in subroutine signatures.

Karl Williamson raises the issue of Perl's fundamental flaw in the interaction of perl and ithreads. He asks what to do about locales and threads in the upcoming perl 5.24.

Rafael Garcia-Suarez discusses the deprecation of encoding.pm and finding a new home for one of its functions: get_locale_encoding.