We caught up with new issues and pull requests without finding any new release blockers.
We went over the state of the perldeprecation and perlexperiment POD pages. We found that perlexperiment does not yet reflect the change in direction regarding smartmatch. Other than that we saw nothing to do.
We went over our options regarding readline again at length. We concluded that we are not yet sure about the big across-the-board change to I/O functions, and are definitely too far into the release cycle to undertake a fishing expedition. But we don’t want to leave this problem entirely unaddressed during this cycle, and the change proposed by Tony Cook is a strict improvement, even if only a minimal one. So we decided to ship it, possibly with a slightly different implementation that we may suggest.
Over the past year, I’ve been self-studying XS and have now decided to share my learning journey through a series of blog posts. This fourth post introduces you to overloading operators in XS.
Yes, this is a Mandelbrot fractal with three heads. No cloning needed, just multiply z to the power of four and proceed as usual. Well all this and so much more contains the latest release of Juliagraph 0.7. Intro here. All I wrote about the Cellgraph and Harmonograph applies again, more features, better controls and ... you can cruise the fractal by mouse.
Over the past year, I’ve been self-studying XS and have now decided to share my learning journey through a series of blog posts. This third post introduces you to list context in XS.
CVE-2024-56406 is published and has been addressed by new point releases. Please upgrade or patch your perl promptly if affected. We thank Steve Hay, Andreas König and Stig Palmquist for doing the heavy lifting, as well as Nathan Mills for discovering the problem, and Karl Williams for providing the fix. We re-/learned a number of old and new lessons about the handling of security issues, which we will write up as new process for the PSC, the Perl Security Team, and the CPANSec group, to be jointly reviewed and agreed at the looming PTS.
We started winnowing this release cycle’s pull requests for potential release blockers. We briefly reviewed all 72 pull requests and identified 11 of interest for a closer look.
We reviewed the 2 new issues filed since last week for release blocker potential and put one of them on our list for closer review. We then started a closer examination of the 20 issues we identified as candidate blockers. We got through 5 issues, none of which we considered blockers.
One of my pleasures in perl is learning the C language again. Something about the perl language makes it easier to write C, but while sharing the same space in my brain.
So how can I write a trivial program to write exactly one GB (2^30) of data to disk?
first in perl- (Of course you prototype in perl!)
But since my c program is cleaner, here’s the C program
Over the past year, I’ve been self-studying XS and have now decided to share my learning journey through a series of blog posts. This second post introduces the fundamentals of type checking variables in XS.
Many thanx to Shawn Laffan for testing this version on Strawberry Perl.
I test it on my Debian machine first of course.
It took Shawn and myself a number of attempts to make all the test pass under the 2 types of OSes.
All of us showed up for a long meeting of identifying release blockers. First we went over the issues and PRs submitted since last week, none of which turned out to be new potential blockers. Then we examined all of the issues and PRs of interest we had previously identified. We applied the “Release Blocker” label where necessary, left comments, and merged a few of the PRs. Out of 20 issues and 11 PRs on our list, we identified 5 issues and 1 PR as blockers, of which the PR and several of the issues all pertain to the same problem with retention of errors on filehandles across I/O operations. This issue needs an informed decision, which we did not have the time for in this meeting, but will pursue next.
With the Harmonograph you can create beautiful and individual images within a few clicks. It's painting by pendulum. I already gave here an introduction. So let me just explain what is new:
Lots has been going on. All of us showed up, though Aristotle had to join late and Philippe had to leave early, so the meeting was short but productive:
We continued with the potential release blocker issue review and finished going over all 49 issues remaining at this time, of which we identified 11 of interest. There are now still 72 pull requests to review.
We agreed to include the new Perl logo in the next release, but don’t yet know exactly how and where. That should be sorted out on p5p, and we will kick that off soon.
We went over the latest point release news, where everything is finally on track. It is coming very soon.
I started using DEV at the suggestion of Perl Weekly, and I was quite pleased with it - until I discovered that links to dev.to are effectively "shadowbanned" on several major platforms (Reddit, Hacker News, etc.). Posts containing DEV URLs would simply not be shown to users, making it impossible to share content effectively.
To work around this, I thought I would need a way to publish my DEV articles on my own domain so I could freely share them. There are some DEV tutorials out there that explain how to consume the API using frontend frameworks like React, however I don't enjoy frontend at all and I did not want to spend much time on that.
My solution was to get a simple Perl script that builds static versions of the articles, along with an index page. A Perl 5 script will run anywhere, including an old shared linux hosting account I still keep on IONOS, and I really like the speed of static sites.
Preparations for the point release are now in full swing.
In relation to that, we ran into infrastructure permissions discrepancies that have cropped up due to an absence of onboarding/offboarding procedures. We need to address both the immediate and long-term issues here.
We started winnowing this release cycle’s issues for potential release blockers. Out of about 95 issues, we have so far reviewed half, of which we identified 8 of interest. Additionally there are 72 pull requests to review.
