Perl 5 Porters Weekly: December 17-December 23, 2012
Happy New Year! Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list.
Topics this week include:
- perl 5.17.7 is now available
- Solaris smoke testers wanted
- Parrot 4.11.0 "All together - Happy Birthday Lovebird" Released!
- successful s///e clobbers $! on MSWin32
- JROBINSON grant report, #13
- POSIX wrapper for strptime()
- Is this a known unicode bug in 5.16.2?
perl 5.17.7 is now available
Dave Rolsky announced that perl-5.17.7 is now available from a CPAN mirror near you.
Solaris smoke testers wanted
Dave Rolsky also encouraged people who use Perl on Solaris to join the CPAN testing/smoking group.
Find out how to set up a smoker box
Parrot 4.11.0 "All together - Happy Birthday Lovebird" Released!
Reini Urban announced that Parrot 4.11.0 is now available for download.
successful s///e clobbers $! on MSWin32
Which makes bugs on Win32 harder to track down when using Carp because Carp::format_args() does such a substitution.
JROBINSON grant report, #13
Checking in on Jess Robinson's Perl to Android cross compiling effort, it looks like there's an interesting side project which allows a Java process to schlep fatpacked perl modules to an Android platform.
Full details are in the grant report. A demo is available on a blog post.
POSIX wrapper for strptime()
LeoNerd proposed making POSIX/strptime unbroken cross-platform, but there was quite a bit of pushback on the idea. The primary objection was that the purpose of the POSIX module is to expose OS-specific functionality, and the second objection was that a cross-platform strptime already exists in Time::Piece.
Is this a known unicode bug in 5.16.2?
Anders Melchiorsen reported a strange bug in Perl's regex engine when it somehow thinks it's processing UTF-8 (even though it isn't.) A series of messages tracing the bug and trying to understand its origin followed. In a followup Dave Mitchell supplied a fix for the problem.
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