Hey everyone,

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

December 14th-20th

Updates

Additional grant reports from Dave Mitchell here. Almost 29 hours on 4 tickets, compiler warnings, and smoke failures.

Steve Hay created meta ticket Perl #126920 to track all the possible blockers to Perl 5.22.2.

Craig A. Berry updated the list that Perl 5.22.1 binary kits are now available.

Karl Williamson updated about the Adopt-A-Character program Unicode launched.

David Golden requested that people make sure perldelta is up-to-date with their changes, preparing for Perl 5.23.6.

Bugs

Reported bugs

• Perl #126933: Fix use of == to compare string in perlref, applied.
• Perl #126958: Bleadperl fails to build on OpenIndiana, a derivative of OpenSolaris.
• RT#126957: Incompatibility of Tie::Scalar and threads.

Resolved bugs

• Perl #124364: Some version strings in Module::CoreList's delta contain trailing spaces, causing warnings.
• Perl #126843: Add note about scope to strict documentation.
• Perl #126813: TrailingCommas feature request to Data::Dumper.
• Perl #126820: www.cpan.org is not up-to-date on latest supported Perl versions.
• Perl #124097: Attempt to free unreferenced scalar.
• Perl #126240: a panic happening after freeing the env after a fork.
• Perl #126933: Fix use of == to compare string in perlref, applied.

Proposed patches

Tony Cook and Dave Mitchell continued on a breakage with ddb in bleadperl, and Dave provided a patch in Perl #126633.

Mariusz Zaborski proposed another patch in Perl #126847.

Tony Cook provides a patch for fixing a failed compilation on El Capitan in Perl #126706.

Tony Cook applied a patch to resolve Perl #123994, a null pointer dereference, which will be smoked soon.

Chad Granum submitted a patch in Perl #126953 to add renaming capabilities to Exporter. James E. Keenan is already smoking it.

Discussion

Karl Williamson raised a short discussion on how to phrase a deprecation warning for using bitwise operations on strings with code points above 0xFF. The result is available in this commit.

Christian Millour writes to the list about using a my $b in sort and the documentation for this behavior.

Chad Granum proposed making a change to Exporter to allow renaming when exporting. This generated a very interesting thread, involving a discussion on what qualifies as a change worthy of added to core and the role of CPAN in this.