Hey everyone,

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

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July 3rd-9th

News

Grant Reports

• Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 report 5
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 report 6
• Tony Cook TPF Grant May 2017
• Tony Cook TPF Grant June 2017

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #131697: Underscore $VERSIONs currently exist in dual-life modules; should not be allowed.
• Perl #131715: Release of Storable on CPAN is very out of date; needs release to be in sync with blead.
• Perl #131716: perl 5.27.1 breaks Test2::Plugin::IOSync.
• Perl #131720: Solaris SPARC build with -Dusedtrace causes autobox build failure.
• Perl #131726: [Win32] perl.h remaps strtoll and strtoull incorrectly.
• Perl #131730: exec PROGRAM LIST does not work with empty list.
• Perl #131725: number parsing.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #131546: Can open() to an in-memory scalar return false?
• Perl #131570: SIGBUS in Perl_leave_adjust_stacks().
• Perl #131597: NULL pointer reference in Perl_newRV().
• Perl #131716: perl 5.27.1 breaks Test2::Plugin::IOSync.

Patches

Tony Cook provided a patch for Perl #124368: Perl_sv_2pv_flags: Assertion failure.

James Keenan provided a patch to resolve Perl #131652: map returns array instead of list.

David Hand provided a patch in Perl #131723 to support spaces in the builddir path.

Sawyer X provided a patch that rewrites the existing script to generate a checklist from the release managers guide in Perl #131698. Aaron Crane provided additional improvements.

Discussion

Vickenty Fesunov asked (Try::Tiny::XS) for a review of his implementation of Try::Tiny in XS.

David Mertens mentioned eval_pv would be useful if it evaluated code under the package in which the keyword is actively parsing. Response from Father Chrysostomos how it works during compile-time and how to control the package under which the code is evaluated.