Perl 5 Porters Weekly: May 13-19, 2013
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. The topic of the week on P5P was the clean up and release of perl 5.18.0 which was released on 5-18 for North Americans. RJBS in a seperate email said blead would be reopen for patches on Tuesday,
Perl 5 Porters Weekly: May 6-12, 2013
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. The big news this week is the release of perl-5.18.0-RC1 and RC2. Topics this week include: perl-5.18.0-RC2 is now available Proposal: initial type annotation in SV What does PERL_HASH_SEED do? Designing an API Should we make hashes return
Perl 5 Porters Weekly: April 29-May 5, 2013
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Topics this week include: Sequence (?#…) not recognized in regex How on earth did we manage to break pack() so badly? DAVEM TPF Grant April Report Problems with Carp::longmess() in 5.17.10 and before What does PERL_HASH_SEED do? Sequence
Perl 5 Porters Monthly: April 2013
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Monthly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. This is the last monthly catch-up. I am planning to do weekly summaries for the week starting April 29, 2013. (But the road to hell is paved with yada yada yada…) Topics from this month include: DAVEM TPF
Perl 5 Porters Monthly: March 2013
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Monthly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Topics from this month include: CVE-2013-1667: important rehashing flaw Some facts/observations on *early adopter* perl use Bleadperl v5.17.9-200-g0e0ab62 breaks MLEHMANN/JSON-XS-2.33.tar.gz the freeze: it’s getting cold in herre NWCLARK TPF grant February report more efficient precomputed hash keys Perlfunc
Perl 5 Porters Monthly: February 2013
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Monthly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Topics from this month include: Will 5.18 also be smartmatch-challenged? Perl 7 or Perl 2013? EBCDIC support is on the chopping block perlopentut perlopentut modernization Don’t patch perlopentut: rewrite it completely blockers on 5.18 blockers of 5.18.0: a
Perl 5 Porters Weekly^WMonthly: January 2013
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Monthly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Well, that was a nice little break. I didn’t intend for it to be so long but there you go. Life gets real sometimes. To catch up I’m basically going month by month through most of April. I
Perl 5 Porters Weekly: December 24-December 31, 2012
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Usually I go Monday to Sunday, but just to keep things tidy, we’ll make this the final summary of 2012 by including the 31st. Topics for this week include: cPanel version of “Storable 2.39_01″ breaks backwards compatibility Please
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
Perl 5 Porters Weekly: December 10-December 16, 2012
Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Topics this week include: RFC: Adding a prototype attribute Undocumented %ENV behaviour rand() on Windows only uses 15 bits of entropy RFC: Adding a prototype attribute Peter Martini proposed adding a ‘prototype’ attribute into the Perl core, so