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

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May 9th-16th

News

Perl 5.26.0-RC1 was released and tested thoroughly. We will need to also release RC2.

Grant reports

Dave Mitchell Grant #2 reports #172, #173, #174.

Dave Mitchell Grant #2 report #175.

Dave Mitchell Grant #2 report for April 2017.

Issues

New issues

Suggested patches

Kent Fredric opened a ticket (Perl #131304 to collect the additionally discussed prose regarding . in @INC .

Jim Keenan provided a patch to fix a Makefile.PL issue in Time::HiRes with the issue of . in @INC .

Discussion

Zakariyya Mughal asked about supporting file path names under Windows. The task seems more involved than one might think as explained by Leon Timmermans in the thread.