Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

November 1st-6th

News and highlights

podlators 4.09 released!

Dennis Kaarsemaker made (Gitweb upgrade on camel) was able to upgrade our old custom Gitweb and provide us with a new shiny version, while also trying to reduce the crawling and bots.

Grant reports

Tony Cook Grant 8 report 1.

Tony Cook Grant 8 report 2.

Issues

New issues

Resolved issues

Rejected issues

Perl #21491: m'...' interpolates escape sequences.

Suggested patches

Dave Rolsky provided a patch to perlobj with changes, asking for review. The patch has been merged.

Nicholas R. provided a patch in Perl #129990 to reduce malloc and free in S_parse_gv_stash_name .

Andy Lester continues the work on removing warnings from using clang's -Weverything and provided another patch in Perl #129998 which raised the issue of casting to I32 vs. IV (or maybe UV ). A subset off this patch was submitted as Perl #130008 and merged.

Discussion

The patch to improve the hek definition in hv.h had to be reverted since it broke HP-UX. Yves Orton is looking into it.

Dave Mitchell found a test in Net::Ping that used sudo and, following agreement througout, fixed it.