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Perhaps this issue is better resolved by documentation. I'm not sure where it belongs, but it might look something like: Because B<< <= returns B<undef when either operand is B<NaN (not-a-number), ...
John P. Linderman
Jul 9, 2003 at 5:50 pm
Aug 18, 2003 at 1:35 am -
I decided to upgrade to the latest version of List::Utils and was a bit surprised to find that the version didn't change. Turns out it gets installed into /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.0/i686-linux/ ...
Fergal Daly
Jul 12, 2003 at 2:00 pm
Jul 28, 2003 at 2:58 pm -
Today at the p5p meeting (in Paris) it was suggested to include META.yaml in 5.8.1 release. The reason: mark dual-life CPAN modules as private, so they won't be indexed by PAUSE (when it actually ...
Stas Bekman
Jul 27, 2003 at 12:08 am
Aug 7, 2003 at 11:10 pm -
http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@20046.tgz http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@20046.tbz (or rsync -avz ftp.linux.activestate.com::perl-5.8.x perl-5.8.x) - The Digest::MD5 badfiles.t is still failing for some ...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Jul 7, 2003 at 7:53 am
Jul 10, 2003 at 10:20 pm -
I've just been debugging Devel::Size today and found that what seems to be intuitively correct code does not work with perls = 5.8.0 due to the way restricted hashes are implemented. Devel::Size has ...
Marcus Holland-Moritz
Jul 18, 2003 at 10:34 am
Aug 10, 2003 at 5:06 pm -
Apparently, the new OSX Perl has an @INC of: @INC: /sw/lib/perl5 /opt/perl/snap/lib/5.8.1/darwin /opt/perl/snap/lib/5.8.1 /opt/perl/snap/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/darwin ...
Randal L. Schwartz
Jul 6, 2003 at 5:04 pm
Jul 9, 2003 at 9:32 pm -
BAD NEWS: There seems to be a problem with ExtUtils-MakeMaker 6.12 included in perl-5.8.1-RC3. I successfully built and tested mod_perl 1.28 using RC3 on Windows XP / MS VC++ 6.0, but I just thought ...
Steve Hay
Jul 31, 2003 at 10:14 am
Aug 8, 2003 at 3:10 am -
I was thinking of putting the following code (courtesy PodMaster on PerlMonks): BEGIN { eval { require warnings } or do { no strict 'refs'; *warnings::import = *warnings::unimport = sub{}; ...
Elizabeth Mattijsen
Jul 29, 2003 at 9:47 am
Aug 1, 2003 at 2:03 pm -
http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@19975.tgz http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@19975.tbz (or rsync -avz ftp.linux.activestate.com::perl-5.8.x perl-5.8.x) Updates since the last: [ 19974] By: jhi on 2003/07/03 ...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Jul 3, 2003 at 10:57 pm
Jul 8, 2003 at 4:20 am -
Well, the ticket contains: fixed in 5.6.1 I've just tried 5.6.1 and the problem is still present... Lionel
Lionel CONS
Jul 16, 2003 at 3:48 pm
Jul 31, 2003 at 8:06 pm -
I have finally sussed out the way to cause strings that look like vstrings (i.e. v65) to be quoted properly by the = operator, when used as a key in a hash. The current behavior: $ perl -MDevel::Peek ...
John Peacock
Jul 8, 2003 at 1:36 am
Jul 9, 2003 at 5:31 pm -
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5.6.1a now !
Proposal : release 5.6.1a ASAP, based on 5.6.1, with only portability patches, to get it to compile on modern systems. The idea is to add no improvement, fix, or change, but only some hints for ...Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Jul 10, 2003 at 8:47 am
Jul 14, 2003 at 8:23 pm -
Unless I misunderstand something about the safe signal handling, POSIX::sigaction is not using the safe signal mechanism. I can't see a reason why it shouldn't. Is there one? If not, I'll fix it. -- ...
Chip Salzenberg
Jul 8, 2003 at 10:38 am
Jul 9, 2003 at 4:14 pm -
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RC3 is out
Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly a knife with a curved blade. -- Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl-5.8.1-RC2.tar.bz ...Jarkko Hietaniemi
Jul 30, 2003 at 8:39 pm
Aug 1, 2003 at 8:13 am -
The error "Sort subroutine didn't return a numeric value" is currently fatal. I think it should be turned into a warning, because an innocent looking sort subroutine à la { $a <= $b } may return ...
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Jul 9, 2003 at 10:21 am
Jul 11, 2003 at 8:53 pm -
Regarding this discussion: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2002-09/msg00942.html In reference to this code: perl -we "close STDOUT; open F, q{.bashrc} or die" Which produces ...
Chris Nandor
Jul 28, 2003 at 9:47 pm
Aug 11, 2003 at 5:30 pm -
# New Ticket Created by Graciliano M. P. # Please include the string: [perl #22973] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
Graciliano M.P.(via RT)
Jul 14, 2003 at 6:42 pm
Jul 17, 2003 at 3:50 am -
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RC2 is out
Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh." -- Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" *SIGH* http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl-5.8.1-RC2.tar.b22 (just the ...Jarkko Hietaniemi
Jul 11, 2003 at 12:46 pm
Jul 12, 2003 at 12:11 pm -
Hello, Using: Storable 2.02, 2.04, 2.06, or 2.07 Perl 5.8.0 mod_perl 1.99_07-5 (stock RedHat 9 install) I am getting the error below when it is called from RT3 (www.fsck.com) We've been round this on ...
Vincent J. Bono
Jul 23, 2003 at 8:01 pm
Nov 15, 2003 at 3:58 pm -
# New Ticket Created by Ed Avis # Please include the string: [perl #23061] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
Ed Avis
Jul 20, 2003 at 8:56 pm
Sep 9, 2003 at 4:54 am -
These are the minutes of the p5p BOF that was held on Saturday 27th of July in Paris. We started around 2 pm. We left the place around 7pm. The following people were there and/or participated in one ...
Elizabeth Mattijsen
Jul 29, 2003 at 10:14 am
Aug 4, 2003 at 4:00 am -
I recently submitted a patch (#20203) to get PerlIO_isutf8() exported from the Perl library on Windows. I now need to workaround that missing function in existing perl-5.8.0's out there, which raises ...
Steve Hay
Jul 29, 2003 at 5:06 pm
Aug 2, 2003 at 11:44 pm -
Automated smoke report for patch 19956 on linux - 2.4.20-2jv.7.x (i686-linux-thread-multi-ld) v1.16 using cc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-112.7.2) O = OK F = Failure(s), extended ...
Johan Vromans
Jul 3, 2003 at 7:40 pm
Jul 5, 2003 at 7:08 pm -
Dear Rafael, I have got my script running fine on SCO OpenServer 5.0.0, it has taken me this long to install the modules that I needed and it is finally running. I am now trying to build per on SCO ...
Richard Thomas
Jul 17, 2003 at 8:14 pm
Jul 25, 2003 at 10:54 am -
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Moin, some time ago we discussed whether CPAN packages should have an embedded cryptographic signature, or an external (aka detached) one. I voted for an external ...
Tels
Jul 15, 2003 at 7:36 pm
Jul 22, 2003 at 9:53 am -
Someone on irc.freenode.net #perl asked why exists $obj- method didn't "work" as he intended. I explained that $obj- can('method') was the right approach there. Is it possible that exists() might be ...
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
Jul 21, 2003 at 9:35 pm
Jul 23, 2003 at 11:44 am -
By now I've seen two independent (well, both are BSD: freebsd and darwin) reports of ext/List/Util/t/tainted..............FAILED at test 3 -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ ...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Jul 3, 2003 at 12:27 pm
Jul 4, 2003 at 10:44 am -
# New Ticket Created by jrogers@findlaw.com # Please include the string: [perl #23185] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
jrogers@findlaw.com (via RT)
Jul 31, 2003 at 6:52 pm
Aug 3, 2003 at 12:52 am -
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5.6.2
I've created a sub-branch //depot/maint-5.6/perl-5.6.2 from the perl-5.6.1 sources. In it, I've upgraded DB_File from the CPAN distribution, and I've applied the necessary patches to get it to ...Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Jul 29, 2003 at 10:27 pm
Jul 30, 2003 at 8:48 pm -
The attached patch adds the additional information available from the OSVERSIONINFOEX structure to the list of values returned by Win32::GetOSVersion(). This information is available for Windows NT 4 ...
Jan Dubois
Jul 30, 2003 at 2:14 am
Mar 21, 2004 at 5:05 am -
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Pantherbites
I have finally gotten an access to Panther so here is my preliminary report on it as a Perl5 Porter. Let me begin with pros * It is good looking * And fast * I love Expos~{(&~}. Now cons * input ...Dan Kogai
Jul 23, 2003 at 12:33 pm
Jul 26, 2003 at 10:14 pm -
v-strings are broken. The current workarounds are not a solution. The solution is obsolescence. We need to start the deprecation cycle at 5.10 and have them removed in 5.12. Using simple human ...
Casey West
Jul 9, 2003 at 2:03 am
Jul 9, 2003 at 11:30 am -
http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@20014.tgz http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@20014.tbz (or rsync -avz ftp.linux.activestate.com::perl-5.8.x perl-5.8.x) - Gisle released Digest::MD5 2.25, but I had trouble getting ...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Jul 5, 2003 at 3:28 pm
Aug 4, 2003 at 8:25 pm -
http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@20277.tgz http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@20277.tbz (or rsync -avz --delete ftp.linux.activestate.com::perl-5.8.x perl-5.8.x) *Lots* of changes, scarily so for after a RC2. But ...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Jul 28, 2003 at 6:29 pm
Jul 29, 2003 at 10:09 pm -
B::Bytecode undef 1.00 J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz CGI 2.97 2.98 L/LD/LDS/CGI.pm-2.98.tar.gz CPAN 1.71 1.72 A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.72.tar.gz Class::Fields 0.15 0.16 M/MS/MSCHWERN/Class-Fields-0.16.tar.gz ...
Randal L. Schwartz
Jul 28, 2003 at 3:11 am
Jul 28, 2003 at 9:07 pm -
Hello It looks like the original developer of Compress::Bzip2 has disappeared: The original message was received at Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:51:31 -0400 (EDT) from ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de ...
Christian Jaeger
Jul 20, 2003 at 7:16 pm
Jul 21, 2003 at 7:44 pm -
# New Ticket Created by alian # Please include the string: [perl #22941] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
Alian
Jul 14, 2003 at 6:38 pm
Jul 20, 2003 at 10:29 pm -
Apparently at OSCON there is a large and powerful anti v-string lobby :-) and they managed to get me to sneak in into RC1 1a deprecation note for v-strings. Larry's been cornered once about this by ...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Jul 10, 2003 at 8:06 am
Jul 11, 2003 at 6:37 pm -
It seems that the spurious failures in the threads stress*.t in FreeBSD are related to the use of Perl malloc. What seems to fail isthat malloc falls off the end of allocatable heap. (Core dumps ...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Jul 9, 2003 at 10:59 am
Jul 9, 2003 at 1:49 pm -
Automated smoke report for 5.9.0 patch 20002 on bsdos - 4.1 (i386/1 cpu) v1.16_22 using cc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release) O = OK F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom ? = ...
Kane
Jul 5, 2003 at 3:27 am
Jul 5, 2003 at 7:31 pm -
Greetings In perl 5.8.0 it appears signals are being ignored. I've tested this on AIX and Linux and get the same results. Here's a sample program that just reports the signal handler for the SIGFPE ...
Paul Bostrom
Jul 9, 2003 at 8:06 pm
Jul 11, 2003 at 3:32 pm -
Hi, can somebody explain me what this means? $ perl -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e pod2man --center="my docs" Unrecognized switch: --center=my docs (-h will show valid options). $
Alexey Tourbin
Jul 8, 2003 at 4:31 pm
Jul 10, 2003 at 9:43 pm -
See patch below. Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with troff rmtroff -ms -Hdrwp | lpr -Pwp2 & .*place bullet in footer .B .NR FT +3i .in 4 .bu Shoot! .br .sp .in -4 .br .bp NR HD -2i .* ...
Casey West
Jul 9, 2003 at 2:29 am
Jul 10, 2003 at 2:27 am -
Hi all, I haven't heard anything about a p5p meeting this year, other than the party. Let's not miss the opportunity. I don't know what room availability is like at this late date, but let's see what ...
Kurt Starsinic
Jul 1, 2003 at 6:14 pm
Jul 3, 2003 at 5:26 pm -
Hello, I have a particular problem where calls to select() at some point return EINTR and subsequent attempts *always* return EINTR. I have seen some mention of signal handling changing in perl 5.8.0 ...
Richard F. Rebel
Jul 1, 2003 at 3:50 pm
Jul 2, 2003 at 12:56 pm -
As is remarked in the B::Deparse documentation, its largest single outstanding problem is that it doesn't always put declarations, specifically use statements and other BEGIN blocks, in the right ...
Stephen McCamant
Jul 15, 2003 at 1:58 pm
Jul 23, 2003 at 6:29 pm -
Hi, Trying our big application with 5.8.1RC2, the first module I install is Clone which hits me in the face about not recognizing reference type LVALUE as builtin. A bit more logic deducing and I ...
Arthur Bergman
Jul 14, 2003 at 4:07 pm
Jul 21, 2003 at 3:50 pm -
Hi, Since this is such an important module, I'm hoping people can assist with some distributed testing before I upload it to CPAN: http://www.limnus.com/~ken/File-Spec-0.84.tar.gz (Recap: this has ...
Ken Williams
Jul 9, 2003 at 8:32 pm
Jul 10, 2003 at 5:19 am -
Hi, I wonder whether I am too dumb, but I just don't get what h2xs is really doing and why. I have particular problems with h2xs and the -x option. In this case C::Scan is involved to auto-generate ...
Tassilo von Parseval
Jul 15, 2003 at 9:23 am
Jul 18, 2003 at 9:22 am -
Ok, I agree with that, however we cannot break working code that is our $foo = 0 unless defined $foo; since it is a maintenance release, and on top of that I think that it makes sense to be able to ...
Arthur Bergman
Jul 16, 2003 at 12:07 pm
Jul 17, 2003 at 8:53 pm
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