14 years agoFurther updates to perldelta:
Jesse Vincent [Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:51:55 +0000]
Further updates to perldelta:

    rewrapping and module list updates

14 years agoAdd the author list for 5.12.0
Jesse Vincent [Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:13:39 +0000]
Add the author list for 5.12.0

14 years agoUpdate Perl 5.12.0 delta. It needs a spellcheck, proofreading and a module list.
Jesse Vincent [Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:43:33 +0000]
Update Perl 5.12.0 delta. It needs a spellcheck, proofreading and a module list.

14 years agobetter perl version output in corelist-diff
Ricardo Signes [Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:35:23 +0000]
better perl version output in corelist-diff

14 years agotool to produce corelist diffs
Ricardo Signes [Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:27:53 +0000]
tool to produce corelist diffs

14 years agopod cleanup
Jesse Vincent [Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:51:56 +0000]
pod cleanup

14 years agoSome copyediting perldelta. Pulled in .11.5 delta
Jesse Vincent [Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:45:00 +0000]
Some copyediting perldelta. Pulled in .11.5 delta

14 years agoRevive threaded builds for AIX
H.Merijn Brand [Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:29:49 +0000]
Revive threaded builds for AIX

If random_r is disabled, so should srandom_r be. Changes in a distant
caused errors like:

"reentr.h", line 773.16: 1506-007 (S) "struct random_data" is undefined.

14 years agoIn Perl_sv_compile_2op(), remove a suggestion to merge code with pp_entersub.
Nicholas Clark [Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:35:13 +0000]
In Perl_sv_compile_2op(), remove a suggestion to merge code with pp_entersub.

Add a comment explaining the problems with this function.

14 years agoUse POD references to documentation when possible.
Tom Hukins [Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:38:41 +0000]
Use POD references to documentation when possible.

14 years agoUse simpler language.
Tom Hukins [Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:21:43 +0000]
Use simpler language.

14 years agoUse POD-style references in the "SEE ALSO" section.
Tom Hukins [Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:50:52 +0000]
Use POD-style references in the "SEE ALSO" section.

14 years agoUse POD-style references
Tom Hukins [Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:42:30 +0000]
Use POD-style references

14 years agoTighten the ropes on sGMTIME_min for HP-UX 11.00
H.Merijn Brand [Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:43:24 +0000]
Tighten the ropes on sGMTIME_min for HP-UX 11.00

The original long-running test had a tighter limit for
sGMTIME_min and sLOCALTIME_min than the 2**47-1 limit
that was now hardcoded. Take the safe route.

14 years ago[perl# 73490] Bump Time::Piece to a devel release that's newer than what
Jesse Vincent [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:52:42 +0000]
[perl# 73490] Bump Time::Piece to a devel release that's newer than what
was in Blead but is old than the current updated CPAN release. Comment
out a now deprecated 'use UNIVERSAL' line to prevent warnings from
production code. It's bad form to ship software that deprecates things
and then keeps using them and warning. Thanks to xdg++ for the spotting.

14 years agoClarify that patching deprecate.pm is intended to facilitate a staged transition.
Nicholas Clark [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:03:28 +0000]
Clarify that patching deprecate.pm is intended to facilitate a staged transition.

14 years agoDescribe the limitations and pitfalls of @DB::args.
Nicholas Clark [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:44:01 +0000]
Describe the limitations and pitfalls of @DB::args.

14 years agoFix stringification assumption bug in overload.t, revealed by ia64-linux-ld.
Nicholas Clark [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:08:07 +0000]
Fix stringification assumption bug in overload.t, revealed by ia64-linux-ld.

Specifically:
1: / returns and NV where possible, only returning an integer if the dividend
   is an integer larger than an NV can represent accurately, and integer
   division is exact (ie no fractional part/remainder).
2: The test is performing $ref/1, intending it to be an identity operation
   on the numeric value of the reference.
3: The test assumes that the return result of the division will be a number
   that stringifies identically to the integer value of the reference.

The fails if both:

1: The system memory map is such that addresses are very large (ia64 does)
2: NVs are large enough to hold these addresses

because then the address becomes converted to an NV which has sufficient
decimal digits that stringification defaults to scientific notation.

Itanium Linux users the world over will be cheering because they can now
compile Perl with long doubles with confidence that all tests pass.

14 years agoremove gv_try_downgrade from the public API
David Mitchell [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:18:00 +0000]
remove gv_try_downgrade from the public API

it's a recently added function, so removing it now does no harm.

14 years agoLimit HP-UX 11.00 time to 48 bit in 64bit mode
H.Merijn Brand [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:11:17 +0000]
Limit HP-UX 11.00 time to 48 bit in 64bit mode

14 years agoRe-TODO one more Deparse test
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:53:43 +0000]
Re-TODO one more Deparse test

(was missing from 0fa4a26596a4646f9aae1dcd199a2f30933e6f01)

14 years agoNote that can be warned on implicit utf8 upgrade
Karl Williamson [Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:47:55 +0000]
Note that can be warned on implicit utf8 upgrade

The module encoding::warnings can be used to warn when two strings are
concatenated where one is utf8 and the other is not and contains
non-ASCII.

Note the existence of this in the pod documentation.

14 years agorevert const deparsing in Deparse.pm
David Mitchell [Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:47:34 +0000]
revert const deparsing in Deparse.pm

The code was added in 5.11.0 by
    2990415a4519bc3988d7224ae15100c3e9e901ee
    805b10112885d8868f21f8e860792d65e1e6c19d
but causes a big slowdown on most deparsing, due to the need
to walk the entire package tree looking for constant subs.

For more details, see
    [perl #73052] Storable considerably slower at storing coderefs

14 years ago[perl #72740]: Blead breaks LEMBARK/LinkedList-Single-0.99.1.tar.gz
Zefram [Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:53:50 +0000]
[perl #72740]: Blead breaks LEMBARK/LinkedList-Single-0.99.1.tar.gz

f7461760003db2ce68155c97ea6c1658e96fcd27 improved the PL_check hook for
bareword subs, but broke the above module. This is Zefram's followup:

The issue is that speculative function lookups were leaving detritus
consisting of empty GVs in the stash.  These didn't affect normal
functioning, but code that looks inside the stash could see them, and
code that makes unreliable assumptions about the format of the stash
can be broken.  This is the same general mode of failure that we saw
with namespace::clean.

LinkedList-Single's failing test was using direct stash access poorly,
in a way that made for a poor test, quite apart from making too many
assumptions about stash structure.  In the latest version of the package,
0.99.6, the test has been changed to a much better form, which actually
tests what it meant to and incidentally doesn't read the stash at all.

Although they don't affect normal functioning, the empty GVs shouldn't
be there.  It's much like the upgraded constant subs, which we concluded
ought to be downgraded when the upgraded form is no longer required,
in order to save memory.  The solution here is similar: delete the
empty GV when it is detected that a real GV is no longer required.
The present patch does this at the same time as checking for constant-sub
downgradability.

14 years agoIn comments, correct two instances of SVf_PADSTALE to SVs_PADSTALE.
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:05:52 +0000]
In comments, correct two instances of SVf_PADSTALE to SVs_PADSTALE.

14 years agoadd makerel option to skip tarball creation
David Golden [Fri, 5 Mar 2010 20:18:48 +0000]
add makerel option to skip tarball creation

14 years agoFix comments about @INC ordering
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:21:20 +0000]
Fix comments about @INC ordering

14 years agolist undocumented API and internal functions in perlapi.pod and perlintern.pod
Tony Cook [Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:44:54 +0000]
list undocumented API and internal functions in perlapi.pod and perlintern.pod

List any functions from embed.fnc that don't have documentation in
their own section of perlapi/perlintern as a reminder to either
document them, remove them or perhaps flag them as undeserving of
documentation.

14 years agoSupport cygwin-1.7 mount
Reini Urban [Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:09:35 +0000]
Support cygwin-1.7 mount

14 years agoAdd perlintern.pod documentation docatch + prescan_version
Reini Urban [Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:53:51 +0000]
Add perlintern.pod documentation docatch + prescan_version

docatch - perl run-time exception handling

14 years agoDocument that there are bugs with EBCDIC and regexes
Karl Williamson [Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:18:36 +0000]
Document that there are bugs with EBCDIC and regexes

14 years agoBump Safe to version 2.25
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Sun, 7 Mar 2010 21:37:52 +0000]
Bump Safe to version 2.25

14 years agoFurther improvements to the security fix in 16ac9e9a4185d3315152ade5286d4dd3d25bff32
Nick Cleaton [Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:27:31 +0000]
Further improvements to the security fix in 16ac9e9a4185d3315152ade5286d4dd3d25bff32

- Destroy all stash entries at once to avoid race conditions.
- For that we save away reference to stashes entries (not
  stash entries themselves like previously, to avoid trigerring
  tie methods)
- Don't skip sub-packages that might be named "main::"

14 years agoRevert "Upgrade to IPC::SysV 2.02" - We're frozen. This will be great when we unfreeze
Jesse Vincent [Sun, 7 Mar 2010 20:31:23 +0000]
Revert "Upgrade to IPC::SysV 2.02" - We're frozen. This will be great when we unfreeze

This reverts commit 8a720e6ba3939d5db4327226c93348d5acf35145.

14 years agoRevert "Upgrade to Devel::PPPort 3.19_02" - we're frozen. This will be great when...
Jesse Vincent [Sun, 7 Mar 2010 20:30:56 +0000]
Revert "Upgrade to Devel::PPPort 3.19_02" - we're frozen. This will be great when we unfreeze

This reverts commit bfc37ff708b737d2490a23505b932c94f1898073.

14 years agoMerge remote branch 'origin/blead' into blead
Marcus Holland-Moritz [Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:59:12 +0000]
Merge remote branch 'origin/blead' into blead

14 years agoUpgrade to IPC::SysV 2.02
Marcus Holland-Moritz [Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:55:48 +0000]
Upgrade to IPC::SysV 2.02

14 years agoOnly define PERL_PATCHNUM when either git or the .patch file is available
Gisle Aas [Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:42:39 +0000]
Only define PERL_PATCHNUM when either git or the .patch file is available

This patch also make PERL_GIT_UNCOMMITTED_CHANGES useful and thus avoids
always adding the "*" to the 'perl -v' output.

14 years agoUpgrade to Devel::PPPort 3.19_02
Marcus Holland-Moritz [Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:48:24 +0000]
Upgrade to Devel::PPPort 3.19_02

14 years agoModuule::Build test tweaks for VMS.
Craig A. Berry [Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:54:30 +0000]
Moduule::Build test tweaks for VMS.

More complete fix available upstream at:

http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=55288

14 years agoExtUtils-CBuilder test tweak for VMS.
Craig A. Berry [Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:51:18 +0000]
ExtUtils-CBuilder test tweak for VMS.

Idential to upstream fix at https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55236

14 years agoMerge branch 'dual/Safe' into blead
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Sat, 6 Mar 2010 21:44:12 +0000]
Merge branch 'dual/Safe' into blead

14 years agoBump version to 2.24 and update Changes
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Sat, 6 Mar 2010 21:39:07 +0000]
Bump version to 2.24 and update Changes

14 years agoClean the stashes from the Safe compartment after evaluation of code.
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Sat, 6 Mar 2010 21:30:47 +0000]
Clean the stashes from the Safe compartment after evaluation of code.

This way, objects created from inside the Safe compartment won't be
able to call transparently code compiled in the Safe compartment,
without the restrictions being anymore in place.

14 years agoFix an example for LC_COLLATE in POSIX.pod that actually sets LC_ALL
Vincent Pit [Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:48:58 +0000]
Fix an example for LC_COLLATE in POSIX.pod that actually sets LC_ALL

Spotted by Olivier Raginel.

14 years agoRevert "Forbid labels with keyword names"
Jan Dubois [Wed, 3 Mar 2010 00:24:23 +0000]
Revert "Forbid labels with keyword names"

This reverts commit f71d6157c7933c0d3df645f0411d97d7e2b66b2f.

Revert "Add new error "Can't use keyword '%s' as a label""

This reverts commit 28ccebc469d90664106fcc1cb73d7321c4b60716.

14 years agoSetup @INC at compile time because commit ec34a119 needs to load utf8.pm
Jan Dubois [Wed, 3 Mar 2010 02:19:03 +0000]
Setup @INC at compile time because commit ec34a119 needs to load utf8.pm

'.' needs to remain in @INC because the test also loads comp/hints.aux
at compile time too.

14 years ago[perl #73174] swash_init() wasn't saving %^H
David Mitchell [Tue, 2 Mar 2010 20:39:28 +0000]
[perl #73174] swash_init() wasn't saving %^H

14 years agofetching from e.g. github requires a repo name
David Mitchell [Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:26:36 +0000]
fetching from e.g. github requires a repo name

14 years agoSkip Pod::Parser's find.t on VMS for now.
Craig A. Berry [Tue, 2 Mar 2010 04:01:48 +0000]
Skip Pod::Parser's find.t on VMS for now.

Pending integration of https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55121

14 years agoDon't scrub DCL$PATH unless it's there.
Craig A. Berry [Tue, 2 Mar 2010 01:55:08 +0000]
Don't scrub DCL$PATH unless it's there.

It's optional and this was causing test failures when it didn't exist.

14 years agoCannot portably split on $Config{path_sep} -- use quotemeta($Config{path_sep}).
Craig A. Berry [Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:56:45 +0000]
Cannot portably split on $Config{path_sep} -- use quotemeta($Config{path_sep}).

Broken in fc5e5837c991d3d3224259ff5c1d728d4e0636e2.

On VMS we were getting:

$ perl -"MConfig" -e "print join('+',split $Config{path_sep}, 'foo|bar|baz');"
f+o+o+|+b+a+r+|+b+a+z

which is a *lot* more pieces than we want.  What was intended was:

$ perl -"MConfig" -e "print join('+',split quotemeta($Config{path_sep}), 'foo|bar|baz');"
foo+bar+baz

No version bump as this is test infrastructure and 1.55 has not been
released outside of development releases of blead.

14 years agoUn-TODO warning test
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:47:19 +0000]
Un-TODO warning test

14 years agoNote this doesn't work: $re = "\\N{...}"; /$re/
Karl Williamson [Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:48:33 +0000]
Note this doesn't work: $re = "\\N{...}"; /$re/

14 years agoDocument some re bugs in perlre.pod
Karl Williamson [Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:45:11 +0000]
Document some re bugs in perlre.pod

14 years agoDocument 5.8 regression #72998 in delta
Karl Williamson [Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:44:04 +0000]
Document 5.8 regression #72998 in delta

14 years agoDocument parsing changes for [perl #56444] patch
Karl Williamson [Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:38:15 +0000]
Document parsing changes for [perl #56444] patch

14 years agoRevise wording about /x caveats
Karl Williamson [Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:17:57 +0000]
Revise wording about /x caveats

14 years agoMention \N{U+...} documentation in delta
Karl Williamson [Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:16:56 +0000]
Mention \N{U+...} documentation in delta

14 years agoAdd statement about UTF-8 and \N{} to delta
Karl Williamson [Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:14:30 +0000]
Add statement about UTF-8 and \N{} to delta

14 years agoDocument Unicode case-insensitive [] range bug
Karl Williamson [Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:48:50 +0000]
Document Unicode case-insensitive [] range bug

14 years agoQuote a code example
Karl Williamson [Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:39:29 +0000]
Quote a code example

14 years agoAdd deprecation of non-name \N{foo} to delta pod
Karl Williamson [Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:28:50 +0000]
Add deprecation of non-name \N{foo} to delta pod

14 years agoRevise notes on /x modifier
Karl Williamson [Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:03:47 +0000]
Revise notes on /x modifier

14 years agoMark \N meaning [^\n] as experimental
Karl Williamson [Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:43:48 +0000]
Mark \N meaning [^\n] as experimental

14 years agoMention there are places /x modifier is ineffective
Karl Williamson [Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:41:10 +0000]
Mention there are places /x modifier is ineffective

14 years agoClarify perlrebackslash.pod
Karl Williamson [Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:49:31 +0000]
Clarify perlrebackslash.pod

14 years agoNote existence (and warn against using) \N{U+c1.c2...}
Karl Williamson [Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:48:12 +0000]
Note existence (and warn against using) \N{U+c1.c2...}

14 years agoNote that \N{U+...} forces character semantics
Karl Williamson [Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:36:53 +0000]
Note that \N{U+...} forces character semantics

14 years agoDocument \N{U+...}
Karl Williamson [Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:35:14 +0000]
Document \N{U+...}

14 years agoMention \N{U+...} in perlunicode.pod
Karl Williamson [Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:31:12 +0000]
Mention \N{U+...} in perlunicode.pod

14 years agoUpdate documentation
Karl Williamson [Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:25:04 +0000]
Update documentation

List known bugs, mention new meaning of \N

14 years agoUpdate pods for \N changes
Karl Williamson [Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:33:35 +0000]
Update pods for \N changes

14 years agoUpdate charnames documentations for \N changes, bugs
Karl Williamson [Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:31:48 +0000]
Update charnames documentations for \N changes, bugs

\N has a possible new meaning, and mention bug reports filed against
charnames

14 years agoClarify sv.c API wording.
Karl Williamson [Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:43:35 +0000]
Clarify sv.c API wording.

14 years agofix for [perl #72604] @DB::args and win32 fork
David Mitchell [Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:13:33 +0000]
fix for [perl #72604] @DB::args and win32 fork

A previous fix for [perl #66108] (7fa38291524c327a3cb23bfe94979e1537743cac)
stopped cloning PL_dbargs, on the grounds that it was usually filled with
garbage (it contains an un-refcounted copy of @_'s elements; once the
function has returned, these may have been freed or reassigned). However,
the fix instead recreated PL_dbargs as a new empty AV that *wasn't* then
associated with the DB::args glob; so modifications to PL_dbargs weren't
seen via @DB::args.

The fix is to simply set it to null when cloning; pp_caller() will
recreate it again if necessary when it is needed.

14 years agobytes.pm: downgrade DEPRECATED to NOTICE
David Mitchell [Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:50:21 +0000]
bytes.pm: downgrade DEPRECATED to NOTICE

14 years agoRemove unused variable, spotted by Alex Hunsaker
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:26:45 +0000]
Remove unused variable, spotted by Alex Hunsaker

14 years agoAdd methods wrap_code_ref and wrap_code_refs_within
Tim Bunce [Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:25:02 +0000]
Add methods wrap_code_ref and wrap_code_refs_within

14 years agoTypo fix
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:21:07 +0000]
Typo fix

14 years agomore prose fixups to bytes.pm deprecation warning
David Mitchell [Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:41:09 +0000]
more prose fixups to bytes.pm deprecation warning

(suggested by Dr.Rudd)

14 years agoAlso share SWASHGET in perls < 5.10, before it was translated from perl to C
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:38:10 +0000]
Also share SWASHGET in perls < 5.10, before it was translated from perl to C

14 years agoAdd more version::vxs routines to the default share
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:02:58 +0000]
Add more version::vxs routines to the default share

This is probably not completely sufficient yet, but with those,
Miyagawa reports all tests passing on 5.10.0 plus version 0.80.

14 years agoTeach bump-perl-version about additional perl511 references in makedef.pl.
Jan Dubois [Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:48:58 +0000]
Teach bump-perl-version about additional perl511 references in makedef.pl.

The previous version also missed 2 instances in win32/makefile.mk because
they were written as "perl511$(a)" instead of "perl511.o".

14 years agoRegression test for 34394ecd - SVs that were only on the tmps stack leaked.
Nicholas Clark [Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:23:31 +0000]
Regression test for 34394ecd - SVs that were only on the tmps stack leaked.

14 years agoSymbol S_no_symref_sv should be static (local to the compilation unit).
Jan Dubois [Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:54:46 +0000]
Symbol S_no_symref_sv should be static (local to the compilation unit).

14 years agoTeach bump-perl-version about perl511.dll, perl511.lib and perl511s.lib
Jan Dubois [Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:27:13 +0000]
Teach bump-perl-version about perl511.dll, perl511.lib and perl511s.lib

14 years agoUpdate the release managers' guide: don't push the tag too soon!
Steve Hay [Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:24:59 +0000]
Update the release managers' guide: don't push the tag too soon!

Remind release managers not to push a new tag until the indexing of
the new uploads has been successful. A problem with indexing 5.11.5
meant that we nearly ended up with 5.11.6 instead, since the 5.11.5
tag had already been pushed.

14 years agoAdd new test in Safe's MANIFEST
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:43:40 +0000]
Add new test in Safe's MANIFEST

14 years agoBump version to 2.23
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:31:46 +0000]
Bump version to 2.23

14 years agoAdd some symbols from version::vxs to the default share
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:09:42 +0000]
Add some symbols from version::vxs to the default share

It appears that the core version.pm works with Safe, but that the
CPAN-upgraded version does not. This will need more investigation
and test coverage, but for now, share the minimal set of symbols
needed to load version.pm in a Safe compartment. This covers
only the XS version of version.pm, not the pure perl alternative.

14 years ago[perl #72942] Can't perform unicode operations in Safe compartment
Tim Bunce [Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:39:55 +0000]
[perl #72942] Can't perform unicode operations in Safe compartment

The fix is to make Safe load utf8.pm (and ensure utf8_heavy.pl is run)
so it can always share utf8::SWASHNEW.

14 years agoInstall Safe in "site" instead of "perl" for perls > 5.10
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:57:17 +0000]
Install Safe in "site" instead of "perl" for perls > 5.10

That way it will override the Safe distributed with the core
without actually overwriting it, thanks to the @INC reordering.

14 years agofix prose from previous lib/bytes.pm doc update
David Mitchell [Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:19:43 +0000]
fix prose from previous lib/bytes.pm doc update

14 years agoBetter explain utf8::upgrade/downgrade/encode/decode
David Mitchell [Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:44:59 +0000]
Better explain utf8::upgrade/downgrade/encode/decode

Try to make it clear what each does, and the fact that upgrade/downgrade
don't change the logical string value while encode/decode do.

14 years agodeprecate bytes.pm
David Mitchell [Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:25:16 +0000]
deprecate bytes.pm

14 years agoBram pointed out the new tests hang if the fix for #72878 isn't in place.
Abigail [Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:36:50 +0000]
Bram pointed out the new tests hang if the fix for #72878 isn't in place.
This commits traps the recursion and throws an exception.

14 years agoAnother minor update to the release managers' guide
Steve Hay [Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:35:45 +0000]
Another minor update to the release managers' guide

14 years agoDon't multiply define Perl_regcurly in core and the re extension.
Craig A. Berry [Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:26:15 +0000]
Don't multiply define Perl_regcurly in core and the re extension.

Broken in ff3f963aa0f95ea53996b6a3842b824504b57c79.

14 years agostop skipping ext/Fcntl/t/syslfs.t
David Mitchell [Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:01:11 +0000]
stop skipping ext/Fcntl/t/syslfs.t

Since the module reorganisation and now that tests run cd'ed to
ext/Fcntl, expecting to run ../perl no longer works.
Also, for the benefit of future generations, make the inability
to find perl a failure rather than a skip, with a more relevant error
message.