This Week on perl5-porters (24-30 May 2004)

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This Week on perl5-porters (10-16 May
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (10-16 May
2004) 05/19/2004 04:46 AM
Welcome to our latest edition of the P5P summary, for which I'm sure you have been waiting. This week, you'll read about considerations on Storable, nice improvements to the debugger, bugs, and other interesting subjects.

This Week on perl5-porters (17-23 May
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (17-23 May
2004) 05/24/2004 12:16 PM
This week, your P5P summary is featuring phases of the moon, and other funny things that always make the day of the average perl hacker.

This Week on perl5-porters (Nov 01-09
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (Nov 01-09
2004) 12/19/2004 02:59 PM
In this beginning of November, the porters have discussed about regression tests, using new functions from the C library when they're found, the roadmap for perl 5.10, optimisations, signals, and other miscellaneous topics.

This Week on perl5-porters (3-9 May
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (3-9 May
2004) 05/11/2004 03:30 AM
On the menu of the P5P summary this week, you will find language constructions, segmentation faults, proposals for new tied methods, pronunciation issues, and (in fine) a few bugs.

This Week on perl5-porters (7-13 June
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (7-13 June
2004) 06/15/2004 01:36 PM
This week, a small summary is better than no summary at all.

This Week on perl5-porters (19-25 April
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (19-25 April
2004) 04/26/2004 10:12 AM
The rhythm of maintenance releases is now well established, and this week saw the release of perl 5.8.4, as expected. Meanwhile, the usual stream of bugs and patches continued.

This Week on perl5-porters (23-29
February 2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (23-29
February 2004) 03/06/2004 01:51 AM
This week's summary, a bit late, will tell about the approaching development release, the new bugs discovered and fixed, and the side-effects of the new warnings.

This Week on perl5-porters (19-25
January 2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (19-25
January 2004) 01/26/2004 04:12 PM
Another summary this week, not really different from the previous ones, as it contains the usual bug reports and other discussions. The bugs, however, are new. Read below.

This Week on perl5-porters (1-7 March
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (1-7 March
2004) 03/08/2004 11:26 PM
This week was one of those weeks where the bug reports outnumbered the bug fixes. Hopefully in the future the perl 5 porters will be able to keep perl 5 on the right track, as they continue to do, week after week.

This Week on perl5-porters (26 April / 2
May 2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (26 April / 2
May 2004) 05/05/2004 04:12 AM
This week, our p5p summary will describe a lot of little bugs, some of which were fixed, some of which weren't, in a lot of different areas of the perl interpreter.

This Week on perl5-porters (14-20 June
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (14-20 June
2004) 06/23/2004 04:31 AM
Maybe it's due to the conferences, but this week was a low-traffic one.

This Week on perl5-porters (5-11 January
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (5-11 January
2004) 01/16/2004 11:05 AM
Besides the first release candidate of perl 5.8.3, lots of things happened on perl5-porters this week. Read about new features to be added to the language, lots of bugs and fixes, and other odds and ends.

This Week on perl5-porters (9-15
February 2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (9-15
February 2004) 02/16/2004 03:54 PM
Another quiet week on perl5-porters; but big patches were proposed, demonstrating that the porters are not dead yet. Read about a revamp of the parser, an in-depth modification of the internals, and other bugs and associated fixes.

This Week on perl5-porters (5-11 April
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (5-11 April
2004) 04/13/2004 03:20 AM
Spring is here, at least in the northern hemisphere, and perl 5.8.4 is approaching. This doesn't stop the Perl 5 porters from pursuing their usual job: proposing exciting new ideas, and fixing bugs. Read on for the details.

This Week on perl5-porters (21-27 June
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (21-27 June
2004) 06/30/2004 04:32 AM
Summer is here, and it's vacation time for the Perl 5 porters. Well, except for the valorous maint pumpking, who just released a snapshot of perl 5.8.5-to-be.

This Week on perl5-porters (31 May / 6
June 2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (31 May / 6
June 2004) 06/08/2004 02:11 PM
As I've advertised the weekly P5P summaries during the French Perl Workshop, I feel compelled to continue to write them each week... Read on for the latest batch of commented links.

This Week on perl5-porters (5-11 July
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (5-11 July
2004) 07/13/2004 06:52 PM
Perl 5.8.5 approaches, and the two release candidates of this week prove it.

This Week on perl5-porters (16-22
February 2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (16-22
February 2004) 03/06/2004 01:51 AM
This week is to be filed in the category "busy" for the Perl 5 porters. Read about new optimisations, new ideas, new warnings, bugs, fixes, and other future plans for the next major version of Per 5.

This Week on perl5-porters (2-8 August
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (2-8 August
2004) 08/10/2004 03:37 AM
Another week, another summary, while we're getting unnoticeably older. (Yes, I just remarked that I started those summaries two years ago.)

This Week on perl5-porters (12-18
January 2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (12-18
January 2004) 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Besides the release of a new maintenance version of perl, this week passed and carried its usual heterogeneous load of bugs. Read below for all the details.

This Week on perl5-porters (12-18 April
2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (12-18 April
2004) 04/19/2004 12:17 PM
This was an RC-2 week, rich in events and discussions. Read about the little-known dualvars, the always popular version strings, the set UID perl, Unicode classes, and various other bugs.

This Week on perl5-porters (26 July /
1st August 2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (26 July /
1st August 2004) 08/02/2004 03:23 PM
Due to OSCON and other things, there wasn't much traffic on the perl 5 porters mailing list, but I bet that this wasn't a non-productive week in the Perl world.

This Week on perl5-porters (28 June / 4
July 2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (28 June / 4
July 2004) 07/07/2004 01:07 PM
This was a week rich in discussion. Read about programming with threads, UTF-8 crashes and leaks (and fixes), parsing, globbing, deparsing, and other things.

This Week on perl5-porters (29 March-5
April 2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (29 March-5
April 2004) 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
Elizabeth Mattijsen writes "With a little delay comes this week the weekly Perl 5 Porters Summary from the centre of reality that is Echt, the Netherlands. About 250 messages were posted in the last week. A lot was said about documentation. And a Release ...

This Week on perl5-porters (26 January /
8 February 2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (26 January /
8 February 2004) 02/10/2004 02:43 AM
This week, a very special summary indeed, because it actually covers two weeks. Two quiet weeks, that is. Read below for new proposals to the Perl 5 language, to its packaging, and for selected bugs and fixes.

This Week on perl5-porters (29 December
2003 / 4 January 2004)

This Week on perl5-porters (29 December
2003 / 4 January 2004) 01/05/2004 02:50 PM
At the turn of the year, and in accordance with the grand schedule of things, occurred a code freeze for perl 5.8.3. Read below for the rest of the discussion that took place on perl5-porters.

This Week on perl5-porters (6-12 October
2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (6-12 October
2003) 10/29/2003 12:09 AM
summary++ # new week.

This Week on perl5-porters (8-14
December 2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (8-14
December 2003) 12/15/2003 05:39 PM
In two words, this was a busy week. Various topics were discussed, from the low-level C portability stuff to the Perl language considerations.

This Week on perl5-porters (20-26
October 2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (20-26
October 2003) 10/29/2003 12:09 AM
This week, several threads raised concerns with tainting. Plan C for randomized hashes was successful. The language issues with constant subroutines were discussed. Bugs were found, some of which were fixed ; some others were dismissed as features. Quite ...

This Week on perl5-porters (15-21
December 2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (15-21
December 2003) 12/21/2003 07:12 PM
A year ends in the little world of the Perl 5 porters, and perl itself turns older. Hopefully this doesn't mean that the development is stalled. Read below what happened this week among the porters.

This Week on perl5-porters (10-16 March
2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (10-16 March
2003) 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
It's back, it's back, the weekly P5P summary, after two weeks of vacation.

This Week on perl5-porters (13-19
October 2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (13-19
October 2003) 10/29/2003 12:09 AM
What happens in the post-5.8.1 world ? Read about the plans for the (nearest than you may think) 5.8.2, 5.8.1-specific problems, and other Perl language and implementation questions.

This Week on perl5-porters (10-16
November 2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (10-16
November 2003) 11/17/2003 03:03 PM
For some reason, (maybe the approach of mod_perl 2), one of the main topics this week was interpreter cloning and the problems it may cause. But the release of perl 5.6.2 is an event that is not to be neglected. Read on.

This Week on perl5-porters (3-9 November
2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (3-9 November
2003) 11/10/2003 11:32 PM
This week was undoubtedly a maintenance-oriented week, as it has seen the release of perl 5.8.2, and of perl 5.6.2 RC1. But of course and as usual this wasn't the only topic on the always active p5p list. Read below for the full details.

This Week on perl5-porters (22-28
December 2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (22-28
December 2003) 12/28/2003 06:50 PM
Due to holidays, this was a low-traffic week. That's one more reason to get it delivered in time.

This Week on perl5-porters (24-30
November 2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (24-30
November 2003) 12/02/2003 01:03 AM
A quiet week for the Perl 5 porters, but some threads are worth noting. Notably, I have now a reason to mention Leon Brocard in the summary without appealing to any running joke.

This Week on perl5-porters (17-23
November 2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (17-23
November 2003) 11/25/2003 10:31 PM
Due to my laziness, or perhaps to the lack of traffic on perl5-porters this week, this summary will be rather short, but hopefully long enough to provide your weekly dose of perl core information. Read on.

This Week on perl5-porters (1-7 December
2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (1-7 December
2003) 12/07/2003 07:34 PM
I like tie could be the summary of this week's summary. But it would be a bit terse, wouldn't it ? Read on for the details.

This Week on perl5-porters (29 September
- 6 October 2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (29 September
- 6 October 2003) 10/29/2003 12:09 AM
It was relatively quiet in the aftermath of the release of Perl 5.8.1.
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