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At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN No updates from grantee. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon report: I've been mostly busy with implementing a TAP producer to build my tests with, and with implementing tests. So far I've been mainly implementing tests for sanity and numeric behavior. On the way there I fixed a few bugs, and added ... read more |
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From a mail on Perl 5 Porters: Attached is the latest 2038 patch from the y2038 branch. Configure now probes for the safe range of the system's localtime and gmtime Perl will use the system functions inside their safe range. Perl now ships with its own 64 bit gmtime and timegm localtime is made 2038 safe on 32 bit systems using the algorithm described here http://code.google.com/p/y2038/wiki/HowItWorks Time::Local can now handle ... read more |
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At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN No updates from Grant manager. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon report: I've ported it to 5.10. I haven't really tested it beyond compiling, but I don't expect difficulties there. I've worked on the exportation code. Exporting variables is now supported. I want to add member variables too, but I'm not sure ... read more |
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Google Summer of Code 2008 Wrap Up written by Eric Wilhelm: Google's Summer of Code 2008 is wrapping up now and I'm very pleased with how well The Perl Foundation's students and mentors have done. The five projects which survived the halfway point have all finished with great results. Many thanks to all of the mentors and students as well as everyone in the community who helped or supported the ... read more |
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This is the final report for the Smolder grant, by Michael Peters: Here are the original deliverables from my grant proposal: Remove custom XML format in favor of using plain TAP and TAPx::Parser. Extend Smolder to handle small CPAN style modules more easily and automatically. Setup a Smolder server for the CGI::Application community to serve as a testing ground and public display for their 110+ CPAN modules. Add per-project and ... read more |