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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): December 2025 Wed, 14-Jan-2026 by alh

    Dave writes: During December, I fixed assorted bugs, and started work on another tranche of ExtUtils::ParseXS fixups, this time focussing on: adding and rewording warning and error messages, and adding new tests for them; improving test coverage: all XS keywords have tests now; reorganising the test infrastructure: deleting obsolete test files, renaming the t/*.t files to a more consistent format; splitting a large test file; modernising tests;

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) December 2025 Wed, 14-Jan-2026 by alh

    Tony writes: 2025/12/01 Monday 0.23 memEQ cast discussion with khw 0.42 #23965 testing, review and comment 2.03 #23885 review, testing, comments 0.08 #23970 review and approve 0.13 #23971 review and approve 0.08 #23965 follow-up 2.97 2025/12/02 Tuesday 0.73 #23969 research and comment 0.30 #23974 review and approve 0.87 #23975 review and comment 0.38 #23975 review reply and approve

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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for December 2025 Wed, 14-Jan-2026 by alh

    Paul writes: A mix of focus this month. I was hoping to get attributes-v2 towards something that could be reviewed and merged, but then I bumped into a bunch of refalias-related issues. Also spent about 5 hours reviewing Dave's giant xspod rewrite. 1 Rename THING token in grammar to something more meaningful https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23982 4 Continue work on attributes-v2 1 BBC Ticket on Feature-Compat-Class https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/23991 2 Experiment with refalias

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) November 2025 Wed, 10-Dec-2025 by alh

    Tony write: In addition to the typical stream of small changes to review, Dave's second AST rebuild of ExtUtils::ParseXS arrived and I spent several hours reviewing it. In response to #23918 I worked on adding numeric comparison APIs, which are complicated by overloading, NaNs, SVs dual IV/NV implmentation, and of course by overloading. This includes some fixes for the existing sv_numeq API. You can see the current state of this

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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for November 2025 Wed, 10-Dec-2025 by alh

    Paul writes: A mix of things this month, though I didn't get much done in the final week because of preparations for my talk at LPW2025. A useful event though because a few ideas came out of discussions that I shall be looking at for core perl soon. 4 Mentoring preparation for BooK Eric on PPC 0014 4.5 attributes-v2 branch https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23923 3 Experiments with refalias in signatures in XS::Parse::Sublike

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