Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): December 2017 Report
Wed, 07-Feb-2018 by
Makoto Nozaki
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<pre>Approximately 4 tickets were reviewed or worked on.
[Hours] [Activity]
22.84 #127743 32-bit build warnings/build issues
#127743 finish up 32-bit testing, commits, work on other
unaddressed Storable issues, 64-bit frozen data
#127743 handle 32-bit frozen data as unsigned, add support
for 64-bit frozen data, testing
#127743 more testing, check g(un)zip exist before we use
them
#127743 work through CPAN queue, fail to reproduce #59531,
reproduce and fix #118551
#127743 try to reproduce #131136, track down cause (long
double padding)
#127743 work up a fix for the padding issue, testing with
various configs
#127743 systematic look at Storable issues, reduce
performance issue on debugging builds
#127743 test code for regexp cloning
#127743 more regexp testing, fix Storable.pm dependencies
#127743 old perl testing, cleanup
#127743 think about fix for stack size calculation issues
0.80 #132252 try to understand change and implications,
thinking
0.28 #132631 research and comment
5.55 #50608 work out why previous changes didn’t break malice.t
(which the regexp changes did), fix, more regexp testing
#50608 old perl portability
#50608 debugging on 5.6.2, try to rebuild 5.6.2 on modern
Debian
#50608 more debugging, drop 5.6 support for regexp thawing
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29.47 hours total</pre>
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