PaulHowarth/Blog/2014-03-01

Saturday 1st March 2014

Local Packages

  • Updated libgcrypt to 1.6.1, temporarily including the old version of library to avoid buildroot breakage due to the soname change

  • Updated perl-File-ShareDir-ProjectDistDir to 1.000000:

    • Seriously, read SIGNIFICANT CHANGES for details

    • Add 'strict' mode

    • Defer dev path and determination to call-time
    • Switch to float versions
    • Start warning about Path::Class usage

    • Stop depending on Path::Class

    • Stop using Path::Class

    • Use EUMM for tooling
  • Updated perl-Path-IsDev to 1.001000:

    • Tooling switched to ExtUtils::MakeMaker

    • Needed newer Path::Tiny for ->realpath

  • Updated perl-Pod-Spell to 1.15:

    • Convert to strict mode of File::ShareDir::ProjectDistDir

    • Change to use Path::Tiny->lines_utf8

  • Updated perl-Term-ReadLine-Gnu to 1.21:

    • Readline-6.1 support
      • New function rl_free_keymap

      • New variable rl_filename_rewrite_hook

    • Readline-6.3 support
      • New function rl_clear_history

      • New variables rl_signal_event_hook, rl_input_available_hook, rl_executing_key, rl_executing_keyseq, rl_key_sequence_length, rl_change_environment, rl_filename_stat_hook

    • Make the following variables read-only: rl_executing_macro, history_length, rl_readline_state, rl_explicit_arg, rl_numeric_arg, rl_editing_mode

    • Improve backward compatibility variable and function definitions
    • Fix Term::ReadLine::Gnu::XS::_trp_completion_function not to perform a case-sensitive filter

    • Fix Gnu.xs:rl_initialize to be compiled with Perl 5.8.5 or before

    • Update Pod documents
    • t/readline.t, t/history.t: add variable access tests

    • t/readline.t: consider .svn directory on filename completion test and to set the standard tty setting before re_initialize() being called

    • eg/perlsh makes use of the deferred signal (safe signal) feature

    • Makefile.PL checks whether the xmalloc exported by readline is indeed called 'xmalloc' or whether it has been renamed to '_rl_malloc'

    • Makefile.PL: add -DTRL_READLINE_VERSION to show GNU Readline Library version in CPAN Tester Reports

    • t/00checkver.t: let messages go to stdout

    • README: add project home page URL and remove out-of-date descriptions

    • INSTALL: add a section "Install on Mac OS X"


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