PaulHowarth/Blog/2014-03-07

Friday 7th March 2014

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-ExtUtils-Helpers to 0.022 in Rawhide:

  • Cleaned up remains of former functions

  • Skip IO layers on <5.8 for 5.6 compatibility

  • Don't swallow pl2bat exceptions

• Updated perl-IO-All to 0.59 in Rawhide and EPEL-7:

  • Fix possible infinite loop in t/accept.t (GH#42)

  • Fix yet another utf8 validation issue (GH#38)

  • Fix warnings running t/tie.t on Windows (GH#37)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-ExtUtils-Helpers to 0.022 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS to 3.24:

  • Native Android build fixes

  • More lenient syntax for embedded TYPEMAP blocks in XS: a trailing semicolon will not be required for the block terminator

  • Code clean-up

• Updated perl-Filter-Simple to 0.91:

  • Various small documentation fixes

  • Swap out base.pm use for parent.pm