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    PaulHowarth/Blog/2014-09-05

Friday 5th September 2014

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-ExtUtils-Depends to 0.401 in Rawhide:

    • Add README changes created by 'make dist' from the POD

    • Rename test modules

    • Test old/new schemes with .pm files

    • Move old/new scheme tests from middle of other stuff to end
    • Rename test packages to 8.3 unique

  • Updated perl-IO-All to 0.79 in Rawhide:

    • Add t/000-compile-modules.t

    • Eliminate File::Basename from test/

    • Eliminate spurious trailing whitespace
    • Meta 0.0.2

    • Remove 'use 5.x.x' from code

    • Fix strict/warnings

    • Change testdir to t

    • Replace tabs with spaces

    • Add new overloads from PR/49

    • Doc enhancement (PR/51)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Expect to 1.31:

    • New co-maintainer (Gabor Szabo)

    • Merge .pod and .pm and move them to lib/

    • Move the test and the code to standard location /t in the distribution

    • Eliminate indirect calls in tests

    • Use Test::More instead of home-brew testing

    • Typos fixed in pod (CPAN RT#86852)

    • Changes file re-ordered and standardized

    • Refactored test script
    • Eliminate indirect calls in the code and in the docs

    • Use Perl::Tidy to unify layout

    • Added use warnings;

    • IO::Tty prerequisite version 1.03 → 1.11

    • More test diagnostics

    • Tests added for CPAN RT#62359

    • Skip the bc test on OS-es where it has been failing

    • Stop inheriting from Exporter

    • Eliminate $` and $' from the code (part of CPAN RT#61395); this fix might break some existing code in some extreme cases when the regex being matched has a look-behind or a look-ahead at the edges

    • Remove $& and $`, fixing the rest of CPAN RT#61395

    • Various code refactoring declaring loop variables, parameter passing, return undef, etc.

    • croak if undef passed to _trim_length

    • Update documentation according to CPAN RT#60722

    • CPAN RT#47834: after a failed call to ->expect, the ->match and ->after will return undef and ->before will return the content of the accumulator; earlier they retained the values obtained during the last successful match (->before will return undef the first time but later, if we call ->clear_accum, it will start returning the empty string)

    • In the tests, add special treatment for $^O = midnightbsd and dragonfly, and for $^O = linux as well

    • Test t/11-calc.t also got some special treatment

  • Updated perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder to 0.280219:

    • Quoted perl path for Windows support (CPAN RT#98245)

    • Mis-spelled 'starup' key in BCC support was fixed (CPAN RT#79574)

    • Fixed the version in the PM file

    • - Fixed regression on Android

  • Updated perl-ExtUtils-Depends to 0.401 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-HTTP-Tiny to 0.049:

    • 'keep_alive' is now fork-safe and thread-safe

  • Updated perl-File-ShareDir-ProjectDistDir to 1.000004:

    • No code changes
    • Tests updated
    • Metadata updated
    • Whitespace reduced
    • Minor documentation fixes

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