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