PaulHowarth/Blog/2019-05-23

Thursday 23rd May 2019

Fedora Project

• Updated gtkwave to 3.3.101 in Rawhide:

  • Added gtkwave::getFacDir, gtkwave::getFacVtype and gtkwave::getFacDtype Tcl accessor functions, which operate similarly to gtkwave::getFacName

  • Pair $end with $dumpvars in VCD writers

  • Make %.16g printing in baseconvert.c more resistant to power of 10 roundoff errors

  • Remove register keyword where applicable as it is deprecated

  • Added --saveonexit gtkwave command line option

• Updated perl-Perl-Critic to 1.134 in Rawhide:

• New Features

  • Added new policy BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitShiftRef (GH#837)

  • Support indented heredocs (GH#861)

  • In Subroutines::ProhibitManyArgs, you can now omit the object variable (C<$self> or C<$class>) from the argument count (GH#815)

• Policy Changes

  • The policy Documentation::RequirePodLinksIncludeText is obsolete and has been removed (GH#494)

• Dependencies

  • Removed use of File::HomeDir

  • Upgrade to PPI 1.265 (GH#860)

  • Fix failed tests caused by new PPI (GH#858)

• Internals

  • Updated the Appveyor config (GH#851)

Local Packages

• Updated gtkwave to 3.3.101 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20190522:

  • Updated for v5.30.0

• Updated perl-Perl-Critic to 1.134 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Pod-Simple to 3.36:

  • Added Pod::Simple::JustPod to extract the pod lines from a file

  • Improved detection of input encoding CP1252 vs. UTF-8

  • Fixed =cut event out of order (GH#79)

  • Fixed verbatim_indent doesn't work on HTML (GH#85)

  • Fixed css files refer to themselves (GH#89)

  • Fixed broken RTF with Unicode inputs (GH#92)

  • Extended RTF to handle Unicode code points above 0xFFFF

  • Nested L<> is now flagged as an error

  • Turned off negative repeat count does nothing warnings
  • Fixed/improved some docs about this distribution