PaulHowarth/Blog/2022-08-07

Sunday 7th August 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-IPC-Run to 20220807.0 in Rawhide:

    • If your applications rely on portability to Windows, see new documentation sections "argument-passing rules are program-specific" and "batch files"
      • This release fixes bugs in runs of Windows programs that use standard command line parsing rules
      • Runs of non-standard programs may require changes; notable non-standard programs include cmd.exe, cscript.exe, and Cygwin programs

    • Skip t/pty.t test on NetBSD too (GH#140)

    • Add strict/warnings

    • Follow Windows argument quoting rules (GH#142)

    • Allow win32_newlines.t to actually run (GH#146)

    • Make t/pty.t test pass on OpenBSD (GH#150)

    • Support Win32 commands having non-standard command line parsing rules (GH#148)

    • Support executing Win32 batch files
    • Add IPC::Run::Win32Process, for delivering non-standard command lines

    • Fix reporting of Win32::Process::Create() errors

    • On Windows, avoid hang when closing read end of pipe (GH#156)

    • Ignore known test failure on msys - t/windows_search_path.t (GH#155)

    • Avoid warning with IPCRUNDEBUG, in Windows spawned children

    • Use $^X, not 'perl', in tests

    • Thanks to the new active developer: Noah Misch!

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-IPC-Run to 20220807.0 as per the Fedora version


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