PTS Results

This is a page where attendees can keep a log of what they've done each day (and then hopefully write a blog post after the PTS has finished).

Thursday

Fixed Test::Smoke to accept command-line arguments to Configure.
Discussed dromedary use with Rik and Book
Started builds of perl-5.28.2 on my HP-UX systems to distribute. Doing so surfaced a bug in blead that Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (‎ilmari‎)++ promised to fix. I also created several tickets for modules that failed for various reasons not due to perl.
Worked (with Aaron Crane (‎arc‎) on making metaconfig back in sync with blead. Thank you Aaron Crane (‎arc‎)!!!

Implemented https://github.com/perlpunk/YAML-PP-p5/issues/11. Loading and dumping of perl objects now supports both tag styles !perl/type and !!perl/type. Now you can exchange pretty much every data between YAML.pm, YAML::XS, YAML::Syck and YAML::PP. Only typeglobs need to be implemented.

Refactor zef auto-update functionality to allow various forms of on/off switches.
Discuss some best practices of developing a Perl 6 distribution with Elizabeth Mattijsen (‎liz‎) and Shoichi Kaji (‎skaji‎).

Finished builds of perl-5.28.2 on my HP-UX systems and uploaded them for distribution. (and did a few PR's to CPAN modules)
A few loose ends in blead after the Configure jobs of yesterday
Dig into HP-UX blead Test::Smoke failures
Test Devel::Cover with cperl for Paul Johnson (‎pjcj‎) and looked at XS coverage (fixed statement display)
Test Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (‎ilmari‎)'s array branch on HP-UX 11.11

Implemented loading and dumping of binary data with the "!!binary" tag https://github.com/perlpunk/YAML-PP-p5/issues/10

Investigated possibilities of upgrading Perl 6 repository format which includes modifying installed meta data.

Analyze HP-UX problems in blead related to Socket and Locale
Merge Christian Walde (‎Mithaldu‎)'s Test::Smoke patches to a new branch in the main repo after review and testing and discuss tailchasing problem in skipping tests
Analyze Tina Müller (‎tinita‎)'s XS problem

Create prototype functionality for precompiling Perl 6 scripts when installed. Still requires more work to figure out various strange issues.

Look at some pull requests for Inline.pm and merged them, make a dev release
Did a security fix for YAML.pm (it allowed to set any global variable via typeglob loading)
Tried to seperate the official libyaml sources in YAML::LibYAML from the perl bindings; asked H.Merijn Brand (‎Tux‎) for help