PSC #173 2024-12-20

[Aristotle Pagaltzis via perl5-porters]

For the last meeting of the year we were all present again.

* We have requested further input regarding our plan for TLS in core.

* We picked the ball back up that we dropped regarding point releases.
They should be coming soon.

* We went over our findings so far regarding Perl 42. It looks like Perl
versions will have to continue to be written with three components, so
we will be stuck with a fixed .0 at the end. It's slightly annoying,
but we can live with it. We strategized about how to get more
real-world data about feasibility, and discussed the possibility of
releasing a perl-41.8 tarball alongside the regularly scheduled
perl-5.41.8.

https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2024/12/this-week-in-psc-173-2024-12-20.html

[Paul "LeoNerd" Evans]

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 10:42:49 +0100

Post by Aristotle Pagaltzis via perl5-porters
* We went over our findings so far regarding Perl 42. It looks like
Perl versions will have to continue to be written with three
components, so we will be stuck with a fixed .0 at the end. It's
slightly annoying, but we can live with it. We strategized about how
to get more real-world data about feasibility, and discussed the
possibility of releasing a perl-41.8 tarball alongside the regularly
scheduled perl-5.41.8.

If there's still a plan to call the next version "42" rather than
"5.42", we might want to start looking further at the list of all the
other places that "5" appears, so we can think about what to do with
them all.

I started writing such a list here:

https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21055

In summary:

* Environment Variables

* This very mailing list - perl5-***@...

* The #p5p IRC channel

* The perl5 github repo

Additionally, we should start thinking about talking to downstream
distribution maintainers. Debian I know already just uses "perl" as a
name in places, not "perl5", and thus would be less affected here than
places like the RedHat-alikes ("perl5") or some of the BSDs (which use
"p5-..." as a prefix on package names).