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| author | Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> | 2012-03-20 13:24:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> | 2012-03-20 13:31:53 +0100 |
| commit | e2e06450e24eee1063591869db18836fadd36d85 (patch) | |
| tree | 371807ede6bd33140ac87d9d8f67c287bf364f06 | |
| parent | 56b40e6376ce225f2d1afffe5089a9907eb1320e (diff) | |
| download | perl-e2e06450e24eee1063591869db18836fadd36d85.tar.gz | |
List 5.16 blockers in 'Known Problems' in perldelta
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index ec68eecffe..75bbd57e1c 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -297,15 +297,36 @@ C<< Term::ReadLine >> now uses AnyEvent instead of Tk for an event loop. =head1 Known Problems -This is a list of some significant unfixed bugs, which are regressions -from either 5.14.0 or 5.15.8. +This is a list of some significant unfixed bugs, which need to be +resolved before 5.16.0 =over 4 +=item F<< op/sigdispatch.t >> fails alarm test 14 and gets killed [perl #89718] + +=item Perl crash due to wrong delimiter in C<< PATH >> environment [perl #94846] + +It's possible to crash Win32 if the wrong delimiter is used. + +=item Corrupt UTF8 [perl #79960, #100058] + +It is possible to read an invalid UTF8 character, but have it marked valid, +or to incorrectly read UTF8 characters if C<< $/ >> is set to read fixed +length records. + +=item UTF8 patches for 5.16 [perl #107008] + +Brian Fraser's work on UTF8 needs futher integration. + =item C<eval { 'fork()' }> is broken on Windows [perl #109718] This is a known test failure to be fixed before 5.16.0. +=item Warnings from cpan/IO-Compress [perl #110736] + +Some tests in F<< cpan/IO-Compress/t/cz-03zlib-v1.t >> issues a +"isn't numeric" warning in blead, but not in maint. + =item C<< Pod-Html >> test failures on Windows. A number of tests for C<< Pod::Html >> fail under Windows, due to an |