Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for May 2015
Tony Cook writes:
Approximately 37 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches were applied.
bulk88's patch in [perl #123867] adds support for building perl in parallel on Win32 using dmake's -P option. I've spent some time trying to improve it, but ended up running into limitations in dmake, in particular it seems to call child makefiles with -S preventing any parallel builds in the child.
If a GNU make makefile is added [perl #123440] in 5.23 this may provide a better base for parallel builds, though the current version referenced only builds using GCC.
| Hours | Activity | | 0.90 | #122368 review, research and comment | | 1.45 | #123011 testing update, and comment | | 0.40 | #123264 review discussion, check code, produce simple | | | patch and comment | | 4.70 | #123440 review discussion, setup, testing | | | #123440 testing, fixes | | | #123440 testing, make into patches | | | #123440 work on MSVC support | | 0.33 | #123575 review patch and comment | | 0.58 | #123616 review discussion | | 10.81 | #123867 review new patch, comment | | | #123867 review new patch, testing, comment | | | #123867 work on make_ext_mk.pl | | | #123867 more on make_ext_mk.pl | | | #123867 deps, dynamic exts | | | #123867 testing, try to convince dmake to parallel build child makefile | | | #123867 more trying to work with dmake | | 4.24 | #123998 research and comment | | | #123998 backport possible fix for smoke, testing, comment | | | #123998 backport another fix, testing, push for smoke, comment | | | #123998 housekeeping, testing. Apply to blead | | 1.02 | #124181 review, testing | | 3.41 | #124187 review core PL_compcv handling | | | #124187 debugging, testing, push to blead, comment | | 7.96 | #124203 debugging, attempt a fix | | | #124203 debugging | | | #124203 testing, debugging | | | #124203 code review, testing | | | #124203 testing , debugging | | | #124203 code review | | 5.46 | #124256 review code, documentation, debugging | | | #124256 more review, work on a patch, comment | | | #124256 adjust for lookahead, testing | | | #124256 debugging, produce a new patch and comment | | 0.18 | #124349 review discussion | | 0.45 | #124368 review discussion and briefly comment | | 1.02 | #124409 debug and post patch upstream, comment | | 0.82 | #124443 debugging and comment | | 0.35 | #124446 comment on future policy thread | | 3.10 | #125096 review, start gcc-5.1.0 build | | | #125096 testing | | | #125096 testing, try to adapt Configure | | | #125096 fixes, testing, comment with patch | | 0.43 | #125106 review, research | | 0.23 | #125112 review and comment | | 2.05 | #125115 review code, testing, comment with patch | | | #125115 create a test, testing, comment, add to post-5.22 branch | | 0.97 | #125121 review code, find it's fixed, propose for maint- | | | 5.20, comment | | 0.97 | #125147 review and comment | | | #125147 review new patch, add to post 5.22 and comment | | 0.65 | #125150 review, test and add to post 5.22 branch, comment | | 4.43 | #125203 setup, testing, debugging | | | #125203 look for VMS NaN fix in 5.21.5 commits, discussion | | | #125203 research, review generated code | | 1.28 | #125217 review, research | | | #125217 review, testing