Re: DAVEM TPF Grant#3 December 2025 report

On Fri, Jan 9, 2026, at 11:35 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> During December, I fixed assorted bugs, and started work on another
> tranche of ExtUtils::ParseXS fixups, this time focussing on:
> 
> - adding and rewording warning and error messages, and adding new tests
>   for  them;
> 
> - improving test coverage: all XS keywords have tests now;
> 
> - reorganising the test infrastructure: deleting obsolete test files,
>   renaming the t/*.t files to a more consistent format; splitting a large
>   test file; modernising tests;
> 
> - refactoring and improving the length(str) pseudo-parameter
>   implementation.
> 
> By the end of this report period, that work was about half finished; it is
> currently finished and being reviewed.
> 
> SUMMARY:
>      10:25 GH #16197 re eval stack unwinding
>       1:39 GH #23903 BBC: bleadperl breaks ETHER/Package-Stash-XS-0.30.tar.gz
>       0:09 GH #23986 Perl_rpp_popfree_to(SV **sp) questionable design
>       3:02 fix Pod::Html stderr noise
>      27:47 improve Extutils::ParseXS
>       1:47 modernise perlxs.pod
>     ------
>      44:49 TOTAL (HH::MM)

Thanks Dave, +1 from me!

https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/maintaining_perl_dave_mitchell_december_2025

-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)