Re: This Week on perl5-porters (24-30 October 2005)

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:17:42AM -0200, The Perl 5 Summarizer wrote:
> This Week on perl5-porters - 24-30 October 2005
> 
>   Mathoms, fixes, hobbits, speedups, all of them together advancing the
>   development of Perl.
> 
> Mathoms Held Together
> 
>   Back in June, Nicholas Clark suggested the name mathoms.c, for a file
>   holding C functions still kept around for binary compatibility
>   reasons. (For the record, mathoms will be yet another Tolkien's
>   reference in Perl source code.) This week, Steve Peters made it happen
>   with a patch to create the new file and a configure switch to turn
>   on/off the inclusion of the file in the build. Ronald J. Kimball and
>   Philip M. Gollucci played the part of the ones who don't like the
>   name. Rafael Garcia-Suarez thought Steve's patch would break build on
>   everything but Unix. Steve asked for pointers on what files would need
>   editing in other environments and, confronted with golden silence,
>   found those files and made what was necessary, applying change #25866.
> 
>       Nicholas coins the file name
>       http://xrl.us/h9af
>       Steve Peters gets mathoms together
>       http://xrl.us/h9ag
> 

I have a couple of corrections in the mathoms thread.  First, although my 
working on mathoms.c was sparked by the discussions in July, it was really
first discussed on p5p in 2001.  The name was born in the following mail
to p5p.

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/43189

Also, the Configure option to turn off the inclusion of the contents of the 
mathoms.c file has not been done yet, but should be done soon.  

Steve Peters
[email protected]