Paul Marquess

Status of 5.6 support

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Is the intention of #501 to add general support for building with Perl 5.6? Tried it out with the Linux workflow file for [Archive-Zip-SimpleZip](https://github.com/pmqs/Archive-Zip-SimpleZip) but it didn't work -- see...

Navigation of Source Control Menu with lots of checkouts

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If you have a lot of active changelists it is difficult to navigate to the changelist panel. Possible options - Allow the changelist/files tree to be collapsed to only show...

Add some guidance on running the script on a Windows environment

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There have been a couple of Windows users who have had difficulty in running the script. Can use this reply below as the starting point for some new documentation This...

Feature request - Verbose test mode

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## Context I'm using **zef** to test code on Windows using **appveyor** via github. I don't have a Windows setup so reliant reliant on the output from zef to debug...

Duplicate entries in modules.perl6.org

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## The problem I seem to have ended up one of my modules, Archive-SimpleZip, appearing twice in modules.perl6.org. I suspect that this is because, until recently, I had the module...

Dealing with ZLIBNG_VERNUM format change in downstream code

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I see that the `develop` branch uses a 32-bit encoding for `ZLIBNG_VERNUM` while the 2.0.x releases use a 16-bit encoding This in `develop` ``` #define ZLIBNG_VERNUM 0x02010000L /* MMNNRRMS: major...

Consider including Module::Build

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Can we get `Module::Build` installed by default on both the Windows variants? My attempts to get it installed manually in windows failed https://github.com/pmqs/Compress-Stream-Zstd/actions/runs/4152234268/jobs/7183055894and Strawberry seems ok https://github.com/pmqs/Compress-Stream-Zstd/actions/runs/4152234265/jobs/7183055871

Add support for Perl built with C++

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For Perl XS modules, particularly those in the core, you need your module to support being build with a Perl binary created with a C++ compiler. I'm just updating [Compress-Raw-Zlib](https://github.com/pmqs/Compress-Raw-Zlib)...

MINGW build failing in coverage tests

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Trying out a MinGW workflow (see https://github.com/pmqs/zlib/actions/runs/7862720591/job/21452504884) I'm running `configure`, which appears to be ok. ``` $ ./configure --warn If this doesn't work for you, try win32/Makefile.gcc. Checking for shared...

Consider this code (`lsub.pl`) that makes use of a an lvalue sub. ``` use strict; use warnings; my $v ; sub fred: lvalue { $v } fred = 5; print...