Bug #105461 for Wx: $Wx::VERSION value is locale dependent on perl 5.16

Wed Jun 24 04:57:13 2015 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

$Wx::VERSION is locale dependent on 0.9923

With perl 5.16.3 and Wx 0.9923 on Ubuntu 14.04, the value of $Wx::VERSION is dependent on the locale setting for the decimal separator:

$ LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.UTF-8 PLENV_VERSION=5.16.3 perl -MWx -E 'say $Wx::VERSION'
0,9923

$ LC_NUMERIC=C PLENV_VERSION=5.16.3 perl -MWx -E 'say $Wx::VERSION'
0.9923

I can't reproduce this in perl 5.20.1 with Wx 0.9927, but I don't see either anything mentionned related to this in the Changes file.

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Wed Jun 24 05:06:23 2015 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

This issue has distant side-effects: it breaks AnyEvent.

$ LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.UTF-8 perl -MWx -MAnyEvent::Loop -E 'say AnyEvent::Loop::ROUNDUP'
Undefined subroutine &AnyEvent::Loop::ROUNDUP called at -e line 1.
$ LC_NUMERIC=C perl -MWx -MAnyEvent::Loop -E 'say AnyEvent::Loop::ROUNDUP'
0.00099

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Wed Jun 24 05:07:02 2015 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Subject changed from '$Wx::VERSION is locale dependent on 0.9923' to '$Wx::VERSION value is locale dependent on 0.9923'

Wed Jun 24 07:21:15 2015 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Subject changed from '$Wx::VERSION value is locale dependent on 0.9923' to '$Wx::VERSION value is locale dependent on perl 5.16'

Wed Jun 24 07:21:16 2015 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Broken in 0.9924 added

Wed Jun 24 07:21:16 2015 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Broken in 0.9925 added

Wed Jun 24 07:21:17 2015 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Broken in 0.9926 added

Wed Jun 24 07:21:17 2015 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Broken in 0.9927 added

Wed Jun 24 07:27:20 2015 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Reference to ticket #83110 added

Wed Jun 24 07:44:09 2015 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I'm not reproducing the issue on perl 5.18.2 and 5.20.1 on the otherwise same environment.
Well, 0.9927 doesn't build properly on 5.18.2 (Wx::Media not found reported by t/01-load.t), but this is another issue.

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Fri Jun 26 09:19:46 2015 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I've also reported the issue on the AnyEvent mailing list:
http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/anyevent/2015q2/000751.html

Avoiding perl 5.16 (that is not anymore supported) is recommended:
http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/anyevent/2015q2/000752.html

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