Pike-devel June 2026

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negative indices in array ranges
by Martin Baehr 14 Aug '26

14 Aug '26

hi, instead of having to do: reverse(reverse(foo/"/")[1..]); i'd very much prefer: (foo/"/")[..-2]; are there any reasons that speak against supporting this other than me not being able to offer a patch? greetings, martin.

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negative indices in array ranges
by Mirar ＠ Pike developers forum 14 Aug '26

14 Aug '26

levels might possibly be from -1 and up, -1 meaning infinite.

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Pike Meet-up 2024-Q2
by Henrik Grubbstr�m (Lysator) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 01 Aug '26

01 Aug '26

Hi. At Pike Conference 2017 it was decided that we ought to hold a more informal meeting in Linköping ~ once every quarter. As the 6 month mark from the latest conference is coming up soon, it seems time to announce the second such meeting for 2024: Pike Meet-up 2024-Q2 Date: 2024-05-11 (Sat) Time: 10:00 - afternoon/evening Place: Roxen IS AB Storgatan 46 Linköping Welcome! /grubba

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Process.run() after fork() fails on Pike 9.0
by H. William Welliver 02 Jul '26

02 Jul '26

Hi all, While working on getting some code ready for Pike 9, I ran into what seems to be a regression: when forking a process into the background, Process.run() called in the child process seems to hang. I was able to confirm this behavior on macOS and illumos, so I don’t think it’s platform specific. I’ve attached a fairly minimal test case that demonstrates the problem: data should be written to the log file each second but the initial call to Process.run() never returns and so only the very first log message is generated. I’ve confirmed that Pike 8 does not have this behavior. I’m hoping that someone more familiar with the Process module will have an idea of what’s going on. Thanks in advance! https://paste.sr.ht/~hww3/504e8244449110b5646f0267a5c0cb7e1b154206

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Build question gmp and Odbc
by H. William Welliver 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

Hi all- I’ve been spending some time getting pike running on some newer platforms I have here and have run into a few minor problems that I’d like to get feedback on. The first is on some platforms (Darwin and SunOS so far), Odbc fails to build because it needs to be linked with gmp. I notice that the LIBS being passed into the configure script doesn’t contain -lgmp; what’s the appropriate fix here? Should I just test for the gmp library in the Odbc configure script, or is there a more proper approach? Thanks in advance for the advice! Bill

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