use uvchr_to_utf8_flags instead of uvuni_to_utf8_flags (which is remo…

[ernix]

…ved in perl 5.38.0)

https://perldoc.perl.org/5.36.0/perlintern#uvuni_to_utf8_flags

[ernix]

See also: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=149108

[pgnd]

@cfaerber

could you merge this and push update to CPAN ?

cpan build/install of Net::IDN::Encode on

fedora 39

logs a warning,

	lib/Net/IDN/Punycode.xs:256:19: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘uvuni_to_utf8_flags’; did you mean ‘uvchr_to_utf8_flags’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
	  256 |                   uvuni_to_utf8_flags((U8*)skip_p, n, UNICODE_ALLOW_ANY);
	      |                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	      |                   uvchr_to_utf8_flags

but on
fedora rawhide

fails at an error

	lib/Net/IDN/Punycode.xs:256:19: error: implicit declaration of function ‘uvuni_to_utf8_flags’; did you mean ‘uvchr_to_utf8_flags’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
	  256 |                   uvuni_to_utf8_flags((U8*)skip_p, n, UNICODE_ALLOW_ANY);
	      |                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	      |                   uvchr_to_utf8_flags

this patch is currenty applied to the distro release,

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/perl-Net-IDN-Encode/blob/rawhide/f/Net-IDN-Encode-2.500-use_uvchr_to_utf8_flags_instead_of_uvuni_to_utf8_flags.patch

[karenetheridge]

I've uploaded the fix in Net-IDN-Encode-2.501-TRIAL.tar.gz (https://github.com/karenetheridge/Net-IDN-Encode).

[pgnd]

fyi, unresponsive maintainer request @

https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2024/01/msg11267.html

[karenetheridge]

@cfaerber Are you still interested in maintaining this module? There have been some inquiries about making this fix (which I uploaded as a TRIAL release in January 2024) into a stable release so it can be more easily used.

I see you haven't been seen on github since January 2022, so I hope you are well?

[mvsjes2]

Well, I've spent a day and a half trying to get carmel to install Karen's work around (thanks Karen!) and have run into one roadblock after another. With perl5's slow sunsetting, we're going to run into this more and more, which will create a positive feedback loop. We need to make exceptions to fully adopting a module for small maintenance fixes when the author has long since left.

The author's last activity on github was January 2022.