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1 | =head1 NAME |
| 2 | |
| 3 | HISTORY - public release history for Data::Dumper |
| 4 | |
| 5 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
| 6 | |
| 7 | =over 8 |
| 8 | |
| 9 | =item 2.09 (9 July 1998) |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Implement $Data::Dumper::Bless, suggested by Mark Daku <daku@nortel.ca>. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | =item 2.081 (15 January 1998) |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Minor release to fix Makefile.PL not accepting MakeMaker args. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | =item 2.08 (7 December 1997) |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Glob dumps don't output superflous 'undef' anymore. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Fixes from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make Dumper() work with |
| 22 | overloaded strings in recent perls, and his new testsuite. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | require 5.004. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | A separate flag to always quote hash keys (on by default). |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Recreating known CODE refs is now better supported. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Changed flawed constant SCALAR bless workaround. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | =item 2.07 (7 December 1996) |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Dumpxs output is now exactly the same as Dump. It still doesn't |
| 35 | honor C<Useqq> though. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | Regression tests test for identical output and C<eval>-ability. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | Bug in *GLOB{THING} output fixed. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | Other small enhancements. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | =item 2.06 (2 December 1996) |
| 44 | |
| 45 | Bugfix that was serious enough for new release--the bug cripples |
| 46 | MLDBM. Problem was "Attempt to modify readonly value..." failures |
| 47 | that stemmed for a misguided SvPV_force() instead of a SvPV().) |
| 48 | |
| 49 | =item 2.05 (2 December 1996) |
| 50 | |
| 51 | Fixed the type mismatch that was causing Dumpxs test to fail |
| 52 | on 64-bit platforms. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | GLOB elements are dumped now when C<Purity> is set (using the |
| 55 | *GLOB{THING} syntax). |
| 56 | |
| 57 | The C<Freezer> option can be set to a method name to call |
| 58 | before probing objects for dumping. Some applications: objects with |
| 59 | external data, can re-bless themselves into a transitional package; |
| 60 | Objects the maintain ephemeral state (like open files) can put |
| 61 | additional information in the object to facilitate persistence. |
| 62 | |
| 63 | The corresponding C<Toaster> option, if set, specifies |
| 64 | the method call that will revive the frozen object. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | The C<Deepcopy> flag has been added to do just that. |
| 67 | |
| 68 | Dumper does more aggressive cataloging of SCALARs encountered |
| 69 | within ARRAY/HASH structures. Thanks to Norman Gaywood |
| 70 | <norm@godel.une.edu.au> for reporting the problem. |
| 71 | |
| 72 | Objects that C<overload> the '""' operator are now handled |
| 73 | properly by the C<Dump> method. |
| 74 | |
| 75 | Significant additions to the testsuite. |
| 76 | |
| 77 | More documentation. |
| 78 | |
| 79 | =item 2.04beta (28 August 1996) |
| 80 | |
| 81 | Made dump of glob names respect C<Useqq> setting. |
| 82 | |
| 83 | [@$%] are now escaped now when in double quotes. |
| 84 | |
| 85 | =item 2.03beta (26 August 1996) |
| 86 | |
| 87 | Fixed Dumpxs. It was appending trailing nulls to globnames. |
| 88 | (reported by Randal Schwartz <merlyn@teleport.com>). |
| 89 | |
| 90 | Calling the C<Indent()> method on a dumper object now correctly |
| 91 | resets the internal separator (reported by Curt Tilmes |
| 92 | <curt@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov>). |
| 93 | |
| 94 | New C<Terse> option to suppress the 'C<VARI<n> = >' prefix |
| 95 | introduced. If the option is set, they are output only when |
| 96 | absolutely essential. |
| 97 | |
| 98 | The C<Useqq> flag is supported (but not by the XSUB version |
| 99 | yet). |
| 100 | |
| 101 | Embedded nulls in keys are now handled properly by Dumpxs. |
| 102 | |
| 103 | Dumper.xs now use various integer types in perl.h (should |
| 104 | make it compile without noises on 64 bit platforms, although |
| 105 | I haven't been able to test this). |
| 106 | |
| 107 | All the dump methods now return a list of strings in a list |
| 108 | context. |
| 109 | |
| 110 | |
| 111 | =item 2.02beta (13 April 1996) |
| 112 | |
| 113 | Non portable sprintf usage in XS code fixed (thanks to |
| 114 | Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>). |
| 115 | |
| 116 | |
| 117 | =item 2.01beta (10 April 1996) |
| 118 | |
| 119 | Minor bugfix (single digit numbers were always getting quoted). |
| 120 | |
| 121 | |
| 122 | =item 2.00beta (9 April 1996) |
| 123 | |
| 124 | C<Dumpxs> is now the exact XSUB equivalent of C<Dump>. The XS version |
| 125 | is 4-5 times faster. |
| 126 | |
| 127 | C<require 5.002>. |
| 128 | |
| 129 | MLDBM example removed (as its own module, it has a separate CPAN |
| 130 | reality now). |
| 131 | |
| 132 | Fixed bugs in handling keys with wierd characters. Perl can be |
| 133 | tripped up in its implicit quoting of the word before '=>'. The |
| 134 | fix: C<Data::Dumper::Purity>, when set, always triggers quotes |
| 135 | around hash keys. |
| 136 | |
| 137 | Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de> pointed out that handling octals |
| 138 | is busted. His patch added. |
| 139 | |
| 140 | Dead code removed, other minor documentation fixes. |
| 141 | |
| 142 | |
| 143 | =item 1.23 (3 Dec 1995) |
| 144 | |
| 145 | MLDBM example added. |
| 146 | |
| 147 | Several folks pointed out that quoting of ticks and backslashes |
| 148 | in strings is missing. Added. |
| 149 | |
| 150 | Ian Phillips <ian@pipex.net> pointed out that numerics may lose |
| 151 | precision without quotes. Fixed. |
| 152 | |
| 153 | |
| 154 | =item 1.21 (20 Nov 1995) |
| 155 | |
| 156 | Last stable version I can remember. |
| 157 | |
| 158 | =back |
| 159 | |
| 160 | =cut |
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