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cac726e9 1=pod
2
3=head1 NAME
4
5perlhist - the Perl history records
6
7=for RCS
8#
193fb0af 9# $Id: perlhist.pod,v 1.41 1998/06/09 15:20:18 jhi Exp $
cac726e9 10#
11=end RCS
12
13=head1 DESCRIPTION
14
15This document aims to record the Perl source code releases.
16
17=head1 INTRODUCTION
18
19Perl history in brief, by Larry Wall:
20
a3cb178b 21 Perl 0 introduced Perl to my officemates.
22 Perl 1 introduced Perl to the world, and changed /\(...\|...\)/ to
d516a115 23 /(...|...)/. \(Dan Faigin still hasn't forgiven me. :-\)
cac726e9 24 Perl 2 introduced Henry Spencer's regular expression package.
25 Perl 3 introduced the ability to handle binary data (embedded nulls).
26 Perl 4 introduced the first Camel book. Really. We mostly just
d516a115 27 switched version numbers so the book could refer to 4.000.
cac726e9 28 Perl 5 introduced everything else, including the ability to
d516a115 29 introduce everything else.
cac726e9 30
31=head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
32
7b8d334a 33Larry Wall, Andy Dougherty, Tom Christiansen, Charles Bailey, Nick
193fb0af 34Ing-Simmons, Chip Salzenberg, Tim Bunce, Malcolm Beattie, Gurusamy
35Sarathy.
cac726e9 36
37=head2 PUMPKIN?
38
39[from Porting/pumpkin.pod in the Perl source code distribution]
40
41Chip Salzenberg gets credit for that, with a nod to his cow orker,
42David Croy. We had passed around various names (baton, token, hot
43potato) but none caught on. Then, Chip asked:
44
45[begin quote]
46
47 Who has the patch pumpkin?
48
49To explain: David Croy once told me once that at a previous job,
50there was one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups.
51But instead of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech
52method to prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin.
53No one was allowed to make backups unless they had the "backup pumpkin".
54
55[end quote]
56
57The name has stuck. The holder of the pumpkin is sometimes called
193fb0af 58the pumpking (keeping the source afloat?) or the pumpkineer (pulling
59the strings?).
cac726e9 60
61=head1 THE RECORDS
62
63 Pump- Release Date Notes
64 king (by no means
65 comprehensive,
66 see Changes*
67 for details)
68 ===========================================================================
69
d516a115 70 Larry 0 Classified. Don't ask.
cac726e9 71
72 Larry 1.000 1987-Dec-18
d516a115 73
cac726e9 74 1.001..10 1988-Jan-30
75 1.011..14 1988-Feb-02
d516a115 76
cac726e9 77 Larry 2.000 1988-Jun-05
d516a115 78
cac726e9 79 2.001 1988-Jun-28
d516a115 80
cac726e9 81 Larry 3.000 1989-Oct-18
d516a115 82
cac726e9 83 3.001 1989-Oct-26
84 3.002..4 1989-Nov-11
85 3.005 1989-Nov-18
86 3.006..8 1989-Dec-22
87 3.009..13 1990-Mar-02
88 3.014 1990-Mar-13
89 3.015 1990-Mar-14
90 3.016..18 1990-Mar-28
d516a115 91 3.019..27 1990-Aug-10 User subs.
cac726e9 92 3.028 1990-Aug-14
93 3.029..36 1990-Oct-17
94 3.037 1990-Oct-20
95 3.040 1990-Nov-10
96 3.041 1990-Nov-13
193fb0af 97 3.042..43 1990-Jan-??
cac726e9 98 3.044 1991-Jan-12
d516a115 99
cac726e9 100 Larry 4.000 1991-Mar-21
d516a115 101
cac726e9 102 4.001..3 1991-Apr-12
103 4.004..9 1991-Jun-07
104 4.010 1991-Jun-10
105 4.011..18 1991-Nov-05
d516a115 106 4.019 1991-Nov-11 Stable.
cac726e9 107 4.020..33 1992-Jun-08
108 4.034 1992-Jun-11
109 4.035 1992-Jun-23
d516a115 110 Larry 4.036 1993-Feb-05 Very stable.
111
cac726e9 112 5.000alpha1 1993-Jul-31
113 5.000alpha2 1993-Aug-16
114 5.000alpha3 1993-Oct-10
115 5.000alpha4 1993-???-??
116 5.000alpha5 1993-???-??
193fb0af 117 5.000alpha6 1994-Mar-18
cac726e9 118 5.003alpha7 1994-Mar-25
119 Andy 5.000alpha8 1994-Apr-04
d516a115 120 Larry 5.000alpha9 1994-May-05 ext appears.
cac726e9 121 5.000alpha10 1994-???-??
122 5.000alpha11 1994-???-??
d516a115 123 Andy 5.000a11a 1994-Jul-07 To fit 14.
cac726e9 124 5.000a11b 1994-Jul-14
125 5.000a11c 1994-Jul-19
126 5.000a11d 1994-Jul-22
127 Larry 5.000alpha12 1994-???-??
128 Andy 5.000a12a 1994-Aug-08
129 5.000a12b 1994-Aug-15
130 5.000a12c 1994-Aug-22
131 5.000a12d 1994-Aug-22
132 5.000a12e 1994-Aug-22
133 5.000a12f 1994-Aug-24
134 5.000a12g 1994-Aug-24
135 5.000a12h 1994-Aug-24
136 Larry 5.000beta1 1994-???-??
137 Andy 5.000b1a 1994-???-??
d516a115 138 Larry 5.000beta2 1994-Sep-14 Core slushified.
cac726e9 139 Andy 5.000b2a 1994-Sep-14
140 5.000b2b 1994-Sep-17
141 5.000b2c 1994-Sep-17
193fb0af 142 Larry 5.000beta3 1994-Sep-??
cac726e9 143 Andy 5.000b3a 1994-Sep-18
144 5.000b3b 1994-Sep-22
145 5.000b3c 1994-Sep-23
146 5.000b3d 1994-Sep-27
147 5.000b3e 1994-Sep-28
148 5.000b3f 1994-Sep-30
149 5.000b3g 1994-Oct-04
150 Andy 5.000b3h 1994-Oct-07
d516a115 151
cac726e9 152 Larry 5.000 1994-Oct-18
d516a115 153
cac726e9 154 Andy 5.000a 1994-Dec-19
155 5.000b 1995-Jan-18
156 5.000c 1995-Jan-18
157 5.000d 1995-Jan-18
158 5.000e 1995-Jan-18
159 5.000f 1995-Jan-18
160 5.000g 1995-Jan-18
161 5.000h 1995-Jan-18
162 5.000i 1995-Jan-26
163 5.000j 1995-Feb-07
164 5.000k 1995-Feb-11
165 5.000l 1995-Feb-21
166 5.000m 1995-???-??
167 5.000n 1995-Mar-07
d516a115 168
cac726e9 169 Larry 5.001 1995-Mar-13
d516a115 170
cac726e9 171 Andy 5.001a 1995-Mar-15
172 5.001b 1995-Mar-31
173 5.001c 1995-Apr-07
174 5.001d 1995-Apr-14
d516a115 175 5.001e 1995-Apr-18 Stable.
cac726e9 176 5.001f 1995-May-31
177 5.001g 1995-May-25
178 5.001h 1995-May-25
179 5.001i 1995-May-30
180 5.001j 1995-Jun-05
181 5.001k 1995-Jun-06
d516a115 182 5.001l 1995-Jun-06 Stable.
183 5.001m 1995-Jul-02 Very stable.
184 5.001n 1995-Oct-31 Very unstable.
cac726e9 185 5.002beta1 1995-Nov-21
186 5.002b1a 1995-Nov-??
187 5.002b1b 1995-Dec-04
188 5.002b1c 1995-Dec-04
189 5.002b1d 1995-Dec-04
190 5.002b1e 1995-Dec-08
191 5.002b1f 1995-Dec-08
d516a115 192 Tom 5.002b1g 1995-Dec-21 Doc release.
cac726e9 193 Andy 5.002b1h 1996-Jan-05
d516a115 194 5.002b2 1996-Jan-14
195 Larry 5.002b3 1996-Feb-02
cac726e9 196 Andy 5.002gamma 1996-Feb-11
197 Larry 5.002delta 1996-Feb-27
d516a115 198
cac726e9 199 Larry 5.002 1996-Feb-29
d516a115 200
cac726e9 201 Charles 5.002_01 1996-Mar-25
d516a115 202
203 5.003 1996-Jun-25 Security release.
204
cac726e9 205 5.003_01 1996-Jul-31
206 Nick 5.003_02 1996-Aug-10
207 Andy 5.003_03 1996-Aug-28
208 5.003_04 1996-Sep-02
209 5.003_05 1996-Sep-12
210 5.003_06 1996-Oct-07
211 5.003_07 1996-Oct-10
212 Chip 5.003_08 1996-Nov-19
213 5.003_09 1996-Nov-26
214 5.003_10 1996-Nov-29
215 5.003_11 1996-Dec-06
216 5.003_12 1996-Dec-19
217 5.003_13 1996-Dec-20
218 5.003_14 1996-Dec-23
219 5.003_15 1996-Dec-23
220 5.003_16 1996-Dec-24
221 5.003_17 1996-Dec-27
222 5.003_18 1996-Dec-31
223 5.003_19 1997-Jan-04
224 5.003_20 1997-Jan-07
225 5.003_21 1997-Jan-15
226 5.003_22 1997-Jan-16
227 5.003_23 1997-Jan-25
228 5.003_24 1997-Jan-29
229 5.003_25 1997-Feb-04
230 5.003_26 1997-Feb-10
231 5.003_27 1997-Feb-18
232 5.003_28 1997-Feb-21
d516a115 233 5.003_90 1997-Feb-25 Ramping up to the 5.004 release.
cac726e9 234 5.003_91 1997-Mar-01
235 5.003_92 1997-Mar-06
236 5.003_93 1997-Mar-10
237 5.003_94 1997-Mar-22
238 5.003_95 1997-Mar-25
239 5.003_96 1997-Apr-01
d516a115 240 5.003_97 1997-Apr-03 Fairly widely used.
cac726e9 241 5.003_97a 1997-Apr-05
242 5.003_97b 1997-Apr-08
243 5.003_97c 1997-Apr-10
244 5.003_97d 1997-Apr-13
245 5.003_97e 1997-Apr-15
246 5.003_97f 1997-Apr-17
247 5.003_97g 1997-Apr-18
248 5.003_97h 1997-Apr-24
249 5.003_97i 1997-Apr-25
250 5.003_97j 1997-Apr-28
251 5.003_98 1997-Apr-30
252 5.003_99 1997-May-01
253 5.003_99a 1997-May-09
d516a115 254 p54rc1 1997-May-12 Release Candidates.
255 p54rc2 1997-May-14
256
257 Chip 5.004 1997-May-15 A major maintenance release.
258
259 Tim 5.004_01 1997-Jun-13 The 5.004 maintenance track.
cac726e9 260 5.004_02 1997-Aug-07
261 5.004_03 1997-Sep-05
262 5.004_04 1997-Oct-15
193fb0af 263 5.004m5t1 1998-Mar-04 Maintenance Trials (for 5.004_05).
264 5.004_04-m2 1997-May-01
265 5.004_04-m3 1998-May-15
d516a115 266
267 Malcolm 5.004_50 1997-Sep-09 The 5.005 development track.
cac726e9 268 5.004_51 1997-Oct-02
269 5.004_52 1997-Oct-15
270 5.004_53 1997-Oct-16
271 5.004_54 1997-Nov-14
272 5.004_55 1997-Nov-25
273 5.004_56 1997-Dec-18
d516a115 274 5.004_57 1998-Feb-03
275 5.004_58 1998-Feb-06
276 5.004_59 1998-Feb-13
a3cb178b 277 5.004_60 1998-Feb-20
278 5.004_61 1998-Feb-27
279 5.004_62 1998-Mar-06
7b8d334a 280 5.004_63 1998-Mar-17
281 5.004_64 1998-Apr-03
193fb0af 282 5.004_65 1998-May-15
283 5.004_66 1998-May-29
284 Sarathy 5.004_67 1998-Jun-15
4ebdfc99 285 5.004_68 1998-Jun-23
286 5.004_69 1998-Jun-29
429b3afa 287 5.004_70 1998-Jul-06
288 5.004_71 1998-Jul-09
05fc92f1 289 5.004_72 1998-Jul-12
290 5.004_73 1998-Jul-13
b83ac84c 291 5.004_74 1998-Jul-14
cac726e9 292
293=head2 SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
294
295For example the notation "core: 212 29" in the release 1.000 means that
296it had in the core 212 kilobytes, in 29 files. The "core".."doc" are
297explained below.
298
d516a115 299 release core lib ext t doc
cac726e9 300 ======================================================================
301
d516a115 302 1.000 212 29 - - - - 38 51 62 3
303 1.014 219 29 - - - - 39 52 68 4
304 2.000 309 31 2 3 - - 55 57 92 4
305 2.001 312 31 2 3 - - 55 57 94 4
306 3.000 508 36 24 11 - - 79 73 156 5
307 3.044 645 37 61 20 - - 90 74 190 6
308 4.000 635 37 59 20 - - 91 75 198 4
309 4.019 680 37 85 29 - - 98 76 199 4
310 4.036 709 37 89 30 - - 98 76 208 5
311 5.000alpha2 785 50 114 32 - - 112 86 209 5
193fb0af 312 5.000alpha3 801 50 117 33 - - 121 87 209 5
313 5.000alpha9 1022 56 149 43 116 29 125 90 217 6
cac726e9 314 5.000a12h 978 49 140 49 205 46 152 97 228 9
193fb0af 315 5.000b3h 1035 53 232 70 216 38 162 94 218 21
d516a115 316 5.000 1038 53 250 76 216 38 154 92 536 62
317 5.001m 1071 54 388 82 240 38 159 95 544 29
318 5.002 1121 54 661 101 287 43 155 94 847 35
319 5.003 1129 54 680 102 291 43 166 100 853 35
320 5.003_07 1231 60 748 106 396 53 213 137 976 39
321 5.004 1351 60 1230 136 408 51 355 161 1587 55
322 5.004_01 1356 60 1258 138 410 51 358 161 1587 55
323 5.004_04 1375 60 1294 139 413 51 394 162 1629 55
324 5.004_51 1401 61 1260 140 413 53 358 162 1594 56
325 5.004_53 1422 62 1295 141 438 70 394 162 1637 56
326 5.004_56 1501 66 1301 140 447 74 408 165 1648 57
327 5.004_59 1555 72 1317 142 448 74 424 171 1678 58
193fb0af 328 5.004_62 1602 77 1327 144 629 92 428 173 1674 58
329 5.004_65 1626 77 1358 146 615 92 446 179 1698 60
cac726e9 330
331The "core"..."doc" mean the following files from the Perl source code
332distribution. The glob notation ** means recursively, (.) means
333regular files.
334
d516a115 335 core *.[hcy]
336 lib lib/**/*.p[ml]
337 ext ext/**/*.{[hcyt],xs,pm}
338 t t/**/*(.)
339 doc {README*,INSTALL,*[_.]man{,.?},pod/**/*.pod}
cac726e9 340
341Here are some statistics for the other subdirectories and one file in
342the Perl source distribution for somewhat more selected releases.
343
344 ======================================================================
345 Legend: kB #
346
d516a115 347 1.014 2.001 3.044 4.000 4.019 4.036
348
cac726e9 349 atarist - - - - - - - - - - 113 31
350 Configure 31 1 37 1 62 1 73 1 83 1 86 1
351 eg - - 34 28 47 39 47 39 47 39 47 39
352 emacs - - - - - - 67 4 67 4 67 4
353 h2pl - - - - 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
354 hints - - - - - - - - 5 42 11 56
355 msdos - - - - 41 13 57 15 58 15 60 15
356 os2 - - - - 63 22 81 29 81 29 113 31
357 usub - - - - 21 16 25 7 43 8 43 8
358 x2p 103 17 104 17 137 17 147 18 152 19 154 19
359
360 ======================================================================
361
d516a115 362 5.000a2 5.000a12h 5.000b3h 5.000 5.001m 5.002 5.003
363
cac726e9 364 atarist 113 31 113 31 - - - - - - - - - -
365 bench - - 0 1 - - - - - - - - - -
366 Bugs 2 5 26 1 - - - - - - - - - -
367 dlperl 40 5 - - - - - - - - - - - -
368 do 127 71 - - - - - - - - - - - -
369 Configure - - 153 1 159 1 160 1 180 1 201 1 201 1
370 Doc - - 26 1 75 7 11 1 11 1 - - - -
371 eg 79 58 53 44 51 43 54 44 54 44 54 44 54 44
372 emacs 67 4 104 6 104 6 104 1 104 6 108 1 108 1
373 h2pl 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
374 hints 11 56 12 46 18 48 18 48 44 56 73 59 77 60
375 msdos 60 15 60 15 - - - - - - - - - -
376 os2 113 31 113 31 - - - - - - 84 17 56 10
377 U - - 62 8 112 42 - - - - - - - -
378 usub 43 8 - - - - - - - - - - - -
379 utils - - - - - - - - - - 87 7 88 7
380 vms - - 80 7 123 9 184 15 304 20 500 24 475 26
381 x2p 171 22 171 21 162 20 162 20 279 20 280 20 280 20
382
383 ======================================================================
384
193fb0af 385 5.003_07 5.004 5.004_04 5.004_62 5.004_65
d516a115 386
193fb0af 387 beos - - - - - - - - 1 1
388 Configure 217 1 225 1 225 1 240 1 248 1
389 cygwin32 - - 23 5 23 5 23 5 24 5
390 djgpp - - - - - - 14 5 14 5
391 eg 54 44 81 62 81 62 81 62 81 62
392 emacs 143 1 194 1 204 1 212 2 212 2
393 h2pl 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
394 hints 90 62 129 69 132 71 144 72 151 74
395 os2 117 42 121 42 127 42 127 44 129 44
396 plan9 79 15 82 15 82 15 82 15 82 15
397 Porting 51 1 94 2 109 4 203 6 234 8
398 qnx - - 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
399 utils 97 7 112 8 118 8 124 8 156 9
400 vms 505 27 518 34 524 34 538 34 569 34
401 win32 - - 285 33 378 36 470 39 493 39
402 x2p 280 19 281 19 281 19 281 19 282 19
cac726e9 403
404=head2 SELECTED PATCH SIZES
405
193fb0af 406The "diff lines kb" means that for example the patch 5.003_08, to be
407applied on top of the 5.003_07 (or whatever was before the 5.003_08)
408added lines for 110 kilobytes, it removed lines for 19 kilobytes, and
cac726e9 409changed lines for 424 kilobytes. Just the lines themselves are
410counted, not their context. The "+ - !" become from the diff(1)s
411context diff output format.
412
413 Pump- Release Date diff lines kB
414 king + - !
415 ===========================================================================
416
417 Chip 5.003_08 1996-Nov-19 110 19 424
418 5.003_09 1996-Nov-26 38 9 248
419 5.003_10 1996-Nov-29 29 2 27
420 5.003_11 1996-Dec-06 73 12 165
421 5.003_12 1996-Dec-19 275 6 436
422 5.003_13 1996-Dec-20 95 1 56
423 5.003_14 1996-Dec-23 23 7 333
424 5.003_15 1996-Dec-23 0 0 1
425 5.003_16 1996-Dec-24 12 3 50
426 5.003_17 1996-Dec-27 19 1 14
427 5.003_18 1996-Dec-31 21 1 32
428 5.003_19 1997-Jan-04 80 3 85
429 5.003_20 1997-Jan-07 18 1 146
430 5.003_21 1997-Jan-15 38 10 221
431 5.003_22 1997-Jan-16 4 0 18
432 5.003_23 1997-Jan-25 71 15 119
433 5.003_24 1997-Jan-29 426 1 20
434 5.003_25 1997-Feb-04 21 8 169
435 5.003_26 1997-Feb-10 16 1 15
436 5.003_27 1997-Feb-18 32 10 38
437 5.003_28 1997-Feb-21 58 4 66
438 5.003_90 1997-Feb-25 22 2 34
439 5.003_91 1997-Mar-01 37 1 39
440 5.003_92 1997-Mar-06 16 3 69
441 5.003_93 1997-Mar-10 12 3 15
442 5.003_94 1997-Mar-22 407 7 200
443 5.003_95 1997-Mar-25 41 1 37
444 5.003_96 1997-Apr-01 283 5 261
445 5.003_97 1997-Apr-03 13 2 34
446 5.003_97a 1997-Apr-05 57 1 27
447 5.003_97b 1997-Apr-08 14 1 20
448 5.003_97c 1997-Apr-10 20 1 16
449 5.003_97d 1997-Apr-13 8 0 16
450 5.003_97e 1997-Apr-15 15 4 46
451 5.003_97f 1997-Apr-17 7 1 33
452 5.003_97g 1997-Apr-18 6 1 42
453 5.003_97h 1997-Apr-24 23 3 68
454 5.003_97i 1997-Apr-25 23 1 31
455 5.003_97j 1997-Apr-28 36 1 49
456 5.003_98 1997-Apr-30 171 12 539
457 5.003_99 1997-May-01 6 0 7
458 5.003_99a 1997-May-09 36 2 61
459 p54rc1 1997-May-12 8 1 11
460 p54rc2 1997-May-14 6 0 40
461
7b8d334a 462 5.004 1997-May-15 4 0 4
cac726e9 463
464 Tim 5.004_01 1997-Jun-13 222 14 57
465 5.004_02 1997-Aug-07 112 16 119
466 5.004_03 1997-Sep-05 109 0 17
467 5.004_04 1997-Oct-15 66 8 173
468
469=head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
470
471Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<jhi@iki.fi>>.
472
473Thanks to the collective memory of the Perlfolk. In addition to the
193fb0af 474Keepers of the Pumpkin also Alan Champion, Andreas König, John
cac726e9 475Macdonald, Matthias Neeracher, Michael Peppler, Randal Schwartz, and
476Paul D. Smith sent corrections and additions.
477
478=cut