1 Revision history for Sys-Syslog
3 0.19 -- 2007.08.xx -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
4 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20635: Fix tests to avoid problems related to the
5 "stream" mechanism which occured on Debian and Cygwin.
6 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20780: Facility could not be temporarily changed.
7 Also fixes the syslog() before openlog() bug.
8 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21333: Makefile.PL now creates a typemap for Perl 5.6.1
9 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21516: disconnect_log() now correctly calls closelog_xs().
10 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21866: Silence warnings in openlog().
11 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#25488: Silence warnings in disconnect_log().
13 [BUGFIX] Rewrote the constants generation code in order to provide
14 fallback value for non-standard macros.
15 [FEATURE] Added Win32 event log support thanks to Yves Orton.
16 [FEATURE] Added new macros from modern BSD and IRIX.
17 [FEATURE] Each non-standard macro now fall backs to a standard macro.
18 [CODE] Merged changes from Jerry D. Hedden to use ppport.h only when not
19 built from core distribution (blead@30657).
20 [TESTS] t/syslog.t now generates a more detailled TAP output.
21 [TESTS] Merged change blead@29176: suppress taint mode from t/constants.t
22 [TESTS] Added regression tests for CPAN-RT#21866 and #25488.
23 [EG] Added example script eg/syslog.pl
24 [DOC] Added the Sys::Syslog Rules.
26 0.18 -- 2006.08.28 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
27 [BUGFIX] Rewrote the way the default identifiant is constructed.
28 [TESTS] CPAN-RT#20946: Removed the console mechanism from the main
29 test loop because writing to the console hangs on several systems.
30 [DOC] Added a note discouraging the use of setlogsock().
32 0.17 -- 2006.07.23 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
33 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20622, #20164: Fixed path handling in connect_unix().
34 [CODE] Renamed some variables ($that is not a valid name), and removed
36 [CODE] Actually added the macros from Mac OS X that were announced in
38 [DOC] CPAN-RT#20545: Rewrote the documentation about setlogsock().
40 0.16 -- 2006.06.20 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
41 [BUGFIX] Perl-RT#20557: Save errno before trying to connect.
42 [FEATURE] Perl-RT#35406: Applied the patch proposed by Keisuke Hirata
43 for a more lax handling of "stream" or "unix" path.
44 [FEATURE] Now try the "native" mechanism first.
45 [TESTS] Silence warnings generated by t/syslog.t in Perl 5.8.8 and
47 [DOC] Added documentation about the "native" mechanism.
48 [DOC] Now indicates whether tickets are from CPAN or Perl RT.
50 0.15 -- 2006.06.10 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
51 [FEATURE] CPAN-RT#17316: Added a "nofatal" option to openlog().
52 [FEATURE] Sys::Syslog warnings can now be controled by the warnings
53 category of the same name.
54 [FEATURE] Added support for using the native C syslog(3) functions.
55 [CODE] Removed most "our" variables.
56 [CODE] Improved readability by removing cargo-cult brackets and
59 0.14 -- 2006.05.25 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
60 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#19259, #17518: Now allowing all levels and facilities.
61 [CODE] Removed useless "&".
62 [CODE] Improved readability by adding empty lines and reworking the
64 [CODE] Added new macros from Mac OS X.
65 [TESTS] Added more tests in order to increase coverage.
66 [DOC] CPAN-RT#19085: Corrected errors in the documentation for setlogmask().
67 [DOC] Added several links to online manual pages, RFCs and articles.
68 [DOC] Corrected minor things in Changes.
70 0.13 -- 2006.01.11 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
71 [CODE] Applied Gisle Aas patch for a better handling of error messages,
73 [CODE] Merged blead@26768: If getservbyname fails tell what service
74 the lookup attempt tried to use.
75 [CODE] Merged blead@26769: suppress Sys::Hostname usage and directly
77 [CODE] Merged blead@26772: $host needs to stay in case the user sets it.
78 [CODE] Merged blead@26773: check that $syslog_path is a socket.
79 [TESTS] CPAN-RT#16980: Sys::Syslog blows up rather spectacularly on
80 Solaris. Corrected by previous patches.
81 [TESTS] CPAN-RT#16974: Failed test in t/podspell. This test is now skipped.
83 0.12 -- 2006.01.07 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
84 [DOC] Added a link to an article about Sys::Syslog.
85 [TESTS] Merged some modifications from bleadperl.
86 [TESTS] Removed optional dependency on Test::Exception.
87 [TESTS] Improved t/constant.t
88 [TESTS] Rewrote t/constants.t because future versions of
89 ExtUtils::Constant will prevent the constant() function from
90 being directly called.
92 0.11 -- 2005.12.28 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
93 [BUGFIX] setlogmask() now behaves like its C counterpart.
94 [FEATURE] Can now export and use the macros.
95 [FEATURE] Support for three Exporter tags.
96 [FEATURE] XSLoader is now optional.
97 [CODE] No longer "use"s Sys::Hostname as it was "require"d where needed.
98 [CODE] CPAN-RT#16604: Use local timestamp.
99 [DIST] Merged blead@26343: Fix realclean target.
100 [DOC] Improved documentation.
101 [TESTS] Added more tests to t/syslog.t in order to increase code coverage.
103 0.10 -- 2005.12.08 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
104 [DOC] Improved documentation.
105 [TESTS] Added -T to t/syslog.t
106 [TESTS] Added t/constants.t to check the macros.
107 [TESTS] Added t/distchk.t, t/podspell.t, t/podcover.t, t/portfs.t
109 0.09 -- 2005.12.06 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
110 [CODE] Now setlogsock() really croak(), as documented.
111 [DIST] CPANized from blead@26281.
112 [DIST] Modified Makefile.PL so that ExtUtils::Constant is conditionaly
113 used, with a fallback in the case it's not available.
114 [DIST] Bumped version to 0.09
115 [DOC] Added support and license information.
116 [TESTS] Rewrote and ported t/syslog.t to Test::More