Unicos/mk requires elaborate paranoia.
[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / Changes
diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 1401aa1..b0021a8 100644 (file)
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their
 current addresses (as of August 2000):
 
     Gisle Aas           <gisle@aas.no>
-    Abigail             <abigail@foad.net>
+    Abigail             <abigail@foad.org>
     Kenneth Albanowski  <kjahds@kjahds.com>
     Russ Allbery        <rra@stanford.edu>
     Brad Appleton       <bradapp@enteract.com>
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ current addresses (as of August 2000):
     Vishal Bhatia       <vishal@gol.com>
     Spider Boardman     <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
     Tom Christiansen    <tchrist@perl.com>
-    Simon Cozens       <simob@brecon.co.uk>
+    Simon Cozens       <simon@brecon.co.uk>
     Mark-Jason Dominus  <mjd@plover.com>
     Jan Dubois          <jand@activestate.com>
     Dominic Dunlop      <domo@computer.org>
@@ -95,6 +95,1247 @@ Version v5.7.0             Development release working toward v5.8
 --------------
 
 ____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6735] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/21  02:57:20
+        Log: Draft 0.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6734] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/21  02:57:03
+        Log: Add Storable 0.7.2 from Raphael Manfredi,
+             plus the patch from
+             
+             Subject: Re: someone with too much time and a 64-bit box and interest in Storable?
+             From: Radu Greab <radu@netsoft.ro>
+             Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 03:10:05 +0300 (EEST)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008210258160.1292-100000@busy.netsoft.ro>
+             
+             plus changes to get Storable to compile with
+             picky ANSI compilers.
+     Branch: perl
+          + ext/Storable/ChangeLog ext/Storable/MANIFEST
+          + ext/Storable/Makefile.PL ext/Storable/README
+          + ext/Storable/Storable.pm ext/Storable/Storable.xs
+          + ext/Storable/patchlevel.h t/lib/st-06compat.t
+          + t/lib/st-blessed.t t/lib/st-canonical.t t/lib/st-dclone.t
+          + t/lib/st-dump.pl t/lib/st-forgive.t t/lib/st-freeze.t
+          + t/lib/st-overload.t t/lib/st-recurse.t t/lib/st-retrieve.t
+          + t/lib/st-store.t t/lib/st-tied.t t/lib/st-tiedhook.t
+          + t/lib/st-tieditems.t
+          ! MANIFEST
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6733] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/21  02:29:09
+        Log: The correct cleaning order is an art.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6732] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/21  01:23:39
+        Log: The #6724 is here.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/ftmp-security.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6731] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  23:17:03
+        Log: s/this one/the 5.6.0 release/
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perl56delta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6730] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  23:07:34
+        Log: Mention perlebcdic and perlposix-bc.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6729] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  21:32:59
+        Log: Document the number of exponent digits.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6728] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  21:16:47
+        Log: Use File::Spec->tmpdir().
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000820.001] not OK - Perl 5.7.0 (uninstalled)
+             From: Tim Jenness <timj@jach.hawaii.edu>
+             Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008201057080.20544-100000@lapaki.jach.hawaii.edu>
+             MIME-Version: 1.0
+             Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 11:01:25 -1000 (HST)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perlbug.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6727] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  20:43:32
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6726] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  20:41:44
+        Log: The veryclean target needs to clobber.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6725] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  20:37:38
+        Log: Document odd vs even subreleases and -Dusedevel.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! INSTALL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6724] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  19:58:05
+        Log: Use temporary directory instead of current directory.
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000816.011] Test failure in lib/ftmp-security.t
+             From: Tim Jenness <timj@jach.hawaii.edu>
+             Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 10:26:07 -1000 (HST)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008191015090.13727-100000@lapaki.jach.hawaii.edu>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/ftmp-security.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6723] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  19:55:55
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Silence MakeMaker (Was: installman)
+             From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+             Date: 20 Aug 2000 15:52:03 +0200
+             Message-ID: <m3em3khwfw.fsf_-_@ak-71.mind.de>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6722] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  19:46:01
+        Log: Update to CGI 2.72, from Lincoln Stein.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CGI.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6721] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  19:43:54
+        Log: Subject: Re: [ID 20000819.002] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6707 on i686-linux 2.2.5-16 (UNINSTALLED)
+             From: Radu Greab <radu@netsoft.ro>
+             Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:03:26 +0300 (EEST)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008201753260.1292-100000@busy.netsoft.ro>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6720] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  19:42:01
+        Log: pp_open() could pass an uninitialized filename down to do_open9().
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6719] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  14:06:41
+        Log: UTF8 concat fixes.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH @6713] Re: [ID 20000815.006] latest patched perl core dumps
+             From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 07:30:46 +0100
+             Message-Id: <200008200630.HAA18053@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_hot.c t/op/append.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6718] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  02:09:37
+        Log: Let's try #6717 again.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Temp.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6717] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/20  01:56:55
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH perl@6698] File::Temp fix-ups for OpenVMS
+             From: "Craig A. Berry" <craig.berry@metamorgs.com>
+             Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 18:15:39 -0500
+             Message-Id: <p04320402b5c4c10bc280@[192.168.56.169]>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Temp.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6716] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/19  15:50:11
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6715] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/19  15:39:09
+        Log: Subject: [ID 20000817.023] endianness description in perlfunc.pod
+             From: Jonathan D Johnston <jdjohnston2@juno.com>
+             Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:13:01 -0400       
+             Message-Id: <20000817.231304.-743351.1.jdjohnston2@juno.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6714] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/19  15:34:04
+        Log: Introduce a 'veryclean' target that is like 'distclean'
+             but also removes *~ and *.orig.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Makefile.SH lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm pod/Makefile.SH
+          ! utils/Makefile x2p/Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6713] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/19  14:15:45
+        Log: Put back the long double avoidance code to POSIX.xs
+             because VMS seems to need it still.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6712] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/19  14:10:41
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH: 6698] was Re: [PATCH: 6640] VMS Makefile.SH update (fwd)
+             From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
+             Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:18:31 -0700 (PDT)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10008181818100.322420-100000@aspara.forte.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Find.pm t/pod/find.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6711] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/19  14:09:19
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH: 6698] tidy up the temp files left by peek tests on VMS
+             From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
+             Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:54:10 -0700 (PDT)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10008181751350.322420-100000@aspara.forte.com>
+             cc: vmsperl@perl.org
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/peek.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6710] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/19  14:08:01
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0+] fix for Win32::GetFullPathName and Win32::GetShortPathName
+             From: Jan Dubois <jand@ActiveState.com>
+             Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:31:48 -0700
+             Message-ID: <2ihrps00u6qkpjtfq6f2b1d1ndkrs7l04u@4ax.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6709] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/19  14:06:57
+        Log: Fix a core dump in lib/selfloader under -DDEBUGGING.
+             
+             Subject: PATCH @6698 for [ID 20000817.007] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6676 on alpha-dec_osf 4.0f (UNINSTALLED) 
+             From: Spider.Boardman@Orb.Nashua.NH.US
+             Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:41:14 -0400
+             Message-Id: <200008182241.SAA29667@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! regcomp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6708] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  22:04:49
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6707] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  21:55:14
+        Log: Add warnif(), check warnings further up the stack,
+             all the warnings functions now can take an optional object reference.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH bleedperl@6691] warnings pragma update
+             From: "Paul Marquess" <Paul.Marquess@btinternet.com>
+             Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:42:06 +0100
+             Message-ID: <000c01c0095d$278e0040$ca01073e@bfs.phone.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/Tie/Handle.pm lib/Tie/Hash.pm
+          ! lib/Tie/Scalar.pm lib/fields.pm lib/syslog.pl lib/warnings.pm
+          ! pod/perllexwarn.pod t/pragma/warn/9enabled warnings.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6706] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  21:41:45
+        Log: Typo in pp_complement().
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH perl-current] Deparse
+             From: Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>
+             Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 12:44:37 -0700
+             Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000818124024.00ba2be0@psdt.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/B/B/Deparse.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6705] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  21:25:59
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0+] fix for Win32::DomainName
+             From: Jan Dubois <jand@ActiveState.com>
+             Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:22:51 -0700
+             Message-ID: <0o9rps458r29eb97h5csuq81b1eip4no33@4ax.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Win32.pod win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6704] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  21:16:14
+        Log: Don't eat leading os from index entries.
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000810.006] Pod::Man Ate My 'O'!
+             From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
+             Date: 10 Aug 2000 20:49:25 -0700
+             Message-ID: <ylu2cs78ze.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Man.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6703] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  21:07:06
+        Log: Add [[:blank:]] as suggested in
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000716.024] [=cc=] / [:blank:]
+             From: Jeffrey Friedl <jfriedl@fummy.dsl.yahoo.com>
+             Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:55:29 -0700
+             Message-Id: <200007170055.RAA23528@fummy.dsl.yahoo.com>
+             
+             (the [=cc=] has already been taken care of by #6439
+             so the whole bug report can be closed)
+             
+             and make [[:space:]] to be equivalent to isspace(3)
+             (as opposed to \s, which is isSPACE()).  The difference
+             is that now [[:space:]] matches the mythical vertical tab,
+             while \s doesn't.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! handy.h pod/perlre.pod pod/perlretut.pod regcomp.c regcomp.h
+          ! regexec.c t/op/pat.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6702] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  18:47:47
+        Log: The new tests were missing from #6415.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/bop.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6701] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  18:20:40
+        Log: Document the NDBM_File and ODBM_File as SDBM_File
+             was documented in #6417.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.pm ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.pm
+          ! ext/SDBM_File/SDBM_File.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6700] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  18:10:39
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH perl@6698] cygwin port
+             From: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer@sanwaint.com>
+             Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:30:05 +0100
+             Message-ID: <779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D9979171784@silldn_mail1.sanwaint.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Temp.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6699] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  16:21:49
+        Log: Document code point which makes if (defined %stash::) to work
+             (noted by Spider Boardman).
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6698] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  13:43:27
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6697] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  13:35:57
+        Log: Tiny Getopt::Long patch from Johan Vromans.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Getopt/Long.pm t/lib/gol-basic.t t/lib/gol-oo.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6696] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  13:26:14
+        Log: Subject: [ID 20000817.018] behaviour change 5.5.3 -> 5.6.0 re "Modification of a read-only value"
+             From: Paul David Fardy <pdf@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
+             Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:23:40 -0230 (NDT)
+             Message-Id: <200008171953.RAA17673@porthos.ucs.mun.ca>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsyn.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6695] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  13:13:26
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] perlfunc.pod -- clarifying sprintf array argument issues
+             From: Daniel Chetlin <daniel@chetlin.com>
+             Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 03:13:36 -0700
+             Message-ID: <20000818031336.B14165@ilmd.chetlin.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6694] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  13:08:05
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] perltrap.pod spring cleaning
+             From: Daniel Chetlin <daniel@chetlin.com>
+             Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 03:06:54 -0700
+             Message-ID: <20000818030654.A14165@ilmd.chetlin.org>
+             
+             plus Mike Guy's nitfix.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perltrap.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6693] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  13:00:26
+        Log: Unbuffer the output.
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000817.017] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6680 on
+             From: sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
+             Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:39:29 -0700
+             Message-ID: <RPJn5gzkgydf092yn@efn.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/fork.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6692] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  05:19:17
+        Log: Delete the image, too, not just its MANIFEStation.
+     Branch: perl
+          - lib/CGI/eg/wilogo.gif
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6691] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  05:10:26
+        Log: Propagate new Configure vars.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! configure.com epoc/config.sh uconfig.h uconfig.sh
+          ! vos/config.def vos/config.h vos/config_h.SH_orig
+          ! win32/config.bc win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+          ! win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6690] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  04:30:56
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6689] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  04:12:30
+        Log: Fix the lib/complex failure of
+             
+             From: abigail@foad.org
+             Subject: [ID 20000814.005] Not OK: perl v5.6.0 on i686-linux-64int 2.2.13       
+             Date: 15 Aug 2000 04:06:38 -0000
+             Message-Id: <20000815040638.8524.qmail@foad.org> 
+             
+             Linux long double accuracy issue: something that
+             when printed with %g looks like "2" but int() of it is 1.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Math/Complex.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6688] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  03:15:35
+        Log: The byteorder code in #6671 was wrong.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! configpm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6687] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  02:08:42
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0+] newSVrv() memory leak
+             From: Jan Dubois <jand@ActiveState.com>
+             Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:31:55 -0700
+             Message-ID: <l64ppsggaiuc4t6msm45iqohmhpjblb4qf@4ax.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6686] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  02:04:15
+        Log: Use NVs in POSIX math, not doubles.
+             
+             From: abigail@foad.org
+             Subject: [ID 20000817.014] POSIX & modfl
+             Date: 17 Aug 2000 20:49:18 -0000
+             Message-Id: <20000817204918.23123.qmail@foad.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs ext/POSIX/typemap
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6685] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/18  02:02:12
+        Log: Introduce NVef, NVff, and NVgf, use the middle one.
+             (helps for lib/peek + Linux + long doubles)  Reported in
+             
+             From: abigail@foad.org
+             Subject: [ID 20000814.005] Not OK: perl v5.6.0 on i686-linux-64int 2.2.13       
+             Date: 15 Aug 2000 04:06:38 -0000
+             Message-Id: <20000815040638.8524.qmail@foad.org> 
+             
+             (note: the lib/complex failure has not yet been addressed)
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! perlxvf.U
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH dump.c perl.h pod/perlguts.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6684] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  23:22:19
+        Log: Add byteorder to the myconfig output.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! myconfig.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6683] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  23:20:19
+        Log: The image doth not exist, spotted by Johan Vromans.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! MANIFEST
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6682] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  22:38:16
+        Log: Document what the backtick returns if the command fails.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlop.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6681] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  22:33:12
+        Log: Do not use prototyping here.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000817.016] [PATCH] Peek.xs
+             From: abigail@foad.org
+             Date: 17 Aug 2000 20:55:56 -0000
+             Message-Id: <20000817205556.24270.qmail@foad.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Devel/Peek/Makefile.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6680] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  19:46:43
+        Log: Don't propose using modules built for 5.005 if no binary
+             compatibility with 5.005 is attempted.
+             
+             From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@xfiles.intercon.hp.com>
+             Subject: Minor nit with 5.7.0 (6655)
+             Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:56:14 -0700 (PDT)
+             Message-Id: <200008162256.PAA06964@xfiles.intercon.hp.com>
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/installdirs/inc_version_list.U
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6679] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  19:16:39
+        Log: Microperl config update.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! uconfig.h uconfig.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6678] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  19:16:13
+        Log: The #6648 wasn't protective enough for limited platforms
+             (like microperl).
+     Branch: perl
+          ! dump.c sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6677] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  14:46:35
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6676] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  14:44:02
+        Log: Add perlebcdic from Peter Prymmer, regen toc.
+     Branch: perl
+          + pod/perlebcdic.pod
+          ! MANIFEST pod/buildtoc.PL pod/perl.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6675] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  14:41:52
+        Log: perldebtut 1.10 from Richard Foley, plus Celsius and Fahrenheit.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldebtut.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6674] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  14:29:43
+        Log: Get -DLEAKTEST to compile (not necessarily to work, mind)
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000724.006] -DLEAKTEST problem
+             From: Gregory Martin Pfeil <pfeilgm@technomadic.org>
+             Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:36:32 -0500
+             Message-Id: <20000725003632.A26186@www.llamacom.com>
+             
+             Reminder sent
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH bleadperl@6647] -DLEAKTEST compile error      
+             From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:23:42 +0100
+             Message-Id: <200008171423.PAA06749@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6673] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  04:07:10
+        Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH]Re: Questions about Math::BigFloat
+             From: John Peacock <JPeacock@UnivPress.com>
+             Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 09:38:12 -0400
+             Message-ID: <3986D2C4.54B78FE4@UnivPress.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Math/BigFloat.pm lib/Math/BigInt.pm t/lib/bigfltpm.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6672] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  03:04:35
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Cwd.pm now uses strict
+             From: Tim Jenness <timj@jach.hawaii.edu>
+             Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:42:35 -1000 (HST)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008161639510.1135-100000@lapaki.jach.hawaii.edu>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Cwd.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6671] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  02:16:35
+        Log: Make $Config{byteorder} more magical so that it is
+             dynamically computed: nice for 'fat binaries'.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH]: default byteorder
+             From: Wilfredo Sánchez <wsanchez@apple.com>
+             Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:45:31 -0700
+             Message-Id: <200008010245.TAA04459@ns1.abstrata.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! configpm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6670] By: gsar                                  on 2000/08/17  01:22:21
+        Log: move WNOHANG definition to where other such things are
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6669] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  01:19:17
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6668] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  01:16:29
+        Log: Doc nits spotted by Richard Soderberg.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.posix-bc README.vmesa
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6667] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  01:12:11
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH(2) @6655] Re: perldebut.pod - spelling
+             From: "Casey R. Tweten" <crt@kiski.net>
+             Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 12:39:08 -0400 (EDT)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0008161238250.32058-100000@home.kiski.net>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldebtut.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6666] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  01:09:31
+        Log: Subject: Re: [ID 20000816.006] [PATCH @6655] Shell.pm, bug fix, strict and OO Interface
+             From: "Casey R. Tweten" <crt@kiski.net>
+             Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 11:35:09 -0400 (EDT)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0008161132270.10885-100000@home.kiski.net>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Shell.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6665] By: gsar                                  on 2000/08/17  01:03:52
+        Log: add "ok" targets from change#6632 in makefile.mk
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlport.pod win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6664] By: gsar                                  on 2000/08/17  00:56:11
+        Log: avoid warnings from dense compiler
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6663] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  00:51:49
+        Log: Tweak the regex compilation errors once more.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldiag.pod regcomp.c t/op/misc.t t/op/re_tests
+          ! t/op/regmesg.t t/pragma/warn/regcomp
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6662] By: gsar                                  on 2000/08/17  00:28:19
+        Log: trailing new %ENV entries weren't being pushed into the real
+             environment of subprocesses on Windows
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/magic.t win32/perlhost.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6661] By: gsar                                  on 2000/08/17  00:19:20
+        Log: waitpid() now handles externally spawned pids correctly;
+             fixes for backtick/wait/waitpid failures on Windows 9x
+             
+             these changes make the pid returned by process functions on
+             Windows 9x always positive by clearing the high bit (which
+             is always set on Win9x); pseudo-process PIDs are likewise
+             always negative now on Win9x (just as on NT/2000)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_sys.c win32/perlhost.h win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6660] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/17  00:04:32
+        Log: Retract #6645.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod sv.c
+          ! t/op/sprintf.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6659] By: gsar                                  on 2000/08/16  23:59:28
+        Log: on windows, the return values from wait() and waitpid() don't
+             match those of pseudo-pids
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_sys.c t/op/fork.t util.c win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6658] By: gsar                                  on 2000/08/16  23:56:14
+        Log: pod nit seen in passing
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6657] By: gsar                                  on 2000/08/16  23:53:42
+        Log: change#6328 could make close(SOCKET) return false on windows
+             when it shouldn't
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/win32sck.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6656] By: gsar                                  on 2000/08/16  23:46:57
+        Log: check that the number pseudo children doesn't exceed
+             MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS, which is currently 64 (avoids overflowing
+             the WaitForMultipleObjects() limit that would cause wait()
+             to crash)
+             
+             wait() and waitpid() could potentially be rewritten to use
+             more than one thread to do the waiting to eliminate this
+             limitation
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/perlhost.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6655] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/16  14:11:05
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6654] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/16  14:10:12
+        Log: Update to perldebtut 1.9, from Richard Foley.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldebtut.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6653] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/16  14:08:17
+        Log: Change the regx compilation error markers to use = instead of <
+             since pod makes using the latter quite messy.  Reported in
+             ID 20000814.006 by Abigail and in
+             Subject: Unknown escape E<> ?
+             From: Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de>
+             Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:30:27 +0200
+             Message-ID: <20000811003027.F17420@alanya.lupe-christoph.de>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldiag.pod regcomp.c t/op/misc.t t/op/re_tests
+          ! t/op/regmesg.t t/pragma/warn/regcomp
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6652] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/16  13:25:31
+        Log: Change the perlbug address to perl.org since it's more forgiving.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000814.007] [PATCH] Email address in perlbug.
+             From: abigail@foad.org
+             Date: 15 Aug 2000 04:15:40 -0000
+             Message-Id: <20000815041540.8633.qmail@foad.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perlbug.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6651] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/16  13:22:35
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Cwd::_backtick_pwd does not check return value
+             From: Tim Jenness <timj@jach.hawaii.edu>
+             Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:51:59 -1000 (HST)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008151547560.1223-100000@lapaki.jach.hawaii.edu>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Cwd.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6650] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/16  13:18:13
+        Log: Update to CPAN 1.57.
+             
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cwd::_backtick_pwd does not check return value
+             From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+             Date: 16 Aug 2000 15:09:46 +0200
+             Message-ID: <m3k8dh5p45.fsf@ak-71.mind.de>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CPAN.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6649] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/16  13:12:31
+        Log: Subject: [ID 20000324.040] minor fix to perlhpux.pod
+             From: "Larry W. Virden" <lvirden@cas.org>
+             Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:25:37 -0500 (EST)
+             Message-Id: <200003241925.OAA27985@lwv26awu.cas.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.hpux
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6648] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/16  13:03:53
+        Log: The numeric locale was reset to "C" by s?printf and never restored.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000809.003] setlocale(LC_NUMERIC...) produces different results in 5.005 and 5.6
+             From: Christian Kirsch <ck@held.mind.de>
+             Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 17:05:17 +0200
+             Message-Id: <20000809170517.A25389@held>
+             
+             No test since adding the failing example to locale.t
+             does not fail -- probably because the locale settings are so
+             thoroughly tweaked by that time.  Running the example standalone
+             does fail, though.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! dump.c perl.h pp.c pp_ctl.c sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6647] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/16  00:07:54
+        Log: Update Changes and test semi-automatic patchlevel updating.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6646] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  23:35:07
+        Log: Fix a dependency problem.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH: 6640] VMS Makefile.SH update
+             From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
+             Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:31:34 -0700 (PDT)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10008151613140.141017-100000@aspara.forte.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! vms/descrip_mms.template
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6645] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  23:33:23
+        Log: (Retracted by #6660)
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH perl-current] make s?printf() produce two exponent digits where possible
+             From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org>
+             Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 22:20:52 +0200
+             Message-Id: <p04320403b5bf4c32d381@[192.168.1.4]>
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          + d_printfed.U
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod sv.c
+          ! t/op/sprintf.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6644] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  21:17:20
+        Log: Subject: [ID 20000815.014] [PATCH] INSTALL doesn't mention 64 bit support.
+             From: abigail@foad.org
+             Date: 15 Aug 2000 20:12:41 -0000
+             Message-Id: <20000815201241.25556.qmail@foad.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! INSTALL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6643] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  21:15:28
+        Log: (an already applied patch)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CGI.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6642] By: gsar                                  on 2000/08/15  19:54:05
+        Log: magic callbacks all need to have same type signature
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl mg.c proto.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6641] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  17:56:27
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] for t/lib/peek.t (was Re: [ID 20000814.005] Not OK: perl v5.6.0 on i686-linux-64int 2.2.13)
+             From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+             Message-Id: <E13OkU9-0006rb-00@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:26:45 +0100
+             
+             Only the peek.t part applied, not the hash quality part.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/peek.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6640] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  16:37:37
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6639] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  16:34:55
+        Log: Missed a file from #6638.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Temp.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6638] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  16:33:19
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH perl@6620] cygwin port
+             From: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer@sanwaint.com>
+             Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:00:49 +0100
+             Message-ID: <779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D9979171779@silldn_mail1.sanwaint.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.cygwin hints/cygwin.sh pod/perlport.pod t/lib/b.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6637] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  16:29:22
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] debugger exit code should reflect user exit code
+             From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:55:59 +0100
+             Message-Id: <E13Oj4J-0005FS-00@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/perl5db.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6636] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  15:30:58
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6635] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  15:27:21
+        Log: Use -Dusedevel; regen Configure and the respective Porting stuff.
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/mkglossary U/mksample
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! Devel.U
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6634] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  14:11:55
+        Log: Don't blow limited stacks, a lower number is enough to
+             tickle the lookbehind limit.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000815.007] Not OK: perl@6627 +SUIDMAIL on powerpc-machten 4.1.4 (UNINSTALLED) [PATCH]
+             From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org>
+             Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:51:24 +0200
+             Message-Id: <p04320400b5bedcedaf22@[192.168.1.4]>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/regmesg.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6633] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  14:01:46
+        Log: Subject: [ID 20000815.005] [PATCH] perldoc not looking in the right place for script pod
+             From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:10:50 +0100
+             Message-Id: <E13OecM-0006nF-00@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perldoc.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6632] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  13:58:48
+        Log: make ok etc also for win32.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000814.008] Not OK: perl v5.6.0 (6620) on MSWin32-x86 4.0 (UNINSTALLED)
+             From: Prymmer/Kahn <pvhp@best.com>
+             Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 22:42:06 -0700 (PDT)
+             Message-Id: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008142240280.3888-100000@shell8.ba.best.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/Makefile
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6631] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  13:45:03
+        Log: Update (kinda) to Test 1.14, from Joshua Pritikin.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Test.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6630] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  03:25:09
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6629] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  03:23:53
+        Log: magic_regdatum_set() is void, not int.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl mg.c proto.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6628] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/15  03:08:02
+        Log: Make the user to give up his firstborn, err, to knowingly
+             verify installing an unstable developer release.  Also bump
+             the release to 5.7.0, but leave a patch tag in the local
+             patches saying that this is not yet the real thing.
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Instruct.U
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          + Devel.U
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6627] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  22:32:52
+        Log: README.os2 update.
+             
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH perl-current] Make op/sprintf.t more comprehensive,
+             From: sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
+             Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 21:55:09 -0700
+             Message-ID: <tsPi5gzkgegX092yn@efn.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.os2
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6626] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  21:00:02
+        Log: Subject: Re: File::Temp problems on VMS in bleedperl
+             From: Tim Jenness <timj@jach.hawaii.edu>
+             cc: vmsperl@perl.org
+             Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 09:44:33 -1000 (HST)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008140941300.6753-100000@lapaki.jach.hawaii.edu>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Temp.pm t/lib/ftmp-tempfile.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6625] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  20:52:16
+        Log: Add SUIDMAIL as was done for the CERT alert.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6624] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  20:48:50
+        Log: Subject: sfio2000
+             From: Daniel Muino <dmuino@afip.gov.ar>
+             Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:58:11 -0300
+             Message-ID: <20000814165811.B16368@con2-dgi>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perlsdio.h perlsfio.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6623] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  20:47:36
+        Log: Subject: warning: storage class after type is obsolescent
+             From: Daniel Muino <dmuino@afip.gov.ar>
+             Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:42:47 -0300
+             Message-ID: <20000814164247.A16368@con2-dgi>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! regcomp.pl regnodes.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6622] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  20:43:05
+        Log: Subject: [ID 20000814.002] [Patch] Email address in Changes.
+             From: abigail@foad.org
+             Date: 14 Aug 2000 20:00:10 -0000
+             Message-Id: <20000814200010.27271.qmail@foad.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6621] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  15:23:05
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6620] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  15:22:14
+        Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH] @+, @- readonly
+             From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:26:55 +0100
+             Message-Id: <E13OLCZ-00020N-00@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! XSUB.h embed.h embed.pl globvar.sym gv.c mg.c perl.h proto.h
+          ! sv.c t/op/pat.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6619] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  14:12:08
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6618] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  14:09:34
+        Log: For now remove the mail code.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6617] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  14:08:28
+        Log: Drop the eg/ mentions and also mention the recent suidperl thing.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! jpl/README lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm pod/perlcompile.pod
+          ! pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlsec.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6616] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  14:00:11
+        Log: Subject: Re: [ID 20000807.003] [PATCH] Debugger treatment of condition "0"
+             From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 08:26:02 +0100
+             Message-Id: <E13OEdG-0007LT-00@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/perl5db.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6615] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  13:58:45
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] @+, @- readonly (was Re: @<punct> interpolating in "")
+             From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 08:04:22 +0100
+             Message-Id: <E13OEII-0007B2-00@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.c mg.c t/op/pat.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6614] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  13:56:45
+        Log: Subject: Test fails / warnings with perl-current #6612
+             From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 07:57:23 +0100
+             Message-Id: <E13OEBX-000776-00@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/b.t t/lib/peek.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6613] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/14  13:45:33
+        Log: VMS configure.com update continues.
+     Branch: perl
+          - vms/configure.com
+          ! MANIFEST configure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6612] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/13  22:13:35
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6611] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/13  16:21:45
+        Log: Upgrade to CGI 2.71, from Lincoln Stein.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CGI.pm lib/CGI/Cookie.pm t/lib/cgi-function.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6610] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/13  15:09:16
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] t/op/regmesg.t fails if REG_INFTY set
+             From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:45:51 +0100
+             Message-Id: <E13Nx9D-00027M-00@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/regmesg.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6609] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/13  14:31:26
+        Log: Andreas says that 1.56 is fine, so reverting back to it.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CPAN.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6608] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/13  05:34:20
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6607] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/13  05:32:01
+        Log: Put back the \z changes of #5406 to CPAN.pm.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CPAN.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6606] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/13  05:20:16
+        Log: Fix-n-skip the tests under 5005threads.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/b.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6605] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/13  05:07:48
+        Log: Fix the test for 5005threads.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/peek.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6604] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/13  03:35:37
+        Log: Should have deleted this in #6603.
+     Branch: perl
+          - vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6603] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/12  18:29:32
+        Log: Rewrite of vms/subconfigure.com as configure.com,
+             from Peter Prymmer and the vmsperl crew.
+     Branch: perl
+          + vms/configure.com
+          ! MANIFEST
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6602] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  13:00:01
+        Log: PlainText.pm is dead.
+     Branch: perl
+          - lib/Pod/PlainText.pm
+          ! MANIFEST
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6601] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  04:06:45
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6600] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  04:06:10
+        Log: Add a few missing files, update MANIFEST.
+     Branch: perl
+          + lib/CGI/eg/make_links.pl lib/CGI/eg/wilogo.gif
+          + lib/Pod/PlainText.pm t/pod/find.t
+          ! MANIFEST t/op/regmesg.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6599] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  03:31:10
+        Log: Add Perl debugging tutorial, regen toc. 
+             
+             Subject: perldebtut.pod
+             From: Richard Foley <Richard.Foley@m.dasa.de>
+             Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 10:17:15 +0200
+             Message-id: <3991138B.262247B8@m.dasa.de>
+     Branch: perl
+          + pod/perldebtut.pod
+          ! MANIFEST pod/buildtoc.PL pod/perl.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6598] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  02:48:56
+        Log: tiny Changes edit
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6597] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  02:39:04
+        Log: Tests for #6589.
+             
+             Subject: Re: B::Deparse was Re: [ID 20000808.005] refs to returned lvalues are lvalues??
+             From: simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens)
+             Date: 11 Aug 2000 02:24:52 GMT
+             Message-ID: <slrn8p6ovk.5sh.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/b.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6596] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  01:50:07
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6595] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  01:47:16
+        Log: nitfix
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6594] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  01:36:16
+        Log: Subject: Getting perlio and threads to compile
+             From: Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de>
+             Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:35:54 +0200
+             Message-ID: <20000809113554.G23160@alanya.lupe-christoph.de>
+             
+             (the Solaris version changes in Configure skipped)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh thread.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6593] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  01:30:16
+        Log: Subject: Re: [ID 20000730.003] utf8::length() bad
+             From: simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens)
+             Date: 1 Aug 2000 06:55:19 GMT
+             Message-ID: <slrn8oct2n.19l.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/utf8.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6592] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  01:26:39
+        Log: Subject: Re: [ID 20000809.006] Debugger lost the ability to see $1 et al
+             From: Peter Scott <Peter@PeterScott.com>
+             Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:23:27 -0700
+             Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000810081749.00aa92c0@peterscott.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/perl5db.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6591] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  01:22:02
+        Log: Subject: Re: [ID 20000809.005] trouble with long string and /m modifier - uninitialized value 
+             From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:23:04 +0100
+             Message-Id: <200008101823.TAA23580@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! regexec.c t/op/pat.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6590] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  01:19:19
+        Log: Preprocessing and postprocessing for File::Find.
+             
+             Subject: Patch to Find::File.pm to allow alphabetical results
+             From: Joe Smith <jsmith@inwap.com>
+             Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 02:44:54 -0700
+             Message-Id: <20000809024453.A21193@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Find.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6589] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  01:12:39
+        Log: B::Deparse didn't do sub attributes.
+             
+             Subject: B::Deparse was Re: [ID 20000808.005] refs to returned lvalues are lvalues??
+             From: simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens)
+             Date: 9 Aug 2000 04:49:20 GMT
+             Message-ID: <slrn8p1omg.beq.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/B/B.xs ext/B/B/Deparse.pm ext/B/defsubs_h.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6588] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  01:06:40
+        Log: Subject: debugger "d" command doesnt check line number
+             From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:54:29 +0100
+             Message-Id: <E13MGOL-000053-00@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/perl5db.pl mg.c pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6587] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  00:45:03
+        Log: sleep(1) does not necessarily return 1.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH bleadperl] op/lex_assign.t  
+             From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:34:22 +0100        
+             Message-Id: <200008031334.OAA03379@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/lex_assign.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6586] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  00:31:50
+        Log: Document the IO::Select timeout.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6585] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  00:13:54
+        Log: Forgot contributor.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6584] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  00:09:19
+        Log: detypo
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6583] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/11  00:07:53
+        Log: Fixes to looking-like-number to keep behaviour as it was in 5.005_03.
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000810.002] $a["1foo"] same as $a[0]
+             From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk> 
+             Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:50:54 +0100
+             Message-Id: <E13Mtfa-0005Ge-00@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c t/op/int.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6582] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  23:29:32
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6581] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  23:26:16
+        Log: Put back the std @INC thing.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/ansicolor.t t/lib/cgi-form.t t/lib/cgi-function.t
+          ! t/lib/cgi-html.t t/lib/cgi-pretty.t t/lib/cgi-request.t
+          ! t/lib/gol-basic.t t/lib/gol-compat.t t/lib/gol-linkage.t
+          ! t/lib/gol-oo.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6580] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  23:03:34
+        Log: Update to CGI 2.70, from Lincoln Stein.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CGI.pm lib/CGI/Carp.pm lib/CGI/Cookie.pm lib/CGI/Pretty.pm
+          ! lib/CGI/Push.pm lib/CGI/Util.pm t/lib/cgi-form.t
+          ! t/lib/cgi-function.t t/lib/cgi-html.t t/lib/cgi-pretty.t
+          ! t/lib/cgi-request.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6579] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  22:41:50
+        Log: Update to CPAN 1.56, from Andreas König.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6578] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  22:38:13
+        Log: Update to Pod::Parser 1.17, from Brad Appleton.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Checker.pm lib/Pod/Find.pm lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm
+          ! lib/Pod/ParseUtils.pm lib/Pod/Parser.pm lib/Pod/Select.pm
+          ! lib/Pod/Usage.pm pod/pod2usage.PL pod/podchecker.PL
+          ! pod/podselect.PL t/pod/emptycmd.t t/pod/for.t t/pod/headings.t
+          ! t/pod/include.t t/pod/included.t t/pod/lref.t
+          ! t/pod/multiline_items.t t/pod/nested_items.t
+          ! t/pod/nested_seqs.t t/pod/oneline_cmds.t t/pod/pod2usage.t
+          ! t/pod/poderrs.t t/pod/poderrs.xr t/pod/podselect.t
+          ! t/pod/special_seqs.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6577] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  22:35:41
+        Log: Small AUTHORS and MAINTAIN updates.  Could do with big updates.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! AUTHORS MAINTAIN
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6576] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  22:24:54
+        Log: Update to Getopt::Long 2.23_05, from Johan Vromans.
+     Branch: perl
+          + t/lib/gol-oo.t
+          ! MANIFEST lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/newgetopt.pl t/lib/gol-basic.t
+          ! t/lib/gol-compat.t t/lib/gol-linkage.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6575] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  22:02:07
+        Log: Update to Term::ANSIColor 1.03, from Russ Allbery.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Term/ANSIColor.pm t/lib/ansicolor.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6574] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  21:55:03
+        Log: Iterating perl6 description.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfaq1.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6573] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  21:48:26
+        Log: Revert the sv.c part of #6559, a better fix is needed.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6572] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  20:33:43
+        Log: It's the 2ndO'ROSSC.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfaq1.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6571] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  15:55:48
+        Log: detypo
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfaq1.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6570] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  14:11:17
+        Log: An exceptionally sticky typo.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  6569] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  14:09:33
+        Log: detypo (and test Changes updating script)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
 [  6568] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/10  14:07:07
         Log: Update Changes.
      Branch: perl
@@ -162,7 +1403,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________________________
           ! t/pragma/warn/regcomp
 ____________________________________________________________________________
 [  6559] By: jhi                                   on 2000/08/09  20:41:18
-        Log: Fix the resetting of numeric locale when using printf.
+        Log: (The fix did work but was not right, retracted in #6573)
              
              Subject: [ID 20000809.003] setlocale(LC_NUMERIC...) produces different results in 5.005 and 5.6
              From: Christian Kirsch <ck@held.mind.de>