Unicos/mk requires elaborate paranoia.
[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / Changes
diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
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+++ b/Changes
@@ -95,6 +95,466 @@ 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