Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
- Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>
Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin:
+ Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
- Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>
+ Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
+
+
+-------------------
+ Version 5.003_97f
+-------------------
+
+This is it before _98. No more last-minute features. Really, I mean
+it this time. No kidding.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "New operator systell()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm keywords.pl opcode.pl
+ pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
+ t/op/sysio.t toke.c
+
+ Title: "Allow constant sub to be optimized when called with parens"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Make {,un}pack fail on invalid pack types"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Fix bitwise ops and {,un}pack() on Cray CPUs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "VMS update"
+ From: Charles Bailey
+ Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Path.pm lib/FindBin.pm vms/perly_c.vms
+ vms/vms.c vms/writemain.pl
+
+ Title: "Win32 update (three patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
+ Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
+ lib/File/Basename.pm win32/Makefile win32/makedef.pl
+ win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32iop.h
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix error messages on method lookup failure"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix use of var before init in util.c"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199704162342.TAA20773@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 19:42:41 -0400
+ Files: util.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Linux hints: Allow build w/o suidperl, prefer tcsh to csh"
+ From: Michael De La Rue <mikedlr@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
+ Files: Configure hints/linux.sh
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Fix bug in Opcode when (maxo & 15) > 8"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
+ ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs
+
+ Title: "CGI.pm broke again"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Msg-ID: <199704171136.NAA24859@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:36:28 +0200
+ Files: lib/CGI.pm
+
+ Title: "Revise quotewords()"
+ From: Shishir Gundavaram <shishir@ruby.ora.com>
+ Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no other changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Doc updates: INSTALL-1.13, pumpkin.pod-1.9"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Files: INSTALL Porting/pumpkin.pod
+
+ Title: "Document size restrictions for packed integers"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
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