current addresses (as of July 1998):
Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
- Abigail <abigail@fnx.com>
+ Abigail <abigail@delanet.com>
Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
----------------
-Version v5.5.640 Development release working toward v5.6
+Version v5.5.650 Development release working toward v5.6
----------------
____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5040] By: gsar on 2000/02/08 07:51:20
+ Log: documentation patches (from Michael Schwern and Yitzchak
+ Scott-Thoennes)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! av.c hv.c lib/UNIVERSAL.pm pod/perlapi.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5039] By: gsar on 2000/02/08 07:22:46
+ Log: alias to $^V to $PERL_VERSION_TUPLE
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/English.pm pod/perlvar.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5038] By: gsar on 2000/02/08 07:03:34
+ Log: update Changes
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes pod/perlhist.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5037] By: gsar on 2000/02/08 06:59:55
+ Log: Windows has a somewhat different sitelib layout, and needs
+ $sitelib/archname added as well
+ Branch: perl
+ ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5036] By: gsar on 2000/02/08 06:59:03
+ Log: change#4987 appears to have broken libs scan for platforms that
+ don't set ignore_versioned_solibs (Solaris is one of them); add
+ derivative fix from the older logic for skipping versioned .so
+ libs
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5035] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 21:21:44
+ Log: sprintf("%v"...) buffer resizing busted
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5034] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 19:16:21
+ Log: update Changes
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes pod/perlhist.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5033] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 19:01:08
+ Log: stringify "\x{FFF}" to utf8 correctly; set SvUTF8 on "\x{XX}"
+ only when XX > 127
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pp_hot.c toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5032] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 18:25:31
+ Log: add note about printf("%v",...)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5031] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 18:18:43
+ Log: update Changes
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5030] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 18:17:49
+ Log: thinko in change#5029
+ Branch: perl
+ ! gv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5029] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 17:49:58
+ Log: change $^U to $^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS; s/PL_bigchar/PL_widesyscalls/;
+ introduce -C switch (sets $^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! embedvar.h gv.c intrpvar.h mg.c perl.c perlapi.h
+ ! pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlunicode.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+ ! win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5028] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 17:10:03
+ Log: perlport updates (from Peter Prymmer)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5027] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 16:53:47
+ Log: fix up Todo-5.6
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5026] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 16:32:31
+ Log: rename Todo-5.005 to Todo-5.6
+ Branch: perl
+ +> Todo-5.6
+ - Todo-5.005
+ ! MANIFEST
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5025] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 16:09:54
+ Log: ${^Warnings} renamed to ${^WARNING_BITS}
+ Branch: perl
+ ! gv.c lib/warnings.pm mg.c pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+ ! toke.c warnings.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5024] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 11:47:06
+ Log: various Windows tweaks: make $^E a little less buggy by saving
+ and restoring system error across TLS fetch; avoid needless
+ copying of buffers
+ Branch: perl
+ ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c
+ ! win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5023] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 11:44:19
+ Log: avoid MakeMaker setting $^W=1
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5022] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 10:38:56
+ Log: up to v5.5.650
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h win32/Makefile win32/config_H.bc
+ ! win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5021] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 10:10:31
+ Log: mention threads status in pod
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/Thread/Thread.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5020] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 09:57:46
+ Log: tolerate NULL SITELIB_EXP
+ Branch: perl
+ ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5019] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 09:46:11
+ Log: NULL-terminate PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure perl.c win32/config.bc win32/config.gc
+ ! win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+ ! win32/config_H.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5018] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 09:13:10
+ Log: add compatible versions from $Config{inc_ver_list} to search
+ paths automatically (from Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/lib.pm perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5017] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 08:58:56
+ Log: makefiles now use exetype.pl to make wperl.exe
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5016] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 08:38:25
+ Log: add exetype.pl (from Jan Dubois)
+ Branch: perl
+ + win32/bin/exetype.pl
+ ! MANIFEST
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5015] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 08:29:28
+ Log: pod fixes (from Abigail and M J T Guy)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes README.os2 gv.c pod/perlapi.pod pod/perldebug.pod
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlopentut.pod
+ ! pod/perlport.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5014] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 07:09:08
+ Log: clarify behavior of vec() when arguments are off the end of the
+ string (from M J T Guy)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5013] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 07:08:15
+ Log: remove $^U dependent behaviors in runtime; chr() and sprintf('%c',...)
+ now return bytes all the way to 255, they will be transparently
+ coerced (in future) to UTF-8 when they are used in operations
+ involving other UTF-8 strings; C<use utf8> doesn't set $^U anymore
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/byte.pm lib/utf8.pm pod/perlunicode.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+ ! pp.c sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5012] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 06:36:33
+ Log: partly revert change#4851, apparently POSIX::uname() may not be correct
+ per strict reading of standard (says Tom Christiansen)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5011] By: gsar on 2000/02/07 06:26:30
+ Log: allow 64-bit utf8-encoded integers (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! utf8.c utf8.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5010] By: gsar on 2000/02/06 21:27:03
+ Log: fix debug code in Perl_malloc() (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! malloc.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5009] By: gsar on 2000/02/06 20:45:30
+ Log: set SvUTF8 on vectors only if there are chars > 127; update copyright
+ years (from Gisle Aas)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! EXTERN.h INTERN.h README av.c av.h cop.h cv.h deb.c doio.c
+ ! doop.c dump.c form.h gv.c gv.h handy.h hv.c hv.h mg.c mg.h
+ ! op.c op.h perl.c perl.h perlio.c perly.y pp.c pp.h pp_ctl.c
+ ! pp_hot.c pp_sys.c regcomp.c regexec.c run.c scope.c sv.c sv.h
+ ! toke.c utf8.c utf8.h util.c util.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5008] By: gsar on 2000/02/06 19:28:31
+ Log: use builtin __CYGWIN__ rather than -DCYGWIN (from Eric Fifer
+ <EFifer@sanwaint.com>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! EXTERN.h XSUB.h doio.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+ ! ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c
+ ! hints/cygwin.sh lib/ExtUtils/MM_Cygwin.pm mg.c perl.h
+ ! unixish.h util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5007] By: gsar on 2000/02/06 17:47:01
+ Log: reduce memory consumption of POSIX.pm (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5006] By: gsar on 2000/02/06 17:28:35
+ Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+ Branch: perl
+ !> Configure config_h.SH ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs hints/hpux.sh
+ !> perl.h pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5005] By: gsar on 2000/02/06 17:18:39
+ Log: VOS port updates (from Paul Green <Paul_Green@stratus.com>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! README.vos pod/perlport.pod vos/Changes vos/build.cm
+ ! vos/compile_perl.cm vos/config.def vos/config.h vos/config.pl
+ ! vos/config_h.SH_orig vos/perl.bind vos/test_vos_dummies.c
+ ! vos/vos_dummies.c vos/vosish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5004] By: gsar on 2000/02/06 17:00:49
+ Log: fix parse error on C<{ use strict }> and other constructs that
+ make the parser reenter while LEX_KNOWNEXT is active
+ Branch: perl
+ ! t/comp/use.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5003] By: gsar on 2000/02/06 14:57:30
+ Log: avoid -Bforcearchive on netbsd too
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes hints/netbsd.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5002] By: gsar on 2000/02/06 14:45:17
+ Log: revised notes about Pod::Parser & Co.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/Pod/Usage.pm pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5001] By: gsar on 2000/02/06 14:02:43
+ Log: fix description of obsolete diagnostic
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5000] By: gsar on 2000/02/06 13:59:58
+ Log: allow "\x{12ab}" even without C<use utf8>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! t/pragma/warn/toke toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4999] By: gsar on 2000/02/06 13:58:31
+ Log: make perlbug use new-style version numbers; improve compatibility
+ (runs with perl 5.005); fix swapped old vs new version reporting
+ Branch: perl
+ ! utils/perlbug.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4998] By: gsar on 2000/02/06 13:56:45
+ Log: support sprintf("v%v", v1.2.3) (works on any string argument, in
+ fact); add tests for version tuples
+ Branch: perl
+ + t/op/ver.t
+ ! MANIFEST perl.c pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+ ! pod/perlop.pod sv.c toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4997] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 21:40:08
+ Log: change#4970 fallout for useithreads
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4996] By: jhi on 2000/02/04 20:09:00
+ Log: Largefilify offsets of tied handles.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4995] By: jhi on 2000/02/04 19:54:25
+ Log: Sanity check for libraries scan.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/modified/libs.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4994] By: jhi on 2000/02/04 19:48:42
+ Log: HP-UX largefileness doesn't like lseek being redeclared;
+ no more USE_LONG_LONG.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4993] By: jhi on 2000/02/04 19:18:59
+ Log: fix the description as much as possible; the whole
+ separation into three different symbols lists is
+ pretty broken now.
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/modified/Cppsym.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4992] By: jhi on 2000/02/04 19:13:10
+ Log: Use <syslog.h>, not <sys/syslog.h>.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4991] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 19:11:07
+ Log: dmake is on CPAN now
+ Branch: perl
+ ! README.win32
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4990] By: jhi on 2000/02/04 19:04:01
+ Log: Re-introduce #4817 and #4964 wiped out by #4987.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/threads/usethreads.U
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ ! patchlevel.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4989] By: jhi on 2000/02/04 18:54:00
+ Log: typo fix
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/modified/libs.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4988] By: jhi on 2000/02/04 18:34:06
+ Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ +> ext/Sys/Syslog/Makefile.PL ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
+ +> ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs
+ - lib/Sys/Syslog.pm
+ !> (integrate 37 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4987] By: jhi on 2000/02/04 18:31:05
+ Log: Configure megamaintenance. Cppsym (hopefully) final spasms;
+ default is to use long long if available; various nits
+ here and there; fixed to hpux 64-bitnes and largefileness.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH hints/hpux.sh perl.h
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/a_dvisory/quadtype.U U/modified/Cppsym.U
+ ! U/modified/d_gethname.U U/modified/libpth.U U/modified/libs.U
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ ! d_fseeko.U d_ftello.U dlsrc.U uselongdbl.U uselonglong.U
+ ! usemultiplicity.U xs_apiversion.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4986] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 17:26:37
+ Log: avoid bad cast warnings (from Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4985] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 16:43:49
+ Log: avoid 'na' (spotted by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/Devel/DProf/DProf.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4984] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 08:20:05
+ Log: CPAN.pm updated to v1.52 (from Andreas Koenig)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4983] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 08:00:38
+ Log: updated OpenBSD hints (From Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! hints/openbsd.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4982] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 07:54:04
+ Log: pod typos (from Gregor N. Purdy <gregor@focusresearch.com>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/Pod/Parser.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4981] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 07:34:38
+ Log: avoid assuming cc accepts -o switch (from Tom Hughes)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4980] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 07:29:59
+ Log: Sys::Syslog goes the XS way (from Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>)
+ Branch: perl
+ + ext/Sys/Syslog/Makefile.PL ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
+ + ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs
+ - lib/Sys/Syslog.pm
+ ! MANIFEST pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4979] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 07:13:19
+ Log: pod updates (from David Adler, M J T Guy)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlfaq2.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsyn.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4978] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 07:08:14
+ Log: typos in config_h.SH (from Paul_Green@vos.stratus.com)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! config_h.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4977] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 07:06:10
+ Log: avoid adding null components to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, OpenBSD has trouble
+ with them (from Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4976] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 06:33:43
+ Log: VMS update (from Dan Sugalski and Peter Prymmer)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! configure.com vms/descrip_mms.template vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4975] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 05:51:14
+ Log: patch to provide more informative names for evals and anonymous
+ subroutines (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.pm ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.xs lib/Dumpvalue.pm
+ ! lib/dumpvar.pl lib/perl5db.pl op.c perl.h pod/perldebug.pod
+ ! pod/perlvar.pod pp_ctl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4974] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 05:05:57
+ Log: off-by-one in malloc.c (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! malloc.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4973] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 05:03:00
+ Log: OS/2 build fixups from Ilya Zakharevich
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/Devel/DProf/DProf.xs os2/Makefile.SHs t/op/fork.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4972] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 04:58:57
+ Log: avoid /* within comment
+ Branch: perl
+ ! xsutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4971] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 04:56:09
+ Log: another HINT_BYTE victim
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/charnames.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4970] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 04:45:13
+ Log: fix pad_alloc panic from C<my $w; sub { my($i) = @_; sub { $w } }>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! op.c scope.c scope.h t/op/closure.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4969] By: gsar on 2000/02/04 01:09:37
+ Log: byte.pm and HINT_BYTE don't match (0x8, not 0x10!)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/byte.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4968] By: jhi on 2000/02/02 13:17:25
+ Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ +> lib/Pod/Find.pm lib/Pod/ParseUtils.pm
+ ! Configure
+ !> (integrate 29 files)
+
+----------------
+Version v5.5.640
+----------------
+
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4967] By: gsar on 2000/02/02 12:22:29
+ Log: update makerel for new version format
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes Porting/makerel
+____________________________________________________________________________
[ 4966] By: gsar on 2000/02/02 11:42:03
Log: workaround for undefined symbol
Branch: perl