To give due honor to those who have made Perl what is is today,
here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their
-current addresses (as of August 2000):
+current addresses (as of September 2000):
Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Abigail <abigail@foad.org>
Richard Foley <Richard.Foley@m.dasa.de>
Jeffrey Friedl <jfriedl@yahoo-inc.com>
Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
- M. J. T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ M. J. T. Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Tim Jenness <timj@jach.hawaii.edu>
Andreas König <a.koenig@mind.de>
Douglas Lankshear <dougl@activestate.com>
Doug MacEachern <dougm@covalent.net>
- Raphael Manfredi <Raphael.Manfredi@st.com>
+ Raphael Manfredi <Raphael.Manfredi@pobox.com>
Paul Marquess <Paul.Marquess@btinternet.com>
Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>
Laszlo Molnar <laszlo.molnar@eth.ericsson.se>
Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
-
NOTE: Each change entry shows the change number; who checked it into the
repository; when; description of the change; which branch the change
happened in; and the affected files. The file lists have a short symbolic
+> branched (from elsewhere)
!> merged changes (from elsewhere)
+The Message-Ids in the change entries refer to the email messages sent
+to the perl5-porters mailing list. You can retrieve the messages for
+example from http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/
--------------
Version v5.7.0 Development release working toward v5.8
--------------
____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7014] By: jhi on 2000/09/02 17:35:45
+ Log: Changes and patchlevel tweaks.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7013] By: jhi on 2000/09/02 17:30:50
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7012] By: nick on 2000/09/02 17:25:20
+ Log: More %{} and other deref special casing - do not pass to 'nomethod'.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! gv.c lib/overload.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7011] By: jhi on 2000/09/02 17:16:25
+ Log: Update perlhist.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlhist.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7010] By: jhi on 2000/09/02 17:01:35
+ Log: perldelta nits.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7009] By: nick on 2000/09/02 16:48:35
+ Log: If overloaded %{} etc. return the object do not loop.
+ Thus sub deref { $_[0] } functions if object is wanted type.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pp.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7008] By: jhi on 2000/09/02 16:26:11
+ Log: Retab MANIFEST.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/Storable/MANIFEST
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7007] By: jhi on 2000/09/02 16:23:02
+ Log: Make certain cc is set before trying to run it.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! hints/hpux.sh hints/irix_6.sh hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7006] By: jhi on 2000/09/02 15:45:41
+ Log: Unicode notes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7005] By: jhi on 2000/09/02 15:42:11
+ Log: Various Configure nits by Philip Newton,
+ plus the ebcdic one by me.
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ + U/modified/pager.U
+ ! U/ebcdic/ebcdic.U U/modified/Finish.U U/modified/Guess.U
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ ! Devel.U quadfio.U
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7004] By: jhi on 2000/09/02 15:06:14
+ Log: Apparently avoiding the swapping is too costly.
+
+ From: "Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly@hotmail.com>
+ Subject: Re: the door is closed.
+ Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 20:23:16 EDT
+ Message-ID: <LAW2-F2963JkUwWpSWe00000904@hotmail.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlfaq4.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7003] By: nick on 2000/09/02 12:26:04
+ Log: Undo part of change 6489 which looks like a bulk edit which
+ changed _all_ gv_efullname3() calls to gv_efullname4() calls.
+ The supressing of main:: on return from select() is undesirable.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7002] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 23:08:54
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7001] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 23:00:13
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH: 6996] minimal removal of 8 bit chrs from perlebcdic.pod
+ From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
+ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:50:57 -0700 (PDT)
+ Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10009011542550.147696-100000@aspara.forte.com>
+
+ plus rework the http: spots as suggested by Tom Christiansen,
+ plus regen perltoc.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! README.os2 pod/perl56delta.pod pod/perlebcdic.pod
+ ! pod/perlguts.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlxs.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7000] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 22:36:01
+ Log: Only the first line, thank you very much.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6999] By: gsar on 2000/09/01 22:16:40
+ Log: change#6791 accidentally clobbered change#6710, put it back
+ Branch: perl
+ ! win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6998] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 22:14:16
+ Log: Mention the HP-UX LP64 freak failure.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6997] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 21:48:32
+ Log: Detypo.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6996] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 21:27:10
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6995] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 21:14:24
+ Log: Mi splgn s gnin.g
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pp_ctl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6994] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 21:09:54
+ Log: Subject: http:// in L<>
+ From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
+ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 22:03:21 +0100
+ Message-ID: <20000901220321.B72074@plum.flirble.org>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! README.os2 pod/perl56delta.pod pod/perlxs.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6993] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 21:06:54
+ Log: Update to Storable 1.0, from Raphael Manfredi.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/Storable/ChangeLog ext/Storable/MANIFEST
+ ! ext/Storable/Makefile.PL ext/Storable/README
+ ! ext/Storable/Storable.pm ext/Storable/Storable.xs
+ ! 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
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6992] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 20:43:05
+ Log: Mention known sfio+linux buglet.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6991] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 20:40:11
+ Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH perl@6962] 2 more vms.c fix-ups and status
+ From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
+ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 12:03:38 -0700 (PDT)
+ Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10009011140240.147696-100000@aspara.forte.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6990] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 20:25:26
+ Log: Retract #6986.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6989] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 20:23:00
+ Log: Mergesort is back.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltoc.pod pp_ctl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6988] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 19:37:40
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH] Fix vec() / utf8 (was Re: bitvec ops still broken with utf8 -- or not?)
+ From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 17:43:33 +0100
+ Message-Id: <E13Utuf-0004Bw-00@draco.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! doop.c embed.pl perlapi.c pod/perlapi.pod pod/perldiag.pod
+ ! pod/perlfunc.pod proto.h t/op/vec.t utf8.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6987] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 19:17:10
+ Log: Regen perltoc.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perltoc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6986] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 18:51:10
+ Log: Subject: Re: Solaris x86 has no SPARC libraries!
+ From: Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de>
+ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 20:41:20 +0200
+ Message-ID: <20000901204120.P13547@alanya.lupe-christoph.de>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6985] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 18:28:10
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6984] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 18:26:53
+ Log: Feature ordering tweak.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! myconfig.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6983] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 18:19:50
+ Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH lib/overload.pm] Sanaty checking of arguments to overload::constant
+ From: <abigail@foad.org>
+ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:07:32 -0400
+ Message-ID: <20000901170732.18249.qmail@foad.org>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! t/pragma/overload.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6982] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 18:17:54
+ Log: Rename the PRIElfbl, PRIX64, etc, to be PRIEUfldbl, PRIXU64,
+ so that case-ignoring systems like DCL can tell them from
+ PRIefldbl and PRIx64. Apply Merijn's ccversion patches.
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ ! Checkcc.U gccvers.U longdblfio.U perlxvf.U quadfio.U
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+ ! config_h.SH configure.com epoc/config.sh hints/aix.sh
+ ! hints/dec_osf.sh hints/hpux.sh hints/irix_6.sh
+ ! hints/solaris_2.sh myconfig.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
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6981] By: nick on 2000/09/01 17:21:57
+ Log: Document UNTIE. Also tweak implementation to suppress the 'inner references'
+ warning when UNTIE exists and instead pass the cound of extra references to
+ the UNTIE method.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6980] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 16:54:44
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH: 6948] add SCNfldbl to configure.com
+ From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
+ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:47:18 -0700 (PDT)
+ Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10008311811060.91659-100000@aspara.forte.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! configure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6979] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 16:06:20
+ Log: Subject: [ID 20000901.017] [PATCH] Basic test failure in an untidy world
+ From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 16:49:27 +0100
+ Message-Id: <E13Ut4J-0002sd-00@draco.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! t/base/rs.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6978] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 16:00:42
+ Log: Update to PodParser 1.18, from Brad Appleton.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/Pod/Checker.pm t/pod/find.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6977] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 14:48:58
+ Log: Subject: Nit in Configure (bleadperl@6961)
+ From: Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de>
+ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:34:29 +0200
+ Message-ID: <20000901163429.K13547@alanya.lupe-christoph.de>
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/compline/ccflags.U
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6976] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 14:39:52
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6975] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 14:37:36
+ Log: microperl config update.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! uconfig.h uconfig.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6974] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 14:36:53
+ Log: Document known deficiencies.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6973] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 14:10:20
+ Log: Mention warnings fixes and updates.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6972] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 14:01:52
+ Log: Drop unused argument.
+
+ Subject: Re: [ID 20000831.034] overload::constant and number of arguments.
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@web.zk3.dec.com>
+ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:10:15 -0400
+ Message-Id: <200008312010.QAA20392@leggy.zk3.dec.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6971] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 13:59:24
+ Log: Add the overload warnings to perldiag.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/overload.pm pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6970] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 13:55:10
+ Log: Subject: RE: [PATCH lib/overload.pm] Sanaty checking of arguments to overload::constant
+ From: "Paul Marquess" <paul_marquess@yahoo.co.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:43:15 +0100
+ Message-ID: <001001c01412$32c7dde0$a20a140a@bfs.phone.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/overload.pm t/pragma/overload.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6969] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 13:52:27
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH lib/overload.pm] Sanaty checking of arguments to overload::constant
+ From: <abigail@foad.org>
+ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 05:46:54 -0400
+ Message-ID: <20000901094654.6476.qmail@foad.org>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/overload.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6968] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 13:50:05
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH@6961] Fix misleading example in perlretut.pod
+ From: Daniel Chetlin <daniel@chetlin.com>
+ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 02:10:55 -0700
+ Message-ID: <20000901021055.C3400@ilmd.chetlin.org>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlretut.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6967] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 13:47:54
+ Log: Part of the solution.
+
+ Subject: Re: [ID 20000807.004] [PATCH] conditional breakpoints leak memory
+ From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 14:16:01 +0100
+ Message-Id: <E13Uqfp-0006dN-00@draco.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! gv.c mg.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6966] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 13:46:17
+ Log: Subject: CPAN.pm beta 1.57_57 for the core
+ From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Date: 01 Sep 2000 15:16:31 +0200
+ Message-ID: <m3r974z1zk.fsf@ak-71.mind.de>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6965] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 13:43:18
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH perl@6962] 2 more vms.c fix-ups and status
+ From: "Craig A. Berry" <craig.berry@psinetcs.com>
+ Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 01:47:22 -0500
+ Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000901011206.01ca2e88@exchi01>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6964] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 13:35:35
+ Log: File::Temp patches from Andreas König,
+
+ Subject: Re: [ID 20000831.046] OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL6961 on sun4-solaris 2.8 (UNINSTALLED)
+ From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Date: 01 Sep 2000 10:07:20 +0200
+ Message-ID: <m3lmxc1qo7.fsf@ak-71.mind.de>
+
+ Subject: Re: Almost OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL6937 on PA-RISC2.0 11.00 (INSTALLED)
+ From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Date: 31 Aug 2000 23:26:08 +0200
+ Message-ID: <m3bsy92kcv.fsf@ak-71.mind.de>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/File/Temp.pm t/lib/ftmp-security.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6963] By: jhi on 2000/09/01 02:22:24
+ Log: Retract the mergesort code, way too incompatible licensing
+ and copyrights.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod pp_ctl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6962] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 23:27:32
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6961] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 23:20:04
+ Log: Small tweaks all over.
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/compline/d_gconvert.U
+ Branch: perl
+ ! AUTHORS Configure config_h.SH pp_ctl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6960] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 22:39:36
+ Log: Further rewording.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pp_ctl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6959] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 21:26:44
+ Log: More address tweaking.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! AUTHORS Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6958] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 20:47:25
+ Log: AUTHORS tweaks, from Peter Prymmer.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH: 6948] mvs doesn't exist (not any more)
+ From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
+ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:56:32 -0700 (PDT)
+ Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10008311248410.91659-100000@aspara.forte.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! AUTHORS MAINTAIN
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6957] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 20:34:43
+ Log: perldelta tweaks.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6956] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 19:11:06
+ Log: Regen perltoc.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perltoc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6955] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 19:06:30
+ Log: Clarify the mergesort situation.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pp_ctl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6954] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 18:24:17
+ Log: Move the Solaris 7 scan to use64bitall, make the
+ failure to find 64-bot sparc libc to mention the
+ possibility of being in an intel, from Lupe and Alan.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6953] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 18:09:20
+ Log: Forget about NV_MAX (#6951). Various floating point tweaks,
+ ideas from Eric Fifer, Yitzchak, Alan, and Spider.
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/compline/d_gconvert.U U/threads/archname.U
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ ! perlxv.U
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6952] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 17:42:24
+ Log: :: not allowed in pathnames, change to .
+
+ Subject: [PATCH perl@6938] cygwin port
+ From: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer@sanwaint.com>
+ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:32:59 +0100
+ Message-ID: <779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D997917179A@silldn_mail1.sanwaint.com>
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ ! perlxv.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6951] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 17:02:05
+ Log: Try to deduce NV_MAX. Really should be Configure fodder.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6950] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 16:26:08
+ Log: More author updates.
+
+ Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mark-Jason Dominus Does Exist
+ From: Simon Cozens <simon@cozens.net>
+ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:13:32 +0100
+ Message-ID: <20000831171332.A22498@deep-dark-truthful-mirror.perlhacker.org>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! AUTHORS
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6949] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 16:04:49
+ Log: POSIX doesn't report long double values under -Duselongdouble
+ when the long doubles are "real" (bigger than doubles).
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6948] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 15:25:10
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6947] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 15:22:29
+ Log: Document UNTIE in a very minimalistic way.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltie.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6946] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 15:15:23
+ Log: Document known failures.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6945] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 15:07:00
+ Log: Don't attach -ld to the archname if pointless.
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/threads/archname.U
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6944] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 14:37:42
+ Log: Wrap the test in eval.
+
+ Subject: Re: [ID 20000831.009] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL6932 on sun4-solaris2.8 (UNINSTALLED)
+ From: Tim Jenness <timj@jach.hawaii.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 03:39:33 -1000 (HST)
+ Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008310311190.7444-100000@lapaki.jach.hawaii.edu>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! t/lib/ftmp-security.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6943] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 14:30:57
+ Log: Make -Dusemorebits find long doubles in Solaris.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6942] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 13:48:45
+ Log: Clarify the third case of ftmp-security warnings.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! INSTALL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6941] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 13:40:31
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: [ID 20000830.048] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL6938 on i686-linux 2.2.13
+ From: <abigail@foad.org>
+ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 01:35:05 -0400
+ Message-ID: <20000831053505.32120.qmail@foad.org>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6940] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 13:38:48
+ Log: Issue useful diagnostic on unknown pod commands.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH lib/Pod/Man.pm] Re: [ID 20000830.048]
+ From: <abigail@foad.org>
+ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 03:41:18 -0400
+ Message-ID: <20000831074118.24880.qmail@foad.org>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/Pod/Man.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6939] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 13:34:33
+ Log: Reveal Borland's isnan.
+
+ Subject: build with BC++ tweak
+ From: "Konovalov, Vadim" <vkonovalov@lucent.com>
+ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:09:37 +0400
+ Message-ID: <402099F49BEED211999700805FC7359F6FACA6@ru0028exch01.spb.lucent.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6938] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 05:01:20
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6937] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 04:26:23
+ Log: sscanf() may be the only way to read long doubles from strings.
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ ! longdblfio.U
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH perl.h util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6936] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 04:18:19
+ Log: The #6929 was too skimpy.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6935] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 02:47:07
+ Log: Subject: Re: typos in pods
+ From: sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
+ Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:25:34 -0700
+ Message-ID: <eIcr5gzkg25X092yn@efn.org>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/CPAN.pm lib/Pod/Checker.pm pod/perlmodlib.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6934] By: jhi on 2000/08/31 02:42:55
+ Log: Missed one Unicode file.
+ Branch: perl
+ + lib/unicode/UCDFF301.html
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6933] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 23:42:27
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6932] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 23:40:07
+ Log: Mention UNTIE in perldelta. Still needs documenting
+ in perltie et alia.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6931] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 23:36:02
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH] Don't use big-Oh when talking about lower bounds.
+ From: <abigail@foad.org>
+ Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:28:07 -0400
+ Message-ID: <20000830232807.305.qmail@foad.org>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6930] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 23:32:40
+ Log: Update to Unicode 3.0.1.
+ Branch: perl
+ + lib/unicode/BidiMirr.txt lib/unicode/CaseFold.txt
+ + lib/unicode/PropList.txt lib/unicode/README.perl
+ + lib/unicode/UCD301.html lib/unicode/Unicode.301
+ - lib/unicode/Props.txt lib/unicode/UCD300.html
+ - lib/unicode/Unicode.300 lib/unicode/Unicode3.html
+ ! (edit 257 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6929] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 22:38:18
+ Log: Heap decorruption.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] Fix for miniperl coredump on Solaris with -Duselongdouble
+ From: Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison@uk.sun.com>
+ Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 22:39:52 +0100
+ Message-ID: <39AD7F28.A06533CF@uk.sun.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6928] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 22:29:34
+ Log: Retract the dummy test, skip the security tests (instead of failing),
+ explain what the warnings mean.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! INSTALL lib/File/Temp.pm t/lib/ftmp-security.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6927] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 22:14:13
+ Log: Change the internal implementation of sort() to be mergesort
+ instead of quicksort, from John Linderman <jpl@research.att.com>.
+ Gives us better worst case, better average case, and stability.
+ What's there not to like? (Small fixes for threaded builds
+ were required).
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod pp_ctl.c t/op/runlevel.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6926] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 20:55:20
+ Log: A better fix for the Socket building problem from Craig Berry.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6925] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 20:20:25
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: UNTIE method
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:26:55 +0100 (BST)
+ Message-Id: <200008301726.SAA01114@mikado.tiuk.ti.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pp_sys.c t/op/tie.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6924] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 20:17:11
+ Log: Subject: Re: not OK, 6919 on Alpha VMS V 7.1 w/ DECC 6.0-001
+ From: "Craig A. Berry" <craig.berry@psinetcs.com>
+ Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:03:14 -0500
+ Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000830144622.028fe7a8@exchi01>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6923] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 20:15:18
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH perl@6889] fix Storable on VMS by fixing my_fwrite()
+ From: "Craig A. Berry" <craig.berry@psinetcs.com>
+ Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:30:36 -0500
+ Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000830130617.02b8b968@exchi01>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6922] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 19:54:43
+ Log: Better options for rsync.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlhack.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6921] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 19:40:16
+ Log: Subject: [ID 20000830.036] [DOC] chom?p %hash not documented
+ From: Rick Delaney <rick@consumercontact.com>
+ Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:36:55 -0400 (EDT)
+ Message-Id: <Pine.UW2.4.10.10008301535210.1949-100000@consumer>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6920] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 19:36:40
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH 6889] add a few ldbl formats to configure.com
+ From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
+ Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:36:00 -0700 (PDT)
+ Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10008291720260.502507-100000@aspara.forte.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! configure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6919] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 14:52:02
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6918] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 14:48:34
+ Log: NVs not necessarily doubles, as pointed out by Yitzchak.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/ExtUtils/typemap
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6917] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 14:46:34
+ Log: Subject: typos in pods
+ From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
+ Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 01:12:50 +0100
+ Message-ID: <20000830011249.A61388@plum.flirble.org>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldbmfilter.pod pod/perldebtut.pod pod/perldebug.pod
+ ! pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlebcdic.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+ ! pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlhack.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod
+ ! pod/perlnewmod.pod pod/perlport.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6916] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 14:19:09
+ Log: Document Storable problems on Crays. (Will have
+ to document all the other Storable problems, too.)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6915] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 14:06:02
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH] fix misc cast warnings
+ From: sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
+ Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 23:16:14 -0700
+ Message-ID: <uaKr5gzkgGwQ092yn@efn.org>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/ExtUtils/typemap os2/OS2/ExtAttr/ExtAttr.xs
+ ! os2/OS2/ExtAttr/typemap os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.xs os2/os2.c
+ ! os2/os2ish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6914] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 14:03:45
+ Log: Timestamp mismatch again. Need to fix this dependence on
+ config_h.SH timestamp, since it's the contents of config_h.SH
+ that matter.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! uconfig.h uconfig.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6913] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 13:54:06
+ Log: Don't say "Perl 5.0 source kit".
+ Branch: perl
+ ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6912] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 13:51:24
+ Log: Reset archname and archname64 always, forcing them be
+ recomputed at each Configure run, make Configure and
+ the hints files agree on the naming of largefiles variables.
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/threads/archname.U
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ ! use64bits.U
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH configpm hints/aix.sh hints/hpux.sh
+ ! hints/linux.sh hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6911] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 13:30:13
+ Log: Put back the slice accidentally removed by #6907.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6910] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 01:24:26
+ Log: Be consistent: other Net::get* do export theirs.
+
+ Subject: Re: Net::protoent does not export 'getproto'
+ From: Yasushi Nakajima <sey@jkc.co.jp>
+ Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:53:14 +0900
+ Message-Id: <200008300051.DAA24700@taku.hut.fi>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/Net/protoent.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6909] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 01:17:25
+ Log: Subject: Re: [ID 20000829.020] perl -e 'package; print __PACKAGE__' core dumps
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>
+ Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:17:07 -0700
+ Message-Id: <200008300017.RAA25382@smtp3.ActiveState.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! cop.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6908] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 00:58:05
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
[ 6907] By: jhi on 2000/08/30 00:57:22
Log: Introduce ccname to keep track of what compiler kind of we have.
Branch: metaconfig/U/perl