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>
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/
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Version v5.7.0 Development release working toward v5.8
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____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 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