what is is today, here are some of the more common names in the Changes
file, and their current addresses (as of March 1997):
- Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>
Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ M. J. T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
+ Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>
+-------------------
+ Version 5.003_97b
+-------------------
+
+Working on the second public beta...
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make assignment to C<$)> call setgroups()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH mg.c plan9/config.plan9
+ pod/perldelta.pod vms/config.vms win32/config.H
+ win32/config.w32
+
+ Title: "Grandfather "$$<digit>" in strings"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "Disconnect warn and die hooks _after_ object destruction"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Forbid recursive substitutions"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: cop.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Use SSize_t for values of PerlIO_{read,write}"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perlio.c perlio.h perlsdio.h pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "perlwin-97a_4: win32 environ fix"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199704060431.XAA23400@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 23:31:11 -0500
+ Files: win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "length($') isn't"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199704070730.DAA07310@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 03:30:44 -0400
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Fix obscure regex bug related to leading C<.*>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Add warning for glob failure"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix C<perl -V> in presence of local patches"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Don't suggest 'Configure -der' in config.sh comments"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "CGI->redirect patch"
+ From: Doug MacEachern
+ Msg-ID: <199704051527.KAA11280@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 10:27:52 -0500
+ Files: lib/CGI.pm
+
+ Title: "Updates to Math::Complex and Math::Trig"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm pod/perldelta.pod
+ t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Title: "Fix FindBin under Win32, and document success"
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons and Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199704051504.QAA09507@ni-s.u-net.com>
+ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 16:04:52 +0100
+ Files: README.win32 lib/Cwd.pm lib/FindBin.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no other changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Patch for 'perldoc -f'"
+ From: Gisle Aas
+ Msg-ID: <199704061732.TAA00353@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 19:32:04 +0200
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Document required module versions"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Document sample function perl_eval()"
+ From: Doug MacEachern
+ Msg-ID: <199704051524.KAA06090@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 10:24:43 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlembed.pod
+
+ Title: "Make L<perltrap> refer to L<perldelta>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+
+-------------------
+ Version 5.003_97a
+-------------------
+
+This release gets a letter instead of a full subversion because I'm
+planning on making 5.003_98 the second public beta.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix AUTOLOAD, or kill me"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: gv.c pp.c t/op/method.t
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Add support for Cygwin32 (GNU-Win32) -- very low impact"
+ From: John Cerney <j-cerney1@ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199704030821.JAA08762@pluto.tiuk.ti.com>
+ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:21:17 +0100
+ Files: MANIFEST README.cygwin32 cygwin32/cw32imp.h cygwin32/gcc2
+ cygwin32/ld2 cygwin32/perlgcc cygwin32/perlld
+ ext/DynaLoader/dl_cygwin32.xs hints/cygwin32.sh perl.h
+ pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Win32 update (six patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Files: MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h t/io/fs.t t/io/tell.t
+ t/lib/io_tell.t t/op/magic.t t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t
+ t/op/stat.t t/op/taint.t win32/Makefile win32/VC-2.0/pod.mak
+ win32/makedef.pl win32/pod.mak win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+ win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h
+
+ Title: "AmigaOS update"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
+ Msg-ID: <77724828@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 16:16:51 +0200
+ Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix const-sub-related panic on C<sub foo { my $x; 0 } foo>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Fix warning for useless C<1..2>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Minor cleanups"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199704040056.TAA22253@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:56:57 -0500
+ Files: mg.c mg.h perl.c
+
+ Title: "Eliminate unreliable warning with %SIG and strict refs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Fix impossible test in vivification"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "runlevel is I32, not int"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <2848.860109823@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:23:43 -0500
+ Files: pp_ctl.c util.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Re: shared lib compilation problem with miniperl5.003_97"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970404124326.647K-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed
+ Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 13:02:23 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Math::Trig, based on (and from an author of) Math::Complex"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm
+ pod/perldelta.pod t/lib/complex.t t/lib/trig.t
+
+ Title: "Update AutoLoader and docs; support C<use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD'>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg and Tim Bunce
+ Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm
+
+ Title: "CPAN & TRL-Gnu"
+ From: Achim Bohnet <ach@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
+ Msg-ID: <9704040809.AA26143@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
+ Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 10:09:03 +0200
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm
+
+ Title: "Limit @ISA to actual DBM in AnyDBM"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/AnyDBM_File.pm
+
+ Title: "Don't use $4 when it might be undef"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/bigfloat.pl
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Make *dbm tests work with Win32"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/lib/anydbm.t t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t
+ t/lib/sdbm.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Update INSTALL"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Pod style"
+ From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
+ Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldata.pod pod/perldebug.pod
+ pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlform.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+ pod/perlipc.pod pod/perllocale.pod pod/perlmod.pod
+ pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod
+ pod/perlstyle.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_97
+------------------
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Reenable but deprecate inherited AUTOLOAD for plain funcs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
+ pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod t/op/method.t
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Don't use setjmp() and longjmp() in complex exprs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c pp_ctl.c scope.h
+
+ Title: "Improve definition of Sock_size_t"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Don't use a completely empty macro parameter"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: sv.h
+
+ Title: "Win32 update"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199704020608.BAA29538@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 01:08:09 -0500
+ Files: win32/VC-2.0/modules.mak win32/VC-2.0/perl.mak win32/VC-
+ 2.0/perldll.mak win32/perl.mak
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Introduce and use gv_fetchmethod_autoload()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: global.sym gv.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h universal.c
+
+ Title: "Reduce memory footprint of literal strings"
+ From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
+ Msg-ID: <1997Apr1.113438.1913905@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 11:34:37 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Remove target before link() of perldiag.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: installperl
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.24"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh ExtUtils::Manifest to 1.33"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
+
+ Title: "Update $VERSION of ExtUtils::Embed to reflect reality"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix POSIX::raise()"
+ From: "Jens T. Berger Thielemann" <jensthi@ifi.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970401153125.8053A-100000@holmenkollen.ifi.uio
+ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:34:47 +0200 (MET DST)
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
+
+ Title: "Eliminate warnings in File::Basename"
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <11173.9704011111@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 97 12:11:43 BST
+ Files: lib/File/Basename.pm t/lib/basename.t
+
+ Title: "Eliminate warning in CGI.pm"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/CGI.pm
+
+ Title: "Tweaks to constant.pm"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970331205519.16684I-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:10:14 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: lib/constant.pm
+
+ Title: "Document eval vs. sub in Benchmark"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199704012231.XAA00225@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 23:31:55 +0100
+ Files: lib/Benchmark.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no other changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Improve heuristics for pod2man titles"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <pzn2ri9gto.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 01 Apr 1997 23:41:55 -0500
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Clean up some poddities, and make C<make html> work again"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/Makefile pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod
+ pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod
+ pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix MM doc's use of "SUPER::""
+ From: avera@hal.com (Jim Avera)
+ Msg-ID: <9704012235.AA07841@membrane.hal.com>
+ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:35:26 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+
+ Title: "Eliminate pod warnings in libs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/CGI.pm lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm
+
+
------------------
Version 5.003_96
------------------
Files: perl.h pp_sys.c
Title: "Eliminate unused dummy variable"
- From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ From: Doug MacEachern
Msg-ID: <199703270123.UAA25454@postman.osf.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:23:14 -0500
Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm unixish.h writemain.SH
lib/CGI/Switch.pm
Title: "Fix C<print $_> in debugger"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199703312355.SAA01068@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:55:55 -0500 (EST)
Files: lib/perl5db.pl
TESTS
- (no changes)
+ (no other changes)
UTILITIES
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
Title: "Improve and update documentation of constant subs"
- From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ From: Tom Phoenix
Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970331122546.14185C-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:05:54 -0800 (PST)
Files: pod/perlsub.pod
BUILD PROCESS
- (no changes)
+ (no other changes)
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm
Title: "Exporting UNIVERSAL::can"
- From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
Msg-ID: <E0w9DwX-0000Zr-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:54:01 +0000
Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
Title: "pods for subroutine argument autovivication"
- From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
Msg-ID: <E0w9489-0005YT-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:25:21 +0000
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod
Title: "Missing item in perldiag"
- From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
Msg-ID: <E0w8jVZ-0005va-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:24:09 +0000
Files: pod/perldiag.pod
x2p/util.c
Title: "Warn about missing -DMULTIPLICITY if likely a problem"
- From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ From: Doug MacEachern
Msg-ID: <199703192345.SAA15070@postman.osf.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:45:53 -0500
Files: perl.c
Files: lib/File/Path.pm
Title: "Fix typo in -l*perl* pattern"
- From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ From: Doug MacEachern
Msg-ID: <199703110414.XAA12884@berlin.atlantic.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:58:38 -0500
Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
Files: lib/Carp.pm
Title: "Re: NUL in die and other messages"
- From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
Msg-ID: <E0w815V-0005xs-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:58:17 +0000
Files: lib/Carp.pm
Files: lib/Pod/Functions.pm
Title: "Fix typos in IO::Socket documentation"
- From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
Msg-ID: <E0w75po-0003yh-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:50:16 +0000
Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
TESTS
- (no changes)
+ (no other changes)
UTILITIES
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
Title: "Re: Embedding success with _93 "
- From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ From: Doug MacEachern
Msg-ID: <199703112255.RAA22775@postman.osf.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0500
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxstut.pod
Title: "Document return from do FILE"
- From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
Msg-ID: <E0w70DK-0001yJ-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:50:10 +0000
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod
Title: "Support READ and GETC for tied handles"
- From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ From: Doug MacEachern
Msg-ID: <199703090019.TAA32591@postman.osf.org>
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 19:19:38 -0500
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Carp with multiple arguments"
- From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
Msg-ID: <E0w3STZ-0007RW-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:12:17 +0000
Files: lib/Carp.pm
Files: lib/IPC/Open3.pm
Title: "Follow up on elimination of $` $& $' in libraries"
- From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
Msg-ID: <E0w0Sqc-00046E-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:59:42 +0000
Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/diagnostics.pm
Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
Title: "Allow explicit '-lperl' in link arguments"
- From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ From: Doug MacEachern
Msg-ID: <199702271625.LAA25402@postman.osf.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:25:04 -0500
Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
Files: MANIFEST pod/roffitall pod/rofftoc
Title: "Re: documentation correction (i.e. patch) for perlsyn.pod"
- From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
Msg-ID: <E0vilLh-0000M6-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:06:37 +0000
Files: pod/perlsyn.pod
Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y
Title: "plug for safe/opcode leaks"
- From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>
+ From: Doug MacEachern
Msg-ID: <199701072220.RAA02117@postman.osf.org>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:20:46 -0500
Files: op.c
Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
Title: "5.003_18: perl_{con,des}truct fixes"
- From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>
+ From: Doug MacEachern
Msg-ID: <199701032042.PAA06766@postman.osf.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500
Files: perl.c perl.h pod/perlembed.pod pod/perltoc.pod t/op/sysio.t
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "_13: patches for unicos/unicosmk"
- From: Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>
+ From: Dean Roehrich
Msg-ID: <199612202038.OAA22805@poplar.cray.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 14:38:50 -0600
Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/unicos.sh hints/unicosmk.sh
Index: utils/h2xs.PL
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 16:38:24 -0500
- From: Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>
+ From: Dean Roehrich
Subject: h2xs bug fix
The h2xs that is in perl5.003_05 has a regexp bug which prevents it from
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