- Storable 0.7
+ Storable 2.07
Copyright (c) 1995-2000, Raphael Manfredi
+ Copyright (c) 2001,2002, Larry Wall
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the Artistic License, a copy of which can be
- found with perl.
+ it under the same terms as Perl 5 itself.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- Artistic License for more details.
+ Perl 5 License schemes for more details.
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- *** This is beta software -- use at your own risks ***
-
+=======================================================================
-| PLEASE NOTE CAREFULLY
-|
-| The serialization format changed between 0.5 and 0.6, and the module
-| is NOT backward compatible. Think about it when upgrading from a
-| pre-0.5@9 version -- images from versions 0.5@9 could still be read
-| by 0.6, but have not been tested with 0.7.
-|
-| The next release (0.8 or 1.0) will DROP support for pre-0.6 format.
-|
-| The serialization format changed between 0.6 and 0.7, and the module
-| is fully backward compatible, meaning 0.7 can read binary images from
-| 0.6, although it only generates new ones. If you encounter a situation
-| where it is not AND can duplicate it via a small test case, please
-| send it to me, along with a patch to fix the problem if you can.
+| Storable is distributed as a module, but is also part of the official
+| Perl core distribution, as of perl 5.8.
+| Maintenance is now done by the perl5-porters. We thank Raphael
+| Manfredi for providing us with this very useful module.
+=======================================================================
The Storable extension brings persistency to your data.
There is an embeded POD manual page in Storable.pm.
-Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+Storable was written by Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+Maitainance is now done by the perl5-porters <perl5-porters@perl.org>
+
+Please e-mail us with problems, bug fixes, comments and complaints,
+although if you have complements you should send them to Raphael.
+Please don't e-mail Raphael with problems, as he no longer works on
+Storable, and your message will be delayed while he forwards it to us.
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-Thanks to:
+Thanks to (in chronological order):
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Murray Nesbitt <murray@activestate.com>
Albert N. Micheev <Albert.N.Micheev@f80.n5049.z2.fidonet.org>
Marc Lehmann <pcg@opengroup.org>
+ Justin Banks <justinb@wamnet.com>
+ Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> (AGAIN, as perl 5.7.0 Pumpkin!)
for their contributions.
-There is a Japanese translation of this man page available at
-http://member.nifty.ne.jp/hippo2000/perltips/storable.htm,
-courtesy of Kawai, Takanori <kawai@nippon-rad.co.jp>.
+A Japanese translation of this man page is available at the Japanized
+Perl Resources Project <https://sourceforge.jp/projects/perldocjp/>.
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+
+The perl5-porters would like to thank
+
+ Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+
+According to the perl5.8 Changes file, the following people have helped
+bring you this Storable release:
+
+ Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>
+ Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+ Archer Sully <archer@meer.net>
+ Craig A. Berry <craig.berry@psinetcs.com>
+ Dan Kogai <dankogai@dan.co.jp>
+ Doug MacEachern <dougm@covalent.net>
+ Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>
+ H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
+ Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Mark Bixby
+ Michael Stevens <michael@etla.org>
+ Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+ Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>
+ Peter J. Farley III <pjfarley@banet.net>
+ Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
+ Philip Newton <pne@cpan.org>
+ Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+ Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Radu Greab <radu@netsoft.ro>
+ Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>
+ VMSperlers
+ Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>
+
+If I've missed you out, please accept my apologies, and e-mail your
+patch to perl5-porters@perl.org.