Revision history for Sys-Syslog
-0.10 2005.12.08
+0.19 -- 2007.08.xx -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
+ [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20635: Fix tests to avoid problems related to the
+ "stream" mechanism which occured on Debian and Cygwin.
+ [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20780: Facility could not be temporarily changed.
+ Also fixes the syslog() before openlog() bug.
+ [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21333: Makefile.PL now creates a typemap for Perl 5.6.1
+ [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21516: disconnect_log() now correctly calls closelog_xs().
+ [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21866: Silence warnings in openlog().
+ [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#25488: Silence warnings in disconnect_log().
+ via syslog().
+ [BUGFIX] Rewrote the constants generation code in order to provide
+ fallback value for non-standard macros.
+ [FEATURE] Added Win32 event log support thanks to Yves Orton.
+ [FEATURE] Added new macros from modern BSD and IRIX.
+ [FEATURE] Each non-standard macro now fall backs to a standard macro.
+ [CODE] Merged changes from Jerry D. Hedden to use ppport.h only when not
+ built from core distribution (blead@30657).
+ [TESTS] t/syslog.t now generates a more detailled TAP output.
+ [TESTS] Merged change blead@29176: suppress taint mode from t/constants.t
+ [TESTS] Added regression tests for CPAN-RT#21866 and #25488.
+ [EG] Added example script eg/syslog.pl
+ [DOC] Added the Sys::Syslog Rules.
+
+0.18 -- 2006.08.28 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
+ [BUGFIX] Rewrote the way the default identifiant is constructed.
+ [TESTS] CPAN-RT#20946: Removed the console mechanism from the main
+ test loop because writing to the console hangs on several systems.
+ [DOC] Added a note discouraging the use of setlogsock().
+
+0.17 -- 2006.07.23 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
+ [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20622, #20164: Fixed path handling in connect_unix().
+ [CODE] Renamed some variables ($that is not a valid name), and removed
+ some dead code.
+ [CODE] Actually added the macros from Mac OS X that were announced in
+ the 0.14 version.
+ [DOC] CPAN-RT#20545: Rewrote the documentation about setlogsock().
+
+0.16 -- 2006.06.20 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
+ [BUGFIX] Perl-RT#20557: Save errno before trying to connect.
+ [FEATURE] Perl-RT#35406: Applied the patch proposed by Keisuke Hirata
+ for a more lax handling of "stream" or "unix" path.
+ [FEATURE] Now try the "native" mechanism first.
+ [TESTS] Silence warnings generated by t/syslog.t in Perl 5.8.8 and
+ later.
+ [DOC] Added documentation about the "native" mechanism.
+ [DOC] Now indicates whether tickets are from CPAN or Perl RT.
+
+0.15 -- 2006.06.10 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
+ [FEATURE] CPAN-RT#17316: Added a "nofatal" option to openlog().
+ [FEATURE] Sys::Syslog warnings can now be controled by the warnings
+ category of the same name.
+ [FEATURE] Added support for using the native C syslog(3) functions.
+ [CODE] Removed most "our" variables.
+ [CODE] Improved readability by removing cargo-cult brackets and
+ parentheses.
+
+0.14 -- 2006.05.25 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
+ [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#19259, #17518: Now allowing all levels and facilities.
+ [CODE] Removed useless "&".
+ [CODE] Improved readability by adding empty lines and reworking the
+ code here and there.
+ [CODE] Added new macros from Mac OS X.
+ [TESTS] Added more tests in order to increase coverage.
+ [DOC] CPAN-RT#19085: Corrected errors in the documentation for setlogmask().
+ [DOC] Added several links to online manual pages, RFCs and articles.
+ [DOC] Corrected minor things in Changes.
+
+0.13 -- 2006.01.11 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
+ [CODE] Applied Gisle Aas patch for a better handling of error messages,
+ then optimized it.
+ [CODE] Merged blead@26768: If getservbyname fails tell what service
+ the lookup attempt tried to use.
+ [CODE] Merged blead@26769: suppress Sys::Hostname usage and directly
+ use INADDR_LOOPBACK.
+ [CODE] Merged blead@26772: $host needs to stay in case the user sets it.
+ [CODE] Merged blead@26773: check that $syslog_path is a socket.
+ [TESTS] CPAN-RT#16980: Sys::Syslog blows up rather spectacularly on
+ Solaris. Corrected by previous patches.
+ [TESTS] CPAN-RT#16974: Failed test in t/podspell. This test is now skipped.
+
+0.12 -- 2006.01.07 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
+ [DOC] Added a link to an article about Sys::Syslog.
+ [TESTS] Merged some modifications from bleadperl.
+ [TESTS] Removed optional dependency on Test::Exception.
+ [TESTS] Improved t/constant.t
+ [TESTS] Rewrote t/constants.t because future versions of
+ ExtUtils::Constant will prevent the constant() function from
+ being directly called.
+
+0.11 -- 2005.12.28 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
+ [BUGFIX] setlogmask() now behaves like its C counterpart.
+ [FEATURE] Can now export and use the macros.
+ [FEATURE] Support for three Exporter tags.
+ [FEATURE] XSLoader is now optional.
+ [CODE] No longer "use"s Sys::Hostname as it was "require"d where needed.
+ [CODE] CPAN-RT#16604: Use local timestamp.
+ [DIST] Merged blead@26343: Fix realclean target.
+ [DOC] Improved documentation.
+ [TESTS] Added more tests to t/syslog.t in order to increase code coverage.
+
+0.10 -- 2005.12.08 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[DOC] Improved documentation.
[TESTS] Added -T to t/syslog.t
[TESTS] Added t/constants.t to check the macros.
[TESTS] Added t/distchk.t, t/podspell.t, t/podcover.t, t/portfs.t
-0.09 2005.12.06
+0.09 -- 2005.12.06 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[CODE] Now setlogsock() really croak(), as documented.
[DIST] CPANized from blead@26281.
[DIST] Modified Makefile.PL so that ExtUtils::Constant is conditionaly