X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Changes;h=ba6da68052ebb1230c3f6966442a0828dcea1b38;hb=134ca994cfefe0f613d43505a885e4fc2100b05c;hp=d27be4af20113b61e343334193f03d0ac7c5c4cc;hpb=54310121b442974721115f93666234a200f5c7e4;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index d27be4a..ba6da68 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -8,9854 +8,2644 @@ or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version releases.) ---------------- - Cast and Crew ---------------- + --------------- + CAST AND CREW + --------------- -To save space, and to give due honor to those who have made Perl 5.004 -what is is today, here are some of the more common names in the Changes -file, and their current addresses (as of March 1997): +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 July 1998): - Gisle Aas + Gisle Aas + Abigail Kenneth Albanowski - Charles Bailey + Russ Allbery Graham Barr Spider Boardman - Tim Bunce Tom Christiansen Hallvard B Furuseth - Gurusamy Sarathy + M. J. T. Guy Jarkko Hietaniemi Nick Ing-Simmons Andreas Koenig + Doug MacEachern Paul Marquess + Stephen McCamant + Laszlo Molnar + Hans Mulder + Matthias Neeracher Jeff Okamoto Ulrich Pfeifer Tom Phoenix + Joshua Pritikin Norbert Pueschel + Dean Roehrich + Hugo van der Sanden Roderick Schertler + Kurt D. Starsinic + Dan Sugalski + Larry W. Virden Ilya Zakharevich And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin: + Charles Bailey + Malcolm Beattie + Tim Bunce Andy Dougherty - Chip Salzenberg - - ------------------- - Version 5.003_96 ------------------- - - CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES - - Title: "Support $ENV{PERL5OPT}" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod - - Title: "Implement void context, in which C is undef" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: cop.h doop.c dump.c global.sym gv.c op.c op.h perl.c - pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod - pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlsub.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c - pp_sys.c proto.h - - Title: "Don't look up &AUTOLOAD in @ISA when calling plain function" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: global.sym gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm pod/perldelta.pod - pp_hot.c proto.h t/op/method.t - - Title: "Allow closures to be constant subroutines" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c - - Title: "Make C mean C" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp.c - - Title: "Fix lexical suicide from C in sub" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c - - Title: "Make "Unrecog. char." fatal, and update its doc" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c - - Title: "Die on patterns that will match empty string forever" - From: Stephen Potter - Msg-ID: <199703282138.PAA28311@psa.pencom.com> - Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 15:38:30 -0600 - Files: regcomp.c - - CORE PORTABILITY - - Title: "safefree() mismatch" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: <21338.859653381@eeyore.ibcinc.com> - Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:36:21 -0500 - Files: util.c - - Title: "FreeBSD update" - From: Slaven Rezic - Msg-ID: <199703311417.QAA04162@cabulja.herceg.de> - Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 16:17:42 +0200 (MET DST) - Files: hints/freebsd.sh - - Title: "Win32 update (seven patches)" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons - Files: EXTERN.h MANIFEST win32/Makefile win32/perl.mak - win32/perl.rc win32/perldll.mak win32/makedef.pl - win32/modules.mak win32/win32io.c win32/bin/pl2bat.bat - - OTHER CORE CHANGES - - Title: "Report PERL* environment variables in -V and perlbug" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: perl.c utils/perlbug.PL - - Title: "Typo in perl.c: Printing NO_EMBED for perl -V" - From: Gisle Aas - Msg-ID: <199703301922.VAA13509@furubotn.sn.no> - Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:22:11 +0200 - Files: perl.c - - Title: "Don't let C<$var = $var> untaint $var" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.h t/op/taint.t - - Title: "Fix autoviv bug in C{KEY}>" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp_hot.c - - Title: "Re: 5.004's new srand() default seed" - From: Hallvard B Furuseth - Msg-ID: <199703302219.AAA20998@bombur2.uio.no> - Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:19:13 +0200 (MET DST) - Files: pp.c - - Title: "Re: embedded perl and top_env problem " - From: Gurusamy Sarathy - Msg-ID: <199703280031.TAA05711@aatma.engin.umich.edu> - Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:31:42 -0500 - Files: gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c scope.h util.c - - Title: "Define and use new macro: boolSV()" - From: Tim Bunce - Files: gv.c lib/ExtUtils/typemap os2/os2.c pp.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c - sv.c sv.h universal.c vms/vms.c - - Title: "Re: strict @F" - From: Hallvard B Furuseth - Msg-ID: <199703252110.WAA16038@bombur2.uio.no> - Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:10:33 +0100 (MET) - Files: toke.c - - Title: "Try harder to identify errors at EOF" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: toke.c - - Title: "Minor string change in toke.c: 'bareword'" - From: lvirden@cas.org - Msg-ID: <1997Mar27.130247.1911552@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> - Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:02:46 -0500 (EST) - Files: toke.c - - Title: "Improve diagnostic on \r in program text" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c - - Title: "Make Sock_size_t typedef work right" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: perl.h pp_sys.c - - Title: "Eliminate unused dummy variable" - 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 - - BUILD PROCESS - - Title: "Allow for coexistence of various versions of perldiag.pod" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: installperl lib/diagnostics.pm - - LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS - - Title: "New module constant.pm" - From: Tom Phoenix - Files: MANIFEST lib/constant.pm op.c pp.c t/pragma/constant.t - - Title: "Remove chat2" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: MANIFEST lib/chat2.inter lib/chat2.pl - - Title: "Include CGI.pm 2.32" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: MANIFEST eg/cgi/* lib/CGI.pm lib/CGI/Apache.pm - lib/CGI/Carp.pm lib/CGI/Fast.pm lib/CGI/Push.pm - lib/CGI/Switch.pm - - Title: "Fix C in debugger" - 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 - - Title: "Re: Pod problems & fixes" - From: Hallvard B Furuseth - Msg-ID: <199703261829.TAA17015@bombur2.uio.no> - Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:29:14 +0100 (MET) - Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm - - Title: "Re: $whoami calculation in Sys::Syslog.pm should not be greedy" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: - Date: 29 Mar 1997 11:33:24 -0500 - Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm - - Title: "C doesn't always restore" - From: Spider Boardman - Msg-ID: <199703291906.OAA07232@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> - Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:06:37 -0500 - Files: lib/SelectSaver.pm - - Title: "Patch for Benchmark.pm" - From: Hugo van der Sanden w/Tim Bunce - Msg-ID: <199703291504.PAA01596@crypt.compulink.co.uk> - Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 15:04:32 +0000 - Files: lib/Benchmark.pm - - Title: "Tiny doc fix for AutoSplit.pm" - From: "Randy J. Ray" - Msg-ID: - Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:17:38 -0700 - Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm - - TESTS - - (no changes) - - UTILITIES - - Title: "Tom C's Pod::Html and html tools, as of 30 March 97" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: MANIFEST installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/pod2html.PL - - Title: "Fix path bugs in installhtml" - From: Robin Barker - Msg-ID: <3180.9703270906@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> - Date: Thu, 27 Mar 97 09:06:14 GMT - Files: installhtml - - Title: "Make perlbug say that it's only for core Perl bugs" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: utils/perlbug.PL - - DOCUMENTATION - - Title: "INSTALL-1.11" - From: Andy Dougherty - Msg-ID: - Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:05:39 -0800 (PST) - Files: pod/perl.pod - - Title: "Document autouse and constant; update diagnostics" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perldelta.pod - - Title: "Suggest to upgraders that they try '-w' again" - From: Hallvard B Furuseth - Msg-ID: <199703251901.UAA15982@bombur2.uio.no> - Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:01:26 +0100 (MET) - Files: pod/perldelta.pod - - Title: "Improve and update documentation of constant subs" - From: Tom Phoenix - Msg-ID: - Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:05:54 -0800 (PST) - Files: pod/perlsub.pod - - Title: "Improve documentation of C" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsub.pod - - Title: "perlfunc.pod patch" - From: Gisle Aas - Msg-ID: <199703262159.WAA17531@furubotn.sn.no> - Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:59:23 +0100 - Files: pod/perlfunc.pod - - Title: "Use 'while (defined($x = <>)) {}', per " - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: configpm lib/Term/Cap.pm perlsh pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlop.pod - pod/perlsub.pod pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltrap.pod - pod/perlvar.pod win32/bin/search.bat - - Title: "Document and test C<%> behavior with negative operands" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perlop.pod t/op/arith.t - - Title: "Update docs on $]" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perlvar.pod - - Title: "perlvar.pod patch" - From: Gisle Aas - Msg-ID: <199703261254.NAA10237@bergen.sn.no> - Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:54:00 +0100 - Files: pod/perlvar.pod - - Title: "Fix example of C vs. C<||>" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perlsyn.pod - - Title: "Pod usage and spelling patch" - From: Larry W. Virden - Files: pod/*.pod - - Title: "Pod updates" - From: "Cary D. Renzema" - Msg-ID: <199703262353.PAA01819@macs.mxim.com> - Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:53:22 -0800 (PST) - Files: pod/*.pod - - ------------------- - Version 5.003_95 ------------------- - - CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES - - Title: "Don't compile scalar mods of aggregates, like C<@a =~ s/a/b/>" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c t/op/misc.t - - Title: "Automatically flush on C< $| = 1 >" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: mg.c - - Title: "Refine modulus ("%") per suggestion of Tim Goodwin" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp.c - - Title: "If C, do equivalent of C" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: toke.c - - Title: "Warn about undef magic values just like non-magic" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm sv.c t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t - t/lib/db-recno.t t/pragma/locale.t - - CORE PORTABILITY - - Title: "Remove redundant patch to hints/bsdos.sh" - From: Shigeya Suzuki - Msg-ID: <19970322222244K.shigeya@foretune.co.jp> - Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 22:22:44 +0900 - Files: hints/bsdos.sh - - Title: "Another MachTen Patch" - From: Tom Phoenix - Msg-ID: - Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:26:48 -0800 (PST) - Files: hints/machten_2.sh - - Title: "Win32 update (five patches)" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons - Files: MANIFEST README.win32 doio.c dosish.h pp_sys.c - lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm t/comp/multiline.t t/op/magic.t - t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t t/op/stat.t t/op/write.t - win32/Makefile win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/win32.c - win32/win32.h win32/win32aux.c win32/*.mak win32/VC-2.0/*.mak - - OTHER CORE CHANGES - - Title: "Fix botch with G_NOARGS; PUSHMARK *is* required" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: perl.c - - Title: "Improve 'prototype mismatch' warning" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: global.sym op.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h sv.c t/comp/redef.t - - Title: "In perlio, fix vprintf() definition and define vfprintf()" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: perlio.c - - BUILD PROCESS - - (no changes) - - LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS - - Title: "Fix C in Getopt::Long to work with 5.003" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm - - Title: "Extraneous blank lines from Pod::Text" - From: Russ Allbery - Msg-ID: - Date: 25 Mar 1997 01:28:55 -0800 - Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm - - Title: "Exporting UNIVERSAL::can" - From: "M.J.T. Guy" - Msg-ID: - Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:54:01 +0000 - Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm - - Title: "Term::Readline patch for AmigaOS" - From: Norbert Pueschel - Msg-ID: <77724797@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> - Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:57:22 +0100 - Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm - - TESTS - - Title: "Reduce memory footprint of complex.t" - From: Dominic Dunlop - Msg-ID: - Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:39:26 +0100 - Files: t/lib/complex.t - - UTILITIES - - Title: "Improve pod2man diagnostic when NAME is invalid" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/pod2man.PL - - DOCUMENTATION - - Title: "INSTALL-1.8 to INSTALL-1.9 updates" - From: Andy Dougherty - Msg-ID: fix" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perldelta.pod - - Title: "pods for subroutine argument autovivication" - From: "M.J.T. Guy" - Msg-ID: - 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" - Msg-ID: - Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:24:09 +0000 - Files: pod/perldiag.pod - - Title: "Mention and discourage use of term 'soft reference'" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perlref.pod - - Title: "Pod problems & fixes" - From: Hallvard B Furuseth - Msg-ID: <199703242031.VAA14997@bombur2.uio.no> - Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:31:51 +0100 (MET) - Files: INSTALL lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/subs.pm pod/perlcall.pod - pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlembed.pod - pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlop.pod - pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL - - Title: "DB_File documentation fix" - From: Paul Marquess - Msg-ID: <9703240854.AA08401@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> - Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 08:54:16 GMT - Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm - - Title: "FAQ update" - From: Nathan Torkington - Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod - - ------------------- - Version 5.003_94 ------------------- - - CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES - - Title: "Defer creation of array and hash elements as parameters" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: dump.c global.sym mg.c op.c op.h perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h - sv.c - - Title: "New special literal: __PACKAGE__" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: keywords.pl pod/perldata.pod toke.c - - Title: "Ignore whitespace before +*? in //x" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: regcomp.c - - Title: "Abort compilation at C or C after errors" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/subs.t - - Title: "allow C" - From: David Dyck - Msg-ID: <97Mar10.155517pst.35716-2@gateway.fluke.com> - Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:55:44 -0800 - Files: pp.c - - Title: "Regularize C, esp. when y is negative" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp.c - - Title: "Flush before C" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c - - Title: "Close loopholes in prototype mismatch warning" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c sv.c toke.c - - Title: "Warn on C" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod - - Title: "Don't warn on C" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: toke.c - - CORE PORTABILITY - - Title: "Don't say 'static var = 1'" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi - Msg-ID: <199703091319.PAA24714@alpha.hut.fi> - Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:19:57 +0200 (EET) - Files: malloc.c - - Title: "BSD/OS 3.0 hints" - From: Christopher Davis - Msg-ID: - Date: 14 Mar 1997 16:20:46 -0500 - Files: hints/bsdos.sh - - Title: "More MachTen hints" - From: Tom Phoenix - Msg-ID: - Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:00:55 -0500 (EST) - Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/op/taint.t - utils/perlbug.PL vms/descrip.mms - - Title: "vmsish.t and related patches" - From: Charles Bailey - Msg-ID: <01IGQW3IP1KK005VFB@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> - Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:32:47 -0500 (EST) - Files: MANIFEST perl.h vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vms.c - - Title: "Win32 update (four patches)" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons - Files: MANIFEST README.win32 lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm - lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm - lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm - lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm - lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/File/Basename.pm - lib/File/Path.pm mg.c t/comp/cpp.t t/comp/script.t t/harness - t/io/argv.t t/io/dup.t t/io/fs.t t/io/inplace.t - t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_sel.t - t/lib/io_taint.t t/op/closure.t t/op/exec.t t/op/glob.t - t/op/goto.t t/op/magic.t t/op/misc.t t/op/rand.t - t/op/split.t t/op/stat.t t/op/sysio.t t/op/taint.t - t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t util.c - win32/* - - OTHER CORE CHANGES - - Title: "Guard against buffer overflow in yyerror() and related funcs" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: toke.c - - Title: "For bin compat, rename calllist() and he_{,delay}free" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: global.sym hv.c op.c perl.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h - - Title: "Fix C on tied default handle" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp_hot.c - - Title: "Fix C" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c - - Title: "Improve diagnostic on C<@a++>, C<--%a>, @a =~ s/a/b/" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp.c pp_hot.c - - Title: "Don't warn on C<$x{y} .= "z"> when %x is tied" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp_hot.c - - Title: "Eliminate 'unreachable code' warnings" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs mg.c pp_ctl.c toke.c - - Title: "printf format corrections for -DDEBUGGING" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: <26592.858793370@eeyore.ibcinc.com> - Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:42:50 -0500 - Files: doop.c malloc.c op.c pp_ctl.c regexec.c sv.c x2p/str.c - x2p/util.c - - Title: "Warn about missing -DMULTIPLICITY if likely a problem" - From: Doug MacEachern - Msg-ID: <199703192345.SAA15070@postman.osf.org> - Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:45:53 -0500 - Files: perl.c - - BUILD PROCESS - - Title: "Don't use $(LIBS) when creating shared libperl" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: Makefile.SH - - Title: "Don't use db 2.x, we're not yet ready for it" - From: Paul Marquess and Andy Dougherty - Files: Configure - - Title: "Warn if #! command is longer than 32 chars" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: Configure - - Title: "patches re perl -wc install{perl,man}" - From: Robin Barker - Msg-ID: <21544.9703111313@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> - Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 13:13:16 GMT - Files: installman installperl - - Title: "3_93 doesn't install pods" - From: Spider Boardman - Msg-ID: <199703160721.CAA08339@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> - Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 02:21:35 -0500 - Files: installperl - - Title: "When installing, use File::Copy instead of `cp`" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: installperl - - Title: "Make hint files' warnings more visible" - From: Hallvard B Furuseth - Msg-ID: <199703202218.XAA09041@bombur2.uio.no> - Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:18:03 +0100 (MET) - Files: hints/3b1.sh hints/apollo.sh hints/cxux.sh hints/dcosx.sh - hints/dgux.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/hpux.sh - hints/irix_4.sh hints/mips.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/os2.sh - hints/qnx.sh hints/sco_2_3_3.sh hints/sco_2_3_4.sh - hints/solaris_2.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh hints/utekv.sh - - LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS - - Title: "New module: autouse.pm" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199703210034.TAA13469@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:34:30 -0500 (EST) - Files: MANIFEST lib/autouse.pm - - Title: "Math::Complex update" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi - Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t - - Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.12" - From: Paul Marquess - Msg-ID: <9703121551.AA07435@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> - Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 15:51:14 GMT - Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs - - Title: "New subroutine Symbol::qualify_to_ref()" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: - Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:39:36 -0500 - Files: lib/Symbol.pm - - Title: "In debugger, don't reference %{$f{$g}} if $f{$g} doesn't exist" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: lib/perl5db.pl - - Title: "In File::Path, some systems can't remove read-only files" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: lib/File/Path.pm - - Title: "Fix typo in -l*perl* pattern" - From: Doug MacEachern - Msg-ID: <199703110414.XAA12884@berlin.atlantic.net> - Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:58:38 -0500 - Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm - - Title: "Fix bugs revealed by prototype warnings" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm - lib/Getopt/Long.pm - - Title: "Problems with SKIP in makemaker" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199703210413.XAA21601@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:13:31 -0500 (EST) - Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm - - Title: "In Exporter, don't C at file scope" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: lib/Exporter.pm - - Title: "fix for Exporter's $SIG{__WARN__} handler" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: <2282.858296451@eeyore.ibcinc.com> - Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:40:51 -0500 - Files: lib/Exporter.pm - - Title: "Don't try to substr() refs in Carp" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: lib/Carp.pm - - Title: "Re: NUL in die and other messages" - From: "M.J.T. Guy" - Msg-ID: - Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:58:17 +0000 - Files: lib/Carp.pm - - Title: "Add entry for prototype() in Pod::Functions" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: lib/Pod/Functions.pm - - Title: "Fix typos in IO::Socket documentation" - From: "M.J.T. Guy" - Msg-ID: - Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:50:16 +0000 - Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm - - TESTS - - (no changes) - - UTILITIES - - Title: "Re: bug in pod2man (5.00326): section=3 for .pm modules" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: - Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:09:31 -0500 - Files: pod/pod2man.PL - - DOCUMENTATION - - Title: "perlfaq.pod" - From: Tom Christiansen - Msg-ID: <199703172301.QAA12566@jhereg.perl.com> - Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:01:40 -0700 - Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod - pod/perlfaq*.pod pod/roffitall - - Title: "*.pod changes based on the FAQ" - From: gnat@frii.com - Msg-ID: <199703171650.JAA02655@elara.frii.com> - Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:50:14 -0700 (MST) - Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod - pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod - pod/perlsec.pod pod/perlvar.pod - - Title: "INSTALL: How to enable debugging" - From: Andy Dougherty - Msg-ID: - Msg-ID: <199703112255.RAA22775@postman.osf.org> - Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0500 - Files: pod/perldelta.pod - - Title: "Update site list" - From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) - Msg-ID: <9703111053.AA20051@cas.org> - Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:53:49 -0500 - Files: pod/perlmod.pod - - Title: "Patch to document illegal characters" - From: Tom Phoenix - Msg-ID: - Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:08:10 -0800 (PST) - Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod - - Title: "Document trap with //o and closures" - From: Charles Bailey - Msg-ID: <01IGCHWRNSEU00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> - Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:08:08 -0500 (EST) - Files: pod/perltrap.pod - - Title: "Re: Inline PI function" - From: Tom Phoenix - Msg-ID: - Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:28:57 -0800 (PST) - Files: pod/perlop.pod - - Title: "XSUB's doc fix" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: <28804.858012126@eeyore.ibcinc.com> - Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:42:06 -0500 - Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxstut.pod - - Title: "Document return from do FILE" - From: "M.J.T. Guy" - Msg-ID: - Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:50:10 +0000 - Files: pod/perlfunc.pod - - Title: "Document $^M in perlvar" - From: Robin Barker - Msg-ID: <6153.9703202108@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> - Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 21:08:33 GMT - Files: pod/perlvar.pod - - Title: "typos in pods of 5.003_93" - From: Jim Meyering - Msg-ID: - Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:39:38 -0600 - Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlre.pod - pod/perltoot.pod pod/perlxs.pod - - Title: "Re: Updates to pod punctuations" - From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) - Msg-ID: <9703141700.AA22911@cas.org> - Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:00:12 -0500 - Files: pod/*.pod - - Title: "clarify example in perlfunc" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi - Msg-ID: <199703201746.TAA25195@alpha.hut.fi> - Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:46:01 +0200 (EET) - Files: pod/perlfunc.pod - - Title: "Regularize headings in DB_File documentation" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm - - ------------------- - Version 5.003_93 ------------------- - -Me, last time: - "This release will be the public beta of 5.004, - or my name isn't Larson T. Pettifogger." -Me, now: - "Gone like *that*, a fortune in letterhead." - - CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES - - Title: "Don't autovivify array and hash elements in sub parameters" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy - Msg-ID: <199703061912.OAA20606@aatma.engin.umich.edu> - Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 14:12:09 -0500 - Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod - - Title: "Support READ and GETC for tied handles" - 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 - - Title: "Warn on C<@x =~ /a/> and C<%x =~ s/a/b/>" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod - - Title: "Warn on %{+undef} and @{+undef}" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp.c pp_hot.c - - CORE PORTABILITY - - Title: "VMS update" - From: Charles Bailey - Msg-ID: <01IG8KN5R28M00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> - Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 22:49:46 -0500 (EST) - Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/descrip.mms vms/gen_shrfls.pl - vms/sockadapt.h - - Title: "AmigaOS hint patch" - From: Norbert Pueschel - Msg-ID: <77724767@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> - Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:50:15 +0100 - Files: hints/amigaos.sh - - OTHER CORE CHANGES - - Title: "Make conversion of @_ to real array work right after C" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: av.c - - Title: "Fix imbalanced ENTER/LEAVE from C" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c perl.c proto.h - - Title: "perl -P path patch" - From: Andy Dougherty - Msg-ID: - Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0 - Files: Configure - - Title: "Allow './Configure -Uoptimize'" - From: Andy Dougherty - Msg-ID: - Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:53:00 -0500 - Files: Configure - - Title: "Don't count on 'trap 0' inside () in shell script" - From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison) - Msg-ID: - Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0 - Files: perl_exp.SH - - LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS - - Title: "Carp with multiple arguments" - From: "M.J.T. Guy" - Msg-ID: - Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:12:17 +0000 - Files: lib/Carp.pm - - Title: "@EXPORT_FAIL fix for Exporter.pm" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: <24884.857841724@eeyore.ibcinc.com> - Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:22:04 -0500 - Files: lib/Exporter.pm - - Title: "Open[23] autoflush docs" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: <7939.857693947@eeyore.ibcinc.com> - Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:19:07 -0500 - Files: lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm - - TESTS - - Title: "Fix counts in output of TEST" - From: Hugo van der Sanden - Msg-ID: <331F1507.4BE8@iii.co.uk> - Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:03:35 +0000 - Files: t/TEST - - Title: "Ignore backup files in strict.t and warning.t" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/warning.t - - UTILITIES - - Title: "Quote pathname before using as pattern" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/pod2html.PL - - DOCUMENTATION - - Title: "Consolidated INSTALL updates since _92" - From: Andy Dougherty - Msg-ID: - Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 00:37:30 -0500 (EST) - Files: README.os2 - - Title: "PODs corrections" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199703080253.VAA24975@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 21:53:04 -0500 (EST) - Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm - lib/Class/Template.pm lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm - lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm - lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/stat.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm - lib/Time/localtime.pm lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm - lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldebug.pod - pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perllocale.pod - pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod - - ------------------- - Version 5.003_92 ------------------- - -This release will be the public beta of 5.004, or my name isn't -Larson T. Pettifogger. - - CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES - - Title: "Strictly follow lexical context of C and nested subs" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c - - Title: "Make ::SUPER and UNIVERSAL work together" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: gv.c pod/perlguts.pod - - CORE PORTABILITY - - Title: "HP-UX hint update" - From: Raphael Manfredi - Msg-ID: <1479.857653838@lyon.grenoble.hp.com> - Date: Thu, 06 Mar 97 14:10:38 +0100 - Files: hints/hpux.sh - - Title: "Re: The continuing MachTen saga" - From: Tom Phoenix - Msg-ID: - Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:47:22 -0800 (PST) - Files: hints/machten_2.sh - - Title: "OS/2 patches" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199703060308.WAA22211@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:08:43 -0500 (EST) - Files: hints/os2.sh lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm t/op/taint.t - - Title: "VMS patches" - From: Charles Bailey - Msg-ID: <01IG5SQE4A6U00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> - Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:10:24 -0500 (EST) - Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm perlsdio.h - t/op/runlevel.t t/op/taint.t vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms - vms/sockadapt.c vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms_yfix.pl - - OTHER CORE CHANGES - - Title: "Make sure $^X is tainted when ARG_ZERO_IS_SCRIPT" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: toke.c - - Title: "Clarify '-T too late' error" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod - - Title: "Warn when redefining or undefining a constant sub" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c sv.c - - Title: "Don't generate spurious 'not imported' warning" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: gv.c t/pragma/strict-vars pod/perldiag.pod - - Title: "Clarify message re: @host in string" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod toke.c - - Title: "Disconnect refs that are targets of pp_readline" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp_hot.c - - Title: "Fix typo in test of HvFILL()" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c - - Title: "Allow for pad name array to be shorter than pad array" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c - - Title: "Eliminate format-string type warnings" - From: Hallvard B Furuseth - Msg-ID: <199703030915.KAA11634@bombur2.uio.no> - Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:15:11 +0100 (MET) - Files: doio.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c hints/dec_osf.sh pp.c pp_ctl.c - pp_hot.c run.c sv.c x2p/a2py.c - - Title: "Update copyright dates" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: *.[hc] x2p/*.[hc] win32/EXTERN.h vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c - - BUILD PROCESS - - Title: "near-harmless bug in _91's Configure" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: - Date: 01 Mar 1997 21:26:49 -0500 - Files: Configure - - Title: "Change 'continuing anyway' to 'probably harmless'" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: INSTALL lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm - - LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS - - Title: "Newer ReadLine" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199703040634.BAA19919@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:34:28 -0500 (EST) - Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl - - Title: "Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.9" - From: Johan Vromans - Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm - - Title: "Benchmark: using code refs" - From: Hugo van der Sanden - Msg-ID: <199703041132.LAA07613@tyree.iii.co.uk> - Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 11:32:11 +0000 - Files: lib/Benchmark.pm - - Title: "Fix quotewords" - From: Hugo van der Sanden - Msg-ID: <199703060755.HAA15060@crypt.compulink.co.uk> - Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 07:55:25 +0000 - Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm - - Title: "Use IV instead of double for tms structure members" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs - - Title: "Document IO::File::new_tmpfile" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm - - TESTS - - Title: "Make op/TEST silent under -w" - From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) - Msg-ID: <199703011821.NAA13037@sinistar.idle.com> - Date: Sat, 1 Mar 97 12:04:09 CST - Files: t/TEST - - Title: "Smarter t/op/taint.t" - From: Tom Phoenix - Msg-ID: - Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:25:03 -0800 (PST) - Files: pod/pod2html.PL - - Title: "Support 'long long' in h2ph" - From: (name lost) - Files: utils/h2ph.PL - - DOCUMENTATION - - Title: "Add taint checks and srand to perldelta" - From: Tom Phoenix - Msg-ID: - Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:32:31 -0700 - Files: pod/perlmod.pod - - Title: "Clarify C documentation" - From: Tom Phoenix - Msg-ID: - Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:54:22 +0200 (EET) - Files: pod/perlmod.pod - - Title: "Enhance description of 'server error'" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi - Msg-ID: <199702041903.VAA16070@alpha.hut.fi> - Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:03:23 +0200 (EET) - Files: pod/perldiag.pod - - Title: "Regularize format of E-Mail addresses in *.pod" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/*.pod - - ------------------- - Version 5.003_91 ------------------- - -This is (should be? must be!) the public beta of 5.004. - - CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES - - Title: "Fix perl_call_*() when !G_EVAL" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy - Msg-ID: <199702250725.CAA09192@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, - <199702251925.OAA15498@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, - <199702252200.RAA16853@aatma.engin.umich.edu> - Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:25:56 -0500 - Files: MANIFEST gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c - t/op/runlevel.t - - Title: "Fix taint tests for writeable dirs in $ENV{PATH}" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: mg.c mg.h pod/perlsec.pod taint.c - - Title: "Forbid tainted parameters for truncate()" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp_sys.c - - Title: "Don't taint magic hash keys unnecessarily" - From: Charles Bailey - Msg-ID: <01IFXL9TY74Y00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> - Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:11:26 -0500 (EST) - Files: hv.c - - CORE PORTABILITY - - Title: "VMS patches post _90" - From: Charles Bailey - Msg-ID: <01IFYDE5ZT7O005A53@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> - Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:26:33 -0500 (EST) - Files: doio.c mg.c perl.h pp_hot.c t/op/rand.t t/op/taint.t taint.c - vms/descrip.mms vms/vms.c - - Title: "Fix taint check in system() and exec() under VMS and OS/2" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp_sys.c - - Title: "If _XOPEN_VERSION >= 4, socket length parameters are size_t" - From: Michael H. Moran - Files: perl.h pp_sys.c - - Title: "Make dooneliner() compile again" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp_sys.c - - OTHER CORE CHANGES - - Title: "Short-circuit duplicate study() calls" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp.c - - Title: "Call sv_set[iu]v() with [IU]V parameter, not [IU]32" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: perl.c pp.c pp_sys.c toke.c util.c - - Title: "Clean up and document API for hashes" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy - Msg-ID: <199702251824.NAA14859@aatma.engin.umich.edu> - Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:24:02 -0500 - Files: hv.c hv.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod - - Title: "pp_undef was not always freeing memory" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199702270653.BAA13949@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:53:51 -0500 (EST) - Files: pp.c - - Title: "Fix SEGV when debugging with foreach() lvalue patch" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199702271924.OAA14557@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:24:36 -0500 (EST) - Files: sv.c - - Title: "Don't examine rx->exec_tainted if pregexec() fails" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp_hot.c - - Title: "Silence bogus typo warning on $DB::postponed" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy - Msg-ID: <199702271802.NAA12505@aatma.engin.umich.edu> - Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:02:30 -0500 - Files: op.c - - BUILD PROCESS - - Title: "Sanity check linking with $libs" - From: Andy Dougherty - Msg-ID: - Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:13:45 -0500 (EST) - Files: Configure - - Title: "Flush stdout when printing $randbits guess" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: Configure - - Title: "Configure changes for Irix nm" - From: Helmut Jarausch and Fabien Tassin - Files: Configure - - Title: "Update OS/2 Configure diff" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199702251906.OAA10608@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:06:23 -0500 (EST) - Files: os2/diff.configure - - LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS - - Title: "Don't require() in a signal handler" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: lib/perl5db.pl - - Title: "Make IPC::Open3 work without fork()" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199702251937.OAA10718@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:37:07 -0500 (EST) - Files: lib/IPC/Open3.pm - - Title: "Follow up on elimination of $` $& $' in libraries" - From: "M.J.T. Guy" - Msg-ID: - Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:59:42 +0000 - Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/diagnostics.pm - - Title: "Don't warn on use of CCFLAGS" - From: Andreas Koenig - Msg-ID: <199702251038.LAA13123@anna.in-berlin.de> - Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:38:43 +0100 - Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm - - Title: "Allow explicit '-lperl' in link arguments" - From: Doug MacEachern - Msg-ID: <199702271625.LAA25402@postman.osf.org> - Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:25:04 -0500 - Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm - - TESTS - - Title: "New test op/taint.t" - From: Tom Phoenix - Msg-ID: , Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/pod2man.PL utils/perldoc.PL - - Title: "Eliminate dead code in pod2man" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/pod2man.PL - - DOCUMENTATION - - Title: "Warn about intrusive sfio behavior" - From: Andy Dougherty - Msg-ID: - Files: pod/perlrun.pod - - Title: "Fix references to perlbug" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perllocale.pod - pod/perltoc.pod - - ------------------- - Version 5.003_90 ------------------- - -At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004. - - CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES - - Title: "Automatically call srand() before rand() if user didn't" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c - - CORE PORTABILITY - - Title: "Ultrix hints" - From: Spider Boardman - Msg-ID: <199702220951.EAA08156@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> - Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 04:51:48 -0500 - Files: hints/ultrix_4.sh - - Title: "Digital UNIX and 3_28" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi - Msg-ID: <199702231427.QAA13807@alpha.hut.fi> - Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:27:19 +0200 (EET) - Files: Configure MANIFEST ext/NDBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl - ext/ODBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl hints/dec_osf.sh - - Title: "AmigaOS patches to 5.003_28" - From: Norbert Pueschel - Msg-ID: <77724759@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> - Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:08:02 +0100 - Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh t/io/fs.t t/lib/anydbm.t - t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t - t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t - t/op/magic.t t/op/stat.t - - Title: "Hints for DC/OSx" - From: Stephen Zander - Msg-ID: <199702242124.NAA03796@wsuse5.mckesson.com> - Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:24:54 -0800 - Files: hints/dcosx.sh - - Title: "Update VMS version" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms - - OTHER CORE CHANGES - - Title: "Don't assume that sizeof(int) >= sizeof(void*)" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: doio.c malloc.c regexec.c - - BUILD PROCESS - - Title: "Re: ccdlflags don't quite work" - From: Andy Dougherty - Msg-ID: - Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:42:59 -0500 - Files: installperl - - Title: "installperl breaks running system (for a while)" - From: Spider Boardman - Msg-ID: <199702241412.JAA11829@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> - Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:12:11 -0500 - Files: installperl - - LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS - - Title: "Don't clobber $1 et al in debugger's DB::sub()" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Files: lib/perl5db.pl - - Title: "Fix fd leak in IO::Pipe" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: - Date: 23 Feb 1997 14:29:57 -0500 - Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm - - Title: "Pod::Text fixes" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: <350.856634588@eeyore.ibcinc.com> - Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 13:03:08 -0500 - Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm - - Title: "Trivial patch to make ExtUtils::Install more -w clean" - From: Tim Bunce - Msg-ID: <9702241605.AA17436@toad.ig.co.uk> - Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:05:17 +0000 - Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm - - Title: "C didn't work until 5.002" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: lib/vars.pm - - TESTS - - Title: "More thoroughly test rand() and srand()" - From: Tom Phoenix - Files: t/op/rand.t - - Title: "Don't use <*> where readdir() will do" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: t/op/stat.t - - Title: "Allow for $^X to be 'miniperl'" - From: Dominic Dunlop - Msg-ID: - Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:22:45 +0100 - Files: t/op/magic.t - - UTILITIES - - Title: "Post-28 INSTALL updates" - From: Andy Dougherty - Msg-ID: - Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:29:30 -0500 - Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod - - Title: "Add documentation and '-h' option to perlbug" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy - Msg-ID: <199702240854.DAA27128@aatma.engin.umich.edu> - and <199702242009.PAA02849@aatma.engin.umich.edu> - Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 - Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod installman - utils/perlbug.PL - - Title: "pumpkin-1.9.pod" - From: Andy Dougherty - Msg-ID: undefine &foo" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c - - Title: "Make code, doc agree on $ENV{PATH} and `cmd`" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c - - Title: "Don't taint $x in C<$x = ($tainted =~ /(\w+)/)>" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c - - Title: "Turn off 'expression tainted' flag at end of runops()" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: run.c - - Title: "When overloading, don't throw away nomethod's value" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Files: gv.c - - Title: "Optimize keys() and values() in void context" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: doop.c op.c - - CORE PORTABILITY - - Title: "New hints for Digital UNIX" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi - Files: hints/dec_osf.sh - - Title: "No version of AIX has working setre[ug]id()" - From: neufeld@fast.pvi.org (Keith Neufeld) - Files: hints/aix.sh - - Title: "VMS patches post _27" - From: Charles Bailey - Msg-ID: <01IFMEMPN1IU0057E2@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> - Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:58:46 -0500 (EST) - Files: MANIFEST dosish.h hv.c lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm - lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c perlsdio.h pod/perldelta.pod - pod/perlvar.pod t/op/closure.t unixish.h vms/Makefile - vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/filespec.t vms/genconfig.pl - vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h - - Title: "Re: OS/2 patch for _27" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199702210024.TAA03174@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:24:16 -0500 (EST) - Files: INSTALL README.os2 lib/Test/Harness.pm os2/Changes - os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h - os2/perl2cmd.pl perl.c pod/perldelta.pod t/TEST t/harness - t/op/magic.t - - OTHER CORE CHANGES - - Title: "Fix a typo" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp_sys.c - - Title: "Undo signal patch -- it broke die() in signal" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: mg.c - - Title: "Fix perl_call_sv(..., G_NOARGS)" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: perl.c - - Title: "Fix SIGSEGV when cloning sub with complex expression" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c - - Title: "Minor update to malloc.c" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199702210244.VAA03676@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:44:13 -0500 (EST) - Files: malloc.c - - Title: "Fix the Tolkien quotation" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: perly.y - - BUILD PROCESS - - (no changes) - - LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS - - Title: "Debugger patch" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199702210737.CAA03951@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 02:37:59 -0500 (EST) - Files: lib/perl5db.pl - - Title: "Avoid $` $& $' in libraries" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199702210207.VAA03560@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:07:30 -0500 (EST) - Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm lib/diagnostics.pm - os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm - - Title: "Remove redundant clearerr() from IO::Seekable" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm - - Title: "prototype error in File::stat" - From: Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com - Msg-ID: <199702180748.HAA14151@ultra-boy> - Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:48:40 GMT - Files: lib/File/stat.pm - - TESTS - - Title: "Include 'study' in regexp.t" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: t/op/regexp.t - - Title: "Don't run locale test if -DNO_LOCALE" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: t/pragma/locale.t - - Title: "Tweak tests to notice $dont_use_nlink" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: t/io/fs.t t/op/stat.t - - Title: "Add test for grep() and wantarray" - From: Hugo van der Sanden - Msg-ID: <199702181105.LAA17895@tyree.iii.co.uk> - Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:05:59 +0000 - Files: t/op/misc.t - - UTILITIES - - (no changes) - - DOCUMENTATION - - Title: "INSTALL updates since _26" - From: Andy Dougherty - Msg-ID: " - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perlop.pod - - Title: "Correct doc that claimed that was never false" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod - - Title: "Document C<$?> vs. $SIG{CHLD}" - From: Ulrich Pfeifer - Files: pod/perlvar.pod - - Title: "Add pumpkin.pod" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: MANIFEST Porting/pumpkin.pod - - Title: "Don't say "associat*ve arr*y"" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: MANIFEST gv.h hv.c lib/Env.pm lib/overload.pm opcode.pl - pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod - pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod - pod/perltie.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod x2p/a2p.pod - - ------------------- - Version 5.003_27 ------------------- - -This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta. - - CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES - - Title: "Better looks_like_number() function [sv.c]" - From: Gisle Aas - Msg-ID: <199702141708.SAA17546@bergen.sn.no> - Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:08:52 +0100 - Files: sv.c - - Title: "Remove redundant functions UNIVERSAL::{class,is_instance}" - From: Gisle Aas - Msg-ID: - Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:52:21 +0000 - Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlobj.pod t/op/universal.t universal.c - - Title: "Allow C" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: - Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:19:12 -0500 - Files: pp_sys.c - - Title: "Fix syntax error on C<&$1>" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: toke.c - - Title: "Fix sub call through magic var (e.g. C<&$1>)" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp_hot.c - - Title: "Fix grep() with refs in array context" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp.c - - CORE PORTABILITY - - Title: "Eliminate $^S; add C" - From: Charles Bailey - Msg-ID: <01IFI9CFKL0S004R2V@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> - Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:45:26 -0500 (EST) - Files: MANIFEST gv.c lib/English.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm - lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp mg.c op.c - perl.c perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod - pod/perlvar.pod pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c utils/perldoc.PL - vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms - vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs - vms/ext/XSSymSet.pm vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h - win32/makedef.pl - - Title: "Eliminate FP exceptions under SCO 5" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: hints/sco.sh unixish.h - - Title: "Digital UNIX hints" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi - Msg-ID: <199702151906.VAA22999@alpha.hut.fi> - Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:06:33 +0200 (EET) - Files: hints/dec_osf.sh - - Title: "Irix6.4 (with 7.1 compilers)" - From: John Stoffel - Msg-ID: <199702130238.VAA24468@jfs.Fluent.COM> - Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:38:51 -0500 (EST) - Files: hints/irix_6_2.sh hints/irix_6_4.sh - - Title: "Update Plan 9, Win32, VMS configs with $shortsize and $longsize" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/genconfig.pl - vms/genconfig.pl win32/config.w32 - - OTHER CORE CHANGES - - Title: "Fix core dump when embedding" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: perl.c - - Title: "Re: Fragile signals" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199702130644.BAA07572@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:44:39 -0500 (EST) - Files: mg.c - - Title: "Make format strings correspond exactly to parameters" - From: Roderick Schertler - Msg-ID: - Date: 13 Feb 1997 17:24:31 -0500 - Files: doio.c ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs gv.c op.c - perl.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c regcomp.c toke.c - - Title: "Don't try to attach 'o' magic to read-only values" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: sv.c - - Title: "Fix carriage-return message" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: toke.c - - Title: "In <=>, test for equality first" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp.c - - Title: "Don't mark sv_{true,false} PADTMP" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c - - BUILD PROCESS - - Title: "Fix eval "" in Configure" - From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen) - Msg-ID: <9702141809.AA17001@gateway.grumman.com> - Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:09:53 -0500 - Files: Configure - - Title: "Don't link with -lsfio if sfio is not requested" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: Configure - - Title: "perl5.003_26 Configure change "win" for AIX 4" - From: Tim Mooney - Msg-ID: - Date: 10 Feb 1997 18:38:45 +0100 - Files: pod/pod2man.PL - - DOCUMENTATION - - Title: "Update To-Do list" - From: Tim Bunce - Msg-ID: <9702101900.AA25293@toad.ig.co.uk> - Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:00:59 +0000 - Files: Todo - - Title: "Fix formatting in perldiag" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perldiag.pod - - ------------------- - Version 5.003_26 ------------------- - -This release is beta candidate #4. "Once more, dear friends...." - - CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES - - Title: "Make \r in script an error (per Larry)" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c - - Title: "Support '%i' format and 'h' modifier in s?printf" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: doop.c pod/perldelta.pod - - CORE PORTABILITY - - Title: "Fix value of system() and $? for DEC UNIX, VMS, others" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: mg.c perl.h pp_sys.c - - Title: "VMS patches post _25" - From: Charles Bailey - Msg-ID: <01IF48W3P39W0050BD@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> - Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 01:56:12 -0500 (EST) - Files: Porting/Glossary lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm - lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c - vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/genconfig.pl - vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.c - - Title: "Hints for BSDOS" - From: Christopher Davis - Msg-ID: <199702042011.PAA09206@loiosh.kei.com> - Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 15:11:13 -0500 (EST) - Files: hints/bsdos.sh - - Title: "On C, call C" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: doio.c - - OTHER CORE CHANGES - - Title: "Fix (yet another) Tk closure problem" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: op.c perl.c pp_ctl.c - - Title: "Fix value of C" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c - - Title: "Regexp optimizations" - From: Ilya Zakharevich - Msg-ID: <199702041102.GAA24805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> - Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 06:02:10 -0500 (EST) - Files: regcomp.c regexec.c - - Title: "Re: static buffer in not_a_number() [sv.c] might overflow" - From: Gisle Aas - Msg-ID: - Date: 09 Feb 1997 11:55:41 +0100 - Files: sv.c - - Title: "Refine 'runaway string' heuristic" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: toke.c - - Title: "Fix core dump on C in eval" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp_ctl.c - - Title: "Catch C" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: pp.c - - BUILD PROCESS - - Title: "Fix usage message in configure.gnu" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi - Files: configure.gnu - - LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS - - Title: "DB_File 1.11 patch" - From: Paul Marquess - Msg-ID: <9702061553.AA18147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> - Date: Thu, 6 Feb 97 15:53:34 GMT - Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs - - Title: "Faster File::Compare" - From: Gisle Aas - Msg-ID: <199702051342.OAA02753@bergen.sn.no> - Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:42:49 +0100 - Files: lib/File/Compare.pm - - Title: "Make diagnostics module strip formatting directives" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod - - Title: "Fix warning from missing POSIX::setvbuf()" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: ext/IO/IO.xs - - TESTS - - Title: "Fix closure.t for AmigaOS (again)" - From: Norbert Pueschel - Msg-ID: <77724742@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> - Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 18:56:45 +0100 - Files: t/op/closure.t - - UTILITIES - - Title: "perldoc -f " - From: Gisle Aas - Msg-ID: <199702051127.MAA02090@bergen.sn.no> - Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 12:27:36 +0100 - Files: utils/perldoc.PL - - Title: "Fix pod2man's handling of quotes in =items" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi - Msg-ID: <199702042023.WAA13143@alpha.hut.fi> - Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 22:23:34 +0200 (EET) - Files: pod/pod2man.PL - - DOCUMENTATION - - Title: "return *FH pod patch" - From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen) - Msg-ID: <9702061507.AA04474@gateway.grumman.com> - Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 10:07:28 -0500 - Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlsub.pod - - Title: "Describe interation of untie and DESTROY" - From: Paul Marquess and Chip Salzenberg - Files: pod/perltie.pod - - ------------------- - Version 5.003_25 ------------------- - -This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping... - - CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES - - Title: "Make $] read-only" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: gv.c - - Title: "New variable C<$^S> is a native version of C<$?>" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: doio.c global.sym gv.c interp.sym lib/English.pm mg.c perl.c - perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlvar.pod - pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c proto.h util.c - - Title: "Make $^T work with undump, and don't taint it" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: perl.c - - CORE PORTABILITY - - Title: "VMS patches for _24" - From: Charles Bailey - Msg-ID: <01IEUIFP5038004GQP@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> - Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 02:34:37 -0500 (EST) - Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs - lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm - lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm perl.h pp_hot.c t/lib/filehand.t - t/op/closure.t vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms - vms/ext/filespec.t vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h - - Title: "hints/dec_osf.sh: polishing the comments" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi - Msg-ID: <199701301958.VAA08992@alpha.hut.fi> - Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:58:10 +0200 (EET) - Files: hints/dec_osf.sh - - Title: "amigaos.sh" - From: Norbert Pueschel - Msg-ID: <77724724@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> - Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:39:49 +0100 - Files: hints/amigaos.sh - - OTHER CORE CHANGES - - Title: "Require '-T' in argv[], not just on #! line" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod - - Title: "Fix C and associated stack bugs" - From: Chip Salzenberg - Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t - - Title: "Fix never-closing handle after C