X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Changes;h=f34114ef33f518988eacabf09b5b5e8c8692ca2e;hb=d83e6520878f26ddb2592ab5b8b67eb482e51ea6;hp=685a5590f2851f27d5d75794f4cd4f956e2c1fe6;hpb=774d564bb7dd1ed64ca0d7e534aa67e93f991f02;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 685a559..f34114e 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -9,6 +9,1417 @@ releases.) ---------------- +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: , + Graham Barr + Msg-ID: <199703011732.KAA14693@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:32:31 -0700 + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Clarify C documentation" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Msg-ID: <199703021454.QAA07446@alpha.hut.fi> + 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: + 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 + + #20: "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: + Msg-ID: <199702241342.IAA25945@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + 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: + Msg-ID: <199702242229.RAA04395@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + 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: + Files: Changes + + Title: "Document one-argument limitation with #! line" + From: Tom Phoenix + 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: + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm + + Title: "Refresh Test::Harness to 1.15" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Remove non-portable locale tests" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/pragma/locale.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "pod2man: missing '-' in name section shouldn't be fatal" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + 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: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (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