Storable.pm The perl side of Storable
Storable.xs The C side of Storable
ChangeLog Changes since baseline
+t/blessed.t See if Storable works
+t/canonical.t See if Storable works
+t/compat06.t See if Storable works
+t/croak.t See if Storable works
+t/dclone.t See if Storable works
+t/downgrade.t See if Storable works
+t/forgive.t See if Storable works
+t/freeze.t See if Storable works
+t/lock.t See if Storable works
+t/make_downgrade.pl See if Storable works
+t/malice.t See if Storable copes with corrupt files
+t/overload.t See if Storable works
+t/recurse.t See if Storable works
+t/restrict.t See if Storable works
+t/retrieve.t See if Storable works
+t/store.t See if Storable works
+t/tied.t See if Storable works
+t/tied_hook.t See if Storable works
+t/tied_items.t See if Storable works
+t/utf8.t See if Storable works
+t/utf8hash.t See if Storable works
+lib/st-dump.pl helper routines for tests
- Storable 1.0
+ Storable 1.015
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
+=======================================================================
| Storable is distributed as a module, but is also part of the official
-| Perl core distribution. Maintenance is still done by the Author,
-| whilst the perl5-porters ensure that no change to the Perl internals
-| can break the version of Storable distributed with it.
+| 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 (in chronological order):
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/hippo2000/perltips/storable.htm,
courtesy of Kawai, Takanori <kawai@nippon-rad.co.jp>.
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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 <Philip.Newton@gmx.net>
+ 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.
return B<all> strings as utf8 sequences, or to attempt to convert utf8
data back to 8 bit and C<croak()> if the conversion fails.
-Future compatibility does not yet extend to having the option of loading
-serialized data with higher than current minor version numbers. This
-ought to be fixed pronto.
-
=head1 CREDITS
Thank you to (in chronological order):
=head1 AUTHOR
-Raphael Manfredi F<E<lt>Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.comE<gt>>
+Storable was written by Raphael Manfredi F<E<lt>Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.comE<gt>>
+Maitainance is now done by the perl5-porters F<E<lt>perl5-porters@perl.orgE<gt>>
+
+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.
=head1 SEE ALSO