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):
+current addresses (as of February 2000):
Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Abigail <abigail@delanet.com>
Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
+ Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>
+ Greg Bacon <gbacon@itsc.uah.edu>
+ Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Vishal Bhatia <vishal@gol.com>
Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
- Jan Dubois <jan.dubois@ibm.net>
+ Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
+ Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>
+ Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org>
+ Eric Fifer <efifer@sanwaint.com>
Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
M. J. T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
+ Douglas Lankshear <dougl@activestate.com>
Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Raphael Manfredi <Raphael.Manfredi@st.com>
Paul Marquess <Paul.Marquess@btinternet.com>
Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>
Laszlo Molnar <laszlo.molnar@eth.ericsson.se>
Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>
+ Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>
Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Joshua Pritikin <joshua.pritikin@db.com>
+ Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>
Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt0.demon.co.uk>
+ Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
Kurt D. Starsinic <kstar@isinet.com>
+ Benjamin Stuhl <sho_pi@hotmail.com>
Dan Sugalski <sugalskd@osshe.edu>
+ Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
Larry W. Virden <lvirden@cas.org>
+ Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin:
----------------
____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5167] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 18:54:27
+ Log: avoid reading out-of-bounds memory when matching against reference
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regexec.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5166] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 17:59:41
+ Log: byte mode chop() should clear UTF8 (from Gisle Aas)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! doop.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5165] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 17:57:08
+ Log: test fix needed by change#5164
+ Branch: perl
+ ! t/pragma/warn/toke
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5164] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 17:50:38
+ Log: default mkdir() mode argument to 0777
+ Branch: perl
+ ! opcode.h opcode.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
+ ! t/op/mkdir.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5163] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 16:34:33
+ Log: glob() takes one or no user arguments and a non-user-visible second
+ hidden argument, fix its prototype-checking accordingly
+ Branch: perl
+ ! op.c opcode.h opcode.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5162] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 16:07:38
+ Log: make change#3386 a build-time option (avoids problems due to
+ perl_run() longjmping out)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Todo-5.6 embed.h embed.pl embedvar.h intrpvar.h objXSUB.h
+ ! perl.c perl.h perlapi.c perlvars.h pp_ctl.c proto.h scope.c
+ ! scope.h sv.c thrdvar.h util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5161] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 12:13:37
+ Log: IO::Socket now sets $!, avoids eval/die (patch from Graham Barr
+ modified to use Errno more portably)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket/INET.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5160] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 11:53:28
+ Log: mention portability caveat about C<use Errno 'EFOO'>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5159] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 11:14:36
+ Log: revise docs on @+ and @- (from Tom "Camel" Christiansen)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlvar.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5158] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 10:53:49
+ Log: README.vms and related updates (from Peter Prymmer <pvhp@best.com>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! MANIFEST Makefile.SH README.vms pod/perl5005delta.pod
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlport.pod pod/podchecker.PL
+ ! vms/descrip_mms.template
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5157] By: jhi on 2000/02/19 20:29:26
+ Log: Be explicit about what ops work with bt vectors.
+ (And implicit about which don't.)
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5156] By: jhi on 2000/02/19 18:38:14
+ Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ +> lib/bytes.pm lib/bytes_heavy.pl
+ - lib/byte.pm lib/byte_heavy.pl
+ !> (integrate 61 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5155] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:57:39
+ Log: char vs U8 warnings
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5154] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:44:56
+ Log: remove outdated caveat about C<while ($k = each %foo)> (from
+ Hugo van der Sanden)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5153] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:41:41
+ Log: tests, doc tweak (from Gisle Aas)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlfaq9.pod t/op/ord.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5152] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:35:50
+ Log: document behavior of splice(@ary) (from Gisle Aas)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5151] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:33:59
+ Log: fix bug in backtracking optimizer (from Makoto Ishisone
+ <ishisone@sra.co.jp>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regexec.c t/op/pat.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5150] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:33:05
+ Log: more B fixups to cope with empty GVs (these can only happen in pads)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/B/B.pm ext/B/B.xs ext/B/B/C.pm op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5149] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:32:03
+ Log: avoid compiler warnings
+ Branch: perl
+ ! malloc.c perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5148] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:18:09
+ Log: document 'lvalue' attribute (from Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/attributes.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5147] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:15:34
+ Log: avoid failing on $!{ENOTHERE} (they can always use C<exists $!{NOTHERE}>
+ for that)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5146] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 16:18:46
+ Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+ Branch: perl
+ !> Configure config_h.SH ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs
+ !> ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c ext/Socket/Socket.pm
+ !> ext/Socket/Socket.xs hints/hpux.sh perl.h pod/perldelta.pod
+ !> pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlopentut.pod t/lib/syslfs.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5145] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 16:10:37
+ Log: POSIX::strftime gets the date wrong (from John Tobey
+ <jtobey@epsilondev.com>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs t/lib/posix.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5144] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 16:02:40
+ Log: don't blindly set bool=char on linux (from Andy Dougherty)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! handy.h hints/linux.sh x2p/a2p.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5143] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 15:54:04
+ Log: some rearrangement of the includes for easier "microperl" build;
+ add PERL_MICRO guards supplied by Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! doio.c perl.c perl.h pp_hot.c pp_sys.c toke.c util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5142] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 15:22:17
+ Log: fixes for Pod::Html issues (from Wolfgang Laun
+ <wolfgang.laun@chello.at>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/Pod/Html.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5141] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 08:27:29
+ Log: grammos (spotted by Tom Christiansen)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5140] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 08:17:04
+ Log: various xsubpp enhancements that make it easier to use with
+ C::Scan (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+
+ TODO: still needs documentation
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5139] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 07:55:18
+ Log: s/croak/Perl_croak/
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5138] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 07:51:39
+ Log: make comparisons promote to utf8 as necessary (from Gisle Aas)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Todo-5.6 embed.h embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perlapi.c
+ ! pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5137] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 07:42:12
+ Log: set close-on-exec flag on sockets too, like we do for files
+ and pipes
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlvar.pod pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5136] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 07:23:48
+ Log: allocate sufficient buffer sizes for 64-bit wide utf8 characters
+ permitted by change#5011 (from Gisle Aas)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pp.c utf8.c utf8.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5135] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 06:53:13
+ Log: s/WARN_PRECEDENCE/WARN_BAREWORD/, vide change#5131
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/warnings.pm op.c warnings.h warnings.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5134] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 06:36:46
+ Log: s/byte/bytes/g remnants
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/bytes.pm lib/bytes_heavy.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5133] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 06:33:49
+ Log: rename byte:: to bytes::
+ Branch: perl
+ +> lib/bytes.pm lib/bytes_heavy.pl
+ - lib/byte.pm lib/byte_heavy.pl
+ ! MANIFEST lib/charnames.pm lib/utf8.pm pod/perldelta.pod
+ ! pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlunicode.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+ ! t/lib/charnames.t t/op/ver.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5132] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 05:58:42
+ Log: English names for $^R and $^S
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/English.pm pod/perlvar.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5131] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 05:44:20
+ Log: rename "Probable precendence problem" diagnostic to "Bareword found
+ in conditional" to better reflect the class of error (as suggested
+ by Larry)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/warn/op
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5130] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 05:43:10
+ Log: fix outdated info about PerlClinic and the bug-tracking system
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlfaq2.pod pod/perltodo.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5129] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 04:14:19
+ Log: some fixes for mingw32/GCC (SETERRNO() still appears to
+ trash memory)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! README.win32 t/lib/safe2.t t/op/mkdir.t win32/makefile.mk
+ ! win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5128] By: gsar on 2000/02/18 06:55:33
+ Log: avoid $@-clearing sideeffect of require in Carp
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/Carp.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5127] By: gsar on 2000/02/18 04:58:26
+ Log: stronger testcase for change#5126
+ Branch: perl
+ ! t/op/pat.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5126] By: gsar on 2000/02/18 04:44:28
+ Log: make /\S/ match the same things /[\S]/ matches; likewise for
+ \D (from Rick Delaney <rick@consumercontact.com>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regexec.c t/op/pat.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5125] By: gsar on 2000/02/18 03:57:43
+ Log: Compiler fixups from Jan Dubois
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/B/B.pm ext/B/B.xs ext/B/B/C.pm utils/perlcc.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5124] By: jhi on 2000/02/17 22:09:09
+ Log: Take out the -Wl,-z as we have survice so far without.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5123] By: jhi on 2000/02/17 18:40:17
+ Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ !> dump.c ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs t/op/split.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5122] By: gsar on 2000/02/17 18:01:14
+ Log: fix test that depends on op_dump() output
+ Branch: perl
+ ! t/op/split.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5121] By: gsar on 2000/02/17 17:55:18
+ Log: op_dump() tweak
+ Branch: perl
+ ! dump.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5120] By: jhi on 2000/02/16 23:11:04
+ Log: Regularize the use* questions, and replace
+ "Configure *must* be run with -Duse..." with.
+ "can be run".
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/threads/usethreads.U
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ ! use64bits.U uselfs.U uselongdbl.U uselonglong.U
+ ! usemultiplicity.U useperlio.U usesocks.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5119] By: jhi on 2000/02/16 22:29:11
+ Log: HP-UX 64-bitness/largefile fixes.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c hints/hpux.sh
+ ! perl.h
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/modified/cc.U U/modified/libpth.U U/modified/libs.U
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ ! Extensions.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5118] By: jhi on 2000/02/16 19:47:51
+ Log: Fcntl: more O_ constants, move SEEK_ to @EXPORT_OK
+ (tag :seek), add S_I constants (and functions) (tag :mode);
+ refer only to the SEEK_ of Fcntl, not the ones from
+ POSIX or IO::; add SHUT_ to Socket; get trigonometric
+ functions from Math::Trig instead of POSIX.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs ext/Socket/Socket.pm
+ ! ext/Socket/Socket.xs perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+ ! pod/perlopentut.pod t/lib/syslfs.t
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ + i_sysmode.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5117] By: gsar on 2000/02/16 06:39:06
+ Log: avoid warnings due to redefined NULL
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5116] By: gsar on 2000/02/16 00:10:25
+ Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+ Branch: perl
+ !> Configure Makefile.SH Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh
+ !> Porting/config_H config_h.SH ext/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.xs
+ !> ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs hints/aix.sh hints/hpux.sh
+ !> lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm myconfig.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5115] By: jhi on 2000/02/15 23:11:55
+ Log: Probe for <sys/utsname.h>.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+ ! config_h.SH ext/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.xs
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ + i_sysutsname.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5114] By: jhi on 2000/02/15 22:59:59
+ Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ +> ext/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.pm ext/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.xs
+ +> ext/Sys/Hostname/Makefile.PL
+ - lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
+ !> (integrate 41 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 5113] By: gsar on 2000/02/15 21:22:18
+ Log: update Changes, patchlevel
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h win32/Makefile win32/config_H.bc
+ ! win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
[ 5112] By: gsar on 2000/02/15 20:57:12
Log: fix change#5104 under useithreads
Branch: perl
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