+Please note: This file provides a complete, temporally ordered log of
+changes that went into every version of Perl. If you'd like more
+detailed information, please consult the comments in the individual
+patches posted to the perl5-porters mailing list. Patches for each
+individual change may also be obtained through ftp and rsync--see
+perlhack.pod for the details.
+
+
+ ---------------
+ CAST AND CREW
+ ---------------
+
+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 August 2000):
+
+ Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
+ Abigail <abigail@foad.org>
+ 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>
+ Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>
+ 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>
+ 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@covalent.net>
+ 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>
+ Stephen Potter <spp@ds.net>
+ 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@crypt.demon.co.uk>
+ Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
+ Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>
+ Kurt D. Starsinic <kstar@chapin.edu>
+ Benjamin Stuhl <sho_pi@hotmail.com>
+ Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>
+ 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:
+
+ Charles Bailey <bailey@newman.upenn.edu>
+ Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>
+ Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
+ Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+ Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>
+ Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
+
+And, of course, the Author of Perl:
+
+ Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
+
+
+NOTE: Each change entry shows the change number; who checked it into the
+repository; when; description of the change; which branch the change
+happened in; and the affected files. The file lists have a short symbolic
+indicator:
+
+ ! modified
+ + added
+ - deleted
+ +> branched (from elsewhere)
+ !> merged changes (from elsewhere)
+
+
+--------------
+Version v5.7.0 Development release working toward v5.8
+--------------
+
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6820] By: jhi on 2000/08/25 18:52:35
+ Log: Fix Changes ordering.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 6819] By: jhi on 2000/08/25 18:50:25
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 6818] By: jhi on 2000/08/25 18:47:45
Log: Tweak the sfio/useperlio logic, hopefully as wished in
Branch: perl
! Makefile.SH
____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6788] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 15:33:40
- Log: Subject: [PATCH] (Mac OS X): Don't #define environ unless PERL_CORE
- From: Wilfredo Sánchez <wsanchez@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 19:31:27 -0700
- Message-Id: <200008230231.TAA00461@ns1.abstrata.com>
- Branch: perl
- ! perl.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6787] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 15:29:31
- Log: Subject: [ID 20000823.004] [PATCH 5.6.0+] Pod::Html is too self-contained
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@leggy.zk3.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:33:23 -0400
- Message-Id: <200008231433.KAA28122@leggy.zk3.dec.com>
- Branch: perl
- ! lib/Pod/Html.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6786] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 15:28:11
- Log: Bad makefile.
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/B/Makefile.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6785] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 14:37:04
- Log: Update Changes.
- Branch: perl
- ! Changes patchlevel.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6784] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 13:58:41
- Log: Portability fix from Hugo van der Sanden.
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/re/Makefile.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6783] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 13:53:53
- Log: Storable support, v-version fixes.
-
- Subject: CPAN.pm beta for testing available
- From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
- Date: 22 Aug 2000 23:31:33 +0200
- Message-ID: <m3hf8dc79m.fsf@ak-71.mind.de>
- Branch: perl
- ! lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6782] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 13:51:26
- Log: Mac and other portability updates from Chris Nandor.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perlmodinstall.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6781] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 13:47:33
- Log: Subject: [PATCH: 6778] fix a small typo in Storable.xs
- From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:20:41 -0700 (PDT)
- Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10008221616430.68568-100000@aspara.forte.com>
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/Storable/Storable.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6780] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 13:33:34
- Log: VMS MMS (make) wants null action.
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/B/Makefile.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6779] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 19:44:47
- Log: Forgot portability nit.
- Branch: perl
- ! t/lib/st-forgive.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6778] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 19:35:25
- Log: Be portable.
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/B/Makefile.PL t/lib/st-forgive.t t/lib/st-retrieve.t
- ! t/lib/st-store.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6777] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 18:50:53
- Log: Update Changes.
- Branch: perl
- ! Changes patchlevel.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6776] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 18:44:46
- Log: cSVOPo_*v things index into the current PL_curpad
- under ithreads, which is different from the curpad
- used by the XSUB. (In other words, the code as-is
- before this patch wouldn't work under ithreads.)
- From Sarathy.
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/B/B.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6775] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 18:18:37
- Log: Make the selection of NVff et al stricter.
- Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
- ! perlxvf.U
- Branch: perl
- ! Configure config_h.SH
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6774] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 17:19:42
- Log: perldelta nits.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6773] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 17:06:26
- Log: Long double fixes from Spider Boardman.
-
- Subject: [ID 20000821.014] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6756 on alpha-dec_osf 5.1 (UNINSTALLED)
- From: system PRIVILEGED account <root@peano.zk3.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:41:15 -0400 (EDT)
- Message-Id: <200008212241.SAA0000014255@peano.zk3.dec.com>
- Branch: perl
- ! t/lib/bigfltpm.t t/lib/st-06compat.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6772] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 15:04:53
- Log: Update Changes.
- Branch: perl
- ! Changes patchlevel.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6771] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 15:01:44
- Log: perldelta fixes from Hugo van der Sanden.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6770] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 14:34:49
- Log: Subject: [PATCH blead] nextchar() abuse misses an optimisation
- From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:21:53 +0100
- Message-Id: <200008221021.LAA03332@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
- Branch: perl
- ! regcomp.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6769] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 14:30:02
- Log: Add Yitzchak, reformat.
- Branch: perl
- ! Changes config_h.SH
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6768] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 14:21:35
- Log: Long double Gconvert fixes from Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
- and Spider Boardman.
- Branch: metaconfig
- ! U/compline/d_gconvert.U
- Branch: perl
- ! Configure
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6767] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 14:11:24
- Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ID 20000820.012] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6735 on
- From: sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:08:31 -0700
- Message-ID: <fCeo5gzkgmhY092yn@efn.org>
- Branch: perl
- - ext/Storable/patchlevel.h
- ! MANIFEST ext/Storable/MANIFEST
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6766] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 13:49:29
- Log: Subject: [PATCH: 6757] configure.com updates and syslog build
- From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:15:35 -0700 (PDT)
- Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10008211653270.17516-100000@aspara.forte.com>
- Branch: perl
- ! configure.com ext/Storable/Makefile.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6765] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 13:44:59
- Log: Subject: [PATCH blead] B:: missing dependency
- From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:44:33 +0100
- Message-Id: <200008220544.GAA31051@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/B/Makefile.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6764] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 13:38:12
- Log: More bytecompiler.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perlutil.pod utils/Makefile utils/perlbc.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6763] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 13:36:44
- Log: Bytecompiler patches from Benjamin Stuhl.
- Branch: perl
- ! bytecode.pl embedvar.h ext/B/B.pm ext/B/B.xs
- ! ext/B/B/Asmdata.pm ext/B/B/Assembler.pm ext/B/B/Bytecode.pm
- ! ext/B/O.pm ext/B/defsubs_h.PL ext/ByteLoader/ByteLoader.pm
- ! ext/ByteLoader/ByteLoader.xs ext/ByteLoader/bytecode.h
- ! ext/ByteLoader/byterun.c ext/ByteLoader/byterun.h intrpvar.h
- ! perl.c perlapi.h pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6762] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 23:43:40
- Log: An obsoleted diagnostic.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6761] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 23:01:45
- Log: The #6759 wasn't quite right.
- Branch: perl
- ! t/lib/st-06compat.t t/lib/st-blessed.t t/lib/st-canonical.t
- ! t/lib/st-dclone.t t/lib/st-forgive.t t/lib/st-freeze.t
- ! t/lib/st-overload.t t/lib/st-recurse.t t/lib/st-retrieve.t
- ! t/lib/st-store.t t/lib/st-tied.t t/lib/st-tiedhook.t
- ! t/lib/st-tieditems.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6760] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 22:35:49
- Log: Be verydeepclean.
- Branch: perl
- ! Makefile.SH
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6759] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 22:25:40
- Log: Subject: [PATCH: 6757] make new Storable tests forgiving of places where not built
- From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:58:16 -0700 (PDT)
- Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10008211456250.17516-100000@aspara.forte.com>
- Branch: perl
- ! t/lib/st-06compat.t t/lib/st-blessed.t t/lib/st-canonical.t
- ! t/lib/st-dclone.t t/lib/st-forgive.t t/lib/st-freeze.t
- ! t/lib/st-overload.t t/lib/st-recurse.t t/lib/st-retrieve.t
- ! t/lib/st-store.t t/lib/st-tied.t t/lib/st-tiedhook.t
- ! t/lib/st-tieditems.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6758] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 22:22:32
- Log: Few more casts, need reported in
-
- Subject: Re: [ID 20000821.010] OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6756 on i586-linux-64all 2.2.16-9mdk (UNINSTALLED)
- From: Mike Stok <mike@stok.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:59:29 -0500 (CDT)
- Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008211558480.19081-100000@ratdog.stok.co.uk>
-
- and
-
- Subject: [ID 20000821.013] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6756 on i686-linux-64int 2.2.13
- From: abigail@foad.org
- Date: 21 Aug 2000 21:31:34 -0000
- Message-Id: <20000821213134.30170.qmail@foad.org>
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/Storable/Storable.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6757] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 18:37:07
- Log: Update Changes.
- Branch: perl
- ! Changes patchlevel.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6756] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 18:34:02
- Log: A pod nit.
-
- Subject: [PATCH] pod/perlre.pod (was Re: [ID 20000821.007] $&, $1, etc. disappear when sub returns)
- From: <abigail@foad.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:00:16 -0400
- Message-ID: <20000821180016.28627.qmail@foad.org>
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perlre.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6755] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 18:30:56
- Log: Use PodParser 1.18 new test.
- Branch: perl
- ! t/pod/special_seqs.t t/pod/special_seqs.xr
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6754] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 18:28:35
- Log: Apply some PodParser 1.18 patches; the Pod/Find.pm
- patches cannot be applied since #6712 conflicts.
- Branch: perl
- ! lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm lib/Pod/Parser.pm lib/Pod/Usage.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6753] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 18:15:11
- Log: Weed out some smaller changes.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6752] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 18:02:30
- Log: Also under djgpp the timestamps are funky.
- Branch: perl
- ! t/op/stat.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6751] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 17:55:56
- Log: Tweak the floating point output routine preferences.
- Branch: metaconfig
- ! U/compline/d_gconvert.U
- Branch: perl
- ! Configure
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6750] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 17:51:29
- Log: Unicos/mk requires elaborate paranoia.
- Branch: perl
- ! lib/Math/Complex.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6749] By: gsar on 2000/08/21 16:53:31
- Log: use Cwd 'chdir' didn't set $ENV{PWD} correctly on Windows
- Branch: perl
- ! lib/Cwd.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6748] By: gsar on 2000/08/21 16:22:19
- Log: free TLS slot properly on Windows
- Branch: perl
- ! thread.h win32/perllib.c win32/win32thread.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6747] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 16:20:58
- Log: Rename the macro argument because some preprocessors
- can't tell the difference and expand arguments also inside
- double quoted strings.
- Branch: perl
- ! regcomp.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6746] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 16:09:41
- Log: Support long doubles in Storable.
-
- Subject: Re: Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6735 on i686-linux-thread-multi-64int 2.2.14-5.0 (UNINSTALLED)
- From: Radu Greab <radu@netsoft.ro>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:05:59 +0300 (EET DST)
- Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10008211804210.10137-100000@localhost>
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/Storable/Storable.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6745] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 15:51:40
- Log: Subject: RE: [PATCH perl@6736] t/pragma/warn/9enabled assumes stdout buffered
- From: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer@sanwaint.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:34:49 +0100
- Message-ID: <779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D9979171786@silldn_mail1.sanwaint.com>
- Branch: perl
- ! t/pragma/warn/9enabled
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6744] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 15:39:35
- Log: Document the endianness of Alpha more precisely.
- Branch: perl
- ! hints/unicos.sh pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
- ! pod/perlport.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6743] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 14:47:05
- Log: perldelta fixes from the p5p crowd.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6742] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 13:34:51
- Log: Update to Pod::LaTeX 0.53.
-
- Subject: [PATCH] lib/Pod/LaTeX.pm updates
- From: Tim Jenness <timj@jach.hawaii.edu>
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 23:09:48 -1000 (HST)
- Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008202308040.12047-100000@lapaki.jach.hawaii.edu>
- Branch: perl
- ! lib/Pod/LaTeX.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6741] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 13:33:01
- Log: Subject: [PATCH] os2.c fix for use64bitint
- From: sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 01:32:25 -0700
- Message-ID: <ZkOo5gzkgWEb092yn@efn.org>
- Branch: perl
- ! os2/os2.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6740] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 13:28:52
- Log: Array context keeps slithering in.
-
- Subject: Re: 5.7.0 getting really close, new snapshot: perldelta, Storable
- From: Daniel Chetlin <daniel@chetlin.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:40:25 -0700
- Message-ID: <20000820214025.C29387@ilmd.chetlin.org>
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/Storable/Storable.xs lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm
- ! pod/perldebtut.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6739] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 13:23:55
- Log: Big-endian quad fixes for Storable from Radu Greab,
- plus few explicit null casts for picky compilers.
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/Storable/Storable.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6738] By: gsar on 2000/08/21 05:56:13
- Log: small tweaks for change#6705: avoid C++ style comments in C code;
- use Perl's malloc API rather than the low level system one
- Branch: perl
- ! win32/win32.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6737] By: gsar on 2000/08/21 05:35:41
- Log: add Storable to list of extensions on Windows
- Branch: perl
- ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6736] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 02:57:53
- Log: Update Changes.
- Branch: perl
- ! Changes patchlevel.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6735] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 02:57:20
- Log: Draft 0.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6734] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 02:57:03
- Log: Add Storable 0.7.2 from Raphael Manfredi,
- plus the patch from
-
- Subject: Re: someone with too much time and a 64-bit box and interest in Storable?
- From: Radu Greab <radu@netsoft.ro>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 03:10:05 +0300 (EEST)
- Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008210258160.1292-100000@busy.netsoft.ro>
-
- plus changes to get Storable to compile with
- picky ANSI compilers.
- Branch: perl
- + ext/Storable/ChangeLog ext/Storable/MANIFEST
- + ext/Storable/Makefile.PL ext/Storable/README
- + ext/Storable/Storable.pm ext/Storable/Storable.xs
- + ext/Storable/patchlevel.h t/lib/st-06compat.t
- + t/lib/st-blessed.t t/lib/st-canonical.t t/lib/st-dclone.t
- + t/lib/st-dump.pl t/lib/st-forgive.t t/lib/st-freeze.t
- + t/lib/st-overload.t t/lib/st-recurse.t t/lib/st-retrieve.t
- + t/lib/st-store.t t/lib/st-tied.t t/lib/st-tiedhook.t
- + t/lib/st-tieditems.t
- ! MANIFEST
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6733] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 02:29:09
- Log: The correct cleaning order is an art.
- Branch: perl
- ! Makefile.SH
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6784] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 13:58:41
- Log: Portability fix from Hugo van der Sanden.
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/re/Makefile.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6783] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 13:53:53
- Log: Storable support, v-version fixes.
-
- Subject: CPAN.pm beta for testing available
- From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
- Date: 22 Aug 2000 23:31:33 +0200
- Message-ID: <m3hf8dc79m.fsf@ak-71.mind.de>
- Branch: perl
- ! lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6782] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 13:51:26
- Log: Mac and other portability updates from Chris Nandor.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perlmodinstall.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6781] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 13:47:33
- Log: Subject: [PATCH: 6778] fix a small typo in Storable.xs
- From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:20:41 -0700 (PDT)
- Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10008221616430.68568-100000@aspara.forte.com>
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/Storable/Storable.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6780] By: jhi on 2000/08/23 13:33:34
- Log: VMS MMS (make) wants null action.
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/B/Makefile.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6779] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 19:44:47
- Log: Forgot portability nit.
- Branch: perl
- ! t/lib/st-forgive.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6778] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 19:35:25
- Log: Be portable.
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/B/Makefile.PL t/lib/st-forgive.t t/lib/st-retrieve.t
- ! t/lib/st-store.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6777] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 18:50:53
- Log: Update Changes.
- Branch: perl
- ! Changes patchlevel.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6776] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 18:44:46
- Log: cSVOPo_*v things index into the current PL_curpad
- under ithreads, which is different from the curpad
- used by the XSUB. (In other words, the code as-is
- before this patch wouldn't work under ithreads.)
- From Sarathy.
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/B/B.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6775] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 18:18:37
- Log: Make the selection of NVff et al stricter.
- Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
- ! perlxvf.U
- Branch: perl
- ! Configure config_h.SH
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6774] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 17:19:42
- Log: perldelta nits.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6773] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 17:06:26
- Log: Long double fixes from Spider Boardman.
-
- Subject: [ID 20000821.014] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6756 on alpha-dec_osf 5.1 (UNINSTALLED)
- From: system PRIVILEGED account <root@peano.zk3.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:41:15 -0400 (EDT)
- Message-Id: <200008212241.SAA0000014255@peano.zk3.dec.com>
- Branch: perl
- ! t/lib/bigfltpm.t t/lib/st-06compat.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6772] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 15:04:53
- Log: Update Changes.
- Branch: perl
- ! Changes patchlevel.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6771] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 15:01:44
- Log: perldelta fixes from Hugo van der Sanden.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6770] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 14:34:49
- Log: Subject: [PATCH blead] nextchar() abuse misses an optimisation
- From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:21:53 +0100
- Message-Id: <200008221021.LAA03332@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
- Branch: perl
- ! regcomp.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6769] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 14:30:02
- Log: Add Yitzchak, reformat.
- Branch: perl
- ! Changes config_h.SH
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6768] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 14:21:35
- Log: Long double Gconvert fixes from Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
- and Spider Boardman.
- Branch: metaconfig
- ! U/compline/d_gconvert.U
- Branch: perl
- ! Configure
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6767] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 14:11:24
- Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ID 20000820.012] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6735 on
- From: sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:08:31 -0700
- Message-ID: <fCeo5gzkgmhY092yn@efn.org>
- Branch: perl
- - ext/Storable/patchlevel.h
- ! MANIFEST ext/Storable/MANIFEST
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6766] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 13:49:29
- Log: Subject: [PATCH: 6757] configure.com updates and syslog build
- From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:15:35 -0700 (PDT)
- Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10008211653270.17516-100000@aspara.forte.com>
- Branch: perl
- ! configure.com ext/Storable/Makefile.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6765] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 13:44:59
- Log: Subject: [PATCH blead] B:: missing dependency
- From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:44:33 +0100
- Message-Id: <200008220544.GAA31051@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/B/Makefile.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6764] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 13:38:12
- Log: More bytecompiler.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perlutil.pod utils/Makefile utils/perlbc.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6763] By: jhi on 2000/08/22 13:36:44
- Log: Bytecompiler patches from Benjamin Stuhl.
- Branch: perl
- ! bytecode.pl embedvar.h ext/B/B.pm ext/B/B.xs
- ! ext/B/B/Asmdata.pm ext/B/B/Assembler.pm ext/B/B/Bytecode.pm
- ! ext/B/O.pm ext/B/defsubs_h.PL ext/ByteLoader/ByteLoader.pm
- ! ext/ByteLoader/ByteLoader.xs ext/ByteLoader/bytecode.h
- ! ext/ByteLoader/byterun.c ext/ByteLoader/byterun.h intrpvar.h
- ! perl.c perlapi.h pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6762] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 23:43:40
- Log: An obsoleted diagnostic.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6761] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 23:01:45
- Log: The #6759 wasn't quite right.
- Branch: perl
- ! t/lib/st-06compat.t t/lib/st-blessed.t t/lib/st-canonical.t
- ! t/lib/st-dclone.t t/lib/st-forgive.t t/lib/st-freeze.t
- ! t/lib/st-overload.t t/lib/st-recurse.t t/lib/st-retrieve.t
- ! t/lib/st-store.t t/lib/st-tied.t t/lib/st-tiedhook.t
- ! t/lib/st-tieditems.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6760] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 22:35:49
- Log: Be verydeepclean.
- Branch: perl
- ! Makefile.SH
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6759] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 22:25:40
- Log: Subject: [PATCH: 6757] make new Storable tests forgiving of places where not built
- From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:58:16 -0700 (PDT)
- Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10008211456250.17516-100000@aspara.forte.com>
- Branch: perl
- ! t/lib/st-06compat.t t/lib/st-blessed.t t/lib/st-canonical.t
- ! t/lib/st-dclone.t t/lib/st-forgive.t t/lib/st-freeze.t
- ! t/lib/st-overload.t t/lib/st-recurse.t t/lib/st-retrieve.t
- ! t/lib/st-store.t t/lib/st-tied.t t/lib/st-tiedhook.t
- ! t/lib/st-tieditems.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6758] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 22:22:32
- Log: Few more casts, need reported in
-
- Subject: Re: [ID 20000821.010] OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6756 on i586-linux-64all 2.2.16-9mdk (UNINSTALLED)
- From: Mike Stok <mike@stok.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:59:29 -0500 (CDT)
- Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008211558480.19081-100000@ratdog.stok.co.uk>
-
- and
-
- Subject: [ID 20000821.013] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6756 on i686-linux-64int 2.2.13
- From: abigail@foad.org
- Date: 21 Aug 2000 21:31:34 -0000
- Message-Id: <20000821213134.30170.qmail@foad.org>
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/Storable/Storable.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6757] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 18:37:07
- Log: Update Changes.
- Branch: perl
- ! Changes patchlevel.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6756] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 18:34:02
- Log: A pod nit.
-
- Subject: [PATCH] pod/perlre.pod (was Re: [ID 20000821.007] $&, $1, etc. disappear when sub returns)
- From: <abigail@foad.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:00:16 -0400
- Message-ID: <20000821180016.28627.qmail@foad.org>
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perlre.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6755] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 18:30:56
- Log: Use PodParser 1.18 new test.
- Branch: perl
- ! t/pod/special_seqs.t t/pod/special_seqs.xr
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6754] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 18:28:35
- Log: Apply some PodParser 1.18 patches; the Pod/Find.pm
- patches cannot be applied since #6712 conflicts.
- Branch: perl
- ! lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm lib/Pod/Parser.pm lib/Pod/Usage.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6753] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 18:15:11
- Log: Weed out some smaller changes.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6752] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 18:02:30
- Log: Also under djgpp the timestamps are funky.
- Branch: perl
- ! t/op/stat.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6751] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 17:55:56
- Log: Tweak the floating point output routine preferences.
- Branch: metaconfig
- ! U/compline/d_gconvert.U
- Branch: perl
- ! Configure
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6750] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 17:51:29
- Log: Unicos/mk requires elaborate paranoia.
- Branch: perl
- ! lib/Math/Complex.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6749] By: gsar on 2000/08/21 16:53:31
- Log: use Cwd 'chdir' didn't set $ENV{PWD} correctly on Windows
- Branch: perl
- ! lib/Cwd.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6748] By: gsar on 2000/08/21 16:22:19
- Log: free TLS slot properly on Windows
- Branch: perl
- ! thread.h win32/perllib.c win32/win32thread.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6747] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 16:20:58
- Log: Rename the macro argument because some preprocessors
- can't tell the difference and expand arguments also inside
- double quoted strings.
- Branch: perl
- ! regcomp.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6746] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 16:09:41
- Log: Support long doubles in Storable.
-
- Subject: Re: Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6735 on i686-linux-thread-multi-64int 2.2.14-5.0 (UNINSTALLED)
- From: Radu Greab <radu@netsoft.ro>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:05:59 +0300 (EET DST)
- Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10008211804210.10137-100000@localhost>
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/Storable/Storable.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6745] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 15:51:40
- Log: Subject: RE: [PATCH perl@6736] t/pragma/warn/9enabled assumes stdout buffered
- From: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer@sanwaint.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:34:49 +0100
- Message-ID: <779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D9979171786@silldn_mail1.sanwaint.com>
- Branch: perl
- ! t/pragma/warn/9enabled
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6744] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 15:39:35
- Log: Document the endianness of Alpha more precisely.
- Branch: perl
- ! hints/unicos.sh pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
- ! pod/perlport.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6743] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 14:47:05
- Log: perldelta fixes from the p5p crowd.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6742] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 13:34:51
- Log: Update to Pod::LaTeX 0.53.
-
- Subject: [PATCH] lib/Pod/LaTeX.pm updates
- From: Tim Jenness <timj@jach.hawaii.edu>
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 23:09:48 -1000 (HST)
- Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008202308040.12047-100000@lapaki.jach.hawaii.edu>
- Branch: perl
- ! lib/Pod/LaTeX.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6741] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 13:33:01
- Log: Subject: [PATCH] os2.c fix for use64bitint
- From: sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 01:32:25 -0700
- Message-ID: <ZkOo5gzkgWEb092yn@efn.org>
- Branch: perl
- ! os2/os2.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6740] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 13:28:52
- Log: Array context keeps slithering in.
-
- Subject: Re: 5.7.0 getting really close, new snapshot: perldelta, Storable
- From: Daniel Chetlin <daniel@chetlin.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:40:25 -0700
- Message-ID: <20000820214025.C29387@ilmd.chetlin.org>
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/Storable/Storable.xs lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm
- ! pod/perldebtut.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6739] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 13:23:55
- Log: Big-endian quad fixes for Storable from Radu Greab,
- plus few explicit null casts for picky compilers.
- Branch: perl
- ! ext/Storable/Storable.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6738] By: gsar on 2000/08/21 05:56:13
- Log: small tweaks for change#6705: avoid C++ style comments in C code;
- use Perl's malloc API rather than the low level system one
- Branch: perl
- ! win32/win32.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6737] By: gsar on 2000/08/21 05:35:41
- Log: add Storable to list of extensions on Windows
- Branch: perl
- ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6736] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 02:57:53
- Log: Update Changes.
- Branch: perl
- ! Changes patchlevel.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6735] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 02:57:20
- Log: Draft 0.
- Branch: perl
- ! pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6734] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 02:57:03
- Log: Add Storable 0.7.2 from Raphael Manfredi,
- plus the patch from
-
- Subject: Re: someone with too much time and a 64-bit box and interest in Storable?
- From: Radu Greab <radu@netsoft.ro>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 03:10:05 +0300 (EEST)
- Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008210258160.1292-100000@busy.netsoft.ro>
-
- plus changes to get Storable to compile with
- picky ANSI compilers.
- Branch: perl
- + ext/Storable/ChangeLog ext/Storable/MANIFEST
- + ext/Storable/Makefile.PL ext/Storable/README
- + ext/Storable/Storable.pm ext/Storable/Storable.xs
- + ext/Storable/patchlevel.h t/lib/st-06compat.t
- + t/lib/st-blessed.t t/lib/st-canonical.t t/lib/st-dclone.t
- + t/lib/st-dump.pl t/lib/st-forgive.t t/lib/st-freeze.t
- + t/lib/st-overload.t t/lib/st-recurse.t t/lib/st-retrieve.t
- + t/lib/st-store.t t/lib/st-tied.t t/lib/st-tiedhook.t
- + t/lib/st-tieditems.t
- ! MANIFEST
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 6733] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 02:29:09
- Log: The correct cleaning order is an art.
- Branch: perl
- ! Makefile.SH
-Please note: This file provides a complete, temporally ordered log of
-changes that went into every version of Perl. If you'd like more
-detailed information, please consult the comments in the individual
-patches posted to the perl5-porters mailing list. Patches for each
-individual change may also be obtained through ftp and rsync--see
-perlhack.pod for the details.
-
-
- ---------------
- CAST AND CREW
- ---------------
-
-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 August 2000):
-
- Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
- Abigail <abigail@foad.org>
- 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>
- Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>
- 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>
- 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@covalent.net>
- 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>
- Stephen Potter <spp@ds.net>
- 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@crypt.demon.co.uk>
- Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
- Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
- Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>
- Kurt D. Starsinic <kstar@chapin.edu>
- Benjamin Stuhl <sho_pi@hotmail.com>
- Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>
- 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:
-
- Charles Bailey <bailey@newman.upenn.edu>
- Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>
- Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
- Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
- Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
- Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
- Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>
- Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
-
-And, of course, the Author of Perl:
-
- Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
-
-
-NOTE: Each change entry shows the change number; who checked it into the
-repository; when; description of the change; which branch the change
-happened in; and the affected files. The file lists have a short symbolic
-indicator:
-
- ! modified
- + added
- - deleted
- +> branched (from elsewhere)
- !> merged changes (from elsewhere)
-
-
---------------
-Version v5.7.0 Development release working toward v5.8
---------------
-
-____________________________________________________________________________
[ 6732] By: jhi on 2000/08/21 01:23:39
Log: The #6724 is here.
Branch: perl
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