From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 01:49:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Pass 2 at perldelta: add some changes since 5.7.2.
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Pass 2 at perldelta: add some changes since 5.7.2.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13114
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index f2505e8..b8e3129 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-=head1 NAME
+M=head1 NAME
 
 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
 
@@ -698,6 +698,14 @@ L<Test::Simple> - Basic utilities for writing tests
 
 =item *
 
+L<threads> - interpreter threads
+
+=item *
+
+L<threads::shared> - data sharing for interpreter threads
+
+=item *
+
 L<Time::HiRes> - high resolution ualarm, usleep, and gettimeofday
 
 =item *
@@ -712,7 +720,15 @@ L<Time::Seconds> - a simple API to convert seconds to other date values
 
 =item *
 
-L<UnicodeCD> - Unicode Character Database
+L<Unicode::CD> - Unicode Character Database
+
+=item *
+
+Unicode::Collate - Unicode collation
+
+=item *
+
+Unicode::Normalize - Unicode normalization
 
 =back
 
@@ -898,6 +914,10 @@ that the operating system will make one up.)
 The L<vars> pragma now supports declaring fully qualified variables.
 (Something that C<our()> does not and will not support.)
 
+=item *
+
+List::Util now has shuffle() for randomizing a list.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Utility Changes
@@ -990,10 +1010,29 @@ bring them back to the fold.
 
 =item *
 
+perlintro is a gentle introduction to Perl.
+
+=item *
+
+perlmodstyle is a style guide for writing modules.
+
+=item *
+
 perlnewmod tells about writing and submitting a new module.
 
 =item *
 
+perlpod has been rewritten to be clearer and to record the best
+practices gathered over the years.
+
+=item *
+
+perlpodstyle is a more formal specification of the pod format,
+mainly of interest for writers of pod applications, not to
+people writing in pod.
+
+=item *
+
 perlposix-bc explains using Perl on the POSIX-BC platform
 (an EBCDIC mainframe platform).
 
@@ -1008,6 +1047,16 @@ Yes, much quicker than perlretut.
 
 =item *
 
+perltootc has been renamed as perltooc (to not to conflict
+with perltoot in filesystem restricted to "8.3" names)
+
+=item *
+
+perluniintro is an introduction to using Unicode in Perl
+(perlunicode is more of a reference)
+
+=item *
+
 perlutil explains the command line utilities packaged with the Perl
 distribution.
 
@@ -1340,6 +1389,33 @@ NetWare from Novell is now supported.  See L<perlnetware>.
 
 The Amdahl UTS UNIX mainframe platform is now supported.
 
+=item *
+
+WinCE is now supported.  See L<perlce>.
+
+=item *
+
+If you have CPAN access you can during specify extra modules to
+Configure to build and install with Perl using the -Dextras=...
+option.  See INSTALL for more details.
+
+=item *
+
+In addition to config.over a new override file, config.arch, is
+available.  That is supposed to be used by hints file writers for
+architecture-wide changes (as opposed to config.over which is for
+site-wide changes).
+
+=item *
+
+Guidelines of how to construct minimal Perl installations have
+been added to INSTALL.
+
+=item *
+
+For Perl developers several new make targets for profiling
+have been added, see L<perlhack>.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Selected Bug Fixes
@@ -1842,6 +1918,10 @@ Perl's malloc has problems with large address spaces and also the
 speed of vendors' malloc is generally better in large address space
 machines (Perl's malloc is mostly tuned for space).
 
+=item *
+
+PERL_OBJECT has been completely removed.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Security Vulnerability Closed