From: Gurusamy Sarathy Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 02:31:32 +0000 (+0000) Subject: add Changes, perldelta.pod X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cc0fca54a8335062a27e12be15bddf587362a0b0;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git add Changes, perldelta.pod p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5904 --- diff --git a/Changes b/Changes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..39325fe --- /dev/null +++ b/Changes @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +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 February 2000): + + Gisle Aas + Abigail + Kenneth Albanowski + Russ Allbery + Brad Appleton + Greg Bacon + Robin Barker + Vishal Bhatia + Spider Boardman + Tom Christiansen + Mark-Jason Dominus + Jan Dubois + Dominic Dunlop + Eric Fifer + Hallvard B Furuseth + M. J. T. Guy + Jarkko Hietaniemi + Tom Hughes + Nick Ing-Simmons + Andreas Koenig + Douglas Lankshear + Doug MacEachern + Raphael Manfredi + Paul Marquess + Stephen McCamant + Laszlo Molnar + Hans Mulder + Chris Nandor + Matthias Neeracher + Jeff Okamoto + Ulrich Pfeifer + Tom Phoenix + Joshua Pritikin + Peter Prymmer + Norbert Pueschel + Dean Roehrich + Hugo van der Sanden + Michael G Schwern + Roderick Schertler + Kurt D. Starsinic + Benjamin Stuhl + Dan Sugalski + Nathan Torkington + Larry W. Virden + Johan Vromans + Ilya Zakharevich + +And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin: + + Charles Bailey + Graham Barr + Malcolm Beattie + Tim Bunce + Andy Dougherty + Gurusamy Sarathy + Chip Salzenberg + +And, of course, the Author of Perl: + + Larry Wall + + +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 +-------------- diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff4f91f --- /dev/null +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +=head1 NAME + +perldelta - what's new for perl v5.8.0 + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +This document describes differences between the 5.6 release and this one. + +=head1 Core Enhancements + +=head1 Modules and Pragmata + +=head1 Utility Changes + +=head1 Improved Documentation + +=head1 Performance enhancements + +=head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=head1 Platform specific changes + +=head1 Significant bug fixes + +=head1 New or Changed Diagnostics + +=head1 New tests + +=head1 Incompatible Changes + +=head1 Known Problems + +=head1 Obsolete Diagnostics + +=head1 Reporting Bugs + +If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the +articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup. +There may also be information at http://www.perl.com/perl/, the Perl +Home Page. + +If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B +program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down +to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the +output of C, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.com to be +analysed by the Perl porting team. + +=head1 SEE ALSO + +The F file for exhaustive details on what changed. + +The F file for how to build Perl. + +The F file for general stuff. + +The F and F files for copyright information. + +=head1 HISTORY + +Written by Gurusamy Sarathy >, with many +contributions from The Perl Porters. + +Send omissions or corrections to >. + +=cut