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+=pod
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+perlhist - the Perl history records
+
+=for RCS
+#
+# $Id: perlhist.pod,v 1.27 1998/01/16 19:50:20 jhi Exp $
+#
+=end RCS
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+This document aims to record the Perl source code releases.
+
+=head1 INTRODUCTION
+
+Perl history in brief, by Larry Wall:
+
+    Perl 0 introduced Perl to my officemates.
+    Perl 1 introduced Perl to the world, and changed /\(...\|...\)/ to
+	/(...|...)/.  \(Dan Faigin still hasn't forgiven me. :-\)
+    Perl 2 introduced Henry Spencer's regular expression package.
+    Perl 3 introduced the ability to handle binary data (embedded nulls).
+    Perl 4 introduced the first Camel book.  Really.  We mostly just
+	switched version numbers so the book could refer to 4.000.
+    Perl 5 introduced everything else, including the ability to
+	introduce everything else.
+
+=head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
+
+Larry Wall, Andy Dougherty, Tom Christiansen, Charles Bailey, Nick
+Ing-Simmons, Chip Salzenberg, Tim Bunce, Malcolm Beattie.
+
+=head2 PUMPKIN?
+
+[from Porting/pumpkin.pod in the Perl source code distribution]
+
+Chip Salzenberg gets credit for that, with a nod to his cow orker,
+David Croy.  We had passed around various names (baton, token, hot
+potato) but none caught on.  Then, Chip asked:
+
+[begin quote]
+
+   Who has the patch pumpkin?
+
+To explain:  David Croy once told me once that at a previous job,
+there was one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups.
+But instead of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech
+method to prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin.
+No one was allowed to make backups unless they had the "backup pumpkin".
+
+[end quote]
+
+The name has stuck.  The holder of the pumpkin is sometimes called
+the pumpking or the pumpkineer.
+
+=head1 THE RECORDS
+
+ Pump-  Release         Date            Notes
+ king                                   (by no means
+                                         comprehensive,
+                                         see Changes*
+                                         for details)
+ ===========================================================================
+
+ Larry   0              Classified.	Don't ask.
+
+ Larry   1.000          1987-Dec-18
+				   
+          1.001..10     1988-Jan-30
+          1.011..14     1988-Feb-02
+				   
+ Larry   2.000          1988-Jun-05
+				   
+          2.001         1988-Jun-28
+				   
+ Larry   3.000          1989-Oct-18
+				   
+          3.001         1989-Oct-26
+          3.002..4      1989-Nov-11
+          3.005         1989-Nov-18
+          3.006..8      1989-Dec-22
+          3.009..13     1990-Mar-02
+          3.014         1990-Mar-13
+          3.015         1990-Mar-14
+          3.016..18     1990-Mar-28
+          3.019..27     1990-Aug-10	User subs.
+          3.028         1990-Aug-14
+          3.029..36     1990-Oct-17
+          3.037         1990-Oct-20
+          3.040         1990-Nov-10
+          3.041         1990-Nov-13
+          3.042..43     1990-Jan-91
+          3.044         1991-Jan-12
+				   
+ Larry   4.000          1991-Mar-21
+				   
+          4.001..3      1991-Apr-12
+          4.004..9      1991-Jun-07
+          4.010         1991-Jun-10
+          4.011..18     1991-Nov-05
+          4.019         1991-Nov-11	Stable.
+          4.020..33     1992-Jun-08
+          4.034         1992-Jun-11
+          4.035         1992-Jun-23
+ Larry    4.036         1993-Feb-05	Very stable.
+				   
+          5.000alpha1   1993-Jul-31
+          5.000alpha2   1993-Aug-16
+          5.000alpha3   1993-Oct-10
+          5.000alpha4   1993-???-??
+          5.000alpha5   1993-???-??
+          5.000alpha6   1993-Mar-18
+          5.003alpha7   1994-Mar-25
+ Andy     5.000alpha8   1994-Apr-04
+ Larry    5.000alpha9   1994-May-05
+          5.000alpha10  1994-???-??
+          5.000alpha11  1994-???-??
+ Andy     5.000a11a     1994-Jul-07	To fit 14.
+          5.000a11b     1994-Jul-14
+          5.000a11c     1994-Jul-19
+          5.000a11d     1994-Jul-22
+ Larry    5.000alpha12  1994-???-??
+ Andy     5.000a12a     1994-Aug-08
+          5.000a12b     1994-Aug-15
+          5.000a12c     1994-Aug-22
+          5.000a12d     1994-Aug-22
+          5.000a12e     1994-Aug-22
+          5.000a12f     1994-Aug-24
+          5.000a12g     1994-Aug-24
+          5.000a12h     1994-Aug-24
+ Larry    5.000beta1    1994-???-??
+ Andy     5.000b1a      1994-???-??
+ Larry    5.000beta2    1994-Sep-14	Core slushified.
+ Andy     5.000b2a      1994-Sep-14
+          5.000b2b      1994-Sep-17
+          5.000b2c      1994-Sep-17
+ Larry    5.000beta3    1994-???-??
+ Andy     5.000b3a      1994-Sep-18
+          5.000b3b      1994-Sep-22
+          5.000b3c      1994-Sep-23
+          5.000b3d      1994-Sep-27
+          5.000b3e      1994-Sep-28
+          5.000b3f      1994-Sep-30
+          5.000b3g      1994-Oct-04
+ Andy     5.000b3h      1994-Oct-07
+				   
+ Larry   5.000          1994-Oct-18
+				   
+ Andy     5.000a        1994-Dec-19
+          5.000b        1995-Jan-18
+          5.000c        1995-Jan-18
+          5.000d        1995-Jan-18
+          5.000e        1995-Jan-18
+          5.000f        1995-Jan-18
+          5.000g        1995-Jan-18
+          5.000h        1995-Jan-18
+          5.000i        1995-Jan-26
+          5.000j        1995-Feb-07
+          5.000k        1995-Feb-11
+          5.000l        1995-Feb-21
+          5.000m        1995-???-??
+          5.000n        1995-Mar-07
+				   
+ Larry   5.001          1995-Mar-13
+				   
+ Andy     5.001a        1995-Mar-15
+          5.001b        1995-Mar-31
+          5.001c        1995-Apr-07
+          5.001d        1995-Apr-14
+          5.001e        1995-Apr-18	Stable.
+          5.001f        1995-May-31
+          5.001g        1995-May-25
+          5.001h        1995-May-25
+          5.001i        1995-May-30
+          5.001j        1995-Jun-05
+          5.001k        1995-Jun-06
+          5.001l        1995-Jun-06	Stable.
+          5.001m        1995-Jul-02	Very stable.
+          5.001n        1995-Oct-31	Very unstable.
+          5.002beta1    1995-Nov-21
+          5.002b1a      1995-Nov-??
+          5.002b1b      1995-Dec-04
+          5.002b1c      1995-Dec-04
+          5.002b1d      1995-Dec-04
+          5.002b1e      1995-Dec-08
+          5.002b1f      1995-Dec-08
+ Tom      5.002b1g      1995-Dec-21	Doc release.
+ Andy     5.002b1h      1996-Jan-05
+	  5.002b2	1996-Jan-14
+ Larry	  5.002b3	1996-Feb-02
+ Andy     5.002gamma    1996-Feb-11
+ Larry    5.002delta    1996-Feb-27
+				   
+ Larry   5.002          1996-Feb-29
+				   
+ Charles  5.002_01      1996-Mar-25
+				   
+         5.003          1996-Jun-25	Security release.
+				   
+          5.003_01      1996-Jul-31
+ Nick     5.003_02      1996-Aug-10
+ Andy     5.003_03      1996-Aug-28
+          5.003_04      1996-Sep-02
+          5.003_05      1996-Sep-12
+          5.003_06      1996-Oct-07
+          5.003_07      1996-Oct-10
+ Chip     5.003_08      1996-Nov-19
+          5.003_09      1996-Nov-26
+          5.003_10      1996-Nov-29
+          5.003_11      1996-Dec-06
+          5.003_12      1996-Dec-19
+          5.003_13      1996-Dec-20
+          5.003_14      1996-Dec-23
+          5.003_15      1996-Dec-23
+          5.003_16      1996-Dec-24
+          5.003_17      1996-Dec-27
+          5.003_18      1996-Dec-31
+          5.003_19      1997-Jan-04
+          5.003_20      1997-Jan-07
+          5.003_21      1997-Jan-15
+          5.003_22      1997-Jan-16
+          5.003_23      1997-Jan-25
+          5.003_24      1997-Jan-29
+          5.003_25      1997-Feb-04
+          5.003_26      1997-Feb-10
+          5.003_27      1997-Feb-18
+          5.003_28      1997-Feb-21
+          5.003_90      1997-Feb-25	Ramping up to the 5.004 release.
+          5.003_91      1997-Mar-01
+          5.003_92      1997-Mar-06
+          5.003_93      1997-Mar-10
+          5.003_94      1997-Mar-22
+          5.003_95      1997-Mar-25
+          5.003_96      1997-Apr-01
+          5.003_97      1997-Apr-03	Fairly widely used.
+          5.003_97a     1997-Apr-05
+          5.003_97b     1997-Apr-08
+          5.003_97c     1997-Apr-10
+          5.003_97d     1997-Apr-13
+          5.003_97e     1997-Apr-15
+          5.003_97f     1997-Apr-17
+          5.003_97g     1997-Apr-18
+          5.003_97h     1997-Apr-24
+          5.003_97i     1997-Apr-25
+          5.003_97j     1997-Apr-28
+          5.003_98      1997-Apr-30
+          5.003_99      1997-May-01
+          5.003_99a     1997-May-09
+          p54rc1        1997-May-12	Release Candidates.
+          p54rc2        1997-May-14	
+				   
+ Chip    5.004          1997-May-15	A major maintenance release.
+				   
+ Tim      5.004_01      1997-Jun-13	The 5.004 maintenance track.
+          5.004_02      1997-Aug-07
+          5.004_03      1997-Sep-05
+          5.004_04      1997-Oct-15
+				   
+ Malcolm  5.004_50      1997-Sep-09	The 5.005 development track.
+          5.004_51      1997-Oct-02
+          5.004_52      1997-Oct-15
+          5.004_53      1997-Oct-16
+          5.004_54      1997-Nov-14
+          5.004_55      1997-Nov-25
+          5.004_56      1997-Dec-18
+
+=head2 SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
+
+For example the notation "core: 212  29" in the release 1.000 means that
+it had in the core 212 kilobytes, in 29 files.  The "core".."doc" are
+explained below.
+
+ release	core	   lib	       ext        t         doc
+ ======================================================================
+
+ 1.000		 212  29      -   -      -   -     38  51     62   3
+ 1.014		 219  29      -   -      -   -     39  52     68   4
+ 2.000		 309  31      2   3      -   -     55  57     92   4
+ 2.001		 312  31      2   3      -   -     55  57     94   4
+ 3.000		 508  36     24  11      -   -     79  73    156   5
+ 3.044		 645  37     61  20      -   -     90  74    190   6
+ 4.000		 635  37     59  20      -   -     91  75    198   4
+ 4.019		 680  37     85  29      -   -     98  76    199   4
+ 4.036		 709  37     89  30      -   -     98  76    208   5
+ 5.000alpha2	 785  50    114  32      -   -    112  86    209   5
+ 5.000a3    	 801  50    117  33      -   -    121  87    209   5
+ 5.000a9    	1022  56    149  43    116  29    125  90    217   6
+ 5.000a12h       978  49    140  49    205  46    152  97    228   9
+ 5.000beta3h    1035  53    232  70    216  38    162  94    218  21
+ 5.000		1038  53    250  76    216  38    154  92    536  62
+ 5.001m		1071  54    388  82    240  38    159  95    544  29
+ 5.002		1121  54    661 101    287  43    155  94    847  35
+ 5.003		1129  54    680 102    291  43    166 100    853  35
+ 5.003_07	1231  60    748 106    396  53    213 137    976  39
+ 5.004		1351  60   1230 136    408  51    355 161   1587  55
+ 5.004_01	1356  60   1258 138    410  51    358 161   1587  55 
+ 5.004_04	1375  60   1294 139    413  51    394 162   1629  55
+ 5.004_51	1401  61   1260 140    413  53    358 162   1594  56
+ 5.004_53	1422  62   1295 141    438  70    394 162   1637  56
+ 5.004_56	1501  66   1301 140    447  74    408 165   1648  57
+
+The "core"..."doc" mean the following files from the Perl source code
+distribution.  The glob notation ** means recursively, (.) means
+regular files.
+
+ core	*.[hcy]
+ lib	lib/**/*.p[ml]
+ ext	ext/**/*.{[hcyt],xs,pm}
+ t	t/**/*(.)
+ doc	{README*,INSTALL,*[_.]man{,.?},pod/**/*.pod}
+
+Here are some statistics for the other subdirectories and one file in
+the Perl source distribution for somewhat more selected releases.
+
+ ======================================================================
+   Legend:  kB   #
+
+	    1.014   2.001   3.044   4.000   4.019   4.036   
+	    			                              
+ atarist      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -  113 31  
+ Configure   31  1   37  1   62  1   73  1   83  1   86  1  
+ eg           -  -   34 28   47 39   47 39   47 39   47 39  
+ emacs        -  -    -  -    -  -   67  4   67  4   67  4  
+ h2pl         -  -    -  -   12 12   12 12   12 12   12 12  
+ hints        -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -    5 42   11 56  
+ msdos        -  -    -  -   41 13   57 15   58 15   60 15  
+ os2          -  -    -  -   63 22   81 29   81 29  113 31  
+ usub         -  -    -  -   21 16   25  7   43  8   43  8  
+ x2p        103 17  104 17  137 17  147 18  152 19  154 19  
+
+ ======================================================================
+
+	    5.000a2 5.000a12h 5.000b3h 5.000  5.001m  5.002   5.003   
+	                                                              
+ atarist    113 31  113 31    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -
+ bench        -  -    0  1    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -
+ Bugs         2  5   26  1    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -
+ dlperl      40  5    -  -    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -
+ do         127 71    -  -    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -
+ Configure    -  -  153  1  159  1    160  1  180  1  201  1  201  1  
+ Doc          -  -   26  1   75  7     11  1   11  1    -  -    -  -  
+ eg          79 58   53 44   51 43     54 44   54 44   54 44   54 44  
+ emacs       67  4  104  6  104  6    104  1  104  6  108  1  108  1  
+ h2pl        12 12   12 12   12 12     12 12   12 12   12 12   12 12  
+ hints       11 56   12 46   18 48     18 48   44 56   73 59   77 60  
+ msdos       60 15   60 15    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -  
+ os2        113 31  113 31    -  -      -  -    -  -   84 17   56 10  
+ U            -  -   62  8  112 42      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -  
+ usub        43  8    -  -    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -
+ utils        -  -    -  -    -  -      -  -    -  -   87  7   88  7  
+ vms          -  -   80  7  123  9    184 15  304 20  500 24  475 26  
+ x2p        171 22  171 21  162 20    162 20  279 20  280 20  280 20  
+
+ ======================================================================
+
+	    5.003_07 5.004   5.004_04 5.004_56
+	    	                              
+ Configure  217  1   225  1  225  1   232  1  
+ cygwin32     -  -    23  5   23  5    23  5  
+ djgpp        -  -     -  -    -  -    15  5
+ eg          54 44    81 62   81 62    81 62
+ emacs      143  1   194  1  204  1   212  2
+ h2pl        12 12    12 12   12 12    12 12
+ hints       90 62   129 69  132 71   138 72
+ os2        117 42   121 42  127 42   134 44
+ plan9       79 15    82 15   82 15    82 15
+ Porting     51  1    94  2  109  4   109  4
+ qnx          -  -     1  2    1  2     1  2
+ utils       97  7   112  8  118  8   118  8
+ vms        505 27   518 34  524 34   538 34
+ win32        -  -   285 33  378 36   449 38
+ x2p        280 19   281 19  281 19   281 19
+
+=head2 SELECTED PATCH SIZES
+
+The "diff lines kb" means that for example the patch 5.003_08,
+to be applied on top 5.003_07 (or whatever was before it) added
+lines for 110 kilobytes, it removed lines for 19 kilobytes, and
+changed lines for 424 kilobytes.  Just the lines themselves are
+counted, not their context.  The "+ - !" become from the diff(1)s
+context diff output format.
+
+ Pump-  Release         Date           diff lines kB
+ king                                     +   -   !
+ ===========================================================================
+
+ Chip     5.003_08      1996-Nov-19     110  19 424
+          5.003_09      1996-Nov-26      38   9 248
+          5.003_10      1996-Nov-29      29   2  27
+          5.003_11      1996-Dec-06      73  12 165
+          5.003_12      1996-Dec-19     275   6 436
+          5.003_13      1996-Dec-20      95   1  56
+          5.003_14      1996-Dec-23      23   7 333
+          5.003_15      1996-Dec-23       0   0   1
+          5.003_16      1996-Dec-24      12   3  50
+          5.003_17      1996-Dec-27      19   1  14
+          5.003_18      1996-Dec-31      21   1  32
+          5.003_19      1997-Jan-04      80   3  85
+          5.003_20      1997-Jan-07      18   1 146
+          5.003_21      1997-Jan-15      38  10 221
+          5.003_22      1997-Jan-16       4   0  18
+          5.003_23      1997-Jan-25      71  15 119
+          5.003_24      1997-Jan-29     426   1  20
+          5.003_25      1997-Feb-04      21   8 169
+          5.003_26      1997-Feb-10      16   1  15
+          5.003_27      1997-Feb-18      32  10  38
+          5.003_28      1997-Feb-21      58   4  66
+          5.003_90      1997-Feb-25      22   2  34
+          5.003_91      1997-Mar-01      37   1  39
+          5.003_92      1997-Mar-06      16   3  69
+          5.003_93      1997-Mar-10      12   3  15
+          5.003_94      1997-Mar-22     407   7 200
+          5.003_95      1997-Mar-25      41   1  37
+          5.003_96      1997-Apr-01     283   5 261
+          5.003_97      1997-Apr-03      13   2  34
+          5.003_97a     1997-Apr-05      57   1  27
+          5.003_97b     1997-Apr-08      14   1  20
+          5.003_97c     1997-Apr-10      20   1  16
+          5.003_97d     1997-Apr-13       8   0  16
+          5.003_97e     1997-Apr-15      15   4  46
+          5.003_97f     1997-Apr-17       7   1  33
+          5.003_97g     1997-Apr-18       6   1  42
+          5.003_97h     1997-Apr-24      23   3  68
+          5.003_97i     1997-Apr-25      23   1  31
+          5.003_97j     1997-Apr-28      36   1  49
+          5.003_98      1997-Apr-30     171  12 539
+          5.003_99      1997-May-01       6   0   7
+          5.003_99a     1997-May-09      36   2  61
+          p54rc1        1997-May-12       8   1  11
+          p54rc2        1997-May-14       6   0  40
+
+        5.004           1997-May-15       4   0   4
+
+ Tim      5.004_01      1997-Jun-13     222  14  57
+          5.004_02      1997-Aug-07     112  16 119
+          5.004_03      1997-Sep-05     109   0  17
+          5.004_04      1997-Oct-15      66   8 173
+
+=head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
+
+Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<jhi@iki.fi>>.
+
+Thanks to the collective memory of the Perlfolk.  In addition to the
+Keepers of the Pumpkin also Alan Champion, Andreas König, John
+Macdonald, Matthias Neeracher, Michael Peppler, Randal Schwartz, and
+Paul D. Smith sent corrections and additions.
+
+=cut