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@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ current addresses (as of March 1997): Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com> Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com> Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us> - Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> M. J. T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> @@ -30,12 +29,14 @@ current addresses (as of March 1997): Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de> Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org> Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Hans Mulder <hansm@euronet.nl> Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de> Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com> Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> + Larry W. Virden <lvirden@cas.org> Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin: @@ -43,6 +44,414 @@ And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin: Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu> Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> + Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> + + +---------------- +Version 5.004_01 Maintenance release 1 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty" + -- Anne Herbert + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + (..., undef, ...) = split(...) bug fixed. + Win32 support greatly improved, now very strong. + Memory leak using Tied hashes and arrays fixed. + Documentation updates. + Many other bug fixes and enhancements. + + CORE LANGUAGE + + Title: "[PATCH] first true value returned by scalar C<...> is wrong" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: pp_ctl.c t/op/flip.t + + Title: "Regex Bug in 5.003_26 thru 003_99a" + From: Andreas Karrer <karrer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>, Chip Salzenberg + <chip@atlantic.net> + Msg-ID: <199705152303.BAA08890@kuru.ee.ethz.ch>, + <199705161915.PAA18721@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: regcomp.h regcomp.c regexec.c + + Title: "[PATCH] -w interacts badly with -Dt" + From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "No DESTROY on untie. Tie memory leak fixed." + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Jay Rogers <jay@rgrs.com>, + pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <199705170235.WAA00267@fluffy.rgrs.com>, + <199705172156.RAA20561@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <9705171506.AA04491@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "magic_clear_all_env proto should match svt_clear" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> + Files: proto.h mg.c + + Title: "[PATCH] ENV leaks on win32 (was Re: Comments on ENV patch sought)", + "[PATCH] for NETaa13787: %ENV=(); doesn't clear the environment" + From: hansm@euronet.nl, pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <199705292240.AAA01135@mail.euronet.nl> + Files: embed.h perl.h proto.h global.sym mg.c t/op/magic.t + + Title: "Patch to show @INC when require dies" + From: avera@hal.com (Jim Avera) + Msg-ID: <9705230121.AA27872@membrane.hal.com> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "[PATCH] bug with m// nested inside s///e" + From: hansm@euro.net + Files: op.c t/op/subst.t + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "[PATCH] perlembed Win32 update" + From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org> + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "perldiag.pod patch - "(W) substr outside string" is "(S)evere" if + used as lvalue." + From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "local(%ENV) looses magic - document behaviour" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] perlguts caveats", "perlguts additions" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, ilya@math.ohio-state.edu + (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <199705180052.UAA22066@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199705180202.WAA22826@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199705301341.JAA05204@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <1997May17.235722.2033087@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "pod2man produces broken pages", "weird condition in perldelta breaks + nroff" + From: Davin Milun <milun@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl> + Msg-ID: <199705310447.AAA15721@obelix.cs.Buffalo.EDU>, + <1997May25.192350.2055977@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "Perl 5 pod2man fix", "perlguts man page corrupted" + From: chen@adi.com (Franklin Chen), gnat@frii.com, lvirden@cas.org, tom + (Tom Dinger on Feste), tom@edc.com (Tom Dinger on Feste) + Msg-ID: <199705210013.UAA09599@menhaden.adi.com>, + <199706011305.JAA18271@cas.org>, + <199706012116.PAA14102@elara.frii.com>, + <9504250959.AA23419@feste.edc.com>, + <9504251700.AA23823@feste.edc.com> + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] reference form chomp to chop in perlfunc" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "pod2man gags if "=pod" is before "=head1 NAME"" + From: whyde@pezz.sps.mot.com (Warren Hyde) + Msg-ID: <9705212115.AA21730@pezz.sps.mot.com> + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "perlfunc.pod unclear about return value range of rand" + From: "Tuomas J. Lukka" <tjl@lukka.student.harvard.edu> + Msg-ID: <m0wSMiC-000C9xC@lukka.student.harvard.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Error in perllol manpage", "Error in perllol manpage (fwd)" + From: Chris Wick <cwick@lmc.com> + Files: pod/perllol.pod + + Title: "5.004 removed deprecated %OVERLOAD support silently" + From: jon@sems.com (Jonathan Biggar) + Msg-ID: <199705232319.QAA28388@clamp.netlabs.com> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Documentation bugs" + From: Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com> + Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfaq9.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoot.pod + + Title: "5.004 POD stuff", "make html - any takers?", "make html --> unusable + xref links", "pod/*.html -- all hyperlinks are invalid" + From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>, "Paul D. Smith" + <psmith@BayNetworks.COM>, Gurusamy Sarathy + <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, + Michael R Cook <mcook@cognex.com>, avera@hal.com (Jim + Avera), lvirden@cas.org + Msg-ID: <199705162008.XAA06906@alpha.hut.fi>, + <199705171830.OAA15652@erawan.cognex.com>, + <199706081749.NAA04552@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <1997May16.191039.2033079@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + <87hgg2y1h4.fsf@perv.daft.com>, + <9705161931.AA01075@membrane.hal.com>, + <9705191839.AA28702@lemming.engeast> + Files: INSTALL pod/perldiag.pod installhtml + + Title: "checkpods- forget blank line status when starting a new file" + From: Larry Parmelee <parmelee@CS.Cornell.EDU> + Files: pod/checkpods.PL + + Title: "installhtml: Fix 'no title' & 'unexpected ...' warnings. Double speed." + From: Tim Bunce + Files: installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/splitpod + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "sdbm can fail if a config.h exists in system directories" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL + + Title: "LWP and SIG __DIE__ traps not playing well together!" + From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no> + Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm + + Title: "Memory Consumption of autosplit_lib_modules/sv_gets (workaround)" + From: Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm + + Title: "Comments of this Sys::Syslog patch", "Unusual Sys::Syslog behaviour + with FQDN ? [Even in 5.004 - a bug?]" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>, + alansz@mellers1.psych.berkeley.edu (Alan Schwartz) + Msg-ID: <199705231621.TAA16790@alpha.hut.fi>, <5m4fjr$rhs@agate.berkeley.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "Patch to CPAN.pm (perl5.004) for ncftp" + From: "Richard L. Maus, Jr." <rmaus@monmouth.com> + Msg-ID: <337FBAC8.167EB0E7@monmouth.com> + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Harness.pm bug w/perl5.004 & VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us> + Msg-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970530102300.008a2730@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Title: "more Fcntl constants [PATCH]" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs + + Title: "5.004 breaks ftp.pl due to missing (although obsolete) chat2.pl" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: lib/chat2.pl + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "make test && ... doesn't work" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "[PATCH] INSTALL-1.18" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970529142739.662D-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu> + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "improved gnuwin32 Configure support" + From: Chris Faylor <cgf@bbc.com> + Msg-ID: <199706070318.XAA09214@hardy.bbc.com> + Files: Configure + + Title: "installhtml problems finding splitpod" + From: lvirden@cas.org + Files: installhtml INSTALL + + Title: "perl 5.004 (and 01) man pages not generated and installed" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Files: installman + + Title: "oddity in Configure" + From: Mike Stok <mike@stok.co.uk> + Files: Configure + + Title: "perl5.004 on AIX: Patches", "perl5.004 on FreeBSD and AIX" + From: Peter van Heusden <pvh@junior.uwc.ac.za> + Msg-ID: <Pine.A32.3.93.970519142625.22442B-100000@junior.uwc.ac.za>, + <Pine.A32.3.93.970519163700.25188A-100000@junior.uwc.ac.za> + Files: Makefile.SH perl_exp.SH ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs perlio.sym + + Title: "Compiling perl5.004 on NEWS-OS 4.x" + From: Makoto MATSUSHITA (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJF4kRCQ3JD8kXiQzJEgbKEI=?=) + <matusita@ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp> + Msg-ID: <19970521132814F.matusita@ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp> + Files: Configure hints/newsos4.sh + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "win32: additional default libraries" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199705291332.JAA21560@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 minor fixes" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm win32/config.bc + + Title: "[PATCH] clean up perlocal.pod output on VMS" + From: pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Term::ReadKey on Win32: set console" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Pod::Text nit for Win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "pathname bug in xsubpp on win32" + From: jon@sems.com (Jonathan Biggar) + Msg-ID: <199705230126.SAA23401@clamp.netlabs.com> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "MakeMaker stumbles on Win32 UNC paths" + From: Warren Jones <wjones@TC.FLUKE.COM> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + + Title: "build problem on SGI R10000 PowerChallenge (IRIX 6.2) lseek proto" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Files: doio.c + + Title: "Perl 5.004 + Linux 2.0.30 & semctl()" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>, Jordan + Mendelson <jordy@snappy.wserv.com> + Files: doio.c + + Title: "lib/io_udp.t fails on VMS" + From: Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk + Msg-ID: <XFMail.970522181042.Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Compilation of mg.c from perl5.004m1t2 fails on OpenVMS/AXP" + From: Henrik Tougaard <ht.000@foa.dk> + Files: mg.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "[PATCH] (NEXT|OPEN)STEP hints" + From: Gerd Knops <gerti@BITart.com> + Files: hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh + + Title: "win32: user defined shell" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199705291339.JAA21682@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlrun.pod win32/win32.c + + Title: "misc perl5.004 doc fixes, especially vms" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Msg-ID: <199705160419.AAA16317@cas.org> + Files: pod/perlfaq4.pod vms/perlvms.pod lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/roffitall + vms/ext/DCLsym/DCLsym.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] gen_shrfls.pl too picky for Dec C 5.6 preprocessor output" + From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/gen_shrfls.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] win32: Configure cf_email" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199705301335.JAA05079@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/Makefile win32/config.bc win32/config.vc win32/config_sh.PL + win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] README.win32 nits" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: README.win32 + + Title: "Document cause and remedy for op/taint.t failure" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: README.win32 + + Title: "SVR4 hints for DDE SMES Supermax Enterprise Server" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Files: hints/svr4.sh + + Title: "porting.help" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod Porting/preprel + + Title: "Major 5.004 Win32 update (Borland win32 support, and other patches)", + "($a,undef,$b) = qw(a b c) and ties delaying DESTROY fixes" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: MANIFEST pod/perlguts.pod win32/include/sys/socket.h EXTERN.h + opcode.h perl.h regcomp.h ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm + ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + lib/File/DosGlob.pm t/op/mkdir.t t/op/stat.t win32/win32.h + win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h README.win32 doio.c gv.c + mg.c op.c perlio.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c util.c + win32/Makefile win32/config.bc win32/config.vc + win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc win32/makedef.pl + win32/makefile.mk win32/makeperldef.pl win32/perlglob.c + win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c + win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Maintenance release (remove PERL_DUMMY_SIZE)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: opcode.h perl.h regcomp.h win32/win32.h gv.c + + Title: "[PATCH] ENV leaks on win32 (was Re: Comments on ENV patch sought)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h global.sym mg.c perl.c + t/op/magic.t util.c win32/makedef.pl win32/win32.c + win32/win32io.c + + Title: "[PATCH] win32: ExtUtils::Liblist support" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm win32/Makefile win32/config.bc + win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: borland C++Perl embedding failures re __declspec()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "No need to use `pwd` in t/op/magic.t test for amigaos" + From: Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Files: t/op/magic.t + + TESTS + + Title: "Tests depend on locale" + From: "Jan D." <jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se>, Jarkko Hietaniemi + <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199705191127.NAA08148@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>, + <199705191230.PAA21070@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: t/lib/safe2.t t/op/mkdir.t + + Title: "op/groups test fails on Linux (groups in /bin)" + From: "Jan D." <jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se> + Msg-ID: <199705191120.NAA08130@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se> + Files: t/op/groups.t + + Title: "More simple regexp tests and test docs" + From: Hans Mulder <hansm@euronet.nl> + Files: t/op/re_tests t/op/regexp.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Using undef to ignore values returned from split" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: t/op/split.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "bad test of -A flag in h2xs" + From: "Jeffrey S. Haemer" <jsh@woodcock.boulder.qms.com> + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] h2xs missing from utils/Makefile" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: utils/Makefile + + Title: "PATCH: bug in perlbug w.r.t. environment variables", "bug in perlbug + w.r.t. environment variables" + From: "Jan D." <jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se>, Jarkko Hietaniemi + <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199705191841.UAA00969@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>, + <199705191857.VAA09154@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] final newline missing in MANIFEST generated by h2xs" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: utils/h2xs.PL ------------- |