Version v5.7.2 Development release working toward v5.8
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____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14868] By: jhi on 2002/02/25 14:53:43
+ Log: Some hosts understand split -l 50, some only split -50
+ (from Paul Eggert).
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14867] By: jhi on 2002/02/25 14:44:07
+ Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH bleadperl] socketpair.t
+ From: Nikola Knezevic <indy@tesla.rcub.bg.ac.yu>
+ Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 10:31:25 +0100
+ Message-ID: <179381153.20020224103125@tesla.rcub.bg.ac.yu>
+
+ (the pid half only)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14866] By: jhi on 2002/02/25 14:35:19
+ Log: Mention the new pack tricks.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14865] By: jhi on 2002/02/25 14:30:28
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH] consistent commands for perl5db.pl etc.
+ From: Richard.Foley@t-online.de (Richard Foley)
+ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:47:03 +0100
+ Message-ID: <16fJgP-1mbVeSC@fwd04.sul.t-online.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/perl5db.pl pod/perldebguts.pod pod/perldebtut.pod
+ ! pod/perldebug.pod pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14864] By: jhi on 2002/02/25 13:51:32
+ Log: Typo corrections from John P. Linderman.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/IPC/SysV/Semaphore.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14863] By: jhi on 2002/02/25 13:49:32
+ Log: Upgrade to Math::BigInt 1.52.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/Math/BigFloat.pm lib/Math/BigInt.pm
+ ! lib/Math/BigInt/Calc.pm lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mbf.t
+ ! lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigfltpm.inc lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigfltpm.t
+ ! lib/Math/BigInt/t/config.t lib/Math/BigInt/t/inf_nan.t
+ ! lib/Math/BigInt/t/sub_mbf.t t/lib/Math/BigFloat/Subclass.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14862] By: ams on 2002/02/25 10:39:40
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH Cwd.pm] cut-n-paste error?
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:35:06 GMT
+ Message-Id: <200202251135.LAA00573@tempest.npl.co.uk>
+
+ Subject: [PATCH Net/Cmd.pm]
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:37:06 GMT
+ Message-Id: <200202251137.LAA00579@tempest.npl.co.uk>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/Cwd.pm lib/Net/Cmd.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14861] By: jhi on 2002/02/25 03:40:45
+ Log: Cut-and-paste errors.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! t/op/pat.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14860] By: jhi on 2002/02/25 03:36:24
+ Log: EBCDIC: the control characters are not that easy to find.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! t/op/pat.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14859] By: jhi on 2002/02/25 03:02:23
+ Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Copying PV only with possible UTF-8 characters
+ From: John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com>
+ Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:08:28 -0500
+ Message-ID: <3C79AAAC.6060903@rowman.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14858] By: jhi on 2002/02/25 00:01:13
+ Log: SvSetSV() is not returnable, but that's okay since
+ sv_copypv() returns void.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14857] By: jhi on 2002/02/24 23:33:33
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: Copying PV only with possible UTF-8 characters
+ From: John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com>
+ Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:40:07 -0500
+ Message-ID: <3C795DB7.40105@rowman.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! embed.fnc embed.h global.sym lib/overload.t pod/perlapi.pod
+ ! pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14856] By: jhi on 2002/02/24 20:15:51
+ Log: Tiny code cleanup.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regexec.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14855] By: jhi on 2002/02/24 19:49:01
+ Log: Use to_uni_fold().
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regcomp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14854] By: jhi on 2002/02/24 19:45:43
+ Log: Document the new taint behaviour of exec LIST and
+ system LIST.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14853] By: jhi on 2002/02/24 18:28:31
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: taint news
+ From: Rick Delaney <rick.delaney@rogers.com>
+ Date: 24 Feb 2002 11:35:00 -0500
+ Message-ID: <m3d6yuvnwr.fsf@cs839290-a.mtth.phub.net.cable.rogers.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14852] By: jhi on 2002/02/24 18:20:55
+ Log: EBCDIC tweak (native instead of uni) and comment update.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regexec.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14851] By: jhi on 2002/02/24 13:02:53
+ Log: Using uninitialized (and wrong) variables is not good.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regcomp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14850] By: jhi on 2002/02/24 05:28:15
+ Log: EBCDIC: this seems to calm the last of the
+ Malformed UTF-8 warnings.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regcomp.c utf8.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14849] By: jhi on 2002/02/23 23:35:03
+ Log: EBCDIC: document using Encode for character conversions.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlebcdic.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14848] By: jhi on 2002/02/23 23:20:57
+ Log: EBCDIC: disable also Unicode::Collate and
+ Unicode::Normalize for now. Real users of
+ EBCDIC have to decide what they want.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/Unicode/Normalize/Normalize.pm
+ ! ext/Unicode/Normalize/t/func.t ext/Unicode/Normalize/t/norm.t
+ ! ext/Unicode/Normalize/t/test.t lib/Unicode/Collate.pm
+ ! lib/Unicode/Collate/t/test.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14847] By: jhi on 2002/02/23 20:12:21
+ Log: AUTHORS updates.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! AUTHORS
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14846] By: jhi on 2002/02/23 20:05:10
+ Log: Retract #14571: there may be a better solution than
+ tweaking the test.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/Unicode/Normalize/t/func.t ext/Unicode/Normalize/t/norm.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14845] By: jhi on 2002/02/23 19:15:32
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH @14833] $Config{prefixexp} for VMS
+ From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
+ Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:14:35 -0600
+ Message-Id: <a05101400b89d8666cc6c@[192.168.56.188]>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! configure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14844] By: jhi on 2002/02/23 18:37:14
+ Log: metaconfig unit change for #14843.
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ ! Extensions.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14843] By: jhi on 2002/02/23 18:36:43
+ Log: Also Encode/JP needs to be listed explicitly.
+ (Any other sub-Encode extensions?)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14842] By: jhi on 2002/02/23 18:17:07
+ Log: Document known UNICOS/mk deficiency.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14841] By: jhi on 2002/02/23 16:29:49
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH] README mention version 5.0
+ From: Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>
+ Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 09:35:22 +0800
+ Message-ID: <20020223013522.GA8694@not.autrijus.org>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! README
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14840] By: jhi on 2002/02/23 03:32:59
+ Log: metaconfig unit change for #14839.
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/modified/Signal.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14839] By: jhi on 2002/02/23 03:32:32
+ Log: Old hosts like NeXT Classic don't have sort -k,
+ from Paul Eggert.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14838] By: ams on 2002/02/22 21:14:29
+ Log: Minor clarifications as suggested by Anton Tagunov.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlsyn.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14837] By: ams on 2002/02/22 21:07:02
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: Prototype checking on assignment of coderef to typeglob
+ From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@free.fr>
+ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:01:07 +0100
+ Message-Id: <20020222230107.A15069@rafael>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c t/op/gv.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14836] By: jhi on 2002/02/22 20:39:11
+ Log: metaconfig unit change for #14835.
+ Branch: metaconfig
+ ! U/modified/Chk_MANI.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14835] By: jhi on 2002/02/22 20:38:32
+ Log: In AIX the split(1) default (1000 lines) chokes the /usr/bin/ls.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14834] By: jhi on 2002/02/22 18:06:01
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: Pyrrhic compression in Encode
+ From: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
+ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:10:28 -0500
+ Message-ID: <20020222171027.GB4181@blackrider>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/Encode/compile
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 14833] By: jhi on 2002/02/22 14:51:17
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
[ 14832] By: jhi on 2002/02/22 14:25:18
Log: Implement IV/UV/NV/long double pack/unpack with
template letters j/J/F/D (the latter two have been