C h a n g e L o g o f e P e r l
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Changes between 2.2b8 and 2.2b9
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970623 o added docs about #elsif to eperl.pod and NEWS file
970628 o added VERSIONS file with ePerl history
o shit happens: the preprocessor parsing had
nasty bugs where a string "#include" somewhere
in the text leads to a total skip of all
real "^#include" directives :-(
Changes between 2.2b7 and 2.2b8
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970615 o added hint about Options +ExecCGI
to mod/Apache/ePerl.pm
o split the ChangeLog file into seperated files
o added old stuff from 2.1.2 to end of NEWS file
o created a KNOWN.BUGS file
o created a INSTALL.NSAPI
o slightly fixed the POD in mod/Apache/ePerl.pm
o created a new set of demo files in eg/
o fixed some README headers
970620 o created a contrib/ dir and initially
started to write a shtml2phtml script
which converts (X)SSI to ePerl
o fixed tabs in top-level Makefile
970622 o changed red colors to blue ones in error page
o added the new powered-by-ePerl image
which can be retrieved via URL nph-eperl/powered.gif
o added del2del script to contrib/
o added a #elsif to the preprocessor
Changes between 2.2b6 and 2.2b7
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970602 o now etc/newvers always removes /tmp/genopt
[Thanks to Phil Ritzenthaler <phil@cgrg.ohio-state.edu>
for hint]
o now configure determines the full
operating system id from Perl's Config.pm
970604 o set -Wl,-woff 85 only for IRIX 6.x because
IRIX 5.x hates this option..
[Thanks to Ewan McPhail <ewan@epages.iafrica.com> and
Phil Ritzenthaler <phil@cgrg.ohio-state.edu> for hint]
o fixed the preprocessor: the inital searching
of the directives was broken, only worked
when a specific order was used. So some
directives were skipped :-(
o added a #sinclude (secure include) directive
which is the same as #include but removes
all begin and end delimiters, so this one
is a secure way of including stuff from
foreign servers.
o rewritten the preprocessor part of eperl.pod
Changes between 2.2b5 and 2.2b6
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970601 o added a #c preprocessor directive
to be able to comment out stuff
(even to use "#c #include..." to
disable an include directive)
[Thanks to J. Douglas Dunlop for hint]
o now the preprocessor checks the
HTTP response code when http://..
is uses as the file:
- when 301 and 302 are returned
it searches for the new URL in the Location-header
and restarts with this one
- when a response code other
than 200 (OK) is returned it fails the same way
as it fails when a local file it not found:
with an error.
[Thanks to J. Douglas Dunlop for hint]
o removed the Bash check in configure
because this it not used
Changes between 2.2b4 and 2.2b5
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970530 o fixed perlvers -> perl_vers stuff
o fixed again problem with VERSION stuff:
ePerl.pm's were broken (ARGL!)
Changes between 2.2b3 and 2.2b4
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970529 o fixed preprocessor: #include only
valid at column 0, i.e. at start of line
o added a test 08 for the preprocessor
o now any characters are skipped at end
of #include lines up to the newline
o added new parsing feature:
"_" as the last non-whitespace command disables the automatic
adding of the final semicolon. This is to be able to writeo
<: if { :> ... <: } :> etc.
o added new optional(!) parsing feature
which is per-default disabled(!): "\" directly before a newline
character outside ePerl blocks prevent the newline to be printed,
i.e. the line is continued in the output
This feature can be turned on via new option -L.
o added new parsing feature:
when an end delimiter is directly followed by ``//''
this discards all data up to and including the following
newline.
o added three new commands to preprocessor
which gets converted to ePerl blocks:
``#if expr'' -> ``<: if (expr) { _:>//'
``#else'' -> ``<: } else { _:>//''
``#endif'' -> ``<: } _:>//''
o imported the patch from ePerl 2.1.2 which
fixes a problem under non-GCC compilers
with a semicolon in eperl_security.h
o removed the sin_len stuff
970530 o !! Essential Change !!
configure now imports all essential compilation
flags from Perl's Config.pm, including the compiler.
This is necessary to make ePerl work even under
HP-UX and IRIX where they need the special compiler
and special compiler flags. The point is that
Perl already determined the correct flags, so
we can use it.
o changed C++ style comments in
eperl_parse.c to C style
o fixed a missing "int" in eperl_sys.c
o renamed eperl_getopt.c to original
eperl_egetopt.c and make the namespace
clean, i.e. renamed optXXX to egetopt_optXXX.
This is needed at least for IRIX
o changes egetopt() slightly
o replaced the old egetopt() by the GNU getopt()
because egetopt() was broken under some
systems like IRIX.
o option -h now never displays the version
o added a missing semicolon in mod/Parse/ePerl.pm
o renamed and fixed mod/Parse/t/04_compile.t
o now etc/newvers resets the LANG variable
to prevent LOCALE warnings
o provided an own copy of perl_eval_pv() which
is too new. It was introduced in Perl 5.003_97e.
Now plain old Perl 5.003 will work again.
o the Perl 5 interface modules can only be
used with Perl 5.003_90 or higher because
of the TIEHANDLE stuff which is not working
in prior releases.
o fixed update-version target in Makefile.i
Changes between 2.2b2 and 2.2b3
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970521 o fixed NEWS and ANNOUNCE files o spellchecked
INSTALL, INSTALL.APACHE and eperl.pod
970522 o fixed eperl.pod =back stuff and added a paragraph
about software leverage.
970523 o added reference for Parse::ePerl and Apache::ePerl
to eperl.pod
o changed abstract in all source files
970525 o ** added new option -P for an own #include preprocessor. **
o added new option -I: same as for "perl" to
add directories to @INC and preprocessor
970526 o ** added support for URLs to #include **
o added a kludge to etc/newvers for systems
like BSDI where no "getopt" program is available
970527 o added Parse::ePerl::Preprocess which is the
interface to the new preprocessor
o added six new environment variables:
SCRIPT_SRC_PATH, SCRIPT_SRC_PATH_DIR and SCRIPT_SRC_PATH_FILE
SCRIPT_SRC_URL, SCRIPT_SRC_URL_DIR and SCRIPT_SRC_URL_FILE
o fixed a long-standing bug: temporary files were
not removed :-(
o added new option -C for HTML entity conversions
inside ePerl blocks. This is for people who
use HTML editors which have now knowledge of ePerl code.
970529 o slightly fixed eperl.pod at some places
Changes between 2.2b1 and 2.2b2
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970518 o fixed ``make install UNINST=1'' case
for Makefile.PL
970520 o added more POD to Apache::ePerl
Changes between 2.2a2 and 2.2b1
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970505 o again reorganized the source
code and renamed a lot of
functions.
o created modules/ with h2xs
for a Parse::ePerl module
o created generation of libeperl.a
containing shared objects for
Parse::ePerl
970506 o created a top-level Makefile.PL
for faking a MakeMaker distribution
970509 o created a Apache::ePerl module
970510 o added option -i for making the
delimiters case-sensitive in more
explicit way
970511 o added t/05* to Parse::ePerl
and made delimiter case variable
970513 o enhanced Parse::ePerl and
finished Apache::ePerl
970515 o fixed tests 4 and 5 for non-Bash users
and fixed a char/int problem in eperl_main.c
and eperl_sys.c
[Thanks to Jarom Smith <jarom@jarom-indy.prophet.com>]
970516 o finished Apache::ePerl and Parse::ePerl
970517 o added a INSTALL.APACHE which describes the
installation of ePerl as an SSSL under Apache
Changes between 2.2a1 and 2.2a2
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970504 o removed -s and added -m 755
to install in configure
o optimized the parser; no
``print "";'' constructs are
never created which at least slightly
speeds up processing.
Changes between 2.2a0 and 2.2a1
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970503 o now the begin and end delimiters are searched
case-insensitive.
o added -h for displaying the usage list.
Just to be consequent with options.
o added leading and trailing whitespaces
for Perl blocks when translating the source file
to make the -x display more readable.
Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.2a0
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970502 o added support for '=' prefix: now <:= ... :>
automatically gets converted to "print ...". Now one
can interpolate variables in a more shorter way via
<?=$variable!> instead of the long <? print
$variable; !> (in conjunction with the next
enhancements)
o now ePerl is much smarter when converting the ePerl
blocks, i.e. it now recognizes final semicolons and
automatically puts one if missing. Now <: cmd;cmd :>
is also valid.
o Whitespaces are not only stripped
from the beginning of a ePerl block. Now
they are stripped from the end, too.
o !!CHANGED THE PARSING AGAIN!!
Now again (as in 2.0.3) ePerl block end delimiters are
found via plain forward search. No quoted strings are
recognized. The reason is that constructs with odd
number of quoting characters are more often seen than
end delimiters in quoted string. And one more fact: It
is easier to escape the end delimiter in a quotes
string (e.g. via backslahes) than to rewrite a
complex construct (e.g. m|"[^"]+"| !!).
o added -T (Tainting) and -w (Warnings) options
which can be used like the same in "perl".
o added alpha and snap releases to NEWVERS