Revision history for Perl extension GDS2.
Makefile.PL created by h2xs 1.20 with options
-X -n GDS2
1.0 Originally developed on big endian machines, I still have some
work to do on the write methods for little endian machines.
1.1 Should be set for little endian machines. Starting to look
for speed improvements.
1.1.1 Started adding tests. Needed to make a change to little-endian
record read.
1.2.0 Added a bunch of constants. Starting to look at speed-ups. Write
year out as years since 1900 since Cadence pipo has problems with
ISO type date (2001 v.s. 101)
1.2.1 Put option -isoDate in to print years as 2001 instead of 101
since the GDS2 spec doesn't seem to care and supports an integer
up to 65535. Added experimental option -markEnd to close() for
David Kao to try. Fixed -width option to printPath() and added
-unitWidth option for backwards compatibility.
1.2.2 Added:
returnSname() - return string if record type is SNAME else ''
returnXyAsArray() - returns current (read) XY record as an array
returnRecordAsPerl() - returns current (read) record as a perl command
to facilitate the creation of parameterized gds2 data with perl.
ReturnRecordAsPerl was contributed by Peter Baumbach. Thanks Peter!
1.2.3 Turned on use warnings line which requires 5.6 perl
1.2.4 Added modgds2 to Examples/ and fixed a BIT_ARRAY problem for
little-endian machines. (DO NOT USE)
1.2.5 a better BIT_ARRAY solution for little-endian machines.
1.2.6 Cygwin Perl was printing out "1.e-9" others "1e-9" for UNITS updated
to strip unneeded "."
1.2.7 Added tellSize() which allowed me to create a progress bar for the
cute Examples/gds2dumptk program. Added a -pad => # option to close
method which pads end of file with nulls (some systems like this).
Use file handle close method instead of standard Perl close at the
suggestion of John Reynolds.
1.2.8 Added returnDatatype and returnTexttype used in Examples/gdslayers
1.2.9 Fix to printBoundary() when array of reals is used
1.3.0 Fix to printText() ... typo fix "-x" to "-y"
1.3.1 Minor mod. Added returnBgnextn() returnEndextn() some defines.
Fixed posAngle() so it doesn't round angles (Thanks Martin for
pointing out the problem).
1.32 Start to use Build instead of make.
Took Inline::C version and stripped out C code. Some minor changes
which gave a welcome speed increase.
2.01 Added install option of Inline::C for reading.
Standardized all UNITS string printing of 1e-9, 1e-09, 1e-009 etc... to 1e-9