version 0.002; 2010-05-19

  * remove all uses of $[, both reads and writes, from library code,
    where it has been obsolete since perl 5.000

  * for option parsing libraries, test behaviour with "--" argument

  * in t/shellwords.t, remove unnecessary timeout that caused false
    test failures

  * in test suite, consistently use strictures and Test::More

  * revise test code style

version 0.001; 2010-04-10

  * revise statement about deprecation of the modules, to be more complete
    and accurate and to reflect the latest nuances to their status

  * in documentation, list the bundled libraries, with very short
    descriptions

  * add tests for several of the libraries based on the core's tests for
    more modern replacements: abbrev.pl from Text::Abbrev, getopt.pl
    and getopts.pl from Getopt::Std, hostname.pl from Sys::Hostname,
    open2.pl from IPC::Open2, open3.pl from IPC::Open3, shellwords.pl
    from Text::ParseWords, timelocal.pl from Time::Local

  * in titular version-number-supplying module, check for required Perl
    version at runtime

version 0.000; 2010-03-30

  * initial released version