This release fixes a bug on x86 when the scale factor of
scale_float(cl_LF, cl_I) exceeded 2^31. In addition, it improves
portability to non-GCC compilers.
Local changes:
o Remove local fix which has been adopted upstream.
Upstream changes:
3.4.0 news:
- Core
+ The Generational Mark and Sweep garbage collector is the new default.
+ The --gc-nursery-size command line argument was added.
+ Parrot now gets entropy from the underlying OS.
+ The NCI subsystem now supports 8, 16, 32 and 64 bit integers.
+ The NCI subsystem now supports "long long" and "long double" signatures.
Not all platforms/compilers support these non-standard types, so developers
are cautioned to take note that using them reduces portability.
+ Many more OpenGL functions in the Parrot OpenGL bindings are available,
which required the above-mentioned signatures.
+ Bytecode-related embedding api functions moved to src/embed/bytecode.c.
- Languages
+ Winxed
- Use 'using extern' for module imports.
- Improved stage 0 prefix ++ and -- operators.
- Allow 'null' in conditional operator.
- Several examples are updated.
- Community
+ Google Summer of Code Bonding period is going well. Students are
mostly done with their classes and much code will flow soon.
- Documentation
+ More PCT introductions are available.
3.3.0 news:
- Core
+ The isa and isa_pmc vtables can now be overridden from PIR
+ IMCC has a new improved external interface
+ A new IMCCompiler PMC adds prototype PDD31-alike functionality for the
PIR and PASM compilers
+ New --with-llvm option to Configure.pl, which will link to LLVM if it
is available
- Community
+ Parrot Virtual Machine was accepted into Google Summer of Code 2011
- Ecosystem
+ Rosella adds a stable "Event" library to implement a
publish/subscribe mechanism
- Tests
+ The test coverage of the extend_vtable subsystem was greatly increased
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HTTP::OAI is a stub module.
HTTP::OAI::Harvester is the harvesting front-end in the OAI-PERL library.
To harvest from an OAI-PMH compliant repository create an HTTP::OAI::Harvester
object using the baseURL option and then call OAI-PMH methods to request data
from the repository. To handle version 1.0/1.1 repositories automatically you
must request Identify() first.
It is recommended that you request an Identify from the Repository and use the
repository() method to update the Identify object used by the harvester.
When making OAI requests the underlying HTTP::OAI::UserAgent module will take
care of automatic redirection (http code 302) and retry-after (http code 503).
OAI-PMH flow control (i.e. resumption tokens) is handled transparently by
HTTP::OAI::Response.
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Original HTML::Template is written by Sam Tregar, sam@tregar.com with
contributions of many people mentioned there. Their efforts caused
HTML::Template to be mature html tempate engine which separate perl code and
html design. Yet powerful, HTML::Template is slow, especially if mod_perl isn't
available or in case of disk usage and memory limitations.
HTML::Template::Pro is a fast lightweight C/Perl+XS reimplementation of
HTML::Template (as of 2.9) and HTML::Template::Expr (as of 0.0.7). It is not
intended to be a complete replacement, but to be a fast implementation of
HTML::Template if you don't need quering, the extended facility of
HTML::Template. Designed for heavy upload, resource limitations, abcence of
mod_perl.
HTML::Template::Pro has complete support of filters and HTML::Template::Expr's
tag EXPR="<expression>", including user-defined functions and construction
<TMPL_INCLUDE EXPR="...">.
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This library can be used by CGI::Session to serialize session data.
It uses YAML, or the faster C implementation, YAML::Syck if it is available.
YAML serializers exist not just for Perl but also other dynamic languages,
such as PHP, Python, and Ruby, so storing session data in this format makes it
easy to share session data across different languages.
YAML is made to be friendly for humans to parse as well as other computer
languages. It creates a format that is easier to read than the default
serializer.
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CGI::Session::Driver::memcached is CGI::Session driver for memcached.
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This modules provides an OS independent interface to 'at', the Unix command
that allows you to execute commands at a specified time.
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Date::Leapyear exports one function - isleap - which returns 1 or 0 if a year
is leap, or not, respectively.
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Date::ICal talks the ICal date format, and is intended to be a base class for
other date/calendar modules that know about ICal time format also.
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This module inherits Text::CSV and is aware of input/output encodings.
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This module is intended for table generation using PDF::API2
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This is a sub-module to PDF::Reuse. It creates barcode "images" to be used in
PDF documents. It uses GD::Barcode and its sub-modules: GD::Barcode::Code39,
COOP2of5, EAN13 and so on, to calculate the barcode pattern. For Code128 it uses
Barcode::Code128.
Normally the barcodes are displayed on a white background and with the
characters under the bars. You can rotate the "image", make it smaller or
bigger, prolong the bars and change the background. (But then, don't forget to
test that your barcode scanner still understands it.)
If you don't change the size of the "image", the bars are approximately 24
pixels high (the guard bars a few pixels longer) and the box/background is 38
pixels high and something like 20 pixels wider than the barcodes. The text
under the bars are 10 pixels high.
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This module could be used when you want to mass produce similar (but not
identical) PDF documents and reuse templates, JavaScripts and some other
components. It is functional to be fast, and to give your programs capacity
to produce many pages per second and very big PDF documents if necessary.
The module produces PDF-1.4 files. Some features of PDF-1.5, like "object
streams" and "cross reference streams", are supported, but only at an
experimental level. More testing is needed. (If you get problems with a new
document from Acrobat 6 or higher, try to save it or recreate it as a PDF-1.4
document first, before using it together with this module.)
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PDF::API2::Simple is a wrapper around the excellent PDF::API2 series of
modules. This module is simply a simplification of those modules, and
has been known to greatly reduce production time. This module is in the
public domain, with a plea of notification. Please see the POD for details.
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This small module provides a way of formatting bibliographic references
using style templates similar to those used by the popular reference
management software Endnote (http://www.endnote.com/). The API is
embarrassingly simple: a formatter object is made using the class's
constructor, the new() method; format() may then be repeatedly called
on this object, using the same or different templates.
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Net::CUPS is an object oriented interface to the Common Unix Printing System.
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This is an objected-oriented Perl interface to GraphicsMagick, a fork of
ImageMagick. It provides an interface similar to that PerlMagick provides
to ImageMagick, but wit a different class name.
Use the module to read, manipulate, or write an image or image sequence from
within a Perl script. This makes it suitable for Web CGI scripts.
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GD::Barcode is a subclass of GD and allows you to create barcode image with GD.
This module based on "Generate Barcode Ver 1.02 By Shisei Hanai 97/08/22".
From 1.14, you can use this module even if no GD (except plot method).
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Barcode::Code128 generates bar codes using the CODE 128 symbology. It can
generate images in PNG or GIF format using the GD package, or it can generate a
text string representing the barcode that you can render using some other
technology if desired.
The intended use of this module is to create a web page with a bar code on it,
which can then be printed out and faxed or mailed to someone who will scan the
bar code. The application which spurred its creation was an expense report tool,
where the employee submitting the report would print out the web page and staple
the receipts to it, and the Accounts Payable clerk would scan the bar code to
indicate that the receipts were received.
The default settings for this module produce a large image that can safely be
FAXed several times and still scanned easily. If this requirement is not
important you can generate smaller image using optional parameters.
If you wish to generate images with this module you must also have the GD.pm
module (written by Lincoln Stein, and available from CPAN) installed.
If the GD module is not present, you can still use the module, but you will not
be able to use its functions for generating images. You can use the barcode()
method to get a string of "#" and " " (hash and space) characters, and use your
own image-generating routine with that as input.
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This module provides a tied hash interface and some convenience
functions for using a memcached cache to memoize functions.
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The Perl 5 module Locale::PO provides methods for manipulating objects that represent
entries in a gettext po-file (untranslated and translated strings, with associated
comments). It can load and save complete po-files.
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ExtUtils::Embed provides utility functions for embedding a Perl interpreter and
extensions in your C/C++ applications. Typically, an application Makefile will
invoke ExtUtils::Embed functions while building your application.
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This module provides several procedures to compute or validate check
digits.
