0.55 2014-10-20 23:45 UTC
+ Fix : [RT #99319] : t/18-opinfo.t: test failure due to change in
perl 5 blead
The new METHOP op class added in perl 5.21.5 is now supported.
Thanks James E Keenan for reporting.
0.54 2014-09-22 17:30 UTC
+ Add : The new constant VMG_COMPAT_CODE_COPY_CLONE evaluates to true
if your perl calls 'copy' magic when a magical code prototype
is cloned, which is currently the case for perl 5.17.0 and
above.
+ Fix : [RT #90205] : copy magic on subs puts raw CV in $_[3]
$_[3] will now contain a reference to the cloned code when
'copy' magic is called for a coderef.
Thanks Lukas Mai for reporting.
+ Fix : t/35-stash.t has been taught about perl 5.21.4.
+ Fix : Tests using run_perl() in t/17-ctl.t will no longer fail on
Android.
Do it for all packages that
* mention perl, or
* have a directory name starting with p5-*, or
* depend on a package starting with p5-
like last time, for 5.18, where this didn't lead to complaints.
Let me know if you have any this time.
Upstream changes:
0.53 2013-09-01 17:50 UTC
This is a maintenance release. The code contains no functional change.
Satisfied users of version 0.52 can skip this update.
+ Fix : [RT #86338] : typo fix.
Thanks dsteinbrunner@pobox.com for the patch.
+ Tst : Author tests are no longer bundled with this distribution.
They are only made available to authors in the git repository.
0.52 2012-11-05 02:30 UTC
+ Add : The new constant VMG_COMPAT_SCALAR_NOLEN evaluates to true
when your perl does not call 'len' magic for scalars, which
is the case for perl 5.17.4 and above.
This fixes RT #80388.
+ Tst : t/35-stash.t has been taught about perl 5.17.4.
+ Tst : Author tests overhaul.
0.51 2012-08-18 15:00 UTC
+ Fix : It is now safe to call dispell() from inside 'free', 'copy' and
'uvar' callbacks to dispell the magic currently in use.
Thanks Clinton Gormley for reporting.
+ Fix : Exceptions thrown from inside a 'free' callback are now always
consistently propagated outside of the callback. They used to
be lost when the 'free' callback was invoked at the end of an
eval block or string.
+ Fix : The 'reset RMG flag' workaroundn used to allow wizards with
both 'uvar' and 'clear' magics to be cast onto a hash, has been
made thread-safe.
0.50 2012-06-24 23:00 UTC
+ Fix : Less memory is leaked when a wizard is freed during global
destruction, or when an exception is thrown from a 'free'
callback.
+ Fix : [RT #77991] : t/17-ctl.t fails on perl 5.14 and 5.16.
This was actually an issue with ActivePerl, and this test
has learned to cope with it.
Thanks Gisle Aas for reporting.
+ Tst : t/35-stash.t has been taught about perl 5.17.1.
+ Doc : Many clarifications.
0.49 2012-06-05 21:40 UTC
This is a maintenance release. The code contains no functional change.
Satisfied users of version 0.48 can skip this update.
+ Fix : [RT #77644] : t/17_ctl.t fails in test 44 since 5.17.0.
This test has been taught about perl 5.17.0.
Thanks Reini Urban for reporting.
+ Tst : t/99-kwalitee.t will be skipped when only problematic versions
of its dependencies are available.
a) refer 'perl' in their Makefile, or
b) have a directory name of p5-*, or
c) have any dependency on any p5-* package
Like last time, where this caused no complaints.
0.48 2012-02-17 23:40 UTC
+ Add : You can now pass a reference to undef as the magic callback in
order to install a no-op callback.
Thanks Florian Ragwitz for the suggestion.
0.47 2011-10-27 16:55 UTC
+ Add : The new constant VMG_COMPAT_HASH_DELETE_NOUVAR_VOID evaluates
to true when "delete $hash{key}" does not call 'delete' uvar
magic in void context.
+ Chg : The MAGIC tokens created by this module no longer use the
mg_private member for storing a "magical" signature.
+ Fix : Triggering magic in a thread on a variable cloned from the main
interpreter, and when the wizard already went out of scope,
will not segfault anymore.
+ Opt : The pointer table is no longer needed to ensure thread safety.
The size of the object code is about 8% smaller for threaded
perls.
+ Tst : Threads tests will not fail anymore if resources constraints
prevent the system from creating all the required threads.
Changes from previous:
0.46 2011-01-23 16:45 UTC
+ Fix : [RT #64866] : Assertion failure with perl 5.13.9.
The real problem was that dispell() wasn't properly resetting
the magical sv flags, which became visible in the test suite
only with perl 5.13.9.
Thanks Joshua ben Jore for reporting.
0.45 2010-11-21 23:15 UTC
This is a maintenance release. The code contains no functional change.
Users of 0.44 can skip this update.
+ Doc : C++ compilers are officially NOT supported.
+ Doc : The minimum perl 5.10.0 requirement for uvar magic has been
made more explicit.
Thanks Peter Rabbitson for pointing this out and contributing a
patch.
+ Tst : Tune for perl 5.13.7.
+ Tst : Capture::Tiny will be used in t/17-ctl.t if and only if it can
capture a simple run.
0.44 2010-09-24 19:10 UTC
+ Fix : Broken linkage on Windows with gcc 3.4, which appears in
particular when using ActivePerl's default compiler suite.
For those setups, the Variable::Magic shared library will now
be linked against the perl dll directly (instead of the import
library). This (should) fix RT #51483.
Thanks Christian Walde for helping to reproduce this failure
and extra testing.
+ Rem : Support for development perls from the 5.11 branch but older
than the 5.11.0 release was removed. This could cause more
recent setups to fail.
+ Tst : Threads tests are now only run on perl 5.13.4 and higher.
They could segfault randomly because of what seems to be an
internal bug of Perl, which has been addressed in 5.13.4.
There is also an environment variable that allows you to
forcefully run those tests, but it should be set only for
author testing and not for end users.
to trigger/signal a rebuild for the transition 5.10.1 -> 5.12.1.
The list of packages is computed by finding all packages which end
up having either of PERL5_USE_PACKLIST, BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.perl,
or PERL5_PACKLIST defined in their make setup (tested via
"make show-vars VARNAMES=..."), minus the packages updated after
the perl package update.
sno@ was right after all, obache@ kindly asked and he@ led the
way. Thanks!
Upstream changes:
0.43 2010-06-25 23:35 UTC
+ Add : The new constant VMG_COMPAT_GLOB_GET tells you whether get magic
is called for globs. It's true starting perl 5.13.2.
+ Chg : All callbacks are now called within an eval-like context.
Only free callbacks used to be called that way.
+ Fix : Some exceptions thrown from a free callback could be lost.
+ Fix : Croak messages could sometimes be repeated several times.
+ Fix : t/41-clone.t segfaulting with perl 5.13.2.
Upstream changes:
0.42 2010-05-19 00:15 UTC
This is a maintenance release. The code contains no functional change.
Users of 0.41 can skip this update.
+ Fix : Test failures with perl 5.13.
+ Tst : Improve coverage.
Upstream changes:
0.41 2010-03-15 17:35 UTC
+ Doc : Tweaks and fixups.
Thanks Shlomi Fish.
+ Fix : Compatibility with the soon-to-be-released perl 5.12.0.
+ Fix : Correctly propagate the errors thrown when variable destruction
happens at compile-time and not from inside eval STRING.
Thanks Florian Ragwitz and Ash Berlin for reporting.
Upstream changes
:0.40 2010-01-06 23:20 UTC
+ Fix : Possible memory miswrites when passing data arguments to cast().
+ Fix : Minor C portability tweaks.
0.39 2009-12-01 00:05 UTC
+ Add : You can use a function name as a callback by passing a string
reference to wizard() instead of a code reference.
+ Fix : Compatiblity with perl 5.11.1 and 5.11.2.
+ Fix : Scalars stored into the data slot no longer leak.
+ Fix : Thread destruction should not segfault anymore.
+ Opt : As a result of removing the deprecated features, less memory is
used for both threaded (a pointer table is used instead of a
hash) and non-threaded (no global structure is needed anymore)
perls.
+ Rem : As advertised in the precendent version, all the signature
related features were removed. This includes the 'sig' option
to wizard(), the getsig() and gensig() functions, and the SIG_*
constants.
Upstream changes:
0.38 2009-10-04 16:10 UTC
+ Dep : All the signature-related features are DEPRECATED and will be
removed in december 2009. This includes the 'sig' option to
wizard(), the getsig() and gensig() functions, and the SIG_*
constants.
Afaik those features were never used in real life, and they make
the XS code slow and brittle. If you want your wizards to be
globally available, you'll have to handle that yourself by
storing them in a hash.
+ Doc : More examples in a new COOKBOOK section.
+ Fix : Compatiblity with the 5.11.0 release. The new compatibility
constant VMG_COMPAT_ARRAY_PUSH_NOLEN_VOID was added to cover
this.
+ Fix : Work around Kwalitee test misfailures.
Upstream changes:
0.37 2009-08-25 15:25 UTC
+ Add : The new constant VMG_FORKSAFE can be tested to know whether the
module will behave nicely when fork()ing. It's currently always
true except on Windows where you need perl 5.10.1 for it to be
true.
+ Doc : Nits and clarifications.
Correcting license according to META.yml
Upstream changes:
0.36 2009-07-05 16:30 UTC
+ Chg : getdata() now returns an empty list when no magic is present.
It used to return undef but did not croak as stated in the doc.
Thanks Matt S. Trout for pointing this out.
+ Fix : Building and tests with ActiveState Perl 5.8 build >= 822.
- Updating package for p5 module Variable::Magic from 0.34 to 0.35
Upstream changes:
0.35 2009-05-15 20:50 UTC
This is a maintenance release. Users of 0.34 can skip this update.
+ Chg : uvar magic used to be enabled for 5.9.5. It now requires 5.10 or
later.
+ Fix : Silence compilation warnings for cxinc().
+ Rem : The workaround introduced in 0.31 for the "Unknown errors" issue
was removed, as regression tests show that 0.34 provides a
better fix.
+ Tst : Skip t/40-threads.t on 5.8.x with old versions of threads and
threads::shared.
- Updating package for p5 module Variable::Magic to 0.34
- Upstream changes:
0.34 2009-04-19 16:55 UTC
+ Fix : Destruction of wizards in require.
+ Fix : "panic: restartop" in 5.10 when dieing at compile time triggers
a destructor.
- Updating package for p5 module Variable::Magic to 0.33
- Set license to artistic-2.0
Upstream changes:
0.33 2009-03-26 00:00 UTC
+ Chg : cast() and getsig() now croak too when an invalid signature is
passed.
+ Fix : It was possible to generate with gensig() the same signature
twice before actually defining the wizards.
+ Tst : More stash tests.
+ Tst : Test when the magic takes place in some cases.
+ Tst : Improved coverage for the op object feature.
0.32 2009-03-01 13:45 UTC
+ Chg : dispell() and getdata() now croak when an invalid signature is
passed.
+ Doc : More examples and a brand new synopsis.
+ Fix : The signature is no longer stored in the mg_private member of
the MAGIC struct. This fixes possible clashes with magics from
other extensions.
+ Fix : op info objects weren't blessed into the right class.
+ Fix : Races when initializing the op names cache under threads.
Pkgsrc changes:
o Note that we need a C compiler to build
Upstream changes:
0.31 2009-02-19 23:50 UTC
+ Doc : A somewhat better introduction. The FUNCTION section was moved
before CONSTANTS and HISTORY since it's more important. And
'assignation' is really 'assignment', says Ricardo. :)
+ Fix : The op_info features are now thread safe.
+ Fix : Segfaults that occured when trying to get the op name during
global destruction.
+ Fix : Segfaults and wrong "Unknown error" exceptions that happened
when dieing in require caused a free callback to fire.
Thanks Florian Ragwitz for reporting.
0.30 2009-02-12 17:05 UTC
+ Add : You can now get in all the callbacks either the name or a B::OP
object representing the current op if you pass the new 'op_info'
option to wizard() with respective values VMG_OP_INFO_NAME and
VMG_OP_INFO_OBJECT.
+ Doc : Document magic on array/hashes values.
+ Fix : Completely skip free callbacks during global destruction.
+ Tst : Tests now pass again on 5.8.3 and lower (they were broken since
0.27).
+ Tst : Test magic on symbol table and on array/hash values.
0.29 2009-02-08 11:10 UTC
+ Add : Set $_[2] to the default length for len magic on scalars.
+ Chg : Perl 5.8 is required.
+ Chg : The CLONE method will no longer be defined for non-threaded
perls.
+ Doc : Nits.
+ Fix : The logic for turning off the GMAGICAL flag on hashes when no
uvar magic is involved could do nasty things on tied hashes.
+ Upd : More resources in META.yml.
0.28 2009-01-24 17:05 UTC
+ Add : The 'copy_key' option to wizard(), that enables the safe edition
of $_[2] in uvar callbacks to redirect actions to another key.
+ Fix : Exception objects thrown from callbacks at compile time were not
available in $@.
+ Fix : free callbacks triggered during global destruction could lead to
segfaults because the wizard was already freed.
+ Fix : Refcount of scalars with free callback.
+ Fix : Segfaults when using get or uvar magic simultaneously with clear
magic.
+ Doc : The documentation about what the callbacks take and should
return is now somewhat clearer.
Upstream changes:
0.27 2009-01-18 23:40 UTC
+ Fix : Offset of 1 with len magic on scalars.
+ Fix : Segfaults that seem to happen when one croak in a callback at
compile time (thanks Ash Berlin for the testcase).
+ Upd : Resources in META.yml (Florian Ragwitz)
+ Tst : Large cleanup resulting in a wider set of tested behaviours.
Upstream changes:
0.26 2008-11-29 22:05 UTC
+ Fix : Leaks of cloned coderefs that access lexicals.
+ Fix : Building with maint-5.8 and blead (thanks Andreas Koenig).
Upstream changes:
0.25 2008-11-12 19:40 UTC
+ Fix : Compatibility with 5.8.9.
+ Fix : Old Pod::Coverage don't ignore CLONE.
+ Upd : META.yml spec updated to 1.4.
0.24 2008-10-12 14:55 UTC
+ Fix : Really fix it.
0.23 2008-10-11 17:25 UTC
+ Fix : Building on perls with multiplicity but not ithreads.
0.22 2008-09-29 19:40 UTC
+ Doc : Explain how magic differs from overloading.
+ Fix : Disable thread safety for perl 5.8 on Windows. If you want it
enabled, reliable feedback is welcome.
0.21_02 2008-09-28 23:10 UTC
+ Fix : Hide previously deleted magic tokens in vmg_svt_free (Yuval
Kogman).
0.21_01 2008-09-22 13:25 UTC
+ Chg : Shrink the context data.
+ Fix : Enable thread safety features for perls that just lack
MY_CXT_CLONE.
+ Tst : Output threads and threads::shared versions in threads tests.
0.20 2008-09-20 23:35 UTC
+ Fix : The module is now thread safe. You can test if it had been
built with thread safety features enabled through the
VMG_THREADSAFE constant.
+ Fix : Correct backtrace when wizard() croaks.
+ Fix : 'cast $a, undef' should throw an 'invalid wizard' error instead
of an 'invalid signature'.
to trigger/signal a rebuild for the transition 5.8.8 -> 5.10.0.
The list of packages is computed by finding all packages which end
up having either of PERL5_USE_PACKLIST, BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.perl,
or PERL5_PACKLIST defined in their make setup (tested via
"make show-vars VARNAMES=...").
Packages Collection.
Magic is Perl way of enhancing objects. This mechanism let the user
add extra data to any variable and overload syntaxical operations
(such as access, assignation or destruction) that can be applied
to it. With the module Variable::Magic , you can add your own magic
to any variable without the pain of the C API.
