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'.
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.
