pike.git/ CHANGES

2002-09-25

2002-09-25 23:45:03 by Martin Nilsson <mani@lysator.liu.se>

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  Branch: 7.9

Added some more notes while going through the CVS changelog (I'm already at 'configure.in')

Rev: CHANGES:1.12

1:   Changes since Pike 7.2:   ----------------------------------------------------------------------    - New functionality: - ------------------ + New/improved functionality: + ---------------------------      o New Hilfe   
12:      o unbug    + o Unicode 3.2.0 +  All charts has been updated to Unicode 3.2.0. This applies both to +  the Unicode module as well as Pike-global functionality such as +  upper_case/lower_case. unicode_to_string() also has support for +  surrogate and byteorder make handling.    - New concepts: - ------------- + o Extended random() +  random() now works on float, array, multiset and mapping (and +  int/object).    -  + o delay()/sleep() +  sleep() no longer busywaits. +  + o search(string, int)/has_value(string, int) +  + Language additions: + ------------------- +    o foreach(X; Y; Z)    The foreach statement has been extended to allow iterations over    mappings, multisets and any object that implements the iterator
106:    implementations. This is to complement the "magic" ::`->() and    ::`->=() functions that exist in earlier releases.    - o + o UNDEFINED    -  + o _m_delete    - Other: - ------ +     - sp -> Pike_sp - fp -> Pike_fp - fatal -> Pike_fatal - empty_string -> empty_pike_string -  -  +    New modules / classes / methods added:   --------------------------------------   
136:   o Debug.Tracer      o Dvb.dvb -  Digital sattelite handler (linux only). +  Digital sattelite handler (Linux only).      o Locale.Language      o Parser.Python -  +  Splits Python source code into text tokens.      o Parser.RCS    Extracts data from RCS or CVS repositories.
157:      o Standards.ID3    ID3 tags decoder/encoder. Supports versions: 1.0, 1.1, -  2.2-2.4. -  Uses frequently in MP3 files. +  2.2-2.4. Frequently used in MP3 files.      o Standards.RDF    -  + o System.Time + o System.Timer +    o Stdio.FakeFile      o Stdio.GZipFile
174:    Also accessable via "pike -x pv"      o Image.Dims -  Can extract the dimensions of an image withóut loading the entire -  image. +  Can extract the dimensions of an image with a minimal amount of +  data loading. Currently handles JPEG, GIF and PNG images.      o Image.Fonts    High level API for font handling. Should be used instead of
200:   o Machine code used on some architectures.      o Overall speed improvements. +  Function calls +  sprintf +  arrays +  replace    -  + o Deferred backtraces. +    o Improvement and bug tickets closed: 1499      
297:    LR has been moved to Parser.LR and the API has been chnged.    FIXME: More about this?    + o wmml documentation removed +  Use the documentation in the refdoc directory instead.    -  + o .build_lobotomize_crypto removed +  Use the Makefile target lobotomize_crypto to lobotomize Pike. +  Should preferably be executed in unused tree right from CVS. +  + C level/development changes: + ---------------------------- +  + o Some global defines has been renamed to avoid name clashes. +  sp -> Pike_sp +  fp -> Pike_fp +  fatal -> Pike_fatal +  empty_string -> empty_pike_string +  + o --with-internal-profiling +  + o Module symbols not available from other modules. +  +    Bugs fixed:   -----------   
308:   http://community.roxen.com/crunch/ - or append the ticket id to   "http://bugs.roxen.com/" for an address directly to the ticket   itself.) +  +  + Uncategorized: + -------------- +  + o --with-new-multisets + o PIKE_RUN_UNLOCKED + o Works with Autoconf 2.50 + o Saved 8 bytes per object for objects not using their parent scope + o constant objects (Gmp.Bignum, Math.Matrix, Image.Color)