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2001-07-27

2001-07-27 11:00:30 by Johan Sundström <oyasumi@gmail.com>

A CHANGES file, built upon the release notes from 2001-04-06 (Pike 7.2.30), a random notice I had lying around, and resolved and/or verified pike 7.2 tickets who changed state between then and today. (Yes, the gap is by no means filled by that.) Please commit updates to this file along with the release notes of future 2.2 dists!

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1: + (to browse bug crunch tickets noted at the end of these notes, either + visit http://community.roxen.com/crunch/ - or append the ticket id to + "http://bugs.roxen.com/" for a address directly to the ticket itself)    -  +  + Changes since 2001-04-06 / Pike 7.2.30 (released separately): + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +  +  o Modifier ranges added. +  +  Makes it easier to provide a set of modifiers to several symbols. +  Example: +  +  static +  { +  int i; +  Tools.PVImage image; +  } +  +  is synonymous to: +  +  static int i; +  static Tools.PVImage image; +  + Improvement and bug tickets closed: 968, 1420, 1468, 1469, 1505, 1546, +  1593, 1645, 1648, 1670, 1679, +  1711, 1714, 1728, 1735, 1739, +  1743, 1757, 1770, 1777, 1793, +  1825, 1831, 1839, 1843 +  + Changes since before then; Pike 7.0 + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +  +  o #pike +  +  Pike files can now be identified with which version of pike they +  where written for with the preprocessor directive #pike. The Pike +  interpreter can then use the apropriate compatibility features. +  +  Note that this can also be used for older versions of Pike; a +  Pike 7.0 or 0.6 script won't take offence just because you add a +  #pike line in the beginning of it but it will give 7.2 or later +  versions of pike a fair chance of running it witout complaining +  about incompatible changes to pike that were introduced later. By +  running the pike with a -V 7.0 (or 0.6 in the example given), you +  explicitly tell the compiler to assume compatibility mode of the +  given version, except where overridden by other #pike directives. +  +  o --features +  +  The pike binary can be started with the flag --features which will +  make it return a list of all "features" available. The subjective +  definition of a feature is something that depends on an external +  library, special features in the OS/hardware or extra compile +  options. +  +  o --info +  +  The --info flag shows, in addition to the feature list, some +  version and environment information about the pike binary. An +  example: +  +  Software......Pike +  Version.......Pike v7.2 release 30 +  WWW...........http://pike.idonex.se/ +  Main author...Fredrik Hübinette +  +  pike binary.../export/d1/nilsson/pike/7.2.30/bin/pike +  master.pike.../export/d1/nilsson/pike/7.2.30/lib/master.pike +  Module path.../export/d1/nilsson/pike/7.2.30/lib/modules +  Include path../export/d1/nilsson/pike/7.2.30/lib/include +  Program path.. +  +  Features......dynamic_modules +  threads +  out-of-band_data +  Crypto +  GL +  GTK +  Gdbm +  Gmp +  Gz +  Image.JPEG +  Image.GIF +  Image.TIFF +  Image.TTF +  Image.PNG +  Java +  Mird +  Mysql +  +  o All LFUNs may now be static. +  +  Callbacks used for overloading may now be declared as static. +  +  o Improved error diagnostics. +  +  The Pike compiler will now provide better error messages, +  i.e. more specific than "parse error" in many more cases than +  before. +  +  o Improved optimization of recursive functions. +  +  Tail recursion optimization is now applied in more cases. +  +  o Improved optimizer. +  +  The global optimizer now has a tree optimizer that performs parse +  tree transformations such as strength reduction optimization. +  +  o Improved support for 64bit platforms. +  +  The entire pike source has been audited and successfully compiled +  on 64 bit architectures. +  +  o Improved support for LFUNs in various efuns. +  +  Overloading is now taken into account in more places than before. +  +  o Improved type resolving. +  +  Pike can better derive the proper type of complex expressions. +  +  o Labeled break and continue. +  +  Loops can now be labeled and referenced to from break and +  continue. Example: +  +  int a, b; +  foo: +  for (int i = 1; i <= 4; i++) { +  a = i; +  switch (1) { +  case 1: +  if (i >= 3) break foo; +  if (i >= 2) continue foo; +  } +  b = i; +  } +  return ({a, b}); // Returns ({3, 1}) +  +  o Local variables at the same nesting depth may no longer overlap. +  +  This is a return to the behavior of Pike 0.6. (We promise not to +  change it again...) This may cause some compatibility problems +  with Pike 7.0 code. (See the #pike feature above) +  +  o More well-defined destruct order in the GC. +  +  Yep. Actually most of the GC has been rewritten from scratch. +  +  o New platforms supported. +  +  MacOS X (Darwin 1.2), Linux 2.4 IA64, MS Windows 2000, +  MS Windows XP, MS Windows XP 64bit. +  +  o Optimized compiler. +  +  The Pike compiler is now 50% faster than before. +  +  o Optimized the search algorithms some more. +  +  search() et al are now faster than before. +  +  o Several headerfiles renamed to improve portability. +  +  o Simulate is gone +  +  If you actually need Simulate, use #pike 7.0 and it will appear. +  +  o SQL sprintf style arguments +  +  It is now possible to make sprintf style SQL queries with +  automatic, database specific quoting. Example: +  +  db->query("SELECT * FROM things WHERE id > %d AND name LIKE %s", +  lowest, pattern); +  +  o Support for Unix system calls. +  +  Support for the Unix system calls setpgrp(), getsid() and +  setsid(), setrlimit(), getrlimit() (all in the system module, see +  below), support for setsid in Process.create_process(). +  +  o Support for cross-compilation. +  +  o Support for implicit create(). +  +  The following two class definitions are equivalent: +  +  class Foo { +  +  int a; +  string b; +  static void create(int _a, string _b) { +  a = _a; +  b = _b; +  } +  } +  +  class Foo(int a, string b) { +  } +  +  o Support for local constants. +  +  Constants can now be defined inside functions. +  +  o Support for the local::id syntax. +  +  Makes it possible to resolve symbols in the local scope. +  Example: +  +  class A +  { +  int foo() { return 1; } +  int bar() { return foo(); } +  int baz() { return local::foo(); } +  } +  +  class B +  { +  inherit A; +  +  int foo() { return 2; } +  } +  +  B()->bar() will return 2 while B()->baz() returns 1. +  +  o type_of() and _type_of() now return the type type. +  +  Example: +  +  constant boolean = typeof(0)|typeof(1); +  boolean flag = 1; +  +  int main( int argc, array(string) argv ) +  { +  flag = (argc>1)?(int)argv[1]:flag; +  write( "Type of flag is %O\n", typeof(flag) ); +  write( "Value of flag is %O\n", flag ); +  return 0; +  } +  +  o typedef syntex added. +  +  Example: +  +  typedef int(0..1) boolean; +  boolean flag = 1; +  +  int main( int argc, array(string) argv ) +  { +  flag = (argc>1)?(int)argv[1]:flag; +  write( "Type of flag is %O\n", typeof(flag) ); +  write( "Value of flag is %O\n", flag ); +  return 0; +  } +  +  o enum syntax added. +  +  Example: +  +  enum boolean { false, true } +  boolean flag = true; +  +  + New modules + ----------- +  +  o ADT.Stack +  +  Previously known as Stack. +  +  o Cache +  +  Plugin-based generic caching system, supporting chain-deletion of +  records. Currently supported storage areas are RAM, GDBM, Yabu or +  MySQL databases, removal policies are explicit remove, +  time-constrained, size-constrained, combined. +  +  o Calendar +  +  The new Calendar module. There is a big FAQ in its directory +  describing many of its capabilities. +  +  o Calendar_I +  +  The old Calendar module. Available as Calendar when #pike 7.0 is +  used. +  +  o Crypto.aes / Crypto.rijndael +  +  Rijndael is a block cipher, designed by Joan Daemen and Vincent +  Rijmen, which was the winning candidate algorithm for the AES +  (http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/). The cipher has a variable +  block length and key length. +  +  o Crypto.md2 +  +  The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm, as defined in RFC 1319 +  (http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/rfc/rfc1319.html). +  +  o Geography +  +  Capable of converting between symbolic names for the countries to +  the actual country name. It can convert between differnet kinds of +  position systems such as longitude/latitude, UTM and Georef. The +  conversion can be done on any type of ellipsoid. 18 of the most +  common earth approximations are included. +  +  o Image.FreeType +  +  Support for FreeType 2.0. +  +  o Math.Angle +  +  For easy use of angles in computations. It can handle degrees, +  radians and gons and conversion between them. You can reference a +  degree angle with degrees, minutes and seconds. Includes methods +  for normalization, trigonometrical calculations etc. +  +  o Mird +  +  Glue module to libmird, a free simple database with transactions, +  see http://www.mirar.org/mird/ +  +  o PDF +  +  This is a glue module to pdflib,a "half-free" PDF generating library. +  +  o Parser.XML.DOM +  +  An implementation of DOM Level 1. See http://www.w3.org/DOM/. +  +  o Parser.XML.Tree +  +  An easy to use, lightweight module to traverse and manipulate XML +  trees. +  +  o Protocols.HTTP +  +  The API functions in Protocols.HTTP now take their URLs either as +  strings or Standards.URI objects. You also no longer need to set +  the authorization header on your own, if your URL contains +  user:password information, e.g. http://user:password@some.host.com/. +  +  o Protocols.IRC +  +  A client implementation of the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol. +  +  o Protocols.SNMP +  +  Implements SNMP v1, according to RFC 1157: +  http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/rfc/rfc1157.html +  +  o Standards.ISO639_2 +  +  A module providing mapping from ISO-639-2 language codes to +  language names and vice versa. +  +  o Standards.URI +  +  Abstract class for URI:s (or URL:s) that both handles indexing +  out/altering the various individual components of a URI and +  correct resolving/reresolving of a URI with respect to another +  base URI, all according with RFC 2396: +  http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/rfc/rfc2396.html +  +  Protocols.HTTP now also accepts Standards.URI objects as input to +  all methods that previously used to accept only URL strings. +  +  o Stdio.Stat +  +  file_stat() now returns Stdio.Stat objects instead of +  arrays. These objects emulate the behaviour of the previously used +  arrays, but also provide an easier to use interface. (See the +  #pike feature above) +  +  o Tools.AutoDoc +  +  Extracts the new inline documentation format. We will post more +  information on this when this system has matured enough to build +  working pike reference manuals. Some information is available in +  files .autodoc_inlining and .autodoc_syntax in the top directory. +  +  o system +  +  A module housing various operating system calls made available to +  pike that previously used to be provided as efuns (hardlink, +  symlink, resolvepath, umask, chmod, chown, chroot stc.). Be +  prepared to see these efuns disappear to compat mode only in the +  future. They will, however, of course be available in the system +  module. +  +  o Added array Regexp match. +  +  Example: +  +  Regexp("[0-9]+")->match( ({ "hello", "12", "foo17" }) ); +  +  Returns ({ "12", "foo17" })   Newline at end of file added.