Changes

Revision history for Perl extension autobox

3.0.2 - 2024-09-03

    - GH #15: fix debugger test (thanks, djerius)
    - upgrade ppport.h from 3.42 to 3.68
    - GH #12: fix doc typo (thanks, guimard)
    - GH #14: fix changelog typo (thanks, EdwardBetts)

3.0.1 - 2018-05-05

    - GH #11: fix version declaration on 5.8 (thanks, Grinnz)

3.0.0 - 2018-05-05

    - breaking change:
        - the behaviour of UNIVERSAL methods like $native->can and
          $native->isa is now defined as being the same as when autobox
          is not enabled rather than "undefined". (technically, this
          still falls under the rubric of "undefined", but the switch
          from "don't know" to "don't" could break buggy code, so bump
          for safety)
        - add DOES to the list of non-autoboxed methods
    - switch to SemVer i.e. 2.86 (v2.860.0) -> 3.0.0 (v3.0.0)
    - upgrade ppport.h from 3.35 -> 3.42

2.86 - 2018-04-20

    - GH #9: fix bug which prevented autoboxing working
      under the debugger on perl 5.22+ (thanks, skington)
        - added t/debugger.t
    - GH #8: fix bug which prevented bareword method-calls being
      exempted when the method is a variable e.g. Foo->$bar
    - add operator-overloading note to the gotchas section (GH #7)

2.85 - 2017-02-27

    - fix failing test under 5.25.10 with -Ddefault_inc_excludes_dot
      (thanks, Kent Fredric)

2.84 - 2016-08-26

    - compatibility fix for perl >= 5.25
      (thanks, mat813, karenetheridge and eserte)
    - upgrade ppport.h from 3.20 to 3.35

2.83 - 2015-02-01

    - RT #100247: fix assertion failures on 5.21.x perls
      with -DDEBUGGING (thanks, ilmari and Father Chrysostomos)
    - RT #100717: don't hide autobox::universal from PAUSE
      (thanks, ppisar)
    - RT #89754: INSTALLDIRS fix (thanks, Kent Fredric)

2.82 - 2013-10-26

    - simplify test to avoid portability woes

2.81 - 2013-10-26

    - fix failing test on Windows

2.80 - 2013-10-25

    - RT #71777: fix segfault in destructor called during
      global destruction (thanks, Tomas Doran)
        - added t/rt_71777.t
    - fix doc typo (thanks, David Steinbrunner)

2.79 - 2013-04-30

    - allow import arguments to be passed as a hashref
        - added t/import_hashref.t
    - doc tweaks

2.78 - 2013-04-30

    - RT #80400: fix segfault in destructor called in END block
      (thanks, Tokuhiro Matsuno)
        - added t/rt_80400.t

2.77 - 2012-12-13

    - doc tweaks
    - add multiple-arg auto-ref tests

2.76 - 2012-11-21

    - fix breaking tests in perl >= 5.17.5: update error
      message pattern (thanks, rjbs)
    - upgrade ppport.h from 3.19 to 3.20

2.75 - 2011-07-21

    - POD spelling fixes (thanks, Jonathan Yu and gregor herrmann)

2.74 - 2011-07-20

    - portability fix for perl >= 5.14 (thanks, chorny)

2.73 - 2011-03-13

    - Makefile.PL fix

2.72 - 2011-01-28

    - fix conflict with `use re "taint"` (thanks, Peter Rabbitson)

2.71 - 2010-09-23

    - fix for recent perls: remove cargo-cultism

2.70 - 2010-03-17

    - replace autobox_can and autobox_isa with autobox_class.
      this also fixes import, unimport and VERSION
        - added t/version.t
        - renamed t/universal.t -> t/autobox_class.t

2.60 - 2010-03-17

    - fix RT #46814 (thanks, Tye McQueen)
        - added t/rt_46814.t
    - fix RT #49273 (thanks, Daniel Austin)
    - fix RT #55565 (thanks, Schwern)
    - fix RT #55652 (thanks, Schwern)
        - $native->isa and $native->can must now be called as
          $native->autobox_isa and $native->autobox_can
        - added t/rt_55652.t

2.55 - 2008-05-25

    - fix MANIFEST again - restore Changes

2.54 - 2008-05-25

    - fix MANIFEST

2.53 - 2008-05-24

    - add support for UNIVERSAL virtual type
        - added t/universal.t
    - moved autobox::type method to autobox::universal::type subroutine
        - added export.t
    - added t/default.t
    - portability fix for non-gcc compilers (thanks, chris)
    - misc code/documentation fixes/cleanups

2.52 - 2008-05-20

    - more type fixes

2.51 - 2008-05-20

    - fix type identification for former INTEGERs and FLOATs
      (thanks, Mitchell N Charity)
        - added type.t
    - fix for perl 5.11 (thanks, Andreas Koenig)
    - document `eval EXPR` gotcha

2.50 - 2008-05-19

    - add support for INTEGER, FLOAT, NUMBER and STRING
        - added scalar.t
    - updated documentation

2.43 - 2008-05-15

    - fix @isa bug
        - added t/isa.t
    - scope cleanup
    - documentation tweak

2.42 - 2008-05-13

    - upgrade ppport.h to 3.13_03 to s/workaround/fix/

2.41 - 2008-05-13

    - work around $value->$method segfault with non-string method
      names under perls <= 5.8.8
    - added license info

2.40 - 2008-05-12

    - support @array and %hash (thanks, Yuval Kogman (nothingmuch)
      and Matthijs van Duin (xmath))
        - added t/autoref.t
    - fix $value->$method segfault with undef, integer, float etc.
      (i.e. non-string) method names (thanks, John Goulah)

2.30 - 2008-05-09

    - support $value->$method, where $method is a method name or
      subroutine reference:
        - added t/name.t
        - added t/coderef.t

2.23 - 2008-02-24

    - rm redundant $^H hacking

2.22 - 2008-02-24

    - added hints.t

2.21 - 2008-02-22

    - merge unimport.t and time_travel.t into unmerge.t
    - more tests

2.20 - 2008-02-21

    - Fix broken merging
        - corrected merge.t
        - added time_travel.t to verify correctness

2.11 - 2008-02-20

    - Windows portability fix: ANSIfy C99-ism (thanks, Taro Nishino)
    - revert broken micro-optimization

2.10 - 2008-02-20

    - fix + add tests for:
        - unimport
        - default namespace(s) in an array ref

2.02 - 2008-02-17

    - doc tweak
    - POD formatting

2.01 - 2008-02-17

    - documentation fix:
        - rm reference to $class->SUPER::import(TYPE => __PACKAGE__)
          and explain why an auxiliary class should be used

2.00 - 2008-02-17

    - API changes:
        - autobox with one or more args leaves the unspecified
          types unboxed
        - multiple autobox (or autobox subclass) invocations
          in the same lexical scope are merged (thanks, Matsuno Tokuhiro)
        - multiple bindings for each type can be supplied as an
          ARRAY ref of classes or namespaces
        - `no autobox qw(...)` disables/resets bindings for the
          specified type(s)
    - fixed incorrect bareword handling
    - perl 5.10 compatibility fixes (thanks, Andreas Koenig)
    - document previously-undocumented features
    - document subclassing
    - merge.t: test merging
    - beef up the default DEBUG handler so that it shows the superclasses
      of the synthetic classes
    - Windows compatibility fix (thanks, Alexandr Ciornii)
    - misc optimizations, cleanups

1.22 - 2007-09-23

    - (Perl_ck_subr and Perl_ck_null): fix build failure on Windows

1.21 - 2007-09-23

    - (Makefile): fix build failure on Windows (thanks, Alexandr Ciornii)

1.20 - 2007-09-23

    - (ptable.h): fix build failures on perl >= 5.9.3
      (thanks, Andreas Koenig)
    - (Perl_pp_method_named): fix build failure on Windows
      (thanks, randyk and Alexandr Ciornii)

1.10 - 2006-11-23

    - moved END handler into XS
    - updated SEE ALSO section
    - s/REPORT/DEBUG/
    - fix and test for UNDEF => ''
    - portability fixlet for Windows

1.04 - 2006-11-20

    - fix threaded perl pessimization
    - applied patch: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22868
      (thanks, Steve Peters)
    - documentation fixlet
    - portability fixlet

1.03 - 2005-04-23

    - workaround and test for %^H bug
    - require perl >= 5.8

1.02 - 2005-04-12

    - re-fixed Makefile.PL/META.yml + copyright

1.01 - 2005-04-12

    - compatibility/portability fixes + isolate ptr table
      from perl's implementation

1.00 - 2005-04-12

    - rewrite: no longer requires a patch

0.11 - 2004-02-03

    - Added patch for perl-5.8.3

0.10 - 2003-12-12

    - fixed obsolete reference to perl-5.8.1 in POD

0.09 - 2003-12-12

    - Added patch for perl-5.8.2

0.08 - 2003-10-17

    - removed obsolete references to perl-5.8.1-RC4
      from README

0.07 - 2003-10-14

    - updated patch to work against perl-5.8.1. This
      patch should be applied to a clean perl-5.8.1 tree.
      previous versions of perl are no longer supported
    - minor documentation tweaklets
    - added typemap() static method to autobox.pm to
      facilitate subclassing

0.06 - 2003-08-18

    - this version provides an updated patch. it should be
      applied to a clean perl-5.8.1-RC4 tree
    - thanks to Tassilo von Parseval for hunting down
      and fixing a memory leak
    - added support for builtin pseudotype, UNDEF
    - added tests and documentation for old VERSION() and
      new UNDEF features

0.05 - 2003-08-11

    - autobox.pm update: no change to the patch
    - cleaned up implementation of isa() and can()
    - added support for VERSION() (untested)

0.04 - 2003-08-10

    - this version provides a new patch which ensures
      that undef values aren't autoboxed. it should
      be applied to a clean perl-5.8.1-RC4 tree
    - fixed (i.e. prevented) autoboxing of undef in
      isa() and can()
    - fixed Makefile.PL and META.yml to ensure that new
      installs of autobox.pm aren't shadowed by old
      versions (thanks, Michael G Schwern)

0.03 - 2003-08-10

    - added support for can() and isa()
    - documented `print { hashref_expression() }`
      issues/workarounds

0.02 - 2003-08-06

    - the patch is now a single file
    - instructions for applying the patch added to README
    - documentation fixlets for the patch and module

0.01 - 2003-08-04

    - original version; created by h2xs 1.21 with
      options -n autobox-0.01