=head1 NAME

ReleaseNotes - These are the Release Notes for 1.20

=head1 SYNOPSIS

These are the major changes since version 1.19

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Thanks to Bernd Ulmann for giving me access to his VAX and the help of
the vmsperl community, I have added support for OpenVMS.

Major changes since 1.19

=over 4

=item 1

C<Test::Smoke::SysInfo> is a work in progress. Some more tweaking for
Solaris was done with the help of Alan Burlison and Davis Woolger.

=item 2

I order to support systems without C<rsync(1)> access, I have added
C<Test::Smoke::FTPClient> that syncs source-trees with Net::FTP from
the ActiveState ftp repository. It is slow, but gets the job done.

=item 3

A lot of filename/directoryname issues with VMS were resolved.

=item 4

A new way to get testresults directly from "make test_harness" was
introduced to help VMS (and perhaps Win32).

=item 5

Jarkko Hietaniemi supplied a way to add C compiler messages to the
smoke report.

=item 6

Patches applied through the pfile mechanism now support a third
argument that represents a patch description. This (optional)
description is also added to F<patchlevel.h>.

Added a new "Locally applied patches:" section to the smoke report.

=item 7

The longtime TODO item of patching with forest setup has been
resolved. For this type of setup, first the intermediate tree is
patched and then the build tree is resynced from that.

=back

=head1 REVISION

$Id: ReleaseNotes 907 2005-09-10 10:46:17Z abeltje $

=head1 COPYRIGHT

(c) 2002-2004, Abe Timmerman <abeltje@cpan.org> All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See:

=over 4

=item * L<http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>

=item * L<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>

=back

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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