Revision history for Perl extension autobox

2.86 Fri 20 Apr 20:07:29 2018

    - 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 Mon 27 Feb 18:18:19 2017

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

2.84 Fri 26 Aug 20:35:48 2016

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

2.83 Sun Feb 1 21:34:01 2015

    - 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 Sat Oct 26 12:44:52 2013

    - simplify test to avoid portability woes

2.81 Sat Oct 26 11:32:31 2013

    - fix failing test on Windows

2.80 Fri Oct 25 19:32:12 2013

    - 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 Tue Apr 30 21:22:05 2013

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

2.78 Tue Apr 30 18:53:54 2013

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

2.77  Thu Dec 13 19:59:48 2012

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

2.76  Wed Nov 21 14:35:33 2012

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

2.75  Thu Jul 21 22:07:26 2011

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

2.74  Wed Jul 20 14:25:52 2011

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

2.73  Sun Mar 13 16:35:28 2011

    - Makefile.PL fix

2.72  Fri Jan 28 12:16:34 2011

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

2.71  Thu Sep 23 02:28:10 2010

    - fix for recent perls: remove cargo-cultism

2.70  Wed Mar 17 19:27:44 2010

    - 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  Wed Mar 17 16:34:56 2010

    - 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  Sun May 25 03:20:54 2008

    - fix MANIFEST again - restore Changes

2.54  Sun May 25 00:36:04 2008

    - fix MANIFEST

2.53  Sat May 24 22:19:45 2008

    - 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  Tue May 20 12:24:01 2008

    - more type fixes

2.51  Tue May 20 10:40:32 2008

    - 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  Mon May 19 17:39:22 2008

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

2.43  Thu May 15 21:14:08 2008

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

2.42  Tue May 13 22:22:55 2008

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

2.41  Tue May 13 20:02:37 2008

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

2.40  Mon May 12 23:51:26 2008

    - 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 &c.
      (i.e. non-string) method names (thanks, John Goulah)

2.30  Fri May  9 01:52:19 2008

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

2.23  Sun Feb 24 15:17:05 2008

    - rm redundant $^H hacking

2.22  Sun Feb 24 14:44:58 2008

    - added hints.t

2.21  Fri Feb 22 21:40:54 2008

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

2.20  Thu Feb 21 23:30:53 2008

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

2.11  Wed Feb 20 21:06:25 2008

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

2.10  Wed Feb 20 02:16:42 2008

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

2.02  Sun Feb 17 16:59:28 2008

    - doc tweak
    - POD formatting

2.01  Sun Feb 17 03:56:22 2008

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

2.00  Sun Feb 17 02:29:11 2008

    - 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 compatibilty fix (thanks, Alexandr Ciornii)
    - misc optimizations, cleanups

1.22  Sun Sep 23 22:27:44 2007

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

1.21  Sun Sep 23 20:35:37 2007

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

1.20  Sun Sep 23 14:05:39 2007

    - (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  Thu Nov 23 20:32:53 2006

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

1.04  Mon Nov 20 00:25:50 2006

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

1.03  Sat Apr 23 20:35:16 2005

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

1.02  Tue Apr 12 20:52:02 2005

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

1.01  Tue Apr 12 19:58:49 2005

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

1.00  Tue Apr 12 01:16:52 2005

    - rewrite: no longer requires a patch

0.11  Tue Feb 3 13:21:47 2004

    - Added patch for perl-5.8.3

0.10  Fri Dec 12 15:24:16 2003

    - fixed obsolete reference to perl-5.8.1 in POD

0.09  Fri Dec 12 11:53:02 2003

    - Added patch for perl-5.8.2

0.08  Fri Oct 17 11:50:34 2003

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

0.07  Tue Oct 14 13:34:16 2003

    - 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  Mon Aug 18 17:40:53 2003

    - 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  Mon Aug 11 03:13:04 2003

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

0.04  Sun Aug 10 14:57:18 2003

    - 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  Sun Aug 10 03:17:16 2003

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

0.02  Wed Aug 6 16:49:45 2003

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

0.01  Mon Aug 4 01:00:18 2003

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