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Revision history for Perl extension Net::Z3950.

0.41  Wed Mar 17 13:33:43 2004
	- When Net::Z3950::Manager::wait() times out, it now returns
	  an undefined value rather than, as in v0.40, the timeout
	  value.  This code is now tested, thanks to Rick Jansen.
	- Minor changes to some of the logic in ResultSet.pm

0.40  Tue Mar 16 13:57:33 2004
	- A timeout may be set for a Net::Z3950::Manager's wait() by
	  setting that manager's "timeout" option to the maximum
	  number of seconds to wait.  Donald Knuth once wrote,
	  "Beware: this code has not been tested, only proved
	  correct."  _This_ code improves on Knuth in that it has been
	  neither tested _nor_ proved correct.  However, I give you my
	  solemn promise that I think it probably works, as likely as
	  not.

0.39  Fri Dec 19 16:08:35 2003
	- Recognise record-syntax names such as "USMARC" as well as
	  enumerators such as Net::Z3950::RecordSyntax::USMARC, in
	  accordance with what's specified in v1.4 of the ZOOM AAPI.
	  Such names are recgonised case- and hyphen-insensitively, so
	  "GRS-1" and "grs1" are equivalent.
	- Add "XML" as an alias for the "TEXT_XML" record-syntax.
	- Handle the ZOOM AAPI's standard options "pass" and "group"
	  in preference to the old options "password" and "groupid"
	  (although these are still also recognised, for the benefit
	  of old applications.)
	- Handle the ZOOM AAPI's standard option "async" in preference
	  to the old "type" with _value_ "async" (although that's
	  still also recognised, for the benefit of old applications.)
	- Makefile.PL includes support for and instructions about
	  building against a YAZ in a non-standard place ("non-root
	  install").
	- Another slight refinement to samples/simple.pl's
	  diagnostics.
	- Documentation for diagnostic methods now includes a link to
	  the BIB-1 diagnostics web-page.

0.38  Fri Oct 24 13:28:42 2003
	- Fix a silly bug in Net::Z3950::Record::OPAC::rawdata(),
	  spotted by Kristina Long.  It was trying to return $$this,
	  like the opaque-array-of-bytes record-types such as USMARC,
	  whereas in fact $this is itself a Perl structure
	  representing the record.
	- Add a kludge to patch over anti-social behaviour from
	  servers that sometimes return USMARC records when asked for
	  OPAC records: the returned record is wrapped in an otherwise
	  empty OPAC record structure.

0.37  Tue Sep 16 15:14:40 2003
	- Remove a pair of extraneous declarations (copied from
	  "yaz/include/yaz/z-opac.h" for reference) at the end of
	  translateHoldingsAndCirc().  On recent GCC versions, such as
	  mine, they were pointless but harmless; but older versions,
	  such as the one in Debian/stable, croak if you mix
	  statements and declarations.
	- Improve behaviour when a server unilaterally closes the
	  connection while we're waiting for a Init response.
	  Previously, this would cause a segmentation fault; now you
	  get errno set to 104 (ECONNRESET) which is pretty close.
	- Improve the OPAC record renderer in Z3950/Record.pm so that
	  it walks more of the OPAC-record structure.  As well as
	  being prettier, this is better documentation-by-example of
	  how to use the record structure.

0.36  Fri Sep 12 23:47:00 2003
	- Add support for the OPAC record syntax: OPAC records are now
	  translated into self-describing Perl data-structures,
	  blessed into the class Net::Z3950::Record::OPAC.  There is a
	  rudimentary renderer included in that class, but
	  sophisticated applications will want to deal with the data
	  structure itself.  To see it in action, use something like:
		$ perl samples/simple.pl alpha.calarts.edu 210 \
			MARION fruit preferredRecordSyntax 35
	  WARNING: for some servers, e.g. troy.lib.sfu.ca:210/innopac,
	  you MUST request elementSetName "F", otherwise you'll just
	  be fed USMARC records whatever your preferredRecordSyntax.
	- Deal better with unrecognised or malformed APDUs from the
	  server, e.g. library.ucfv.bc.ca:2200/unicorn when asked 
	  for the USMARC record found by "@attr 1=4 time".  Now, the
	  operation fails with diagnostic code 1001 (Malformed APDU).
	- Change all <mike@tecc.co.uk> addresses to
	  <mike@indexdata.com>.  (This change is well overdue, since I
	  changed jobs seven months ago!)
	- Fix reference for PQF in the YAZ manual.

0.35  Fri Jun 27 10:48:03 2003
	- Fix all non-US MARC record-types to return raw data from the
	  rawdata() method rather than, as before, the render()
	  method.
	- Add a new delete() method to Net::Z3950::ResultSet

0.34  Mon May 12 10:17:07 2003
	- Slightly more robust cleanup in Manager::forget()
	- Make samples/simple.pl a little less simple(!) by making a
	  manager so that pre-connection options such as
	  authentication parameters can be set.
	- In Makefile.PL, LIBS and INC are now both set via yaz-config,
	  so you don't need to mess with that file before building.
	  (Adam Dickmeiss)
	- The INC is now inherited by yazwrap/Makefile.PL, so that
	  this file also does not need to be edited.  (Adam Dickmeiss)
	- CCFLAGS is no longer set in the yazwrap directory.  I only
	  did that in order to add "-Wall", which is pleasant luxury
	  but not really necessary; and doing so caused problems as
	  other, default, components of that setting were discarded on
	  some platforms.  (Adam Dickmeiss)
	- Add support for the MAB record syntax, thanks to Heiko
	  Jansen <JANSEN@hbz-nrw.de>

0.33  Thu Apr  3 09:10:16 2003
	- Add explicit statement of GPL licence.
	  No code changes at all.

0.32  Tue Jan 21 16:46:23 2003
	- Remove the old, unnecessary and confusing code that patched
	  around the absence of cs_look() and cs_rcvconnect() in YAZ.
	  In fact, they've both been there since version 1.8 (the one
	  that introduced ZOOM-C), fourteen months ago.  This change
	  cleans up the code and fixes an intermittent error that Dave
	  Mitchell had run into.  You now need v1.8 of YAZ or newer.

0.31  Wed Nov 27 12:40:50 2002
	- Add command-line options to samples/simple.pl
	- Add samples/canonical.pl
	- Change the default element-set names in Manager.pm to be
	  upper-case "F" and "B" rather than "f" and "b", as specified
	  in section 3.6.2 (Composition Specification, Comp-spec
	  Omitted) of the standard.
		http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/markup/08.html#3.6.2
	  Even though a clarification makes it clear that element-set
	  names should be treated case-insensitively.
		http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/clarify/esncase.html
	- Formally deprecate the non-working records() method of the
	  ResultSet class.
	- When a new Connection object can't be made because of Init
	  being refused (rather than due to a lower-level error such
	  as ECONNREFUSED), $! is set to the distinguished value -1.
		(Dave Mitchell)
	- Neater code for connection-closing.
		(Dave Mitchell)
	- Fake up a diagnostic record (BIB-1 error 3, "unsupported
	  search") for servers which illegally fail to include
	  diagnostic records in the result of a failed search.
		(Dave Mitchell)
	- Added #include "XSUB.h" to the yazwrap directory's private
	  code, which means it now does The Right Thing when compiling
	  against a Perl build with the MULTIPLICITY flag set.  This
	  means that we now build and run under cygwin on Windows 2000
		(Dave Mitchell)
	- Add new option "namedResultSets", initially true, which if
	  set false caters for brain-damaged servers by always using
	  the same result-set name, "default", thereby invalidating
	  previous ResultSet objects.
		(Dave Mitchell)
	- Documentation tweaks.

0.30  Fri Jul 19 13:55:45 2002
	Today's release is brought to you entirely by Dave Mitchell
	<davem@fdgroup.com>, who has done an astonishing amount of
	really useful work on Net::Z3950.  Thanks, Dave!

	- Added the present() method and "prefetch" option to optimise
	  multiple calls of record() in synchronous mode.
	- Made $conn->close() actually clean up and close the connection
	- Fixed memory leak in receive.c, decodeAPDU()
	- Added functions to decode close request/response APDUs.
	- Really do add ability to set custom exception-handler via
	  "die_handler" option -- I [Mike] did it wrong last time.
	- Changed all print()s to die()s, which can be caught as
	  exceptions.
	- Commented out a debugging warn()
	- Added a dummy "test" target to yazwrap/Makefile.PL to stop
	  it complaining during "make test" [At last! -- Mike]
	- Removed "debug => 5" from watcher creators.
	- Updated the synchronous synopsis:
	  * Replaced use of records() with record(), since the former
	    is deprecated.
	  * Added error-checking, so that people who cut-and-paste the
	    synposis start off with good habits.
	  * Added $conn->close(), so people know this doesn't happen
	    automatically.

0.29  Fri May 17 17:07:53 2002
	- Add ability to set custom exception-handler via
	  'die_handler' option.
	- Fix dereference-undef bug occurring when performing a second
	  search on a connection without having fetched any records
	  following the first search.
	- Cope with servers which lie about the number of records in
	  their present responses (the cads!)
	- Fix to correctly translate OIDs in which one or more
	  components is "0".
		All of these changes are due to Dave Mitchell
		<davem@fdgroup.com> -- thanks, Dave!

0.28  Wed Feb 27 17:28:26 2002
	- Change representation of OIDs from blessed reference to
	  array of intergers to Boring Old String (dot-separated
	  numbers).  Resulting tweaks elsewhere in the module, e.g. in
	  GRS::render()
	- Fix Tutorial's incorrect description of the GRS-1 record
	  structure.  How come no-one noticed this gross error in all
	  the time it was there?
	- Minor fixes to the APDU class's documentation (but you
	  shouldn't be reading that anyway :-)
	- Fix the top-level documentation file (index.html) to use the
	  same stylesheet as all the API documentation.

0.27  Mon Feb 11 12:59:05 2002
	- Incorporate a patch from Adam <adam@indexdata.dk> to allow
	  Net::Z3950 to work against servers that don't support named
	  result sets.  Ah, so simple, so elegant!

0.26  Fri Feb  8 16:06:15 2002
	- OK.  This time I have _really_ fixed connecting to work
	  properly either synchronously or asynchronously, and
	  slightly clarified some of the event-handling code while I
	  was at it.  In particular, ECONNREFUSED is handled properly
	  now.
	- Add AUTHOR and ABSTRACT to my Makefile.PL, as recommended in
	  passing by R. Geoffrey Avery's Lightning Talk _h2xs has
	  eXceeded its Stay_, at
	  http://www.platypiventures.com/perl/present/tpc5modules/004.html

0.25  Tue Jan 29 15:56:48 2002
	- Remove some obsolete comments (documenting bugs that are now
	  fixed!)
	- Fix type mismatch in encode_APDU() -- we've been getting
	  away with it until now because sizeof(size_t)==sizeof(int)
	  on most systems, but not on the 64-bit DEC Alpha OSF/1.
	- Fix daft-but-harmless bug in yazwrap/receive.c's setString()
	  functions, in which we return the value of a void function.
	  Most compilers DWIM, but not all.
	- Add explicit casts to (char*) in yazwrap/receive.c where I'd
	  been assuming the conversion from unsigned char*.  Ho hum.

0.24  Wed Jan 23 11:39:32 2002
	- Fix a truly stupid bug which prevents synchronous connection
	  from working.  I missed this in 0.23 because the test script
	  -- unlike almost every other Net::Z3950 program -- uses
	  asynchronous connection.  D'oh!

0.23  Tue Jan 22 16:11:41 2002
	- Handle surrogate diagnostics (e.g. bad element set name).
	- Finally fix that stupid "No rule to make target `pure_all'"
	  message that "make test" always used to produce in the
	  yazwrap directory.
	- Add support for retrieving HTML records: new record-syntax
	  enumeration TEXT_HTML, and a new record-type class
	  Net::Z3950::Record::HTML.
	- Fix hanging on ECONNREFUSED.

0.22  Fri Oct 19 16:37:44 2001
	- Add rudimentary ("straight through") support for the OPAC
	  record syntax.
	- Fix URLs for perl.z3950.org to omit obsolete /nz/ directory.
	- Fix "make clean" in doc directory to remote the Z3950
	  subdirectory.
	- Fix documentation stylesheet to match perl.z3950.org

0.21  Thu Oct 18 14:29:06 2001
	- Fix samples/multiplex.pl not to die when one server fails a
	  search - it just prints and error message now.
	- Get rid of stupid "field `DESTROY' not defined" messages.

0.20  Fri Oct 12 17:12:04 2001
	- Add name() method to the Net::Z3950::Connection class.
	- Add the wherewithal for asynchronous operations to invoke
	  callbacks when they complete
	- Fix staggeringly stupid bug in which the synchronous
	  search() method would always expect an initResponse, so that
	  you couldn't call search() twice on one connection.
	- Add support for the UNIMARC record syntax (required by Bath)
	- Remove the stupid and implemented records() method from the
	  Connection class.
	- Implement CCL qualifiers, specified in "ccl.qual" file.
	- Improve diagnostics from APDU assembly.
	- Fix a rather silly bug where records, once fetched, were
	  cached irrespective of their element-set name, so that
	  record fetched as 'b' and then as 'f' would appear brief.
	- Revamp the "samples" directory: all examples now work(!)
	- Add ZOOM references to the documentation.
	- Minor fixes to documentation, comments, etc.

	  (This major revision - indicated by the increment of the
	  first-decimal-place version number - was largely motivated
	  by the October 2001 ZIG meeting's tutorial, for which I
	  prepared a simple multiplexing client, and was surprised at
	  how hard it turned out to be.)

0.14  Wed Jul 18 13:25:06 2001
	- Add support for retrieving XML records: new record-syntax
	  enumerations TEXT_XML and APPLICATION_XML, and a new
	  record-type class Net::Z3950::Record::XML.
	- Minor fixes to documentation, comments, etc.

0.13  Fri Jun 22 09:30:55 2001
	- In yazwrap/util.c, change socklen_t to size_t since the
	  former does not seem to be defined on all platforms.  In
	  particular, Solaris 2.6 uses a size_t* for the last argument
	  to getsockopt().

0.12  Wed Feb 21 16:47:03 2001
	- Change my email address and web-page in the README.
	- Add conditionally-compiled debugging code to Yaz-wrapper.
	- Add rudimentary support for rendering MARC records and
	  remove the MARC-related apology from the tutorial.
	- Add note to README about "make test" error message.
	- Add note to README about support options, including the
	  Net::Z3950 mailing list.

0.11  Fri Feb  9 11:31:34 2001
	- Fix Net::Z3950::ResultSet->record() to work correctly in
	  synchronous mode (i.e. wait for the record to become
	  available before returning.)
	- Add rawdata() method to the various Net::Z3950::Record::*
	  classes: we now have a distinction between render() and
	  rawdata(), concepts which were previously mulched in
	  together very unhelpfully.
	- Add Tutorial.
	- FIRST PUBLIC RELEASE ON CPAN

0.10  Wed Nov 29 16:39:47 2000
	- Change module name from Z3950 to Net::Z3950

0.04  Fri Sep 22 17:51:28 2000
	- Fix so that diagnostics are available after search failure.
	- Add trivial "straight through" support for USMARC and some
	  of the related record syntaxes.
	- Support for OID-typed fields in GRS-1 records.
	- Change default database to "Default" (it had the profoundly
	  unhelpful default of "hardwired-databaseName"!)
	- Modify the internal class hierarchy to make MARC support
	  hang together more easily (yazwrap library now returns
	  ...::Record::<RS> objects instead of ...::APDU::<RS>)
	- Improve diagnostics when low-level translation of C objects
	  into Perl objects fails.

0.03  Thu Jun 29 15:38:33 2000
	- First version to be held in CVS at indexdata.dk
	- Add CVS identification headers where they're missing, fix
	  some that lacked the trailing $-sign (duh.)
	- Fix the search() and records() wrapper methods so that much
	  simpler single-threaded clients can be easily written.

0.02  Tue Jun 27 21:28:56 2000
	- Make the $port argument optional in the Z3950::Connection
	  constructor.
	- Add support for mnchar* (T_MNPV) to the typemap file: this
	  is a Maybe-Null PV, into which undefined values may be
	  passed yielding null pointers.
	- Add samples/fetch1.pl, which actually works (unlike the
	  other scripts in the samples directory, which are written to
	  a pre-0.1 version of the interface.)
	- Remove obsolete bits of the README file.

0.01  Tue May 23 09:20:30 2000
	- Originally created by h2xs 1.19
	- 0.01 was the first numbered version.  Earlier versions were
	  never assigned numbers as they never got outside the
	  author's house; this is the first one that was sent to Index
	  Data.

--

To be done:
	- ### Use the newer MARC::Record module instead of MARC.pm
		Render with  MARC::File::USMARC::decode($rec->rawdata())
		Or with      MARC::Record ->as_formatted()
	- ### Fix test.pl to work against either local or remote server.
	- ### Make managers drop references to closed connections.
	- ### Make $mgr->wait() finish when there are no connections left.
	- ### Do away with the "async" option, probably.  Here's what
		it actually does when turned on (the default):
		- Connection::new() waits for an Init response before
		  returning.
		- ResultSet::present() (and hence ResultSet::record())
		  waits for for a Present response before returning.
		See also the comment on the Connection::search()
		method.

