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Revision history for Alien-XPA

v2.1.20.7 2023-05-18 18:09:17-04:00 America/New_York

    * promote to production; No changes from v2.1.20.6.

    * MSWin32 always fails tests due to what seems to be a free in the
      wrong thread.  No clue at the moment what is causing that and
      how to fix it.

v2.1.20.6 2023-05-17 14:00:45-04:00 America/New_York (TRIAL RELEASE)

  [TEST]

    * switch from single to double quotes to resolve(?) problem
      with builds on Windows.

v2.1.20.5 2023-05-16 23:36:59-04:00 America/New_York (TRIAL RELEASE)

  [TEST]

    * inadvertently introduced syntax which works only for Perl > 5.20

v2.1.20.4 2023-05-10 23:16:14-04:00 America/New_York

  [TEST]

    * only output diagnostics for automated testing

    * reduce interval between checking for connection to the test
      program, but increase total wait time

v2.1.20.3 2023-05-03 21:28:39-04:00 America/New_York (TRIAL RELEASE)

  [TEST]

    * switch to local sockets to see if that helps with CPAN testers
      which successfully compile but can't see xpamb

v2.1.20.2 2023-05-03 20:03:53-04:00 America/New_York

  [BUILD FIX]

    * fix incoreect return type and incorrect passing of pointers in test code

v2.1.20.1 2023-05-02 14:15:57-04:00 America/New_York (TRIAL RELEASE)

  [BUILD FIX]

    * xpa's config.log is now copied into src dir so tests can find
      it. some already can, which is so weird.

v2.1.20.0 2023-04-18 15:11:19-04:00 America/New_York

  [BUILD]

    * xpa source code is now bundled; Alien package version now tracks
      the xpa source code.

0.10      2020-11-06 10:25:13-05:00 America/New_York (TRIAL RELEASE)

  [BUILD]

    * attempt to diagnose CPAN Testers build failures:
      add more diagnostics

0.09      2020-11-06 01:05:26-05:00 America/New_York

  [BUILD]

    * attempt to diagnose CPAN Testers build failures:
      add more diagnostics

0.08      2020-11-03 16:35:56-05:00 America/New_York (TRIAL RELEASE)

  [BUILD]

    * attempt to diagnose CPAN Testers build failures:
      require ExtUtils::MakeMaker 7.50

0.07      2020-11-02 09:14:46-05:00 America/New_York (TRIAL RELEASE)

  [TEST]

    * broke Windows test

0.06      2020-11-01 18:52:59-05:00 America/New_York

  [BUILD]

    * distribution fix; no functional changes


0.05      2020-11-01 12:13:04-05:00 America/New_York

  [ENHANCEMENT]

    *  Use the latest version of the XPA distribution. It rarely changes and is very stable.

  [TEST FIX]

    * be more careful when destroying server


0.04      2017-05-25 14:16:11-04:00 America/New_York (TRIAL RELEASE)

  [TEST FIX]

    * t/alien.t: Win32 process creation flags were incorrectly specified.


0.03      2017-05-25 13:09:17-04:00 America/New_York (TRIAL RELEASE)

  [BUILD]

    * incomplete Makefile.PL was released in 0.02, causing build
      failures on Win32

0.02      2017-05-11 17:15:20-04:00 America/New_York (TRIAL RELEASE)

  [BUG FIXES]

    * Win32 specific code to handle test processes
     (chorny@cpan.org: RT#121653, https://github.com/djerius/Alien-XPA/pull/1)

    * more proper *NIX handling of test processes

    * force -fPIC option in XPA build static library build can be linked
     into dynamic Perl module

    * increase the timeout for contacting the XPA name server from
       150ms to 1000ms (Eric Mandel <eric@cfa.harvard.edu> )


0.01      2017-05-11 17:15:20-04:00 America/New_York

    * Initial release upon an unsuspecting world