$Id: Changes,v 1.16 2001/07/24 15:32:45 joern Exp $
Revision history for Perl extension CIPP.
2.37 Tue Jul 24 2001, joern
Bugfix:
- removed unwanted debugging output on database close from
CIPP::Runtime. Note: you must install this CIPP::Runtime
version (0.39) on all your production systems to get rid
of the debugging messages.
Features:
- <?GETURL> support for new.spirit generic file type and
jar file types
2.36_04 Mon May 14 2001, joern
INTERNAL BETA RELEASE
Bugfix:
- chdir to the base dir of the CGI program did not work,
because it was exectued too late. Thus programs did not
work, if the actual working directory differed from
the installation directory.
- documentation is uptodate
Incompatible Change:
- The shortcut syntax for includes <?x.include.this>
is not deprecated anymore. It is completely forbidden.
Features:
- new CIPP command
<?>arbitrary perl expression to be printed<?/>
This makes it possible to write things like this
with less syntax overhead:
<?>$object->get_attribute<?/>
The official Perl solution for this:
${\( $object->get_attribute )}
is really ugly, and the CIPP way
<?PERL>print $object->get_attribute;<?/PERL>
too long ;)
2.36_03 Mon May 14 2001, joern
INTERNAL BETA RELEASE
Bugfix:
- <?REQUIRE> did not work for modules outside the own
project
2.36_02 Mon May 14 2001, joern
INTERNAL BETA RELEASE
Bugfix:
- CIPP::Runtime threw warnings on program exit:
"commit ineffective with AutoCommit enabled ... "
- "make test" always failed
2.36_01 Mon May 14 2001, joern
INTERNAL BETA RELEASE
Bugfix:
- Bugzilla Bug #132:
- fixes some mod_perl bugs. If several new.spirit projects
are installed under one mod_perl instance some side effects
occured (establishing wrong database connections, loading
of wrong base configs)
- establishing the correct @INC path failed under mod_perl
(subsequent requests only had the standard @INC, all project
specific @INC entries disappeared)
2.35 Wed Mar 28 2001, joern
Bugfix:
- under new.spirit <?GETURL> did not work on cipp-html objects
with special file extensions (js, css)
2.34 Wed Mar 28 2001, joern
Bugfix:
- an <?EXIT> inside a <?CATCH> block causes that the catched
exception was thrown on exit
- Include call code for Include Subroutines
was totally broken
2.33 Tue Mar 27 2001, joern
- <?SAVEFILE> throws more detailed exception, when
the upload file parameter is not defined
2.32 Mon Mar 26 2001, joern
- CIPP::Runtime now gives slightly more information on database
connection faults
- fixed a bug in CIPP::Include. Include parameters which contained
double quotes produce syntax errors (in Include Subroutine mode)
2.31 Fri Mar 23 2001, joern
- fixed a bug in <?SQL VAR=" $a, $b"> parsing. Leading
whitespace produces incorrect perl code.
2.30 Sat Mar 16 2001 joern
- now Apache::CIPP and CGI::CIPP are integrated into the
CIPP distribution. Extra downloading and installation
is not neccessary anymore. The documentation is actually
not perfectly merged, so some READMEs and PODs contain
redundant information. Please be patient: a new documenatation
is on its way! ;) Anyhow: this adresses only installation
notes. The CIPP language itself is good documented through
the CIPP::Manual POD module.
- the experimental implementation of Subroutine Includes
is now less experimental ;) You can control this feature
through the Apache or CGI::CIPP configuration parameter
'include_subs'. The future will bring CIPP module generation
with all that caching stuff for Apache::CIPP and CGI::CIPP
environments, and not only under new.spirit.
Note:
=====
Before enabling Subroutine Includes, delete your CIPP cache
directory, because the internal file structure has changed.
- the new configuration parameter 'stats' controls collection
of runtime profile statistics. You can see how much time
your programs *and* Includes spend. Refer to the Apache::CIPP
manpage for a brief description of enabling this feature.
Note:
=====
Statistics are collected on a per process base, so this only
functions for mod_perl or SpeedyCGI environments. Pure CGI
environments (new.spirit or CGI::CIPP) are currently not
supported, but this may change in future.
2.29 Mon Mar 12 2001 joern
- Bugfix:
Due to a bug inside the CIPP Include Cache machanism a
<?!HTTPHEADER> command used by an Include did not
work, if you do a new.spirit "Project Compilation"
(only for the *first* processed object, which includes
this Cache include)
2.28 Wed Mar 07 2001 joern
- updated CIPP::Manual
2.27 Mon Mar 05 2001 joern
- the BEGIN block at the top of each CGI program is marked
with a # sign to tell new.spirit not to strip it off for
syntax checking
2.26 Mon Mar 05 2001 joern
- experimental implementation of Subroutine Includes. Includes
are processed to subroutines, instead of copying the content
of the include into the actual document. Programs need much less
memory and can speed up to 20% in a mod_perl environment.
Currently this works only in Apache::CIPP and CGI::CIPP
environment. To enable this feature, set $CIPP::INCLUDE_SUBS
before CIPP->new(), until this feature is "official".
- a new command: <?DUMP $var ...>. Uses Data::Dumper to dump
the listed variables to STDOUT, encapsulated in a <pre> block.
- added a new option to the SQL commands: DBH. If a DBH option
is present, the given variable name is used as the database
handle for this operation. It is not possible to use the DBH
and DB option in combination.
The following SQL related commands recognize the DBH option:
<?SQL> <?COMMIT> <?ROLLBACK> <?AUTOCOMMIT> <?DBQUOTE>
2.25 Wed Feb 28 2001 joern
- fixed html formatting bug in error formatting function
2.24 Sun Feb 25 2001 joern
- ported dynamic database connection feature to Apache::CIPP
and CGI::CIPP. This now works under all CIPP environments.
2.23 Wed Feb 21 2001 joern
- error formatting in case of a CIPP/new.spirit module name
clashing was messed up, but there are still problems in
error formatting (very seldom, so I don't hurry ;)
2.22 Mon Feb 19 2001 joern
Bugfix:
- <?GETURL> did not work for .png images
2.21 Fri Feb 16 2001 joern
Bugfix:
- <?GETPARAM>, <?GETPARAMLIST> and <?SAVEFILE> did not work
inside of CIPP modules
2.20 Thu Feb 15 2001 joern
- <?HTML> forces the preprocessor to generate print statements
even in 'cipp/dynamic' mode.
2.19 Thu Feb 15 2001 joern
- database connections are now establisjed dynamically.
In earlier version all required database connections found
in the program were established at the top of the program.
Now the connection is made on the fly, where needed.
- WARNING: this code is not tested neither under Apache::CIPP
nor CGI::CIPP environment and likely will fail
there. Please dont use CIPP 2.19 with these modules.
2.18 Wed Feb 14 2001 joern
- Bugfix: alternate database names did still not work
with new.spirit 2.x
2.17 Mon Feb 12 2001 joern
- Bugfix: alternate database names did not work with new.spirit 2.x
- Naming of x.bla.db does now work, project name does not matter
2.16 Tue Feb 11 2001 joern
- (hopefully) final bug fixing in http header generation:
The project wide configured default HTTP header
was printed, although 'cipp/dynamic' is set and no
<?!HTTPHEADER> occurs.
- also a HTTP header was printed, if the 'print_content_type'
attribute was set to false (e.g. in case of generating
a static HTML page with new.spirit)
2.16_01 Tue Feb 6 2001 joern
- fix for usage with new.spirit 2.x. The new style .m files
for object properties broke the object source file resolution
algorithm
2.15 Tue Nov 28 2000 joern
- added <?INPUT TYPE="image" SRC="x.gifs.picture">
- fixed Bug in HTTP Header generation in case of
"cipp/dynamic" mode
2.14_04 Fri Oct 13 2000 joern
- Bugfix: a broken http header was printed when
generating CIPP-HTML files with new.spirit 2.x
2.14_03 Sun Aug 13 2000 joern
- Include cache works now Ok in Apache::CIPP
environments, if same named include occur
in different virtual hosts
2.14_02 Tue Aug 8 2000 joern
INTERNAL BETA RELEASE PRE 2.15
- this version represents a huge merge of the two CIPP
trunks 2-0-9-patches and 2.14_01.
2-0-9 implements many mod_perl fixes for using
generated CGI programs (new.spirit) under mod_perl.
2.14_01 adds many features to the CIPP language
and has some internal optimizations.
- the CIPP/DB_DBI.pm module comes mainly from the
2.14_01 trunk. Only some fixes added to the 2-0-9
revision in the 2-0-9-patches trunk are added
manually to 2.14_01, because 2.14_01 got a major
internal redesign of the method interfaces.
- added STICKY Feature to
<?INPUT TYPE="checkbox">
<?INPUT TYPE="radio">
- added new CIPP Tags
<?SELECT>
<?OPTION>
<?!PROFILE> (experimental, interface may change)
<?!HTTPHEADER>
<?#>
- Thanks go to Martin H. Sluka <martin@sluka.de> for
his suggestion about the STICKY feature.
- Change syntax of <?GETURL> command. See documentation
CIPP::Manual for details
- <?AUTOPRINT> is depreciated. Use <?!AUTOPRINT> instead.
2.14_01 Tue Mar 29 2000 joern
INTERNAL BETA RELEASE
- disconnect before connect to prevent rollback
ineffective error messages in mod_perl context
2.13 Mo Mar 6 2000 joern
- new release, published to CPAN
2.13_03 Fr Nov 26 1999 joern
INTERNAL BETA RELEASE
- Bugfix: debugging output in Apache/CGI Modus crashed
2.13_02 Fr Nov 26 1999 joern
INTERNAL BETA RELEASE
- many CIPP commands were dependent from the context, e.g.
it was impossible to use <?GETURL> in a <?PERL> context.
Now nearly all CIPP commands can be used in any context,
only inside a <?VAR> command context no other CIPP commands
can be used (which of course would make no sense ;)
- new CIPP command <?HTML> to switch from <?PERL> context
into HTML context
- now it is possible to nest <?SQL> commands, if the underlying
database engine supports multiple executed statement handles
2.13_01 Thu Nov 25 1999 joern
INTERNAL BETA RELEASE
- CIPP debugging source output enhanced: a summary of
errors is printed, with hyperlinks to the appropriate
sections of the highlighted source code output, so
you can navigate through your source code
- new internal method to get the top level used objects
of a CIPP program (the existent methods always flatten
the dependency hierarchies)
- new method for formatting Perl syntax error output, incl.
referencing to the corresponding CIPP lines
- new CIPP command <?MODULE>
- new CIPP command <?USE>
- command <?LIB> is depreciated
- DBI code generator has been slighlty optimized
- some CIPP global variables of the generated Perl programs
did change. Currently there is a compatability patch active,
so existent applications (e.g. new.spirit 1.x, Apache::CIPP
and friends) need no change. Future releases will depend
on the new interfaces. Actually only new.spirit 2.x uses
the new style interface.
2.12 Sat Oct 09 1999 joern
- added a workaround for Informix databases. After connecting
to the database, a "set lock mode to wait" is executed,
because some Informix databases do not wait on a lock. Instead
nothing happens, even no exception is thrown. :(
I will add this as an official feature in the near future,
called 'initial sql statement' per database. This is more
flexible than this hardcoded workaround.
2.11 Thu Sep 30 1999 joern
- the Changes log has restarted with this version
- CIPP has now multilanguage support. Error messages
are in english or german.
- the documentation is translated to english. It is not
part of this distribution. Please download the package
CIPP-Doc from CPAN.
The previous section was in german language only and rather long,
so it is omitted here.