[Changes for 0.950 - Jul 29, 2006]
* New features
- Introduced new PAR loading syntax and semantics:
use PAR { file => 'path/to/par/or/URL' };
==> equivalent to "use PAR 'path/to/par/or/URL';"
- Introduced the 'fallback' option: (default = 0)
use PAR { file => 'foo.par', fallback => 1 };
==> Loads modules from the PAR file only if loading
them from @INC did not succeed.
- Introduced the 'run' option which executes a script
in a PAR archive just like
perl -MPAR foo.par script.pl
- Bug fixes, etc.
- Commented a couple of the routines in PAR.pm. (Yay!)
- New test script for the new fallback loading feature.
- Fixed a bug in the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel handling in
PatchContent.pm.
[Changes for 0.942 - Jul 22, 2006]
* Bug fixes, etc.
- Better support for diagnostics.pm (in conjunction with
Module::ScanDeps 0.62.)
- Now requiring Module::ScanDeps 0.62.
[Changes for 0.941 - Jun 20, 2006]
(No, PAR isn't stagnating. It's just that 1.00 would draw close if
we continued with 0.01 increases.)
* Bug fixes, etc.
- Version 0.94 of PAR would use the same cache area for all pp-ed
applications due to a faulty hotfix for Digest::SHA. This applies
to PAR 0.94 only. Think of 0.941 being PAR 0.94 done right.
[Changes for 0.94 - Jun 1, 2006]
* New Features
- Added support for reading options to pp from a file using a
'@filename' argument to pp: pp -o foo --gui @filename foo.pl
* Bug fixes, etc.
- Workaround for a bug in Digest::SHA 5.38 and 5.39 that would prevent
PAR from being built.
- Fixed details in the 2-pp.t test file.
- Now recognizes text files that aren't picked up by the -T operator
but by the "file" tool.
- Applied Roderich Schupp's patch to 30-current_exec.t to fix a
path issue.
- Now requiring Module::ScanDeps 0.60 which fixes a couple of bugs
which might be observed as PAR bugs.
- Now working well with Spreadsheet::ParseExcel which uses an invalid
POD section to comment out a code block. This wasn't recognized by
PAR::Filter::PodStrip as POD and hence partly left in...
- If the output directory doesn't exist, we create it now and output
a meaningful error message if that failed.
[Changes for 0.93 - May 19, 2006]
* New Features
- Added support for PAR_TMPDIR (PAR_GLOBAL_TMPDIR) so that the
temp directory can be controlled for just the PAR file bits.
(Leolo)
- Added par_current_exec_proc() which finds the file of the current
executable in /proc, if possible. (Leolo)
- Added par_current_exec() which finds he file of the current
executable, if possible on this OS. (Leolo)
- par_findprog() now uses par_current_exec() if possible.
* Bug Fixes, etc.
- Upgraded to Module::Install 0.62+ (Audrey Tang, Steffen Mueller)
- Document a strange interaction with chdir() and relative
paths. (Chris Dolan)
- Documented the bits that make up PAR_TEMP. (Leolo)
- Fixed the call to par_findprog. path (aka val) was set to
tmpdir. (Leolo)
- Documented the CACHE name at the end of a self-executing
PAR. (Leolo)
- myldr/Makefile.PL now generates some dependencies for
main.c (Leolo)
- Applied patch from RT ticket. (tsee)
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13959
- Applied Ivan Kudryavtsev's patch that fixes a couple of calls
to PAR subroutines in PatchContent filtered code. (tsee)
[Changes for 0.92 - February 22, 2006]
* Bug Fixes
- Now requiring Module::ScanDeps 0.56 which handles autouse
correctly.
- Now shipping with a correct SIGNATURE. (Which was broken for
0.91.)
[Changes for 0.91 - February 13, 2006]
* Bug Fixes
- Applied Alan Stewart's patch which fixes @ARGV pollution in
daughter programs. See also
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.par/2152
- Now mentioning the ENV var "PAR_VERBATIM" in the documentation.
See also http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.par/2196
- Applied Malcolm Nooning's fix for the test suite. We used to get
failed tests on Windows because of spaces in path names.
- Applied Roderich Schupp's and Malcolm Nooning's patches to
the test suite fixing problems with Cygwin.
- Applied Vincent Ladeuil's patch to PAR::Filter::Bleach to return a
true value for modules that loaded okay.
- Changed 'PAR_BASE' in the Makefile.PL to 'SMUELLER'.
[Changes for 0.90 - November 25, 2005]
* Bug Fixes
- When compiling with static libperl, myldr/ may fail "make"
due to sha1.c not generated properly.
- Pod stripping could fail on __DATA__ sections for files
with CRLF line endings.
- The documentation erroneously referred to the PAR_TEMP
environment variable, whereas it should be PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP.
- Compilation fixes for MinGW/MSYS.
[Changes for 0.89 - June 10, 2005]
* Bug Fixes
- Stop static.c from pulling in Perl header files, otherwise
parl.exe ends up depending on the Perl DLL on Win32 when
Perl is built without PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS.
- With *nix and File::Path 1.06, par.pl's avoidance of loading
Cwd.pm caused syntax errors.
[Changes for 0.88 - June 7, 2005]
* Bug Fixes
- Extracted .pl files should be loadable via the coderef-in-@INC too,
just like .pm files and autosplit files. This makes PAR work with
Perl 5.8.7 on Win32.
- Fix the build with GCC 4.0.
- If $ENV{PWD} is not defined, fallback to use `pwd` to obtain the
working directory for invoking.
[Changes for 0.87 - January 31, 2005]
* Bug Fixes
- On Win32, some versions of File::Spec::Win32 contains explicit
"use Cwd;" lines, which renders parl.exe unusable.
- Executable made by "pp" may fail when invoked as "./a.out" or
"../a.out", due to incorrect PWD handling logic.
[Changes for 0.86 - December 11, 2004]
* New Features
- New "pp -z" (--compress) option to set compression level (0-9).
- New "pp -T" (--tempcache) option to override the per-executable
directory name; it defaults to a hash of the executable, computed at
compile time. This makes startup much faster for large executables.
- The hash algorithm described above now prefers Digest::SHA if installed,
otherwise Digest::SHA1, then fallbacks to Digest::MD5.
- Functionality of "pp -X" is now extended: if the argument after -X is a
zip or par file, files in it are excluded from the produced executable,
and the executable will "use" the zip/par instead. For multiple -X args,
successive args are only "use"d if they contain additional unique files.
- "pp -l" now searches for libraries in "." and PATH in Win32.
- "pp -l" shared libraries are now added to %skip, so it will not
be included in both shlib/ and lib/.
- "pp -l" now chases symbolic links. For example, if "libsomelib.so"
is a symlink to "libsomelib.so.1", which is another symlink to
"libsomelib.so.1.2", pp now follows these symlinks and add the real
file the par, rather than "libsomelib.so".
- New contributed code in "contrib/stdio/": Useful Tk console for
"pp -g" users.
- New contributed tutorial documents, currently in "contrib/docs/",
which will eventually be turned into POD documents.
- Running "perl Makefile.PL" with $ENV{DEBUG} set to true now produces
"parl" with debug symbols.
- Remove Cwd.pm (and Cwd.so) from the bundled dependencies.
* Bug Fixes
- More robust probing for case-insensitive file systems.
- PodStrip now attempts to match "standard" pod start before =cut,
otherwise =cut gets removed by itself.
- Win32 slashes are now normalized in privlib and archlib directories.
- Don't extract shared libraries to inc/, since they were extracted
in $PAR_TEMP already.
- Don't re-extract shared libraries in subdirectories, since they
are picked up by corresponding "use".
- Tk now exits properly with a non-zero exit() value.
- Fix libperl probing problem on Debian and Gentoo that manifests as a
"libperl5.8.so not found" error during runtime.
- gpp: Fixed typo in options with multiple filenames; cleaned up
pp parameters.
- When PAR_TEMP is set, shlib/ was not correctly added to the dynamic
load path environment variables.
- PAR now builds with Win32 VC++ without CVTRES.EXE available.
- Detection of cl.exe, gcc.exe and cc.exe is now case-insensitive.
[Changes for 0.85 - July 2, 2004]
* New Features
- New version of "gpp"; see contrib/gui_pp/gpp_readme.txt for details.
* Bug Fixes
- MANIFEST and META.yml were not properly updated by PAR::Packer.
- Setting directory aliases with "pp -a"/"pp -A" was broken.
Fixed, and tests were added for it.
- Statically-built executables was needlessly extracting libperl
each time it runs; now it is eliminated and hence much faster.
[Changes for 0.83 - May 29, 2004]
* New Features
- Revamped PAR::FAQ and sychronized with par.perl.org.
- In pp-generated programs, $0 is now set to the pathname leading
to the invoked executable. Use $ENV{PAR_0} instead to get the
filename that contains the main perl program.
- Updated "contrib/gui_pp/gpp" to support PAR::Packer options.
* Bug Fixes
- Core XS modules, such as Data::Dumper, were skipped by "pp".
- Fix t/2-pp.t for Cygwin by probing $Config{_exe} rather than uname().
- Scripts made by "pp -P", when invoked as "perl scriptname",
should not search for the same-named programs in PATH.
- Correctly remove leading slash and drive letters from absolute
filenames passed to "pp -a". Also normalized blackslahes to slashes.
- The PP_OPTS environment variable was not recognized.
- "pp -a dirname;diralias" was broken.
- "pp -f" and "pp -F" were broken.
[Changes for 0.82 - May 24, 2004]
* New Features
- New module PAR::Packer provides an OO interface to "pp"'s
functionality; "pp" is now merely a thin wrapper for it.
- New module App::Packer::PAR is a modified version of
App::Packer, designed to work with PAR::Packer, and will
hopefully be merged back to App::Packer.
- The old, procedural "pp" is moved to contrib/; end-users
should notice no changes in "pp"'s behaviour.
- New options "pp -a" and "pp -A" (--addfile/--addlist) provides
ways to include extra files and directories in the package.
- The long option name for "pp -M" is changed from --add to
--module. The old name is still recognized but no longer
documented. Using "pp -M" to include non-library files
is now deprecated; use "pp -a" instead.
- par.pl and parl now writes messages to STDOUT, instead of
STDERR. As a consequence, t/2-pp.t no longer prints extra
warnings during "make test".
* Bug Fixes
- On Non-Win32 platforms, perl 5.8.0 and earlier versions produced
pp-generated executables that immediately segfaults.
- Running pp-generated executables with absolute pathname failed
on statically-built perls.
- Tests were failing due to a missing pipe_a_command.pm in MANIFEST.
- Add the missing myldr/win32.coff for building on Cygwin/MinGW.
- If the "perl" in path is different from the perl interpreter used
for "make test", t/2-pp.t is known to fail and is now skipped.
- Cygwin failed t/2-pp.t because "parl" is spelled as "parl.exe" there.
[Changes for 0.81 - May 23, 2004]
* New Features
- Regained support for Win9x, Cygwin and MinGW.
- PAR now supports 64-bit platforms, such as Tru64 and AIX.
- Cygwin and MinGW can now build EXEs with icons, too; MinGW can update
the icons, but Cygwin cannot.
- Newly supported modules: Pod::Usage, DBIx::SearchBuilder,
DBIx::ReportBuilder, SVK::Command, SVN::Core, and the ':encoding()'
IO discipline.
* Bug Fixes
- On non-Win32 systems, invoking pp-generated executable from PATH
did not work.
- Standalone executables were clobbered by existing perl environments
with an identical "auto/IO" libpath as the author's environment.
- Standalone executables did not work on systems with an unset
dynamic load path environment variable (eg. LD_LIBRARY_PATH).
- "pp -p -o multi.par 1.pl 2.pl; parl multi.par 1.pl" now works.
- $ENV{PATH} and $ENV{TEMP} were truncated at first path delimiter.
- "pp -f Bleach" did not work for ActivePerl on Win32.
- Windows 9x systems were generating invalid cache directory names.
- $ENV{path} is also recognized as $ENV{PATH} for Win32.
[Changes for 0.80 - March 17, 2004]
* New Features
- A comprehensive test suite for pp in contrib/automated_pp_test/.
It is run as part of the "make test" process from t/2-pp.t.
- Much better support for "pp -i" and "pp -N" (--icon/--info)
using the Win32::Exe module. You may now use EXE and DLL as
icon files.
- If PAR_GLOBAL_CLEAN (-C, --clean) is not set, we now preemptively
extracts files under the cache directory. That made POSIX.pm
and other modules that depends on %INC pointing to real files
work correctly.
- Now uses SHA-1 to create temporary directories and files,
instead of mtime.
- Verbosity level is now 1..3, not 0..5; "pp -v" now takes
an optional integer, so "pp -v input.pl" is no longer an error.
- New flags "-vv" and "-vvv", as shorthands for "-v 2" and "-v 3".
- The user-settable PAR_CLEAN and PAR_TEMP environment variables has
been renamed to PAR_GLOBAL_CLEAN and PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP; the original
variables are still accessible within the program. This is so that a
pp-generated program can exec() or system() another one without
crippling its environment variables.
- File lookups are now case-insensitive on case-insensitive filesystems.
- Another Tk-based GUI in contrib/gui_pp/; not installed by default.
- OOified "pp" in contrib/object_oriented_pp/; not installed by default.
* Bug Fixes
- "pp -d" (--dependent) prevented "pp -C" (--clean) from working.
- The "pp -m" (--multiarch) option was implemented incorrectly
and thus broken.
- Many documentation tweaks.
- Previously, "pp -M" (--module) did not add the module itself,
only its dependencies.
- Suppress a bogus warning when $ENV{$Config{ldlibpthname}} is empty.
- "parl -v" without Module::Signature installed could delete all
files within the current directory. Oops.
- On *nix systems, pp-generated executables erroneously linked to
libperl even if "pp -d" (--dependent) is not set.
- Spurious =cut directives in source files is now handled gracefully
by PAR::Filter::PodStrip.
- "pp -L" (--log) now logs all output messages to the log file,
not just the ones printed by "pp" itself.
[Changes for 0.79 - January 8, 2004]
* Bug Fixes
- Setting PAR_CLEAN had the reversed effect. Oops.
- Dynamic libraries in cached directories was not detected
properly, resulting in "permission denied" errors during
certain race conditions.
[Changes for 0.78 - January 7, 2004]
* New Features
- By default, executables generated by "pp" will now store
extracted files in cache directories. You may override
this by setting the PAR_CLEAN environment variable to "1",
or generate executables using "pp -C".
- New "pp -C" (--clean) option to make the generated executable
clean up temporary directories after each run.
- PAR_CLEARTEMP is renamed to PAR_CLEAN.
* Bug Fixes
- On Win32, temporary directories containing shared libraries
was not being properly cleaned up.
- If no suitable temporary directories are found, use the current
directory (".") instead of the root directory ("/").
[Changes for 0.77 - January 1, 2004]
* New Features
- New "pp -c" and "pp -x" (--compile/--execute) options run the
script with "perl -c" to check for dependencies.
- Also, the new "pp -n" (--noscan) command skips the default
static scanning altogether.
- Added support for "pp -c/-x/-n" to tkpp.
- For dynamically-built perls, pp-generated .exe files will now
appear in the process table with the same name as it was launched,
instead of "par.exe".
- New filter "Obfuscate", which uses B::Deobfuscate to strip away
PODs and comments, as well as mangling variable names.
- Merged tkpp 1.1 from Doug Gruber.
- OS/2 is now supported.
- External Zlib is no longer required to run pp-generated binaries.
* Bug Fixes
- Makefile.PL was failing if $Config{cc} contains spaces.
- No longer needs setting "Windows 95 compatible mode" to run on WinXP.
- On Win9x with Perl 5.6.1, "nmake" was failing due to extra "@[...]"
symbols in Makefile. It should be fixed now.
- The "bad signature" problem with newer Archive::Zip versions is fixed.
- App::Packer::Backend::PAR was misplaced into App/Packer/PAR.
- Signature tests were failing under new ExtUtils::MakeMaker versions.
- ActiveState's PPM building machine was having problem with PAR;
a ".pdb" entry in MANIFEST.SKIP is added to fix that.
- Some self-built PAR instances on Windows were failing due to
mismatching short and long pathnames.
[Changes for 0.76 - October 28, 2003]
* New Features
- Input filters. "pp --filter Bleach" now obfuscates the incoming
script with PAR::Filter::Bleach; "pp --modfilter Bleach" applies
Bleach to all packed modules.
- Two previously built-in filters, PodStrip and PatchContent,
are refactored out as PAR::Filter subclasses.
- Two new filters, Bleach and Bytecode, are added for source-hiding
purporses.
- New utility, "tkpp", provides a GUI frontend to "pp".
- New option, "pp --perlscript", to generate stand-alone scripts.
- The old "PAR::Intro" documentation has been replaced by two
new ones: "PAR::Tutorial" and "PAR::FAQ".
- Tk pixmap (.xpm) files can now be packed with "pp --add".
* Bug Fixes
- Perl 5.8.1 has an off-by-one bug that prevents "parl" to
function properly. We have now provided a workaround;
this bug should also be fixed in Perl 5.8.2.
- Fixed https support for LWP via the new Module::ScapDeps.
[Changes for 0.75 - September 21, 2003]
* New Features
- "pp -o file.exe file.par" now packs file.par into file.exe;
this means you can hand-tweak PAR files generated by "pp -p"
before packing it into an executable.
* Bug Fixes
- Packing multiple programs by "pp script1.pl script2.pl" was
producing syntax errors; fixed.
- "pp -M datafile" now works.
- Exit code from pp-packed executables now properly propagates out.
- Fixed "use base" detection, Math::BigInt support and spurious
signature warnings, by updated versions of Module::ScapDeps
and Module::Signature.
- On Win32, the PE info headers no longer show PAR_XXXXXXXXXXX.
[Changes for 0.74 - August 20, 2003]
* New Features
- pp now has a set of "PatchContent" rules, dealing with
non-PAR-compatible modules: Tk, Tk::Widget, Win32::API::Type,
Win32::SystemInfo, SQL::Parser, diagnostics. These rules may
get refactored back to PAR.pm in the future.
- New function, PAR::reload_libs(), to reload currently used
libraries inside PAR files.
- PAR.pm itself is now never packed into pp-generated files,
to perserve interface compatibility and reduce bloat.
- PAR.pm now handles "use PAR 'othercode.par'" called from
program or modules inside PAR files, even recursively.
- A new icon for Win32 that is hopefully prettier.
* Bug Fixes
- All data after __DATA__ are preserved for included libraries.
This helps self-reading modules like Net::LDAP::Constants.
- PAR::read_file() was broken. It now works.
- "use PAR" inside pp-generated executables was failing with
'file too short' errors due the mishandling of seek/tell.
- Occasional crashes on Win32 due to rmdir() called too early
with DLLs still open is fixed; however, "pp -d" executables
may still exhibit this problem.
- "pp -X" used to only take full pathnames as arguments.
It now also takes "Module::Name" and "Module/Name.pm".
- Dynamically built Perl under Cygwin failed to build, because
libperl.dll.a was not found.
- Eliminated "callback called on exit" warnings, and the related
"access violation" error on Win32.
[Changes for 0.73 - August 6, 2003]
* New Features
- The PAR Homepage is now online at http://par.perl.org/.
Documentations have been changed to link to it.
* Bug Fixes
- Tk applications can now properly access xpm/xbm files
with Tk->findINC.
- On Win32, pp-generated executables could not start from
Explorer, if its path contains space characters. Fixed.
- On Win32, pp-generated executables used to leave around an
empty directory in $ENV{TEMP}. It is now properly rmdir'ed.
- Some systems (notably OpenBSD and Debian) does not put their
libperl.so in the default location, which breaks the build
process; now searches inside $ENV{$Config{ldlibpthname}} and
$Config{libpth} to find it.
[Changes for 0.72 - August 2, 2003]
* New Features
- CHECK and INIT blocks in programs inside PAR are now supported.
* Bug Fixes
- Two debug statements were mistakenly left in the source,
resulting in "trying to get rid of /tmp/par_priv.xxxx.tmp"
messages.
- Building on Linux with GCC 3.2.2 was failing due to massive
heap required for my_perl.c. Fixed by splitting it into 3k
chunks.
- Depends on Module::ScanDeps 0.21; it supports utf8 on Perl 5.6.1
and can significantly reduce executable file size by eliminating
unneccessary shared libraries.
[Changes for 0.71 - July 30, 2003]
* Bug Fixes
- A nasty data-loss bug has been uncovered immediately after the
previous release; it only affects Windows platforms, and may
cause all files to be erased under the current root (\) directory.
- Building on Red Hat linux was failing, with error message that
says "my_perl not declared". This has since been fixed.
[Changes for 0.70 - July 29, 2003]
* New Features
- On machines with shared libperl, "pp" now makes truly stand-alone
executables; the old behaviour is available with "pp --dependent".
- Under Windows NT/2000/XP, "pp --icon=name.ico" now changes the icon
for the generated executable; otherwise, a default "white camel"
icon is used.
- "use PAR 'http://example.com/foo.par'" now works, as does
"perl -MPAR -Ihttp://example.com/foo.par".
- PAR::Dist is now a mandatory prerequisite, which provides
functions to turn any CPAN distribution into a PAR distribution,
as well as to install, uninstall, sign and verify such files.
- Integrated PAR::Dist into "par.pl" and "parl". For example,
"parl -i Foo-0.01-i386-freebsd-5.8.0.par" installs a PAR
distribution; "parl -v out.exe" verifies a digitally signed
executable generated by "pp --sign".
- A new option, "pp --multiarch", lets you generate PAR files
that can work on several architectures.
- "pp --sign" now adds digital signatures to generated executables
and PAR files.
- PAR files may now (recursively) contain other PAR files inside
their par/ directories.
- shlib/ and par/ directories inside PAR files can now contain
architecture- and perl-version-specific subdirectories.
- The "Cross-Platform Packaging and Deployment with PAR" tutorial
is now online as http://www.autrijus.org/par-tutorial/.
* Bug Fixes
- MANIFEST.SKIP was broken on Win32.
- C compilers that doesn't handle long line well can now
compile PAR.
- DLL files inside the same auto/ library as XS modules
was not properly extracted and loaded. This specifically
affects Win32.
- Because parl's @INC is '.', pp-generated executables may
miss IO.dll and other shared libraries since they couldn't
be correctly found in @INC.
[Changes for 0.69 - May 31, 2003]
* New Features
- Under Perl 5.8, "pp -p" now works with Apache::PAR.
See http://aut.dyndns.org/par-tutorial/slide018.html for
a simple example.
- "pp -M filename" now adds "filename" to /, not /lib/,
unless filename ends in (pm|ix|al). This makes it
possible to bundle "web.conf" needed by Apache::PAR.
- "pp -l" now searchs in system library paths, and
appends "lib" / prepends ".$dl_ext" where necessary.
* Bug Fixes
- PAR segfaults on some Unix platforms due to a NULL pointer
used in mktmpdir.c. Fixed.
- "pp -o out.par -p -e '...'" now honors -o; previously
it used "a.out.par" anyway.
- Inhibited spurious uninitialized warnings under -w in the
POD-stripping code.
- Win32 did not properly cleans up PAR_TEMP directory, resulting
in failure for executables that reused the same PID. Fixed.
[Changes for 0.68 - May 26, 2003]
* New Features
- New 'pp -l' option to pack additional shared libraries (DLLs).
- POD-stripped libraries inside PAR files now have #line directives
inserted, so they report the original line numbers on failure.
- PAR files generated by 'pp' now has a MANIFEST file that can be
viewed by Gecko-based browsers with Javascript turned on, e.g.:
jar:http://aut.dyndns.org/par/test.par!/MANIFEST
* Bug Fixes
- Each pp-executable instance now creates its own PAR_TEMP directory;
this avoids permission errors when multiple users run the same binary.
As a consequence, PAR_CLEARTEMP is now set to "1" by default.
- Newer versions of shared Zlib library no longer causes "pp" to
generate broken executables.
- Fixed dynamic loading on Cygwin was failing due to missing +x mode.
- Like "use lib", "use PAR 'name.par'" now unshift()s instead of push()es
into @INC. Same applies for "par.pl -A" and "parl -A".
- Fixed building on ActivePerl 626 and below due to a missing $Config{ld}.
[Changes for 0.67 - April 1, 2003]
* New Features
- PAR now works on Cygwin and MinGW/MSYS.
- Globbing support in PAR::import(): use PAR "/path/*.pm";
- New license clarification messages added to POD and 'pp -V'.
- All 'pp' options now has a short form (-o) and a long form (--output).
- Revamped documentation for 'pp'.
- New -g (--gui) flag for 'pp' to build console-less Win32 executables.
* Bug Fixes
- Building on Darwin Perl 5.6.0 was broken with 'cc -s'.
- Building on 5.6.0 was broken due to bad 'base.pm'.
- Win32 Tk::Widget autoloading was broken due to a binmode() bug.
- IPC::Run was pod-stripped incorrectly. Fixed.
- Depends on Module::ScanDeps 0.19, which supports utf8 and .ph files.
- Better AutoInstall support, which uses 'sudo' where necessary.
[Changes for 0.66 - March 20, 2003]
* New Features
- Adds PAR::Intro, a PODified version of the online presentation.
- Adds App::Packer::Backend::PAR, a bridge between PAR and App::Packer.
- Scripts and modules are now searched in "/" last, instead of first.
- Experimental patch for packing shared libraries via "pp -l".
- HTTP fetching of precompiled packages in addition to FTP.
* Bug Fixes
- Makefile.PL now downloads precompiled packages only if needed.
- AutoInstall has been made to work for an easier installation.
- The redundant "parl.exe.bat" is no longer created on Win32.
- Pre-0.63 PARs used to leave broken .dll in TEMP; now they're cleaned.
- "pp c:\something.pl" no longer treats c: as a relative path.
- "pp -I dir" now searches 'dir' first, instead of last.
- "pp" was broken on Perl 5.6.0 due to => stringification bugs.
- Support for Tk::Widget autoloading has been added.
- "parl" was not stripped if "gcc" was invoked as "cc"; fixed.
- On a machine with multiple "parl"s, "pp" now uses the correct one.
- File::Temp was missing as a dependency.
* Known Issues
- Cygwin support is still broken.
- PAR does not include utf8_heavy.pl nor unicore/* for scripts that
has "use utf8;". This has since been fixed by Module::ScanDeps 0.18.
[Changes for 0.65 - March 9, 2003]
This release comes with several significant improvements:
* Automatic binary installation
Previously, users without a C compiler cannot build the 'parl'
executable, and is therefore unable to create self-contained
binaries using 'pp'.
Now, if there is a binary package available for that architecture
under my CPAN directory, the Makefile.PL script will automatically
fetch it, unpack into blib/, and the installation will continue as
normal, resulting in a fully-functional 'pp'.
This feature is part of the soon-to-be-released Module::Install
framework; it will greatly benefit all CPAN authors with non-pure-perl
distributions.
* POD stripping
Packages generated with 'pp' will now strip POD sections from all
packed dependencies (your own scripts is unaffected); all binary
executables will save at least 276732 bytes, with additional ~20%
saving in additional packed dependencies.
You can turn off this feature with the PAR_VERBATIM environment
variable.
* XS Incompatibility solved
Because 'pp'-generated executables includes some fixed version of
shared libraries (IO, Zlib, etc), they used to break when the
target system has different version of shared libraries.
Now PAR::Heavy intercepts DynaLoader::dl_expandspec to always prefer
the library inside the PAR file, so this issue is resolved.
* 5.6.1 Reclaimed
Thanks to Sisyphus and various others, building on Perl 5.6.1
(with its old ExtUtils::MakeMaker and lack of PTHREAD_ATFORK)
now works again.
[Changes for 0.64 - March 2, 2003]
* New Features
- The t/0-signature.t test is re-enabled for people using my
Module::Signature to verify the module's OpenPGP signature.
- This release is the first distribution on CPAN to use the
Module::Install framework, which is a stand-alone, extensible
drop-in replacement for ExtUtils::MakeMaker that needs no
extra action/prerequisites for end users.
* Bug Fixes
- Dynamic loading on Win32 was broken, due to a binmode() bug
reported by Bill Atkins, D. Menzel and others.
- Building on Win32 in directory names that contain spaces
did not work.
[Changes for 0.63 - February 6, 2003]
* Bug Fixes
- The 'parl' binary (which replaces the old 'par' or 'par.exe')
didn't work properly when bundling perl modules for self-
contained executables, rendering 'pp' useless on machines
without core perl.