NAME

ReleaseNotes - These are the Release Notes for 1.20

SYNOPSIS

These are the major changes since version 1.19

DESCRIPTION

Thanks to Bernd Ulmann for giving me access to his VAX and the help of the vmsperl community, I have added support for OpenVMS.

Major changes since 1.19

1. Test::Smoke::SysInfo is a work in progress. Some more tweaking for Solaris was done with the help of Alan Burlison and Davis Woolger.

2. I order to support systems without rsync(1) access, I have added Test::Smoke::FTPClient that syncs source-trees with Net::FTP from the ActiveState ftp repository. It is slow, but gets the job done.

3. A lot of filename/directoryname issues with VMS were resolved.

4. A new way to get testresults directly from "make test_harness" was introduced to help VMS (and perhaps Win32).

5. Jarkko Hietaniemi supplied a way to add C compiler messages to the smoke report.

6. Patches applied through the pfile mechanism now support a third argument that represents a patch description. This (optional) description is also added to patchlevel.h.

   Added a new "Locally applied patches:" section to the smoke report.

7. The longtime TODO item of patching with forest setup has been resolved. For this type of setup, first the intermediate tree is patched and then the build tree is resynced from that.

REVISION

$Id: ReleaseNotes 907 2005-09-10 10:46:17Z abeltje $

COPYRIGHT

(c) 2002-2004, Abe Timmerman <abeltje@cpan.org> All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See:

• http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

• http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.