# $File: //member/autrijus/PAR/ChangeLog $
# $Revision: #25 $ $Change: 8586 $ $DateTime: 2003/10/27 12:08:42 $
[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- The old "PAR::Intro" documentation has been replaced by two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.