RE: ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003 released
On Sun, 18 May 2008, Sisyphus wrote:
On Sat, 17 May 2008, Jan Dubois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003
There's a minor nit with building modules on this build of perl. If
Math::BigInt::GMP is not installed, you'll get the following message every
time you run nmake/dmake:
Math::BigInt: couldn't load specified math lib(s), fallback to
Math::BigInt::FastCalc at C:/ap1003/lib/Win32API/File.pm line 20
Everything still works ok - it's just a little mystifying when you first see
it, that's all.
It's all because of this code in Win32API/File.pm (version 0.1001 only,
afaict):
# Math::BigInt optimizations courtesy of Tels
BEGIN {
require Math::BigInt;
if (defined($Math::BigInt::VERSION) $Math::BigInt::VERSION = 1.60) {
Math::BigInt-import(lib = 'GMP');
}
}
My other builds of perl 5.10.0 (and a recent 5.11.0 snapshot) have version
0.1001_01 which doesn't try to load Math::BigInt::GMP and therefore doesn't
throw up that message. I guess the simple solution is for ActiveState to
avoid version 0.1001 in future releases.
I see the problem has already been reported at
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Win32API-File (6 months
ago) and that future releases of Win32API-File will address this issue. I'm
not sure where version 0.1001_01 comes from, but I guess it is one such
future release.
I don't recall seeing the message with build 1002, so I'm guessing it used
version 0.1001_01 and that somehow version 0.1001 has found its way into
build 1003.
Yes, version 0.1001 is the latest version from CPAN, and it crept into the
build because all libwin32 modules are now bundled individually by name and
not as a bundle. For some reason Win32API-File got added to the list, even
though it wasn't a libwin32 module anymore.
The difference between 0.1001 and 0.1001_01 is just this warning messages,
so there is no real problem with the release beyond the additional noise
it makes. Too bad we didn't catch this during testing... :(
Cheers,
-Jan
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Re: ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003 released
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From: Jan Dubois [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 8:59 AM
Subject: ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003 released
ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003
There's a minor nit with building modules on this build of perl. If
Math::BigInt::GMP is not installed, you'll get the following message every
time you run nmake/dmake:
Math::BigInt: couldn't load specified math lib(s), fallback to
Math::BigInt::FastCalc at C:/ap1003/lib/Win32API/File.pm line 20
Everything still works ok - it's just a little mystifying when you first see
it, that's all.
It's all because of this code in Win32API/File.pm (version 0.1001 only,
afaict):
# Math::BigInt optimizations courtesy of Tels
BEGIN {
require Math::BigInt;
if (defined($Math::BigInt::VERSION) $Math::BigInt::VERSION = 1.60) {
Math::BigInt-import(lib = 'GMP');
}
}
My other builds of perl 5.10.0 (and a recent 5.11.0 snapshot) have version
0.1001_01 which doesn't try to load Math::BigInt::GMP and therefore doesn't
throw up that message. I guess the simple solution is for ActiveState to
avoid version 0.1001 in future releases.
I see the problem has already been reported at
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Win32API-File (6 months
ago) and that future releases of Win32API-File will address this issue. I'm
not sure where version 0.1001_01 comes from, but I guess it is one such
future release.
I don't recall seeing the message with build 1002, so I'm guessing it used
version 0.1001_01 and that somehow version 0.1001 has found its way into
build 1003.
Cheers,
Rob
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ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003 released
ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003, a
complete, ready-to-install Perl distribution for Windows, Mac OS X,
Linux, Solaris, and AIX.
This build is based on the release version of Perl 5.10.0.
For detailed information or to download this release, see:
http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl
New in ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003
===
* ActivePerl::Config on Windows now dynamically sets the
$Config{ccversion} to the version of cl.exe. This allows
ExtUtils::MakeMaker to generate and embed manifest files
into extension DLL when required by the specific version of
the C compiler.
* The GCC support for Windows in ActivePerl::Config now adds the
-mms- bitfields option to the ccflags when compiling with GCC.
This forces identical struct layouts with Visual C++, which is
used to compile ActivePerl itself. This has become important
because core Perl 5.10 now uses bit-fields for some important
structures.
* On OS X the supplied sitecustomize.pl script adds the
~/Library/ActivePerl/lib directory to @INC, and PPM will
install into this directory by default because the
/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10/site/lib directory isn't writable
without sudo. Unfortunately ~/Library/ActivePerl/lib was also
used by ActivePerl 5.8, so you could end up with a mixture of
5.8 and 5.10 modules in that directory. This release uses
~/Library/ActivePerl-5.10/lib as a per-user Perl 5.10 specific
module area.
* Signal handling code would segfault with some Linux kernel and
glibc versions. This problem has been fixed.
* On Windows there is a special form of them system() function to
start processes asynchronously: system(1, $cmd). It returns the
process id instead of the exit status so that the spawning
application can eventually use waitpid() to wait for the
external process to terminate. Previous Perl releases only
returned the lower 16 bits of the process id; this version
returns all 32 bits.
* The following modules have been added to ActivePerl 5.10.0.1003:
Algorithm-Diff-1.1902
Bit-Vector-6.4
Carp-Clan-6.00
Class-Accessor-0.31
Crypt-SSLeay-0.57
DBD-CSV-0.22
DBD-ODBC-1.15
DBD-Oracle-1.21
Date-Calc-5.4
File-HomeDir-0.69
File-Which-0.05
GD-2.39
GD-Graph-1.4308
GD-Text-0.86
JSON-2.09
JSON-XS-2.2
Net-Telnet-3.03
PPM-Repositories-0.14
SQL-Statement-1.15
Sub-Uplevel-0.1901
Test-Differences-0.47
Test-Exception-0.27
Text-CSV_XS-0.45
Text-Diff-0.35
Text-Glob-0.08
WWW-Mechanize-1.34-r1
Win32-API-0.55
YAML-LibYAML-0.26
The DBD::Oracle module is only included in the 32-bit releases of
ActivePerl for Windows and Linux. It does not include the Oracle
client libraries; instead it requires that either the regular
client libraries or the Oracle Instant Client is already
installed on configured on the system.
ActiveState recommends DBI and DBD::ODBC for accessing databases
using ODBC. The Win32::ODBC module continues to be provided for
backwards compatibility, but new code should exclusively use
DBD::ODBC.
The PPM-Repositories module supplies a list of PPM repositories
provided by sources outside ActiveState. It makes it easier to
discover and configure additional repositories in PPM. For
example you can display a list of repositories available for the
current platform with:
ppm repo suggest
Adding e.g. the University of Winnipeg repository maintained by Randy
Kobes is then as easy as:
ppm repo add uwinnipeg
The PPM-Repositories list is used by the PPM GUI client as well.
* The following modules have been updated to their latest version:
DBI upgraded from 1.601 to 1.604
HTML-Tagset upgraded from 3.10 to 3.20
LWP upgraded from 5.808 to 5.812-r1
URI upgraded from 1.35 to 1.36
* The libwin32 module collection has been replaced by its
individual modules. This will make it easier to update these
modules via PPM in the future:
Win32-Clipboard
Win32-Console
Win32-EventLog
Win32-File
Win32-FileSecurity
Win32-IPC
Win32-Internet
Win32-Job
Win32-NetAdmin
Win32-NetResource
Win32-ODBC
Win32-OLE
Win32-PerfLib
Win32-Process
Win32-Registry
Win32-Service
Win32-Shortcut
Win32-Sound
Win32-TieRegistry
Win32-WinError
Win32API-File
Win32API-Net
Win32API-Registry
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