Revision history for Perl extension autobox

2.83 Sun Feb 1 21:34:01 2015
    - RT #100247: fix assertion failures on 5.21.x perls with -DDEBUGGING
      (thanks, ilmari and Father Chrysostomos)
    - RT #100717: don't hide autobox::universal from PAUSE (thanks, ppisar)
    - RT #89754: INSTALLDIRS fix (thanks, Kent Fredric)

2.82 Sat Oct 26 12:44:52 2013
    - simplify test to avoid portability woes

2.81 Sat Oct 26 11:32:31 2013
    - fix failing test on Windows

2.80 Fri Oct 25 19:32:12 2013
    - RT #71777: fix segfault in destructor called during global destruction (thanks, Tomas Doran)
        - added t/rt_71777.t
    - fix doc typo (thanks, David Steinbrunner)

2.79 Tue Apr 30 21:22:05 2013
    - allow import arguments to be passed as a hashref
        - added t/import_hashref.t
    - doc tweaks

2.78 Tue Apr 30 18:53:54 2013
    - RT #80400: fix segfault in destructor called in END block (thanks, Tokuhiro Matsuno)
        - added t/rt_80400.t

2.77  Thu Dec 13 19:59:48 2012
    - doc tweaks
    - add multiple-arg autoref tests

2.76  Wed Nov 21 14:35:33 2012
    - fix breaking tests in perl >= 5.17.5: update error message pattern (thanks, rjbs)
    - update ppport.h from 3.19 to 3.20

2.75  Thu Jul 21 22:07:26 2011
    - POD spelling fixes (thanks, Jonathan Yu and gregor herrmann)

2.74  Wed Jul 20 14:25:52 2011
    - portability fix for perl >= 5.14 (thanks, chorny)

2.73  Sun Mar 13 16:35:28 2011
    - Makefile.PL fix

2.72  Fri Jan 28 12:16:34 2011
    - fix conflict with use re 'taint' (thanks, Peter Rabbitson)

2.71  Thu Sep 23 02:28:10 2010
    - fix for recent perls: remove cargo-cultism

2.70  Wed Mar 17 19:27:44 2010
    - replace autobox_can and autobox_isa with autobox_class
      this also fixes import, unimport and VERSION
        - added t/version.t
        - renamed t/universal.t => t/autobox_class.t

2.60  Wed Mar 17 16:34:56 2010
    - fix RT #46814 (thanks Tye McQueen)
        - added t/rt_46814.t
    - fix RT #49273 (thanks Daniel Austin)
    - fix RT #55565 (thanks Schwern)
    - fix RT #55652 (thanks Schwern)
        - $native->isa and $native->can must now be called as $native->autobox_isa and $native->autobox_can
        - added t/rt_55652.t

2.55  Sun May 25 03:20:54 2008
    - fix MANIFEST again - restore Changes

2.54  Sun May 25 00:36:04 2008
    - fix MANIFEST

2.53  Sat May 24 22:19:45 2008
    - add support for UNIVERSAL virtual type
        - added t/universal.t
    - moved autobox::type method to autobox::universal::type subroutine
        - added export.t
    - added t/default.t
    - portability fix for non-gcc compilers (thanks chris)
    - misc code/documentation fixes/cleanups

2.52  Tue May 20 12:24:01 2008
    - more type fixes

2.51  Tue May 20 10:40:32 2008
    - fix type identification for former INTEGERs and FLOATs (thanks Mitchell N Charity)
        - added type.t
    - fix for perl 5.11 (thanks Andreas Koenig)
    - document eval EXPR gotcha

2.50  Mon May 19 17:39:22 2008
    - add support for INTEGER, FLOAT, NUMBER and STRING
        - added scalar.t
    - updated documentation

2.43  Thu May 15 21:14:08 2008
    - fix @isa bug
        - added t/isa.t
    - scope cleanup
    - documentation tweak

2.42  Tue May 13 22:22:55 2008
    - upgrade ppport.h to 3.13_03 to s/workaround/fix/

2.41  Tue May 13 20:02:37 2008
    - work around $value->$method segfault with non-string method names under perls <= 5.8.8
    - added license info

2.40  Mon May 12 23:51:26 2008
    - support @array and %hash (thanks Yuval Kogman (nothingmuch) and Matthijs van Duin (xmath))
        - added t/autoref.t
    - fix $value->$method segfault with undef, integer, float &c. (i.e. non-string)
      method names (thanks John Goulah)

2.30  Fri May  9 01:52:19 2008
    - support $value->$method, where $method is a method name or subroutine reference:
        - added t/name.t
        - added t/coderef.t

2.23  Sun Feb 24 15:17:05 2008
    - rm redundant $^H hacking

2.22  Sun Feb 24 14:44:58 2008
    - added hints.t

2.21  Fri Feb 22 21:40:54 2008
    - merge unimport.t and time_travel.t into unmerge.t
    - more tests

2.20  Thu Feb 21 23:30:53 2008
    - Fix broken merging
        - corrected merge.t
        - added time_travel.t to verify correctness

2.11  Wed Feb 20 21:06:25 2008
    - Windows portability fix: ANSIfy C99-ism (thanks Taro Nishino)
    - revert broken micro-optimization

2.10  Wed Feb 20 02:16:42 2008
    - fix + tests:
        unimport
        default namespace(s) in an array ref

2.02  Sun Feb 17 16:59:28 2008
    - doc tweak
    - POD formatting

2.01  Sun Feb 17 03:56:22 2008
    - documentation fix:
        rm reference to $class->SUPER::import(TYPE => __PACKAGE__)
            and explain why an auxiliary class should be used

2.00  Sun Feb 17 02:29:11 2008
    - API changes:
        autobox with one or more args leaves the unspecified types unboxed
        multiple autobox (or autobox subclass) invocations in the same lexical scope
            are merged (thanks Matsuno Tokuhiro)
        multiple bindings for each type can be supplied as an ARRAY ref of classes
            or namespaces
        "no autobox qw(...)" disables/resets bindings for the specified type(s)
    - fixed incorrect bareword handling
    - perl 5.10 compatibility fixes (thanks Andreas Koenig)
    - document previously undocumented features
    - document subclassing
    - merge.t: test merging
    - beef up the default DEBUG handler so that it shows the superclasses
      of the synthetic classes
    - Windows compatibilty fix (thanks Alexandr Ciornii)
    - misc optimizations, cleanups

1.22  Sun Sep 23 22:27:44 2007
    - (Perl_ck_subr and Perl_ck_null): fix build failure on Windows

1.21  Sun Sep 23 20:35:37 2007
    - (Makefile): fix build failure on Windows (thanks Alexandr Ciornii)

1.20  Sun Sep 23 14:05:39 2007
    - (ptable.h): fix build failures on perl >= 5.9.3 (thanks Andreas Koenig)
    - (Perl_pp_method_named): fix build failure on Windows (thanks randyk and Alexandr Ciornii)

1.10  Thu Nov 23 20:32:53 2006
    - moved END handler into XS
    - updated SEE ALSO section
    - s/REPORT/DEBUG/
    - fix and test for UNDEF => ''
    - portability fixlet for Windows

1.04  Mon Nov 20 00:25:50 2006
    - fix threaded perl pessimization
    - applied patch: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22868 (thanks Steve Peters)
    - documentation fixlet
    - portability fixlet

1.03  Sat Apr 23 20:35:16 2005
    - workaround and test for %^H bug
    - require perl >= 5.8

1.02  Tue Apr 12 20:52:02 2005
    - re-fixed Makefile.PL/META.yml + copyright

1.01  Tue Apr 12 19:58:49 2005
    - compatibility/portability fixes + isolate ptr table from perl's implementation

1.00  Tue Apr 12 01:16:52 2005
    - rewrite: no longer requires a patch

0.11  Tue Feb 3 13:21:47 2004
    - Added patch for perl-5.8.3

0.10  Fri Dec 12 15:24:16 2003
    - fixed obsolete reference to perl-5.8.1 in POD

0.09  Fri Dec 12 11:53:02 2003
    - Added patch for perl-5.8.2

0.08  Fri Oct 17 11:50:34 2003
    - removed obsolete references to perl-5.8.1-RC4 from README

0.07  Tue Oct 14 13:34:16 2003
    - updated patch to work against perl-5.8.1. This patch should be
      applied to a clean perl-5.8.1 tree. Previous versions of perl are
      no longer supported
    - minor documentation tweaklets
    - added typemap() static method to autobox.pm to facilitate subclassing

0.06  Mon Aug 18 17:40:53 2003

    - This version provides an updated patch. It should be applied to a
      clean perl-5.8.1-RC4 tree
    - Thanks to Tassilo von Parseval for hunting down and fixing a
      memory leak
    - Added support for builtin pseudotype, UNDEF
    - Added tests and documentation for old VERSION() and new UNDEF
      features

0.05  Mon Aug 11 03:13:04 2003

    - autobox.pm update: no change to the patch
    - Cleaned up implementation of isa() and can()
    - Added support for VERSION() (untested)

0.04  Sun Aug 10 14:57:18 2003

    - This version provides a new patch which ensures
      that undef values aren't autoboxed. It should
      be applied to a clean perl-5.8.1-RC4 tree
    - fixed (i.e. prevented) autoboxing of undef in isa() and can()
    - fixed Makefile.PL and META.yml to ensure that new
      installs of autobox.pm aren't shadowed by old
      versions (thanks Michael G Schwern)

0.03  Sun Aug 10 03:17:16 2003

    - added support for can() and isa()
    - documented print { hashref_expression() } issues/workarounds

0.02  Wed Aug 6 16:49:45 2003

    - the patch is now a single file
    - instructions for applying the patch added to README
    - documentation fixlets for the patch and module

0.01  Mon Aug 4 01:00:18 2003
    - original version; created by h2xs 1.21 with options -n autobox-0.01
