Revision history for Variable-Magic

0.10    2008-02-04 11:30 UTC
        + Add : New script : samples/vm_vs_tie.pl, that benchmarks our uvar
                magic versus tied hashes.
        + Add : The VMG_COMPAT_* constants can be used from userspace to check
                perl magic abilities.
        + Fix : Callbacks that returned undef made us croak, breaking the
                variable behaviour (regression test in 14-callbacks.t).
        + Fix : uvar callbacks weren't tested for non-NULL-ity before being
                called (regression test in 28-uvar.t).
        + Tst : Fix typo in 25-copy.t that prevented Tie::Hash tests to be ran.

0.09    2008-02-02 11:30 UTC
        + Doc : Explicitely say that uvar callbacks are safely ignored for
                non-hashes.
        + Doc : Document caveats and fix the usual set of typos.
        + Fix : vmg_dispell() didn't check if the ext magic were ours when
                counting wizards that have uvar callbacks, resulting in a
                possible memory misread.
        + Fix : getdata() now returns directly the data object, and no longer a
                copy. This caused a leak.
        + Tst : Prefix author tests by 9*-.
        + Tst : New optional author test : 95-portability-files.t, that uses
                Test::Portability::Files when it's present.
        + Tst : New test : 14-self.t, that tests application of magic on the
                wizard itself.
        + Tst : Move Hash::Util::FieldHash tests out of 11-multiple.t to
                15-huf.t.

0.08    2008-02-01 16:55 UTC
        + Add : copy magic for tied arrays/hashes.
        + Add : local magic.
        + Add : uvar magics : fetch, store, exists, delete for hashes.

0.07_*  2008-01
        Internal development versions.

0.06    2007-11-20 10:10 UTC
        + Chg : 5.7.3 is now officially required.
        + Fix : "data" test failures on 5.8.{0,2}.
        + Fix : Drand01() vs rand().

0.05    2007-11-19 09:10 UTC
        + Fix : 5.10.0_RC1 compatibility fix.

0.04    2007-08-28 12:25 UTC
        + Chg : s/require (XSLoader)/use $1/.
        + Fix : Tests are now strict.
        + Fix : Complete dependencies.

0.03    2007-08-01 17:20 UTC
        + Add : Passing the signature of an already defined magic to wizard()
                now returns the corresponding magic object.
        + Add : You can pass the numeric signature as the wizard argument of
                cast(), dispell() and getdata().
        + Add : Any argument specified after the wizard (or the signature) in a
                call to cast() is now passed to the private data constructor in
                $_[1] and after.
        + Chg : $_[0] is now always a reference to the magic variable in all
                callbacks. The reason for changing from the previous behaviour
                is that one may want to apply the same magic to a plain scalar
                and to a scalar reference, and needs a way to distinguish
                between them in the callback (say, ref()).
        + Fix : Wizard object destruction used not to free the signature.

0.02    2007-07-27 13:50 UTC
        + Fix : In response to test report 548152 :
                Newx() and SvMAGIC_set() not present on older perls.
        + Fix : In response to test report 548275 :
                Since perl 5.9.5, 'clear' magic is invoked when an array is
                undefined (bug #43357). Moreover, 'len' magic is no longer
                called by pushing an element since perl 5.9.3.
        + Fix : Missing glob test in MANIFEST.

0.01    2007-07-25 16:15 UTC
        First version, released on an unsuspecting world.

