Revision history for Sys-Syslog
0.27 -- 2008.09.21 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[BUGFIX] Fixed compilation on Win32, thanks to Serguei Trouchelle.
Also added stubs so calling the XS functions will never fail.
[TESTS] t/pod.t now also uses Pod::Checker.
0.26 -- 2008.06.16 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[BUGFIX] Make Sys::Syslog works with Perl 5.10.0 (because of
ExtUtils::Constant::ProxySubs).
[CODE] setlogsock() is now a little more strict about its arguments.
0.25 -- 2008.05.17 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#34691: Fixed an incorrect call to sysopen() which
prevented Sys::Syslog from working on some Solaris systems.
Thanks to Paul Townsend.
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#34753: Fixed a slowness introduced in v0.19 (which
was to work around OSX syslog own slowness). Thanks to Alex Efros.
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#35952: Fixed a bug with the "nofatal" option.
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#35189: Fixed a bug in xlate().
[BUGFIX] Fixed build on Win32, thanks to Adam Kennedy.
[FEATURE] setlogsock() now interprets the second argument as the
hostname for network mechanisms.
[DIST] Add AUTHOR to WriteMakefile() in order to fix the META.yml
generated by ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
[TESTS] Improved t/pod.t with Pod::Checker.
0.24 -- 2007.12.31 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[BUGFIX] CPANT-RT#32001: Skip the setlogsock('stream') tests when
/dev/log is unavailable (Brendan O'Dea).
0.23 -- 2007.11.12 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[BUGFIX] Fixed a too liberal test in the "pipe" mechanism, thanks
to Jan Dubois.
[DIST] fallback/syslog.h was missing from MANIFEST (thanks to CPAN
Tester Matthew Musgrove).
[TESTS] Better handling of Perl 5.005, thanks to CPAN Tester Slaven Rezic.
0.22 -- 2007.11.08 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#29875: Added workaround SpamAssassin overzealous
logging features.
[FEATURE] Added support for PERROR option.
[FEATURE] Support for SYSLOG on z/OS, thanks to Chun Bing Ge.
[CODE] Prevent $@ from being visible outside the module, in trying
to address the problem reported in CPAN-RT#29875.
[DOC] CPAN-RT#29451: Add Copyright notice. Thanks to Allison Randal
for her advice.
[DOC] New speaking about Win32 API instead of Win32 operating system.
0.21 -- 2007.09.14 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[BUGFIX] setlogsock(eventlog) returned true even when it shouldn't have.
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#24431: Added workaround for Mac OS X syslogd.
[FEATURE] Added "pipe" mechanism in order to support HP-UX named pipe.
Thanks to H.Merijn Brand and PROCURA.
[CODE] Sys::Syslog works again on Perl 5.005, thanks to Nicholas Clark.
0.20 -- 2007.09.05 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[DOC] Added README.win32 which was missing in MANIFEST.
0.19 -- 2007.09.05 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20635: Fix tests to avoid problems related to the
"stream" mechanism which occured on Debian and Cygwin.
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20780: Facility could not be temporarily changed.
Also fixes the syslog() before openlog() bug.
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21333: Makefile.PL now creates a typemap for Perl 5.6.1
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21516: disconnect_log() now correctly calls closelog_xs().
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21866: Silence warnings in openlog().
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#25488: Silence warnings in disconnect_log().
via syslog().
[BUGFIX] Rewrote the constants generation code in order to provide
fallback value for non-standard macros.
[BUGFIX] Mark Blackman and Edmund von der Burg identified and fixed the
random failures appearing on OSX, caused by a UDP timeout.
[FEATURE] Added Win32 event log support thanks to Yves Orton.
[FEATURE] Added new macros from modern BSD and IRIX.
[FEATURE] Each non-standard macro now fall backs to a standard macro.
[CODE] Merged changes from Jerry D. Hedden to use ppport.h only when not
built from core distribution (blead@30657).
[TESTS] t/syslog.t now generates a more detailled TAP output.
[TESTS] Merged change blead@29176: suppress taint mode from t/constants.t
[TESTS] Added regression tests for CPAN-RT#21866 and #25488.
[EG] Added example script eg/syslog.pl
[DOC] CPAN-RT#26097: man pages were not installed.
[DOC] Added the Sys::Syslog Rules.
0.18 -- 2006.08.28 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[BUGFIX] Rewrote the way the default identifiant is constructed.
[TESTS] CPAN-RT#20946: Removed the console mechanism from the main
test loop because writing to the console hangs on several systems.
[DOC] Added a note discouraging the use of setlogsock().
0.17 -- 2006.07.23 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20622, #20164: Fixed path handling in connect_unix().
[CODE] Renamed some variables ($that is not a valid name), and removed
some dead code.
[CODE] Actually added the macros from Mac OS X that were announced in
the 0.14 version.
[DOC] CPAN-RT#20545: Rewrote the documentation about setlogsock().
0.16 -- 2006.06.20 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[BUGFIX] Perl-RT#20557: Save errno before trying to connect.
[FEATURE] Perl-RT#35406: Applied the patch proposed by Keisuke Hirata
for a more lax handling of "stream" or "unix" path.
[FEATURE] Now try the "native" mechanism first.
[TESTS] Silence warnings generated by t/syslog.t in Perl 5.8.8 and
later.
[DOC] Added documentation about the "native" mechanism.
[DOC] Now indicates whether tickets are from CPAN or Perl RT.
0.15 -- 2006.06.10 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[FEATURE] CPAN-RT#17316: Added a "nofatal" option to openlog().
[FEATURE] Sys::Syslog warnings can now be controled by the warnings
category of the same name.
[FEATURE] Added support for using the native C syslog(3) functions.
[CODE] Removed most "our" variables.
[CODE] Improved readability by removing cargo-cult brackets and
parentheses.
0.14 -- 2006.05.25 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#19259, #17518: Now allowing all levels and facilities.
[CODE] Removed useless "&".
[CODE] Improved readability by adding empty lines and reworking the
code here and there.
[CODE] Added new macros from Mac OS X.
[TESTS] Added more tests in order to increase coverage.
[DOC] CPAN-RT#19085: Corrected errors in the documentation for setlogmask().
[DOC] Added several links to online manual pages, RFCs and articles.
[DOC] Corrected minor things in Changes.
0.13 -- 2006.01.11 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[CODE] Applied Gisle Aas patch for a better handling of error messages,
then optimized it.
[CODE] Merged blead@26768: If getservbyname fails tell what service
the lookup attempt tried to use.
[CODE] Merged blead@26769: suppress Sys::Hostname usage and directly
use INADDR_LOOPBACK.
[CODE] Merged blead@26772: $host needs to stay in case the user sets it.
[CODE] Merged blead@26773: check that $syslog_path is a socket.
[TESTS] CPAN-RT#16980: Sys::Syslog blows up rather spectacularly on
Solaris. Corrected by previous patches.
[TESTS] CPAN-RT#16974: Failed test in t/podspell. This test is now skipped.
0.12 -- 2006.01.07 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[DOC] Added a link to an article about Sys::Syslog.
[TESTS] Merged some modifications from bleadperl.
[TESTS] Removed optional dependency on Test::Exception.
[TESTS] Improved t/constant.t
[TESTS] Rewrote t/constants.t because future versions of
ExtUtils::Constant will prevent the constant() function from
being directly called.
0.11 -- 2005.12.28 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[BUGFIX] setlogmask() now behaves like its C counterpart.
[FEATURE] Can now export and use the macros.
[FEATURE] Support for three Exporter tags.
[FEATURE] XSLoader is now optional.
[CODE] No longer "use"s Sys::Hostname as it was "require"d where needed.
[CODE] CPAN-RT#16604: Use local timestamp.
[DIST] Merged blead@26343: Fix realclean target.
[DOC] Improved documentation.
[TESTS] Added more tests to t/syslog.t in order to increase code coverage.
0.10 -- 2005.12.08 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[DOC] Improved documentation.
[TESTS] Added -T to t/syslog.t
[TESTS] Added t/constants.t to check the macros.
[TESTS] Added t/distchk.t, t/podspell.t, t/podcover.t, t/portfs.t
0.09 -- 2005.12.06 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[CODE] Now setlogsock() really croak(), as documented.
[DIST] CPANized from blead@26281.
[DIST] Modified Makefile.PL so that ExtUtils::Constant is conditionaly
used, with a fallback in the case it's not available.
[DIST] Bumped version to 0.09
[DOC] Added support and license information.
[TESTS] Rewrote and ported t/syslog.t to Test::More