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=pod

=head1 NAME

perlhist - the Perl history records

=for RCS
#
# $Id: perlhist.pod,v 1.29 1998/02/19 15:49:17 jhi Exp $
#
=end RCS

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This document aims to record the Perl source code releases.

=head1 INTRODUCTION

Perl history in brief, by Larry Wall:

   Perl 0 introduced Perl to my officemates.
   Perl 1 introduced Perl to the world, and changed /\(...\|...\)/ to
        /(...|...)/.  \(Dan Faigin still hasn't forgiven me. :-\)
    Perl 2 introduced Henry Spencer's regular expression package.
    Perl 3 introduced the ability to handle binary data (embedded nulls).
    Perl 4 introduced the first Camel book.  Really.  We mostly just
        switched version numbers so the book could refer to 4.000.
    Perl 5 introduced everything else, including the ability to
        introduce everything else.

=head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN

Larry Wall, Andy Dougherty, Tom Christiansen, Charles Bailey, Nick
Ing-Simmons, Chip Salzenberg, Tim Bunce, Malcolm Beattie.

=head2 PUMPKIN?

[from Porting/pumpkin.pod in the Perl source code distribution]

Chip Salzenberg gets credit for that, with a nod to his cow orker,
David Croy.  We had passed around various names (baton, token, hot
potato) but none caught on.  Then, Chip asked:

[begin quote]

   Who has the patch pumpkin?

To explain:  David Croy once told me once that at a previous job,
there was one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups.
But instead of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech
method to prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin.
No one was allowed to make backups unless they had the "backup pumpkin".

[end quote]

The name has stuck.  The holder of the pumpkin is sometimes called
the pumpking or the pumpkineer.

=head1 THE RECORDS

 Pump-  Release         Date            Notes
 king                                   (by no means
                                         comprehensive,
                                         see Changes*
                                         for details)
 ===========================================================================

 Larry   0              Classified.     Don't ask.

 Larry   1.000          1987-Dec-18
                                   
          1.001..10     1988-Jan-30
          1.011..14     1988-Feb-02
                                   
 Larry   2.000          1988-Jun-05
                                   
          2.001         1988-Jun-28
                                   
 Larry   3.000          1989-Oct-18
                                   
          3.001         1989-Oct-26
          3.002..4      1989-Nov-11
          3.005         1989-Nov-18
          3.006..8      1989-Dec-22
          3.009..13     1990-Mar-02
          3.014         1990-Mar-13
          3.015         1990-Mar-14
          3.016..18     1990-Mar-28
          3.019..27     1990-Aug-10     User subs.
          3.028         1990-Aug-14
          3.029..36     1990-Oct-17
          3.037         1990-Oct-20
          3.040         1990-Nov-10
          3.041         1990-Nov-13
          3.042..43     1990-Jan-91
          3.044         1991-Jan-12
                                   
 Larry   4.000          1991-Mar-21
                                   
          4.001..3      1991-Apr-12
          4.004..9      1991-Jun-07
          4.010         1991-Jun-10
          4.011..18     1991-Nov-05
          4.019         1991-Nov-11     Stable.
          4.020..33     1992-Jun-08
          4.034         1992-Jun-11
          4.035         1992-Jun-23
 Larry    4.036         1993-Feb-05     Very stable.
                                   
          5.000alpha1   1993-Jul-31
          5.000alpha2   1993-Aug-16
          5.000alpha3   1993-Oct-10
          5.000alpha4   1993-???-??
          5.000alpha5   1993-???-??
          5.000alpha6   1993-Mar-18
          5.003alpha7   1994-Mar-25
 Andy     5.000alpha8   1994-Apr-04
 Larry    5.000alpha9   1994-May-05     ext appears.
          5.000alpha10  1994-???-??
          5.000alpha11  1994-???-??
 Andy     5.000a11a     1994-Jul-07     To fit 14.
          5.000a11b     1994-Jul-14
          5.000a11c     1994-Jul-19
          5.000a11d     1994-Jul-22
 Larry    5.000alpha12  1994-???-??
 Andy     5.000a12a     1994-Aug-08
          5.000a12b     1994-Aug-15
          5.000a12c     1994-Aug-22
          5.000a12d     1994-Aug-22
          5.000a12e     1994-Aug-22
          5.000a12f     1994-Aug-24
          5.000a12g     1994-Aug-24
          5.000a12h     1994-Aug-24
 Larry    5.000beta1    1994-???-??
 Andy     5.000b1a      1994-???-??
 Larry    5.000beta2    1994-Sep-14     Core slushified.
 Andy     5.000b2a      1994-Sep-14
          5.000b2b      1994-Sep-17
          5.000b2c      1994-Sep-17
 Larry    5.000beta3    1994-???-??
 Andy     5.000b3a      1994-Sep-18
          5.000b3b      1994-Sep-22
          5.000b3c      1994-Sep-23
          5.000b3d      1994-Sep-27
          5.000b3e      1994-Sep-28
          5.000b3f      1994-Sep-30
          5.000b3g      1994-Oct-04
 Andy     5.000b3h      1994-Oct-07
                                   
 Larry   5.000          1994-Oct-18
                                   
 Andy     5.000a        1994-Dec-19
          5.000b        1995-Jan-18
          5.000c        1995-Jan-18
          5.000d        1995-Jan-18
          5.000e        1995-Jan-18
          5.000f        1995-Jan-18
          5.000g        1995-Jan-18
          5.000h        1995-Jan-18
          5.000i        1995-Jan-26
          5.000j        1995-Feb-07
          5.000k        1995-Feb-11
          5.000l        1995-Feb-21
          5.000m        1995-???-??
          5.000n        1995-Mar-07
                                   
 Larry   5.001          1995-Mar-13
                                   
 Andy     5.001a        1995-Mar-15
          5.001b        1995-Mar-31
          5.001c        1995-Apr-07
          5.001d        1995-Apr-14
          5.001e        1995-Apr-18     Stable.
          5.001f        1995-May-31
          5.001g        1995-May-25
          5.001h        1995-May-25
          5.001i        1995-May-30
          5.001j        1995-Jun-05
          5.001k        1995-Jun-06
          5.001l        1995-Jun-06     Stable.
          5.001m        1995-Jul-02     Very stable.
          5.001n        1995-Oct-31     Very unstable.
          5.002beta1    1995-Nov-21
          5.002b1a      1995-Nov-??
          5.002b1b      1995-Dec-04
          5.002b1c      1995-Dec-04
          5.002b1d      1995-Dec-04
          5.002b1e      1995-Dec-08
          5.002b1f      1995-Dec-08
 Tom      5.002b1g      1995-Dec-21     Doc release.
 Andy     5.002b1h      1996-Jan-05
          5.002b2       1996-Jan-14
 Larry    5.002b3       1996-Feb-02
 Andy     5.002gamma    1996-Feb-11
 Larry    5.002delta    1996-Feb-27
                                   
 Larry   5.002          1996-Feb-29
                                   
 Charles  5.002_01      1996-Mar-25
                                   
         5.003          1996-Jun-25     Security release.
                                   
          5.003_01      1996-Jul-31
 Nick     5.003_02      1996-Aug-10
 Andy     5.003_03      1996-Aug-28
          5.003_04      1996-Sep-02
          5.003_05      1996-Sep-12
          5.003_06      1996-Oct-07
          5.003_07      1996-Oct-10
 Chip     5.003_08      1996-Nov-19
          5.003_09      1996-Nov-26
          5.003_10      1996-Nov-29
          5.003_11      1996-Dec-06
          5.003_12      1996-Dec-19
          5.003_13      1996-Dec-20
          5.003_14      1996-Dec-23
          5.003_15      1996-Dec-23
          5.003_16      1996-Dec-24
          5.003_17      1996-Dec-27
          5.003_18      1996-Dec-31
          5.003_19      1997-Jan-04
          5.003_20      1997-Jan-07
          5.003_21      1997-Jan-15
          5.003_22      1997-Jan-16
          5.003_23      1997-Jan-25
          5.003_24      1997-Jan-29
          5.003_25      1997-Feb-04
          5.003_26      1997-Feb-10
          5.003_27      1997-Feb-18
          5.003_28      1997-Feb-21
          5.003_90      1997-Feb-25     Ramping up to the 5.004 release.
          5.003_91      1997-Mar-01
          5.003_92      1997-Mar-06
          5.003_93      1997-Mar-10
          5.003_94      1997-Mar-22
          5.003_95      1997-Mar-25
          5.003_96      1997-Apr-01
          5.003_97      1997-Apr-03     Fairly widely used.
          5.003_97a     1997-Apr-05
          5.003_97b     1997-Apr-08
          5.003_97c     1997-Apr-10
          5.003_97d     1997-Apr-13
          5.003_97e     1997-Apr-15
          5.003_97f     1997-Apr-17
          5.003_97g     1997-Apr-18
          5.003_97h     1997-Apr-24
          5.003_97i     1997-Apr-25
          5.003_97j     1997-Apr-28
          5.003_98      1997-Apr-30
          5.003_99      1997-May-01
          5.003_99a     1997-May-09
          p54rc1        1997-May-12     Release Candidates.
          p54rc2        1997-May-14     
                                   
 Chip    5.004          1997-May-15     A major maintenance release.
                                   
 Tim      5.004_01      1997-Jun-13     The 5.004 maintenance track.
          5.004_02      1997-Aug-07
          5.004_03      1997-Sep-05
          5.004_04      1997-Oct-15
                                   
 Malcolm  5.004_50      1997-Sep-09     The 5.005 development track.
          5.004_51      1997-Oct-02
          5.004_52      1997-Oct-15
          5.004_53      1997-Oct-16
          5.004_54      1997-Nov-14
          5.004_55      1997-Nov-25
          5.004_56      1997-Dec-18
          5.004_57      1998-Feb-03
          5.004_58      1998-Feb-06
          5.004_59      1998-Feb-13

=head2 SELECTED RELEASE SIZES

For example the notation "core: 212  29" in the release 1.000 means that
it had in the core 212 kilobytes, in 29 files.  The "core".."doc" are
explained below.

 release        core       lib         ext        t         doc
 ======================================================================

 1.000           212  29      -   -      -   -     38  51     62   3
 1.014           219  29      -   -      -   -     39  52     68   4
 2.000           309  31      2   3      -   -     55  57     92   4
 2.001           312  31      2   3      -   -     55  57     94   4
 3.000           508  36     24  11      -   -     79  73    156   5
 3.044           645  37     61  20      -   -     90  74    190   6
 4.000           635  37     59  20      -   -     91  75    198   4
 4.019           680  37     85  29      -   -     98  76    199   4
 4.036           709  37     89  30      -   -     98  76    208   5
 5.000alpha2     785  50    114  32      -   -    112  86    209   5
 5.000a3         801  50    117  33      -   -    121  87    209   5
 5.000a9        1022  56    149  43    116  29    125  90    217   6
 5.000a12h       978  49    140  49    205  46    152  97    228   9
 5.000beta3h    1035  53    232  70    216  38    162  94    218  21
 5.000          1038  53    250  76    216  38    154  92    536  62
 5.001m         1071  54    388  82    240  38    159  95    544  29
 5.002          1121  54    661 101    287  43    155  94    847  35
 5.003          1129  54    680 102    291  43    166 100    853  35
 5.003_07       1231  60    748 106    396  53    213 137    976  39
 5.004          1351  60   1230 136    408  51    355 161   1587  55
 5.004_01       1356  60   1258 138    410  51    358 161   1587  55 
 5.004_04       1375  60   1294 139    413  51    394 162   1629  55
 5.004_51       1401  61   1260 140    413  53    358 162   1594  56
 5.004_53       1422  62   1295 141    438  70    394 162   1637  56
 5.004_56       1501  66   1301 140    447  74    408 165   1648  57
 5.004_59       1555  72   1317 142    448  74    424 171   1678  58   

The "core"..."doc" mean the following files from the Perl source code
distribution.  The glob notation ** means recursively, (.) means
regular files.

 core   *.[hcy]
 lib    lib/**/*.p[ml]
 ext    ext/**/*.{[hcyt],xs,pm}
 t      t/**/*(.)
 doc    {README*,INSTALL,*[_.]man{,.?},pod/**/*.pod}

Here are some statistics for the other subdirectories and one file in
the Perl source distribution for somewhat more selected releases.

 ======================================================================
   Legend:  kB   #

            1.014   2.001   3.044   4.000   4.019   4.036   
                                                              
 atarist      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -  113 31  
 Configure   31  1   37  1   62  1   73  1   83  1   86  1  
 eg           -  -   34 28   47 39   47 39   47 39   47 39  
 emacs        -  -    -  -    -  -   67  4   67  4   67  4  
 h2pl         -  -    -  -   12 12   12 12   12 12   12 12  
 hints        -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -    5 42   11 56  
 msdos        -  -    -  -   41 13   57 15   58 15   60 15  
 os2          -  -    -  -   63 22   81 29   81 29  113 31  
 usub         -  -    -  -   21 16   25  7   43  8   43  8  
 x2p        103 17  104 17  137 17  147 18  152 19  154 19  

 ======================================================================

            5.000a2 5.000a12h 5.000b3h 5.000  5.001m  5.002   5.003   
                                                                      
 atarist    113 31  113 31    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -
 bench        -  -    0  1    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -
 Bugs         2  5   26  1    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -
 dlperl      40  5    -  -    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -
 do         127 71    -  -    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -
 Configure    -  -  153  1  159  1    160  1  180  1  201  1  201  1  
 Doc          -  -   26  1   75  7     11  1   11  1    -  -    -  -  
 eg          79 58   53 44   51 43     54 44   54 44   54 44   54 44  
 emacs       67  4  104  6  104  6    104  1  104  6  108  1  108  1  
 h2pl        12 12   12 12   12 12     12 12   12 12   12 12   12 12  
 hints       11 56   12 46   18 48     18 48   44 56   73 59   77 60  
 msdos       60 15   60 15    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -  
 os2        113 31  113 31    -  -      -  -    -  -   84 17   56 10  
 U            -  -   62  8  112 42      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -  
 usub        43  8    -  -    -  -      -  -    -  -    -  -    -  -
 utils        -  -    -  -    -  -      -  -    -  -   87  7   88  7  
 vms          -  -   80  7  123  9    184 15  304 20  500 24  475 26  
 x2p        171 22  171 21  162 20    162 20  279 20  280 20  280 20  

 ======================================================================

            5.003_07 5.004   5.004_04 5.004_59
                                              
 Configure  217  1   225  1  225  1   240  1  
 cygwin32     -  -    23  5   23  5    23  5  
 djgpp        -  -     -  -    -  -    15  5
 eg          54 44    81 62   81 62    81 62
 emacs      143  1   194  1  204  1   212  2
 h2pl        12 12    12 12   12 12    12 12
 hints       90 62   129 69  132 71   139 72
 os2        117 42   121 42  127 42   134 44
 plan9       79 15    82 15   82 15    82 15
 Porting     51  1    94  2  109  4   109  4
 qnx          -  -     1  2    1  2     1  2
 utils       97  7   112  8  118  8   123  8
 vms        505 27   518 34  524 34   536 34
 win32        -  -   285 33  378 36   464 39
 x2p        280 19   281 19  281 19   281 19

=head2 SELECTED PATCH SIZES

The "diff lines kb" means that for example the patch 5.003_08,
to be applied on top 5.003_07 (or whatever was before it) added
lines for 110 kilobytes, it removed lines for 19 kilobytes, and
changed lines for 424 kilobytes.  Just the lines themselves are
counted, not their context.  The "+ - !" become from the diff(1)s
context diff output format.

 Pump-  Release         Date           diff lines kB
 king                                     +   -   !
 ===========================================================================

 Chip     5.003_08      1996-Nov-19     110  19 424
          5.003_09      1996-Nov-26      38   9 248
          5.003_10      1996-Nov-29      29   2  27
          5.003_11      1996-Dec-06      73  12 165
          5.003_12      1996-Dec-19     275   6 436
          5.003_13      1996-Dec-20      95   1  56
          5.003_14      1996-Dec-23      23   7 333
          5.003_15      1996-Dec-23       0   0   1
          5.003_16      1996-Dec-24      12   3  50
          5.003_17      1996-Dec-27      19   1  14
          5.003_18      1996-Dec-31      21   1  32
          5.003_19      1997-Jan-04      80   3  85
          5.003_20      1997-Jan-07      18   1 146
          5.003_21      1997-Jan-15      38  10 221
          5.003_22      1997-Jan-16       4   0  18
          5.003_23      1997-Jan-25      71  15 119
          5.003_24      1997-Jan-29     426   1  20
          5.003_25      1997-Feb-04      21   8 169
          5.003_26      1997-Feb-10      16   1  15
          5.003_27      1997-Feb-18      32  10  38
          5.003_28      1997-Feb-21      58   4  66
          5.003_90      1997-Feb-25      22   2  34
          5.003_91      1997-Mar-01      37   1  39
          5.003_92      1997-Mar-06      16   3  69
          5.003_93      1997-Mar-10      12   3  15
          5.003_94      1997-Mar-22     407   7 200
          5.003_95      1997-Mar-25      41   1  37
          5.003_96      1997-Apr-01     283   5 261
          5.003_97      1997-Apr-03      13   2  34
          5.003_97a     1997-Apr-05      57   1  27
          5.003_97b     1997-Apr-08      14   1  20
          5.003_97c     1997-Apr-10      20   1  16
          5.003_97d     1997-Apr-13       8   0  16
          5.003_97e     1997-Apr-15      15   4  46
          5.003_97f     1997-Apr-17       7   1  33
          5.003_97g     1997-Apr-18       6   1  42
          5.003_97h     1997-Apr-24      23   3  68
          5.003_97i     1997-Apr-25      23   1  31
          5.003_97j     1997-Apr-28      36   1  49
          5.003_98      1997-Apr-30     171  12 539
          5.003_99      1997-May-01       6   0   7
          5.003_99a     1997-May-09      36   2  61
          p54rc1        1997-May-12       8   1  11
          p54rc2        1997-May-14       6   0  40

        5.004           1997-May-15       4   0   4

 Tim      5.004_01      1997-Jun-13     222  14  57
          5.004_02      1997-Aug-07     112  16 119
          5.004_03      1997-Sep-05     109   0  17
          5.004_04      1997-Oct-15      66   8 173

=head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS

Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<jhi@iki.fi>>.

Thanks to the collective memory of the Perlfolk.  In addition to the
Keepers of the Pumpkin also Alan Champion, Andreas König, John
Macdonald, Matthias Neeracher, Michael Peppler, Randal Schwartz, and
Paul D. Smith sent corrections and additions.

=cut
Commit	Line	Data
cac726e9 NIS	1	=pod
	2
	3	=head1 NAME
	4
	5	perlhist - the Perl history records
	6
	7	=for RCS
	8	#
d516a115	9	# $Id: perlhist.pod,v 1.29 1998/02/19 15:49:17 jhi Exp $
cac726e9 NIS	10	#
	11	=end RCS
	12
	13	=head1 DESCRIPTION
	14
	15	This document aims to record the Perl source code releases.
	16
	17	=head1 INTRODUCTION
	18
	19	Perl history in brief, by Larry Wall:
	20
d516a115 JH	21	Perl 0 introduced Perl to my officemates.
	22	Perl 1 introduced Perl to the world, and changed /\(...\\|...\)/ to
	23	/(...\|...)/. \(Dan Faigin still hasn't forgiven me. :-\)
cac726e9 NIS	24	Perl 2 introduced Henry Spencer's regular expression package.
	25	Perl 3 introduced the ability to handle binary data (embedded nulls).
	26	Perl 4 introduced the first Camel book. Really. We mostly just
d516a115	27	switched version numbers so the book could refer to 4.000.
cac726e9	28	Perl 5 introduced everything else, including the ability to
d516a115	29	introduce everything else.
cac726e9 NIS	30
	31	=head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
	32
	33	Larry Wall, Andy Dougherty, Tom Christiansen, Charles Bailey, Nick
	34	Ing-Simmons, Chip Salzenberg, Tim Bunce, Malcolm Beattie.
	35
	36	=head2 PUMPKIN?
	37
	38	[from Porting/pumpkin.pod in the Perl source code distribution]
	39
	40	Chip Salzenberg gets credit for that, with a nod to his cow orker,
	41	David Croy. We had passed around various names (baton, token, hot
	42	potato) but none caught on. Then, Chip asked:
	43
	44	[begin quote]
	45
	46	Who has the patch pumpkin?
	47
	48	To explain: David Croy once told me once that at a previous job,
	49	there was one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups.
	50	But instead of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech
	51	method to prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin.
	52	No one was allowed to make backups unless they had the "backup pumpkin".
	53
	54	[end quote]
	55
	56	The name has stuck. The holder of the pumpkin is sometimes called
	57	the pumpking or the pumpkineer.
	58
	59	=head1 THE RECORDS
	60
	61	Pump- Release Date Notes
	62	king (by no means
	63	comprehensive,
	64	see Changes*
	65	for details)
	66	===========================================================================
	67
d516a115	68	Larry 0 Classified. Don't ask.
cac726e9 NIS	69
cac726e9 NIS	70	Larry 1.000 1987-Dec-18
d516a115	71
cac726e9 NIS	72	1.001..10 1988-Jan-30
cac726e9 NIS	73	1.011..14 1988-Feb-02
d516a115	74
cac726e9	75	Larry 2.000 1988-Jun-05
d516a115	76
cac726e9	77	2.001 1988-Jun-28
d516a115	78
cac726e9	79	Larry 3.000 1989-Oct-18
d516a115	80
cac726e9 NIS	81	3.001 1989-Oct-26
	82	3.002..4 1989-Nov-11
	83	3.005 1989-Nov-18
	84	3.006..8 1989-Dec-22
	85	3.009..13 1990-Mar-02
	86	3.014 1990-Mar-13
	87	3.015 1990-Mar-14
	88	3.016..18 1990-Mar-28
d516a115	89	3.019..27 1990-Aug-10 User subs.
cac726e9 NIS	90	3.028 1990-Aug-14
	91	3.029..36 1990-Oct-17
	92	3.037 1990-Oct-20
	93	3.040 1990-Nov-10
	94	3.041 1990-Nov-13
	95	3.042..43 1990-Jan-91
	96	3.044 1991-Jan-12
d516a115	97
cac726e9	98	Larry 4.000 1991-Mar-21
d516a115	99
cac726e9 NIS	100	4.001..3 1991-Apr-12
	101	4.004..9 1991-Jun-07
	102	4.010 1991-Jun-10
	103	4.011..18 1991-Nov-05
d516a115	104	4.019 1991-Nov-11 Stable.
cac726e9 NIS	105	4.020..33 1992-Jun-08
	106	4.034 1992-Jun-11
	107	4.035 1992-Jun-23
d516a115 JH	108	Larry 4.036 1993-Feb-05 Very stable.
d516a115 JH	109
cac726e9 NIS	110	5.000alpha1 1993-Jul-31
	111	5.000alpha2 1993-Aug-16
	112	5.000alpha3 1993-Oct-10
	113	5.000alpha4 1993-???-??
	114	5.000alpha5 1993-???-??
	115	5.000alpha6 1993-Mar-18
	116	5.003alpha7 1994-Mar-25
	117	Andy 5.000alpha8 1994-Apr-04
d516a115	118	Larry 5.000alpha9 1994-May-05 ext appears.
cac726e9 NIS	119	5.000alpha10 1994-???-??
cac726e9 NIS	120	5.000alpha11 1994-???-??
d516a115	121	Andy 5.000a11a 1994-Jul-07 To fit 14.
cac726e9 NIS	122	5.000a11b 1994-Jul-14
	123	5.000a11c 1994-Jul-19
	124	5.000a11d 1994-Jul-22
	125	Larry 5.000alpha12 1994-???-??
	126	Andy 5.000a12a 1994-Aug-08
	127	5.000a12b 1994-Aug-15
	128	5.000a12c 1994-Aug-22
	129	5.000a12d 1994-Aug-22
	130	5.000a12e 1994-Aug-22
	131	5.000a12f 1994-Aug-24
	132	5.000a12g 1994-Aug-24
	133	5.000a12h 1994-Aug-24
	134	Larry 5.000beta1 1994-???-??
	135	Andy 5.000b1a 1994-???-??
d516a115	136	Larry 5.000beta2 1994-Sep-14 Core slushified.
cac726e9 NIS	137	Andy 5.000b2a 1994-Sep-14
	138	5.000b2b 1994-Sep-17
	139	5.000b2c 1994-Sep-17
	140	Larry 5.000beta3 1994-???-??
	141	Andy 5.000b3a 1994-Sep-18
	142	5.000b3b 1994-Sep-22
	143	5.000b3c 1994-Sep-23
	144	5.000b3d 1994-Sep-27
	145	5.000b3e 1994-Sep-28
	146	5.000b3f 1994-Sep-30
	147	5.000b3g 1994-Oct-04
	148	Andy 5.000b3h 1994-Oct-07
d516a115	149
cac726e9	150	Larry 5.000 1994-Oct-18
d516a115	151
cac726e9 NIS	152	Andy 5.000a 1994-Dec-19
	153	5.000b 1995-Jan-18
	154	5.000c 1995-Jan-18
	155	5.000d 1995-Jan-18
	156	5.000e 1995-Jan-18
	157	5.000f 1995-Jan-18
	158	5.000g 1995-Jan-18
	159	5.000h 1995-Jan-18
	160	5.000i 1995-Jan-26
	161	5.000j 1995-Feb-07
	162	5.000k 1995-Feb-11
	163	5.000l 1995-Feb-21
	164	5.000m 1995-???-??
	165	5.000n 1995-Mar-07
d516a115	166
cac726e9	167	Larry 5.001 1995-Mar-13
d516a115	168
cac726e9 NIS	169	Andy 5.001a 1995-Mar-15
	170	5.001b 1995-Mar-31
	171	5.001c 1995-Apr-07
	172	5.001d 1995-Apr-14
d516a115	173	5.001e 1995-Apr-18 Stable.
cac726e9 NIS	174	5.001f 1995-May-31
	175	5.001g 1995-May-25
	176	5.001h 1995-May-25
	177	5.001i 1995-May-30
	178	5.001j 1995-Jun-05
	179	5.001k 1995-Jun-06
d516a115 JH	180	5.001l 1995-Jun-06 Stable.
	181	5.001m 1995-Jul-02 Very stable.
	182	5.001n 1995-Oct-31 Very unstable.
cac726e9 NIS	183	5.002beta1 1995-Nov-21
	184	5.002b1a 1995-Nov-??
	185	5.002b1b 1995-Dec-04
	186	5.002b1c 1995-Dec-04
	187	5.002b1d 1995-Dec-04
	188	5.002b1e 1995-Dec-08
	189	5.002b1f 1995-Dec-08
d516a115	190	Tom 5.002b1g 1995-Dec-21 Doc release.
cac726e9	191	Andy 5.002b1h 1996-Jan-05
d516a115 JH	192	5.002b2 1996-Jan-14
d516a115 JH	193	Larry 5.002b3 1996-Feb-02
cac726e9 NIS	194	Andy 5.002gamma 1996-Feb-11
cac726e9 NIS	195	Larry 5.002delta 1996-Feb-27
d516a115	196
cac726e9	197	Larry 5.002 1996-Feb-29
d516a115	198
cac726e9	199	Charles 5.002_01 1996-Mar-25
d516a115 JH	200
	201	5.003 1996-Jun-25 Security release.
	202
cac726e9 NIS	203	5.003_01 1996-Jul-31
	204	Nick 5.003_02 1996-Aug-10
	205	Andy 5.003_03 1996-Aug-28
	206	5.003_04 1996-Sep-02
	207	5.003_05 1996-Sep-12
	208	5.003_06 1996-Oct-07
	209	5.003_07 1996-Oct-10
	210	Chip 5.003_08 1996-Nov-19
	211	5.003_09 1996-Nov-26
	212	5.003_10 1996-Nov-29
	213	5.003_11 1996-Dec-06
	214	5.003_12 1996-Dec-19
	215	5.003_13 1996-Dec-20
	216	5.003_14 1996-Dec-23
	217	5.003_15 1996-Dec-23
	218	5.003_16 1996-Dec-24
	219	5.003_17 1996-Dec-27
	220	5.003_18 1996-Dec-31
	221	5.003_19 1997-Jan-04
	222	5.003_20 1997-Jan-07
	223	5.003_21 1997-Jan-15
	224	5.003_22 1997-Jan-16
	225	5.003_23 1997-Jan-25
	226	5.003_24 1997-Jan-29
	227	5.003_25 1997-Feb-04
	228	5.003_26 1997-Feb-10
	229	5.003_27 1997-Feb-18
	230	5.003_28 1997-Feb-21
d516a115	231	5.003_90 1997-Feb-25 Ramping up to the 5.004 release.
cac726e9 NIS	232	5.003_91 1997-Mar-01
	233	5.003_92 1997-Mar-06
	234	5.003_93 1997-Mar-10
	235	5.003_94 1997-Mar-22
	236	5.003_95 1997-Mar-25
	237	5.003_96 1997-Apr-01
d516a115	238	5.003_97 1997-Apr-03 Fairly widely used.
cac726e9 NIS	239	5.003_97a 1997-Apr-05
	240	5.003_97b 1997-Apr-08
	241	5.003_97c 1997-Apr-10
	242	5.003_97d 1997-Apr-13
	243	5.003_97e 1997-Apr-15
	244	5.003_97f 1997-Apr-17
	245	5.003_97g 1997-Apr-18
	246	5.003_97h 1997-Apr-24
	247	5.003_97i 1997-Apr-25
	248	5.003_97j 1997-Apr-28
	249	5.003_98 1997-Apr-30
	250	5.003_99 1997-May-01
	251	5.003_99a 1997-May-09
d516a115 JH	252	p54rc1 1997-May-12 Release Candidates.
	253	p54rc2 1997-May-14
	254
	255	Chip 5.004 1997-May-15 A major maintenance release.
	256
	257	Tim 5.004_01 1997-Jun-13 The 5.004 maintenance track.
cac726e9 NIS	258	5.004_02 1997-Aug-07
	259	5.004_03 1997-Sep-05
	260	5.004_04 1997-Oct-15
d516a115 JH	261
d516a115 JH	262	Malcolm 5.004_50 1997-Sep-09 The 5.005 development track.
cac726e9 NIS	263	5.004_51 1997-Oct-02
	264	5.004_52 1997-Oct-15
	265	5.004_53 1997-Oct-16
	266	5.004_54 1997-Nov-14
	267	5.004_55 1997-Nov-25
	268	5.004_56 1997-Dec-18
d516a115 JH	269	5.004_57 1998-Feb-03
	270	5.004_58 1998-Feb-06
	271	5.004_59 1998-Feb-13
cac726e9 NIS	272
	273	=head2 SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
	274
	275	For example the notation "core: 212 29" in the release 1.000 means that
	276	it had in the core 212 kilobytes, in 29 files. The "core".."doc" are
	277	explained below.
	278
d516a115	279	release core lib ext t doc
cac726e9 NIS	280	======================================================================
cac726e9 NIS	281
d516a115 JH	282	1.000 212 29 - - - - 38 51 62 3
	283	1.014 219 29 - - - - 39 52 68 4
	284	2.000 309 31 2 3 - - 55 57 92 4
	285	2.001 312 31 2 3 - - 55 57 94 4
	286	3.000 508 36 24 11 - - 79 73 156 5
	287	3.044 645 37 61 20 - - 90 74 190 6
	288	4.000 635 37 59 20 - - 91 75 198 4
	289	4.019 680 37 85 29 - - 98 76 199 4
	290	4.036 709 37 89 30 - - 98 76 208 5
	291	5.000alpha2 785 50 114 32 - - 112 86 209 5
	292	5.000a3 801 50 117 33 - - 121 87 209 5
	293	5.000a9 1022 56 149 43 116 29 125 90 217 6
cac726e9 NIS	294	5.000a12h 978 49 140 49 205 46 152 97 228 9
cac726e9 NIS	295	5.000beta3h 1035 53 232 70 216 38 162 94 218 21
d516a115 JH	296	5.000 1038 53 250 76 216 38 154 92 536 62
	297	5.001m 1071 54 388 82 240 38 159 95 544 29
	298	5.002 1121 54 661 101 287 43 155 94 847 35
	299	5.003 1129 54 680 102 291 43 166 100 853 35
	300	5.003_07 1231 60 748 106 396 53 213 137 976 39
	301	5.004 1351 60 1230 136 408 51 355 161 1587 55
	302	5.004_01 1356 60 1258 138 410 51 358 161 1587 55
	303	5.004_04 1375 60 1294 139 413 51 394 162 1629 55
	304	5.004_51 1401 61 1260 140 413 53 358 162 1594 56
	305	5.004_53 1422 62 1295 141 438 70 394 162 1637 56
	306	5.004_56 1501 66 1301 140 447 74 408 165 1648 57
	307	5.004_59 1555 72 1317 142 448 74 424 171 1678 58
cac726e9 NIS	308
	309	The "core"..."doc" mean the following files from the Perl source code
	310	distribution. The glob notation ** means recursively, (.) means
	311	regular files.
	312
d516a115 JH	313	core *.[hcy]
	314	lib lib/*/.p[ml]
	315	ext ext/*/.{[hcyt],xs,pm}
	316	t t/*/(.)
	317	doc {README,INSTALL,[_.]man{,.?},pod/*/.pod}
cac726e9 NIS	318
	319	Here are some statistics for the other subdirectories and one file in
	320	the Perl source distribution for somewhat more selected releases.
	321
	322	======================================================================
	323	Legend: kB #
	324
d516a115 JH	325	1.014 2.001 3.044 4.000 4.019 4.036
d516a115 JH	326
cac726e9 NIS	327	atarist - - - - - - - - - - 113 31
	328	Configure 31 1 37 1 62 1 73 1 83 1 86 1
	329	eg - - 34 28 47 39 47 39 47 39 47 39
	330	emacs - - - - - - 67 4 67 4 67 4
	331	h2pl - - - - 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
	332	hints - - - - - - - - 5 42 11 56
	333	msdos - - - - 41 13 57 15 58 15 60 15
	334	os2 - - - - 63 22 81 29 81 29 113 31
	335	usub - - - - 21 16 25 7 43 8 43 8
	336	x2p 103 17 104 17 137 17 147 18 152 19 154 19
	337
	338	======================================================================
	339
d516a115 JH	340	5.000a2 5.000a12h 5.000b3h 5.000 5.001m 5.002 5.003
d516a115 JH	341
cac726e9 NIS	342	atarist 113 31 113 31 - - - - - - - - - -
	343	bench - - 0 1 - - - - - - - - - -
	344	Bugs 2 5 26 1 - - - - - - - - - -
	345	dlperl 40 5 - - - - - - - - - - - -
	346	do 127 71 - - - - - - - - - - - -
	347	Configure - - 153 1 159 1 160 1 180 1 201 1 201 1
	348	Doc - - 26 1 75 7 11 1 11 1 - - - -
	349	eg 79 58 53 44 51 43 54 44 54 44 54 44 54 44
	350	emacs 67 4 104 6 104 6 104 1 104 6 108 1 108 1
	351	h2pl 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
	352	hints 11 56 12 46 18 48 18 48 44 56 73 59 77 60
	353	msdos 60 15 60 15 - - - - - - - - - -
	354	os2 113 31 113 31 - - - - - - 84 17 56 10
	355	U - - 62 8 112 42 - - - - - - - -
	356	usub 43 8 - - - - - - - - - - - -
	357	utils - - - - - - - - - - 87 7 88 7
	358	vms - - 80 7 123 9 184 15 304 20 500 24 475 26
	359	x2p 171 22 171 21 162 20 162 20 279 20 280 20 280 20
	360
	361	======================================================================
	362
d516a115 JH	363	5.003_07 5.004 5.004_04 5.004_59
	364
	365	Configure 217 1 225 1 225 1 240 1
cac726e9 NIS	366	cygwin32 - - 23 5 23 5 23 5
	367	djgpp - - - - - - 15 5
	368	eg 54 44 81 62 81 62 81 62
	369	emacs 143 1 194 1 204 1 212 2
	370	h2pl 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
d516a115	371	hints 90 62 129 69 132 71 139 72
cac726e9 NIS	372	os2 117 42 121 42 127 42 134 44
	373	plan9 79 15 82 15 82 15 82 15
	374	Porting 51 1 94 2 109 4 109 4
	375	qnx - - 1 2 1 2 1 2
d516a115 JH	376	utils 97 7 112 8 118 8 123 8
	377	vms 505 27 518 34 524 34 536 34
	378	win32 - - 285 33 378 36 464 39
cac726e9 NIS	379	x2p 280 19 281 19 281 19 281 19
	380
	381	=head2 SELECTED PATCH SIZES
	382
	383	The "diff lines kb" means that for example the patch 5.003_08,
	384	to be applied on top 5.003_07 (or whatever was before it) added
	385	lines for 110 kilobytes, it removed lines for 19 kilobytes, and
	386	changed lines for 424 kilobytes. Just the lines themselves are
	387	counted, not their context. The "+ - !" become from the diff(1)s
	388	context diff output format.
	389
	390	Pump- Release Date diff lines kB
	391	king + - !
	392	===========================================================================
	393
	394	Chip 5.003_08 1996-Nov-19 110 19 424
	395	5.003_09 1996-Nov-26 38 9 248
	396	5.003_10 1996-Nov-29 29 2 27
	397	5.003_11 1996-Dec-06 73 12 165
	398	5.003_12 1996-Dec-19 275 6 436
	399	5.003_13 1996-Dec-20 95 1 56
	400	5.003_14 1996-Dec-23 23 7 333
	401	5.003_15 1996-Dec-23 0 0 1
	402	5.003_16 1996-Dec-24 12 3 50
	403	5.003_17 1996-Dec-27 19 1 14
	404	5.003_18 1996-Dec-31 21 1 32
	405	5.003_19 1997-Jan-04 80 3 85
	406	5.003_20 1997-Jan-07 18 1 146
	407	5.003_21 1997-Jan-15 38 10 221
	408	5.003_22 1997-Jan-16 4 0 18
	409	5.003_23 1997-Jan-25 71 15 119
	410	5.003_24 1997-Jan-29 426 1 20
	411	5.003_25 1997-Feb-04 21 8 169
	412	5.003_26 1997-Feb-10 16 1 15
	413	5.003_27 1997-Feb-18 32 10 38
	414	5.003_28 1997-Feb-21 58 4 66
	415	5.003_90 1997-Feb-25 22 2 34
	416	5.003_91 1997-Mar-01 37 1 39
	417	5.003_92 1997-Mar-06 16 3 69
	418	5.003_93 1997-Mar-10 12 3 15
	419	5.003_94 1997-Mar-22 407 7 200
	420	5.003_95 1997-Mar-25 41 1 37
	421	5.003_96 1997-Apr-01 283 5 261
	422	5.003_97 1997-Apr-03 13 2 34
	423	5.003_97a 1997-Apr-05 57 1 27
	424	5.003_97b 1997-Apr-08 14 1 20
	425	5.003_97c 1997-Apr-10 20 1 16
	426	5.003_97d 1997-Apr-13 8 0 16
	427	5.003_97e 1997-Apr-15 15 4 46
	428	5.003_97f 1997-Apr-17 7 1 33
	429	5.003_97g 1997-Apr-18 6 1 42
	430	5.003_97h 1997-Apr-24 23 3 68
	431	5.003_97i 1997-Apr-25 23 1 31
	432	5.003_97j 1997-Apr-28 36 1 49
	433	5.003_98 1997-Apr-30 171 12 539
	434	5.003_99 1997-May-01 6 0 7
	435	5.003_99a 1997-May-09 36 2 61
	436	p54rc1 1997-May-12 8 1 11
	437	p54rc2 1997-May-14 6 0 40
	438
	439	5.004 1997-May-15 4 0 4
	440
	441	Tim 5.004_01 1997-Jun-13 222 14 57
	442	5.004_02 1997-Aug-07 112 16 119
443	5.004_03 1997-Sep-05 109 0 17
444	5.004_04 1997-Oct-15 66 8 173
445
446	=head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
447
448	Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<jhi@iki.fi>>.
449
450	Thanks to the collective memory of the Perlfolk. In addition to the
451	Keepers of the Pumpkin also Alan Champion, Andreas König, John
452	Macdonald, Matthias Neeracher, Michael Peppler, Randal Schwartz, and
453	Paul D. Smith sent corrections and additions.
454
455	=cut