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3 | =head1 NAME | |
4 | ||
5 | perl5257delta - what is new for perl v5.25.7 | |
6 | ||
7 | =head1 DESCRIPTION | |
8 | ||
9 | This document describes differences between the 5.25.6 release and the 5.25.7 | |
10 | release. | |
11 | ||
12 | If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.25.5, first read | |
13 | L<perl5256delta>, which describes differences between 5.25.5 and 5.25.6. | |
14 | ||
15 | =head1 Core Enhancements | |
16 | ||
17 | =head2 Indented Here-documents | |
18 | ||
19 | This adds a new modifier '~' to here-docs that tells the parser | |
20 | that it should look for /^\s*$DELIM\n/ as the closing delimiter. | |
21 | ||
22 | These syntaxes are all supported: | |
23 | ||
24 | <<~EOF; | |
25 | <<~\EOF; | |
26 | <<~'EOF'; | |
27 | <<~"EOF"; | |
28 | <<~`EOF`; | |
29 | <<~ 'EOF'; | |
30 | <<~ "EOF"; | |
31 | <<~ `EOF`; | |
32 | ||
33 | The '~' modifier will strip, from each line in the here-doc, the | |
34 | same whitespace that appears before the delimiter. | |
35 | ||
36 | Newlines will be copied as is, and lines that don't include the | |
37 | proper beginning whitespace will cause perl to croak. | |
38 | ||
39 | For example: | |
40 | ||
41 | if (1) { | |
42 | print <<~EOF; | |
43 | Hello there | |
44 | EOF | |
45 | } | |
46 | ||
47 | prints "Hello there\n" with no leading whitespace. | |
48 | ||
49 | =head2 '.' and @INC | |
50 | ||
51 | Perl now provides a way to build perl without C<.> in @INC by default. If you | |
52 | want this feature, you can build with -Ddefault_inc_excludes_dot | |
53 | ||
54 | Because the testing / make process for perl modules do not function well with | |
55 | C<.> missing from @INC, Perl now supports the environment variable | |
56 | PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=1 which makes Perl behave as it previously did, returning | |
57 | C<.> to @INC in all child processes. | |
58 | ||
59 | WARNING: PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC has been provided during the perl 5.25 development | |
60 | cycle and is not guaranteed to function in perl 5.26. | |
61 | ||
62 | =head2 create a safer utf8_hop() called utf8_hop_safe() | |
63 | ||
64 | Unlike utf8_hop(), utf8_hop_safe() won't navigate before the beginning or after | |
65 | the end of the supplied buffer. | |
66 | ||
67 | =head2 Fix taint handling in list assignment | |
68 | ||
69 | commit v5.25.6-79-gb09ed99 reworked list assignment, and | |
70 | accidentally broke taint handling at the same time. | |
71 | ||
72 | =head2 @{^CAPTURE}, %{^CAPTURE}, and %{^CAPTURE_ALL} | |
73 | ||
74 | @{^CAPTURE} exposes the capture buffers of the last match as an array. So $1 is | |
75 | ${^CAPTURE}[0]. | |
76 | ||
77 | %{^CAPTURE} is the equivalent to %+ (ie named captures) | |
78 | ||
79 | %{^CAPTURE_ALL} is the equivalent to %- (ie all named captures). | |
80 | ||
81 | =head2 op.c: silence compiler warning in fold_constants() | |
82 | ||
83 | op.c: In function ‘S_fold_constants’: | |
84 | op.c:4374:28: warning: argument ‘o’ might be clobbered by ‘longjmp’ or ‘vfork’ [-Wclobbered] | |
85 | S_fold_constants(pTHX_ OP *o) | |
86 | ^ | |
87 | ||
88 | This warning has been silenced. | |
89 | ||
90 | =head1 Performance Enhancements | |
91 | ||
92 | =over 4 | |
93 | ||
94 | =item * | |
95 | ||
96 | Reduce cost of SvVALID(). | |
97 | ||
98 | =item * | |
99 | ||
100 | C<$ref1 = $ref2> has been optimized. | |
101 | ||
102 | =item * | |
103 | ||
104 | Array and hash assignment are now faster, e.g. | |
105 | ||
106 | (..., @a) = (...); | |
107 | (..., %h) = (...); | |
108 | ||
109 | especially when the RHS is empty. | |
110 | ||
111 | =item * | |
112 | ||
113 | Reduce the number of odd special cases for the SvSCREAM flag. | |
114 | ||
115 | =item * | |
116 | ||
117 | Avoid sv_catpvn() in do_vop() when unneeded. | |
118 | ||
119 | =item * | |
120 | ||
121 | Enhancements in Regex concat COW implementation. | |
122 | ||
123 | =item * | |
124 | ||
125 | Speed up AV and HV clearing/undeffing. | |
126 | ||
127 | =item * | |
128 | ||
129 | Better optimise array and hash assignment | |
130 | ||
131 | =back | |
132 | ||
133 | =head1 Modules and Pragmata | |
134 | ||
135 | =head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata | |
136 | ||
137 | =over 4 | |
138 | ||
139 | =item * | |
140 | ||
141 | L<podlators> has been upgraded from version 4.08 to 4.09. | |
142 | ||
143 | =item * | |
144 | ||
145 | L<Archive::Tar> has been upgraded from version 2.14 to 2.18. | |
146 | ||
147 | =item * | |
148 | ||
149 | L<B> has been upgraded from version 1.64 to 1.65. | |
150 | ||
151 | =item * | |
152 | ||
153 | L<Data::Dumper> has been upgraded from version 2.162 to 2.165. | |
154 | ||
155 | The XS implementation now supports Deparse. | |
156 | ||
157 | =item * | |
158 | ||
159 | L<Devel::Peek> has been upgraded from version 1.25 to 1.26. | |
160 | ||
161 | =item * | |
162 | ||
163 | L<DynaLoader> has been upgraded from version 1.39 to 1.40. | |
164 | ||
165 | =item * | |
166 | ||
167 | L<Errno> has been upgraded from version 1.26 to 1.27. | |
168 | ||
169 | Document that using C<%!> loads Errno for you. | |
170 | ||
171 | =item * | |
172 | ||
173 | L<File::Spec> has been upgraded from version 3.65 to 3.66. | |
174 | ||
175 | =item * | |
176 | ||
177 | L<Hash::Util> has been upgraded from version 0.21 to 0.22. | |
178 | ||
179 | =item * | |
180 | ||
181 | L<JSON::PP> has been upgraded from version 2.27400_01 to 2.27400_02. | |
182 | ||
183 | =item * | |
184 | ||
185 | L<List::Util> has been upgraded from version 1.46 to 1.46_02. | |
186 | ||
187 | =item * | |
188 | ||
189 | L<Math::BigInt> has been upgraded from version 1.999726(_01) to 1.999727. | |
190 | ||
191 | There have also been some core customizations. | |
192 | ||
193 | =item * | |
194 | ||
195 | L<Math::Complex> has been upgraded from version 1.59 to 1.5901. | |
196 | ||
197 | =item * | |
198 | ||
199 | L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20161020 to 5.20161120. | |
200 | ||
201 | =item * | |
202 | ||
203 | L<mro> has been upgraded from version 1.19 to 1.20. | |
204 | ||
205 | =item * | |
206 | ||
207 | L<Net::Ping> has been upgraded from version 2.51 to 2.55. | |
208 | ||
209 | Remove sudo from 500_ping_icmp.t. | |
210 | ||
211 | Avoid stderr noise in tests | |
212 | ||
213 | Check for echo in new Net::Ping tests. | |
214 | ||
215 | =item * | |
216 | ||
217 | L<Opcode> has been upgraded from version 1.38 to 1.39. | |
218 | ||
219 | =item * | |
220 | ||
221 | L<POSIX> has been upgraded from version 1.73 to 1.75. | |
222 | ||
223 | =item * | |
224 | ||
225 | L<Scalar::Util> has been upgraded from version 1.46 to 1.46_02. | |
226 | ||
227 | =item * | |
228 | ||
229 | L<Storable> has been upgraded from version 2.58 to 2.59. | |
230 | ||
231 | =item * | |
232 | ||
233 | L<Term::ANSIColor> has been upgraded from version 4.05 to 4.06. | |
234 | ||
235 | =item * | |
236 | ||
237 | L<Test::Simple> has been upgraded from version 1.302059 to 1.302062. | |
238 | ||
239 | =item * | |
240 | ||
241 | L<threads> has been upgraded from version 2.09 to 2.10. | |
242 | ||
243 | =item * | |
244 | ||
245 | L<Time::HiRes> has been upgraded from version 1.9740_01 to 1.9740_03. | |
246 | ||
247 | Now uses clockid_t. | |
248 | ||
249 | =item * | |
250 | ||
251 | L<Unicode::Collate> has been upgraded from version 1.14 to 1.18. | |
252 | ||
253 | =item * | |
254 | ||
255 | L<Unicode::Normalize> is now maintained by p5p and has been moved to dist/ | |
256 | ||
257 | =item * | |
258 | ||
259 | L<Unicode::UCD> has been upgraded from version 0.66 to 0.67. | |
260 | ||
261 | =item * | |
262 | ||
263 | L<XS::Typemap> has been upgraded from version 0.14 to 0.15. | |
264 | ||
265 | =back | |
266 | ||
267 | =head1 Documentation | |
268 | ||
269 | =head2 Changes to Existing Documentation | |
270 | ||
271 | =head3 L<perlfunc> | |
272 | ||
273 | =over 4 | |
274 | ||
275 | =item * | |
276 | ||
277 | Defined on aggregates is no longer allowed. Perlfunc was still reporting it as | |
278 | deprecated, and that it will be deleted in the future. | |
279 | ||
280 | =back | |
281 | ||
282 | =head3 L<perldata> | |
283 | ||
284 | =over 4 | |
285 | ||
286 | =item * | |
287 | ||
288 | Use of single character variables, with the variable name a non printable | |
289 | character in the range \x80-\xFF is no longer allowed. Update the docs to | |
290 | reflect this. | |
291 | ||
292 | =back | |
293 | ||
294 | =head3 L<perlobj> | |
295 | ||
296 | =over 4 | |
297 | ||
298 | =item * | |
299 | ||
300 | Added a section on calling methods using their fully qualified names. | |
301 | ||
302 | =item * | |
303 | ||
304 | Do not discourage manual @ISA. | |
305 | ||
306 | =back | |
307 | ||
308 | =head3 L<perlop> | |
309 | ||
310 | =over 4 | |
311 | ||
312 | =item * | |
313 | ||
314 | Clarify behavior single quote regexps. | |
315 | ||
316 | =back | |
317 | ||
318 | =head3 L<perllocale> | |
319 | ||
320 | =over 4 | |
321 | ||
322 | =item * | |
323 | ||
324 | Some locales aren't compatible with Perl. Note the potential bad | |
325 | consequences of using them. | |
326 | ||
327 | =back | |
328 | ||
329 | =head3 L<perldiag> | |
330 | ||
331 | =over 4 | |
332 | ||
333 | =item * | |
334 | ||
335 | Deprecations are to be marked with a D. | |
336 | C<"%s() is deprecated on :utf8 handles"> use a deprecation message, and as | |
337 | such, such be marked C<"(D deprecated)"> and not C<"(W deprecated)">. | |
338 | ||
339 | =back | |
340 | ||
341 | =head3 L<perlguts> | |
342 | ||
343 | =over 4 | |
344 | ||
345 | =item * | |
346 | ||
347 | add pTHX_ to magic method examples. | |
348 | ||
349 | =back | |
350 | ||
351 | =head3 L<perlvar> | |
352 | ||
353 | =over 4 | |
354 | ||
355 | =item * | |
356 | ||
357 | Document @ISA. Was documented other places, not not in perlvar. | |
358 | ||
359 | =back | |
360 | ||
361 | =head3 L<perlootut> | |
362 | ||
363 | =over 4 | |
364 | ||
365 | =item * | |
366 | ||
367 | Tidy the document. | |
368 | ||
369 | =item * | |
370 | ||
371 | Mention Moo more. | |
372 | ||
373 | =back | |
374 | ||
375 | =head3 L<perlhack> | |
376 | ||
377 | =over 4 | |
378 | ||
379 | =item * | |
380 | ||
381 | Document Tab VS Space. | |
382 | ||
383 | =back | |
384 | ||
385 | =head3 L<perlre> | |
386 | ||
387 | =over 4 | |
388 | ||
389 | =item * | |
390 | ||
391 | Several minor enhancements to the documentation. | |
392 | ||
393 | =back | |
394 | ||
395 | =head1 Diagnostics | |
396 | ||
397 | The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output, | |
398 | including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of | |
399 | diagnostic messages, see L<perldiag>. | |
400 | ||
401 | =head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics | |
402 | ||
403 | =over 4 | |
404 | ||
405 | =item * | |
406 | ||
407 | Improve error for missing tie() package/method. This brings the error messages | |
408 | in line with the ones used for normal method calls, despite not using | |
409 | call_method(). | |
410 | ||
411 | =item * | |
412 | ||
413 | Make the sysread()/syswrite/() etc :utf8 handle warnings default. These | |
414 | warnings were under 'deprecated' previously. | |
415 | ||
416 | =item * | |
417 | ||
418 | 'do' errors now refer to 'do' (not 'require'). | |
419 | ||
420 | =back | |
421 | ||
422 | =head1 Utility Changes | |
423 | ||
424 | =over 4 | |
425 | ||
426 | =item * | |
427 | ||
428 | Porting/pod_lib.pl | |
429 | ||
430 | Removed spurious executable bit. | |
431 | ||
432 | Account for possibility of DOS file endings. | |
433 | ||
434 | =item * | |
435 | ||
436 | perf/benchmarks | |
437 | ||
438 | Tidy file, rename some symbols. | |
439 | ||
440 | =item * | |
441 | ||
442 | Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl | |
443 | ||
444 | Replace obscure character range with \w. | |
445 | ||
446 | =item * | |
447 | ||
448 | t/porting/regen.t | |
449 | ||
450 | try to be more helpful when tests fail. | |
451 | ||
452 | =item * | |
453 | ||
454 | utils/h2xs.PL | |
455 | ||
456 | Avoid infinite loop for enums. | |
457 | ||
458 | =back | |
459 | ||
460 | =head1 Configuration and Compilation | |
461 | ||
462 | =over 4 | |
463 | ||
464 | =item * | |
465 | ||
466 | Remove "Warning: perl appears in your path" | |
467 | ||
468 | This install warning is more or less obsolete, since most platforms already | |
469 | *will* have a /usr/bin/perl or similar provided by the OS. | |
470 | ||
471 | =item * | |
472 | ||
473 | Reduce verbosity of "make install.man" | |
474 | ||
475 | Previously, two progress messages were emitted for each manpage: one by | |
476 | installman itself, and one by the function in install_lib.pl that it calls to | |
477 | actually install the file. Disabling the second of those in each case saves | |
478 | over 750 lines of unhelpful output. | |
479 | ||
480 | =item * | |
481 | ||
482 | Cleanup for clang -Weverything support. [perl 129961] | |
483 | ||
484 | =item * | |
485 | ||
486 | Configure: signbit scan was assuming too much, stop assuming negative 0. | |
487 | ||
488 | =item * | |
489 | ||
490 | Various compiler warnings have been silenced. | |
491 | ||
492 | =item * | |
493 | ||
494 | Several smaller changes have been made to remove impediments to compiling under | |
495 | C++11. | |
496 | ||
497 | =back | |
498 | ||
499 | =head1 Testing | |
500 | ||
501 | =over 4 | |
502 | ||
503 | =item * | |
504 | ||
505 | XS-APItest/t/utf8.t: Several small fixes and enhancements. | |
506 | ||
507 | =item * | |
508 | ||
509 | Tests for locales were erroneously using locales incompatible with Perl. | |
510 | ||
511 | =back | |
512 | ||
513 | =head1 Platform Support | |
514 | ||
515 | =head2 Platform-Specific Notes | |
516 | ||
517 | =over 4 | |
518 | ||
519 | =item Darwin | |
520 | ||
521 | don't treat -Dprefix=/usr as special, instead require an extra option | |
522 | -Ddarwin_distribution to produce the same results. | |
523 | ||
524 | =item POSIX | |
525 | ||
526 | Finish removing POSIX deprecated functions. | |
527 | ||
528 | =item OS X | |
529 | ||
530 | OS X El Capitan doesn't implement the clock_gettime() or clock_getres() APIs, | |
531 | emulate them as necessary. | |
532 | ||
533 | =item macOS | |
534 | ||
535 | Deprecated syscall(2) on macOS 10.12. | |
536 | ||
537 | =item EBCDIC | |
538 | ||
539 | Several tests have been updated to work (or be skipped) on EBCDIC platforms. | |
540 | ||
541 | =item HP-UX | |
542 | ||
543 | L<Net::Ping> UDP test is skipped on HP-UX. | |
544 | ||
545 | =item VMS | |
546 | ||
547 | Move _pDEPTH and _aDEPTH after config.h otherwise DEBUGGING may not be defined | |
548 | yet. | |
549 | ||
550 | VAXC has not been a possibility for a good long while, and the versions of the | |
551 | DEC/Compaq/HP/VSI C compiler that report themselves as "DEC" in a listing file | |
552 | are 15 years or more out-of-date and can be safely desupported. | |
553 | ||
554 | =item VMS And Win32 | |
555 | ||
556 | Fix some breakage, add 'undef' value for default_inc_excludes_dot in build | |
557 | scripts. | |
558 | ||
559 | =item Linux | |
560 | ||
561 | Drop support for Linux a.out Linux has used ELF for over twenty years. | |
562 | ||
563 | =item NetBSD-VAX | |
564 | ||
565 | Test fixes and minor updates. | |
566 | ||
567 | Account for lack of C<inf>, C<nan>, and C<-0.0> support. | |
568 | ||
569 | =item Win32 | |
570 | ||
571 | fp definitions have been updated. | |
572 | ||
573 | =item OpenBSD 6 | |
574 | ||
575 | OpenBSD 6 still does not support returning pid, gid or uid with SA_SIGINFO. | |
576 | Make sure this is accounted for. | |
577 | ||
578 | =item FreeBSD | |
579 | ||
580 | t/uni/overload.t: Skip hanging test on FreeBSD. | |
581 | ||
582 | =back | |
583 | ||
584 | =head1 Internal Changes | |
585 | ||
586 | =over 4 | |
587 | ||
588 | =item * | |
589 | ||
590 | The meanings of some internal SV flags have been changed | |
591 | ||
592 | OPpRUNTIME, SVpbm_VALID, SVpbm_TAIL, SvTAIL_on, SvTAIL_off, SVrepl_EVAL, | |
593 | SvEVALED | |
594 | ||
595 | =item * | |
596 | ||
597 | Change C<hv_fetch(…, "…", …, …)> to C<hv_fetchs(…, "…", …)> | |
598 | ||
599 | The dual-life dists all use Devel::PPPort, so they can use this function even | |
600 | though it was only added in 5.10. | |
601 | ||
602 | =back | |
603 | ||
604 | =head1 Selected Bug Fixes | |
605 | ||
606 | =over 4 | |
607 | ||
608 | =item * | |
609 | ||
610 | Handle SvIMMORTALs in LHS of list assign. [perl #129991] | |
611 | ||
612 | =item * | |
613 | ||
614 | [perl #130010] a5540cf breaks texinfo | |
615 | ||
616 | This involved user-defined Unicode properties. | |
617 | ||
618 | =item * | |
619 | ||
620 | Fix error message for unclosed C<\N{> in regcomp. | |
621 | ||
622 | An unclosed C<\N{> could give the wrong error message | |
623 | C<"\N{NAME} must be resolved by the lexer">. | |
624 | ||
625 | =item * | |
626 | ||
627 | List assignment in list context where the LHS contained aggregates and | |
628 | where there were not enough RHS elements, used to skip scalar lvalues. | |
629 | Previously, C<(($a,$b,@c,$d) = (1))> in list context returned C<($a)>; now | |
630 | it returns C<($a,$b,$d)>. C<(($a,$b,$c) = (1))> is unchanged: it still | |
631 | returns C<($a,$b,$c)>. This can be seen in the following: | |
632 | ||
633 | sub inc { $_++ for @_ } | |
634 | inc(($a,$b,@c,$d) = (10)) | |
635 | ||
636 | Formerly, the values of C<($a,$b,$d)> would be left as C<(11,undef,undef)>; | |
637 | now they are C<(11,1,1)>. | |
638 | ||
639 | =item * | |
640 | ||
641 | [perl 129903] | |
642 | ||
643 | The basic problem is that code like this: /(?{ s!!! })/ can trigger infinite | |
644 | recursion on the C stack (not the normal perl stack) when the last successful | |
645 | pattern in scope is itself. Since the C stack overflows this manifests as an | |
646 | untrappable error/segfault, which then kills perl. | |
647 | ||
648 | We avoid the segfault by simply forbidding the use of the empty pattern when it | |
649 | would resolve to the currently executing pattern. | |
650 | ||
651 | =item * | |
652 | ||
653 | [perl 128997] Avoid reading beyond the end of the line buffer when there's a | |
654 | short UTF-8 character at the end. | |
655 | ||
656 | =item * | |
657 | ||
658 | [perl 129950] fix firstchar bitmap under utf8 with prefix optimisation. | |
659 | ||
660 | =item * | |
661 | ||
662 | [perl 129954] Carp/t/arg_string.t: be liberal in f/p formats. | |
663 | ||
664 | =item * | |
665 | ||
666 | [perl 129928] make do "a\0b" fail silently instead of throwing. | |
667 | ||
668 | =item * | |
669 | ||
670 | [perl 129130] make chdir allocate the stack it needs. | |
671 | ||
672 | =back | |
673 | ||
674 | =head1 Acknowledgements | |
675 | ||
676 | Perl 5.25.7 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl 5.25.6 | |
677 | and contains approximately 83,000 lines of changes across 630 files from 26 | |
678 | authors. | |
679 | ||
680 | Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were | |
681 | approximately 13,000 lines of changes to 340 .pm, .t, .c and .h files. | |
682 | ||
683 | Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community | |
684 | of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the | |
685 | improvements that became Perl 5.25.7: | |
686 | ||
687 | Aaron Crane, Abigail, Andrew Fresh, Andy Lester, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chad | |
688 | Granum, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan | |
689 | Collins, Dave Rolsky, David Mitchell, Hauke D, H.Merijn Brand, Hugo van der | |
690 | Sanden, James E Keenan, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Matthew | |
691 | Horsfall, Nicolas R., Stefan Seifert, Steve Hay, Todd Rinaldo, Tony Cook, Yves | |
692 | Orton. | |
693 | ||
694 | The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated | |
695 | from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of | |
696 | the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug | |
697 | tracker. | |
698 | ||
699 | Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules | |
700 | included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for | |
701 | helping Perl to flourish. | |
702 | ||
703 | For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see | |
704 | the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution. | |
705 | ||
706 | =head1 Reporting Bugs | |
707 | ||
708 | If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database | |
709 | at L<https://rt.perl.org/> . There may also be information at | |
710 | L<http://www.perl.org/> , the Perl Home Page. | |
711 | ||
712 | If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the L<perlbug> program | |
713 | included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but | |
714 | sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the output of C<perl -V>, | |
715 | will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be analysed by the Perl porting team. | |
716 | ||
717 | If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it | |
718 | inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then see | |
719 | L<perlsec/SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION> | |
720 | for details of how to report the issue. | |
721 | ||
722 | =head1 SEE ALSO | |
723 | ||
724 | The F<Changes> file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on | |
725 | what changed. | |
726 | ||
727 | The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl. | |
728 | ||
729 | The F<README> file for general stuff. | |
730 | ||
731 | The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information. | |
732 | ||
733 | =cut |