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+To: erlang patches <[email protected]>
+Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2010-01-13)
+X-dev-at: 009152080c9009498026db17ccee244171423c1c
+
+Several people have asked me about the unusual workflow,
+in particular why the topic branches are not directly available
+but only available as part of 'pu' branch.
+
+The main reason is that most people are only interested in a few
+topic branches (usually only their own) and not all other branches.
+Therefore I don't want to litter the repositories for everyone
+with all the topic branches. Also note that remote branches are
+not automatically deleted even if they are deleted in the
+repository they were fetched from, so all branches that have
+been dropped or graduated would still be there in other repositories
+even after they have been deleted in the erlang/otp repository.
+
+To make it easier to set up a local branch to continue working
+on a branch that has been included in 'pu', I have tried to make
+the instructions clearer and also provided a script on the
+wiki page:
+
+http://wiki.github.com/erlang/otp/branches
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[Graduated]
+
+* bg/otp_build-improvements (otp, stdlib) (2010-01-06) 5 commits
+ + Fix spelling, remove obsolete command (812812e)
+ + Support updating preloaded files in a git repository (9c1b2d0)
+ + Support updating the primary bootstrap in a git repository (3e4db41)
+ + Determine which VCS is being used (faac812)
+ + stdlib makefile: Add explicit rule (78fbf07)
+
+* dgud/dbg_mac_menu (debugger) (2009-12-16) 4 commits
+ + Dbg: Expand the module listbox when window grows. (85f849c)
+ + Dbg: Cut variable bindings after 80 chars. (87f6e4c)
+ + Dbg: Fixed documentation links to the new index.html (e27e41b)
+ + Dbg Fixed mac gui issues (438d778)
+
+* jv/binary_to_term-opts (erts) (2010-01-08) 2 commits
+ + document ErtsExternalDist flags and CON_ID mask (be22f53)
+ + add options to binary_to_term (77ce185)
+
+* kj/epmd-port2resp-trunc-extra (erts) (2009-12-20) 1 commit
+ + Handle "extra" field according to specs in ALIVE2_REQ and PORT2_RESP. (a841673)
+
+* tc/premodern-fpe (erts) (2009-12-08) 2 commits
+ + Add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE to CPPFLAGS on Darwin platforms (6e60658)
+ + Test for reliable fpes on Darwin platforms without DARWIN_MODERN_MCONTEXT (4160466)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[New topics]
+
+* is/mnesia-send-compressed (mnesia) (2010-01-11) 2 commits
+ - Update documentation to describe the new Mnesia option "send_compressed" (583d00b)
+ - Add option to compress data when copying tables between Mnesia nodes (86f786e)
+
+* pan/enable_m32_build (erts, otp) (2009-12-08) 1 commit
+ - Teach configure --enable-m32-build for forcing a 32-bit build (17e4765)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[Cooking]
+
+* at/odbc_osx_fix (odbc) (2009-11-30) 1 commit
+ - Workaround broken ODBC implementation on OSX 10.5 (88c71c9)
+
+* bd/http_chunk_fix (inets) (2009-11-27) 1 commit
+ - http_chunk data handling/passing improvement. (c2553be)
+
+* cf/compile_warning_as_error (compiler, erts) (2009-12-15) 3 commits
+ - Add option -Werror in erlc(1) (d29a335)
+ - compile: add flag warnings_as_errors to treat warnings as errors (13124f5)
+ - compile.erl: remove trailing whitespace (8a944af)
+
+* cf/epp-macro-overloading (otp, stdlib) (2009-12-10) 4 commits
+ - update the documentation on preprocessor in the reference manual (162ec27)
+ - epp: change rules to choose the right version of a macro (8dcc9f8)
+ - epp: Add support of macros overloading (f7a8959)
+ - epp: fix bug in the function scan_undef (52543e0)
+
+Extend the pre-processor to allow overloading of macros with
+the same name but different arities. Now with documentation.
+
+* db/tv_nthtail_fix (tv) (2009-12-01) 1 commit
+ - Fix for tv which restarts while trying to open a table (abe0759)
+
+We will cook this topic for a while and include it in the next
+release unless someone finds a problem with it or a better fix.
+
+* egil/binary-gc (erts) (2010-01-07) 4 commits
+ - Add documentation for binary heap size settings. (37ee2b1)
+ - Add tracing capabilities for binary virtual heap (2102ff6)
+ - Add min heap size start options to beam and erl (7ca73e1)
+ - Improve binary garbage collection (8d01328)
+
+Will graduate soon.
+
+* jp/dependencies_makefile (compiler, erts) (2010-01-12) 2 commits
+ - squash! fix snprintf for Windows (bf2708d)
+ - Add dependencies Makefile generation to erlc(1) and compile(3) (7cbc437)
+
+Now also builds on Windows.
+
+* km/http-host-header-fix (inets) (2009-12-21) 1 commit
+ - Fix inets HTTP client bug crafting Host header when port is not 80 (75a3f7c)
+
+* po/odbc-update-delete-no-rows (odbc) (2009-11-26) 1 commit
+ - SQL_NO_DATA and SQLSTATE 00000 indicate success for updates/deletes that affect no rows (1a564f8)
+
+* sc/sctp-connect-nowait (kernel) (2009-12-21) 1 commit
+ - Implement a non-blocking SCTP connect (ae3d819)
+
+* uw/shell-tab-completion (stdlib) (2009-12-17) 1 commit
+ - Shell tab completion now works for quoted module and function names (1c3a6c8)
+
+* va/rb-improvements (sasl) (2009-12-25) 4 commits
+ - New function to filter reports by date (5391383)
+ - New rb:filter/1 function to ease report filtering (ed28348)
+ - Add rb:re/1 to grep reports using the re module (e5bd091)
+ - Fix minor typo in read_report/1 (07c6ad4)
+
+* wt/ssl-resume-session (ssl) (2010-01-07) 1 commit
+ - new_ssl fix session reuse (f8358aa)
+
+* wt/ssl_certreq_send_ca_list (public_key, ssl) (2010-01-06) 1 commit
+ - Send CA list during Certificate Request in new_ssl (638ad46)
+
+* yh/fix-re-run-corruption (erts) (2010-01-07) 1 commit
+ - Fix re:run/3 sometimes executes on corrupted data by garbage collection (9ac35e8)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[Dropped]
+
+* fh/common_test-includes (common_test) (2009-12-24) 2 commits
+ . change the examples' -include to -include_lib with ct.hrl (3a991e2)
+ . change -include for -include_lib to avoid compile errors (48420a4)
+
+The system does not build from scratch when this branch is
+included because the common_test application is not included
+in the bootstrap.
+
+Since this feature has been requested many times in the past,
+we plan to fix the build problem (by including test_server.hrl
+in the bootstrap) and re-instate this branch.
+
+* jp/gcc-detection-in-makefiles (erts) (2009-12-16) 1 commit
+ . Fix GCC detection in ERTS configure script and Makefiles (84e0caf)
+
+This branches clashes with other work being done to better support
+cross compilation. We will include the functionality in this branch
+in R13B04, but in a slightly different way.
+