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diff --git a/whats/cooking/2009/12/09.txt b/whats/cooking/2009/12/09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..54a3afb55e --- /dev/null +++ b/whats/cooking/2009/12/09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +To: erlang patches <[email protected]> +Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2009-12-09) +X-dev-at: 2ff9f0148d4f75990105946eab359074aa83a52d + +There is now an HTML page with an overview of what's +in the 'pu' branch: + + http://erlang.github.com/otp/ + +The comments about the branches on that page will be +taken from the latest What's cooking email. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Graduated] + +* ay/split_binary_docfix (erts) (2009-12-08) 1 commit + + documentation: Fix erlang:split_binary/2 Pos argument (1556a6a) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[New topics] + +* cf/epp-macro-overloading (stdlib) (2009-12-07) 3 commits + - 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. + +* tc/premodern-fpe (erts) (2009-12-08) 2 commits + - Add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE to CPPFLAGS on Darwin platforms (ea2fae6) + - Test for reliable fpes on Darwin platforms without DARWIN_MODERN_MCONTEXT (b95cf92) + +Reliable floating point exceptions is necessary for hipe to +be enabled. I can confirm that hipe can now be enabled on +Snow Leopard (10.6) and that it speeds up building of the +Dialyzer PLT. + +This branch depends on functionality that is deprecated +in Mac OS 10.6, so it might be necessary to find another solution +when 10.7 will be released (in case it removes the deprecated +functionality). + +We would like to hear about how this patch works on older versions +of Mac OS X. Is it still possible to enable hipe on PPC macs? + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Cooking] + +* as/c_nc-fix (stdlib) (2009-11-29) 1 commit + - Fix c:nc to use outdir or cwd to find compiled object file (0d4f83c) + +I think there should be a test case before we graduate this topic, +so that we'll know that it will continue to work. + + +* 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) + +* bg/otp_build-improvements (otp) (2009-12-02) 3 commits + - Support updating the primary bootstrap in a git repository (d6a3861) + - Determine which VCS is being used (c16fcaf) + - .gitignore: Don't ignore script/boot files in bootstrap/bin (2bcfe0d) + +* bg/slimmer-history (compiler, erts) (2009-12-02) 2 commits + - beam_makepos: Do not put any dates in generated files (a910f28) + - compiler: Teach 'slim' to omit compilation info (2c76865) + +We don't want the compiler to put the date/time or the compiler's version +numbers into the beam files in the checked-in bootstrap, because +then all beam files in the bootstrap will have to be replaced every +time the primary bootstrap is updated. + +The only potential problem this might cause is *if* the primary +bootstrap should need to be native-code compiled (the hipe compiler +checks the version number to make sure that the beam file was +compiled by a supported compiler, I think). + + +* db/tv_nthtail_fix (tv) (2009-12-01) 1 commit + - Fix for tv which restarts while trying to open a table (bfc18a8) + +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. + + +* po/blowfish_ecb_cbc_ofb (crypto) (2009-12-08) 3 commits + - Eliminate signed/unsigned compiler warnings (5747f67) + - Add Blowfish tests (24300da) + - Add Blowfish ECB, CBC and OFB modes (b120895) + +This branch is currently being tested in our daily builds +and if no problems turns up this branch will likely be +graduated soon. + +I eliminated some warnings in a separate commit; I intend +to squash those changes into commit b120895 before graduation. + +* 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_enhancement (erts, kernel) (2009-12-02) 2 commits + - Implement a non-blocking gen_sctp:connect (92f3cee) + - Correctly type sctp_assoc_id as signed, not unsigned (2666b68) + +Raimo (the maintainer of the sctp code in OTP) is quite busy +with the new erlang.org site (demo.erlang.org), so there might +be a while before he will look at this branch, but it will +definitely happen before the next release. + +* sc/ssl_pkix_extensions (ssl) (2009-12-02) 1 commit + - Fix crash when decoding commercial certificates (31ccb1d) + +The pkix stuff is in the ssl application is deprecated and has +been replaced with public key application. That functionality +in public_key is also documented. + +It seems unlikely that we include this branch in OTP, but we will +keep it in 'pu' for a little bit longer. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Dropped] + +* dh/doc-fixes (asn1, debugger, wx) (2009-12-01) 1 commit + . fix for minor documentation xml issues (7e10c60) + +Thanks for noticing those issues. Two problems were in XML +files that were not used; they have now been removed. + +Another problem was in a template file (intentionally +containing incomplete XML cod); that file has now +been renamed to have the extension .xml.src instead of +.src.xml. |