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diff --git a/whats/cooking/2009/12/04.txt b/whats/cooking/2009/12/04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..da391c4e11 --- /dev/null +++ b/whats/cooking/2009/12/04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +To: erlang patches <[email protected]> +Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2009-12-04) +X-dev-at: 7457122ad3aa8dccb5439d3e430c93fe6ca2654e + +Thanks, noss, for filling the placeholder page I +mentioned in the previous email. Now real information +can be found at: + +http://wiki.github.com/erlang/otp/refining-patches-using-git + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Graduated] + +* egil/misc-egd (2009-11-26) 2 commits + - Add test cases for egd_primitives (998ccfc) + - Optimize egd render speed and reduce code size (8d2bc78) + +* mh/to_erl-error-messages (2009-11-27) 1 commit + - to_erl: Include strerror(errno) in error messages (ace6e42) + +* sv/sys_get_status (2009-11-27) 2 commits + - Teach sys:get_status/1,2 to call Mod:format_status/2 (88b530e) + - gen_fsm: Fix format_status/2 to handle Pids (2a9b7a1) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[New topics] + +* at/odbc_osx_fix (2009-11-30) 1 commit + - Workaround broken ODBC implementation on OSX 10.5 (88c71c9) + +* bg/otp_build-improvements (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 (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 (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. + +* dh/doc-fixes (2009-12-01) 1 commit + - fix for minor documentation xml issues (185bb92) + +The problems were in two XML files that are not currently used +and will soon be removed. The third file (in wx) is not a complete +XML, but merely a template. It should have another extension. + +We will keep this branch as a reminder until the real problems +has been fixed. + +* po/blowfish_ecb_cbc_ofb (2009-12-03) 2 commits + - Add Blowfish tests (24300da) + - Add Blowfish ECB, CBC and OFB modes (b120895) + +The crypto test suite is now included in ccase/r13b04_dev, so +I have rebased this branch and resolved the conflicts in +Makefile and crypto.spec. + +* sc/sctp_connect_enhancement (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 happend before the next release. + +* sc/ssl_pkix_extensions (2009-12-02) 1 commit + - Fix crash when decoding commercial certificates (31ccb1d) + +Dan G says that the pkix stuff is deprecated, but that doesn't +seem to be documented and the replacement application public_key +is not documented either. We should probably include this +correction anyway. + +We will keep this branch until some sort of decision has +been made. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Cooking] + +* as/c_nc-fix (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. + +* bd/http_chunk_fix (2009-11-27) 1 commit + - http_chunk data handling/passing improvement. (c2553be) + +* po/odbc-update-delete-no-rows (2009-11-26) 1 commit + - SQL_NO_DATA and SQLSTATE 00000 indicate success for updates/deletes that affect no rows (1a564f8) + |