From 82909cdb6d5e7885d522dd0471a83243a87d15dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gustavsson?= Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:00:01 +0100 Subject: Add What's cooking in erlang/otp (2010-01-08) --- whats/cooking/2010/01/08.txt | 151 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 151 insertions(+) create mode 100644 whats/cooking/2010/01/08.txt (limited to 'whats/cooking') diff --git a/whats/cooking/2010/01/08.txt b/whats/cooking/2010/01/08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e502a453df --- /dev/null +++ b/whats/cooking/2010/01/08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,151 @@ +To: erlang patches +Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2010-01-08) +X-dev-at: 36c0041ea56d915ba9a2259cc918fca76b8c08f9 + +There are no graduations this time, but we expect there +will be a few next week. + +We have just got automatic builds and tests based on the +'pu' branch running. That means that in the future, +we can give quicker feedback on branches that does not +build on all platforms. + +This time, three branches have been dropped because of +problems found by the automatic tests. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[New topics] + +* egil/binary-gc (erts) (2010-01-07) 4 commits + - Add documentation for binary heap size settings. (bcd0b64) + - Add tracing capabilities for binary virtual heap (33a2f7a) + - Add min heap size start options to beam and erl (bfe4308) + - Improve binary garbage collection (94f7a20) + +* 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) + +Will probably graduate soon. + +* wt/ssl-resume-session (ssl) (2010-01-07) 1 commit + - new_ssl fix session reuse (3918e9c) + +* 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 (eed3903) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[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) + +* bg/otp_build-improvements (otp, stdlib) (2010-01-06) 5 commits + - Fix spelling, remove obsolete command (74b56ab) + - Support updating preloaded files in a git repository (bb8cf9b) + - Support updating the primary bootstrap in a git repository (86e14df) + - Determine which VCS is being used (12839e1) + - stdlib makefile: Add explicit rule (b197d92) + +* 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. + +* 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) + +* jp/dependencies_makefile (compiler, erts) (2009-12-14) 1 commit + - Add dependencies Makefile generation to erlc(1) and compile(3) (c0734e8) + +* jp/gcc-detection-in-makefiles (erts) (2009-12-16) 1 commit + - Fix GCC detection in ERTS configure script and Makefiles (84e0caf) + +Corrected by me since it did not work on all versions of autoconf +and/or shells. Will probably graduate soon. + +* kj/epmd-port2resp-trunc-extra (erts) (2009-12-20) 1 commit + - Handle "extra" field according to specs in ALIVE2_REQ and PORT2_RESP. (a841673) + +Will probably graduate soon. + +* 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) + +* 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) + +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. It is known to work on Tiger/PPC. + +* 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) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Dropped] + +* aq/asn1-incomplete-packet (asn1) (2009-12-16) 1 commit + . asn1: let decode/2 functions handle incomplete packets (5dbde5a) + +Breaks the test test suite for the public_key application. + +* 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. + +* jb/atom-table-size-env (erts, otp) (2009-12-21) 1 commit + . Added ERL_ATOM_TABLE_SIZE environment variable (f1bf944) + +Does not build on Windows. (MIN and MAX macros are not defined +on Windows.) -- cgit v1.2.3