To: erlang patches Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2010-02-05) X-dev-at: e76fa2fb451a111196128afbc372d3b8b1e3dfad Here is the complete release schedule for R13B04: * February 10 (next Wednesday) there will be a feature freeze the erts, kernel, stdlib, and compiler applications. We hope to graduate several branches early next week before the freeze. * February 17 is the feature freeze for rest of Erlang/OTP. * February 24 is the day of the release. ------------------------------------------------------------ [Graduated] * dgud/wx_list_ctrl (wx) (2010-02-02) 5 commits + Generate without trailing spaces (cfd2ba4) + Fix correct starting copyright year (5b585a4) + Do not emit trailing whitespace (ce3cd31) + Added tests for wxListCtrl:getItem/2. (aa17e2b) + Added wxListCtrl:getEditCtrl (not available on Mac) (e6433fc) * egil/gitignore (.gitignore, otp) (2010-02-03) 2 commits + Ignore files generated when running/building tests (c53fe4b) + Update .gitignore files (2f1da83) * is/mnesia-send-compressed (mnesia) (2010-01-10) 1 commit + Add option to compress data when copying tables between Mnesia nodes (3757d8f) * jb/atom-table-size (erts) (2010-01-29) 1 commit + Add the +t emulator option to change the maximum number of atoms (4895776) ------------------------------------------------------------ [New topics] * egil/egd_render (percept) (2010-02-04) 1 commit - Fix egd_render transparent to use float constants (e7842b4) * ks/cleanups (compiler, gs, wx) (2010-02-05) 7 commits - wx: eliminate warnings and tidy as suggested by tidier (282b169) - gs: eliminate warnings and tidy as suggested by tidier (cdfa268) - compiler: support the configure option --enable-native-libs (0d75684) - compiler Makefile: alphabetize module names (589cddd) - sys_pre_expand: tidy as suggested by tidier (53832b3) - v3_core: remember line numbers for attributes (c7998f9) - compile.erl: eliminate compiler warning (4a76b7e) * ks/hipe-fixes (erts, hipe) (2010-02-05) 3 commits - Remove $Id$ (bec836e) - Adds types and specs to files in erts/preloaded. (952cd10) - Fix a HiPE compiler bug evaluating an expression that throws system_limit. (449ac18) * ta/code_clash_ez (kernel) (2010-02-05) 4 commits - code_SUITE: add missing is_list(Config) guard (a1263f0) - fixup! fix minor issues (92ecaf5) - Add tests for code:clash/0 (58477c2) - Fix handling of archive (.ez) files in code:clash/0 (49da83d) Should graduate early next week. * tj/asn1_macro_prefix (asn1) (2010-02-04) 1 commit - Add support for prefixing macro names generated by the compiler (e88fa38) ------------------------------------------------------------ [Stalled] * jn/supervisor_child_count_only (stdlib) (2010-01-25) 1 commit - Add count_children/1 to supervisor.erl to determine the number of children being managed without the memory impact of which_children/1 (10ef53f) Test cases fail when the emulator has been started with the +Meamin option. * 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) There is no need to introduce a new function rb:re/1, but rb:grep/1 can be modified to use the 're' module. Also, it should not be necessary to compile the regular expression beforehand. ------------------------------------------------------------ [Cooking] * at/odbc_osx_fix (odbc) (2009-11-30) 1 commit - Workaround broken ODBC implementation on OSX 10.5 (88c71c9) Being reviewed. * bg/erl_bif_types (hipe) (2010-02-03) 2 commits - Add types for erts_debug:dist_ext_to_term/2 (249f73a) - erl_bif_types: add 'http_bin' as a valid packet option (7c72a77) * bg/temp-hipe-fixes (compiler, hipe, kernel) (2010-01-31) 4 commits - Crudely fix return type for the lists:key{search,find,member}/3 (5c9a017) - seq_trace_SUITE: Don't native-compile (c569f85) - Disable native code if on_load is used (101dcc8) - andor_SUITE: Don't native-compile (cb44959) This branch contains temporary workarounds to avoid failing test cases and is never intended to graduate. * db/tv_nthtail_fix (tv) (2009-12-01) 1 commit - Fix for tv which restarts while trying to open a table (abe0759) The author of this topic branch has found the real reason for the problem and has made some progress in resolving it. * dgud/emacs-mode (tools) (2010-01-26) 2 commits - Added the old style skeletons, and a variable to change. (2cbe853) - Move code skeletons to a separate file. Use the updated skeletons from the Erlware Mode. (b4fd161) * egil/lcnt (erts, tools) (2010-02-01) 6 commits - Add test suite for lcnt in tools (e26bedd) - Add lcnt:rt_opt/1 bindings to erts_debug (c24d153) - Add runtime option to enable/disable lcnt stats (dd665ed) - Add auto width on string output (12990af) - Add lcnt documentation (41d4913) - Add lock profiling tool (c41fa05) * gc/hipe_darwin_amd64 (erts) (2010-01-12) 4 commits - Fix hipe memory allocation problems on darwin/amd64. (32ca14f) - Porting x86 darwin fixes to amd64 darwin hipe asm/m4 code. (427f1db) - Automatically enable hipe for darwin/amd64 builds. (43ae4b7) - Allow configure to enable_hipe for darwin/amd64 builds. (733ce7a) Will probably graduate next week. * jn/sasl-format_report (sasl) (2010-01-27) 1 commit - Added sasl_report:format_report/3 to return a string rather than send an io (ee8f29f) * 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) Approved in principle by the OTP Technical Board; now awaits a closer review of the implementation. * pan/enable_m32_build (erts, otp) (2009-12-08) 1 commit - Teach configure --enable-m32-build for forcing a 32-bit build (15c7817) * 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) Being reviewed. * rani/inet_gethostbyname_fixes (erts, kernel) (2010-02-04) 6 commits - inet_res_SUITE: testcase fixes for legacy DNS resolver (Solaris 8) (30c73ff) - inet_res: /etc/resolv.conf: use domain as default search list (3311a87) - inet: delayed/avoided read of /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts (6212bcc) - inet_gethost_native: workaround for empty result hostname on MacOS X (b0a6854) - inet_res_SUITE: testcase fix for empty domain name (9bf452c) - inet:gethostbyname improved to parse IP strings and look up own hostname (3fbd6e6) * sc/sctp-connect-nowait (kernel) (2010-02-05) 3 commits - fixup: gen_sctp_SUITE a little bit more flexible (a359f88) - Refined implementation of non-blocking SCTP association establishment with the new API gen_sctp:connect_init/4,5. Included are documentation and test cases. Tests passed ok under Solaris 10/x86. (6f2423c) - Implement a non-blocking SCTP connect (ae3d819) Should graduate early next week.