Convert-BER - Changes

1.32 -- Wed Oct 21 20:29:30 CDT 2009

remove label INIT, not valid as of 5.11.0

Change 739 on 2002/08/19 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Dont generate PPD

Change 738 on 2002/08/19 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

        Dont depend on hash order in t/03seqof.t and try both possible
        results

Change 613 on 2001/04/10 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Fix test for 5.7 (test result depends on hash order)

Change 500 on 2000/04/30 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Release 1.31

Change 499 on 2000/04/30 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Patch for tags >= 0x1f and new tests

Change 493 on 2000/04/18 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Release 1.30

Change 492 on 2000/04/18 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

added implementation for ber_tag()

Change 463 on 2000/03/29 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Release 1.29

Change 462 on 2000/03/29 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

added C<use bytes> for perl 5.6 and later

Change 459 on 2000/03/29 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

        Makefile.PL
        - Corrected ABSTRACT

Change 439 on 2000/03/29 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Release 1.28

Change 438 on 2000/03/29 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

PPD stuff added to Makefile.PL

Change 433 on 2000/03/29 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

POD updates from Chris Ridd <Chris.Ridd@messagingdirect.com>

Change 421 on 2000/03/28 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

OBJ_ID had an extra .

Change 338 on 1999/09/25 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

        Applied patch from  Gennis Emerson <gemerson@vizdom.com> 
        - doc updates
        - fixes to snd/recv

Change 336 on 1999/09/24 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Fix for unpacking into an array

Change 295 on 1999/04/08 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Release 1.26

Change 279 on 1999/03/26 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Applied a readability patch from Gisle Aas

Change 278 on 1999/03/26 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

The start of support for indefinite length encoding.

Change 277 on 1999/03/26 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Add bind() call to t/07io.t to prevent hangs on some systems

Change 251 on 1999/02/09 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Added optional control argument to OPTIONAL

Change 247 on 1999/02/05 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Added CHOICE

Change 246 on 1999/02/04 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

        fixed read() to loop on sysread() until the correct number
        of bytes are read

Change 241 on 1998/12/23 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

made error from ->read() more descrptive
added t/07io.t
added new types as sub-type of STRING ObjectDescriptor, UTF8String, NumericString, PrintableString TeletexString, T61String, VideotexString, IA5String, GraphicString, VisibleString, ISO646String, GeneralString, UTCTime, GeneralizedTime
added special time tags TimeUL TimeUZ TimeGL TimeGZ
added BIT_STRING8 a special BIT_STRING that can only deal with multiples of 8 the data is passed directlry, not as a string of '1's and '0's like BIT_STRING
added SET_OF as sub-type of SEQUENCE_OF
enhanced IO routines for better performance
protected eval{}'s against $SIG{__DIE__}

Change 233 on 1998/11/09 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

        Now created constant subs in the sub-class package for the tag
        values and adds them to EXPORT_OK

Change 227 on 1998/11/04 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

local($SIG{__DIE__}) when using eval/die

Change 233 on 1998/11/09 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

        Now created constant subs in the sub-class package for the tag
        values and adds them to EXPORT_OK

Change 227 on 1998/11/04 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

local($SIG{__DIE__}) when using eval/die

*** Release 1.21

Change 205 on 1998/10/21 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

dump and dumphex how accept a filehandle

new dump sub with more readable output

added support for BIT STRING

Change 202 on 1998/10/16 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

30% speed improvement by remove use of method calls internally

Change 193 on 1998/10/04 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

        Convert::BER
        - now works with 5.003

Change 192 on 1998/09/26 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

OPTIONAL can now optianlly encode, passing undef anywhere in the opList will cause the whole list not to be encoded
BER will no longer complain if passed undef as an argument, it will just do nothing.

Change 174 on 1998/07/21 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Added CORE:: prefixes to keep 5.005-beta quiet

Tue Jun 16 1998 <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

        t/00prim.t
        - tweak to ensure test runs on the Mac

Mon Jun 8 1998 <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Added some tests to t/00prim.t

Changed date in pod

Sun Jun 7 1998 <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

        more speed improvements, approx 30% faster encode
        - changed to use an array instead of hash
        - new num_length
        - new pack_tag
        - inlines some internal method calls

        - speedup changes to num_length

Sun Nov 30 1997 <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

unpack_tag was not checking that it unpacked what was expected

Wed Nov 5 1997 <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)

Updated BER.pod