Revision history for Perl extension Sys::Info.

0.78 Sat Apr 16 15:20:46 2011

=> Enable OSX driver

0.73 Thu Jan 14 03:24:05 2010

=> Perl::Critic refactoring.
=> Driver updates:

            Windows: Windows 7 support, bitness fixes.
            Linux  : Merged Linux::Distribution as ::OS::Distribution.
            BSD    : CPU bitness & flags. Swap file detection.

0.72 Thu Apr 23 17:22:31 2009

=> Update builder.

0.70 Mon Apr 6 03:54:23 2009

=> Bump version for new stable release.

0.69_11 Sat Apr 4 22:19:04 2009

=> Bump version to test bitness().

0.69_10 Fri Apr 3 21:17:29 2009

=> Updated the build tools and tests.

0.69_07 Sat Mar 14 15:57:56 2009

=> Support for BSD driver.

0.69_06 Sat Mar 14 06:42:17 2009

=> Test suite update.

0.69_05 Sat Mar 14 01:59:01 2009

=> Bump version.

0.69_01 Thu Mar 5 03:41:57 2009

=> Removed deprecated parts.
=> Moved drivers and base classes into separate distributions. This distro

is now something like Task::, but has some function of its own.

0.63 Thu Aug 7 22:18:39 2008

=> Fix for Win32::TieRegistry loading routine.

0.62 Tue Jul 15 23:20:50 2008

=> Fix for cdkey test. It can fail on restricted environments.

0.61 Tue Jul 15 11:44:45 2008

=> Removed 99-all-modules-have-the-same-version.t for now, until I find a

safer way for this test. This fixes RT#37660. => Added support for Debian version/edition.

0.60 Sun Jul 13 16:08:35 2008

=> Minor code cleanup.
=> Added a test to check the module versions. => Bump the version for the new stable release after 7+ months :)

• More unified (if not 100% same) interface between drivers
  • Improved Windows OS detection
  • Improved Linux distro detection
  • Improved CPU detection
• Some deprecated parts (all to be removed in v0.70 or at the end of 2008)

0.52_92 Sat Jul 12 20:22:44 2008

=> Pod fixes.
=> Code cleanup.

0.52_91 Sat Jun 28 17:35:50 2008

=> Removed HASAPI() from Windows driver. => All files now have Pod.
=> Moved all constant definitions to Sys::Info::Constants.

0.52_9 Fri Jun 27 00:20:40 2008

=> ::Linux

• Implemented various OS meta keys.
• Implemented CPU architecture key.

0.52_8 Thu Jun 26 01:02:15 2008

=> ::Linux

• Implement ::OS::tz()
• Implement ::OS::edition() for Ubuntu.
• Implement manufacturer meta key.
• ::OS::build() now returns the timestamp instead of time string. Use it as: print( scalar localtime $os->build ) to get a string. => Updated unknown tests.

0.52_7 Tue Jun 24 23:55:04 2008

=> Fix broken ::CPU under linux.
=> Unix::Processors is now required under linux.

0.52_6 Sun Jun 22 00:27:02 2008

=> Fix for available devices list.
=> ::CPU

• ::ht() method now returns the number of threads
• Removed disable_si option from ::CPU.
• Fixed load() for Windows.

0.52_5 Fri Jun 20 00:45:24 2008

=> Moved CPU::load() into the base class to make the checks for all drivers. => New subclass Sys::Info::Constants. => Some fixes.

0.52_4 Wed Jun 18 01:53:56 2008

=> Tidied ::Windows::OS.
=> New ::Windows::OS method cdkey(). => Fix for ::CPU::hyper_threading():

0.52_3 Wed Jun 11 21:11:46 2008

=> $os->login_name_real() is now deprecated. Use $os->login_name( real => 1 )

0.52_2 Sun Jun 8 01:07:47 2008

=> Improved driver loading mechanism. => $os->long_name deprecated. Use $os->name( long => 1 )

0.52_1 Fri Jun 6 00:11:05 2008

=> Improved OS detection for Windows. Now the editions can also be detected. => Windows Server 2008 is now supported. => Added new method edition() to Sys::Info::OS. => $os->name & $os->long_name & $os->version are now accept parameters. => Added a way to detect if Win32::API is available or not under Windows. => Initiated a XS interface to Win32 API functions.

           TODO: Improve XS interface and disable WMI where possible as it is so slow
           TODO: Consider Win32::API usage.

=> Added a Core 2 detection code to Sys::Info::Driver::Unknown::Device::CPU::Env.

0.51 Sun Dec 30 23:08:52 2007

=> Fix for pod coverage test.

0.50 Sun Dec 30 21:44:11 2007

=> Added 'multiplier' key to CPU metadata (WMI). => Implemented CPU load for Windows. However,

it is not recommended to use if you want speed. => Moved ::CPU into ::Device::CPU. A lot of changes took place. => New driver model.

0.2 Wed Nov 29 22:56:05 2006

=> First public release.