1.011 - 2009-08-17      Tim Adye <T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk>
        * Palm/Datebook.pm: add support for the newer-format Palm Calendar
        databases.

1.12 - Tue Feb 23 16:44:10 2010

Promote to a full release from the latest development cycle.

1.11_01 - Sat Jan 2 12:16:38 2010

        Tim Adye <T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk>: Palm/Datebook.pm: add support
        for time zone entries.

1.009 - 2007-07-30 brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>

• cleaned up the pod coverage test.
• add License and Author stuff to the distro

1.006 - 2007-01-15      brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>
        * chromatic sent me some changes living in another distro
        (p5-Palm-1.004_000). It catches up 1.003_000 for all of the
        changes since November 2002 listed in this file.
        
1.005 - 2007-01-13      brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>
        * Cleansed the dist to make it installable by CPAN tools.
        It just needs a version without a _ in it.
        (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12837)

2004-04-15 21:21 christophe

• Palm/PDB.pm, util/pdbdump: Added some logic to detect broken databases during loading:
  • database names must contain the terminating NUL within the first 32 characters of the header. This catches obviously broken situations like text files renamed to .pdb files (which, oddly enough, happens a lot when you're trying to process text files into Doc files).
  • position offsets mustn't go beyond the end of the database file ($pdb->{_size}). This indicates either truncation of the db or straight corruption.

2004-04-08 22:55 christophe

• Palm/PDB.pm: make it impossible to create a nameless database. It can't be uploaded to the PDA, that's for sure.

2003-11-09 20:40 azummo

• Palm/PDB.pm: Handle uniqueID and uniqueIDseed in the Palm OS way.

2003-11-05 15:19 azummo

• Palm/DateTime.pm: Fixed ISO8601 format in palmtime_to_iso8601 Minor stylistical changes

2003-10-10 19:19 azummo

• Palm/Datebook.pm: Fixed alarm documentation (Christophe Beauregard)

2003-10-10 07:01 azummo

• Palm/PDB.pm: Implemented remove_Record() method. Fixed dirty flags handling.

(Christophe Beauregard)

2003-10-10 06:51 azummo

• Palm/PDB.pm: Added is_Dirty method (Christophe Beauregard).

2003-09-16 18:59 azummo

• MANIFEST, README: Updated in preparation for the new release.

2003-09-16 18:56 azummo

• Makefile.PL: Bumped version number.

2003-09-16 18:53 azummo

• Palm/ZirePhoto.pm: Removed unused methods. The superclass will take care.

2003-08-03 13:06 arensb

• README, Palm/PDB.pm: Added missing section header in POD. Patch contributed by Kurt Starsinic <kstar@cpan.org>

2003-06-26 15:21 azummo

• Palm/Mail.pm: Some headers were left undefined (Christophe Beauregard)

2003-06-24 10:28 azummo

• Palm/ZirePhoto.pm: Added.

2002-12-17 19:09 azummo

• MANIFEST: Added DateTime.pm to manifest.

2002-11-07 10:50 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Updated version number.

2002-11-07 09:27 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: (API) Now supports databases where the last byte of the AppInfo block is data instead of padding. Backwards-compatible.

2002-11-07 09:11 arensb

• Palm/: Address.pm, Datebook.pm, Mail.pm, Memo.pm, ToDo.pm:Rearranged @ISA, so that it'll get the right &ParseAppInfoBlock.

2002-11-03 11:43 azummo

• Palm/: Address.pm, DateTime.pm, Datebook.pm, Mail.pm, Memo.pm, PDB.pm, PQA.pm, Raw.pm, StdAppInfo.pm, ToDo.pm:Changed $VERSION parser.

2002-09-03 13:48 azummo

• Palm/Address.pm: Patch from Brian Johnson (it just adds an else to the if statement to nullify non-existing entities).

2002-06-22 09:16 azummo

• Palm/PDB.pm: now now takes an optional hash with default values.

2002-06-16 09:37 azummo

• Palm/PDB.pm: Added some compatibility code. Reflected (part of) changes in the POD.

2002-06-16 09:26 azummo

• Palm/PDB.pm: Make some more use of the new attribute names.

2002-06-16 08:34 azummo

• Palm/PDB.pm: Added "official" names to record attributes.

2002-06-16 08:19 azummo

• Palm/PDB.pm: Corrected an attribute flag (open) Added new attributes using "official" names

2002-05-09 11:08 arensb

• Palm/Address.pm: Again, more sanity-checking and a little less code duplication.

2002-05-09 10:33 arensb

• Palm/Address.pm: More sanity checks, and a somewhat more elegant way of doing things (iterate over field names, rather than duplicating code a bunch of times).

2002-05-09 10:24 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: (bug fix) Used to do some sanity-checking, then ignored it. We now pay attention to our own sanity checks.

2002-04-09 20:59 arensb

• README: Added Keni as a contributor.

2002-04-09 20:58 arensb

• util/pdbdump: Applied Keni's patch: array-handling for parsed records (e.g., Datebook exceptions).

2002-04-05 14:59 azummo

• Palm/DateTime.pm: Hopefully fixed mktime() invocation. (?)

2002-03-23 08:38 arensb

• Palm/Mail.pm: Added extra sanity checks.

2002-03-12 15:23 azummo

• Palm/DateTime.pm: Added Palm/DateTime.pm

2002-02-15 09:40 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: (bug fix) Strip everything after the first NUL, not just trailing NULs. Patch submitted by Don Park <donpdonp2@yahoo.com>

2002-02-08 09:20 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Bumped up version number.

2002-02-08 08:56 arensb

• MANIFEST: Added add-memo to distribution.

2002-02-08 08:55 arensb

• util/add-memo: Added first draft of add-memo, to add a memo to an existing MemoDB.pdb.

2002-02-01 09:09 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: Comment used to refer to a doc file in ColdSync that no longer exists. Fixed.

2002-01-26 17:25 arensb

• Palm/Address.pm, Palm/Datebook.pm, Palm/Mail.pm, Palm/Memo.pm, Palm/PDB.pm, Palm/PQA.pm, Palm/Raw.pm, Palm/StdAppInfo.pm, Palm/ToDo.pm, util/pdbdump: CPAN-friendly $VERSION.

2002-01-26 17:22 arensb

• TODO: Added some items.

2002-01-26 17:22 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Rewrote version number in CPAN-friendly format.

2001-06-05 09:04 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: Made addCategory, deleteCategory, renameCategory behave a bit more like the Palm, even when it's brain-damaged.

2001-06-05 08:52 arensb

• TODO: Removed an item.

2001-06-02 15:17 arensb

• Palm/: Datebook.pm, StdAppInfo.pm:Fixed typo in POD.

2001-04-04 23:54 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: Fixed typo.

2001-03-30 01:23 arensb

• Palm/Datebook.pm: Clarified whether date numbers start at 0 or 1. (bug fix): Fixed year conversion. (bug fix): Fixed use of undefined value.

2001-02-24 18:35 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: In &new, initialize 'baktime' to -$EPOCH_1904, that being the Palm's epoch.

2001-02-24 17:59 arensb

• FAQ: Added pointers to other sources of information about HotSync .dat files.

2001-02-24 11:49 arensb

• Palm/Datebook.pm: Clarified documentation.

2001-02-20 06:17 arensb

• MANIFEST: Added FAQ to distribution.

2001-02-20 06:17 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Incremented version number.

2001-02-20 06:17 arensb

• FAQ: (Added).

2001-02-20 06:12 arensb

• README: Added contributor.

2001-02-20 06:12 arensb

• util/pdbdump: (bug fix): the two NULs are optional. Fixed typo.

2001-02-20 06:11 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: Added a "to do" comment.

2000-11-09 10:32 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: Applied John-David Smith's patch: add the "archive" attribute. Better check for non-NULLness of AppInfo block.

2000-09-25 01:06 arensb

• util/pdbdump: Added "launchable" attribute, for PQAs. Print database attributes more clearly.

2000-09-25 01:05 arensb

• Palm/PQA.pm: First draft of PQA parser.

2000-09-25 01:05 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: Added "launchable" attribute, for PQAs.

2000-09-24 12:37 arensb

• util/pdbdump: Now handles resource databases as well as record databases.

2000-09-24 12:25 arensb

• Palm/: Address.pm, Datebook.pm, Mail.pm, Memo.pm, PDB.pm, Raw.pm, StdAppInfo.pm, ToDo.pm: $VERSION is now a floating-point number, for comparison.

2000-09-24 12:24 arensb

• TODO: Added an item.

2000-09-20 10:16 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: Removed a "to do" comment.

2000-09-16 19:58 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Bumped up patchlevel number.

2000-09-16 19:58 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: (bug fix): The two useless NULs are allowed, but not mandated, by the spec. By assuming that they will always be there, this module failed to parse some well-formed PDBs.

2000-09-16 19:57 arensb

• util/pdbdump: Oops! Forgot to fix resources. Minor cleaning.

2000-09-16 19:53 arensb

• util/pdbdump: (bug fix): The two useless NULs are allowed, but not mandated, by the spec. By assuming that they will always be there, 'pdbdump' failed to parse some well-formed PDBs.

2000-09-09 00:52 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Bumped up version number.

2000-09-09 00:50 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: Added $error variable. (bug fix): A mis-written test would cause &pack_StdAppInfo to omit unnamed categories. Hence, the category list had fewer than 16 categories, when written. Fixed typo. (feature): Added &addCategory, &deleteCategory, &renameCategory. Removed BUGS section.

2000-09-08 22:48 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: Stop Perl from complaining if there are unnamed categories.

2000-09-08 22:47 arensb

• README: Added author.

2000-08-28 23:20 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Bumped up the version number.

2000-08-28 23:19 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: Changed API: the categories are new arranged as a 16-element array of category structs, the way they logically belong, rather than as disparate arrays, the way they're represented in the file. Added a lot to the POD.

2000-08-28 23:16 arensb

• TODO: Removed an item.

2000-08-28 23:16 arensb

• TODO: Added an item.

2000-08-24 00:57 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: Clarified pod somewhat.

2000-08-24 00:29 arensb

• util/pdbdump: (feature): Expands arrays of hash references recursively.

2000-08-13 18:08 arensb

• Palm/Datebook.pm: Incorporated changes suggested by John Jannotti <jj@lcs.mit.edu>, to avoid warnings under Perl 5.6, when various fields are undefined.

2000-08-13 17:59 arensb

• Palm/: Address.pm, Datebook.pm, Mail.pm, Memo.pm, ToDo.pm:Updated for new &parse_StdAppInfo behavior.

2000-08-13 17:59 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: (bug fix): &parse_StdAppInfo now puts the non-category part of the AppInfo block in $appinfo->{other}. This is so that a script that reads a random .pdb file as a StdAppInfo (and nothing else) can copy it without loss of data. &pack_StdAppInfo uses $appinfo->{other}. Clarified documentation somewhat.

2000-08-04 00:12 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: Fixed expression that made 'perl5.6 -w' print a warning.

2000-08-01 23:20 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Bumped up version number.

2000-08-01 23:19 arensb

• util/pdbdump: (bug fix): Read files in binary mode under Windows, MS-DOS, and other OSes that make that distinction.

2000-08-01 23:19 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: (bug fix): Read and write files in binary mode under Windows, MS-DOS, and other OSes that make that distinction.

2000-08-01 23:17 arensb

• Palm/Datebook.pm: Delete raw data field at the end of &ParseRecord.

2000-08-01 23:16 arensb

• TODO: Added, removed some items.

2000-07-20 00:17 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Bumped up version number.

2000-07-20 00:17 arensb

• Palm/Datebook.pm: (Bug fix): Test for undefined record fields, to avoid warnings with databases built from scratch. Patch supplied by <kkeller@sirius.com>.

2000-07-19 00:00 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Bumped up version number.

2000-07-19 00:00 arensb

• TODO: Removed an item.

2000-07-18 23:58 arensb

• Palm/: Address.pm, Datebook.pm, Mail.pm, Memo.pm, PDB.pm, ToDo.pm:Clarified the documentation for &new_Record.

2000-07-18 23:57 arensb

• TODO: Added an item.

2000-07-08 20:25 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: PDB::new now initializes more fields. PDB::Write prints a warning if writing a zero-length record. PDB::new_Resource: type now defaults to all NULs (instead of four spaces).

2000-07-08 20:11 arensb

• Palm/Datebook.pm: Changed a comment.

2000-06-30 11:41 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Bumped up version number.

2000-06-30 11:41 arensb

• TODO: Added an item.

2000-06-30 11:41 arensb

• Palm/Datebook.pm: Made AppInfo block initialization the same as other modules, even though Datebook doesn't really use categories and such.

2000-06-30 11:40 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: (bug fix): Use of anonymous array instead of a real array caused first category (and first category ID) to be a reference rather than a "real" scalar.

2000-05-23 02:56 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Incremented patchlevel number.

2000-05-23 02:55 arensb

• Palm/: Address.pm, Memo.pm: (bug fix): Don't run StdAppInfo::import(). This prevents StdAppInfo from registering itself as the default handler in generic tools.

2000-05-13 16:30 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Bumped up version number.

2000-05-13 16:29 arensb

• README: Added contributor.

2000-05-13 16:29 arensb

• Palm/Mail.pm: Fixed inconsistency in record member names ("replyTo" was sometimes "reply_to", and "sentTo" was sometimes "sent_to"). Patch supplied by Sumant S.R. Oemrawsingh <sikander@stad.dsl.nl>

2000-05-13 01:16 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Incremented patch level. Added "pdbdump" to the distribution.

2000-05-13 01:15 arensb

• MANIFEST: Ship "pdbdump" instead of "dumpdb".

2000-05-13 01:15 arensb

• util/dumpdb: Some obsolete refinements.

2000-05-13 01:14 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: Added an import() function, so you can say that a function is a Palm::StdAppInfo.

2000-05-13 01:12 arensb

• Palm/Mail.pm: (bug fix): Palm::Mail::new_Record() didn't return a value. Don't import StdAppInfo, since don't want new PDBs to default to StdAppInfo.

2000-05-08 05:48 arensb

• util/pdbdump: Rewritten from scratch. This is basically just Palm/PDB.pm with trace statements.

2000-05-08 05:48 arensb

• util/pdbdump: intermediate

2000-05-07 02:33 arensb

• Palm/: StdAppInfo.pm, ToDo.pm:Removed unnecessary quoting in class members.

2000-05-07 02:33 arensb

• Palm/Raw.pm: Removed unnecessary quoting in class members. Added `use strict'. Rearranged some variables at the top.

2000-05-07 02:30 arensb

• Palm/: Datebook.pm, Mail.pm, Memo.pm, PDB.pm:Removed unnecessary quoting in class members.

2000-05-06 17:48 arensb

• Palm/Address.pm: Removed unnecessary quoting in class members.

2000-05-06 17:20 arensb

• Palm/ToDo.pm: Converted to use StdAppInfo. Fixed man page section in "see also" section.

2000-05-06 17:19 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: Added a "to do" comment.

2000-05-06 17:18 arensb

• Palm/: PDB.pm, Raw.pm:Fixed man page sections for "see also" section.

2000-04-29 17:53 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Bumped up patch level.

2000-04-29 17:49 arensb

• README: Added Robert Norris's patch for empty PDBs.

2000-04-29 16:52 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: Applied Robert Norris <rob@nauseum.org>'s patch: loadappinfo_block used to die if the database contained no records.

2000-04-24 06:02 arensb

• util/pdbdump: (added) This will eventually become the successor to dumpdb.

2000-04-24 06:01 arensb

• util/dumpdb: More AppInfo block processing.

2000-04-24 06:01 arensb

• Palm/StdAppInfo.pm: (added) Class for dealing with the standard part of AppInfo blocks (category support).

2000-04-24 06:00 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: Uses `use strict'. Changed the way $VERSION is generated from RCS tag. Fixed the POD a bit.

2000-04-24 05:59 arensb

• Palm/: Mail.pm, Memo.pm:Use StdAppInfo.

2000-04-24 05:56 arensb

• Palm/Address.pm: Fixed manual section numbers.

2000-04-24 05:56 arensb

• Palm/: Address.pm, Datebook.pm:Use StdAppInfo.

2000-04-24 05:55 arensb

• TODO: Removed some stuff.

2000-04-24 05:55 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Incremented version number.

2000-04-24 05:54 arensb

• MANIFEST: Added "TODO", "StdAppInfo.pm"

2000-04-20 01:42 arensb

• Palm/Mail.pm: Forgot to mention the subject in the documentation.

2000-02-01 23:45 arensb

• TODO: (added): Things that need to be done.

2000-02-01 23:45 arensb

• README: (added): README file.

2000-02-01 23:40 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Incremented version number.

2000-02-01 23:21 arensb

• Palm/Raw.pm: Rearranged the POD. Inherit &new, &new_Record methods.

2000-02-01 23:19 arensb

• Palm/: Datebook.pm, Mail.pm, Memo.pm, ToDo.pm:Rearranged the POD. Added &new, &new_Record methods.

2000-02-01 23:18 arensb

• Palm/Address.pm: Added placeholder for $pdb->{appinfo}{lastUniqueID}.

2000-02-01 07:31 arensb

• Palm/: Raw.pm, ToDo.pm:Added $VERSION variable, per CPAN.

2000-02-01 07:31 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: Renamed &deleteRecord to &delete_Record, for consistency. &append_Record, &append_Resource, &delete_Record update PDB's mtime.

2000-02-01 07:20 arensb

• Palm/: Mail.pm, Memo.pm:Added $VERSION variable, per CPAN.

2000-02-01 07:19 arensb

• Palm/Address.pm: Added $VERSION to all .pm files, per CPAN. Moved pod documentation to be adjacent to the code, instead of at the end. Fixed &new so there are always 16 categories, one of which is named "Unfiled" with code 0.

2000-01-23 04:18 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: The various load*() functions are no longer methods, since they shouldn't be overridden anyway. Added documentation for new_Record(), append_Record(), new_Resource(), append_resource(), findRecordByID(), deleteRecord().

2000-01-23 01:33 arensb

• util/dumpdb: Bug fix: deal with PDBs without records, and PRCs without resources. Memo: Dump() now prints the AppInfo and sort blocks, if they exist. Address: Dump() now prints the field labels in the AppInfo block. Address: print the record attributes.

2000-01-23 01:28 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: Updated copyright. Fixed function cross-references in the documentation. new() method now initializes the common fields. Fiddled with quotes in the documentation some more. Write() method now supplies the two NULs if they're missing. Added methods: new_Record(), append_Record(), new_Resource(), append_Resource(), findRecordByID(), deleteRecord().

2000-01-23 01:24 arensb

• Palm/Address.pm: Added new() method, to specifically create a new Address PDB. Added new_Record() method, to create a new Address record. Bug fix: PackAppInfoBlock() only packed whichever categories were defined. It now makes sure that it packs 16 categories.

2000-01-23 01:20 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Incremented version.

1999-12-05 23:11 arensb

• Palm/Address.pm: Fixed documentation to reflect reality.

1999-11-18 13:20 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: Added magic $VERSION, to make CPAN happy.

1999-11-18 03:29 arensb

• util/dumpdb: Took out Bitmaps and DopeWars, since those aren't part of the distribution (yet?).

1999-11-18 03:28 arensb

• MANIFEST: Added README.

1999-11-18 03:24 arensb

• Palm/Raw.pm: Clarified the use of "use Palm::Raw;" vs. "use Palm::Raw();" in the documentation.

1999-11-18 01:20 arensb

• Palm/: Address.pm, Datebook.pm, Mail.pm, Memo.pm, PDB.pm, Raw.pm, ToDo.pm:Changed Palm::PDB::<foo> to Palm::<foo> where required.

1999-11-18 01:19 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Changed distribution name to p5-Palm, for clarity. Explicitly set installation method.

1999-11-18 00:51 arensb

• Makefile.PL: Fixed NAME and VERSION.

1999-11-18 00:51 arensb

• MANIFEST: Removed Palm/Makefile.PL

1999-11-18 00:48 arensb

• Palm/Makefile.PL: Deleted. It's not necessary.

1999-11-18 00:26 arensb

• MANIFEST: Fixed after directory shuffle.

1999-11-18 00:24 arensb

• test.pl: Generated by MakeMaker. Not used.

1999-11-18 00:23 arensb

• util/dumpdb: Added RCS comment. Updated "use" statements to reflect the fact that the Palm stuff is in Palm::<foo>, not Palm::PDB::<foo>.

1999-11-18 00:21 arensb

• util/copydb: Added RCS header. Took out the "use lib" line, for now. Changed "use" statements: the Palm stuff is no longer Palm::PDB:<foo>, but rather Palm::<foo>.

1999-11-18 00:17 arensb

• util/dumpdb: Test utility to dump the contents of a PDB.

1999-11-18 00:17 arensb

• util/copydb: Test utility to copy a PDB.

1999-11-18 00:16 arensb

• Palm/ToDo.pm: Module for dealing with ToDo databases.

1999-11-18 00:16 arensb

• Palm/Raw.pm: Module for dealing with "Raw" databases.

1999-11-18 00:16 arensb

• Palm/Memo.pm: Module for dealing with Memo databases.

1999-11-18 00:16 arensb

• Palm/Mail.pm: Module for dealing with Mail databases.

1999-11-18 00:16 arensb

• Palm/Datebook.pm: Module for dealing with DateBook databases.

1999-11-18 00:15 arensb

• Palm/Address.pm: Module for dealing with AddressBook databases.

1999-11-18 00:15 arensb

• Palm/PDB.pm: Base module for dealing with PDBs.

1999-11-18 00:14 arensb

• Palm/Makefile.PL: MakeMaker-generated Makefile.PL.

1999-11-18 00:10 arensb

• Makefile.PL: MakeMaker-generated Makefile.PL.

1999-11-18 00:10 arensb

• MANIFEST: First draft of manifest.