PAR 0.82 released.

[Autrijus Tang]

Here is PAR 0.82, the "OO-pp" release, freshly uploaded to CPAN:

    http://aut.dyndns.org/dist/PAR-0.82.tar.gz
    MD5 (PAR-0.82.tar.gz) = 72224c9b83e6b3b451862faeab2fb090

Pre-built Win32 binaries may be downloaded from CPAN and
http://aut.dyndns.org/par/.  If you downloaded the ".par" files manually,
you will need to download and unpack PAR-0.82.tar.gz, put the prebuilt .par
file inside the unpacked PAR-0.82 directory, then type "perl Makefile.PL".

The reason for this release, a mere 24 hours after 0.81, is because I
received all-FAILs from CPAN testers due to an unfortunate MANIFEST
glitch.

Also, my conscience keeps biting me for not fulfilling my promise to
promote OOified "pp" into the default, so it is finally made good on
this release. :-)

[Changes for 0.82 - May 24, 2004]

* New Features

    - New module PAR::Packer provides an OO interface to "pp"'s
      functionality; "pp" is now merely a thin wrapper for it.

    - New module App::Packer::PAR is a modified version of
      App::Packer, designed to work with PAR::Packer, and will
      hopefully be merged back to App::Packer.

    - The old, procedural "pp" is moved to contrib/; end-users
      should notice no changes in "pp"'s behaviour.

    - New options "pp -a" and "pp -A" (--addfile/--addlist) provides
      ways to include extra files and directories in the package.

    - The long option name for "pp -M" is changed from --add to
      --module.  The old name is still recognized but no longer
      documented.  Using "pp -M" to include non-library files
      is now deprecated; use "pp -a" instead.

    - par.pl and parl now writes messages to STDOUT, instead of
      STDERR.  As a consequence, t/2-pp.t no longer prints extra
      warnings during "make test".

* Bug fixes

    - On Non-Win32 platforms, perl 5.8.0 and earlier versions produced
      pp-generated executables that immediately segfaults.

    - Running pp-generated executables with absolute pathname failed
      on statically-built perls.

    - Tests were failing due to a missing pipe_a_command.pm in MANIFEST.

    - Add the missing myldr/win32.coff for building on Cygwin/MinGW.

    - If the "perl" in path is different from the perl interpreter used
      for "make test", t/2-pp.t is known to fail and is now skipped.

    - Cygwin failed t/2-pp.t because "parl" is spelled as "parl.exe" there.

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

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