Changes in 1.4.0 ---------------- Version 1.4.0 was prepared by Ernst Rohlicek (ernst.rohlicek@inode.at) who is bravely taking on primary developer duties on Parallel::Pvm. Ernst has also started including a Gentoo ebuild file for the module. To him go the glory - and the questions! Contexts: pvm_getcontext() pvm_newcontext() pvm_setcontext() pvm_freecontext() Message Handlers: pvm_addmhf() pvm_delmhf() From Ernst Rohlicek: Unimplemented - don't know how to give a Perl function pointer to a C function (and have it work additionally). int pvm_regmhf() int pvm_delmhf() Message Mailboxes: pvm_putinfo() pvm_recvinfo() pvm_delinfo() pvm_getmboxinfo() Spawn Siblings: pvm_siblings() Missing: Tests for those new functions Still contains runtime text relocations, but couldn't find any info on this. Documentation for new functions in Pvm.pm missing 1.3.0 is a completely user-contributed release! ----------------------------------------------- Large parts of Parallel::Pvm were rewritten by Ulrich Pfeifer, while preserving the original API. (And a great job he did!) - unpack() now accepts an extra parameter for the size of the message, removing the previous 100.000 char limit. - The pvm group functions are now implemented. - Memory leaks in the config(), tasks() and hostsync() functions were fixed. - There is now also a very nice setup for test scripts - they reside in the "t" directory. This work was sponsored by Neopoly AG. Benjamin Holzman contributed support for the pmv_start_pvmd() API call.