[File-extattr-announce] ANNOUNCE: File::ExtAttr 1.08

[Richard D. <ri...@ph...>]

Hello.

File::ExtAttr 1.08 should be available soon from CPAN. This releases 
clean up some API issues (inconsistent reporting of errors in $!), 
reports "unknown attribute" errors consistently across platforms, and 
has some build fixes.

Changes below.

Rich =]

1.08 2008-08-19

     - (richdawe) Add a typemap for usage of "const char *" in the XS.
                  This may help fix the build with Perl 5.6.x or earlier.

     - (richdawe) Remove NetBSD 3.x from list of supported OSes,
                  since File::ExtAttr's test suite will never pass on it.

     - (richdawe) Update Makefile.PL to fail more gracefully when the build
                  pre-requisites are not present. On Linux use
                  Devel::CheckLib to check for libattr. Also exit
                  more gracefully if libattr's headers are not present.

     - (richdawe) OpenBSD isn't supported, so bail gracefully
                  in Makefile.PL on that platform.

     - (richdawe) Make sure that the errno value from any failed
                  system calls is propagated into $! (#32679, #32680).

     - (richdawe) File::ExtAttr no longer generate noisy warnings
                  when an xattr system call fails. All error reporting
                  is now via the function return values and $!.

     - (richdawe) Operations with non-default or non-"user" namespaces
                  will now fail with EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENOATTR
                  on Mac OS X, *BSD and Solaris. This behaviour
                  matches the behaviour on Linux.

     - (richdawe) Added a note to the documentation about Solaris
                  extensible system attributes, which are different
                  to extended file attributes.

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