[Ssh-sftp-perl-users] RELEASE: Net::SSH::Perl 1.26 and Net::SFTP 0.09

[David R. <dr...@at...>]

Summary: minor leak fix to Net::SSH::Perl (fixes 'ls' leak in =
Net::SFTP), larger overhaul to Net::SFTP (error handling, documentation, =
new test).  Files have been uploaded to CPAN but are probably not =
indexed yet.

I'll try to get to the items logged for each module in rt.cpan.org too =
(patches, as always, are welcome).

I believe Mihai Secasiu is still interested in co-maintaining these =
modules (but is busy at the moment); Dave Rolsky is too busy with other =
responsibilities to maintain these modules but has offered us his help =
with general maintenance issues.

Changelogs:

Net::SSH::Perl:
1.26  2005.01.18
    - New co-maintainer, David Robins (DBROBINS).
    - Fix Math::Pari large integer leak in Net::SSH::Perl::Util::SSH2MP =
bin2mp
      function (has been brought to the attention of the Math::Pari =
maintainer
      since it's probably a Math::Pari problem, but fixed here because =
it's a
      big win for a small change and the same "fix" is already in =
mp2bin).
        - Require perl 5.6 in Makefile.PL (was '5.0006' change to =
'5.006').

Net::SFTP:
0.09  2005.01.16
    - New co-maintainer, David Robins (DBROBINS).
    - Adds a 'warn' argument to the constructor to allow supression or
      redirection of warnings.
    - Allows the 'ssh_args' constructor argument to be either a hash ref =
or an
      array ref.
    - Adds a 'status' method which returns the last SSH2_FX_* status =
value, or
      (status value, text) in list context (only useful after last =
failure).
    - Adds brief summary comments to some methods.
    - Returns failure if the remote open fails for 'get' (previous code =
ignored
      it); also moves the remote open before the local open so that we =
don't
      create empty local files if the remote file can't be opened.
    - Changes 'ls' to return an array reference in scalar context.
    - Documents: the fact that we die on protocol/local errors; the new =
option
      and method; changes to 'get'/'put' (formerly 'put' didn't return =
anything
      useful, and 'get's actual return values are the same, just better
      documented).
    - Adds a comprehensive remote test, but to use it one has to =
manually go in
      and configure a server a certain way, so it defaults to skipping
      everything; I'm including it as a base since there are currently =
no remote
      tests at all.

Thanks,

--=20
Dave
Isa. 40:31