[OpenAFS-announce] ANNOUNCE: AFS perl module bundle version 2.02 released

[Norbert Gruener]

=head1 AFS module bundle version 2.02

I am pleased to announce the AFS module bundle version 2.02

The AFS module bundle is a dynamically loadable extension to Perl.  It
gives the AFS user and administrator access to many of the AFS
programming APIs, allowing you to make these calls directly from Perl,
rather then processing the output of a command. The AFS module bundle is
a thin layer above the low-level AFS APIs.

=head1 Where To Get It

The version 2.02 is now available at

    http://www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/perl/AFS-2.02.tar.gz
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NO/NOG/AFS-2.02.tar.gz

This release should work in all UNIX/Linux environments which have AFS
API interfaces and the appropriate C compilation environment.

=head1 Updates In Version 2.02

=over 4

=item * Patched Method 'setfields' and 'KAM_SetFields' in class 'AFS::KAS'

Under version 2.00 and 2.01 the method 'setfields' respectively
'KAM_SetFields' has set the KAS fields for 'password lifetime',
'password reuse', 'number of failed logins', and 'locktime' to strange
numbers.  B<Please upgrade to version 2.02 !!!>

=item * Amended 'uint32' to the XS typedefs

=back

=head1 General Changes In Version 2.0

=over 4

=item * Compiles with IBM AFS and OpenAFS system libraries

This module bundle compiles now with the AFS system libraries for IBM
AFS version 3.4.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x and with the AFS system libraries for all
OpenAFS versions.

=item * Number of available platforms have increased

Since OpenAFS is running on an increasingly number of platforms so
does the AFS Perl module.  Everywhere you can compile OpenAFS and Perl
you should be able to install the ASF Perl module.

=item * Corrected Constructor Methods for all AFS classes

The constructor methods for all AFS classes have been corrected to
conform with the Perl OO conventions.

=item * Module structure has been changed

In order to have clean Perl interfaces the AFS Perl code has been
separated into several logical modules.  All modules have been
implemented as OO classes.

=item * Compatibility mode for version 1.x

All old variables and functions from version 1 are still available for
compatibility, but are deprecated.  These cases have been marked in
the documentation.

=item * Numerous example scripts for version 2

The distribution contains separate example scripts and documentation
for version 2

=head1 AUTHORS

This release was made by 
Norbert E. Gruener S< E<lt>nog@MPA>S<-Garching.MPG.deE<gt>. >

The original module was written by
Roland Schemers S< E<lt>schemers@slapshot.stanford.eduE<gt>. >

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Norbert                                                                                        
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