ANNOUNCE: Text::CSV_XS 0.29

Thanks to all feedback, I'm very happy to release version 0.29

More speed, more docs, more tests, so more reliability :)
Tested under perl-5.005_04, 5.6.2, 5.8.x-dor and 5.9.5

2007-06-08 0.29 - H.Merijn Brand

* Removed an unused 'use Data::Dumper'
* Added $csv->eof () RT 27424
* Two typo's in the doc's (Amsterdam.pm)
* Modified examples/speed.pl to better show the diffs between versions
* Cache attribute settings and regain speed of 0.23! anmd beyond
Relative overall speeds (YMMV, use examples/speed.pl to check),
the 1.0x versions are from Text::CSV_PP.

0.23 0.25 0.26 0.27 0.28 0.29 1.00 1.02 1.05
==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ====
combine 1 62 61 61 60 58 100 14 14 14
combine 10 41 41 41 42 42 100 6 6 6
combine 100 35 35 36 36 36 100 5 5 5
parse 1 100 92 87 90 81 96 19 19 17
parse 10 95 100 86 97 94 94 15 16 14
parse 100 90 95 84 94 92 100 16 16 14
print io 93 89 91 91 95 100 0 0 6
getline io 90 92 84 87 89 100 0 0 13
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
average 75 75 71 74 73 98 9 9 11

* Removed prototypes
* Added a SPECIFICATION section to the pod
* Safe caching of eol, and a warning in the docs
* Rewrote t/20_file.t do do actual file IO instead of IO_Scalar fake
* Small optimilisation for parse (juerd)
* Added make target test_speed
* Merged the items from CAVEAT to SPECIFICATION
* Updated the TODO and Release Plan sections
* Speed up internals by using references instead of copies (juerd)
* Reworked error_input, which also had an undetected internal error
* Added IO tests for lexical IO handles and perlio IO to/from scalars

2007-06-03 0.28 - H.Merijn Brand

* IMPORTANT CHANGE: new () returns undef if it gets unsupported
attributes. Until now, new ({ esc_char => "\\" }) was just
silently ignored. Rejecting it and failing is better than
continuing with false assumptions.
* Added allow_loose_quotes (see doc)
* Added t/65_allow.t
* Added allow_loose_escapes (see doc) RT 15076
* More code cleanup in XS
* Added allow_whitespace (see doc)

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Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn