ZOOM-Perl release 1.20

The festival of releases continues ...

We announce the availability of ZOOM-Perl release 1.20,
which will
shortly be available from CPAN in the usual place:
	http://s
earch.cpan.org/~mirk/Net-Z3950-ZOOM/

(I've uploaded it already, but it takes a little while to
percolate
through the CPAN machinery and I want to go and have my tea
so I am
sending this message now rather than waiting.)

This release fixes a bug in the test-suite, which didn't
cause
problems until a recent YAZ release fixed a bug in ZOOM-C
that masked
this one   Thanks to
Anders Ardo for finding and reporting the
problem.  This did NOT effect ZOOM-Perl applications: the
library
code was fine, the error was in the test-suite itself.

This release also provides another handy test-harness
program
zoomscan.pl, extends zoomtst1.pl, and supports SRU/W
diagnostic
strings.

Changes since release 1.19 (from the Changes) file:

1.20  Fri Sep 21 17:51:55 BST 2007
	- Add new sample program, samples/zoom/zoomscan.pl
	- samples/zoom/zoomtst1.pl now accepts arbitrary options
at
	  the end of the command-line, so that (for example) you
can
	  specify a non-USMARC record syntax.
	- Add new functions Net::Z3950::ZOOM::diag_srw_str() and
	  ZOOM::diag_srw_str() to map SRW diagnostic codes into
	  human-readable messages.
	- ZOOM::Exception() constructor uses diag_srw_str() to fill
in
	  the error message, if it is undefined, for SRW errors.
	- The render() method of ZOOM::Exception(), and therefore
the
	  overloaded stringifying operator, deals with exceptions
that
	  have no message().
	- Corrected the scan parts of the test-suite that use CQL
so
	  that they explicitly perform client-side CQL compilation
and
	  send the resulting Type-1 query.  Previously, these
tests
	  were (accidentally) requesting that CQL be sent as-is to
the
	  server, but this mistake was being masked by an error in
	  older versions of ZOOM-C that compiled client-side
anyway!


 _/|_	
____________________________________________________________
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/o ) /  Mike Taylor    <mikeindexdata.com>    http://www.miketaylor.or
g.uk
)_v__/  "Oh no, Sir ...  This is 'being hit on the
head lessons'." --
	 Monty Python's Flying Circus.


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