[Templates] Imminent developer release 2.10a

[Andy Wardley]

I'm putting together a new developer release, 2.10a.  Changes are listed
below - mostly updates to ttree with a few bug fizes in the test suite.

Are there any other outstanding patches that I've missed?  

A

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* Applied two patches from Axel Gerstmair to fix bugs in Makefile.PL 
  and t/date.t.  See.
  http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2003-April/004553.html
  http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2003-May/004572.html

* Applied patch from Jim Cromie to t/autoform.t to skip tests on all
  versions of Perl from 5.8.0 onwards.

* Changed $OUTPUT in Template::Directive to be a package variable, 
  allowing it to be re-defined to permit a flushed output hack.
  http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2003-October/005136.html

* Applied a patch from Darren to the 'item' hash vmethod to protect
  against accessing private variables (prefixed '.' or '_')
  http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2003-June/004761.html

* Applied a patch from Ivan Adzhubey to template/splash/frame.
  http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2003-August/004953.html

* Applied a patch from Bryce Harrington to add the absolute and 
  relative options to ttree.  Also applied a patch from Mark Anderson 
  to add the 'template_debug'.  Removed the old debug option which was 
  as good as useless.  
  http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2003-October/005110.html
  http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2003-October/005126.html

* Applied another patch from Mark to push files named on the command 
  line through the process_file() sub to ensure that various options 
  like accept checking, pemission preserving and copy processing (but 
  not modification time) are applied.
  http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2003-October/005132.html

* Applied a variation of yet another ttree patch from Mark to add the 
  'suffix' option for changing the suffix of output files created.
  http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2003-October/005121.html

* Applied a variation of a patch from Dylan William Hardison which 
  adds the 'depend' and 'depend_file' options to ttree.
  http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2003-July/004783.html
  http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2003-October/005147.html