Revision history for Perl extension App::sh2p.

0.01 Sun Aug 31 12:09:03 2008

• original version; created by h2xs 1.23 with options

  -A -n App::sh2p 0.02 Wed Sep 03 17:00:00 2008

• fix for 5.6 and CPAN testers in Builtins.pm syntax error reported in 5.6 but not in 5.10
• amended version requirement because of above
• changed input parameters - script no longer writes to STDOUT by default See documentation for details
• implemented unset, chmod, chown
• improved variable assignment to empty strings and integers
• implemented some variable expansion: ${var:?}, $#var
• limited support for case/esac statement
• limited support for basic shell pattern matching
• redirection from echo/print now supported
• fixed a bug where function calls after a conditional were seen as strings
• fixed a bug concerning ++ and --
• fixed a bug where 'echo' was not converted to 'print'
• fixed bug where calculations failed to have a trailing ;
• fixed bug where return without an argument had a \n before ;
• fixed bug where external calls from variables were not handled correctly 0.03 Fri Sep 12 17:00:00 2008
• improvements to POD
• improvements to formatting and indentation
• improved numeric handling
• support for local (alias in ksh, built-in in Bash)
• support for shift
• support for default read variable $REPLY
• support for extended pattern matching
• support for exec (but not the fd version)
• added option support for unset
• added support for autoload and typeset -fu
• #! line now takes the path from the current perl configuration
• improved environment variable handling
• improved variable expansion, now supports ${var##pat} and ${var%%pat}
• output file is now given the same permissions as the input
• the default list in 'for' is now @ARGV in main, or @ in a subroutine
• ~ added to glob characters
• improved handling of multi-line statements
• fixed bug where $0 was translated to $ARGV[-1]
• fixed bug where a free-standing colon (':') failed
• fixed bug concerning comment after redirection
• fixed bug when testing the 'system' command - now test explictly for zero return.
• fixed bug where a user function call with no arguments gave a single double-quote. 0.04 Wed Oct 06 17:00:00 2008
• removed the Runtime module and the -r option
• added -t option for test output (not for general use)
• heredoc subroutines are now appended as required
• support for true and false
• support for text permissions in chmod
• implemented 'let', umask, chgrp
• built-in support for tr (which may use lc or uc)
• built-in support for touch
• some improvements to string handling
• improvements to cd
• arrays are supported, including set -A, [] and [@] quoted and non-quoted, ${!array[@]}, ${#array[@]}
• improvements to pipeline handling
• limited support for subshells
• fixed bugs concerning multiple and logical operators in test, [, and [[
• fixed bug when a comment followed a compound statement (while, if, else, etc.)
• fixed bug concerning variable handling in case statement
• fixed bug where some glob constructs were incorrectly quoted
• fixed implementation of chown
• fixed bug where some INSPECT messages could be displayed several times for each occurence
• Improved error reporting 0.05 Sat Feb 07 17:00:00 2009
• new modules: Trap.pm, Statement.pm
• internal structure changes concerning BREAK markers (which fixed '7' bugs)
• fixed bugs concerning shortcuts (|| and &&) following external calls and print/echo
• fixed bug in Builtins.pm (doprint) where a variable was declared twice
• fixed bug in case statements where the do{} block was not terminated with ;
• fixed bug in case statement where statements were concatenated
• fixed bug with case statement nested inside other conditional
• fixed indentation with trailing } in esac
• fixed bug in 'let' where variable omitted sigil
• fixed bug where 'if' statements were sometimes unterminated
• fixed bug where an uninitialised array index was not declared with 'my'
• fixed bug in subshells where new variables were not declared in the correct scope
• fixed bugs where empty strings "" were handled incorrectly
• fixed bug with back-ticks embedded inside " quotes
• fixed bug where command name was a variable inside "
• fixed bug with -t option handling of multi-line commands
• fixed bug concerning declare/typeset and "Token count wrong!"
• fixed bug where a | embedded in a string was seen as a pipe
• fixed bugs concerning commands embedded in quotes
• conversion of advise command in back-ticks changed to be a concat. string
• support for trap - see documentation for restrictions
• the & operator (run in background) is now placed inside a system call.
• improvements to 'here' document handling
• improvements to $ handling
• improvements to redirection
• improvements to testing, including the provision of main() 0.06 Sun Feb 08 17:00:00 2009
• fixed bug in chmod, chown, chgrp, which gave "Token count wrong!"
• fixed bug in kill which gave "Token count wrong!"
• fixed bug with filename quoting in chmod, et. al.
• fixed bug where a bare Perl reference was displayed
• fixed bug in export where environment vars. on rhs were not recognised
• corrected quoting of bareword value in export
• corrected quoting in source/. command
• corrected quoting in touch command
• fixed bug where variable type (integer, etc.) was sometimes missed
• improved diagnostics when using shopt