Version History

2005.04.03 - 1.01

• Corrected t/02methods.t

2005.03.20 - 1.00

• Added test scripts 00load.t, 00prereq.t, pod.t, podcover.t
• Corrected some test scripts that was failing.
• Updated documentation.

2004.07.04 - 0.99_10

• This release replaces the previous one, incorrectly numbered 1.00_01.

2004.05.09 - 1.00b1

• Added new semantic upon request by Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski: values can be appended using += instead of =. See the doc for more.

2004.05.08 - 1.00b1

• Fixed a bug discovered by Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski: a multiline value without its ending character would make Config::Natural loops endlessly. Same for arrays.

2004.04.01 - 0.99

• Option 'auto_create_surrounding_list' is now disabled by default.
• Documentation was updated.

2004.03.30 - 0.99b6

• Added support for array parameters, upon request by Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski. ->value_of() and dump_param() have been updated to handle this new data type.
• Changed test 02 in 11dump.t: now using ->dump_param() instead of Data::Dumper.

2004.03.03 - 0.99b5

• Merge two new features proposed by Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski: method param_tree(), which returns a tree giving direct access to the internal tree, and the 'strip_indentation' to automatically strip indentation from multilines values.
• Corrected a small bug in AUTOLOAD.

2004.02.03 - 0.99b4

• Corrected a big dumb bug (probably present since a long time): creating two objects in the same program resulted in a collision, the objects sharing their memory, and therefore their data.
• Accessors are now implemented with AUTOLOAD.

2004.01.27

• Added examples/filter-file-slurp.pl.

2004.01.14 - 0.99b3

• Some tests in 04param.t were rewriten for better granularity. Also added some tests for clear() and clear_params().
• Added tests for prefilter().

2004.01.14 - 0.99b2

• Updated documentation.

2003.12.09 - 0.99b1

• Added the function value_of().

2003.11.01 - 0.98

• Added a test to verify that the dump_param() bug is no longer present.
• Added a few other tests here and there.

2003.10.28 - 0.98b3

• Bugfix: dump_param() was not handling lists.
• Updated documentation about handlers.

2003.10.26 - 0.98b2

• Bugfix: param() was creating junk empty lists.
• Added examples/java-properties.pl

2003.10.24 - 0.98b1

• Bugfix: new(\*DATA) was broken.
• Updated MANIFEST to include missing examples.
• Added examples/inner-modify.pl

2003.10.09 - 0.97

• Added two examples of filter functions in examples/, using these in t/13filter.t

2003.10.07

• Added support for input filter.
• 02methods.t: some methods weren't checked.

2003.10.02

• Updated the documentation.
• *.t: tests now set $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys when available to avoid the hash keys randomization introduced in Perl 5.8.1

2003.09.27 - 0.96_02

• Found a way to prevent Extutils::MakeMaker.PL from messing with Build.PL.

2003.09.22 - 0.96

• Replaced warning() and fatal() with carp() and croak().
• Added support for passing options to new().
• Corrected two bugs: comment_line_symbol was not used and was badly declared in the init hash.
• Added the "nospace" option to dump_param() upon request by Stéphane Benoliel.
• write_source() now accepts additional options which will be passed to dump_param().

2003.09.01

• *.t: now use File::Spec whenever a path is specified

2003.08.26

• *.t: changed some tests from ok($a==1) to ok($a,1)

2003.08.23 - 0.95

• Added the functionality to read a directory upon request by Sébastien Gross
• Updated and corrected the test suite.
• Updated and corrected the documentation.

2003.08.22 - 0.95 devel

• Updated and corrected the documentation.

2003.08.21 - 0.95 devel

• Corrected a minor bug in list detection (trailing spaces)
• Added an "include" statement upon request by Sébastien Gross.

2003.08.15 - 0.94

• Changed the name of this module from Data::Config to Config::Natural (the Data:: namespace is reserved for other type of modules).
• The version history is now in its own file. The format was changed and the dates were changed to be ISO.

2003.02.22 - 0.93

• Now using a Perl-style version number.
• Added the function write_source() upon request by Stéphane Benoliel.
• Corrected a mistake in the documentation.

2002.08.15 - 0.9.2

• The handler methods weren't documented. This is now fixed.
• A complete test suite is being written before submission to CPAN.

2001.07.03 - 0.9.1

• Documentation was corrected and updated.

2001.06.29 - 0.9.0

• Small improvements.

2001.05.20 - 0.9.0

• Corrected a few things in the documentation.

2001.05.13 - 0.9.0

• Added parameters handlers
• Added auto creation of surrounding lists

2001.05.13 - 0.9.0 pre 2

• Some cleanups.

2001.03.20 - 0.9.0 pre 1

• Loops can now be nested AND stacked :-)

2001.03.04 - 0.9.0 beta 2

• Nested loops begin to work, but they can't be stacked.

2001.02.15 - 0.9.0 beta 1

• Cleaned up a few things.
• First attempts to add the nesting feature.

2000.11.15 - 0.8.3

• Added the method clear()

2000.11.11 - 0.8.2

• Added a destructor method. This was needed because of a strange behaviour in MacPerl 5.2.0r4.

2000.11.08 - 0.8.1

• Minor bug corrected: empty or undefined parameters were not added.
• Bug corrected: syntactic symbols are now escaped through quotemeta().

2000.11.05 - 0.8.0

• Code cleanup (mainly auto-generation of the options accessors).
• Added list support.

2000.11.04 - 0.7.1

• Minor change in the internal structure: options are now grouped.

2000.10.10 - 0.7.0

• First fully functional version as an independent module.