Revision history for Perl extension Config::Properties.

1.71 May 31, 2009

• changeProperties was generating a warning when the former value was undef (bug report by Jony Salonen)

1.70 Apr 22, 2009

• Solve bug in testing file 6_sorted.t (bug report and patch by Ian Malpass)

1.69 Dec 1, 2008

• Delete temporal files created on tests (bug report by Andreas Koenig)

1.68 Oct 27, 2007

• the regular expresion used to detect unicode BOM was not correct
• work around unicode bug in perl 5.6.0
• require perl 5.6.0 in Makefile.PL
• test pods

1.67 Aug 20, 2007

• splitToTree was not handling defaults properly (bug report and patch submitted by Filip Chodounsky)

1.66 Sep 8 2006

• this module is very stable now, use 1.x version numbers to reflect it.

0.65 Sep 8 2006

• add setFromTree and changeFromTree methods as requested by Nito.

0.64 Jul 26 2006

• add support for start parameter to splitToTree method.

0.63 Mar 30 2006

• silly bug on test file removed

0.62 Mar 29 2006

• add support for saveToString and splitToTree methods (suggested by Clayton Scott).

0.61 Jul 27 2005

• the regular expression used to remove utf8 byte order marks was failing on 5.6.x due to a perl bug (reported by Dominik Stadler).

0.60 Jun 27 2005

• handle utf8 BOM (bug reported by Trent Wood).
• doc typos corrected

0.59 Apr 14 2005

• remove old unused deprecated features PERL_MODE and object creation from prototype.
• remove undocumented redundant list function.
• remove deprecated perlMode and setPerlMode functions.
• change validator processing, to allow for key redefinition.
• remembers key line numbers for expressive duplicate error reports.
• empty properties before loading new file.
• improve docs.
• license notice added to the docs.

0.58 Sep 16 2004

• on getProperty methods admit several defaults and take the first defined one.
• new requireProperty method

0.57 May 07 2004

• retain properties read/construction order when saving

0.56 Oct 20 2003

• corrected \uXXXX unescaping (Guntis)

0.55 Sep 22 2003

• corrected bug in getProperties returning a flatten hash instead of a reference to it.

0.54 Sep 19 2003

• public methods documented
• new method changeProperty
• new method deleteProperty
• propertyNames now also returns names from default properties
• getProperties now also returns default properties
• new properties method returning a flatten hash with all the properties added
• setProperty doesn't return the old value anymore... anyway it's implementation was always broken!
• parameter checking changed to use some common functions

0.53 Aug 15 2003

• fall back mode and warning when Text::Wrap module is not recent enough.

0.52 Jul 30 2003

• added new test for saving and wrapping

0.51 Jun 10 2003

• improved docs for beginners
• pointer to Config::Properties::Simple added

0.50 May 27 2003

• escape $ on test name on 1parse.t
• require latest Text::Wrap version

0.49 May 20 2003

• CRLF line ends from windows files were not correctly handled on unix
• test for that bug

0.48 May 1 2003

• added new test for parsing \\

0.47 Apr 26 2003

• more tests added
• escape '#' and '!' at key starts / unescape
• process_line method signature changed
• don't use $_ because it can be read only bug (Craig Manley)

0.46 Apr 24 2003

• 5_test.t was printing debug information

0.45 Apr 24 2003

• more tests added
• wrapping of several consecutive spaces works now
• spaces at the beginning and at the end of keywords and values escaped when saving
• added wrapping when saving long properties

0.44 Apr 23 2003

• process_line deep recursion problem fixed (Eric Kolve)
• getProperties now return a copy and not a ref to the properties hash inside the object
• new from object deprecated
• unused PERL_MODE deprecated
• general code cleanup
• code reformated to 4 space indents

0.43 Tue Apr 15 2003

• module maintenace changed from Craig Manley to Salvador Fandiño <sfandino@yahoo.com>

0.42 Tue Apr 15 2003

• Added 'setValidator', 'getValidator' and 'validator' methods
• Added 'validate' method to perform validations on property/value pairs
• Added 'fail' method to report errors
• Added 'line_number' method
• Use Carp to report interface errors
• Reworked unescape to handle unicode sequences
• Reworked parsing regexp to support escaping [:= ] on property names
• Escape conflicting chars when writing
• Tests changed to use to Test::More
• Added some tests

0.41 Tue Jul 10 00:00:00 2002

• Fixed value checks in most methods that incorrectly treated the value '0' or the empty string as an undefined value. I could not contact the original author in any way (tried 3 email addresses and news://comp.lang.perl.modules), so I uploaded this version myself. Craig Manley (c.manley at skybound.nl).

0.40 Tue Jul 10 11:32:00 2001

• 0.4 (almost half-way there) release
• Add format/getFormat/setFormat() to change the appearance of saved properties

  (thanks to David Boyce for the idea)

• Added POD documenation for format feature
• Typo fixes in POD
• Add reference to official JavaDoc (idea thanks to David Boyce) Randy Jay Yarger (ryarger@mediaone.net)
• Fixed default handling when retrieving a property value David Boyce (dsb@world.std.com)

0.03 Sat May 19 21:56:10 2001

• Corrected Object Oriented behavior (was using class variables for everying,

  now using instance variables)

• Skip blank lines (spotted by Eric Zylberstejn and Christian Niles)
• Fixed borked packaging (#$@% Windows!) (spotted by Ken Ho,

  Michael Peterson and David Boyce)

• Fixed incorrect version number (spotted by Michael Peterson and David Boyce) Randy Jay Yarger (ryarger@mediaone.net)
• Allow the escape characters proscribed by the Java API spec Christian Niles (can207@nyu.edu)

0.02 Thu May 03 21:19:00 2001

• Fixed bug relating to doubled escape characters(\\).

  Thanks to David Boyce for the spot. Randy Jay Yarger (ryarger@mediaone.net)

0.01 Wed Jan 17 15:38:07 2001

• original version; created by h2xs 1.20 with options

  -X -n Config::Properties Randy Jay Yarger (ryarger@mediaone.net)