Revision history for Perl extension Dir::Split.

0.80 Sat Feb 16 13:18:05 CET 2008

• Added test-file split.t.
• Revised the code for excluding '.' and '..'.
• Removed dependency upon a certain perl version.
• Reformatted scripts/dir-split.pl.

0.79 Thu Dec 20 21:30:14 CET 2007

• Fixed a bug (don't remove the first two files from the list, assuming we have '.' and '..', use grep instead).
• Refined documentation (formatting) and code layout.

0.77 Sun Mar 19 22:14:55 CET 2006

• Both internal routines which are crucial to moving files, movnum() and movchar(), detect now whether multiple files with the same filename exist; if so, "duplicates" are attached a numeric suffix which starts at 1 and is subsequently autoincremented.
• Added INSTALL containing install instructions.
• Removed now stale testfile Dir-Split.t.

0.75 2005/03/06

• Merged to method calls/OO.
• Documentation clean-up.
• Added further $TRACKING_* options.

0.67 2004/02/01

• Minor code additions.

0.61 2004/01/18

• Simplified interface options.

0.60 2004/01/17

• Minor changes.

0.58 2004/01/16

• Object constructor removed; functions are exportable.

0.54 2004/01/13

• File::Find traverses directories.

0.51 2004/01/10

• bin/split.pl updated.

0.49 2004/01/07

• Removing directories will be abandoned in traversal mode if a traversal depth has been set or files weren't previously unlinked.

0.48 2004/01/07

• Traversal processing implemented.

0.42 2004/01/05

• The constructor new() accepts either a hash ref or a hash dump.

0.40 2004/01/05

• Non-class data is cleaned up.

0.39 2004/01/04

• Heavy code refactoring.
• Added introductional description of numeric & characteristic splitting and faq to documentation.
• Characteristic suffixes may have a variable length; explanation added.

0.38 2004/01/04

• Debug data upon existing files / copy & unlink failures available.
• The script 'bin/split.pl' evaluates the return codes and outputs results accordingly.
• Warning messages entirely removed.
• Override interface option simplified.

0.37 2004/01/03

• split() returns run and error codes.
• Source files and target dirs/files amounts are counted.
• tievar() runs a var-name lookup and ties accordingly.

0.36 2004/01/02

• Presets occupy their own sub.
• Simplified documentation.

0.34 2004/01/01

• Warning messages upon the encounter of existing files/dirs may be adjusted.

0.33 2004/01/01

• Prohibits numeric suffix evaluation if only char subdirs are present.

0.32 2004/01/01

• bin/split.pl added which commits a numeric or characteristic dir splitting by choice.

0.31 2003/12/31

• Interface input (the behavior hash) is sanity-checked.

0.3 2003/12/31

• Code refinement; characteristic splitting procedures implemented.
• Documentation expanded; covers characteristic splitting options and example.

0.2 2003/12/30

• Further sub ``inventions".
• Inefficiency clean-up.

0.1 2003/12/29

• Source files are sorted case-insensitive.
• Documentation expanded.

0.08 2003/12/29

• Interface options are embedded as object data.
• Directories within the source dir are ignored.
• Lowercasing filenames has been removed (sort distincts between upper-&-lower case).
• split() returns the amount of files that have been moved; undef if none.
• Documentation improved.

0.07 2003/12/28

• Dir-Split.t invokes File::Temp::tmpnam() to obtain a temp dir name.
• Minor code changes.

0.04 2003/12/25

• Testfile renamed to 'Dir-Split.t';

  require_ok, use_ok & isa_ok implemented.

0.02 2003/12/24

• Testfile 'dir_split.t' added.
• Documentation extended.
• Minor code changes.

0.01 2003/12/23

• Initial version.