Revision history for Perl extension Heap::Simple::Perl.

0.14 2008-01-27 23:43:15 UT

• No functional changes
• Use two argument open to handle the t/options file. Needed for old perls before 5.6. Only relevant for "make test"

0.13 2008-01-27 14:59:06 UT

• Work around a bug in perl 5.6 where you cannot trust the return value of s///ge
• Quote version dependencies in Makefile.PL to avoid having some systems depend on 9e-2 instead of 0.09
• Add a line directive to the partial evaluations so that errors refer to logical names like "Heap::Simple::Auto::Number::Scalar::insert line 3" instead of "eval 25 line 3"

0.12 2008-01-26 18:45:32 UT

• Pure maintenance release, no functional changes
• Added MANIFEST.SKIP
• Added "cover", "ppm install" and "ppm uninstall" private make targets
• Fix for test on perl 5.10 where we were testing perl itself, not Heap::Simple::Perl
• Added PackageTools based versioning

0.11 2005-11-20

• Add extract_all method
• Add merge_arrays method
• inserts can now handle multiple elements as argument
• absorb and key_absorb use the new multi-inserts
• absorb and key_absorb now take any number of heaps as argument instead of absorbing exactly one.
• Special characters in generated constant strings were incorrectly escaped (bugfix)
• key_method doesn't return literal strings anymore in the "complex" case (also causes the above mentioned bug to never trigger)
• make the internal _STRING and _LITERAL macros never see each others output (this is possibly a bugfix)

0.10 2005-07-27

• removed a stray print from t/speed_array
• Replaced :: by - in author email address (easier quoting for mailers)
• Don't run benchmarks unless asked for during Makefile.PL

0.09 2004-11-12

• Minor update, only the tests are changed to work with perl 5.6.1:
  • Some tests triggered a 5.6.1 issue where -0 differs from 0
  • One of the ties in the magic test was one reference too deep.

0.08 2004-11-06

• Removed a few stray "use warnings" in the tests
• Added a basic "load the module directly" test since the indirection through Heap::Simple hides load errors.
• Added _ before the name of the recover methods since they aren't part of the official API
• Only expand all uppercase macros

0.07 2004-10-25

• Split off Heap::Simple to its own package. This package is now Heap::Simple::Perl
• Add a "top" method.
• Use the "official" constant for infinity (9**9**9)
• Expand array, hash and method keys inplace (if safe)
• Check for unknown options
• Generate code in proper package and with proper name (defining a function twice is now a redefine warning)
• _make substitutions functions must start with , not just contain it
• make macro expansion now has proper argument parsing
• _make now does some very trivial code elimination
• drop the (always undocumented) internal init method. It was too awkward to use anyways.
• Move perl code to Simple/Perl.pm in preparation for an XS switch
• Renamed the "Key" element type to "Scalar". "Key" remains supported for backward compatibility.
• Consistent error message for getting an element of an empty heap.
• Document that the methods that return undef on empty are only guaranteed to do so in scalar context.
• Added an extractfirst method that returns nothing on empty.
• Replace test suite with a much cleaner one
• More fair speed testing
• Added speed compare with Array::Heap2
• Added "wrapped", "order", "elements" and "dirty" methods.
• Make index 0 into a hash now that more and more attributes get added
• Save and restore $@ around make() based code creation.
• Support maxcount
• add absorb() and key_absorb methods
• added _absorb, keyabsorb and keyinsert helper functions, but they are undocumented (not part of the official interface)
• placeholders that croak with a nice error message for all methods that don't always exist.

0.06 2004-09-29

• Don't scare away users by directly explaining all possibilities in the docs. Add examples to the top to show basic usage.
• Fix author email.
• Be paranoid about defining an expanded function twice.
• Rename extract_min to extract_top (like Heap did). Keep extract_min around for backward compatibility. Same with top_key (used to be min_key)
• Move Simple.pm into lib/Heap
• Allow Simple.pm and package version to be different

0.05 2003-05-20

• reorder s.t to take much less memory (failed on fast machines with little memory).
• Added keys, values and clear methods, with tests and documentation

0.04 2003-05-19

• Small documentation changes
• Bugfix: "Any" and "Object" element types without arguments failed

0.03 2003-05-19

• Added settable infinity
• Added generic compare function
• min_key now always exists, but can fail on empty heaps
• reordered $self->[0] from most to least likely
• Added the Object and Any element methods
• Added testcases for element methods Method, Object, Function and Any
• Added method "key_insert"
• Added testcases for generic compare
• Added method "key"
• Documented all new stuff
• Reduce the number of tests. Still way too many though.

0.02 2003-05-15

• Added testcases for > and gt
• Cleaned up the tests a bit
• Do a bit less work in the tests (faster)
• autocalibrate the big benchmark test.
• Unify n.t and s.t. Only run the number variant by default.
• Unify 2.t into 1.t
• changed the macro-expander so it supports balanced parenthesis
• Added the Method and Function element types for completely general key fetching (not documented or tested yet)

0.01 2003-05-14

• original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options

  -X -n Heap::Simple

• Insert code from my old FastHeap module
• Slight code changes
• Make special versions (Plain, Array, Hash)
• add testcases
• Prepare for release
• Module set too simular, names too confusing. Refactor module names into arguments.
• remove perl 5.6 dependencies (untested)
• Prepare for release again.