Rosetta - Changes

Rosetta

2006-04-13 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.724.0/0.724000 (SVN r1258).
This release is primarily to correct or update some documentation, mostly in Rosetta.pm and SeeAlso.pod, so errors don't confuse people; a larger set of changes should be pending.
New code file versions are: Rosetta.pm and Model.pm and Validator.pm and Example.pm 0.724.0 and Shell.pm 0.1.2; unchanged code file versions are: Rosetta/L/en.pm 0.210.1 and Model/L/en.pm 0.400.1 and Validator/L/en.pm 0.160.1 and Example/L/en.pm 0.2.1 and Shell/L/en.pm 0.1.1.
In Rosetta.pm, rewrote the middle half of the DESCRIPTION pod to add emphasis on Rosetta D being an application programming language, and to focus the nature of Rosetta.pm as being more on glue to that language from Perl rather than being a virtual machine. Also removed the mis-placed example usage descriptions. Also added emphasis on the use of Genezzo as a favored back-end.
In Language.pod, updated the 10,000 MILE VIEW opening paragraph to better describe what type of language Rosetta D is, saying that it is computationally complete with integrated database functionality. Also updated the DESCRIPTION regarding influences, to mention functional languages like Haskell.
In SeeAlso.pod, split and reorganized the project groups so we have distinct categories for fully and partially TTM/D related projects; the latter now contains Genezzo, Dataphor, and new entry Teradata. Also split up the entry for "The Third Manifesto" so the web site and book are separate list items, expanding each one, and updated the links to book chapter PDFs from the book so they are from the third edition rather than the second edition. Also added new entry Valentina to the non-TTM and non-SQL category. Also clarified what the list of Perl modules was about.
In Shell.pm, changed its dependency on 'Rosetta' so that any version at or after 0.722.0 is fine, rather than only version 0.723.0 working.
Updated the header of docs/OSCON2006SessionProposal.txt and the comment about it in the README file to say the talk was not approved.

2006-03-28 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.723.0/0.723000 (SVN r1239).
New code file versions are: Rosetta.pm and Model.pm and Validator.pm and Example.pm 0.723.0, Rosetta/L/en.pm 0.210.1 and Model/L/en.pm 0.400.1 and Validator/L/en.pm 0.160.1 and Example/L/en.pm 0.2.1 and Shell.pm 0.1.1 and Shell/L/en.pm 0.1.1.
Made a few small documentation fixes in Rosetta.pm and Language.pod and TODO.pod.
Fleshed out the SeeAlso.pod file, and consolidated there most external links from other parts of the distribution. Updated the SEE ALSO pod of all other files so they refer to Rosetta.pm (except Rosetta.pm) and SeeAlso.pod; this caused most 0.0.1 version increments.
In Language.pod, rewrote half of the 10,000 MILE VIEW documentation sub-section "States, Transactions and Concurrency"; transactions now come in lexical scope bound varieties, and non-scope bound / traditional transactions are now only allowed in anonymous / directly-application-invoked routines.

2006-03-20 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.722.0/0.722000 (SVN r1234).
This release is a snapshot to show a particular mid-way point in the middle of a large set of changes. As a whole, the documentation is internally inconsistent; however, you should be able to read the DESCRIPTION of Rosetta.pm and the whole top half of Language.pod, which are up to date and self-sufficient.
As of this release, Rosetta is officially (intended to be) a full implementation of Chris Date's and Hugh Darwen's "The Third Manifesto", rather than simply using TTM as a source of ideas. Moreover, Rosetta is now officially (intended to be) a DBMS in its own right, rather than just a client library or wrapper for such (but an implementation can still choose to use an existing DBMS as its engine).
Added new core modules Rosetta::Shell and Rosetta::Shell::L::en, which implement a simple interactive command shell around Rosetta, with which users can try out Rosetta using the least effort; it also is a great vehicle to develop and test new features without necessitating new testing code. This initial version has a basic command loop working, but the commands are not actually executed yet.
Also added new file examples/shell.pl which uses the new module; it can be invoked from the command line as an actual Rosetta application.
New code file versions are: Rosetta.pm and Model.pm and Validator.pm and Example.pm 0.722.0 and Shell.pm 0.1.0 and Shell/L/en.pm 0.1.0; unchanged code file versions are: Rosetta/L/en.pm 0.210.0 and Model/L/en.pm 0.400.0 and Validator/L/en.pm 0.160.0 and Example/L/en.pm 0.2.0.
Updated external dependency on Class::Std to v0.0.8 from v0.0.4.
In the Makefile.PL only, specified that the minimum required 'version' version is v0.57.
In Model.pm, added missing diewith_msg() private method to the Document class.
Split up Language.pod into itself and new lib/Rosetta/SeeAlso.pod; the latter contains the entire SEE ALSO content of the former, but that info is now in a more centrally accessable location. Reformatted the DESCRIPTION of Language.pod so that the hyperlinks would be interpreted correctly by Pod2Html such as CPAN uses.
In Rosetta.pm, rewrote the DESCRIPTION. In Model.pm, removed the DESCRIPTION; a new one will be added later. In Language.pod and Migration.pod, rewrote the first paragraph of the DESCRIPTION plus made a few smaller changes.
In Rosetta.pm, removed the Rosetta::Interface and Rosetta::Engine classes, in their place adding Rosetta::Interface::[DBMS, Exception, Command, Value, Variable]; the new classes are also mentioned in Language.pod a few times. Also added an initial BUILD() submethod to ::DBMS so that the new Shell can invoke it properly. In Rosetta.pm, renamed the SYNOPSIS to OLD SYNOPSIS TO REWRITE, and added the start of a new SYNOPSIS.
In Language.pod, renamed the main pod section "10,000 MILE VIEW OF ROSETTA D" to prepend "OLDER DOCUMENTATION TO REWRITE/REMOVE: ", and wrote a brand new main pod section "10,000 MILE VIEW" above it; this is true but that the opening paragraph from the older main section was moved into the new one as its opener. The brand new content is in the 4 sub-sections named: "Environment", "Command Structure and Processing", "Named Users and Privileges", "States, Transactions and Concurrency"; 2 empty sub-sections named "Data Types" and "Grammar and Name Spaces" still need to be (re-)written.
Note that the subsequent Rosetta release should feature the completion of Language.pod's 10,000 mile view plus templates for the other main sections, one of which will list Rosetta D's built-in packages and data types with their operators, and one of which will detail the schema of the Rosetta DBMS' system catalog relvars.

2006-02-23 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.721.0/0.721000 (SVN r1220).
This release is a snapshot to show a particular mid-way point in the middle of a large set of changes. You should not pay too much attention to it yet as its documentation is internally inconsistent.
This distribution is partly the result of merging the briefly separate Rosetta-Engine-Native distribution into the core Rosetta distribution. The component modules were also renamed from Native.pm to Example.pm, and Native/L/en.pm to Example/L/en.pm, which better reflects what purpose they serve now. As a result of this merger, a logical circular dependency in the test suite is now resolved; the Rosetta core can be completely tested without requiring an Engine from a separate distribution. The Example.pm version has been raised and synchronized to match Rosetta.pm; the en.pm has simply been incremented by 0.1.0 to reflect the name change.
New code file versions are: Rosetta.pm and Model.pm and Validator.pm and Example.pm 0.721.0 and Example/L/en.pm 0.2.0; unchanged code file versions are: Rosetta/L/en.pm 0.210.0 and Model/L/en.pm 0.400.0 and Validator/L/en.pm 0.160.0.
Added new external dependency on Parse::RecDescent v1.94 as it will be used by Model.pm in a near-subsequent release. Possibly, the load of this module may be made optional, but for now it always loads.
Added a warning to Makefile.PL so that it requests users would ignore test failures of the depended-on 'only' module. Also removed the warning about preferring the latest Perl 5.8.x version.
Changed the prerequisites list in Makefile.PL so that all minimum versions are specified as floating point numbers, and none as strings; as a result, the prerequisites check by MakeMaker should work correctly with installed modules that satisfy the requirements but don't match the specific versions mentioned.
This release is primarily for a rewrite of Language.pod, or rather, a rewrite of the top portion of it, citing the snapshot. As part of this, the Rosetta native language "IRL" was renamed to "Rosetta D", and Rosetta is now officially an implemenation of "The Third Manifesto"; some sections of the Rosetta documentation still need updating though.
Changed the NAME pod of Language.pod from "Design document of the Intermediate Relational Language" to "Design document of the Rosetta D language". Rewrote the main pod section DESCRIPTION. Replaced the main pod section "OPERATIONAL CONTEXT" with a new larger section "10,000 MILE VIEW OF ROSETTA D". Renamed the main pod section "DATA TYPES AND VALUES" to prepend "OLDER DOCUMENTATION TO REWRITE/REMOVE: ". Updated the main pod section SEE ALSO.
Changed the NAME pod of Overview.pod from "10,000 mile view of Rosetta" to "Rosetta compared to DBI". Removed the 2 old main pod sections [OLDER DOCUMENTATION TO REWRITE/REMOVE: HIGH LEVEL DATA STRUCTURES, HIGH LEVEL ROSETTA INTERFACE CLASSES/ROLES], and emptied the SEE ALSO section. The file Overview.pod is now deprecated, with its current content likely to move (with changes) to somewhere else.
Changed the NAME pod of Model.pm from "Intermediate Relational Language" to "Abstract syntax tree for the Rosetta D language".
Updated all copyright notices to say "This file is part of the Rosetta DBMS framework" instead of "This file is part of the Rosetta database portability library".
Added new file docs/OSCON2006SessionProposal.txt, which contains the pristine text of my 2006 Feb 13th proposal (not yet approved) for a 45 minute conference session at OSCON 2006 this upcoming July.
Updated the SEE ALSO pod of [Model.pm, Rosetta.pm, Validator.pm] to remove mentions of Rosetta::Utility::SQL[Builder|Parser] and Rosetta::Engine::Generic, since they won't be re-made any time soon.

2006-02-01 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta-Engine-Native Release 0.1.0/0.001000 (SVN r1203).
This release is concurrently available in both Perl 5 and Perl 6 versions. The Perl 5 version is in the same distribution as this Changes file. The Perl 6 version is bundled with Pugs-6.2.11 (released on 2006-02-01), in its ext/Rosetta-Engine-Native/ subdirectory.
Initial code file versions are: Native.pm 0.1.0 and en.pm 0.1.0.
Initial external dependencies are: 'version', 'only', 'Readonly' 1.03, Class::Std 0.0.4, Class::Std::Utils 0.0.2, Locale::KeyedText 1.72.0, 'Rosetta' 0.720.0, Test::More, Rosetta::Validator 0.720.0.
This is the first release of the Rosetta-Engine-Native distribution. This is the first release of any distribution to contain Rosetta::Engine::Native. This is the first release of any distribution for which some of the existing work that became the Rosetta-Engine-Native distribution was in the form of executable code, and not just design documentation.
This is the initial file manifest:

        Changes
        GPL
        INSTALL
        lib/Rosetta/Engine/Native.pm
        lib/Rosetta/Engine/Native/L/en.pm
        Makefile.PL
        MANIFEST
        META.yml
        README
        t/Rosetta_Engine_Native.t
        TODO

2006-02-01 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.720.0/0.720000 (SVN r1203).
This release is concurrently available in both Perl 5 and Perl 6 versions. The Perl 5 version is in the same distribution as this Changes file. The Perl 6 version is bundled with Pugs-6.2.11 (released on 2006-02-01), in its ext/Rosetta/ subdirectory.
This is the first CPAN release of the second major codebase of Rosetta, which was written mainly between 2005-10 and later.
Added "Changes" entry dated 2005-12-01, which should have been there as of the previous release 0.71.0, but wasn't.
The changes with this release, relative to the previous release which was of the first major codebase, are all summed up by that almost everything has been rewritten from scratch, code and documentation alike, but that the higher-level design plans and framework structure are the same as before, and any corresponding files and packages have the same names. The first and second major codebases of Rosetta are definitely incompatible with each other, so any external code written to work with any previous releases will have to be rewritten or at least severely edited to work with this one. Or rather, to work with subsequent releases, since this one is almost entirely documentation and doesn't have much working code to talk to yet.
Here are the file manifest differences between the last release and this one; the (-) and (+) respectively indicate files that were removed and added, while those without a flag are in both releases and yet had their contents mostly rewritten (but GPL and INSTALL are unchanged):

          Changes
        + docs/OSCON2005LightningTalk.txt
          GPL
          INSTALL
          lib/Rosetta.pm
        + lib/Rosetta/Copying.pod
        - lib/Rosetta/EnumTypes.pod
        + lib/Rosetta/FAQ.pod
        - lib/Rosetta/Features.pod
        - lib/Rosetta/Framework.pod
          lib/Rosetta/L/en.pm
          lib/Rosetta/Language.pod
        + lib/Rosetta/Migration.pod
          lib/Rosetta/Model.pm
          lib/Rosetta/Model/L/en.pm
        - lib/Rosetta/NodeTypes.pod
        + lib/Rosetta/Overview.pod
        + lib/Rosetta/TODO.pod
          lib/Rosetta/Validator.pm
          lib/Rosetta/Validator/L/en.pm
          Makefile.PL
          MANIFEST
          META.yml
        - ReadMe
        + README
        - t/lib/t_ROS_Abstract.pm
        - t/lib/t_ROS_Synopsis.pm
        - t/lib/t_ROS_Terse.pm
        - t/lib/t_ROS_Util.pm
        - t/lib/t_ROS_Verbose.pm
          t/ROS_00_Compile.t
        - t/ROS_10_Identity.t
        - t/ROS_11_Circular.t
        - t/ROS_40_Verbose.t
        - t/ROS_41_Terse.t
        - t/ROS_42_Abstract.t
        - t/ROS_43_Synopsis.t
        - t/ROS_50_Cloning.t
          TODO

Raised and multiplied the minor version number so that the current X.Y.Z formatted version numbers are backwards compatible with the older releases in X.0Y format, with respect to determing which version numbers are larger or smaller. The new version 0.720.0 is equivalent to 0.72 under the old format, in which the last release was both 0.69 (SQL-Routine) and 0.47 (Rosetta).
New code file versions are: Rosetta.pm and Model.pm and Validator.pm 0.720.0 and Rosetta/L/en.pm 0.210.0 and Model/L/en.pm 0.400.0 and Validator/L/en.pm 0.160.0.
All 3 of the above non-en.pm files are now void of any functions or methods except Model.pm, which has a total of 4 public ones plus 7 private ones. All 3 of the en.pm files are code-complete but that they are void of any user text messages, but for Model's, which has 2.
Updated external dependency on Locale::KeyedText to 1.72.0.
Added new external dependencies on 'Readonly', Class::Std, Class::Std::Utils. Removed old external dependencies on List::Util and List::MoreUtils (they may return if needed later). Maintained external dependencies on 'version', 'only', Scalar::Util, Test::More.
Altered the license of the Rosetta framework in regards to the GPL's default requirements of combined works based on Rosetta needing to be GPL. Previously, an exemption was given to linked components of any license at all (letting those components retain their own licenses), free or closed, if those components were fully functional independently of Rosetta, meaning Rosetta's use was an optional feature of theirs. Now instead, an exemption is given to any linked components whose own licenses qualify as free software (according to the FSF), regardless of whether their use of Rosetta is mandatory or optional. This change should make things a lot more fair and practical for everyone. Other free software developers won't have to maintain parallel functionality just to keep their alternate licenses on a technicality. I also added an explicit statement offering alternate and proprietary licenses for an additional fee, so non-free software developers can bundle Rosetta.
Rosetta and Rosetta::Model are now implemented as inside-out objects, so the privacy of their attributes is now enforced. Also, Rosetta.pm and Model.pm themselves now have BUILD() methods internally instead of new() functions (Model.pm has them now, Rosetta.pm will later). Also, all private methods now use Class::Std's ": PRIVATE" trait, which enforces their privacy.
Updated all object argument validation to use Scalar::Util's blessed() function plus the method form of UNIVERSAL's isa() rather than the latter's functional form. The changed version should work more like Perl 6's does(), and should permit one to use mock objects that claim to be of the expected types instead of genuine ones.
The package Rosetta::Model::Container has been renamed to Rosetta::Model::Document, while ::Node kept its old name. The packages ::ContainerStorage, ::NodeStorage, and ::Group were eliminated.
"Rosetta" no longer has any functions and exists just as the namesake of this distribution (and of its file); the 8 new_interface() wrapper functions are gone. You now just use the previously-wrapped corresponding functions Rosetta::Interface::->new() instead (they still have yet to be rewritten, though). Likewise, "Rosetta::Model" no longer has any functions and exists just as the namesake of its file; the newcontainer() and new_node() wrapper functions are gone. You now just use the previously-wrapped functions Rosetta::Model::Document->new() and Rosetta::Model::Node->new() instead (these 2 actually have been rewritten).
All new() constructor functions now have named parameters instead of positional ones (the ones that were rewritten anyway; the others simply don't exist), which should make it easier to add functionality to Rosetta and Rosetta::Model later if one wants to. But all object methods (that exist) still have positional parameters like before.
Deleted the whole data dictionary in Rosetta::Model (%NODE_TYPES and related constants); a new one will be made later.
Merged the functionality of the Rosetta::Model's old build_*() functions and methods into its new() constructor functions, so you can now construct entire Node trees with a single invocation of new(). The new Document constructor now has a single "root_nodes" array-ref parameter, and the new Node constructor now has 5 parameters; "document", "parent_node", "node_type", "attributes" (hash-ref), "child_nodes" (array-ref); the "root_nodes" and "child_nodes" parameters are the same.
The new object Rosetta::Model methods export_as_hash() replace the old get_all_properties() methods. The related methods which produce translated strings have not yet been rewritten.
Any INTERFACE documentation now uses the word 'parameter' in many places where the word 'argument' was used, which is more correct.
Roughly speaking, the pod-only files were restructured as follows: 1. EnumTypes and NodeTypes are merged into Language; 2. Framework is split into Overview and TODO.pod and part of Copying; 3. Features will be replaced later; 4. FAQ, Migration, and much of Copying is just new; 5. pod from Model.pm and Rosetta.pm has been shuffled between the pod files and vice-versa.
Added new SYNOPSIS to Rosetta.pm, which had none before; also, the SYNOPSIS of Model.pm and Validator.pm are gone, for now.
Added new file docs/OSCON2005LightningTalk.txt, which has the pristine text for a lightning talk I gave, and outlined in 5 minutes what at-that-time Rosetta was and was to be.
Removed the whole test suite but the compilation test; it will be replaced later. As such, the new modules have not yet been proven to actually work (though most of their code isn't rewritten yet).
Renamed the ReadMe file to README and chopped out all of its parts that were redundant with Rosetta.pm's own POD. All that remains now is the PREFACE, KEEPING UP TO DATE (also rewritten), and SUPPORT sections.
Updated the Makefile.PL to output a message saying this distro prefers the latest Perl version (currently 5.8.8), if we aren't running under it. But the minimum hard dependency is unchanged at 5.8.1.
Rewrote the TODO file to just reference lib/Rosetta/TODO.pod for now.
Synchronized common headings for these files: Changes, README, TODO.
There were many more changes that aren't enumerated here.

2006-01-13 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.71.0/0.071000 (SVN r1184).
This is a retroactive release, made on intended to help ease the transition between the first and second major code bases of the Rosetta database access framework. (The first codebase was written mainly between 2002-12 and 2005-09, while the second rewritten code base was mainly between 2005-10 and later.) While this release actually takes place on January "Friday The Thirteenth" 2006 and is affected by recent design decisions, it is for the most part as identical as possible to the most recent (2005-09-28) other release of the first code base. Think of this retroactive release as having been made on 2005-09-29, in regards to its dependency versions, design decisions, documentation for SVN repository location, TODO, etc. Some of the details being published now, like the SVN location, is already false (its actually at http://svn.utsl.gen.nz/trunk/Rosetta-old/), but they are maintained as they were for historical posterity.
The changes with this release are all summed up by that there is no longer a distinct "SQL::Routine" name space, and all packages that were in that name space are now in the "Rosetta" name space. There are no actual functionality changes, just a shifting around of components; your existing code that used the old packages will remain compatible with just some renaming of your package references.
For the first time since release 0.27 (2004-03-21), the entire inner core of the Rosetta framework is now in a single distribution; the "SQL-Routine" and "Rosetta" distributions have merged into "Rosetta"; "Rosetta-0.71.0" is the next version after both "SQL-Routine-0.70.3" and "Rosetta-0.48.3".
No previously "Rosetta" packages have been renamed, but all of the previously "SQL-Routine" packages have been, as follows: SQL::Routine -> Rosetta::Model, SQL::Routine::L::en -> Rosetta::Model::L::en, SQL::Routine::Language -> Rosetta::Language, SQL::Routine::EnumTypes -> Rosetta::EnumTypes, SQL::Routine::NodeTypes -> Rosetta::NodeTypes.
All previously SQL-Routine t/ files have been renamed: t/SRT_.t -> t/ROS_.t, t/lib/t_SRT_.t -> t/lib/t_ROS_*.t; the 2 t/ROS_00_Compile.t were then merged into one file.
All of these corresponding files from each distribution were merged: Changes, Makefile.PL, MANIFEST, META.yml, ReadMe, TODO, GPL, INSTALL; the last 2 were already identical, so no changes; the first 6 all saw changes from either of their originals, with Changes having the most.
All versioned files had their versions incremented to the next Y of X.Y.Z, regardless of any actual changes. As exceptions to this, "Rosetta" and "Rosetta::Validator" were further incremented to match the incremented-once "Rosetta::Model", so that all 3 have now and forever identical versions, which are the same as the "Rosetta" distribution; currently all 4 are 0.71.0. The other versioned files now have these versions: Rosetta::L::en is 0.20.0, Rosetta::Model::L::en is 0.39.0, Rosetta::Validator::L::en is 0.15.0.
Renamed all Locale::KeyedText Message and Template keys from "SRT_" to "ROS_M_". Er, you may have to update your code to account for this also, to avoid breakage.
Updated 7 files to rename the data dictionary items "SRT_NODE[|_LIST]" to "ROSMNODE[|_LIST]". Er, you may have to update your code to account for this also, to avoid breakage.
In Rosetta.pm, renamed the 'srt_cont' property of Rosetta::Interface to 'model_cont'. Also renamed the get_srt_container() accessor method to get_model_container(), plus calls to same in Validator.pm. Er, you may have to update your code to account for this also, to avoid breakage.
In EnumTypes.pod and Model.pm, renamed all 39 mentions of the 'exception_type' enumerated type values from 'SRTX_' to 'ROSMX_'.

2006-01-07 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Record update in the PAUSE modules database:

mlstatus: [delete] was [list]

The entry used to be:

SQL::
::Routine adpOg Specify all database tasks with SQL routines DUNCAND

2005-12-01 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Record update in the PAUSE modules database:

statd: [a] was [c]

The resulting entry will be:

Rosetta adpOg Rigorous database portability DUNCAND

2005-09-28 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-Routine Release 0.70.3/0.070003 (SVN r878).
New code file versions are: Routine.pm 0.70.3 and en.pm 0.38.2.
From now on, any ordinary 'use [|only ]Foo' statements that appear within *.pm files will be located in different places than before; the 'use' statements for modules that do not export anything, particularly object oriented modules, will appear near the top of the file, above all package declarations, but just below the use-pragma statements; the 'use' statements for modules whose exported functions we are using will be placed just below the declarations of each package in which the relevant exported functions are used.
Removed any line-trailing whitespace from all distribution files.
Reformatted all code by swapping various string quoting delimiters.
Reformatted Routine.pm to un-cuddle all 'else' and 'elsif' blocks.
Updated the setprimary_parent_attribute() method in Routine.pm to replace its postfix do-while loop with an equivalent code block featuring an ordinary 'while' loop. Likewise, updated the findnode_by_surrogate_id_remotely() method to replace its postfix do-until loop with an equivalent code block featuring an ordinary 'while' loop.
Updated Routine.pm and t_SRT_Util.pm to replace all of their 'unless' conditionals with equivalent 'if' conditionals.
Updated Routine.pm to rename all of its 'foreach' loops to 'for'.
Updated Routine.pm to move its 2 for-loop labels upwards to their own lines.
Updated Routine.pm to reformat the 1 '|' delimited regular expression as a '/' delimited one.
Updated Routine.pm to reformat all 14 regular expressions so that they use the /x flag.
Reformatted all code to change any "if( ... ) {" to "if (...) {".
Updated Routine.pm to reformat all 8 'while' like the 'if' were.
Added named constants $EMPTY_STR and $INDENT to Routine.pm.
Updated Routine.pm to add labels to all un-labeled [next|last|redo] statements (22), and their innermost bounding loop controls (15).
Reformatted all code so that any uses of the named unary operators [defined|ref] no longer have parenthesis around their argument.
Updated Routine.pm to reformat 14 uses of 'delete', and 16 uses of 'exists', and 7 uses of 'scalar', like with 'ref'.
Removed 20 superfluous uses of 'scalar' in Routine.pm.
Updated Routine.pm to replace 32 "<condition> and return ...;" each with "return ... if <condition>;".
Updated Routine.pm to replace 37 "<condition> or return ...;" each with "return ... if <complement-condition>;".
Updated Routine.pm to split up each of 11 "return if !(my $foo = ...);" statements into 2, "my $foo = ...;" and "return if !$foo;".
Updated Routine.pm to replace 17 "<condition> [and|or] [next|last] ...;" with "[next|last] ... if ..." like with 'return'.
Updated Routine.pm to replace every "<condition> [and|or] $self->throw ..." each with "$self->throw ... if [<condition>|<complement-condition>]".
Updated Routine.pm to replace 17 "if ... return ..." with their postfix-if equivalents; t_SRT_Util.pm also had 1 such change.
Updated Routine.pm and SRT_11_Circular.t to rearrange (3,2) conditional 'die' statements so they have postfix-if conditionals.
Updated Routine.pm to rearrange 28 conditional '_throw...' statements so they have postfix-if conditionals.
Reformatted all code, in Routine.pm, so that any uses of the built-in operators or functions named [bless|join|push|shift|splice|unshift] no longer have parenthesis around their argument lists; either the parens were just removed, or they were moved to surround both the operator/function name and its arguments.
Updated Routine.pm to reformat all 13 uses of the honorary built-in function Scalar::Util::weaken() so it looks like a built-in; for each use, the package-name qualifier was removed, as were the parenthesis around its lone argument. Since Scalar::Util exports nothing by default, added a 'qw( weaken )' suffix to its 'use' statement.
Added new external dependency on the honorary built-in function List::Util::first() to Routine.pm. Then rewrote 4 '(grep { $_ } @)[0]' expressions as 'first { $_ } @', in the buildnode_is_child_or_not() and valid_node_type_surrogate_id_attributes() functions.
Added new external dependency on the honorary built-in function List::MoreUtils::first_index() to Routine.pm. Then rewrote the clearnode_ref_attribute() method to use this function rather than a last-terminated for-loop when looking for a child Node in its parent's child list. Specifically, List::MoreUtils versions 0.12 and up are required, since versions 0.11 and below didn't export some functions.
In Routine.pm, updated the assertin_node_deferrable_constraints() in several ways: 1. Added a new explicit test that a Node's "id" is set, which while redundant now, won't be after a future update; 2. The always-mandatory attribute validation test now reports a list of all failing attributes, rather than just the first one encountered; 3. Rewrote 3 other test blocks to be more concise, using grep statements rather than for-with-push loops. Related to the #2 changes, updated en.pm to rename and reword the 'SRTNASDC_MA_VAL_NO_SET' user text message to 'SRTNASDC_MA_VALS_NO_SET'; note that the en.pm message for #1 was already in en.pm from when what will be was then so.
Split up some long lines in en.pm.
Updated any DEPENDENCIES documentation to reformat any indented sections as paragraphs, and show version ranges like 'only' takes them.
Reformatted all code so that every occurance of the string concatenation operator (.) has a space between the operator and each of its 2 arguments, rather than their all being in contact. Also reformatted any lines that are split on this operator so the operator appears at the start of the second line, rather than the end of the first line.
Reformatted a few multi-line statements so that any [=|and|or] that are split on appear at the start of a line rather than the end of one.
Reformatted all of the code comments at the top of Routine.pm, where its object property names, and constant values, are declared, so that all comment lines don't exceed the 75 character line length.
In Routine.pm, reformatted 4 cascading ternary statements into aligned columns.
Other miscellaneous code line alignments and splitting.

2005-09-28 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.48.3/0.048003 (SVN r878).
New code file versions are: Rosetta.pm and Validator.pm 0.48.3 and Rosetta/L/en.pm 0.19.2 and Validator/L/en.pm 0.14.2.
From now on, any ordinary 'use [|only ]Foo' statements that appear within *.pm files will be located in different places than before; the 'use' statements for modules that do not export anything, particularly object oriented modules, will appear near the top of the file, above all package declarations, but just below the use-pragma statements; the 'use' statements for modules whose exported functions we are using will be placed just below the declarations of each package in which the relevant exported functions are used.
Removed any line-trailing whitespace from all distribution files.
Reformatted all code by swapping various string quoting delimiters.
Reformatted Rosetta.pm and Validator.pm to un-cuddle all 'else' and 'elsif' blocks.
Updated Rosetta.pm and Validator.pm and Framework.pod to replace all of their 'unless' conditionals with equivalent 'if' conditionals.
Updated Rosetta.pm and Validator.pm and Framework.pod to rename all of their 'foreach' loops to 'for'.
Updated Rosetta.pm and Validator.pm to move their collective 5 switch statement labels upwards to their own lines.
Updated Framework.pod to reformat all 3 regular expressions so that they use the /x flag.
Reformatted all code to change any "if( ... ) {" to "if (...) {".
Updated Validator.pm to reformat all 4 'while' like the 'if' were.
Added named constant $EMPTY_STR to Rosetta.pm and Validator.pm.
In Framework.pod, removed redundant leading '&' from sub invocations.
Updated Rosetta.pm, Validator.pm, Framework.pod to add labels to all un-labeled [next|last|redo] statements (3,1,2), and their innermost bounding loop controls (2,1,2).
Reformatted all code so that any uses of the named unary operators [defined|ref] no longer have parenthesis around their argument.
Updated Rosetta.pm to reformat 2 uses of 'delete' like with 'ref'; likewise updated Framework.pod with 2 uses of 'hex'.
Removed 1 superfluous use of 'scalar' in each of Validator.pm and Framework.pod.
In Validator.pm, split up 7 multi-statement lines so each statement is on its own line.
Updated Rosetta.pm to replace 5 "<condition> and return ...;" each with "return ... if <condition>;".
Updated Rosetta.pm to replace 3 "<condition> or return ...;" each with "return ... if <complement-condition>;". Likewise replaced 4 in Validator.pm and 1 in Framework.pod.
Updated Rosetta.pm and Validator.pm to replace (2,8) "<condition> [and|or] [next|last] ...;" with "[next|last] ... if ..." like with 'return'.
Updated Framework.pod to replace 10 "if ... return ..." with their postfix-if equivalents; Validator.pm also had 1 such change.
Updated Validator.pm to rearrange 8 conditional 'die' statements so they have postfix-if conditionals.
Updated Rosetta.pm to rearrange 29 conditional '_throw...' statements so they have postfix-if conditionals.
Reformatted all code, in Rosetta.pm and Validator.pm and Framework.pod, so that any uses of the built-in operators or functions named [bless|chomp|join|pack|push|read|shift|split] no longer have parenthesis around their argument lists; either the parens were just removed, or they were moved to surround both the operator/function name and its arguments.
Updated Rosetta.pm to reformat all 3 uses of the honorary built-in function Scalar::Util::weaken() so it looks like a built-in; for each use, the package-name qualifier was removed, as were the parenthesis around its lone argument. Since Scalar::Util exports nothing by default, added a 'qw( weaken )' suffix to its 'use' statement.
Added new external dependency on the honorary built-in function List::Util::first() to Rosetta.pm. Then replaced a last-terminated for-loop in prepare_call_engine() with an invocation of it.
Added new external dependency on the honorary built-in function Scalar::Util::openhandle() to both the set_trace_fh() method of Rosetta.pm and the main() function of Validator.pm; both of these can now reliably test if their [NEW|TRACE]FH argument is a valid open file handle, and they will now throw an exception if not. Correspondingly, added 'ROSCLASS_METH_ARG_NO_FH' user text message to Rosetta/L/en.pm, and 'ROS_VALVMAIN_ARG_TRACE_NO_FH' to Validator/L/en.pm. Also updated the setup_[env|conn]() methods of Validator.pm to only conditionally invoke set_trace_fh(), since passing it undef now results in an exception toss by the latter.
Split up some long lines in both en.pm.
Updated any DEPENDENCIES documentation to reformat any indented sections as paragraphs, and show version ranges like 'only' takes them.
Reformatted all code so that every occurance of the string concatenation operator (.) has a space between the operator and each of its 2 arguments, rather than their all being in contact. Also reformatted any lines that are split on this operator so the operator appears at the start of the second line, rather than the end of the first line.
Reformatted a few multi-line statements so that any [=|and|or] that are split on appear at the start of a line rather than the end of one.
Reformatted all of the code comments at the top of Rosetta.pm and Validator.pm, where its object property names, and constant values, are declared, so that all comment lines don't exceed the 75 character line length.
In Framework.pod, reformatted 1 cascading ternary statement into aligned columns.
Other miscellaneous code line alignments and splitting.

2005-09-14 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-Routine Release 0.70.2/0.070002 (SVN r813).
New code file versions are: Routine.pm 0.70.2.
Merged Details.pod into Routine.pm:The Routine.pm main documentation section BRIEF FUNCTION AND METHOD LIST was deleted, and all of the significant content of Details.pod was placed in the same location. These 17 main documentation sections were moved from Details.pod to Routine.pm:MATTERS OF PORTABILITY AND FEATURES, STRUCTURE, RELATING INTERFACE AND STORAGE CLASSES, ABOUT NODE GROUPS, "FAULT TOLERANCE, DATA INTEGRITY, AND CONCURRENCY", NODE IDENTITY ATTRIBUTES, CONSTRUCTOR WRAPPER FUNCTIONS, CONTAINER CONSTRUCTOR FUNCTIONS, CONTAINER OBJECT METHODS, NODE CONSTRUCTOR FUNCTIONS, NODE OBJECT METHODS, GROUP CONSTRUCTOR FUNCTIONS, GROUP OBJECT METHODS, CONTAINER OR NODE METHODS FOR DEBUGGING, CONTAINER OR NODE FUNCTIONS AND METHODS FOR RAPID DEVELOPMENT, INFORMATION FUNCTIONS, OLDER DOCUMENTATION. These 5 remaining Details.pod documentation sections were redundant and simply deleted with their now superfluous file: NAME, DESCRIPTION, SEE ALSO, AUTHOR, LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT. Removed all references to Details.pod in all other distribution files.
Updated Routine.pm and Language.pod to remove all references to possible versions of this library that are written in other languages, such as C or Parrot/Pugs/Perl 6. A C version is unlikely to ever happen, or by that time these references would be severely out of date, and either way they are clutter now. The Perl 6 version is happening now, but since that is a clone of the Perl 5 version, there's no point for its documentation to refer to itself as a potential future project. In Routine.pm, removed all the code comments for NodeStorage property declarations that specify how they would be represented in a C version of SQL::Routine. In Routine.pm, removed the whole main documentation section OLDER DOCUMENTATION, whose sole content was details about C implementation, and mentions of Perl 6 etc. In Language.pod, updated the NODE ATTRIBUTE TYPES intro paragraph to remove the mention of C versions, as well as the mention of there being separate accessor methods for each attribute type (not true since r0.68).

2005-09-14 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.48.2/0.048002 (SVN r813).
New code file versions are: Rosetta.pm and Validator.pm 0.48.2.
Merged Details.pod into Rosetta.pm:The Rosetta.pm main documentation section BRIEF FUNCTION AND METHOD LIST was deleted, and all of the significant content of Details.pod was placed in the same location. These 23 main documentation sections were moved from Details.pod to Rosetta.pm:STRUCTURE , FEATURE SUPPORT VALIDATION, CONSTRUCTOR WRAPPER FUNCTIONS, INTERFACE OBJECT METHODS, INDIRECT APPLICATION OBJECT METHODS, plus [* CONSTRUCTOR FUNCTIONS, OBJECT METHODS] where '' is each of [APPLICATION, ENVIRONMENT, CONNECTION, CURSOR, LITERAL, SUCCESS, PREPARATION, ERROR], ENGINE OBJECT FUNCTIONS AND METHODS, DISPATCHER OBJECT FUNCTIONS AND METHODS. These 5 remaining Details.pod documentation sections were redundant and simply deleted with their now superfluous file: NAME, DESCRIPTION, SEE ALSO, AUTHOR, LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT. Removed all references to Details.pod in all other distribution files.
Updated the BRIEF MODULE LIST of Framework.pod to remove the references to SQL::Routine::Details and Rosetta::Details, both of which no longer exist.
Updated Framework.pod to remove all references to possible versions of this library that are written in other languages, such as C or Parrot/Pugs/Perl 6. A C version is unlikely to ever happen, or by that time these references would be severely out of date, and either way they are clutter now. The Perl 6 version is happening now, but since that is a clone of the Perl 5 version, there's no point for its documentation to refer to itself as a potential future project. Removed the last STRUCTURE paragraph, which specified details about a C representation of Rosetta. Removed the whole main documentation section AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND VERSION, which mentioned Parrot etc.

2005-09-12 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-Routine Release 0.70.1/0.070001 (SVN r808).
New code file versions are: Routine.pm 0.70.1 and en.pm 0.38.1.
Updated all POD-containing files to re-wrap any non-indented POD paragraphs to a 75 character width, which is 5 less than the 80 character width they were wrapped to before. This change should make it easier to copy and paste a diff or patch of this documentation into an email message, where it is quoted at least once, without any line wrapping occurring. Likewise, these standard documentation files were re-wrapped to 75 characters: ReadMe, INSTALL, LGPL|GPL, Changes, TODO.
Revised this Changes file to replace all detail entries for releases 0.59 thru 0.70.0 with a significant release list for the same period; also added references to when all 'Rosetta developer release' (#s 1-3) were.

2005-09-12 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.48.1/0.048001 (SVN r808).
New code file versions are: Rosetta.pm and Validator.pm 0.48.1 and Rosetta/L/en.pm 0.19.1 and Validator/L/en.pm 0.14.1.
Updated the BRIEF MODULE LIST of Framework.pod to reflect that SQL::Routine, Rosetta::Engine::Generic gained a few inner classes recently.
Updated all POD-containing files to re-wrap any non-indented POD paragraphs to a 75 character width, which is 5 less than the 80 character width they were wrapped to before. This change should make it easier to copy and paste a diff or patch of this documentation into an email message, where it is quoted at least once, without any line wrapping occurring. Likewise, these standard documentation files were re-wrapped to 75 characters: ReadMe, INSTALL, LGPL|GPL, Changes, TODO.
Revised this Changes file to replace all detail entries for releases 0.44 thru 0.48.0 with a significant release list for the same period; also added references to when all 'Rosetta developer release' (#s 1-3) were.

2005-09-08 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-Routine Release 0.70.0/0.070000 (SVN r787), containing SQL::Routine 0.70.0, was released on CPAN. This is the first release of this distribution and its modules for which they had 3-part version numbers, rather than floating point version numbers.
Rosetta Release 0.48.0/0.048000 (SVN r787), containing Rosetta 0.48.0 and Rosetta::Validator 0.48.0, was released on CPAN. This is the first release of this distribution and its modules for which they had 3-part version numbers, rather than floating point version numbers.
These were the current versions cited by the public announcement for Rosetta/SQL-Routine developer release #3.

2005-09-01 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-Routine Release 0.69/0.690000, containing SQL::Routine 0.69, was released on CPAN. This is the last release of this distribution and its modules for which they had floating point version numbers, rather than 3-part version numbers.
Rosetta Release 0.47/0.470000, containing Rosetta 0.47 and Rosetta::Validator 0.47, was released on CPAN. This is the first release of Rosetta::Validator following its merger with Rosetta::Utility::EasyBake. This is the last release of this distribution and its modules for which they had floating point version numbers, rather than 3-part version numbers.

2005-07-07 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.46, containing Rosetta 0.46 and Rosetta::Validator 0.46 and Rosetta::Utility::EasyBake 0.01, was released on CPAN. This is the first release of any distribution to contain Rosetta::Utility::EasyBake, which was split off from Rosetta; this is the first release of Rosetta following that split. This is the last release of Rosetta::Utility::EasyBake prior to its merger into Rosetta::Validator.

2005-05-13 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.45, containing Rosetta 0.45 and Rosetta::Validator 0.45, was released on CPAN. This is the last release of Rosetta prior to its split into itself and Rosetta::Utility::EasyBake.

2005-04-03 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-Routine Release 0.58, containing SQL::Routine 0.58, was released on CPAN.
Rosetta Release 0.43, containing Rosetta 0.43 and Rosetta::Validator 0.43, was released on CPAN.
These were the current versions cited by the public announcement for SQL-Routine/Rosetta developer release #2.

2005-03-06 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Record update in the PAUSE modules database:

statd: [a] was [c]

The resulting entry will be:

SQL::
::Routine adpOg Specify all database tasks with SQL routines DUNCAND

2004-11-05 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-Routine Release 0.48, containing SQL::Routine 0.48, was released on CPAN. This is the first release of SQL::Routine following its merger with SQL::Routine::SkipID.

2004-11-02 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-Routine-Castaways Release 0.33, containing SQL::Routine::SkipID 0.33, was released on CPAN; this is the last release of the SQL-Routine-Castaways distribution. This is the last release of SQL::Routine::SkipID prior to its merger with SQL::Routine.

2004-11-01 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-Routine Release 0.47, containing SQL::Routine 0.47, was released on CPAN. This is the last release of SQL::Routine prior to its merger with SQL::Routine::SkipID. This is the first release of SQL::Routine following its merger with SQL::Routine::ByTree.

2004-10-29 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-Routine Release 0.46, containing SQL::Routine 0.46, was released on CPAN. This is the last release of SQL::Routine prior to its merger with SQL::Routine::ByTree.

2004-10-26 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.37, containing Rosetta 0.37 and Rosetta::Validator 0.37, was released on CPAN. This is the first release for this distribution where Rosetta and Rosetta::Validator explicitly have matching version numbers.

2004-10-04 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-Routine Release 0.43, containing SQL::Routine 0.43, was released on CPAN; this is the first release of the SQL-Routine distribution. This is the first release of any distribution to contain SQL::Routine, which was renamed from SQL::SyntaxModel. This is the first release of this module following its official registration on the Perl 5 Module List.
SQL-Routine-Castaways Release 0.31, containing SQL::Routine::ByTree 0.31 and SQL::Routine::SkipID 0.31, was released on CPAN; this is the first release of the SQL-Routine-Castaways distribution. This is the last release of SQL::Routine::ByTree prior to its merger with SQL::Routine. This is the first release of any distribution to contain SQL::Routine::ByTree or SQL::Routine::SkipID; they were renamed from SQL::SyntaxModel::ByTree and SQL::SyntaxModel::SkipID respectively.
Rosetta Release 0.36, containing Rosetta 0.36 and Rosetta::Validator 0.06, was released on CPAN. This is the last release for this distribution where Rosetta and Rosetta::Validator do not explicitly have matching version numbers.

2004-10-04 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

The next version of the Module List will list the following module:

      modid:       SQL::Routine
      DSLIP:       cdpOg
      description: Specify all database tasks with SQL routines
      userid:      DUNCAND (Darren Duncan)
      chapterid:   11 (String_Lang_Text_Proc)
      enteredby:   BDFOY (brian d foy)
      enteredon:   Mon Oct  4 20:04:46 2004 GMT

The resulting entry will be:

SQL::
::Routine cdpOg Specify all database tasks with SQL routines DUNCAND

2004-09-13 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-SyntaxModel Release 0.42, containing SQL::SyntaxModel 0.42, was released on CPAN; this is the last release of the SQL-SyntaxModel distribution. This is the last release of any distribution to contain SQL::SyntaxModel. This is the last release of this module prior to its official registration on the Perl 5 Module List.

2004-09-01 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-SyntaxModel-ByTree Release 0.30, containing SQL::SyntaxModel::ByTree 0.30, was released on CPAN; this is the last release of the SQL-SyntaxModel-ByTree distribution. This is the last release of any distribution to contain SQL::SyntaxModel::ByTree. This is the first release for this distribution and module where they both explicitly have matching version numbers.
SQL-SyntaxModel-SkipID Release 0.30, containing SQL::SyntaxModel::SkipID 0.30, was released on CPAN; this is the last release of the SQL-SyntaxModel-SkipID distribution. This is the last release of any distribution to contain SQL::SyntaxModel::SkipID. This is the first release for this distribution and module where they both explicitly have matching version numbers.

2004-08-16 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-SyntaxModel Release 0.38, containing SQL::SyntaxModel 0.38, was released on CPAN. This is the first release for this distribution and module where they both explicitly have matching version numbers.
Rosetta Release 0.33, containing Rosetta 0.33 and Rosetta::Validator 0.03, was released on CPAN. This is the first release for this distribution and Rosetta module where they both explicitly have matching version numbers, aside from the explicitly matched releases 0.01 thru 0.061.

2004-08-12 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Record update in the PAUSE modules database:

description: [Rigorous database portability] was [Rigorous database portability framework]

The resulting entry will be:

Rosetta cdpOg Rigorous database portability DUNCAND

2004-08-12 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Record update in the PAUSE modules database:

description: [Rigorous database portability framework] was [Framework for RDBMS-generic apps and schemas]

The resulting entry will be:

Rosetta cdpOg Rigorous database portability framework DUNCAND

2004-08-06 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-SyntaxModel Release 0.37, containing SQL::SyntaxModel 0.24, was released on CPAN. This is the last release for this distribution and module where they both do not explicitly have matching version numbers.
Rosetta Release 0.32, containing Rosetta 0.16 and Rosetta::Validator 0.02, was released on CPAN. This is the last release for this distribution and Rosetta module where they both do not explicitly have matching version numbers.
These were the current versions cited by the public announcement for Rosetta/SQL-SyntaxModel developer release #1.

2004-07-07 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Record update in the PAUSE modules database:

statl: [p] was [h]

The resulting entry will be:

Rosetta cdpOg Framework for RDBMS-generic apps and schemas DUNCAND

2004-07-05 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.31, containing Rosetta 0.15 and Rosetta::Validator 0.01, was released on CPAN. This is the first release of any distribution to contain Rosetta::Validator.

2004-06-29 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-SyntaxModel-ByTree Release 0.29, containing SQL::SyntaxModel::ByTree 0.14, was released on CPAN. This is the last release for this distribution and module where they both do not explicitly have matching version numbers.
SQL-SyntaxModel-SkipID Release 0.29, containing SQL::SyntaxModel::SkipID 0.14, was released on CPAN. This is the last release for this distribution and module where they both do not explicitly have matching version numbers.

2004-03-22 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

SQL-SyntaxModel Release 0.28, containing SQL::SyntaxModel 0.15, was released on CPAN; this is the first release of the SQL-SyntaxModel distribution.
SQL-SyntaxModel-ByTree Release 0.28, containing SQL::SyntaxModel::ByTree 0.13, was released on CPAN; this is the first release of the SQL-SyntaxModel-ByTree distribution.
SQL-SyntaxModel-SkipID Release 0.28, containing SQL::SyntaxModel::SkipID 0.13, was released on CPAN; this is the first release of the SQL-SyntaxModel-SkipID distribution.

2004-03-21 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.27, containing SQL::SyntaxModel 0.14 and SQL::SyntaxModel::ByTree 0.12 and SQL::SyntaxModel::SkipID 0.12, was released on CPAN. This is the last release of the Rosetta distribution to contain any version of those 3 modules.

2003-12-21 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.20, containing SQL::SyntaxModel 0.08 and SQL::SyntaxModel::ByTree 0.08 and SQL::SyntaxModel::SkipID 0.08, was released on CPAN. This is the first release of any distribution to contain SQL::SyntaxModel::ByTree, which was split off from SQL::SyntaxModel; this is the first release of SQL::SyntaxModel following that split.

2003-12-18 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.19, containing SQL::SyntaxModel 0.07 and SQL::SyntaxModel::SkipID 0.07, was released on CPAN. This is the last release of SQL::SyntaxModel prior to its split into itself and SQL::SyntaxModel::ByTree.

2003-09-26 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.18, containing SQL::SyntaxModel 0.06 and SQL::SyntaxModel::SkipID 0.06, was released on CPAN. This is the first release of any distribution to contain either SQL::SyntaxModel or SQL::SyntaxModel::SkipID, which are the results of splitting up the renamed SQL::ObjectModel.

2003-09-16 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.17, containing SQL::ObjectModel 0.05, was released on CPAN. This is the last release of any distribution to contain SQL::ObjectModel; its subsequent release has it renamed and split in two.

2003-06-11 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.13, containing SQL::ObjectModel 0.01, was released on CPAN. This is the first release of any distribution to contain SQL::ObjectModel; it is the result of merging 3 pre-existing and renamed modules, Rosetta::Schema::DataType and Rosetta::Schema::Table and Rosetta::Schema::View.

2003-06-10 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.12, containing Rosetta::Schema::DataType 0.021 and Rosetta::Schema::Table 0.011 and Rosetta::Schema::View 0.012, was released on CPAN. This is the last release of those 3 modules prior to their three-way merger into SQL::ObjectModel.

2003-04-27 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Record update in the PAUSE modules database:

statl: [h] was [p]

The resulting entry will be:

Rosetta cdhOg Framework for RDBMS-generic apps and schemas DUNCAND

2003-04-16 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Record update in the PAUSE modules database:

statp: [g] was [p]

The resulting entry will be:

Rosetta cdpOg Framework for RDBMS-generic apps and schemas DUNCAND

2003-04-15 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.07, containing Rosetta 0.062, was released on CPAN. This is the first release for this distribution and Rosetta module where they both do not explicitly have matching version numbers.

2003-03-09 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.061, containing Rosetta 0.061, was released on CPAN. This is the last release for this distribution and Rosetta module where they both explicitly have matching version numbers, aside from the explicitly matched releases 0.33 and later.

2003-03-08 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.06, containing Rosetta::Schema::DataType 0.02 and Rosetta::Schema::Table 0.01 and Rosetta::Schema::View 0.01, was released on CPAN. This is the first release of any distribution to contain either Rosetta::Schema::Table or Rosetta::Schema::View.

2003-03-04 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.05, containing Rosetta::Schema::DataType 0.01, was released on CPAN. This is the first release of any distribution to contain Rosetta::Schema::DataType. This is the first release of any distribution for which some of the existing work that became the SQL-Routine distribution was in the form of executable code, and not just design documentation.

2003-02-10 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.04 was released on CPAN. This is the last release of any distribution for which all of the existing work that became the SQL-Routine distribution was purely in the form of design documentation, without executable code of any kind.

2003-01-27 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Rosetta Release 0.02, containing Rosetta 0.02, was released on CPAN; this is the first release of the Rosetta distribution, which was renamed from DBIx-Portable. This is the first release of any distribution to contain Rosetta, which at this time contains no executable code but for declaring a name and version. Early versions of the design documentation that became the Rosetta distribution were included.

2003-01-21 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

The next version of the Module List will list the following module:

      modid:       Rosetta
      DSLIP:       cdpOp
      description: Framework for RDBMS-generic apps and schemas
      userid:      DUNCAND (Darren Duncan)
      chapterid:    7 (Database_Interfaces)
      enteredby:   ANDK (Andreas J. KÃ¶nig)
      enteredon:   Tue Jan 21 08:20:47 2003 GMT

The resulting entry will be:

Rosetta cdpOp Framework for RDBMS-generic apps and schemas DUNCAND

2003-01-05 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

DBIx-Portable Release 0.01, containing DBIx::Portable 0.01, was released on CPAN; this is the only release of the DBIx-Portable distribution, which was subsequently renamed to Rosetta. This is the only release of any distribution to contain DBIx::Portable, which at this time contains no executable code but for declaring a name and version. This is the first release of any distribution to contain design documentation that became the Rosetta distribution.

2002-11-12 Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

Began development on the modules which became the Rosetta distribution as their own entity that is separate from my application, for open-source distribution on CPAN. The modules were to comprise an RDBMS-generic DB framework for any application to use.
Modules based on a template created by h2xs 1.18.

2002-07-28

Posted the first significant update to the second prototype, which added an index or cache for data that was expensive to calculate for each page request, and involved rewriting about a fourth of the perl code.

2002-06-07

Posted to my website the second public prototype demo of the new self-proprietary database driven application, whose database schema, user interface, feature set, and Perl application code was almost completely rewritten. The new version explicitly had separate modules for database communication and the web interface logic, with MySQL-specific code and database generic or data dictionary code in separate files, and separate files for parts of the web interface. The program used the same generic CPAN modules as in the first prototype, DBI/MySQL and CGI::Portable.
This is when I started writing self-contained code components that were explicitly designed to enable external code that used them to work seamlessly on multiple database products, and hence 2002 is the start of my declared copyright date range for the Rosetta framework.

2001-11-24

Posted the last update to the first prototype.

2001-07-12

Posted to my website the first public prototype demo of a new self-proprietary database driven application, which is like a cross between a multimedia metadata catalogue and a repository for historical or genealogical data. This application contained the first prototypes of code that ended up in these modules. All of this application's code, for database communication and web interface logic, was situated in a single module, with the rest of the program being more generic CPAN modules like DBI (and DBD for MySQL) and CGI::Portable.

2000-05-17

Requested MySQL database privileges on my web host so I have something to start developing, testing and deploying database driven applications on.