Revision history for Perl extension Win32::EventLog::Carp. (Note: Potential incompatabilities are marked with '*'.)

1.42 2007-05-27

• A better attempt to make the module get through the ActiveState build process (the box in questions seems rather locked down). No changes in the implementation itself, only t/01-basic.t
• Added an eg/ directory and example script.

1.41 2007-05-19

• Some public routines were not documented.

1.40 2006-10-06

• Maintenance taken over by David Landgren
• No functional changes, this release serves only to bring bug reports to the attention of the current maintainer
• Removed SIGNATURE infrastructure
• Perltidied and detabbed the source
• Added pod tests

1.39 Mon Dec 20 2004

• corrected SIGNATURE issue

1.38 Fri Dec 17 2004

• removed extraneous "ignoring event" message in tests
• fixed issue with tests failing on machines w/full logs
• added SIGNATURE to distribution
• added warning in README about WinZip and tests

1.37 Fri Aug 6 2004

• corrected how unregistered logs are opened
• corrected opening new error log in 01-basic.t test
• updated KNOWN ISSUES section of POD

1.36 Tue Jul 27 2004

• removed 'use warnings' (min Perl 5.006, not Perl 5.005)
• removed Test::Exception from build_requires
• added tests for event source registration
• fixed event source registration
• corrected tests (in line with Log::Dispatch::Win32EventLog)
• event log is opened to $Source rather than "Application"

1.35 Mon Jul 26 2004

• rebuilt distribution with proper META.yml
• build requires Test::Exception
• minor changes to documentation

1.34 Wed Jun 30 2004

• added note about using Test::Exception
• fixed warning posted to log when unable to read event log
• moved Test::More to build_requires parameter

1.33 Sat Jun 5 2004

• corrected typo (IsWinNT instead of WinNT)

1.32 Sat Jun 5 2004

• documented how to use with Windows 95/98/ME
• use Win32::NodeName instead of $ENV{COMPUTERNAME}
• minor changes to how modules are imported
• corrected Build.PL to require Test::More and Win32
• Build.PL will die on non-NT machines

1.31 Fri Jun 4 2004

• LogEvals can now be set outside of the module
• fixed bug with LogEvals being ignored if another function is hooked onto __DIE__ signal (RT#6508)
• rewrote tests to test writing every function, and to read the events back

1.30 Thu Jun 3 2004

• added tests
• fixed issue with uninitialized values (RT#5408).
• added Build.PL as alternative to Makefile.PL
• added META.yml to distribution
  • source registration disabled by default; must be enabled in import
• renamed global variables with initial caps
• added note in POD about Windows 2003/IIS security policy
• added require for Carp::Heavy because of longmess_heavy and shortmess_heavy routines
• added note in POD about warnings from Win32::EventLog

1.21 23 Jul 2001

• removed warning message when an attempt to register a custom event source (using Win32::EventLog::Message) fails

1.20 12 Jul 2001

• added test for die within an eval; death in an eval is no longer reported in the event log by default
• added LogEvals option to report failed evals in the event log
• added note about forcing a stack trace in POD

1.11 20 Jun 2001

• tested with Carp::Assert
• added register_source() function

1.10 7 Feb 2001

• uses Win32::EventLog::Message to register the source, if the module is installed on the system
• the registration and initialization of the event log handle will be done in the _report() function
• the event text now begins with the script's absolute path
• the 'Source' in the event log is now the script's basename
• NUL characters in event text are treated like newlines

1.00 10 Jan 2001

• This version is a serious re-write!
  • Win32 events are posted by trapping __WARN__ and __DIE__ signals (which means warnings and errors from most other modules used by the calling program will be posted to the event log)
  • @ISA Carp
    • changed behavior of 'click' to use Carp::shortmess
  • carriage-return/newline combinations handled better in event text
  • blank lines in event text are ignored

0.04 7 Mar 2000

• added a 'click' function for information messages
• newlines in event strings converted to spaces

0.02 6 Mar 2000

• original version