Revision history for Config-Param

• 3.001000 (2014-05-31)

  - Rework logic for finding config files: Instead of looking for a fixed configuration directory (unless a specific one is configured), search every file in a default list of directories. To that list, ~/.config/program and ~/.config got added.

  - Add separator syntax for arrays and hashes (--array/,/=1,2,3).

• 3.000010 (2012-10-04)

  More checking of hash keys to make perl -w happy.

• 3.000009 (2012-07-31)

  Be more permissive about config file candidates: Everything that exists and is not a directory (makes /dev/fd/x special devices work).

  Oh, and examples/par_acceptor_include.conf is now in the distribution.

• 3.000008 (2012-07-30)

  - Fix printout of selected parameter values for paramorama (of course, I managed to break it for its initial purpose while reworking the Param module API).

  - Fix construction mode for included config files (passing it along now).

• 3.000007 (2012-07-28)

  Consistent indent for value in single-parameter help.

• 3.000006 (2012-07-27)

  Fixing construction mode of parse_file to really behave as if accept_unknown had been specified (incomplete conditional). This fixes construction from files without full meta data.

  Also, documentation got further refinement.

• 3.000005 (2012-07-21)

  - Require Perl 5.8.0 as reliable base for main work and tests.

  - Require some modules explicitly.

  - Update POD of paramorama (and add TODO about fully automating that).

• 3.000004 (2012-07-21)

  Include parameter types in POD output.

• 3.000003 (2012-07-20)

  Some documentation fixes of varying substance.

• 3.000002 (2012-07-20)

  And another release without functional changes, cleanup up the documentation and putting the plain text files also into POD format. Nicer lookin on da CPAN web, innit so?

• 3.000001 (2012-07-20)

  Whoo! Already an update! Well, it's just a version bump because the first PAUSE upload did not work.

• 3.000000 (2012-07-20)

  - Finally putting things on CPAN after prettifying the code and API cleanup (including the obligatory OO interface).

  - Some features got added, of course:

  - support for hashes

  - noexit, output, linewidth, silenterr config entries

  - Others got removed:

  - automatic eval() of files

  - ignorehelp config switch (just use nofinals)

  - Behavioural changes:

  - multliline values don't get a line end appended unless there is an empty line before the end marker. Before, it was not possible to enter values that don't end with a line end.

  - --config is an array now, as well as optionally the file config entry

  - Heck, stuff is tested meanwhile!

• 2.x.y (sometime in 2004, still, till 2012)

  - Letting it grow and mature with the times, adding config hash to the API.

  - Got a lot of use outside the music archive.

  - Published on personal web page.

• 1.x (sometime in 2004, slightly later)

  - Putting a simple routine to handle command line and configuration file parsing into a module, only working on given flat parameter specification.

• 0.x (sometime in 2004)

  - Starting to write a music archive management system and humbly writing scripts that take command line arguments.