2.16 - applied patch by Michael Gray which fixes a bug in the Interpolate.pm submodule. A second variable, when immediately following the first, did not get interpolated, i.e. ${var1}${var2}. 2.15 - fixed Bug in SaveConfig***, which didn't work. - applied patch by Robb Canfield , which fixes a bug in the variable interpolation scheme. It did not interpolate blocks nor blocknames. This patch fixes this. Patch slightly modified by me(interpolation on block and blocknames). - enhanced test for variable interpolation to reflect this. - added check if a named block occurs after the underlying block is already an array, which is not possible. perl cannot add a hashref to an array. i.e.: a = 1 b = 1 c = 1 As you can see, "" will be an array, and "blubber" cannot be stored in any way on this array. The module croaks now if such construct occurs. 2.14 - fixed bug reported by Francisco Olarte Sanz , which caused _parse to ignore blocks with the name "0": <0> .. , because it checked just if $block (the name between < and >) is true, and from the perl point of view "0" is not. Changed it to check for defined. Normally I avoid using 'defined' but in this case it will not be possible that $block contains the empty string, so defined is ok here. 2.13 - fixed bug reported by Steffen Schwigon . the parser was still active inside a here-doc, which cause weird results if the here-doc contained multiple < reported this mis-behavior. The problem was that the whole hash was feeded to ::Interpolated.pm, but as we all know, perl hashes doesn't preserve the order. So, in our case the module sometimes was unable to resolve variablenames, because they were stored in a different location as it occured in the config. The change is, that Config::General now calls ::Interpolate.pm (new sub: _interpolate()) itself directly on a per-key/value pair basis. The internal varstack is now stored on $this globally. So, now a variable will be known when it occurs. period :-) 2.10 - added -StrictVars documentation section to the POD, which was missing. - fixed a formatting error in the POD documentation. 2.09 - added bugfix in '#' comment parsing. If current state was within a block, then /^ #/ was not ignored as comment but instead added as variable. Reported by Lupe Christoph - added -StrictObjects parameter support in the following ::Extended methods: hash() and value(). - added better parameter checks in the ::Extended::obj() method. Its now no more possible to create a new (sub-) object from an undefined key or a key which does not point to a hash reference. - simplified storing of ConfigFile and ConfigHash in new() removed my variable $configfile. - the original parameter list will now be saved, which is required for ::Extended to create new objects with the same config as their parents. 2.08 - added option -StrictVars, which causes Interpolate.pm to ignore undefined variables and replaces such occurences with the emppty string. - applied patch by Stefan Moser , which fixes some weird bevavior if -MergeDuplicateOptions was turned on, the parser croaked regardless -MergeDuplicateBlocks was set or not. Now the two options behave almost independent from each other, which allows one to merge duplicate blocks but duplicate options not. - changed behavior of setting -MergeDuplicateOptions which implied in previous versions -AllowMultiOptions to be false. Now this will only be done if the user does not set -AllowMultiOptions by himself. This allows one to have duplicate blocks which will be turned into an array but duplicate options to be merged. - applied patch by Matthias Pitzl , which fixes a bug at parsing apache-like include directive (Include ...). It did not properly trim unnecessary whitespaces so that the filename to be included became invalid. This bug espessially occurred if one saved a hash containing a key/value pair like this: "Include" => "/etc/grs.cfg", which was then saved as "Include /etc/grs.cfg", the parser returned " /etc/grs.cfg" which, of course, does not exists. odd... 2.07 - fixed cpan bugid #1351, SaveConfig contained a deprecated function call which caused the module to croak. - added feature request, if in extended mode (OOP turned on with -ExtendedAccess => 1 access to non-existent keys caused a croak. While this is still the default behavior it is now possible to turn this off using -StrictObjects => 0. - added this to the related pod section in ::Extended. - fixed bug in new() which caused a couple of errors if the ConfigFile parameter is not set, or is set to undef. In this case it will now simply create an empty object. - fixed related bug in save_file() which will save "" to a file now if the config is uninitialized (i.e. the case mentioned below arrived). 2.06 - added -SplitPolicy, -SplitDelimiter and -StoreDelimiter - removed whitespace support in keys in the default parser SplitPolicy 'guess', which was introduced in 2.02. Now I (re-)use the old regex I used before. if you need whitespaces in keys, use 'equalsign' as SplitPolicy. - the write_scalar() method uses the StoreDelimiter for separating options from values. - added -CComments to make it possible to turn c-comment parsing off. - added support for FileHandle objects as parameter to the -ConfigFile parameter. This makes it possible to use locking. 2.05 - fixed bug in ::Extended. It exported for some weird reason I cant remember all of its methods. This included keys() exists() and delete(), which are perl internals. If one used keys() on a normal hash, then the ::Extended own keys() were used instead of perls own one. I removed the export line. 2.04 - added RFE from rt.cpan.org (ID: 1218). the ::Interpolate module populates now uses of uninitialized variables in config files itself instead of just letting perl die(). The other suggestion of the RFE was declined. 2.03 - fixed bug in the _parse() routine (better: design flaw). after the last patch for allowing whitespaces in option names, it had a problem with here-docs which contained equal signs. option/value splitting resulted in weird output. - as a side effect of the bug fix below it is now possible to use equal signs inside quoted values, which will then be ignored, thus not used for splitting the line into an option/value assignment. - added a new test, which tests for all possible notations of option/value lines. 2.02 - added patch by Jens Heunemann, which allows to use whitespaces in option names. - changed the save() calls in the test script (t/run.t) to save_file() - removed new() from ::Interpolated and ::Extended. This may break existing code (they will need to move to the flags of Config::General::new() ), but this decision must be made. The problem was that both the old way of directly using the subclasses and the enw way did not work together. So, now subclasses are only method holders and used by Config::General on request. Direct use of subclasses is prohibited. (you receive a warning if you do). 2.01 - added -ConfigFile (in replace for -file) and -ConfigHash (in replace for -hash) to get a consistent parameter naming scheme. The old names are still supported for backward compatibility, but no more documented. - the parameter -BaseHash has been dropped because -DefaultConfig already has the capabilities of defining a custom backing hash. The pod section for -DefaultConfig has been enhanced to reflect this. - README changed something. Removed the 'small' keyword, because the module isn't really small anymore :-) At least IMHO. 2.00 - fixed a bug in the ::Extended::keys() method, which caused a beloved "use of uninitialized ..." message. Reported by Danial Pearce . - Removed all deprecated methods (in fact, they are still there for shouting out a warn that its deprecated. But the pod sections are removed. These are NoMultiOptions() and save(). - added two new parameters to new(): -InterPolateVars and -ExtendedAccess, which allows one to use the functionalites of the supplied submodules without the need to decide for one of them. This makes it possible to use variable interpolation and oop access in the same time. Suggested by Jared Rhine . - added new parameter -BaseHash which makes it possible to supply your own hash which stores the parsed contents of the config. This can be a tied hash o the like. Suggested by Jared Rhine too. - switched to release 2.00 because the above is a major change. 1.36 - simplified new() parameter parsing, should be now a little bit better to understand. - added new parameter -DefaultConfig, which can hold a hashref or a string, which will be used to pre-define values of the resulting hash after parsing a config. Thanks to Mark Hampton for the suggestion. - added new parameter -MergeDuplicateOptions, which allows one to overwrite duplicate options, which is required, if you turn on -DefaultConfig, because otherwise a array would be created, which is probably not what you wanted. - added patch by Danial Pearce to Config::General::Extended::keys(), which allows to retrieve the keys of the object itself (which was not directly possible before) - added patch by Danial Pearce to Config::General::Extended::value(), which allows to set a value to a (perlish-) nontrue value. This was a bug. - added patch by Danial Pearce to Config::General::_parse_value, which fixes a bug in this method, which in prior versions caused values of "0" (zero digit) to be wiped out of the config. - added tests in t/run.t for the new default config feature. 1.35 - the here-doc identifier in saved configs will now created in a way which avoids the existence of this identifier inside the here-doc, which if it happens results in weird behavior in the resulting config. 1.34 - Danial Pearce reported a bug in _store(), which caused the module to create scalar entries even if the entry contained newlines. While Danial supplied a patch to fix this - thx(TM) - I did not apply it, because I "outsourced" this kind of stuff to the subroutine _write_scalar(), see next. - added internal methods _write_scalar() and _write_hash() to simplify _store(), which did the same thing more than once, which is a good time to create a sub which does the job. - fixed cut'n paste bug in General/Extended.pm reported by Danial Pearce , which caused Config::General::Extended::is_scalar() to return true even when the key you pass in is an array. - added new method Config::General::Extended::delete() suggested by Danial Pearce , which deletes the given key from the config. 1.33 - fixed bug in _parse_value() which caused perl to complain with "Use of uninitialized value in..." if a value was empty. 1.32 - *argl* ... I forgot Interpolated.pm, don't know how that could happen, in 1.29 it was "lost". However - I added it again now. - added patch by Peder Stray to the _store() method, which makes it possible to catch arrays of hashes to be stored correctly. - cleaned up the t/run.t testscript to reflect the changes (in fact I did not touch it since 1.18 or so). - added test number 16 to test variable interpolation using ::Interpolated in t/run.t. - fixed bug with new() parameter -AllowMultiOptions which generated a croak() if set to something other than "no". - changed Extended::save() to reflect the API change, it calls now save_file(). 1.31: - i'm such a moron ... I forgot to do a make clean in 1.30, pf. So this is 1.31, which is clean. 1.30: - fixed typo, which made 1.29 unusable (undefined var %config) - added code to check if unknown parameters to new() has been supplied. 1.29: - added 2 procedural functions ParseConf and SaveConf - added new parameters -AutoTrue and -FlagBits - added save_file() which replaces save(), which was weird implemented. If the user only supplied a hash as parameter to save(), then the first key was used as the filename and the rest was used as a config hash (which was then of an uneven size). - save_file() takes now instead of a hash a hash-ref and a filename. And the hashref is optional, since the object already contains a complete hash. - new method save_string() added, which returns the ready generated string instead of writing it to disk. The user can then save it himself. - POD updated. 1.28: - added contributed sub module Config::General::Interpolated by "Wei-Hon Chen" with help from "Autrijus Tang" which makes it possible to use variables inside config files. - _read() accepts now c-comments inside c-comments if they are on a single line. - _read() is now more tolerant to here-identifiers (the ends of here-docs), whitespaces right after such an identifier are allowed (i.e. "EOF "). - _read() does now behave somewhat different with C-comments, they will be the first thing being processed in a config, so the parser really ignores everything inside C-comments. Previously it did not do that, for example here-docs has not been ignored. 1.27: - "make test" complained about uninitialized value in :146, which is now fixed. 1.26: - added filehandle capability to -file. - added -String parameter to new(), which allows one to supply the whole config as a string. - added -MergeDuplicateBlocks option, which causes duplicate blocks to be merged. 1.25: - include statements are now case insensitive - include statements may now also being used with indentation(leading and following whitespaces are allowed) - changed the end here-doc regexp from .+? to \S+? so " < and Anton Luht :-) This allows to include files from the location of the configfile instead from the working directory. 1.24: - AllowMultiOptions printed out the value and not the option itself, if more than one of this particular option occured. - added -UseApacheInclude feature, contributed by Thomas Klausner - fixed bug with multiple options stuff, which did not work with blocks or named blocks. Pointed out by Thomas Klausner , who meant it being feature request, but in fact it was a bug (IMHO). - Config::General does now contain also it's OO-sister Config::General::Extended, which is from now on no more available as an extra module, because it lived a shadowy existence. - finally(!) created a Changelog file (this one, yes). 1.23: - fixed bug, which removed trailing or leading " even no matching " was there. 1.22: - added a new option to new(): -LowerCaseNames, which lowercases all option-names (feature request) 1.21: - lines with just one "#" became an option array named "#" with empty entries, very weird, fixed 1.20: - added an if(exists... to new() for checking of the existence of -AllowMultiOptions. - use now "local $_" because it caused weird results if a user used $_ with the module. 1.19: - you can escape "#" characters using a backslash: "\#" which will now no more treated as a comment. - comments inside here-documents will now remain in the here-doc value. history logs 1.17+1.18 are lost in space :-( older history logs (stripped from CVS): revision 1.16 date: 2000/08/03 16:54:58; author: jens; state: Exp; lines: +4 -1 An jedes File eine Sektion # Local Variables: *** # perl-master-file: ../../webmin/index.pl *** # End: *** rangehängt, damit ich mit C-c d das debugging von jedem File aus einschalten kann (siehe mein .emacs file) ---------------------------- revision 1.15 date: 2000/08/01 09:12:52; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +57 -68 added comments to _open() and _parse() ---------------------------- revision 1.14 date: 2000/07/31 18:07:12; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +44 -19 added <> capability ---------------------------- revision 1.13 date: 2000/07/16 18:35:33; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +135 -10 added here-doc and multi-line feature, updated perlpod ---------------------------- revision 1.12 date: 2000/07/14 14:56:09; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 bug fixed, it did not ignore options inside c-comments with a # comment @ the end of line ---------------------------- revision 1.11 date: 2000/07/14 11:26:04; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +42 -6 added C-Style comments and allow also comments after a statement. ---------------------------- revision 1.10 date: 2000/07/12 14:04:51; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +2 -1 i woas ned ---------------------------- revision 1.9 date: 2000/07/12 10:59:53; author: jens; state: Exp; lines: +5 -3 hehe :) ---------------------------- revision 1.8 date: 2000/07/12 10:43:20; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +5 -2 fixed bug in getall(), which doubled %config if called more than onse. ---------------------------- revision 1.7 date: 2000/07/12 09:09:33; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +22 -24 100% Apache Config complete ;-) it supports now "named blocks"! ---------------------------- revision 1.6 date: 2000/07/11 23:43:03; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +72 -19 added named block support () ---------------------------- revision 1.5 date: 2000/07/11 20:49:47; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 typo in pod corrected ---------------------------- revision 1.4 date: 2000/07/11 17:07:04; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +61 -7 a config file can now contain an option more than once and will be returned as array ---------------------------- revision 1.3 date: 2000/07/07 11:27:38; author: cvs; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 folgende Parameterform geht jetzt auch: parameter= blabla vorher musste man parameter = blabla schreiben ---------------------------- revision 1.2 date: 2000/07/04 13:21:12; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +9 -4 added better failurehandling in case of missing block start/end statements ---------------------------- revision 1.1 date: 2000/07/04 12:52:09; author: tom; state: Exp; implemented module and method getall, works as expected.