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. previous history logs are lost in space :-(