1 Revision history for Perl extension Class-MOP.
4 ---------------------------------------
5 This is the first version of Class::MOP
6 to introduce the immutable features which
7 will be used for optimizating the MOP.
8 This support should still be considered
9 experimental, but moving towards stability.
10 ---------------------------------------
12 * Created Class::MOP::Class::Immutable
14 * Created the Class::MOP::Package and
15 Class::MOP::Module classes to more
16 closely conform to Perl 6's meta-model
19 - now inherits from Class::MOP::Module
20 - several methods moved to ::Module and
21 ::Package and now inherited
22 - added tests for this
24 * Class::MOP::Instance
25 - added an is_inlinable method to allow other
26 classes to check before they attempt to optimize.
27 - added an inline_create_instance to inline
28 instance creation (of course)
31 - the Class::MOP::Class::*_package_variable
32 methods are all now methods of Class::MOP::Package
33 and called *_package_symbol instead. This is
34 because they are now more general purpose symbol
35 table manipulation methods.
37 0.29_02 Thurs. June 22, 2006
38 ++ DEVELOPER RELEASE ++
40 - small change in &create so that it behaves
41 properly when inherited
42 - small fix to &clone_instance
44 0.29_01 Fri. May 12, 2006
45 ++ DEVELOPER RELEASE ++
46 - This release works in combination with
47 Moose 0.09_01, it is a developer release
48 because it introduces a new instance
49 sub-protocol and has not yet been
53 - anon-classes are now properly garbage collected
54 - added tests for this
55 - improved method modifier wrapping
57 * Class::MOP::Instance
58 - added new instance protocol
59 - added tests for this
60 - changed all relevant modules and examples
62 - Class::MOP::Attribute
66 - you no longer need to specify the metaclass
67 itself, if it is not there, Class::MOP::Class
69 - updated tests for this
72 - added ArrayBasedStorage example to show
73 instance storage using ARRAY refs instead of
75 - added tests for this
76 - InsideOutClass is totally revised using the
78 - added more tests for this
80 0.26 Mon. April 24, 2006
82 - added find_attribute_by_name method
83 - added tests and docs for this
84 - some small optimizations
86 * Class::MOP::Attribute
87 - some small optimizations
89 0.25 Thurs. April 20, 2006
91 - added create_anon_class for creating anonymous classes
92 - added tests for this
93 - added get_all_metaclasses, get_all_metaclass_names
94 and get_all_metaclass_instances method to allow
95 access to all the cached metaclass objects.
96 - attribute slot initialization is now the responsibility
97 of the attribute itself, and construct_instance now
98 delegates appropriately
100 * Class::MOP::Attribute
101 - attribute slot initialization is now the responsibility
102 of the attribute itself, so we added a method for it
103 called initialize_instance_slot
106 - adjusted all the examples to use the new attribute
107 initialize_instance_slot method
109 0.24 Tues. April 11, 2006
111 - cleaned up how the before/after/around method
112 modifiers get named with Sub::Name
114 0.23 Thurs. March 30, 2006
116 - fixed the way attribute defaults are handled
117 during instance construction (bug found by chansen)
119 * Class::MOP::Attribute
120 - read-only accessors ('reader') will now die if
121 passed more than one argument (attempting to write
123 - added tests for this
124 - adjusted all /example files to comply
126 0.22 Mon. March 20, 2006
128 - localized $@ in the *_package_variable functions
129 because otherwise, it does ugly things in Moose.
130 - added test case for this
132 0.21 Wed. March 15, 2006
134 - fixed issue where metaclasses are reaped from
135 our cache in global destruction, and so are not
136 available in DESTORY calls
138 0.20 Thurs. March 2, 2006
139 - removed the dependency for Clone since
140 we no longer to deep-cloning by default.
143 - added &package_name, &name and
144 &fully_qualified_name methods, some of
145 which were formerly private subs in
148 * Class::MOP::Method::Wrapped
149 - allows for a method to be wrapped with
150 before, after and around modifiers
151 - added tests and docs for this feature
154 - improved &get_package_symbol
155 - &version and &superclasses now use it
156 - methods are now blessed into Class::MOP::Method
158 - added methods to install CLOS-style method modifiers
159 - &add_before_method_modifier
160 - &add_after_method_modifier
161 - &add_around_method_modifier
162 - added tests and docs for these
163 - added &find_next_method_by_name which finds the
164 equivalent of SUPER::method_name
166 0.12 Thurs. Feb 23, 2006
167 - reduced the dependency on B, no need to always
171 - added docs to the C3 method dispatch order test
172 - fixed missing Algorithm::C3 dependency by making
173 the test skip if it is not installed
175 0.11 Mon Feb. 20, 2006
177 - added example of changing method dispatch order to C3
180 - changed how clone_instance behaves, it now only does a
181 shallow clone (see docs for more details)
182 - added docs and tests
184 0.10 Tues Feb. 14, 2006
185 ** This release was mostly about writing more tests and
186 cleaning out old and dusty code, the MOP should now
187 be considered "ready to use".
189 - adding more tests to get coverage up a little higher,
190 mostly testing errors and edge cases.
191 - test coverage is now at 99%
194 - no longer optionally exports to UNIVERSAL::meta or
195 creates a custom metaclass generator, use the
196 metaclass pragma instead.
199 - fixed a number of minor issues which came up in the
200 error/edge-case tests
202 * Class::MOP::Attribute
203 - fixed a number of minor issues which came up in the
204 error/edge-case tests
207 - fixing the AttributesWithHistory example, it was broken.
209 0.06 Thurs Feb. 9, 2006
211 - adding new metaclass pragma to make setting up the
212 metaclass a little more straightforward
215 - clean up bootstrapping to include more complete
216 attribute definitions for Class::MOP::Class and
217 Class::MOP::Attribute (accessors, readers, writers,
218 etc.) ... it is redundant, but is useful meta-info
222 - fixing minor meta-circularity issue with &meta, it
223 is now more useful for subclasses
224 - added &get_attribute_map as an accessor for the
225 hash of attribute meta objects
226 - &compute_all_applicable_attributes now just returns
227 the attribute meta-object, rather than the HASH ref
228 since all the same info can be gotten from the
229 attribute meta-object itself
230 - updated docs & tests to reflect
231 - added &clone_instance method which does a deep clone
232 of the instance structure created by &construct_instance
233 - added docs & tests for this
234 - added Clone as a dependency
235 - added &new_object and &clone_object convience methods to
236 return blessed new or cloned instances
237 - they handle Class::MOP::Class singletons correctly too
238 - added docs & tests for this
239 - cleaned up the &constuct_class_instance so that it behaves
240 more like &construct_instance (and managed the singletons too)
241 - added the &check_metaclass_compatibility method to make sure
242 that metaclasses are upward and downward compatible.
243 - added tests and docs for this
246 - adjusting code to use the &Class::MOP::Class::meta
248 - adjusting code to use the metaclass pragma
250 0.05 Sat Feb. 4, 2006
252 - added the &attribute_metaclass and &method_metaclass
253 attributes which contain a metaclass name to use for
254 attributes/methods respectively
257 - bootstrap additional attributes for Class::MOP::Class
260 - adjusted the example code and tests to use the new
261 &attribute_metaclass feature of Class::MOP::Class
265 0.04 Fri Feb. 3, 2006
267 - some documentation suggestions from #perl6
269 * Class::MOP::Attribute
270 - improved error messages
273 - added new examples:
274 - AttributesWithHistory
275 - ClassEncapsultedAttributes
277 0.03 Fri Feb. 3, 2006
278 - converted to Module::Build instead of EU::MM
280 * Class::MOP::Attribute
281 - refactored method generation code
282 - attributes are now associated with class directly
285 - refactored the InsideOut example to take advantage
286 of the Class::MOP::Attribute refactoring
287 - changed example files to .pod files and hide thier
288 package names from PAUSE (I don't want to own these
289 namespaces really, they are just examples)
291 0.02 Thurs Feb. 2, 2006
292 - moving examples from t/lib/* to examples/*
293 - adding POD documentation to the examples
295 0.01 Thurs Feb. 2, 2006