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Bifcode-1.0
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Changes for version 1.0 - 2017-11-13

  • First stable release.

Changes for version 0.001_9 - 2017-11-05

  • Enhancements:
    • Minor documentation edits.
    • Reduced recursion during encoding.
    • Minor documentation edits.
  • Dependencies:
    • No longer need Test::Differences for tests
    • Require "boolean" for true/false
  • Packaging:
    • Added a package ABSTRACT
    • Correctly specify *configure* dependencies which were previously marked as *build* dependencies
    • Only re-create README when .git/ exists (only a developer action)

Changes for version 0.001_8 - 2017-09-10

  • New Features:
    • diff-bifcode command line utility
  • Enhancements:
    • Clearer output format from diff_bifcode()
    • Pass Text::Diff options through diff_bifcode()

Changes for version 0.001_7 - 2017-09-02

  • Dependencies:
    • Restore Perl 5.10 and 5.12 support by not using the /r regex and replace operator.

Changes for version 0.001_6 - 2017-09-01

  • Bug Fixes:
    • Fix possible regex interpolation error on Perls >= 5.22
    • Fix float precision in tests

Changes for version 0.001_5 - 2017-08-30

  • New Features:
    • Add diff_bifcode() function to aid debugging
  • Enhancements:
    • Test that encode_bifcode doesn't strip utf8 flag from string
    • Decode integers as strings in support of infinite length
    • Make code dealing with floats more robust
    • Minor test improvements
  • Packaging:
    • Add licence to meta data

Changes for version 0.001_4 - 2017-08-11

  • Enhancements:
    • Minor documentation fixes.
  • Dependencies:
    • Require Perl 5.10.0 for the defined-or (//) operator.

Changes for version 0.001_3 - 2017-08-11

  • Bug Fixes:
    • Restore ability to encode infinite-length integers
    • Add missing strings to MANIFEST.SKIP

Changes for version 0.001_2 - 2017-08-11

  • Enhancements:
    • Add Git repository to META info
    • Accept a wider range of float formats
    • Various small test and efficiency improvements

Changes for version 0.001_12 - 2017-11-12

  • API / Behaviour Changes:
    • UTF8 and BYTES strings now encode with a trailing ","

Changes for version 0.001_11 - 2017-11-08

  • Enhancements:
    • Document use of BIFCODE_UTF8 only for hash keys
    • Convert all errors to exception objects
    • Minor documentation and testing improvements
  • Bug Fixes:
    • Return correct encode_bifcode() result in array context.

Changes for version 0.001_1 - 2017-08-09

  • Initial Bifcode release (based heavily on Bencode)

Changes for version 0.001_10 - 2017-11-06

  • API / Behaviour Changes:
    • decode_bifcode() now does what the documentation says with repect to inflating BIFCODE_BYTES. They become normal scalars and not SCALAR references.
  • Enhancements:
    • Refactor decode()
  • Packaging:
    • Fix README file

Documentation

diff-bifcode
compare files containing Bifcode

Modules

Bifcode
simple serialization format

Other files