TODO List for File::Util
Not necessarily listed in order of priority:
1) [DONE] Set up formal (not just private) GIT repository
2) [DONE] Separate documenation examples into a cookbook (POD)
3) [DONE] Gradually transform methods to accept input parameters in a
*::Class-like style (hashrefs, etc) while preserving backward compatibility
4) Support for Perl IO "layers", which just hasn't been requested but
should be there for completeness
5) [DONE] Transform (where useful) various methods to accept callbacks.
File::Util::list_dir() is the primary target
6) [DONE] Set up File::Util::list_dir() to take a listref of regexes
7) [DONE] Continue improving the distribution so as to make it compliant
with Fedora packaging standards; it is already a maintained package for
Ubuntu and ActiveState.
8) [DONE] Code clean up in POD documentation examples.
9) [DONE] Improve and simplify code examples in POD documentation.
10) [IN PROGRESS] Constantly improve test suite until Devel::Cover
scores are something to be proud of. We're doing much better
than we used to only less than 1 month ago
11) [DONE] Remove all traces of old invocation syntax from the POD
12) [IN PROGRESS] Now that documentation has been divided into the ::Manual and
the ::Cookbook, I want to add more content to them. More examples,
More fully-functional programs (recipes).
13) [DONE] Create a less-verbose Exception class (right now we only have
Exception::Diagnostic, which is overkill for power users and "experts" who
just want a quick, clean error message instead of a full-page printout of
what went wrong, how to fix it, and whose fault it was -- followed by a
callstack. We need the less verbose alternative now.
14) Create a benchmark suite, plot and publish metrics as part of the
documentation.
15) Memo-ize pattern "gathering" for recursive list_dir() calls for greater
efficiency. Right now there's a gather op for ever recursion, and that
just isn't necessary. That can be optimized out.
16) Provide an option to follow symlinks in list_dir(), and keep track of
inodes seen while traversing directories to avoid filesystem loops
17) Try to get unicode-on-windows support for filenames, which is actually
a Perl-core issue. I might/might not be able to fix that.