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Revision history for Perl extension Data::Serializer

0.27  Mon Dec 06 08:51:53 MST 2004
	- Fixed version bug in test suite
	  Routine in test suite that tested storing to open filehandles was
	  using open() in a fashion incompatible with earlier versions of perl.
	  Converted it to use IO::File instead.
	    Thanks to the cpan testers for catching this one, in particular
	      nothingmuch@woobling.org

0.26  Fri Dec 03 11:49:34 MST 2004
	- Modified Data::Serializer::Data::Dumper 
	  removed the '2.08' requirement from use statement, this is handled in
	  the Makefile.PL so was redundant anyway.  Was causing problems with
	  build in perl 5.8.6
	    Thanks to Ian <ian@holsman.net>

      Tue Oct 05 15:30:02 MST 2004
	- Modified Data::Serializer::Storable to use nfreeze when 
	  the portable flag is set.  This should help make the use of Storable 
	  within Data::Serializer actually be portable when you ask it to be.
	    Thanks to Nick Edwards <nicke@summerleaze.co.uk> for requesting the feature

	-Modified Data::Serializer::Data::Dumper to handle self-references correctly.
	 Was not correctly handling the serializing of self-referencing data structures.
	  
	   Thanks to Ticha <ticha@openelement.co.uk> for finding the bug, and to
	   Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com> (Data::Dumper author) for suggesting
	   the fix. 

0.25  Sat Jun 01 06:38:13 MST 2004
	- Fixed misbehaving sloppy reference passing in test harness.
	  (Bug only visible in win32)  
            Thanks to =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Murat_=DCnalan=22?= <muenalan@cpan.org>
	    For debugging and providing the patch to get this to work.

0.24  Sat May 29 14:22:42 MST 2004
	- Fixed bug in new 08-Store-Retrieve.t test
	    Now using File::Spec to correctly build path for test
            Thanks to =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Murat_=DCnalan=22?= <muenalan@cpan.org>
	    For being on the ball in catching this bug.

0.23  Fri May 28 17:21:11 MST 2004
	- Added store and retrieve functions for simple persistence
	    Thanks to 
	      Nick Stutterer <nick@tesbo.com>
		and
	      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Murat_=DCnalan=22?= <muenalan@cpan.org>
	     For requesting this useful feature.
	- Updated cookbook persistence example

0.22  Fri Mar  5 16:39:36 MST 2004
	- Split up and organized test suite
	- Added support for XML::Simple
	- Created Data::Serializer::Cookbook

0.21  Tue Feb 24 16:57:19 MST 2004
	- Added support for PHP::Serializer
	- Added support for XML::Dumper
	- Added raw_serialize and raw_deserialize methods
	    allows direct access to underlying serializers
            useful to import/export data between aps that don't
	    understand Data::Serializer (like say serialized 
            PHP data)
	- Added test for serializing scalars

0.20  Fri Feb 13 17:32:02 MST 2004
	- Improved test suite to test combination of features
	- cleaned up bug in handing of 'non-portable' serialized data

0.19  Fri Feb 13 14:46:30 SDT 2004
	- Modified makefile to include dependancy on Digest::SHA1
		Thanks (again) to Florian Helmberger <fh@laudatio.com>
                  for finding this discrepancy.

0.18  Fri Feb 13 11:17:24 SDT 2004
	- Added support for MIME::Base64 for 'ascii armoring' serialized
	  data.
	- Minor modifications to pod documentation

0.17  Thu Jul 11 15:10:41 MDT 2002
	- Added support for YAML as a new serializer
		Thanks to Florian Helmberger <fhe@inode.at> for writing 
		  the relevant patch to do this.

0.16  Tue Jul  9 08:33:46 MDT 2002
	- Added support for Config::General as a new serializer
 	- Added method 'options' for passing arguments to underlying serializers
	  currently only supported for Config::General
	- Converted installation tests to use ExtUtils::Tbone (included)
	- Added more robust testing of all serializers and features
		Thanks to Thomas Linden <tom@daemon.de> who wrote a patch
	          adding support for Config::General to Data::Serializer
                  and for suggesting the addition of the options method

0.15  Mon Jul  1 13:32:46 MDT 2002
	- Correct Makefile.PL testing bug
          In particular we tested for Crypt::CBC and assumed Crypt::Blowfish
          would also be installed.  This is obviously not the case.  We do not 
          want to force this as a dependency as encryption is a feature, not a 
          requirement for serializing data structures.
	    Thanks to 'Automated Perl Test Account <perl_test@logicalchaos.org>'
              (and of course the humans behind it :-) )
  
           
0.14  Mon Jul  1 08:43:42 MDT 2002
	- Corrected typo's in pod documentation
          Thanks to Florian Helmberger <f.helmberger@uptime.at>

0.13  Mon Jan 14 12:49:10 MST 2002
        - Added support for Tie::Transient
            Thanks to recomendation from brian moseley <bcm@maz.org>)

0.12  Mon Jan 14 12:23:28 MST 2002
        - Cleaned up installation tests

0.11  Tue Jan  8 13:28:43 MST 2002
        - Removed build dependencies for all but Data::Dumper
            Thanks to recomendation from brian moseley <bcm@maz.org>

0.10  Mon Jan  7 13:00:24 MST 2002
        - Added Support for Data::Denter

0.09  Fri Nov  2 08:14:07 2001
	- Cleaned up documentation

0.08  Mon Oct 16 07:54:32 2001
	- Fixed bug in digest verification 
        - Fixed 5.005_03 compatibility bug 
            Thanks to Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@edge.co.jp>

0.07  Wed Oct  5 11:42:20 2001
	- changed token system to be more flexible
	- added compression
	- cleaned up 'portability' option
	- updated documentation
	- updated tests

0.06  Wed Oct  4 16:27:02 2001
	- added Encryption

0.05  Wed Oct  4 14:30:13 2001
	- added t/ tests

0.04  Wed Oct  4 12:35:44 2001
	- added documentation

0.03  Wed Oct  4 11:32:10 2001
	- added serializer_token to assist deserialization

0.02  Tue Oct  3 15:32:19 2001
	- completed generic serializer/deserializer interface

0.01  Tue Oct  3 11:11:36 2001
	- original version; created by h2xs 1.19