1.24 Mar 30, 2008

- Added a MaxArgLength class parameter to go along with the new
  max_arg_length constructor param for Devel::StackTrace
  objects. Patch by Ian Burrell.


1.23 Jan 14, 2006

- Fix code bugs in the SYNOPSIS.

- Exception::Class->caught() now returns $@ if not given an argument.


1.22 Sep 30, 2005

- Added Exception::Class::Base->caught() so you can write
  "My::Error->caught()".  Apparently this is what Damian documented in
  Perl Best Practices.  Thanks to JD Hedden for pointing this out.

- Require Devel::StackTrace 1.12 to fix a test failure on Win32.
  Reported by Garrett Goebel.


1.21 Apr 17, 2005

- Added Exception::Class->caught() as syntactic sugar for catching
  exceptions in a "safe" manner.  See the docs for details.  Suggested
  by Damian Conway.


1.20 Jan 1, 2005

- Moved the Classes() method to Exception::Class, now as a function,
  which is where it really belongs.  Also corrected the docs for this
  function, as they incorrectly implied that it would return all
  subclasses, instead of just subclasses which were created when
  loading Exception::Class.

- Added a Build.PL file, and releases are now signed with
  Module::Signature.

- Added ignore_class and ignore_package constructor parameters.  Patch
  by Daisuke Maki.


1.19 Mar 10, 2004

- Identical to 1.18 except that it requires Devel::StackTrace 1.10,
  which fixes a failure in this package's test when run with Perl
  5.6.1.  Reported by Jesse Erlbaum.


1.18 Feb 21, 2004

- Added RespectOverload class method, which can be used to control the
  respect_overload parameter for Devel::StackTrace objects.


1.17 Feb 20, 2004

- Document that new() is always called to create an
  Exception::Class::Base object.  Suggested by Steve Hay.

- Fix a test that failed with Devel::StackTrace 1.05.  Basically, the
  test expected output from Devel::StackTrace that reflected a bug
  that was fixed in 1.05.  Reported by Jesse Vincent.


1.16 Sep 25, 2003

- David Wheeler's patch exposed a bug in Devel::StackTrace which could
  cause exceptions to not have any value set for package, file, or
  line.  This is fixed by depending on Devel::StackTrace 1.04.  This
  release is otherwise identical to 1.15.  Reported by Steve Hay.


1.15 Sep 17, 2003

- Exceptions thrown from an alias subroutine always had
  "Exception::Class" as their package name.  Patch by David Wheeler.


1.14 Jul 04, 2003

- ** BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITY **
  NoRefs is now true by default.  This means that stacktraces will
  _not_ store references unless you explicitly set NoRefs to a false
  value.  This is done because it's too easy to leak memory when
  references are saved in stack traces.

- Fixed a very odd bug where Exception::Class could mistakenly think
  that an exception class had been created when it really hadn't.
  This was only exposed with bleadperl (5.8.1-to-be), and is unlikely
  to affect anyone using an existing Perl version.


1.13 Jun 21, 2003

- Documented the Exception::Class::Base->Fields method, which can be
  called on subclasses to determine what extra fields they have
  defined.  Suggested by Chris Winters.


1.12 Apr 03, 2003

- Added the Exception::Class::Base->Classes method.  Patch by David
  Wheeler.


1.11 Feb 20, 2003

- A description containing a single quote or backslash would cause a
  syntax error in the code generated by Exception::Class.  Patch by
  Luc St-Louis.


1.10 Jan 28, 2003

- The alias feature had a bug that showed up when an alias was
  assigned to a class whose parent had not yet been made.


1.09 Jan 22, 2003

- Tweak to Fields method so that it returns empty list for 5.6.1 and
  5.00503.

- Require Devel::StackTrace 1.03 to fix potential recursion problem
  between the two classes when stringifying exceptions.


1.08 Jan 21, 2003

- Added "alias" feature, which allows you to create a subroutine that
  throws a specified exception.  This is based on code created by Ken
  Williams for Mason.


1.07 Sep 9, 2002

- Forgot to require Devel::StackTrace 1.01.


1.06 release date?

- Use File::Spec when testing file method so that test 7 passes on all
  platforms.  Reported by Ron Savage.

- Use Test::More for test suite.

- Change NoObjectRefs method to NoRefs, to match change in
  Devel::StackTrace 1.01.  The old method is deprecated, but will
  continue to work.  However, it now _means_ the same thing as NoRefs.


1.05 Aug 23, 2002 (from Taiwan)

- Add NoObjectRefs class method to prevent Devel::StackTrace from
  holding onto objects internally, thus delaying destruction.  Based
  on a discussion with Tatsuhiko Miyagawa.


1.04 Aug 22, 2002 (from Taiwan)

- Fix messed up tarball as reported by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa.


1.03 Aug 21, 2002 (from Taiwan)

- Some versions of Perl may give an error about "Ambiguous call
  resolved as CORE::time()".  This should be fixed now.  Reported by
  Ron Savage.


1.02 Aug 20, 2002 (from Taiwan)

- Fields set in a parent class were not actually being inherited by
  children.  Patch (with tests!) by David Wheeler.

- Allow a single argument (error/message) to the constructor.  Patch
  by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa.

- General doc cleanup.


1.01 May 23, 2002

- Make sure that exception objects always test as true in a boolean
  context.


1.00 Mar 8, 2002

- Added a full_message method intended to be overridden when you
  create a subclass that uses fields that you want included in the
  stringification of the object.  Suggested by Jon Swartz.


0.99 Mar 6, 2002

- The much-requested "arbitrary attributes" feature has been added.
  Thanks to Jon Swartz for the patch.  You can now do this:

  use Exception::Class ( 'My::Exception' => { fields => [ 'bar', 'baz' ] } );

  ...

  if ( UNIVERSAL::isa( $@, 'My::Exception' ) { print $@->bar, $@->baz; }


0.98 Feb 20, 2002

- Subclasses that overrode the ->as_string method had to repeat the
  stringification overloading for exception objects.  This has been
  changed so that the stringification overloading is now

  sub { $_[0]->as_string }

  Suggested by Jon Swartz.


0.97 Nov 25, 2001

- Incorporated a patch from Ken Williams that works around several
  Perl 5.6.0 bugs.

- Test 31 was explicitly different for 5.6.0.  Ken said that the
  difference actually made it fail (whereas in the past for me it
  succeeded).  Tweak this test a bit more to just be more flexible
  under 5.6.0.


0.96 Nov 23, 2001

- Changes wasn't in MANIFEST.  Oops.

- Doc tweaks and cleanup of README.

- Make do_trace a synonym to Trace for backwards compatibility.


0.95 Nov 22, 2001

** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE **

- Remove do_trace method and replace it with Trace method, which is
  inherited by subclasses.

- Exception object now always have a Devel::StackTrace object
  available.  The Trace method only determines whether or not it is
  included when the exception is stringified.

- A new parameter show_trace for throw which allows you to override
  the value of Trace on a case by case basis.

- Fix uninit value warning with 5.00503.


0.90 Oct 23, 2001

- fix buglet reported by Terrence Brannon that could occur while
  trying to figure out where the exception was thrown, if the
  exception was thrown from the package that the exception is an
  object of.

- doc improvements suggested Nathaniel Smith (related to using
  Error.pm) and Mark Stosberg.
  

0.85

- added ability to use message instead of error as hash key to
  constructor.


0.8 Sep 3, 2000

- changed object from psuedo-hash to regular hash

- added package, file, & line methods to exception object.

- added more tests for exception object accessors


0.7 Sep 3, 2000

- hack in test.pl to allow tests to pass under 5.6.0.

- README details various Perl bugs this module (along with
  Devel::StackTrace) can expose and some possible workarounds.


0.6 Jun 27, 2000

- renamed to Exception::Class


0.5 Jun 26, 2000

- Initial release, as Class::Exceptions.
