Perl Console 0.2
Hey, version 0.2 of the Perl Console is out.
I found Gunnar’s comment in my first blog entry pretty relevant: providing only a scalar output isn’t user friendly; but freezing the console with either YAML or Data::Dumper would at best satisfy half of the user base.
Hence comes the “preferences” idea. The console allows the user to choose either a value or another for a given preference. No big deal there, but it’s clearly the best thing to do for the output issue.
In version 0.2, the user can enter something like that to change the output mode:
:set output = yaml
If the user wants to know what are the possible values for the preference “output” he can enter the following command:
:help output
Of course, the help engine reads dynamically the preferences definition, in order not to display outdated information (code changes, you know that!).
So, in short, what’s new in 0.2:
- Complete rewrite of the program in object-oriented Perl
- support for preferences (user can set preferences)
- preference “output” added, with 3 values possible: scalar (default), yaml, dumper
- help engine added
The tarball is there, next step is the debian package (ITP already sent).