Hi list,
I just implemented a TODO item from 2004: Selective filtering of the
packaged modules (and misc. text files). So far, filters specified via
-F to pp were applied to all packaged module/autosplit files
unconditionally.
The new behaviour should be backwards compatible. Using -F Bleach still
applies PAR::Filter::Bleach to all modules. But you can specify a
regular expression with your filter and it will be applied only to those
files (not module names since not all filterable files are modules!)
which match the regexp. Example:
-F 'Bleach=^File/Spec\.[^.]+$' (filter all File::Spec files.)
It's not pretty, but works. If I implemented either literal matching (no
regexps) or matching on module::names instead of file/names, the
mechanism would have been more difficult (module::names) or less
generally applicable (both).
You're welcome to experiment with the new feature which was committed to
SVN a few minutes ago.
Cheers,
Steffen
