A few weeks ago, someone filed a patch on p5p to allow a new positional
parameter to File::Path::rmtree() that would delete everything, but
retain the root directory. Which is quite a desirable feature.
Michael G Schwern shot the implementation down, saying (what we all
know) that positional parameters suck.
Quick, what would:
rmtree( ['foo', 'bar', 'rat'], 0, undef, 1 );
do? As it turns out, at the same time I was playing around with the
code, seeing if a modern interface (use a hashref as a way of
communicating arbitrary control parameters) would work, and retain
backwards compatibility. So now the above could be written as:
rmtree( {verbose => 0, keep_root => 1}, 'foo', 'bar', 'rat' );
And I wound up as co-maintainer of the module. I've added a slew of
tests to improve the code coverage and restored 5.005 compatibility (it
wasn't hard). It also allows errors to be trapped without having to
resort to eval.
The rendered POD is here
http://www.landgren.net/perl/File-Path.html
and the code, should you care, is here:
http://svnweb.mongueurs.net/File-Path/view/trunk/Path.pm?lang=en
Comments, criticisms and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
David
