Revision history 0.01 Mon Dec 22 17:28:49 PST 2003 - original version. 0.02 Tues 06 Jan 18:03:38 PST 2004 - some documentation changes 0.03 Mon Jan 12 17:13:33 PST 2004 - more documentation changes - removed Class::WeakSingleton dependency 0.04 Thu Feb 19 09:39:57 PST 2004 - removed Clone dependency - refactored AutoDB hooks 0.05 Mon Feb 23 11:12:43 PST 2004 - supressed a bunch of warnings throw when using -w flag - use Storable added back to AutoClass 0.07 Mon Aug 16 18:04:12 PDT 2004 - changes to accomodate Class::AutoDB refactor 0.08 Tue Aug 17 10:36:06 PDT 2004 - missed some test files in the 0.07 distribution (oops) 0.09 Wed Sep 1 12:11:24 PDT 2004 - Class::AutoDB::auto_register now takes a Class::AutoClass::Args object as an arg 0.091 Mon Apr 18 09:22:47 PDT 2005 - removed Data::Dumper dependency - removed versions from dependencies in Makefil.PL 0.092 Tue May 31 17:40:32 PDT 2005 - changed AutoDB require in AutoClass.pm to AutoDB::Object (bug: utility classes were forced to 'use Class::AutoDB::Object' - changed prereq syntax in Makefile.pl to just check for lib existance 0.093 Tue Oct 25 16:02:24 PDT 2005 - new override capability (for returning an instance of another object) and tests to cover new functionality - added nullable functionality, so that an AutoClass object can return undef 0.1 Wed Jan 4 15:05:53 PST 2006 - initialization strategy changed. instead of init'ing class by class down the hierarchy, it's now done all at once - fixed many bugs in default initialization - set_attributes always calls setter method - added check for super classes not yet 'used'. caution: this only works if people follow the Perl convention of placing module Foo in file Foo.pm. Else, there's no easy way to translate a classname into a string that can be 'used' - fixed bug to auto-register subclasses that did not set %AUTODB