Helium Project era:

2.7.0

• Added ESHELL_SETTINGS_DIR for relpathing vars from the settings files location (gorlak)

2.6.0

• Added -workingDir to set the working directory (gorlak)

2.5.0

• Add file existence check to "if" conditional directives (gorlak)

2.4.0

• Add env var existence conditional support to 'if' (gorlak)

2.3.0

• Add env var value conditional support via 'if' xml attribute (gorlak) example: if="VAR=VALUE" or if="VAR!=VALUE"

2.2.8

• Remove HideConsole, it only existed as a hack to hide perl.exe and its terminal window when running applications who's exe file has spaces in the path (requiring quotes), which in turn causes perl's exec to wait for exit (leaving the console window open until the target program terminates). Perfer system( 1, "..." ) resolves this

Insomniac era:

2.2.7

• Making Eshell more flexible and allowing optional includes (rmark)
• Adding the allow_override option to EnvVars (rmark)

2.2.6

• No longer uses Win32::GUI to hide the console window, new funciton HideConsole (aburke)
• Updated -output flag with better output filtering and uppercase env vars (gevans)

2.2.5

• Do not process certain env vars based on hash table $g_SkipProcessingVariables. (aburke)

2.2.4

• Bug fix, ParseIncludes was not setting $include from ProcessValue's return value. (aburke)

2.2.3

• Bug fix, ESHELL_COMMAND_LINE needed to be setup the new env before the commandline was parsed. (rmark)

2.2.2

• Changes to process values after all EnvVars and Configs have been parsed (rmark)

2.2.1

• Small change to environment variable processing order to make config more intuitive

2.2.0 !!!NOTE!!!: Configuration format changes with this release.

• Major refactoring and simplification

• Store a base64-encoded backup of the base environment in the ESHELL_ENV_BACKUP environment variable ** Allows for much saner spawning of new eshells from within an existing shell

• Add the ability to include configs, eg:

  some/relative/include.xml %AN_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE%/otherconfig.xml

• Remove the top-level 'EnvironmentVariables' container, eg:

  becomes:

  <EnvVar ...> <EnvVar ...>

• Remove the 'PathSettings' section of the config ** Instead, you can directly modify the path, eg:

• Remove the 'PerlSettings' section of the config ** Instead, you can directly set the library paths, eg:

• Remove support for UserSettings.xml ** Instead, users should use the '-set' argument on shortcuts, eg:

  eshell.pl ... -set SOMEVARIABLE=somevalue

• Support recursive parentage for configurations ** There used to be a limit to the depth of parentage, no more...

• Add aliases for environment variables, eg:

  makes:

  eshell.pl ... -code blah

  equivalent to:

  eshell.pl ... -set PROJECT_CODE=blah

1.0.11

• Making -exec return the error code returned by the command.

1.0.10

• Making -exec work with commands that have spaces in the parameters

1.0.7

• Improvements to auto-update ** Ability to force an update, even if people have newer versions *** Should allow for downgrading if necessary

1.0.6

• Minor code cleanup ** renamed $config to $settings ** moved "parse commandline options" section of main into new sub ParseCommandline

1.0.5

• make ESHELL env var = the version; get rid of legacy ENVSHELL variable

1.0.4

• move title formats to env var ESHELL_TITLE_FORMAT and ESHELL_TITLE

1.0.3

• Require Getopt::Long 2.36

1.0.2

• Fix absolute paths to config files

1.0.1

• Fix handling of 'Config' elements ** Previously, having only a single config would cause an error

1.0.0

• Initial Release