[RFC] new, improved File::Path

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

• [RFC] new, improved File::Path by David Landgren