README for File::Find::Rule 0.29

=head1 NAME

File::Find::Rule - Alternative interface to File::Find

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  use File::Find::Rule;
  # find all the subdirectories of a given directory
  my @subdirs = File::Find::Rule->directory->in( $directory );

  # find all the .pm files in @INC
  my @files = File::Find::Rule->file()
                              ->name( '*.pm' )
                              ->in( @INC );

  # as above, but without method chaining
  my $rule =  File::Find::Rule->new;
  $rule->file;
  $rule->name( '*.pm' );
  my @files = $rule->in( @INC );


=head1 DEPENDENCIES

This module has external dependencies on the following modules:

 Cwd
 File::Find
 File::Spec
 Number::Compare
 Test::More
 Text::Glob

=head1 INSTALLATION

 perl Build.PL
 perl Build test

and if all goes well

 perl Build install

=head1 HISTORY

What changed over the last 3 revisions

=over

=item 0.29 Tuesday 16th May, 2006

	Kludged around {min,max}depth and trailing slashes in path
	names.


=item 0.28 Tuesday 18th May, 2004

	exposed %X_tests and @stat_tests as package variables, and make a
	_call_find method for File::Find::Rule::Filesys::Virtual


=item 0.27 Wednesday 25th February, 2004

	Changed to write_makefile_pl to 'traditional' from
	'passthrough'.  Fixes INDIRECTLY REPORTED install problems
	caused by new Module::Build being backwards incompatible.

=back

=head1 AUTHOR

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> with input gained from this
use.perl discussion: http://use.perl.org/~richardc/journal/6467

Additional proofreading and input provided by Kake, Greg McCarroll,
and Andy Lester andy@petdance.com.

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 Richard Clamp.  All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<File::Find>, L<Text::Glob>, L<Number::Compare>, find(1)

If you want to know about the procedural interface, see
L<File::Find::Rule::Procedural>, and if you have an idea for a neat
extension L<File::Find::Rule::Extending>