[ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.56

[Michael G Schwern]

This is a stable release of ExtUtils::MakeMaker.  Changes since the last 
stable release are listed below.  Notable changes:

* New parameter, BUILD_REQUIRES
* The new "package NAME VERSION" syntax is recognized for finding the version
* Mingw64 is supported

It is available from CPAN or
http://github.com/schwern/extutils-makemaker/tree/v6.56


6.56  Thu Dec 17 14:02:14 PST 2009
    * Stable release of 6.55_03


6.55_03  Fri Dec  4 23:08:02 PDT 2009
    Bug Fixes
    * BUILD_REQUIRES will not be used when generating ppd, PRINT_PREREQ and
      'requires' section of META.yml (Alexandr Ciornii)

    OS/2
    * Better compatibility with miniperl [rt.cpan.org 48534]
      (Ilya Zakharevich)

    Win32
    * mingw64 support (Sisyphus)
    * Fixed a typo causing bad Makefiles for Visual C++ users (Steve Hay)

    New Features
    * The new "package NAME VERSION" syntax from 5.11 is now supported by
      parse_version() and thus VERSION_FROM.  The first version declaration,
      package or $VERSION, is used. (David Golden)


6.55_02  Wed Aug  5 00:36:36 PDT 2009
    Feature Changes
    * PREFIX now applies to relative directories.  This is a change since
      6.20 when they were ignored.  Its necessary for relocatable Perls.

    VMS
    * Refactoring of "MakeMaker Parameters" section in 6.55_01 broke VMS.
      (Craig Berry)


6.55_01  Tue Jul 14 15:53:30 PDT 2009
    Test Fixes
    * The tests got a bit overzealous and removed the LIB environment variable
      while is necessary for some compilers to work. [rt.cpan.org 47722]
      (Jan Dubois)
    * Another fix for arch_check() on Windows changing how we normalize
      long and short filenames. [rt.cpan.org 47723] (Jan Dubois)

    New Features
    * BUILD_REQUIRES is added, similar to PREREQ_PM but for modules which
      are necessary to build, but not run, your module. (Alexandr Ciornii)


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package Outer::Space;  use Test::More tests => 9;