This is a release of ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the thing that runs your Makefile.PL. There's a lot of little bug fixes in this release, plus some features. Also this is the first stable release from github.com. This allows people to fork (its like branching on steroids) and develop patches and features for MakeMaker in a more robust fashion that I can more easily follow.
New Features: * chorny implemented CONFIGURE_REQUIRES so you don't have to muck with the META file manually. * PERM_DIR will control permissions of installed directories, if you have a version of ExtUtils::Install which supports that * PREREQ_PM no longer loads modules to figure out their versions. Instead it parses them to find $VERSION. This allows you to safely depend on a number of modules which do things when they're required, like GTK modules which want an X display. * PPD generation has been updated to more closely match the latest spec You can get a copy from http://github.com/schwern/extutils-makemaker/tree/v6.52 or a CPAN mirror near you! 6.52 Sat May 30 11:22:04 PDT 2009 Docs * Documented CONFIGURE_REQUIRES (Alexandr Ciornii) * Modernized the docs for PREREQ_PM 6.51_04 Sun May 24 14:04:11 PDT 2009 Other * All work on INSTALLHTML* has been reverted pending a fix for [rt.cpan.org 45600] 6.51_03 Sat May 23 22:38:26 PDT 2009 Bug Fixes * Building *.C files was broken in 6.37. [rt.cpan.org 45557] Thanks to Rajesh Mandalemula for spotting it. New Features * Optional parameter CONFIGURE_REQUIRES was added, to control this section in META.yml (Alexandr Ciornii) 6.51_02 Mon Apr 13 21:19:56 PDT 2009 Bug Fixes * Fix a minor bug with the new PERM_DIR stuff which caused EUI to think PERM_DIR was an install skip file. * A Win32 function call in the last alpha broke Win32 builds. 6.51_01 Fri Apr 10 14:30:27 PDT 2009 New Features * Module installation will not be stopped by a broken Pod::Man. Man pages will just not be installed. [rt.cpan.org 43546] (Jesse Vincent) * vim swap files, *.swp, will now be ignored by MakeMaker. * Added PERM_DIR to control permissions on directories. [rt.cpan.org 3927] (Rajesh Mandalemula) Feature Changes * Modules in PREREQ_PM are no longer loaded in order to figure out their version. parse_version() is used instead. [rt.cpan.org 44646] * PPD files generated with "make ppd" now use the new REQUIRES key rather than the now deprecated DEPENDENCY. [rt.cpan.org 25179] (GAAS) * PPD files no longer contain the deprecated OS tag. * fixin is a bit less restrictive allowing things like #!perl5.8.8 and #!perl-debug [rt.cpan.org 29442] * Remove the unused perm_rw() and perm_rwx() methods. Bug Fixes * On 5.10 "make ppd" would generate the wrong ARCHITECTURE saying the version is 5.1 instead of 5.10. * Our pod2man emulation now requires an argument to --perm_rw. [rt.cpan.org 35190] (imacat) * DISTVNAME was documented as a WriteMakefile() param but you'd get a warning if you tried to use it. [rt.cpan.org 43217] * Better support for parallel make installs. [rt.cpan.org 32758] (Brendan O'Dea) * parse_version() will now skip uses of $VERSION in conditions [rt.cpan.org 9452] (j...@unser.net) * The architecture mismatch warning could show up on Win32 due to long vs short filenames being used to compare. [rt.cpan.org 33532] (DAGOLDEN) * maybe_command() will recognize Windows executables in /cygdrive on Cygwin [rt.cpan.org 16375] (PJF) * parse_version() will now look for the first use of $VERSION that results in $VERSION being set. Test Fixes * basic.t will not leave a "bin" environment variable defined on VMS. [rt.cpan.org 42150] (John E. Malmberg) * Made the tests work ok on systems whose makes assume that files which have the same mod time are out of date. This is often the case for the tests which generate files and run make rapidly. [rt.cpan.org 29955] (Ken Hirsch) * skip test numbers were wrong on VMS in t/basic.t [rt.cpan.org 43511] (John E. Malmberg) Portability * Removed a few hard coded uses of the "false" command. [rt.cpan.org 44504] VMS * Fixed a few calls to catfile() that should be catdir(). (John E. Malmberg) * Override catdir() and catfile() to expand macros. This is normally done inside File::Spec::VMS but is really a MakeMaker-only thing. (John E. Malmberg) Other * Remove ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes and vmsish which are unused and seem to never have been used. * Repository now on github. 6.50 Sun Mar 22 12:28:06 PDT 2009 Windows * Remove the special checks for compilers that need a "manifest". Instead, the code will just be a no-op if there's no manifest. Or something. I dunno, I'm hoping Jan and Steve know what they're doing. [rt.perl.org 61492] -- Look at me talking when there's science to do. When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you. I've experiments to be run. There is research to be done On the people who are still alive. -- Jonathan Coulton, "Still Alive"
