The latest release candidate for MakeMaker 6.58 is on its way to CPAN and available for download. https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/tarball/v6.57_11
This release fixes all known bugs blocking stable. If it all checks out it will become 6.58. 6.57_11 Thu May 19 17:26:31 PDT 2011 Bug Fixes * Changed CPAN::Meta to accept version objects. [github #16] * Massage bad versions and warn the user about them. [github #15] * Protect against CPAN::Meta dying during metafile validation and generation. VMS * Fix prereq.t to work around "local %ENV = %ENV" bug Win32 * Liblist::Kid can now recognize long compiler paths (Christian Walde) [github #11] 6.57_10 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:36:38 +1000 Bug Fixes * Relaxed strictures on prerequisite versions. Invalid versions now issue a warning and are set to 0 rather than dying. [github #7] * Upgraded CPAN::Meta to 2.110930 which fixes a glitch in writing MYMETA.yml if your module's version number was 1.4. [github #9] * Convert LICENSE entries which are unknown to CPAN::Meta to "unknown" rather than dying. [github #10] -- E: "Would you want to maintain a 5000 line Perl program?" d: "Why would you write a 5000 line program?"