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I posted this for some formal beta testing, with an eye toward
synchronizing with the code freeze process for perl 5.10. As of
right now, M::B in blead is a mishmash of 0.2808 and some patches
from various people. I would like 0.2809 to be what ships with 5.10
if possible so that it coordinates well with the CPAN release.
If there are any important bugs we need to fix before calling this
0.2809, please inform.
As luck would have it, I just had my appendix removed, so I've got a
couple recovery days where I can do patches etc.
There are plenty of changes since version 0.2808, see below.
-Ken
0.2808_01 - Wed Oct 24 11:51:25 2007
- All .pm files in the Module-Build distribution (except for
M::B::Version.pm, which is kind of tied to version.pm) now have the
same $VERSION number explicitly specified.
- When checking prerequisites, the required version of perl is now
checked before we start finding the $VERSION declaration of the
distribution, which results in much more intuitive error messages
e.g. if the author is using 5.6-isms in their declaration but the
user doesn't have 5.6. [Slaven Rezic]
- Added 'artistic_2' license, corrected 'lgpl' license url (bug
#29783)
[David Thomas]
- VMS find_perl_interpreter() is just $^X (bug #29810) [Craig A.
Berry]
- Some large VMS fixes, mostly having to do with the non-case-
preserving nature of most VMS filesystems, but also correcting for
illegal characters in VMS file specs. [John E. Malmberg and Craig
A. Berry]
- Fixed the _detildefy() method on VMS. [John E. Malmberg and Craig
A. Berry]
- We now use a much more reliable method when Data::Dumper-ing saved
state data. [Yves]
- When a module had 0.000 as its version, a few places in the code
thought the module had no version at all. This is now
fixed. [Andrew "Zefram" Main]
- When finding the default set of script_files, we now compute them
as relative paths, not absolute. [Spotted by Curtis "Ovid" Poe]
- Got rid of a call to eliminate_macros, which isn't needed in
Module::Build since there is no external make utility involved.
Override expand_test_dir to make up for the fact that the
home-grown glob() returns absolute, not relative, paths. [Craig
A. Berry]
- Fixed a catdir() that needed to be catfile() in the .packlist
creation code. [John E. Malmberg]
- If a *.PL file ended abnormally during the build, processing should
have stopped, but it didn't. Fixed. [Matthew Cast and David
Golden]
- Module::Build::Compat adds "require 5.XXXXX" to Makefile.PL when
'perl' is specified as a 'requires' prerequisite [David Golden]
- Refactored t/compat.t for modularity and transparency; added
labels for all tests; supressed subprocess output to
STDOUT and STDERR [David Golden]
- Fixed bug in perl_version_to_float when version is already a float
[David Golden]
- Removed a mention of $build->{config} from the documentation, the
official interface to Config.pm settings is now via the
$build->config() and has been for some time. [Suggested by Michael
Schwern]
- Tweaked some text in the Cookbook to bring it into the modern age,
and added a recipe for accessing Config.pm settings. [Ibid]
- Lots of POD link/readability improvements to the Module::Build::API
documentation [Salve J. Nilsen]
- Added configure_requires as a new type of prereq. [Suggested by
Adam
Kennedy]
- Patch 31156 from bleadperl: some filename dot and extension help
for Module::Build on VMS. [Craig Berry]
- Reworked the _detildefy() method so it doesn't depend on glob()
anymore. This gets rid of a problem with spaces or other special
shell characters in things like 'prefix' or 'install_path'
entries. [Prodding by Eric Wilhelm]
- Added midnightbsd to the list of Unix-like OSes we know about
[Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
