After four months of development and 15 development releases along the way, I'm pleased to announce that Module::Build 0.36 is now on CPAN. Version 0.36 will also be included in the next release of the Perl 5.11.X development series. For more, see http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Build-0.36/
I would like to thank everyone who contributed patches, suggestions, testing or other support to enable this release. -- David Here is a summary of major changes since 0.35: Enhancements: - Added 'Build installdeps' action to install needed dependencies via a user-configurable command line program. (Defaults to 'cpan'.) - Command line options may be set via the PERL_MB_OPT environment variable (similar to PERL_MM_OPT in ExtUtils::MakeMaker) - Generates MYMETA.yml during Build.PL (new standard protocol for communicating configuration results between toolchain components) - Reduced amount of console output under normal operation (use --verbose to see all output) - Added experimental inc/ bundling; see Module::Build::Bundling for details. New or changed properties: - Added 'share_dir' property to provide File::ShareDir support; File::ShareDir automatically added to 'requires' if 'share_dir' is set - Added 'needs_compiler' property. Defaults to true if XS or c_source exist. If true, ExtUtils::CBuilder is also added to build_requires. - 'C_support' is no longer an optional feature. Modern ExtUtils::CBuilder and ExtUtils::ParseXS added to the 'requires' list. This ensures that upgrading Module::Build will upgrade these critical modules. - Clarified that 'apache' in the license attribute indicates the Apache License 2.0 and added 'apache_1_1' for the older version of the license (RT#50614) Deprecations: - Module::Build::Compat 'passthrough' style has been deprecated. Using 'passthrough' will issue warnings on Makefile.PL generation. See Module::Build::Compat documentation for rationale. Internals: - Replaced use of YAML.pm with YAML::Tiny; Module::Build::YAML is now based on YAML::Tiny as well - A new get_metadata() method has been added as a simpler wrapper around the old, kludgy prepare_metadata() API. - Replaced guts of new_from_context(). Build.PL is now executed in a separate process before resume() is called. (This is generally only of interest to Module::Build or toolchain developers) (RT#49350) - Add support for 'package NAME VERSION' syntax added in Perl 5.11.1 Notable bug fixes: - The "test" action now dies when using the 'use_tap_harness' option and tests fail, matching the behavior under Test::Harness. (RT#49080) [initial patch from David Wheeler; revised by David Golden] - Updated PPM generation to PPM v4 (RT#49600) [Olivier Mengue] - When module_name is not supplied, no packlist was being written; fixed by guessing module_name from dist_version_from or the directory name (just like ExtUtils::Manifest does without NAME) [David Golden] - Failure to detect a compiler will now warn during Build.PL and be a fatal error when trying to compile during Build. (RT#48918) [David Golden] - Auto-detection of abstract and author fixed for mixed-case POD headers (RT#51117) [David Wheeler] - resume() was not restoring additions to @INC added in Build.PL (RT#50145) [David Golden] - When tarball paths are less than 100 characters, disables 'prefix' mode of Archive::Tar for maximum compatibility (RT#50571) [David Golden] - Merging 'requires' and 'build_requires' in Module::Build::Compat could lead to duplicate PREREQ_PM entries; now the highest version is used for PREREQ_PM. (RT#50948) [David Golden] - Module::Build::Compat will now die with an error if advanced, non-numeric prerequisites are given, as these are not supported by ExtUtils::MakeMaker in PREREQ_PM [David Golden]
