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Revision history for Perl extension Module::Build.
0.340201 - Sun Aug 9 22:11:04 EDT 2009
Other:
- Version bump for Perl core for 5.10.1 release; no other changes
0.34_02 - Sun Jul 26 22:50:40 EDT 2009
Bug-fixes:
- Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN
version.pm 0.77
0.34_01 - Sat Jul 18 16:32:09 EDT 2009
Enhancements:
- Added --debug flag to trace Build action execution (RT#47933)
[David Golden]
Bug-fixes:
- Bundled Module::Build::Version version code updated to fix unsafe use
of $@ (RT#47980) [John Peacock]
0.34 - Tue Jul 7 16:56:47 EDT 2009
No changes from 0.33_06
0.33_06 - Sun Jul 5 10:11:40 EDT 2009
Bug-fixes:
- Bundled version code will use pure Perl on 5.10.0 to work around
a corner case involving eval and locale [John Peacock]
- Reversed VMS patch from 0.33_03 [Craig Berry]
- PL_files in Build.PL that are in the bin/scripts directory should not be
installed as if they are scripts (fixed for case-tolerant systems).
[David Golden, reported by Craig Berry]
0.33_05 - Sun Jun 28 22:06:49 EDT 2009
Enhancements:
- New 'auto_configure_requires' parameter (default 1) controls
whether Module::Build should add itself to configure_requires
in META.yml if not specified in Build.PL [David Golden]
Bug-fixes:
- The default MANIFEST.SKIP created by the "manifest" action
was out of date. It will now use the installed MANIFEST.SKIP
and add some Module::Build and distribution specific items
to it. [Michael Schwern]
Other:
- configure_requires do not necessarily need to be in requires
or build_requires; warning to that effect has been removed
[David Golden]
0.33_04 - Fri Jun 26 07:09:06 EDT 2009
Bug-fixes:
- Don't try utf8 YAML I/O on Perl 5.6 [David Golden]
Other:
- configure_requires added to prereq report (RT#47254) [Curtis Jewell]
- updated Module::Build::Version to match forthcoming version.pm 0.77
(RT#47256) [John Peacock]
- skips xs.t and ppm.t when perl was not compiled with dynamic loading
since Module::Buld does not support static linking (RT#46178)
[David Golden]
- skip failing test in par.t if Archive::Zip is broken [David Golden]
- Added YAML utf8 patch in 0.33_03 changes list
- Added attribution for patches in 0.33_03 changes list
0.33_03 - Mon Jun 22 17:22:56 EDT 2009
Bug-fixes:
- Removes Module::Build from its own configure/build_requires
[David Golden]
- ConfigData->feature() confirms that modules actually load successfully,
not just that they are present. (RT#43557) [David Golden]
- Module::Build::Compat handling of INSTALL*LIB (RT#43827)
[Tony Payne, David Golden]
- Module::Build::Compat and recursive test files (RT#39171) [Dave Rolsky]
- Fixed bug linking non-standard XS names on Windows (RT#38065) ["snaury"]
- Run PL files that don't generate any file (RT#39365)
[Matisse Enzer, David Golden]
- HTML generation failure no longer fatal (RT#36660) [David Golden]
- realclean might not delete Build.bat on Windows (RT#43863)
[Roy Ivy, David Golden]
- include_dirs parameter now works correctly when given a single
string argument (RT#40177) [David Wheeler]
- Lots of spelling fixes in the POD (RT#45528r) [Lars Dieckow]
- On Unix-like systems, tilde expansion is more liberal in username
characters accepted (RT#33492) [Jon Jensen]
Other
- On MSWin32, bumped File::Spec prereq to 3.30 for a variety of fixes
- Add support for VMS in Unix compatibility mode (RT#42157)
[John E. Malmberg
- Added a can_action($name) method (RT#45172) [brian d foy]
- Documented that subclass methods should not permanently change
current directory (RT#46919) [David Wheeler]
- META.yml encoded in UTF-8 (RT#43765) [Olivier Mengue]
0.33_02 - Mon Jun 15 12:23:55 EDT 2009
Bug-fixes:
- Fixed tests for bleadperl
0.33_01 - Sat Jun 13 20:24:42 EDT 2009
Bug-fixes:
- Fixed RT#42724: consolidated VMS fixes [patch by Craig Berry]
- Fixed RT#46338: passthrough Makefile.PL cleans Makefile during distclean
- Fixed RT#45700: t/compat.t for HP/UX make
Other:
- Adds current Module::Build to configure_requires (and build_requires)
if no configure_requires is specified
- Always normalizes version number tuples in META.yml (e.g. 'v1.2.0')
(Partially addresses RT#46150)
- Normalizes a generated dist_version (e.g. from a .pm file) --
dist_version set manually in Build.PL is not normalized
- Documentation update for create_license
- Minor POD cleanup
0.33 - Sun May 3 20:16:34 PDT 2009
Bug-fixes:
- Fixed RT#45462: Compat.pm needs to reference 'Build.com' on VMS
[patch from John Malmberg]
- Fixed RT#45461: ext.t on VMS [patch from John Malmberg]
- Fixed RT#43861: Module::Build::PPMMaker has broken PPD name
versioning for v5.10+
0.32_01 - Tue Apr 14 17:14:22 PDT 2009
Bug-fixes:
- Module::Build::Compat had stopped adding "PL_FILES => {}" when no
PL_files property was set in Build.PL; restored old behavior and fixed
tests and documentation related to this issue [David Golden]
- Caches ExtUtils::CBuilder object in a temporary stash instead of properties
- Fixed undef resources->license in META.yml (RT #44453).
- Use $^X instead of 'perl' in t/ext.t [David Golden] (RT #43485)
Other:
- Generated META.yml will indicate version 1.4 of the specification
(RT #37478) [patch from Alexandr Ciornii]
- Archive::Tar now the default for generating tarballs on all platforms
(avoids problems with incompatible tar binaries)
- dist_dir() now uses dist_name() and dist_version() accessors rather
than using its properties directly. [brian d foy] (RT #45038)
0.32 - Wed Feb 25 17:40:02 PST 2009
No changes since 0.31_04.
0.31_04 - Fri Feb 20 11:04:59 PST 2009
Other
- Bumped Test::Harness prereq to 3.16 for latest PERL5LIB fixes (solves
test failures when installing Module::Build using CPANPLUS::Dist::Build)
[David Golden]
0.31_03 - Sun Feb 8 14:54:01 PST 2009
Enhancements
- added a "prereq_data" action that prints a Perl data structure of
all prerequisites; can be loaded by external tools using eval()
[David Golden]
Bug-fixes
- 'fakeinstall' action warns and skips without ExtUtils::Install 1.32+
[David Golden, reported by Zefram]
- allows Module::Build version mismatch when installing self; works around
limitations in CPANPLUS::Dist::Build [David Golden]
0.31_02 - Tue Jan 27 09:16:43 PST 2009
Other
- tests now use File::Temp (added to build_requires); appears to fix
Win32 testing heisenbug on directory removal during high system loads
- use_tap_harness.t will skip unless a release version of TAP::Harness
is installed
- improved diagnostics to ensure_blib() tests in t/lib/MBTest.pm
Compat
- passthrough Makefile.PL will now play nice with cpantesters' on
exit(0) (RT#32018) [Eric Wilhelm]
Bug Fixes
- fix for doubling-up of --prefix (RT#19951)
0.31012 - Wed Jan 14 01:36:19 PST 2009
Bug Fixes
- t/tilde.t maybe actually fixed on MSWin32 now.
0.31011 - Mon Jan 12 21:57:04 PST 2009
Bug Fixes
- t/tilde.t had been failing on MSWin32 (RT#42349)
0.3101 - Mon Jan 12 13:52:36 PST 2009
Other
- added 'mirbsd' as a Unix-type OS [BinGOs]
- added 'haiku' as a Unix-type OS (backported from bleadperl)
- skips certain tests on VMS (backported from bleadperl)
- sets $^X to absolute path in tests (backported from bleadperl)
0.31 - Sat Dec 20 15:03:33 2008
Deprecations
- Use of attributes as class methods is deprecated (this was never a
documented feature and appears to only have worked accidentally.)
0.30_02 - Mon Dec 15 12:23:55 PST 2008
Bug Fixes
- make Software::License dependency "softer".
0.30_01 - Thu Dec 11 18:25:53 PST 2008
New Docs
- Added a recipe for writing a new action to the Cookbook
- Added a recipe for bundling Module::Build to the Cookbook.
Doc Fixes
- Clarified dist_abstract search procedure in API.pod (RT#41056) [Mario
Domgoergen]
Bug Fixes
- Workaround HARNESS_TIMER env issue in t/compat.t (RT#39635)
- Fix ~ expansion when $HOME is different from /etc/passwd as
when running sudo. [rt.cpan.org 39662]
- Fixed a small POD error in the Cookbook. [Damyan Ivanov]
- Unset group/other write permission bits when using Archive::Tar to
build the dist tarball. (RT#39804) [David Golden]
Enhancements
- We now support a 'create_license' parameter to new() that will
create a LICENSE file during the 'dist' phase with the full text of
the license. This requires Software::License on the author's
machine.
- Added lgpl2/lgpl3 entries to the supported licenses (RT#40532).
- Support for validating properties with a check subref. [David
Wheeler]
Test Fixes
- Defend against more stray environment variables interfering
with the tests.
Other
- Updated our embedded version.pm to 0.76, enhanced documentation on
dist_version_from. [John Peacock]
0.30 - Thu Sep 25 20:57:36 2008
- First non-beta release since April 2007. In the meantime, Sarkozy
became president of France, the 35W bridge fell in Minneapolis,
Phelps won a lot of gold, a new tribe of indigenous people was
discovered in the Amazon, and Bob Barker stopped doing The Price Is
Right. As of this moment though, the U.S. economy still hasn't
collapsed completely.
0.2808_05 - Thu Sep 18 23:30:39 PDT 2008
- Skip test in t/ext.t which tickles shellwords() in Text::ParseWords
below 3.23 [David Wheeler, Ken]
- Fixed some shell-quoting issues in do_system() on Windows [Ken,
Schwern, reported by Curtis Jewell]
- Fixed t/xs.t failure for missing 'const char *' typemap in 5.6
[Schwern]
- Added build_requires for Test::More 0.49 and Test::Harness 2.03.
Removed bundled Test::More (was not working for 5.005x anyway).
[Schwern]
- Minimum required perl version is now 5.6.1. [Schwern]
0.2808_04 - Thu Sep 11 22:51:27 PDT 2008
- Backed-out incompatible Module::Build::ModuleInfo change (first in
0.2808_02.)
0.2808_03 - Mon Sep 1 14:43:27 PDT 2008
- Made adjustments for the format changes of recent Test::Harness
output. [Nicholas Clark]
- Fixed the documentation for script_files to indicate that we search
bin/ for scripts by default. It has been this way for several
years. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
0.2808_02 - Wed Jul 9 16:45:08 PDT 2008
- Experimental support for TAP::Harness with --use-tap-harness option
and the tap_harness_args property. [David Wheeler & Eric Wilhelm]
- Added test_file_exts property for main-run tests other than '*.t'.
[David Wheeler]
- Fixed getcwd()/rmtree() failure case on 5.10+mac where something is
unhappy about all of the tests deleting their distgen directory
before leaving it. [Eric Wilhelm & David Wheeler]
- Improved support for parsing qv() in modules' $VERSION
declarations, and made $VERSION-parsing errors more verbose. [Jos
Boumans]
- Integrated an omnibus patch for various VMS fixes. [Craig Berry &
John E. Malmberg]
- Some versions of Test::Harness (or something) seem to not be
stripping the ".t" suffix when outputting test reports, which was
causing one of our tests in t/compat.t to fail. Fixed. [Spotted by
a smoke tester]
- Most Unix platforms seem to allow hyphens in usernames, so we honor
this in our de-tilde-fying methods now. [Spotted by s-murata]
- If there are multiple assignments to the $VERSION variable in
someone's module and this generates warnings, tell the user what
line number the problem is at.
- Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni]
- Fixed a couple bugs in how we quote arguments to external processes
when they have to pass through the shell. Also much more
thoroughly tested our quoting now.
- Edited the Module::Build::API docs prose about the 'license' field
in response to some comments on the module-authors mailing list.
- Fixed a typo in some example code in the Cookbook. [Jeremy Leader]
- Custom typemaps were being looked for in places that don't quite
exist; fixed. [Michael G Schwern]
- QNX/Neutrino is now considered to be Unix. [rt.cpan.org 32214]
- Added 'gpl2' and 'gpl3' to the list of valid licenses. [Allen
Engelhardt]
- Fixed our Data::Dumper wrapper's sensitivity to users who might set
$Data::Dumper::Terse. [Spotted by Dominique Dumont]
- Documented the fix_shebang_line() method. [Elliot Shank]
- Applied the 'const' modifier to version() and xs_version() XS
functions we use during testing. [Robin Barker]
- Fixed processing of INC=, POLLUTE=, INSTALLDIRS=, and LIB= for
passthrough/small Makefile.PLs.
- perl Build.PL --sign=1 now signs. [Michael G Schwern]
- Fixed processing of INSTALLDIRS=whatever for compatibility
Makefiles. [Spotted by John Peacock]
- Zillions of special-cases have been added in Compat.pm for dealing
with the special Makefile system on VMS. [John E. Malmberg]
- Fixed some stuff in how VMS command-args get quoted. [John E. Malmberg]
- VMS now overrides localize_file_path() and localize_dir_path() so
we don't need to do special stuff in the general case. [John
E. Malmberg]
- Added a few more VMS-specific entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP
file that (sometimes) gets created during the 'manifest'
action. [John E. Malmberg]
- Fixed a catdir() that should have been a catfile() when creating a
ppmdist. [John E. Malmberg]
- Removed some assumptions about what makefiles are called (not
necessarily "Makefile") and how they take their arguments, to get
VMS tests working better. [John E. Malmberg]
- Fixed our check for Archive::Tar in the t/runthrough.t test, which
fixes a common failure on Win32. [Spotted by Chris Williams]
- Fixed a File::Spec mal-ism in t/destinations.t [Craig A. Berry]
- Exposed the internal ExtUtils::CBuilder object as part of our API,
via the cbuilder() method. [Zefram]
- Upgraded to version.pm 0.74 (fixes bug #30004.)
- Overwrite core (post-5.9.4) Module::Build installs (bug #20528.)
- Pass quiet() option to ExtUtils::CBuilder object.
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]
0.2808 - Sat Apr 28 12:59:43 2007
- Added is_vmsish(), is_windowsish(), and is_unixish() boolean
convenience functions. Fixes some test failures on platforms where
$^O is set to a value we don't know about (like 'gnu').
- Upgraded to version.pm 0.7203. [John Peacock]
- Support get_action_docs() =head2 style. [ewilhelm]
- Workaround Test::Pod::Coverage @INC bug. [Eric Wilhelm]
- Fixed the command-line args --extra_compiler_flags and
--extra_linker_flags so they properly shell-split their arguments.
0.2807 - Sat Mar 24 22:19:02 2007
- Upgraded to version.pm 0.71. [John Peacock]
- Removed a couple small constructs in the tests ("use warnings;" and
"qw$foo bar$[1]") that caused test failures under perl 5.005.
- Added support for an explicit default value of undef in prompt().
[Eric Wilhelm]
- Improved our prompt() method, which could sometimes hang before the
user got a chance to see a prompt. [Andreas Koenig]
- Added a note about --allow_mb_mismatch to the error message that
happens right before someone might want to use that parameter.
- Added DragonflyBSD to the list of known Unix OSes.
- get_action_docs() dies on error rather than twiddling $@
- Made ModuleInfo's _evaluate_version_line() compatible with 'use
version ...$VERSION' lines. [Eric Wilhelm]
- Added some verbiage in Module::Build::API that officially blesses
the _build/prereqs file for external consumption. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig]
- Added test profiles support via the test_types property and "testall"
target. [Eric Wilhelm, Jeff Lavallee]
- Use syscopy() on OS/2 in copy_if_modified() so we make sure to
overwrite any existing target file. [Ilya Zakharevich]
- Removed seemingly silly '~~' test in t/tilde.t.
- In our test-time utility library t/lib/MBTest.pm, we need to know
about a few .exe-like extensions on OS/2. [Ilya Zakharevich]
- In t/ppm.t, use DynaLoader::mod2fname() (if available) to determine
the correct translation of our test module's name into a DLL
name. [Ilya Zakharevich]
- Avoid an unlink() error on OS/2 when fixing shebang lines. [Ilya
Zakharevich]
- When we're protecting the world from the evils of long RedHat
$ENV{PERL5LIB} variables, don't assume $ENV{PERL5LIB} is already
defined. This gets rid of a huge number of warnings for some
people. [Dave Rolsky]
0.2806 - Fri Dec 15 22:20:14 2006
- On some systems (haven't identified the actual problem yet)
$ENV{PERL5LIB} can grow to enormous enough sizes that we can't
launch any more subprocesses because the environment table is full.
This is the now-infamous "Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too
long" error. Now we detect such situations and trim the directory
list to only include directories that actually exist, listed only
once each. Not the ideal solution, but it should work.
- Silence a warning in M::B::ModuleInfo that happens when the author
is using the "$VERSION = eval $VERSION" idiom.
- When running the 'testcover' action, do "cover --delete" if any of
the test files have changed (we already did so if any of the code
under test has changed). [Suggested by Chris Dolan, RT #23584]
- Fixed a broken link in the documentation about PREFIX. [Spotted by
David Steinbrunner]
- Changes to do_system() & friends on VMS to get system calls working
much better there. [Craig Berry]
- Added the "pardist" target which creates a PAR binary distribution
akin to a PPM distribution. [Steffen Mueller]
- Added the Interix platform as a Unix variant. [Stephen Hartland]
- Improved the error message we emit when a distribution contains XS
files but the user has no C compiler. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig]
0.2805_01 Thu Sep 7 21:57:29 CDT 2006
- Because of a weird behavior of YAML::Node, any distribution that
used version.pm objects to define their versions was generating the
wrong syntax for the versions in their META.yml file. They will
now appear as strings like v3.42.1 or similar, including the
leading v.
- Upgraded to version 0.67 of version.pm. [John Peacock]
- Added a contrib/ directory with a bash completion function for M::B
actions and switches. [Julian Mehnle]
- When we eval() the embedded version.pm code we will now die() if
the eval() was unsuccessful, rather than continuing blindly on and
dying mysteriously later.
- Added a 'retest' action that lets users run the current regression
tests on a previously-installed version of a distribution.
* Instead of storing an entire dump of the Config.pm hash in the
_build/ directory upon startup, we now just store any overrides the
user or author has specified. Note that if you were doing anything
you weren't supposed to be doing, like poking around in the
internals of $buld->{config}, your code might break, so I've put
the asterisk of incompatibility on this one just to cover my
tuchus. [Idea originally by Randy Sims]
- Made copying files via copy_if_modified() a little less chatty.
0.2805 Sat Jul 29 22:01:24 CDT 2006
- We now embed a copy of version.pm right in the
Module::Build::Version source code, with John Peacock's blessing,
in case the user has a rough time installing version.pm. This
helps alleviate troubles people were still having with working out
a seemingly circular dependency (even though version.pm now ships
with a standard Makefile.PL too). A version.pm >= 0.661 installed
on the system will take precedence over our bundled one. [John
Peacock]
- Fix some test warnings (or failures?) related to version.pm
numification. [John Peacock]
- The top-level 'version' entry in META.yml files we'd generated was
in the wrong format (it was being treated as a version.pm object
rather than a serialized copy) due to a weird YAML::Node issue.
Fixed.
- Don't 'use base qw(version)' anymore in our M::B::Version wrapper,
just set @ISA directly, because some people have reported that the
'use base' line is croaking.
- Added an 'allow_mb_mismatch' parameter to suppress the startup
check that ensures the version of M::B currently running is the
same as the one initially used to run the Build.PL. Use with
caution.
- Module::Build::ModuleInfo will no longer detect things that look
like $VERSION assignments after an __END__ or __DATA__ token.
- Updated documentation to mention the new mailing list on perl.org
rather than the old one on sourceforge.
0.2804 Sun Jul 16 16:41:25 CDT 2006
- Added 'use version;' in Module::Build::Version, because some
versions of base.pm won't automatically load version.pm when we do
'use base qw/version/;'. [Spotted by Erik Tank]
0.2803 Sat Jul 15 08:26:34 CDT 2006
- The META.yml file in the last release was all screwed up, so the
distribution wasn't indexed properly. Fixed in this release.
0.2802 Fri Jul 14 22:40:34 CDT 2006
- Added reliance on version.pm, which means we should deal much
better with the wide range of version specifications one finds on
CPAN. This is made possible by recent releases of version.pm that
give the user a pure-perl option, so installing version.pm
shouldn't be too onerous for most users. [John Peacock]
- We should be accepting the default when we're in unattended mode,
not acting dumb and ignoring both the default and the [empty]
answer from the user. Fixed. [Spotted by Nik Clayton]
0.2801 Sun May 21 00:07:40 CDT 2006
- Module::Build::Compat's emulation of INC is incorrectly prepending
a -I to the value of INC. This is incorrect because there should
already be a -I on the value. I.E. it's "perl Makefile.PL INC=-Ifoo"
not "perl Makefile.PL INC=foo" so Compat should not prefix a -I.
[Michael Schwern]
- Native batch scripts under Windows should not be converted by
pl2bat. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
- Tweaked the way we determine whether a file is executable on Unix.
We use this determination to decide whether to make it executable
during installation. [Julian Mehnle]
- Replaced a vestigial 'next' with 'return' now that the code is in a
subroutine (htmlify_pods()), not a loop. [Ron Savage]
- Fixed a guaranteed failure in t/signature.t when TEST_SIGNATURE was
set. [Eric R. Meyers]
- Fixed a test failure that occurred when testing or installing in
unattended mode - the code to test whether unattended mode and
attended mode are working properly was assuming that we started out
in attended mode. [Steve Peters]
- Improved our stand-in YAML generator that we use to generate
META.yaml when authors don't have a copy of YAML.pm installed on
their machine. It was unable to handle things like embedded
newlines in the data, now it has a much more extensive escaping
mechanism. [Stephen Adkins]
- Revised the docs for --prefix and PREFIX. [Michael Schwern]
0.28 Thu Apr 27 22:25:00 CDT 2006
- When y_n() or prompt() are called without a default value and the
build seems to be unattended (e.g. in automatic CPAN testing), we
now die() with an error message rather than silently returning
undef for prompt(), or looping indefinitely for y_n().
- When searching for '.modulebuildrc', return the first HOME-like
directory that actually contains the file instead of the first
existing directory. Document the search locations and the order
searched. [Spotted by David Golden]
- Split the API documentation out of Module::Build::Authoring into
its own document: Module::Build::API.
- We should not emit a warning if a Module::Build subclass is
required in a Makefile.PL that is not bundled in the current
distribution; it may be installed on the user's system. [Spotted by
Tyler MacDonald]
- copy_if_modified() now preserves the executable bit of the source
file. [Spotted by Julian Mehnle]
- Fixed compatibility of our screen-scraping the Test::Harness output
so we can recognize the most recent Test::Harness version. [Steve
Hay]
- Backing out a requirement added in 0.27_06 on the method y_n()
to always include a default. This behavior would cause existing
build scripts to start failing. We now fail with a missing default
only when $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} is set because there is no
reasonable default.
- Make install_types() method smarter with respect to custom install
types.
- Add documentation for the install_base_relpaths() and
prefix_relpaths() methods. Improved their usage for a public API,
and added tests.
0.27_10 Tue Mar 28 22:50:50 CST 2006
- Added the create_packlist property, default true, which controls
whether packlist files will be written during installation. This
was already part of Module::Build 0.2609, but for some reason we've
forgotten it in the 0.27_xx series. [Spotted by Steve Kirkup]
- Document the versions of Module::Build where each feature, action,
constructor argument, and method was first publicly documented.
- More fixes for find_perl_interpreter() to work with BSD flavored
UNIX: Ensure we always return absolute paths; throw an exception
upon failure to find correct interperter; document everything.
- We now include our own YAML.pm work-alike that we can use when the
real YAML isn't installed. We might soon even start using it when
YAML is installed, because the YAML API and dependency chain have
been changing in unfavorable ways lately. [Stephen Adkins]
- Fixed some shell-argument-quoting issues on VMS. In the process,
we have added some support for avoiding tripping over
shell-argument-quoting issues on other platforms too. [Initial
patch by Craig A. Berry]
0.27_09 Sat Mar 11 22:48:54 EST 2006
- Fixed find_perl_interpreter() so we can find the perl executable
when running from uninstalled perl even when $^X contains a
relative path. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
- Fixed warning message where we were printing the wrong field names.
[Chris Dolan]
- Added a 'testpodcoverage' action that runs a POD coverage check for
all modules in the distribution. [Yanick Champoux]
- Added a Cookbook example of subclassing to modify an action. [Dylan
Martin and David Golden]
- When building HTML documentation, we were opening the POD file and
not checking whether the open succeeded, which of course caused
problems down the line if it failed. Now we do "or die(...)" like
everywhere else. [Spotted by Joerg Braun]
0.27_08 Fri Mar 3 21:22:41 CST 2006
- Due to shell quoting issues and differences in syntax between
various flavors of Windows, the code for the 'pl2bat' utility
distributed with Perl has been incorporated into M::B::P::Windows.
[Thanks to Dr Bean and Ron Savage for help testing and isolating
the problem.]
- Modify add_build_element() so that it only adds elements if they
don't already exist. [David Wheeler]
- Fixed a bug in the 'pass-through' Makefile.PL in which we would die
if CPAN::Shell->install returned false, but apparently this return
value is unreliable. Now we only die if the module is actually
unavailable after installation.
- Fixed testing problems on VMS related to non-case-preserving
filesystems. We now bundle Tie::CPHash in the distribution (just
for testing purposes, it doesn't get installed) to help with
this. [Craig Berry and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
- We incorrectly documented the 'dynamic_config' flag in the META.yml
file as having a default value of false, but according to the
META.yml spec (which, for heaven's sake, we wrote) its default
value is true. Fixed. [Spotted by Adam Kennedy]
- The have_c_compiler() method was dying if the ExtUtils::CBuilder
module wasn't around, which is obviously an unhelpful thing to do.
Now it just returns false. [Spotted by John Peacock]
- Fix detection of $VERSION expressions that are not
assignments. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
- Obfuscate one of our constructs that uses a $VERSION variable,
because it was getting picked up by ExtUtils::MakeMaker's
version-finder. [Spotted by Randal Schwartz]
- The config_data script for querying and/or setting a module's
config data was forgetting to call write() after setting config
values (though setting feature values was working fine).
Fixed. [Brian Duggan]
- On Windows, remove the pl2bat generated 'Build.bat' script without
the annoying "The batch file cannot be found." error. [Solution
provided by RazTK and foxidrive on newsgroup alt.msdos.batch]
- Our version comparisons should now work correctly with modules that
use version.pm to delcare their versions (e.g. "our $VERSION =
version->new('1.0.0')"). [John Peacock and Ron Savage]
- We now create a Build.bat script on versions of Windows where it
makes sense. [Yves]
- Fixed the verbiage around choosing the correct make-alike on
different platforms to suggest using 'perl -V:make'. [Suggested by
anonymous user]
0.27_07 Wed Feb 1 20:07:45 CST 2006
- The notes() method now returns the new value when called with two
arguments, just like when it's called with one argument. [Tyler
MacDonald]
- The notes() method now distinguishes among the values undef, 0, and
the empty string, where previously it didn't. [Tyler MacDonald]
- We now unshift(@INC) rather than push(@INC) for the directory where
a build subclass lives, so that we're sure to pick up the right
version and not some already-installed version. [perlmonkey]
- The SIGNATURE file for version 0.27_06 (and I'm sure for lots of
versions before that too!) was messed up, since we were modifying
some files after signing. This has been band-aided for the time
being by signing twice. [Reported by Chris Dolan]
0.27_06 Mon Jan 23 21:44:54 CST 2006
- Fixed an undefined-variable warning when building the META.yml file
and the author hasn't used the 'module_name' mechanism. [Chris Dolan]
- We should now work with recent (> 0.49) versions of YAML.pm when
creating the META.yml file. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
- The y_n() method now requires the default parameter, and the
prompt() and y_n() methods have been improved with respect to
how they behave/detect when there is no user to ask. We're now
more consistent with MakeMaker, including respecting the
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT environment variable. [Tyler MacDonald and
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
- When building a README file using Pod::Text, work around a bug in
Pod::Text 3.01, which expects Pod::Simple::parse_file to take input
and output filehandles when it actually only takes an input
filehandle. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
0.27_05 Thu Jan 12 17:39:21 CST 2006
- In t/common.pl, we were attempting to let the user's installed
Test::More take precedence over ours, but getting thwarted by all
the test scripts' loading Test::More beforehand. Fixed. [Spotted
by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
- In various test scripts, we were outputting some strings that
weren't strictly conformant with Test::Harness's expected input,
though it didn't actually cause problems. Now we're more
conformant, though not yet strict. [Spotted by Yitzchak
Scott-Thoennes]
0.27_04 Fri Dec 23 10:43:34 CST 2005
- Removed experimental feature that extended the prerequisite system
to apply ('requires', 'recommends', and 'conflicts') prereqs to all
actions. Most of the internal extensiblity has been retained so
that prereq types can easily be added, more selectively.
- Added a 'prereq_report' action that shows the user a well-formatted
list of all prerequisites, the versions required, and the versions
actually installed. [David Wheeler]
- Clarified the directory name that's created during the 'distdir'
action. [Suggested by Tyler MacDonald]
- Fixed a bug when creating the META.yml file without the help of
YAML.pm - some common strings weren't quoted & escaped properly.
Now only some uncommon ones are. [Spotted by Joshua ben Jore]
- Fixed a bug in which an "UNINST=1" argument specified to a
passthrough Makefile's "make install" wasn't actually seen by
Module::Build.
- Rather than dying when the Build script is run from the wrong
directory, it now simply chdir()s into the right directory and
keeps going. [Suggested by Dominique Quatravaux]
- Added an "Examples on CPAN" section to the cookbook, with an
initial entry pointing to John Peacock's SVN-Notify-Mirror
distribution.
- Add an invoked_action() method to return the name of the original
action invoked by the user.
- Add 'meta-spec' field to the generated META.yml file, including the
version of the specification followed by the current Module::Build
and the url where the specification can be found.
- Introduced two actions, 'html' & 'manpages', that generate
documentation for POD when the respective feature is enabled. The
actions will generate the documents even if there is no set place
to install to. However, if the actions are invoked as a dependency
of another action (e.g. build), the documentation will only be
built when there is a default or user-specified place to install to.
- Added support for environment variable, 'MODULEBUILDRC', which can
be used to specify the full path to an option file to use instead
of the default location of ~/.modulebuildrc. A special undocumented
setting of 'NONE' tells Module::Build not to load any user settings,
so tests can be run without tainting from user options.
- Documented and improved preliminary support for more Getopt::Long
style options are supported, including boolean options (--verbose,
--no-verbose), and use of hyphens in option names in addition to
underscores.
- The option to disable/enable reading of the ~/.modulebuildrc file
is changed from 'skip_rcfile' to 'use_rcfile'
- Allow the 'distmeta' action to continue when 'MANIFEST' is missing,
omitting the generation of the 'provieds' field. [Steven Schubiger]
- Fixed some failing regex from generated MANIFEST.SKIP file.
- Fixed an edge case in $VERSION parsing where we thought a package()
declaration was happening but it wasn't. [David Golden]
- Added docs for the install_destination() and install_types() methods.
0.27_03 (Beta for 0.28) Mon Oct 10 11:19:23 EDT 2005
- We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
example, when compiling XS modules). (This change actually
occurred in 0.27_01, but it was mistakenly omitted from the Changes
file.)
- Fixed an issue on Win32 (and other case-tolerant
non-case-preserving systems, possibly like VMS?) in which the
current working directory would sometimes be reported with
different case, fooling us into thinking that we were in the wrong
directory. [David Golden]
- The extra_compiler_flags setting was not actually being passed
along to ExtUtils::CBuilder so it could pass it along to the
compiler. Now it is.
- The synonyms 'scripts' and 'prereq' for 'script_files' and
'requires' were broken in a previous version (0.27_01, probably),
but now they're fixed. [David Golden]
- Previously, we assumed that any custom subclass of Module::Build
was located in _build/lib/. This is only true if the author used
the subclass() method, though. We now use %INC to find where the
custom subclass really is, so that we can "use lib" it. We also
issue a warning if it seems to be outside the build directory.
[Spotted by Peter Tandler]
- Added a URL for each license type that we know about, which will
appear as resources=>license: in the generated META.yml file.
- If the user passes a no_index parameter to our constructor, we now
pass that through when building the META.yml file. [Richard
Soderberg, RT #9603]
- A few more status messages can now be suppressed by using 'quiet'
mode. [Dave Rolsky]
- Added some more entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file. [Chris
Dolan]
- Our POD parser will now accept "AUTHORS" as well as "AUTHOR" when
looking for the author list in a module. [David Wheeler]
- When looking for the POD to auto-generate a README file, or for the
AUTHOR or ABSTRACT for the distribution, we now also look for a