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Changes for version 0.7.0 - 2014-09-27

  • 00 Important - Installing Toolkit Change
    • This may affect hand operated downstreams
    • Code is migrated from using Module::Build to using ExtUtils::MakeMaker as an install tool.
    • https://questhub.io/realm/perl/quest/5388cc12bbd0be5b2500011f
  • 01 Migrated to Sub::Exporter::Progressive
    • No fancy stuff is really required internally, so a lighter weight Sub::Exporter::Progressive is now in use.
  • Dependencies::Stats
    • Dependencies changed since 0.6.0, see misc/*.deps* for details
    • build: -1
    • configure: +1 -1 (recommends: +1)
    • develop: +50 -1 (recommends: -1, suggests: +1 ↑1)
    • runtime: +2 ↓1 -1
    • test: +2 ↓1 -2 (recommends: +3)
  • Internals
    • Fatal Exceptions don't lose their context as soon as they're thrown.
    • However, backtraces are subsequently slightly impeded.
    • Use Devel::Cover for full backtraces.
  • Metadata
    • recognize 1x contributor
    • migrate to kentnl org

Documentation

Command line utility for translating CPAN versions to Gentoo equivalents.

Modules

Convert arbitrary Perl Modules' versions into normalized Gentoo versions.
Get/parse settings from %ENV
Various error message and diagnostic bits.