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Module-Build-0.2808_04
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Changes for version 0.2808_04 - 2008-09-11

  • Backed-out incompatible Module::Finder change (first in 0.2808_02.)

Changes for version 0.2808_03 - 2008-09-01

  • 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]

Changes for version 0.2808_02 - 2008-07-09

  • 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.

Changes for version 0.2808_01 - 2007-10-24

  • 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

Documentation

Module::Build::API
API Reference for Module Authors
Module::Build::Authoring
Authoring Module::Build modules
config_data
Query or change configuration of Perl modules

Modules

Module::Build
Build and install Perl modules
Module::Build::Base
Default methods for Module::Build
Module::Build::Compat
Compatibility with ExtUtils::MakeMaker
Module::Build::Cookbook
Examples of Module::Build Usage
Module::Build::ModuleInfo
Gather package and POD information from a perl module files
Module::Build::PPMMaker
Perl Package Manager file creation
Module::Build::Platform::Amiga
Builder class for Amiga platforms
Module::Build::Platform::Default
Stub class for unknown platforms
Module::Build::Platform::EBCDIC
Builder class for EBCDIC platforms
Module::Build::Platform::MPEiX
Builder class for MPEiX platforms
Module::Build::Platform::MacOS
Builder class for MacOS platforms
Module::Build::Platform::RiscOS
Builder class for RiscOS platforms
Module::Build::Platform::Unix
Builder class for Unix platforms
Module::Build::Platform::VMS
Builder class for VMS platforms
Module::Build::Platform::VOS
Builder class for VOS platforms
Module::Build::Platform::Windows
Builder class for Windows platforms
Module::Build::Platform::aix
Builder class for AIX platform
Module::Build::Platform::cygwin
Builder class for Cygwin platform
Module::Build::Platform::darwin
Builder class for Mac OS X platform
Module::Build::Platform::os2
Builder class for OS/2 platform
Module::Build::YAML
Provides just enough YAML support so that Module::Build works even if YAML.pm is not installed

Provides

Module::Build::Config
in lib/Module/Build/Config.pm
Module::Build::Dumper
in lib/Module/Build/Dumper.pm
Module::Build::Notes
in lib/Module/Build/Notes.pm
Module::Build::PodParser
in lib/Module/Build/PodParser.pm
Module::Build::PodTester
in lib/Module/Build/Base.pm
Module::Build::Version
in lib/Module/Build/Version.pm

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