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Module-Build-0.14
River stage five • 4486 direct dependents • 17571 total dependents
48 ++

Changes for version 0.14 - 2002-12-13

  • Added support for MacPerl (Mac OS version 9 and below), which (as far as I know) was never natively supported by MakeMaker. Still lacks support for the 'test' action (because Test::Harness requires forking, which MacPerl won't do) and compiling XS/C files (because I don't know how to invoke a compiler on MacOS, and one may not even be available). This change is brought to you by Michael Schwern and the letter '('.
  • Improved processing of .xs files. Now we use the new ExtUtils::ParseXS module if it's available, otherwise we use backticks and write the result to a .c file ourselves. This avoids the need to do cross-platform shell redirection.
  • Make sure all parts of 'Build test' use the not-yet-installed version of Module::Build. This only affects the tests for this module, not any of the module code itself. [Spotted by Schwern]
  • Oopsie - use $Config{ld} instead of $Config{cc} for linking.
  • Added a 'diff' action, which is useful for comparing the details of what you're about to install with what is already installed on your system. This uses File::Compare, which is in the core.
  • Fixed a problem on Windows in which the _build/ directory wasn't getting deleted during the 'realclean' action, because we had a file open in that directory. [Spotted by Michael Schwern]
  • delete_filetree() now always uses File::Path::rmtree(), regardless of whether the thing being deleted is a file or a directory. This helps remove things on obscure platforms with strange locking rules (or even not so obscure ones like MacOS). It also now reports the number of files or directories deleted (without recursing directory contents).
  • rm_previous_build_script() is gone, replaced by calls to delete_filetree().
  • 'Build' now chdir()s in a BEGIN block, so the 'use Module::Build' statement will work correctly. Solves a problem on MacOS, where the 'Build' script may often be invoked from the wrong working directory. [Fix by Michael Schwern]
  • Internally we now use the multi-argument form of system() to run external commands (such as 'diff' or 'cc') whenever possible (and whenever we can't avoid system() altogether). Note that this means we have to handle splitting some strings (such as $Config{ccflags}) into argument lists like the shell would, which is a drag. However, the alternative would be to handle shell quoting of all arguments to commands ourselves, which is an even bigger drag across platforms and involves arbitrary filenames and so on.
  • To handle the argument splitting mentioned above, a method split_like_shell() has been created. So far it's just doing naive processing. In practice, I've yet to actually see a %Config entry that uses quotes & spaces, so the splitting task is usually not very error-prone.
  • The 'test' action now takes a 'test_files' parameter, similar to the (undocumented) ExtUtils::MakeMaker TEST_FILES argument. Handy during development when fixing bugs.
  • Internally, the rscan_dir() method can now accept a predicate function that decides whether a file/directory should be matched.
  • We now issue a warning message when the author hasn't specified a license type.

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::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::darwin
Builder class for Mac OS X platform

Provides

Module::Build::Base::_version
in lib/Module/Build/Base.pm

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