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Changes for version 0.40 - 2012-02-24

  • Released 0.39_02 as 0.40 without any code changes

Changes for version 0.39_02 - 2012-02-17

  • BUG FIXES
    • Fixed bug where modules without $VERSION might have a version of '0' listed in 'provides' metadata, which will be rejected by PAUSE
      • David Golden, reported by Christopher Fields
    • Fixed bug in PodParser to allow numerals in module names
      • Tokuhirom
    • Fixed bug where giving arguments twice led to them becoming arrays, resulting in install paths like "ARRAY(0xdeadbeef)/lib/Foo.pm"
      • Leon Timmermans
  • DOCUMENTATION
    • Fixed deviance from alphabetical order in documentation of constructor parameters. [Eric Brine]
    • Add documentation for configure_requires constructor parameter.
      • Eric Brine
    • Change some of the docs' language describing relationship to MakeMaker. [Ken Williams]
  • OTHER
    • List Perl-Toolchain-Gang repo as official repo

Changes for version 0.39_01 - 2011-07-21

  • BUG FIXES
    • Fixed bug with a nested directory named 'share' inside a ShareDir (RT#68585) [David Golden]
    • Fixed failing tilde.t when run under UID without passwd entry (RT#67893) [Dominic Hargreaves]
  • DOCUMENTATION
    • Fixed typo in Module::Build (RT#67008) [David Golden]
  • OTHER
    • Pod to HTML internals changed to support new Pod::Html work in the Perl core

Documentation

Query or change configuration of Perl modules
API Reference for Module Authors
Authoring Module::Build modules
How to bundle Module::Build with a distribution

Modules

Build and install Perl modules
Default methods for Module::Build
Compatibility with ExtUtils::MakeMaker
Examples of Module::Build Usage
Create persistent distribution configuration modules
Perl Package Manager file creation
Builder class for Amiga platforms
Stub class for unknown platforms
Builder class for EBCDIC platforms
Builder class for MPEiX platforms
Builder class for MacOS platforms
Builder class for RiscOS platforms
Builder class for Unix platforms
Builder class for VMS platforms
Builder class for VOS platforms
Builder class for Windows platforms
Builder class for AIX platform
Builder class for Cygwin platform
Builder class for Mac OS X platform
Builder class for OS/2 platform
DEPRECATED
use modules bundled in inc/ if they are newer than installed ones

Provides

in lib/Module/Build/Config.pm
in lib/Module/Build/Dumper.pm
in lib/Module/Build/PodParser.pm
in lib/inc/latest/private.pm