Revision history for Perl extension Module::Build. 0.4231 - Wed Jan 29 08:47:56 CET 2020 - Released 0.42_30 without code changes 0.42_30 - Wed Jul 31 13:15:39 CEST 2019 - Add dependency on ExtUtils::PL2Bat 0.4229 - Tue Apr 16 00:49:45 CEST 2019 - Released 0.42_28 without changes 0.42_28 - Thu Apr 19 16:34:32 CEST 2018 - Replace "MOTIVATIONS" section with "COMPARISON" [Dan Brook] - Update configure, build, test prereqs [Karen Etheridge] 0.4227 - Wed Dec 13 11:17:51 CET 2017 - Released 0.42_26 without changes 0.42_26 - Wed Dec 13 10:52:39 CET 2017 - Improve pureperl-only support (#119914) [Shoichi Kaji] - Improve the documentation of Module::Build::Compat and dynamic_config [Dan Brook] 0.4224 - Tue May 30 19:50:07 CEST 2017 - Released 0.42_23 without changes 0.42_23 - Sun May 14 13:17:45 CEST 2017 - Add code to special case dot-in-inc in Build 0.4222 - Thu Mar 30 15:40:10 CEST 2017 - Released 0.42_21 as 0.4222 0.42_21 - Wed Mar 22 19:04:02 CET 2017 - Include relative path for do in Build/Makefile.PL will function without . in @INC [Todd Rinaldo] - Remove use deprecate [Graham Knop] 0.4220 - Tue Aug 16 22:11:14 CEST 2016 - Released 0.42_19 as 0.4220 0.42_19 - Sun Aug 7 17:07:38 CEST 2016 - Initialize MM Compat environmental variables to empty strings [Leon Timmermans] - Skip PPM test when link_executable fails [Leon Timmermans] - Make more actions deterministic [Zefram] - Preprocess file lists generated by rscan_dir() to sort them [Niko Tyni] 0.4218 - Sun Apr 24 16:39:47 BST 2016 - Skip XS test when link_executable fails 0.42_17 - Mon Mar 21 14:02:06 CET 2016 - Read extra_linker_flags using its accessor [Salvador Fandino] - Convert win shell splitting to m//gc parser, fixing handling of 0 and handling of backslashes preceeding a double quote [Graham Knop] - Win32 installation of MB with gmake require SHELL env var to be set [bulk88] 0.4216 - Wed Jan 20 10:39:27 CET 2016 - Delete test that fails with new version.pm [Leon Timmermans] 0.42_15 - Sat Nov 28 15:17:40 CET 2015 - Honor environmental variables when using TAP::Harness directly [Leon Timmermans] - Reintroduce some level of perl 5.6 support [Leon Timmermans] Note that this comes with no guarantees or commitment - Allow Devel::Cover usage with TAP::Harness [Philipp Gortan] - Remove "running under some shell" [Shoichi Kaji] - Fix cookbook - code was missing trailing ` [Matthew Horsfall] 0.4214 - Fri Jun 12 00:25:00 CEST 2015 - Released 0.42_13 as 0.4214 0.42_13 - Sat Jun 6 21:18:24 CEST 2015 [BUG FIXES] - Handle failure to guess license from key better [ENHANCEMENTS] - Output data in a stable order [Jérémy Bobbio] 0.4212 - Sun May 17 00:33:34 CEST 2015 [BUG FIXES] - Revert "Stop using version->normal(); prefer stringify()" 0.4211 - Tue Jan 20 01:33:42 CET 2015 [BUG FIXES] - Fix t/actions/installdeps.t to work on "perl in space" [Ed J] - Stop using version->normal(); prefer stringify() [John Peacock] [DEPRECATIONS] - inc::latest has been split out to a separate distribution on CPAN. It is an optional prerequisite, only needed for the experimental bundling feature. 0.4210 - Mon Sep 1 13:30:29 CEST 2014 [BUG FIXES] - Fixup CPAN::Meta dependency - Handle old releases of CPAN::Meta more gracefully. 0.4209 - Mon Sep 1 12:24:40 CEST 2014 [BUG FIXES] - Stop calling UNIVERSAL::isa as a function [ENHANCEMENTS] - Use CPAN::Meta::Merge for meta_merge - Convert with CPAN::Meta::Convert in meta_add - Add configure requirements 0.4208 - Mon Aug 18 21:44:38 CEST 2014 [BUG FIXES] - Removed missed references to Module::Build::Version 0.4207 - Sat Aug 16 12:56:59 CEST 2014 [BUG FIXES] - Fix type installdir -> installdirs [Leon Timmermans, Vitaliy Tokarev] [DEPRECATIONS] - Module::Build::YAML has been removed - Module::Build::ModuleInfo has been removed - Module::Build::Version has been removed - Get rid of "use vars" - Added use warnings to all modules 0.4206 - Sat Jul 12 14:03:01 CEST 2014 [BUG FIXES] - Formally declare 5.8 dependency [Karen Etheridge] - Fix MBTest to work with new and old versions of Test::Builder [Chad Granum] [ENHANCEMENTS] - Enable release and author tests during disttest [Leon Timmermans, Alberto Simões] 0.4205 - Sun Feb 9 17:51:22 CET 2014 [BUG FIXES] - FIX license code regression for artistic license [Roy Ivy III, Leon Timmermans] - Don't swallow ExtUtils::CBuilder loading errors [Matthew Horsfall, Leon Timmermans] - Handle testing on cross-compile builds [Brian Fraser] - Protect against platforms without getpw{nam,uid} [Brian Fraser] 0.4204 - Fri Jan 10 00:29:31 CET 2014 [BUG FIXES] - Map conflicts back to runtime [Leon Timmermans] - Use mod2fname whenever it's available [Leon Timmermans, Brian Fraser] - Accept custom entries in meta_merge 1.4 0.4203 - Wed Nov 27 19:09:05 CET 2013 [BUG FIXES] - Map recommends back to runtime recommends [Leon Timmermans] - Map restrictive license to restricted in meta 2.0 [Leon Timmermans] 0.4202 - Tue Nov 19 12:48:19 CET 2013 [BUG FIXES] - Don't merge prereqs from meta to mymeta [Leon Timmermans] 0.4201 - Mon Nov 18 23:23:25 CET 2013 [BUG FIXES] - Prefer META.json over META.yml [Leon Timmermans] 0.4200 - Tue Nov 12 12:39:25 CET 2013 - Released 0.40_11 as 0.4200 0.40_11 - Wed Nov 6 12:46:59 CET 2013 [BUG FIXES] - Do not set provides in metadata if no_index is set [Leon Timmermans] 0.40_10 - Tue Nov 5 12:11:37 CET 2013 [BUG FIXES] - Lowercase license in fallback logic [Leon Timmermans] 0.40_09 - Tue Nov 5 00:13:11 CET 2013 [ENHANCEMENTS] - Converted to using Meta 2.0 0.4008 - Mon Nov 4 23:10:54 CET 2013 [BUG FIXES] - Fix test failing on ancient perls <= 5.8.1 [Peter Rabbitson] - Do not set default switches in Test::Harness; not even -w [Leon Timmermans] [DOCUMENTATION] - Fix a couple more broken links to CPAN::META::Spec that should have been CPAN::Meta::Spec. [Reported by Mike Doherty] 0.4007 - Fri Jul 19 13:44:39 CEST 2013 [BUG FIXES] - Removed undeclared test dependency on parent.pm [Leon Timmermans] - Declared dependency on Pod::Man 2.17 for utf8 support [Leon Timmermans] - Force generation of man pages in manify_with_utf8.t [Leon Timmermans] 0.4006 - Thu Jul 18 14:19:49 CEST 2013 - Announcement: The Perl5-Porters have decided to remove Module::Build from the perl core distribution. It will still be available on CPAN, and development is planned to continue regardless. For more information, see: * http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg202041.html * http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2013/05/on-the-removal-of-some-core-modules.html * http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2140/paying-respect-to-modulebuild/ * http://perlhacks.com/2013/06/removing-modules-from-core/ [BUG FIXES] - In the 'installdeps' action, w don't need to check for an executable bit on the CPAN client, just try executing it. Otherwise we needlessly fail on e.g. VMS. - Actually handle utf8 correctly in utf8-man tests. [Leon Timmermans] - Don't clobber standard array/hash attributes in subclasses that have their own array/hash attributes. [Graham Ollis] - We now allow underscores in package names, when extracting the name & abstract from POD. [Ricardo Signes, Shlomi Fish] - When building HTML docs, fix a problem with setting the --htmlroot argument. [Ken Williams] - Lower Test::More dependency in the test metadata, so distgen output won't mess up console with older Test::More installed. [Tatsuhiko Miyagawa] - Revised detildification on VMS [Craig Berry] - Fix run_test_harness for case when $Switches is an empty string [Victor Efimov, Ken Williams] [ENHANCEMENTS] - Significantly sped up some tests by not forcing HTML docs to be built when the user's config doesn't ask for them anyway. [Ken Williams] - The Module::Metadata package was split out from this distro back in 2010. Removed its regression tests. [Ken Williams] - Removed dependence on IO::File, replacing it with safe invocations of open(). [Sven Dowideit] - Added an 'extra_manify_args' parameter to facilitate man pages containing Unicode. [Joenio Costa] - Added an '--html_links 0' argument for the 'html' action, which can hugely speed things up. The main effect is speeding up the M::B tests themselves. [Ken Williams] - Added continuous integration support for the Module::Build code itself, through the Travis-CI project (https://travis-ci.org/). [Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Olivier Mengué] [DOCUMENTATION] - Removed suggestion in the INSTALL document to use the Makefile.PL for installation. Making the Makefile.PL lower-profile in general. [Ken Williams] - Fix link from UpperCase CPAN::META::Spec to CPAN::Meta::Spec in API.pod. [Sven Dowideit] [OTHER] - Removed unused platform specific modules that never contained anything. [Leon Timmermans] - Lots of typo fixes in comments & documentation. [David Steinbrunner] 0.4005 - Thu Apr 25 15:10:14 CEST 2013 [ENHANCEMENTS] - Added --pureperl-only support [BUG FIXES] - #72176: pod2html will fail with an empty podpath in some cases. [Phillip Moore] - Fix links between modules in HTML docs output [Michael Wild, Leon Timmermans] 0.4004 - Fri Mar 29 15:05:00 CET 2013 [BUG FIXES] - Minor VMS fix for @INC [Craig Berry] [ENHANCEMENTS] - test_requires support has been added [Matsuno Tokuhiro] 0.4003 - Sat Aug 18 11:17:49 CEST 2012 [BUG FIXES] - Get rid of outdated metadata tests [Steve Hay] 0.4002 - Fri Jul 27 20:04:09 EEST 2012 [BUG FIXES] - Test for TAP::Harness version properly [Leon Timmermans] - Install to 'site' on 5.12+ [Leon Timmermans] [DOCUMENTATION] - Document extra_{compiler|linker}_flags accessors [Nick Wellnhofer] 0.4001 - Tue Jun 26 20:54:15 CEST 2012 [BUG FIXES] - Parse Pod name a litte more leniently [Paul Evans] [DOCUMENTATION] - Various spelling fixes [Leon Timmermans, Jonathan Yu] - Fixes configuration keys used for script location [Leon Timmermans, reported by Samuel Ferencik] [OTHER] - use warnings 0.40 - Fri Feb 24 18:47:48 CET 2012 - Released 0.39_02 as 0.40 without any code changes 0.39_02 - Thu Feb 17 00:33:18 MET 2012 [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 0.39_01 - Thu Jul 21 16:48:48 EDT 2011 [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 0.3800 - Sat Mar 5 15:11:41 EST 2011 Summary of major changes since 0.3624: [ENHANCEMENTS] - Generates META.json and MYMETA.json consistent with version 2 of the CPAN Meta Spec. [David Golden] Also in this release: [BUG FIXES] - Autogenerated documentation no longer includes private actions from Module::Build's own release subclass. [Report by Timothy Appnel, fix by David Golden] 0.37_06 - Mon Feb 28 21:43:31 EST 2011 [BUG FIXES] - prerequisites with the empty string instead of a version are normalized to "0". (RT#65909) [OTHER] - More Pod typo/link fixes [Hongwen Qiu] 0.37_05 - Sat Feb 19 20:43:23 EST 2011 [BUG FIXES] - fixes failing ppm.t in perl core [OTHER] - Pod typo fixes [Hongwen Qiu] 0.37_04 - Wed Feb 16 15:27:21 EST 2011 [OTHER] - moved scripts/ to bin/ for less confusing porting to bleadperl 0.37_03 - Wed Feb 16 09:54:05 EST 2011 [BUG FIXES] - removed an irrelevant test in t/actions/installdeps.t that was causing failures on some Cygwin platforms [OTHER] - dropped configure_requires as some CPAN clients apparently get confused by having things in both configure_requires and requires - bumped Parse::CPAN::Meta build prereq to 1.4401 - bumped CPAN::Meta prereq to 2.110420 - Pod typo fixes [Hongwen Qiu] 0.37_02 - Mon Feb 7 21:05:30 EST 2011 [BUG FIXES] - bumped CPAN::Meta prereq to 2.110390 to avoid a regression in 2.110360 0.37_01 - Thu Feb 3 03:44:38 EST 2011 [ENHANCEMENTS] - Generates META.json and MYMETA.json consistent with version 2 of the CPAN Meta Spec. [David Golden] [BUG FIXES] - t/signature.t now uses a mocked Module::Signature; this should be more robust across platforms as it only needs to confirm that Module::Build is calling Module::Signature when expected [OTHER] - Added CPAN::Meta and Parse::CPAN::Meta to prerequisites and dropped CPAN::Meta::YAML 0.3624 - Thu Jan 27 11:38:39 EST 2011 - Fixed pod2html directory bugs and fixed creation of spurious blib directory in core perl directory when running install.t (RT#63003) [Chris Williams] 0.3623 - Wed Jan 26 17:45:30 EST 2011 - Fixed bugs involving bootstrapping configure_requires prerequisites on older CPANPLUS clients or for either CPAN/CPANPLUS when using the compatibility Makefile.PL - Added diagnostic output when configure_requires are missing for the benefit of users doing manual installation 0.3622 - Mon Jan 24 21:06:50 EST 2011 - No changes from 0.36_21 0.36_21 - Fri Jan 21 11:01:28 EST 2011 - Changed YAML::Tiny references to the new CPAN::Meta::YAML module instead, which is the YAML-variant that is going into the Perl core 0.36_20 - Fri Dec 10 15:36:03 EST 2010 *** DEPRECATIONS *** - Module::Build::Version has been deprecated. Module::Build now depends directly upon version.pm. A pure-perl version has been bundled in inc/ solely for bootstrapping in case configure_requires is not supported. M::B::Version remains as a wrapper around version.pm. - Module::Build::ModuleInfo has been deprecated. Module::Build now depends directly upon Module::Metadata (which is an extraction of M::B::ModuleInfo intended for general reuse). A pure-perl version has been bundled in inc/ solely for bootstrapping in case configure_requires is not supported. M::B::ModuleInfo remains as a wrapper around Module::Metadata. - Module::Build::YAML has been deprecated. Module::Build now depends directly upon YAML::Tiny. M::B::YAML remains as a subclass wrapper. The YAML_support feature has been removed, as YAML is now an ordinary dependency. 0.36_19 - Tue Dec 7 13:43:42 EST 2010 Bug fixes: - Perl::OSType is declared as a 'configure_requires' dependency, but is also bundled in inc (and loaded if needed) [David Golden] 0.36_18 - Mon Dec 6 16:46:49 EST 2010 Changes: - Added dependency on Perl::OSType to refactor and centralize management of OS type mapping [David Golden] - When parsing a version number out of a file, any trailing alphabetical characters will be dropped to avoid fatal errors when comparing version numbers. These would have been dropped (with a warning) anyway during an ordinary numeric comparison. (RT#56071) [David Golden] Bug fixes: - A Perl interpreter mismatch between running Build.PL and running Build is now a fatal error, not a warning (RT#55183) [David Golden] - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN version.pm 0.86 [David Golden] - No longer uses fake user 'foo' in t/tilde (RT#61793) [David Golden] - Won't fail tests if an ancient Tie::IxHash is installed [Christopher J. Madsen] - Correctly report missing metafile field names [David Golden] - Suppress uninitialized value errors during Pod creation on ActiveState Perl [David Golden] - Return to starting directory after install action; this is an attempt to fix an install.t heisenbug (RT#63003) [David Golden] - A broken version.pm load won't cause Module::Build::Version to die trying to install itself as a mock version (RT#59499) [Eric Wilhelm and David Golden] - PERL_DL_NONLAZY is now always set when tests are run (RT#56055) [Dmitry Karasik] - 'fakeinstall' will use .modulebuildrc actions for 'install' if no specific 'fakeinstall' options are provided (RT#57279) [David Golden] - Add install*script to search path for installdeps client and search site, then vendor, then core paths - Skip noexec tmpdir check on Windows (RT#55667) [Jan Dubois] - Arguments with key value pairs may now have keys with "-" in them (RT#53050) [David Golden] - Add quotemeta to t/tilde.t test to fix Cygwin fails [Chris Williams and David Golden] - Build script now checks that M::B is at least the same version of M::B as provided in 'configure_requires' in META (RT#54954) [David Golden] 0.36_17 - Wed Oct 27 18:08:36 EDT 2010 Enhancements: - Added 'distinstall' action to run 'Build install' inside the generated distribution directory [Jeff Thalhammer] 0.36_16 - Thu Aug 26 12:44:07 EDT 2010 Bug fixes: - Better error message in case package declaration is not found when searching for version. [Alexandr Ciornii] - Skips 'release_status' tests on perl < 5.8.1 due to buggy treatment of dotted-decimal version numbers [David Golden] 0.36_15 - Wed Aug 25 10:41:28 EDT 2010 Bug fixes: - Added a mock Software::License to prevent t/properties/license.t from failing. 0.36_14 - Sun Aug 22 22:56:50 EDT 2010 Enhancements: - Adds 'release_status' and 'dist_suffix' properties in preparation for adding CPAN Meta Spec 2 support. 'dist_suffix' will be set to 'TRIAL' automatically when necessary. [David Golden] - Makes 'license' more liberal. You can now specify either a license key from the approved list (c.f. Module::Build::API) or just a Software::License subclass name (e.g. 'Perl_5'). This should provide better support for custom or proprietary licenses. [David Golden] 0.36_13 - Wed Jul 28 22:40:25 EDT 2010 Bug-fixes: - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN version.pm 0.82 [David Golden] 0.36_12 - Tue Jul 27 00:08:51 EDT 2010 Enhancements: - Module::Build::Compat will now convert dotted-decimal prereqs into decimal rather than dying (and will warn about this). [Apocalypse] Bug fixes: - Caches case-sensitivity checks to boost performance, fixes RT#55162 and RT#56513 [Reini Urban] - Won't try to use ActivePerl doc generation tools without confirming that they are indeed installed. [David Golden] - Sets temporary $ENV{HOME} in testing to an absolute path, which fixes some issues when tested as part of the Perl core [Nicholas Clark] - Module::Build::ModuleInfo now warns instead of dying when a module has an invalid version. ->version now just returns undef (RT#59593) [David Golden] Changes: - When authors do not specify Module::Build in configure_requires and Module::Build is automatically added, a warning will be issued showing the added prerequisite [David Golden] - Moved automatic configure_requires generation into get_metadata() and added an 'auto' argument to toggle it (on for META and off for MYMETA) [David Golden] 0.36_11 - Thu May 27 09:41:23 EDT 2010 Bug fixes: - Handle META/MYMETA reading and writing within Module::Build to ensure utf8 mode on filehandles. Now passes/gets only strings to YAML::Tiny or Module::Build::YAML 0.36_10 - Wed May 19 18:36:06 EDT 2010 Bug fixes: - Fix failing t/manifypods.t on Windows from 0.36_09 changes [Klaus Eichner] 0.36_09 - Tue May 11 09:19:12 EDT 2010 Bug fixes: - Improve HTML documentation generation on ActivePerl (RT#53478) [Scott Renner and Klaus Eichner] 0.36_08 - Mon Apr 26 08:00:15 EDT 2010 Enhancements: - Give a list of valid licenses when given one we don't recognize (RT#55951) [Yanick Champoux] - Added 'Build manifest_skip' action to generate a default MANIFEST.SKIP [David Golden] Changes: - When temporarily generating a MANIFEST.SKIP when none exists, it will be removed on exit instead of hanging around until 'Build clean'. This is less surprising/confusing and the 'Build manifest_skip' action is now available instead to bootstrap the file [David Golden] Bug fixes: - Fixed runtime error on cygwin when searching for an executable command during installdeps testing [David Golden] 0.3607 - Thu Apr 1 11:27:16 EDT 2010 Bug fixes: - The 'dist' action now always ensures a clean dist directory before creating the tarball [David Golden] 0.36_06 - Thu Apr 1 01:23:58 EDT 2010 Other: - Migrated repository to git and updated META.yml to match - Removed bugtracker URL (let search.cpan.org use default) - Disabled SIGNATURE generation 0.3605 - Wed Mar 31 12:05:11 EDT 2010 - No changes from 0.36_04 0.36_04 - Tue Mar 16 21:41:41 EDT 2010 Bug fixes: - Added missing newline to "Changing sharpbang" messages under verbose output (RT#54474) [David Golden] - Added 'beos' to list of Unix-like os types (RT#53876) [Nigel Horne] - Sets $ENV{HOME} to a temporary directory during testing [David Golden] - For VMS: fixed prefix handling plus other test fixes [Craig Berry] - Support anonymous array of directories for c_source [Alberto Simões] - Small POD formatting fix [James Keenan] 0.3603 - Mon Jan 18 22:28:59 EST 2010 (Oops, I released the last one before I realized this should have been fixed along with it.) Bug fixes: - Module::Build::Compat would croak on distibutions that set requires 'perl' to a dotted decimal like '5.6.2'. We now skip that key since it doesn't go into PREREQ_PM and we numify it properly for 'use 5.006002' in the generated Makefile.PL (RT#53409) [David Golden, adapted from patch by G. Allen Morris III] 0.3602 - Mon Jan 18 22:09:54 EST 2010 Bug fixes: - Fix failures in t/properties/needs_compiler.t when $ENV{CC} is set (RT#53296) [David Golden, adapted from patch by Jens Rehsack] 0.3601 - Mon Dec 21 14:39:33 EST 2009 Bug fixes: - When the currently running Module::Build is not the same as the one that created the Build file, there is now a warning rather than a fatal error. This helps installation of dependency chains where a dependency might configure_requires a new Module::Build after Build.PL was already run for an earlier distribution. [David Golden, on advice of Matt Trout] Other: - t/bundle_inc.t fails in odd ways. This test of an experimental feature should not prevent users from installing Module::Build, so this test now skips unless $ENV{MB_TEST_EXPERIMENTAL} is true 0.36 - Sun Dec 20 15:02:38 EST 2009 No changes from 0.35_15 other than the version number. Summary of major changes since 0.35: Enhancements: - Added 'Build installdeps' action to install needed dependencies via a user-configurable command line program. (Defaults to 'cpan'.) - Command line options may be set via the PERL_MB_OPT environment variable (similar to PERL_MM_OPT in ExtUtils::MakeMaker) - Generates MYMETA.yml during Build.PL (new standard protocol for communicating configuration results between toolchain components) - Reduced amount of console output under normal operation (use --verbose to see all output) - Added experimental inc/ bundling; see Module::Build::Bundling for details. New or changed properties: - Added 'share_dir' property to provide File::ShareDir support; File::ShareDir automatically added to 'requires' if 'share_dir' is set - Added 'needs_compiler' property. Defaults to true if XS or c_source exist. If true, ExtUtils::CBuilder is also added to build_requires. - 'C_support' is no longer an optional feature. Modern ExtUtils::CBuilder and ExtUtils::ParseXS added to the 'requires' list. This ensures that upgrading Module::Build will upgrade these critical modules. - Clarified that 'apache' in the license attribute indicates the Apache License 2.0 and added 'apache_1_1' for the older version of the license (RT#50614) Deprecations: - Module::Build::Compat 'passthrough' style has been deprecated. Using 'passthrough' will issue warnings on Makefile.PL generation. See Module::Build::Compat documentation for rationale. Internals: - Replaced use of YAML.pm with YAML::Tiny; Module::Build::YAML is now based on YAML::Tiny as well - A new get_metadata() method has been added as a simpler wrapper around the old, kludgy prepare_metadata() API. - Replaced guts of new_from_context(). Build.PL is now executed in a separate process before resume() is called. (This is generally only of interest to Module::Build or toolchain developers) (RT#49350) - Add support for 'package NAME VERSION' syntax added in Perl 5.11.1 Notable bug fixes: - The "test" action now dies when using the 'use_tap_harness' option and tests fail, matching the behavior under Test::Harness. (RT#49080) [initial patch from David Wheeler; revised by David Golden] - Updated PPM generation to PPM v4 (RT#49600) [Olivier Mengue] - When module_name is not supplied, no packlist was being written; fixed by guessing module_name from dist_version_from or the directory name (just like ExtUtils::Manifest does without NAME) [David Golden] - Failure to detect a compiler will now warn during Build.PL and be a fatal error when trying to compile during Build. (RT#48918) [David Golden] - Auto-detection of abstract and author fixed for mixed-case POD headers (RT#51117) [David Wheeler] - resume() was not restoring additions to @INC added in Build.PL (RT#50145) [David Golden] - When tarball paths are less than 100 characters, disables 'prefix' mode of Archive::Tar for maximum compatibility (RT#50571) [David Golden] - Merging 'requires' and 'build_requires' in Module::Build::Compat could lead to duplicate PREREQ_PM entries; now the highest version is used for PREREQ_PM. (RT#50948) [David Golden] - Module::Build::Compat will now die with an error if advanced, non-numeric prerequisites are given, as these are not supported by ExtUtils::MakeMaker in PREREQ_PM [David Golden] 0.35_15 - Thu Dec 17 17:51:22 EST 2009 Bug fixes: - Make sure PPM tests are skipped if IO::File is too old [David Golden] 0.35_14 - Thu Dec 17 16:02:14 EST 2009 Bug fixes: - If not set, the 'module_name' is detected from 'dist_version_from' or from 'dist_name'. The directory is no longer used. [David Golden] - The 'share_dir' property no longer defaults to 'share' and must be explicitly set instead; this fixes problems for CPAN distributions that already have a 'share' directory for whatever reason [David Golden] - Change t/00-compile.t test for more portability [David Golden] - Skip ppm.t if Pod::Html is not available [David Goldenj] - Changed guts of inc::latest to work properly on older versions of Perl [David Golden] - Ensure bundle_inc.t doesn't accidentally uninstall the installed M::B during testing if the user had 'uninst=1' set during Build.PL [David Golden] 0.35_13 - Sat Dec 5 11:26:36 EST 2009 Bug fixes: - Protect against tempfile errors when checking ExtUtils::Installed [David Golden] 0.35_12 - Fri Dec 4 23:06:49 EST 2009 Bug fixes: - Protect inc/ bundling tests against broken ExtUtils::Installed [David Golden] 0.35_11 - Thu Dec 3 11:07:44 EST 2009 *** API CHANGE *** - The old API for prepare_metadata() has been restored to avoid breaking distributions that were overriding it (e.g. BioPerl), but the method has been marked deprecated and may be made private or may disappear in some future version of Module::Build. [David Golden] - A new get_metadata() method has been added as a simpler wrapper around the old, kludgy prepare_metadata() API. [David Golden] 0.35_10 - Tue Nov 24 22:49:19 EST 2009 Bug fixes: - bundle_inc.t is more careful about permissions and open filehandles to avoid failures/skips on Win32 [David Golden] - Fix compilation error in Module::Build::Platform::VMS (RT#51766) [David Golden] - Don't generate a MANIFEST.SKIP during distclean and add any generated MANIFEST.SKIP to cleanup list [reported by Zefram, fixed by David Golden] - Module::Build::ModuleInfo version parsing would fail if a module sets its $VERSION from another module, but the other module is not installed. We now try to detect such failures, prepend 'lib' to @INC and try again. [David Golden] - MYMETA.yml used to be generated from scratch, overriding any customizations used to create META.yml. Now, if META.yml exists, that will be used as the base for MYMETA and only prereq fields will be updated (to reflect any dynamic configuration); also, 'dynamic_config' will be set to false and 'generated_by' will be updated [David Golden] 0.35_09 - Thu Nov 19 01:30:42 EST 2009 Bug fixes: - The DB package should not be included in 'provides' in META files [David Golden] - Fixed t/xs.t build failures in bleadperl for noexec temp directories [Nicholas Clark] - Adjusted order of @INC in resume() (fixes par.t, ppm.t, xs.t fails): @INC = @new_additions_to_inc, @saved_additions_to_inc, @default_inc [David Golden] - Skip bundle_inc.t tests if bundled Module::Build for test can't be tweaked (Works around test crashes on Win2) [David Golden] Other: - 'C_support' is no longer an optional feature. Modern ExtUtils::CBuilder and ExtUtils::ParseXS added to the 'requires' list. This ensures that upgrading Module::Build will upgrade this critical modules. ExtUtils::CBuilder no longer requires a compiler, so it is "safe" to require. 0.35_08 - Mon Nov 16 22:38:28 EST 2009 Bug fixes: - Multiple tests were failing due to dependency problems. Author dependencies have been largely removed from core 'requires' into optional features. Feature prereq detection and messaging have been expanded and bugs on older Perls have been removed. 0.35_07 - Sat Nov 14 17:14:39 EST 2009 Bug fixes: - Auto-detection of abstract and author fixed for mixed-case POD headers (RT#51117) [David Wheeler] - resume() was not restoring additions to @INC added in Build.PL (RT#50145) [David Golden] - When tarball paths are less than 100 characters, disables 'prefix' mode of Archive::Tar for maximum compatibility (RT#50571) [David Golden] 0.35_06 - Fri Nov 13 14:51:28 EST 2009 Enhancements: - Added experimental inc/ bundling; see Module::Build::Bundling for details. [David Golden and Eric Wilhelm] - Clarified that 'apache' in the license attribute indicates the Apache License 2.0 and added 'apache_1_1' for the older version of the license (RT#50614) [David Golden] Bug fixes: - Merging 'requires' and 'build_requires' in Module::Build::Compat could lead to duplicate PREREQ_PM entries; now the highest version is used for PREREQ_PM. (RT#50948) [David Golden] - Module::Build::Compat will now die with an error if advanced, non-numeric prerequisites are given, as these are not supported by ExtUtils::MakeMaker in PREREQ_PM [David Golden] - Made MYMETA generation non-fatal if fields required for META.yml are missing [David Golden] - Added Pod::Simple to requirements for manpage support; avoids problems if a user has a broken Pod::Man/Pod::Simple. (RT#50081) [David Golden] - Won't die if installed Pod::Readme is broken [David Golden] Other: - Fixed Module::Build::Notes POD [David Golden] - Some commands had become silent by default, so added a few short status messages so users know something actually happened [David Golden] - Cleaned up Changes file formatting [David Golden] - Removed most PERL_CORE customizations from test files due to reorganization of dual-life modules in core (RT#49522) [David Golden] 0.35_05 - Wed Oct 28 17:20:59 EDT 2009 Bug fixes: - Fix test failure in t/actions/installdeps.t when $^X is not the default perl [David Golden] - Work around $VERSION numbers in ActiveState with multiple underscores that prevent Module::Build from installing on Win32 [David Golden] - Fix bug cleaning compatibility Makefile when older ExtUtils::Manifest is installed [David Golden with help from David Cantrell] Other: - Suppressed more warnings from tests [David Golden] - Add provisional support for 'package NAME VERSION' syntax added in Perl 5.11.1 [David Golden] 0.35_04 - Fri Oct 23 11:20:41 EDT 2009 Bug fixes: - Fix test failure if IPC::Cmd isn't installed [David Golden] Other: - Suppressed warning messages from various tests [David Golden] 0.35_03 - Wed Oct 21 21:20:59 EDT 2009 *** API CHANGE *** - The prepare_metadata() method used to take a YAML::Node object as an argument for modification. The method now takes no arguments and just returns a hash reference of metadata. [David Golden] Enhancements - Command line options may be set via the PERL_MB_OPT environment variable (similar to PERL_MM_OPT in ExtUtils::MakeMaker) Bug fixes: - Updated PPM generation to PPM v4 (RT#49600) [Olivier Mengue] - When c_source is specified, the directory scan will include additional, less-common C++ extensions (RT49298) [David Golden] - When module_name is not supplied, no packlist was being written; fixed by guessing module_name from dist_version_from or the directory name (just like ExtUtils::Manifest does without NAME) [David Golden] - Bumped IO::File prereq to fix binmode failures in PPMMaker on Perl prior to 5.8.8 [David Golden] Other: - Replaced use of YAML.pm with YAML::Tiny; Module::Build::YAML is now based on YAML::Tiny as well [David Golden] - Reduced amount of console output under normal operation (use --verbose to see all output) [David Golden] 0.35_02 - Mon Sep 7 22:37:42 EDT 2009 Enhancements: - Added 'needs_compiler' property. Defaults to true if XS or c_source exist. If true, ExtUtils::CBuilder is also added to build_requires. [David Golden] - File::ShareDir automatically added to 'requires' if 'share_dir' is set [David Golden] - Added 'Build installdeps' action to install needed dependencies via a user-configurable command line program. (Defaults to 'cpan'.) [Eric Wilhelm] Bug fixes: - Failure to detect a compiler will now warn during Build.PL and be a fatal error when trying to compile during Build. (RT#48918) [David Golden] - Fixed directory sorting failure in share_dir.t [David Golden] - Property defaults that are data structures were being assigned as references to new objects. Changed so that defaults are cloned instead. (This mostly affects testing, which often creates multiple objects in the same process) [David Golden] - Simplified error message on exit under use_tap_harness [suggested by David Wheeler] - Fixed typemap search to use a dist-level typemap if a typemap is not found in the directory with the *.xs file; (was manifesting as warnings in Perl 5.6 tests) [David Golden] Other: - Replaced guts of new_from_context(). Build.PL is now executed in a separate process before resume() is called. (This is generally only of interest to Module::Build or toolchain developers) (RT#49350) [David Golden, Eric Wilhelm, Ken Williams] - Revised test helper classes to fix potential bugs and add new features to make writing tests simpler and easier. Changes incorporated into t/README.pod and t/sample.t as examples for new testing. [David Golden] 0.35_01 - Mon Aug 31 12:11:10 EDT 2009 Enhancements: - Generates MYMETA.yml during Build.PL (new standard protocol for communicating configuration results between toolchain components) [David Golden] - Added 'share_dir' property to provide File::ShareDir support; set automatically if a directory called 'share' exists [David Golden] Bug fixes: - Fix the t/destinations.t fix. [David Golden, with thanks to Eric Wilhelm] - Fix recursive test files in generated Makefile.PL (RT#49254) [Sawyer X] - Guard against trying :utf8 when :utf8 isn't available - The "test" action now dies when using the 'use_tap_harness' option and tests fail, matching the behavior under Test::Harness. (RT#49080) [initial patch from David Wheeler; revised by David Golden] Other: - Added t/README.pod and t/sample.t to guide developers writing new tests [David Golden, with some code from Eric Wilhelm] - Module::Build::Compat 'passthrough' style has been deprecated. Using 'passthrough' will issue warnings on Makefile.PL generation. See Module::Build::Compat documentation for rationale. 0.35 - Thu Aug 27 09:12:02 EDT 2009 Bug fixes: - Fix t/destinations.t segfault on 5.6.2 [David Golden] 0.34_06 - Sat Aug 22 21:58:26 EDT 2009 Bug fixes: - Multiple test fixes for OS2 [Ilya Zakharevich] - Generated.ppd files use :utf8 if possible (RT#48827) [Olivier Mengue] - Fixed preservation of custom install_paths on resume (RT#41166) [David Golden] - Warn instead of crashing when Pod::Man tries to create files with colons on vfat partitions on unix (RT#45544) [David Golden] 0.34_05 - Sun Aug 9 22:31:37 EDT 2009 Bug fixes: - When auto_configure_requires is true (the default), Module::Build will only add last 'major' version of Module:Build (e.g. 0.XX) to configure_requires to avoid specifying a minor development release not available on CPAN [David Golden] 0.34_04 - Sat Aug 8 11:02:24 EDT 2009 Other: - Added documentation warning that 'get_options' should be capitalized to avoid conflicting with future Module::Build options and changed the examples accordingly. 0.34_03 - Sat Aug 8 07:39:16 EDT 2009 Bug fixes: - Fixed failing xs.t if /tmp is mounted noexec (RT#47331) [David Golden] - Fixed failing debug.t on VMS (RT#48362) [Craig Berry] - Prevent par.t from dying on error in .zip extraction [David Golden] - Fixed potential runthrough.t failure on 5.6.2 [David Golden] Other: - Archive::Tar changed from 'requires' to 'recommends' so non-authors without IO::Zlib can still use Module::Build to install modules [reported by Matt Trout, fix by David Golden] 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 [John Peacock] 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 *.pod with the same name as the *.pm file specified by 'version_from'. [David Golden] - The recommended dependency on ExtUtils::ParseXS has been moved into the "C_support" auto_feature. - When building XS files, we now pass the -DVERSION and -DXS_VERSION flags to the compiler. [Spotted by Jerry Hedden] - If a distribution has XS files and Module::Build has not been configured with the "C_support" feature, we now issue a warning. [Suggested by Jerry Hedden] - Added a dir_contains() method. - Some versions of MakeMaker, CPANPLUS, and/or PAUSE thought that a certain line of our code was declaring a $VERSION when we didn't intend to. The line has been obscurified so they won't think that anymore. [Jos Boumans, RT #14226] - Added the Apache, MIT, and Mozilla licenses to the list of licenses that this module knows about. [Bob Ippolito] - Fixed a pretty significant typo in the documentation for auto_features. [Spotted by Jonas B. Nielsen] - In order to aid people who want to do customization of the META.yml file, we've added a "metafile" property that can then be easily overridden in subclasses, changed do_create_meta_yml() to do_create_metafile(), and split out the code that actually generates the YAML into a new method, write_metafile(). [David Wheeler] - Fixed a couple of non-helpful behaviors with extra_compiler_flags and extra_linker_flags. These will automatically be run through split_like_shell() when given to new() as strings. - When the user doesn't have ExtUtils::ParseXS installed and we use the old 'xsubpp', the displayed command line for creating the .c file from the .xs file was missing its newline. Now it's got it. 0.27_02 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Jul 15 07:34:58 CDT 2005 - Provided initial support for the --prefix installation parameter, which acts like MakeMaker's PREFIX. It is still highly recommended NOT to use it when you could reasonably use --install_base or --install_path or --install_dest, but that's just because the way --prefix is designed is weird and unpredictable. Ultimately the choice rests with the installing user. [Patches by Michael Schwern and Rob Kinyon] - Fixed a bug in subclass() which prevented people from using it to subclass subclasses of Module::Build. [Chris Dolan] - Added a 'pure_install' action, which for the time being is identical to the 'install' action. [Jos Boumans] - Fixed a POD error in an L<http://...> tag. [Offer Kaye] - Note several options for automatically creating a new module dev tree. [Suggested by Eric Wilhelm] - Removed some hard-coded references to File::Spec::Unix in the creation of HTML docs, which should help that code work in more places, and help people not to panic when they look at it. [Spotted by Yves] - We now use Pod::Readme by default (instead of Pod::Text) to generate the README file when the 'create_readme' option is used. If Pod::Readme is not installed, we will still fall back to using Pod::Text. [Robert Rothenberg] - The values of the "prefix", "install_base", "install_path", and "install_dest" parameters can now begin with "~" or "~user", and we'll de-tilde-ify them by using glob(). - The (optional) auto-creation of the README and Makefile.PL files have been moved from the 'distdir' action to the 'distmeta' action. [David Golden] - When looking for a .modulebuildrc file, we now use a fancier method of trying to find the home directory, because $ENV{HOME} isn't a very cross-platform variable. [Robert Rothenberg] - We now memoize the output of the internal _default_INC() method, since it uses backticks and might be kind of slow. - When processing XS files, we now look for a typemap in lib/ as well as using the system's default typemap. [John Peacock] - The DESTDIR, PREFIX, and INSTALL_BASE arguments to "make install" are now supported for pass-through Makefiles (they've been supported for quite a while as arguments to "perl Makefile.PL"). [Requested by Guillaume Rousse] - Test::Harness has changed its output format in recent versions, which threw off one of our tests. We now allow for this different format. [Reported by Scott Godin] - Fixed an issue that prevented Module::Build from upgrading itself using its own API (which is how CPANPLUS uses it). There are still some issues with this solution, however. See ticket #13169 in rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans] - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when a distribution's author could not be determined from its POD nor from the call to Module::Build->new() in its Build.PL. See ticket #12318 in rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans] - Apparently on Windows and cygwin it's not possible to use the "-pi" switch to perl without a backup extension, so now we use ".bak" and remove the backup file when we're done. Thus the "dist" action for Module::Build itself can now be run on those platforms. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] - Improved the handling of auto_features in the config_data access script. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] 0.27_01 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Apr 15 21:12:57 CDT 2005 Backward-incompatible (but better) changes: * When using the 'install_base' option to choose a directory for installing everything, perl modules now go into lib/perl5/ instead of just lib/. It seems this is more consistent with people's expectations, and the way I had it before was a bit peculiar to the way I like things in my own home directory. [Michael Schwern] * When the user is using the 'install_base' option, scripts will now be installed by default in $install_base/bin/ rather than $install_base/script/ . [Jan Hudec and Michael Schwern] Major changes: - The auto_features mechanism will now re-evaluate dependencies every time feature() is called for an auto-feature, rather than freezing the success/failure value during 'perl Build.PL' and using that value for all eternity (or module update, whichever comes first). This applies to both $build->feature() and FooModule::ConfigData->feature() calls. [Requested by many] - Added the meta_add and meta_merge mechanisms, which let the module author add/merge arbitrary entries into the META.yml file. - Now reads per-action default options from '$ENV{HOME}/.modulebuildrc' if it exists. Command line options override anything set in the rc file. - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for example, when compiling XS modules). - The creation of Unix man pages is no longer a strict necessity - it has now been turned into an 'auto-feature' contingent on the presence of Pod::Man and a location specified for man pages to go. - A user-specified 'install_path' setting will now take precedence over an 'install_base' setting. This allows the user to use 'install_base' to set the base for all elements in one go, and then use 'install_path' to override specific paths or add paths for additional kinds of targets. - Split the main documentation from 'Module/Build.pm' into two sections. The user level documentation and overview remains in 'Module/Build.pm', while a new document, 'Module/Build/Authoring.pod', has been created for module authors. Minor changes: - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not because of inadequate training in forensic debate) - we now pass its arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them in afterwards. - Let resume() return an object blessed into the appropriate class if the user has provided a subclass, as specified by the 'build_class' property. This allows current() and new_from_context() to behave more like factory methods returning objects of the correct class based on context. [Ray Zimmerman] - Refactored methods relating to parsing perl module files for package, version, and pod data into a new class: Module::Build::ModuleInfo. It should not be considered part of Module::Build's API, because we may split it out entirely as a separate CPAN module that we depend on. - Added new method Module::Build::prepare_metadata() for authors to override in order to add custom fields to META.yml. - We now use Test::More for our regression tests. If the user doesn't have it installed, we include a copy in t/lib/ that we can use during testing. - When copying files in the 'distdir' action, set permissions to match the original files. [Julian Mehnle] - When adding files like META.yml to the MANIFEST, we now tell the user we're doing so by printing one of the "Added to MANIFEST: ..." lines. [Ron Savage] - Added a runtime_params() method, which lets a module author see which parameters were overridden by the user on the command line (or in whatever paradigm the user originally invoked Module::Build from). [David Wheeler] - Added the current_action() method, which, surprisingly, returns the name of the currently running action. [David Wheeler] - Added docs for run_perl_script(). - Added some stuff to the docs about why PREFIX is unsupported, and what to use instead. [Steve Purkis] - The simple get/set accessor methods for all the 'parameters' like verbose(), license(), etc. now have auto-generated documentation in Module/Build.pm. - Created a Cookbook entry for 'Adding new elements to the install process' - We now add META.yml to the MANIFEST when META.yml is created, not when MANIFEST is created. [Spotted by Ron Savage] - Added some additional patterns to the suggested MANIFEST.SKIP contents, and changed the docs so that we encourage the user to use the MANIFEST.SKIP. [Ron Savage] - Eliminated a redundant recipe from the Cookbook, now that there are some more extensive recipes on how to add stuff to the build/install sequences. - Eliminated an undefined-variable warning when testing under perl 5.005 - When building HTML documentation, 'html_backlink' and 'html_css' properties are now first-class properties, so they can be set from the command line. [Suggested by Sagar R. Shah] - Have script_files default to everything in bin. I believe this is the least surprising behavior. [Suggested by Michael Schwern] - If script_files is given a directory, consider each file in that directory tree as a script to be installed. This avoids having to remember to add to the script_files list every time you add a program. [Suggested by Michael Schwern] - We now only load Pod::Man when we actually need to build man pages. - We now make Test::Harness use our carefully-selected path to a perl executable regardless of Test::Harness's version. Previously we let it figure stuff out for itself if it was a reasonably modern version, but it's safer to make sure we're using the same perl everywhere. 0.2610 Fri Apr 15 08:25:01 CDT 2005 - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not because of inadequate training in debate) - we now pass its arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them in afterwards. [Ray Zimmerman] - Fixed a bug in which config_data and feature data were being forgotten and no ConfigData.pm module would get written. [Ray Zimmerman] - Added a recipe to the cookbook showing how to run a single test file from the command line. [William McKee] - For command-line arguments, we now accept the syntax "--foo=bar" in addition to "--foo bar" and "foo=bar". This seems to fit well with what GNU getopt and Getopt::Long do, and with people's expectations. [Adam Spiers] 0.2609 Wed Mar 16 22:18:35 CST 2005 - The html docs that were created during the first invokation of './Build' were being found and treated as pod that needed to be converted to html during subsequent invokations. We now are more specific about the directories we scan for pod that needs to be converted, effectively avoiding blib/html. [Ray Zimmerman] - If Pod::Man is not available, we now skip building man pages (rather than dying) and tell the user why. - We now write a .packlist file upon installation, in the same place that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does. [Johnny Lam] - On some Unix platforms (BSD derivatives, mostly) perl's $^X variable isn't set to the full path of the perl executable, just 'perl', when the 'Build' script is run as './Build' and not 'perl ./Build'. This can lead to some other modules (maybe Test::Harness, maybe IO::File, I dunno...) getting very confused about where they are, and they try to load stuff from the wrong perl lib, and big trouble ensues. To fix this, we now set $^X to the value of Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter(). - The 'distcheck' action will now die() if it finds an error in the MANIFEST, rather than just printing on STDOUT. [David Golden] - When the README and/or Makefile.PL are autogenerated using create_readme or create_makefile_pl, we now automatically make sure they're also listed in the MANIFEST file. [Suggested by Michael Schwern] - Got rid of the t/MANIFEST file - it's superfluous, and it had zero-length, which some versions of Tar don't like. [William Underwood] - Added a mention in the documentation that each property that new() accepts also has a corresponding get/set accessor. (In the version 0.27_0x series each accessor method is mentioned explicitly in the docs.) [Omission spotted by Ian Langworth] 0.2608 Wed Jan 26 19:46:09 CST 2005 - Add workaround for test files because Devel::Cover causes require to fail when the argument to require is an expression involving File::Spec. We now assign the result of the File::Spec call to a variable and then call require with that variable. - Tilde-expansion is now performed on arguments passed to a compatibility-Makefile.PL [Spotted by Sam Vilain] - We now run the 'gzip' and 'tar' values through split_like_shell() when running the 'dist' action, so that e.g. the 'gzip' value can be set to something like "gzip -f --best" and it'll work correctly. [Spotted by Chris Dolan] - Work around some bad mojo between Fedora Core [with its very long @INC] and old versions of Test::Harness [with its propensity to compound the number of @INC entries] that produced an "argument list too long" error during testing. [assisted by Ville Skytta, David Golden, & Randy Sims] - Killed an infinite loop that would happen in y_n() in interactive mode if the author provided no default value. [Max Maischein] 0.2607 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Sat Dec 18 14:14:09 CST 2004 - Instead of freezing @INC in the 'Build' script to the value it had when Build.PL was run, we now just add those additional values that aren't part of the default compiled-in @INC. [Michael Schwern] - The run_perl_script() method will now propagate any extra entries in @INC (such as those added by "use lib" or the -I command-line switch) to the subprocess. This helps situations in which you want to tell the subprocess where to find a certain module, for instance. [Michael Schwern] 0.2606 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Dec 7 22:33:11 CST 2004 - Fixed a linking bug on Win32, in which compiled C code object files never got linked in with the modules being built. [Dominic Mitchell] - Fixed a bug in the new_from_context() method in which any arguments passed made us die. [Spotted by Jos Boumans] 0.2605 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Nov 30 07:16:13 CST 2004 - Fixed a bug in which zero-length arguments for hash-valued parameters (e.g. " --config foo= ") weren't being allowed. - The tests now play better with environments in which version.pm is pre-loaded, like in bleadperl. [John Peacock & Michael Schwern] - Fixed a syntax error in one of the tests under perl 5.005. 0.2604 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 17 14:32:42 CST 2004 - Fixed a split_like_shell() bug introduced in 0.2603 for Windows, in which an array reference passed as an argument was returned as an array reference, rather than as a list. [Spotted by Steve Hay] - module_name() will now return '' instead of undef when module_name is not set. This eliminates a couple uninitialized-value warnings. [Suggested by Michael Schwern] - The expand_test_dir() method will now skip dotfiles (like ._foo.t, which sometimes gets automatically created on Mac systems) when 'recursive_test_files' is in effect. [Tom Insam] 0.2603 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Mon Nov 15 10:28:00 CST 2004 - Added documentation for the new_from_context() method. - Completely rewrote the split_like_shell() method for the Windows platform so it works like the command.com shell. [Randy Sims] 0.2602 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Thu Nov 4 11:19:29 CST 2004 - The two bug fixes in 0.2601 gnashed against each other incorrectly, resulting in a Win32 bug in split_like_shell(). Fixed. [Spotted by Steve Hay & Randy Sims] - Removed a couple of 'use warnings' statements from the code - they were causing compile failures on 5.005_04, where warnings.pm isn't available. [Blair Zajac] 0.2601 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 3 20:09:27 CST 2004 - Fixed some backslash problems with split_like_shell() on Win32. [Steve Hay] - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge] 0.26 Sat Oct 9 17:51:01 CDT 2004 - Removed some language from the Module::Build::Compat documentation that encouraged people to include a Build.PL without a Makefile.PL. Also changed "a replacement for MakeMaker" to "an alternative to MakeMaker" in the main documentation, which is basically what I meant all along (i.e. a replacement for MakeMaker in your particular build process - MakeMaker is never going to be fully replaced in the perl world at large, of course), but some people got the impression I was a little more truculent toward MakeMaker than I really am. - Added the formal concepts of "features" and "config data" for distributions. This allows the module author to define a certain set of features that the user can switch on and off (usually according to whether they have the proper prerequisites for them), and to save build-time configuration information in a standardized format. See the main documentation of Module::Build for more details. (Note that the name of this system was called "BuildConfig" for a while in beta, but now it's called "ConfigData".) - Added an 'auto_features' capability, which simplifies the process of defining features that depend on a set of prerequisites. - Added the 'get_options' parameter, which lets module authors declare certain command-line arguments their Build.PL can accept [David Wheeler] - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords() function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which does a much better job than the split() we were using. - Added a 'testpod' action, which checks the syntactic validity of all POD files in the distribution using Test::Pod. This eliminates the need for doing so in a regression test. [Initial patch by Mark Stosberg] - Added a process_files_by_extension() method, which generalizes the kind of processing (essentially just copying) that happens for .pm and .pod files, and makes it available to other user-defined types of files. See the new cookbook entry. - Improved compatibility with version.pm when authors are using version objects as their $VERSION variables. Now version_from_file() can deal with these objects. Currently we stringify them right away, but perhaps in the future we will preserve them as objects for a while. - During 'distdir' and 'distmeta' actions, die a bit more gracefully if there's no MANIFEST (i.e. explicitly say that a MANIFEST is required). [Spotted by Adrian Howard] - Eliminated a recursive dependency between creating the MANIFEST file and creating the META.yml file. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky] - On Win32, where a single directory might be known variously as "Module-Build-0.25_03" or "MODULE~1.25_", we now use Win32::GetShortPathName($cwd) to verify that the 'Build' script is being run from the correct directory, rather than just a string comparison. - The add_to_cleanup() method will now accept glob()-style patterns in addition to explicit filenames. Also documented the fact that they can be specified in either Unix-style or native-style notation. - Passing a PREFIX value to a pass-through Makefile 'make install' now has the same effect as passing it to 'perl Makefile.PL' (it dies with a helpful message). - Added the 'testcover' action, which runs a test suite using Devel::Cover. [Dave Rolsky] - Added the 'lib' and 'arch' installation directories to the search path for the 'diff' action, since they won't necessarily (though they usually will) be in @INC at installation time. [Suggested by Kevin Baker] - The "=head3" POD directive isn't supported in older podlators (particularly Pod::Man), so we don't use it anymore. - Fixed a typo & improved the docs in the SUBCLASSING section. [Ron Savage] - Added the '.tmp' suffix to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file, which should avoid adding things like pod2htmi.tmp to the MANIFEST [Ron Savage] - Backup files from Emacs, containing the string '.#' in their names, should no longer find their way into the blib/ directory (and from there into installation directories). - Worked around an unpleasant interaction between version.pm and the version-checking code that makes sure Module::Build's version hasn't changed during the lifetime of the 'Build' script. [Reported by Trevor Schellhorn] - Fixed a problem in htmlify_pods() that would produce test failures on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere). [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] - Fixed a test failure on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere) in t/compat.t, resulting from empty environment variables being set to the empty string (as opposed to simply being unset) by their mere presence in the "EXPORT:" list. - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when the author specified 'dist_author' manually in their Build.PL script. [Spotted by Ron Savage] - The 'provides' section of the META.yml file wasn't being built properly on Win32, because of a mismatch between URL-format and native-format pathnames. Fixed. [Reported by Robert Rothenberg] - The progress message "lib/Foo.xs -> lib/Foo.c" was previously being output even when the Foo.c file wasn't being rebuilt. It's now fixed. - Fixed a couple of places in Compat.pm where it could have forgotten which perl interpreter it had been run with ($^X isn't very trustworthy). - On some systems, the way we updated the timestamp on the "lib/Foo.bs" file (one of the output files for XS-based modules) was failing. It's been replaced by a simple call to utime(). - Fixed a problem in t/compat.t that prevented it from being run individually using 'make test TEST_FILES=t/compat.t'. The problem was that a couple environment variables (TEST_FILES, MAKEFLAGS) were being passed through to subprocesses, and confused them. - Fixed an important typo in the documentation for the 'install_base' parameter ('libdoc' and 'bindoc' were switched). [Ray Zimmerman] - The pass-through Makefiles (type 'small' or 'passthrough') now support the TEST_FILES parameter to 'make test'. - Fixed a fatal error that would occur on perl 5.005 when building HTML documentation, because its version of Pod::Html was old and didn't like some of the parameters we fed it. [Spotted by Blair Zajac] - The final line of the generated pass-through Makefile was missing its trailing newline, which is now fixed. [Chip Salzenberg] - We now depend on YAML version at least 0.35 and at most version 0.49, so that we don't pick up a new (and backward-incompatible) beta version from CPAN. - Squashed a warning in t/basic.t about '"Foo::Module::VERSION" used only once', and one in PPMMaker about $^V being undefined. [Blair Zajac] - Added a couple temporary output files from HTML documentation generation to the cleanup list. [Toby Ovod-Everett] - The PodParser module will now only extract paragraphs in the 'AUTHOR' section of the pod if they contain an '@' character. This tends to do a better job, heuristically speaking, of returning relevant stuff. - Added regression tests and a helper method ( add_build_elements() ) for adding new elements to the build process. Also some documentation. - Wrote a recipe in the Cookbook for adding new elements to the build process, and a recipe for changing the order in which the steps in the build process will occur. 0.25 Sun Apr 25 11:12:36 CDT 2004 - During the 'distdir' action, if no MANIFEST.SKIP file exists, we will now create a reasonable default one. [Randy Sims] - In Makefile compatibility mode, some arguments (like UNINST, TEST_VERBOSE, etc.) given to 'make' are now recognized and passed through to Module::Build. [Randy Sims] - The regression tests now make sure that several pass-through Makefile.PL parameters are dealt with correctly. - Added support for the 'LIB' parameter to passthrough Makefile.PLs. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum] - Passing a 'PREFIX' parameter to a passthrough Makefile.PL was supposed to make it die with a helpful error message, but instead it just ignored it and blindly tried to install to the wrong place. This is now fixed. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum] - Added an extra_compiler_flags() accessor method. - If the 'recursive_test_files' option was turned on, the test files weren't sorted, but returned in an apparently random order. Now they're sorted. [Martyn Peck] - Documented the 'tar' and 'gzip' parameters to the 'dist' and 'ppmdist' actions. - The generation of HTML documentation now works (it was accidentally partially implemented with an itchy patch-application finger in 0.24). [Randy Kobes] - Fixed a fatal bug when building META.yml with YAML.pm and 'dynamic_config' is set. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg] - Fixed some incorrect error messages that occurred when compiling/linking C sources went awry. - If the author uses a custom builder subclass, that subclass will now be loaded correctly in the passthrough Makefile.PL if the author uses the 'small' or 'passthrough' Makefile.PL options in Module::Build::Compat. [Martyn Peck and Jaap Karssenberg] - If the author uses a custom builder subclass created dynamically through the subclass() method, passthrough Makefile.PLs (of type 'passthrough' or 'small') didn't work properly, because the custom builder module wouldn't be loaded at the right time. This has been fixed. [Reported by Toby Ovod-Everett] - In M::B-generated 'traditional' Makefile.PLs, the entries in 'PREREQ_PM' are now sorted ASCIIbetically rather than randomly. - The install_types() method will now return any additional types given as 'install_path' arguments, as well as all elements of the current 'install_sets' entry. This makes it easier to add new types of installable objects to the mix. - As a consequence of the previous change, there is no longer any need to have an explicit 'install_types' data member, so it has been removed. - In the second example code for the Module::Build->subclass() method, the Module::Build module needed to be loaded before calling its methods. [John Peacock] - Fixed minor error in the POD structure of Module::Build and Module::Build::Platform::VMS docs. 0.24 Wed Feb 25 15:57:00 CST 2004 - Fixed a problem with incude_dirs not being propagated to the 'ccs' file when compiling XS files on Win32. [Randy Sims and Steve Hay] - In 0.23, Module::Build::Compat->fake_makefile() started choking when no 'build_class' parameter was supplied in the Makefile.PL. Since these Makefile.PLs still exist on CPAN, we now default 'build_class' to 'Module::Build', which was the old 0.22 behavior anyway. [Reported by Martin Titz and Jeremy Seitz] - Added documentation for the 'include_dirs' parameter to new(). [Steve Hay] - Changed the no-op command on Win32 from 'rem' to 'rem>nul' inside pass-through Makefiles. [Randy Sims] - The 'autosplit' parameter now accepts an array reference if multiple files should be split. [Jaap Karssenberg] - find_perl_interpreter() will now use $^X (if absolute), $ENV{PATH} (if $^X isn't absolute), and $Config{perlpath}, in that order. Also, we now make darn sure the result is the same version of perl, by checking Config::myconfig() for a match against the current perl. [Reported by Edward Sabol] - Fixed a fatal error on Win32 (and any other platform that doesn't define an installation location for Unix-style man pages) during installation. 0.23 Sun Feb 8 22:01:18 CST 2004 - Fixed a compatibility problem in pass-through Makefiles (created by Module::Build::Compat). Some 'make' utilities (for example, BSD make) didn't like a '@' by itself on a line, so we stole some 'NOOP' code from MakeMaker to fix it. [Reported by Mathieu Arnold] - Added a 'ppm_dist' action, which just makes the PPD file and then makes a tarball out of the blib/ directory. [Randy Sims] - The @INC of the parent process is now propagated to child processes when processing *.PL files. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg] - We now only attempt to fix the shebang line on a script if the shebang line matches the regex /perl/i . This fixes some instances where people put shell scripts in their distributions. [Jaap Karssenberg] - We no longer generate a 'requires', 'recommends', 'conflicts', etc. entry in the META.yml file if there's no data to go in it. - Added a documentation reference to Michael Schwern's wiki for tips on conversion from MakeMaker to M::B. [Randy Sims] - If there are script_files, we now add EXE_FILES to the 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated by M::B::Compat. [Suggested by Yuval Kogman] - Documented the 'test_files' parameter to new(). [Reported by Tony Bowden] - Fixed a problem in "Build help <action>", which didn't find the correct help chunk if <action> was the final element in a POD list. [Jaap Karssenberg] - Fixed a problem in the get_action_docs() method which gave incorrect results if the method was called more than once in the same program. - Fixed a problem in which actions defined by user subclasses wouldn't be available via the pass-through Makefiles created by Module::Build::Compat. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg] - We now use Data::Dumper instead of our own ad-hoc serialization routines to create the 'traditional' Makefile.PL arguments. [Suggested by Yuval Kojman] 0.22 Sat Jan 10 22:05:39 CST 2004 - On Unixish platforms, the syntax "FOO=BAR /bin/baz arg arg" now works when present in $Config{ld}. This solves a problem on Mac OS X 10.3. [Reported by Adam Foxson] - The have_c_compiler() now also tests whether the linker seems to work too. - Fixed a problem with creating the distribution tarball in which permissions would usually be all read-only. We now use our own file-copying routines rather than those in ExtUtils::Manifest, because those do some annoying extra permissions-setting stuff for no apparent reason. It makes me happy that this was a very very easy patch to make. [Reported by Thomas Klausner] - The compile_c() method now includes $Config{cccdlflags} in its command invocation. It's usually empty, but not always, so we didn't notice for a while. [Richard Clamp] - On some platforms it's common to have a $Config{make} defined, but no 'make' utility actually available. We now detect this and skip some 'make' compatibility tests. [Randy Sims] - Fixed a spurious testing failure on non-Unix platforms that happened because we accidentally call localize_file_path() on empty strings in the test suite. [Spotted by Randy Sims on Windows] - Made the 'name', 'abstract', 'author', and 'version' properties required when building a PPD file. [Spotted by Randy Sims, Dave Rolsky, & Glenn Linderman] - When building a 'traditional' Makefile.PL with Module::Build::Compat, we now use 'VERSION_FROM' when possible, rather than always using 'VERSION'. This way the Makefile.PL doesn't have to get modified every release. - Made some fixups to the 'PPM' info-file, improving compatibility with ActiveState's PPM tools. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman] - The 'dist_author' property can now accept multiple authors, see the docs for more info. [Randy Sims] - If the user doesn't have YAML.pm installed during ACTION_dist, we now create a minimal YAML.pm anyway, without any dependency information. - The 'distribution_type' field is no longer created in META.yml files, in accordance with the finding made at the London CLPAN meeting that it's essentially meaningless and ill-defined. - The 'dist' action now accepts an optional 'tar' parameter to use a system utility for building the tarball, and a 'gzip' parameter for compressing it. If these are used, Archive::Tar won't be invoked. This was added because Archive::Tar is producing some very non-cross-platform tarballs that many tar utilities can't handle. - During testing, if YAML.pm isn't installed, then we won't try making a tarball either, since this would invoke YAML to create the META.yml file. - Fixed a problem with chmod() being called incorrectly on MacOS (i.e. MacPerl, not Mac OS X). [Spotted by Paul Sanford Toney] - Fixed a problem with the --config flag not being treated properly (essentially ignored) on the command line for 'perl Build.PL' or 'Build <action>'. [Spotted by Jakub Bogusz] - Added a new config() method to get at the Build object's notion of the %Config hash. - Test::Harness is starting to contend for the Most Crotchety Module Award. Work around a few of its nits when setting harness switches. [Spotted by Diab Jerius] - Now the Build script will die() if we're run from the wrong directory, rather than trying to chdir() to what it thinks is the right directory and do its work there. See https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4039 . [Chris Dolan] - Changed the manpage separator on OS/2 to '.'. [Ilya Zakharevich] - On OS/2, disable C compilation, since apparently it isn't working there. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich] - Inserted a comment into auto-generated Makefile.PLs saying it was auto-generated. [Randy Sims] - Fixed some annoying behavior in generated passthrough Makefile.PLs when the user chose not to install Module::Build, or if installation failed. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich and Richard Clamp] - Moved the documentation for 'codebase' to the section where it's relevant. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman] - Fixed a have_c_compiler() failure on some platforms, we now define a boot_compilet() function (since we're compiling a library, not an executable). [Randy Sims] - Added a recipe to the Module::Build::Cookbook describing how to maintain compatibility with older versions of CPAN.pm [Jim Cromie] - Removed caveat about "looking for alternatives" in how hashes are specified on the command line, since an alternative has been found. - Previously most warnings about optional prerequisites looked like they were actually error messages about required prerequisites. This has been corrected. [Reported again by Sagar Shah] - Added support for building XS (and C in general) stuff on AIX. This was done by a small reorganization of prelink_c() method from Windows.pm to Build.pm, and it is only invoked for the platforms that need it invoked. AIX also massages some very naughty bits (MakeMaker macro variables) in $Config{lddlflags} that should never have been put there, but alas, they're there, so we find & resolve them. - Added OS/2 ($^O = 'os2') to the list of Unix-like platforms. This basically means that most platform-specific operations will be done in a Unix-like manner. - Pass-through Makefiles will now die() when they're given a PREFIX parameter, and suggest using 'destdir' or 'install_base' instead. Previously they just ignored the parameter and tried to install to the default location, which is clearly not what the user wanted. - Updated my email address in the documentation to a more recent variant. - Add NetBSD to the list of Unix-like systems. [Adrian Bunk] - Add SVR5 to the list of Unix-like systems. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez] - We now use Pod::Parser to find the ABSTRACT and AUTHOR when it's available on the system. [initial patch by Randy Sims] - Fixed a little scalar/list buglet in a documentation example. 0.21 Wed Oct 15 20:47:05 CDT 2003 - Added a have_c_compiler() method. - Added documentation for the requires(), recommends(), build_requires(), and conflicts() methods. - On Unix platforms, we now create the "Build" script with a #! line matching the perl interpreter that was used to invoke the Build.PL script, rather than whatever is in $Config{startperl}. This avoids a potential warning about the interpreters not matching. [Spotted by Ken Y. Clark] - The Unix version now uses the safer multi-argument form of system() when building distribution tarballs. - Added a regression test for the 'dist' action to the t/runthrough.t test. - Fixed a problem with File::Spec usage when creating the names of 'libdoc' manual pages - the code wasn't dealing with the volume or file portions correctly on certain platforms. - When creating the names of the 'libdoc' manual pages, we no longer assume that pods are under the hard-coded paths 'blib/lib' or 'blib/arch'. - Fixed a crashing bug that could sometimes occur when the distribution contained no 'lib' directory. [Chris Dolan] - Fixed a crashing bug that happened when the user had .PL files in the lib/ directory and didn't explicitly name them in a hash reference to the new() constructor. [Chris Reinhardt, bug #4036] - .PL files are now passed the names of their target file(s) on the command line when they run. - When YAML.pm wasn't installed, t/runthrough.t wasn't properly skipping some tests that required YAML. This is now fixed. [Stephen J. Smith] - Added documentation for the dist_version() and dist_name() methods. [Spotted by Johan Vromans] - Existing values in $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} are now respected and not squashed when we run the 'test' action. [Paul Johnson] - On cygwin, the separator string for manual page names has been set to '.'. Previously it was '::', inherited from Unix. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] - Avoid a warning when Build.PL is run (i.e. when the new() method is called) and no MANIFEST file exists. [Michael Schwern and Kevin Ruscoe] - Added documentation for the 'code' and 'docs' actions. [Steve Purkis and Mark Stosberg] - The internal method compile_support_files() has been renamed to process_support_files() in order to make it consistent with other processing methods. Note that it was never documented using the old name. It's still not documented, actually. Maybe later. - Skip the 'write' pseudo-entry in the 'diff' action's installation map. [Chris Dolan] - Fixed a bug in which notes() set in the Build.PL before create_build_script() was called would get lost unless more notes() were also set afterwards. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky] - The process of building elements of the distribution is now driven by a list of build elements, paving the way for letting people add their own types of build elements in future versions of Module::Build (or in the current version with some difficulty). - Fixed some linking errors on Cygwin. [Randy Sims, Terrence Brannon] - Fixed a line-ending problem with detecting the dist_abstract properly on Cygwin. [Randy Sims] - Fixed a problem with signatures that occurred if 'distsign' was called before 'distdir' - the signature would be generated twice. - Added a 'create_readme' parameter to new(), which will use Pod::Text to generate a README from the main (dist_version_from) module file during the 'distdir' action. - We now refuse to run the 'Build' script if it was created using a different version of Module::Build. This has caused a couple of nasty bugs in the past, I don't want to know what it would cause in the future. - Documentation for do_system() has been added. [Dave Rolsky] - run_perl_script() is now available as a class method, though it will need to (re-)find the perl interpreter in this case. - Added a new_from_context() method that authors of automated tools like CPANPLUS and CPAN can use instead of running all tasks as sub-processes. We also use it in the regression tests for Module::Build itself. ** Note that this method is currently undocumented because its name may change in the future. ** - When signing distributions with Module::Signature, we now automatically add the SIGNATURE file to the MANIFEST, avoiding an unpleasant chicken/egg problem for the module author. [unpleasantness spotted by sungo] - In Module::Build::Compat, added support for the 'verbose' parameter to Makefile.PL [spotted by Soren Andersen, fixed by Michael Schwern] - The Module::Build distribution now has a cryptographic 'SIGNATURE' file created by Module::Signature. - Added proper documentation for the subclass() method. [spotted by Jonathan Steinert] - Worked around a Config.pm bug in Red Hat 9 which prevented man pages from being installed in the correct places. [spotted by Ville Skytta] - Fixed a Module::Build::Compat bug in which setting INSTALLDIRS caused a crash. [spotted by Ilya Martynov] 0.20 Tue Aug 26 14:34:07 CDT 2003 - Separated the 'build' action into two separate actions, 'code' and 'docs'. This is similar to MakeMaker's separation of the 'all' target into 'pure_all' and 'manifypods'. This fixes a permissions hassle in which doing 'sudo Build install' would often create local doc files that needed superuser permissions to delete. - Enhanced the 'help' action - 'Build help foo' will now show the POD documentation for the 'foo' action. - Added a notes() feature, which helps share data transparently between the Build.PL and t/*.t scripts. - The installation process will now create man(1) and man(3) pages from POD in modules & scripts, and install them. We don't build man pages when there's nowhere to install them, such as on some Win32 or most Mac systems. [large patch by Steve Purkis, 5.005 fix by Mathieu Arnold] - The 'distdir' action now copies files to the distribution directory, rather than making them hard links to the original files. This allows authors to do last-minute alterations of the files without affecting the originals. [Dave Rolsky] - If the author uses XS files in nonstandard locations, the copied versions of those files will now be cleaned up properly. - In invoking the 'test' action or invoking 'xsubpp', we now use the same perl executable as we use everywhere else, rather than blindly using $^X or $Config{perlpath} (neither of which are very reliable). - Fixed a problem with the 'install_path' parameter given to 'Build.PL' being lost in subsequent actions. [Reported by Mathieu Arnold] - Fixed yet another bug with installation directories, in which the 'install_base' parameter wasn't being respected on the command line. [Spotted by Jonathan Swartz] - Changed the way the depends_on() method works inside action subroutines - now each action will only run once per dispatch() invocation (similar to how perl's require() function works). This helps avoid some difficult problems with dependency loops. - Changed the documentation for the 'autosplit' parameter to give reasons why it may not be a good idea to use, but no longer threaten to remove it. [Suggested by Martyn J. Pearce] - Improved the formatting of the 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated by Module::Build::Compat->create_makefile_pl. [Michael Schwern] - The 'traditional' Makefile.PL will now use the 'module_name' parameter (as NAME) if it's available, otherwise it will continue to use the 'dist_name' (as DISTNAME). [Michael Schwern] - Created read/write accessor methods for all our 'properties'. [Michael Schwern] - The 'test_files' parameter can now be specified using glob() syntax (i.e. 't/*.t'), and the corresponding test_files() method is now a read/write accessor. - The location of the 'blib' directory is now a property of the Build object - nobody is likely to notice this change, with any luck, but it makes the design and code cleaner. - The 'disttest' and 'distsign' methods now chdir() back to the directory where they started, rather than to the base_dir of the build. - Improved comparisons of version strings containing underscore characters (indicating "beta" status). [Steve Purkis] - Added documentation for the 'dist_author', 'dist_abstract', and 'codebase' parameters to new(), and for the 'ppd' action. [Dave Rolsky] - Added documentation for the up_to_date() and contains_pod() methods. [Dave Rolsky] - 'traditional' pass-through Makefile.PLs will now contain an INSTALLDIRS parameter matching the Build.PL's 'installdirs' setting. - version_from_file() now ignores $VERSION variables that are defined in POD or comments. It can still be tricked by $VERSIONs in string literals, though. [Steve Purkis] - The code to find packages in module files now uses Steve's scanning method (above) to skip package-declaration-lookalikes in POD or comments. - The 'disttest' action will now propagate its @INC settings to its subprocesses. 0.19 Wed Jul 9 22:34:02 CDT 2003 - Added support for the 'install_path' parameter, which allows custom specification of where things should be installed. This is a major improvement to Module::Build's functionality. - Added the 'install_base' parameter. Provides an easy way to install to local or alternative directory trees. - We now install scripts by default to $Config{installsitebin} instead of $Config{installscript}. Neither is a great choice, but the former is likely to be [analogous to] /usr/local/bin, and the latter is likely to be [something like] /usr/bin . If/when there's a $Config{installsitescript}, we'll start using that automatically. - Fixed a problem on Win32 in which C and XS files wouldn't be compiled properly, and the user would see an error about 'Can't locate object method "format_compiler_cmd"'. (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2391) - We now use the correct perl interpreter (via Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter) in pass-through makefiles. - The t/compat.t test now uses $Config{make} instead of just 'make' to test makefile compatibility. This fixes some failures on Win32. We also skip this test entirely if no make utility is available. - Alternative distribution layouts are now supported via the 'pm_files', 'pod_files', 'xs_files', 'PL_files', and 'script_files' parameters to new(). This should help people transition from MakeMaker, and might even help us write an automatic transition tool. - Added tests to t/runthrough.t that check to see installation is happening correctly. - Added experimental code to build a .ppd file, in support of ActiveState's "Perl Package Manager". [original patch by Dave Rolsky] - For authors who use Module::Signature to sign their distributions, we now create the SIGNATURE file right in the distribution directory, rather than creating it in the top-level directory and copying it into place. This solves problems related to having files get out of date with respect to their signatures. - We now don't depend on Module::Info to scan for packages during the 'dist' action anymore, because it's way too aggressive about loading other modules that you may not want loaded. We now just (ick, yuck) scan the .pm files with a regular expression to find "package Foo::Bar;" statements. - Silenced some annoying copyright/logo output from Microsoft 'nmake' during Makefile compatibility testing. [Randy W. Sims] - Command-line arguments may now either be specified using the syntax '--foo foovalue' as well as the traditional syntax 'foo=foovalue'. The former is often more convenient for shell tab-completion when the value is a filename (as in 'Build test --test_files t/basic.t'). - Command-line arguments may now include non-named parameters, which make some actions more natural. For instance, the 'diff' action may now be invoked as 'Build diff -u' rather than as 'Build diff flags=-u'. - Pass-through Makefile.PLs now convert unknown Makefile.PL parameters to lower-case and hand them to Build.PL, rather than ignoring them. This means we only have to account for the differences in the interface, not the entire interface, in translating parameters. - We now issue a warning & don't proceed if asked to make a distdir and there's no MANIFEST or it's empty. - Moved INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to increase compatibility with various odd versions of 'make' during 'make install' on case-insensitive filesystems (like nmake on Win32, often). Only affects the Makefile compatibility layer. [reported by Andrew Savige] - Module::Build->known_actions() now works as a class method. - Pass-through makefiles now list each action individually rather than using a ".DEFAULT" catch-all. This improves compatibility with 'nmake' on Win32, and probably some other less common 'make' dialects. [Andrew Savige] - We're now more aggressive about testing the pass-through makefiles, e.g. making sure they can run 'all' and 'test' targets, and making sure the Makefile itself actually exists. - Fixed a problem with check_installed_status() when installed version contains non-numeric characters like underscores. - Fixed a problem with a bareword 'File::Spec' in one of the test scripts that caused it not to compile under 5.8.0 (but is fine under 5.6). - Fixed a problem with the 'destdir' installation parameter on platforms that have volume identifiers in path names (like "C:" on Win32). The identifier is now stripped from installation directories before prepending the destdir path. The destdir path may still have a volume identifier on it. - Added an 'add_to_cleanup' parameter to new() that calls add_to_cleanup() immediately for the given files. - The distribution directory (e.g. Sample-Module-0.13/ ) will now be deleted during the 'clean' or 'realclean' actions. - During testing of modules, blib/lib and blib/arch are now added as absolute paths, not relative. This helps tests that load the modules at runtime and may change the current working directory (like Module::Build itself does during testing). - The $Config{cc} entry on some people's systems is something like 'ccache gcc', so we now split that string using split_like_shell(). [Richard Clamp] - Added documentation for 'extra_linker_flags' parameter, and added a corresponding 'extra_compiler_flags' parameter. [original patch by Richard Clamp] - The pass-through Makefile created by Module::Build::Compat now supports MakeMaker options like POLLUTE=1 and INC. We also just warn & skip when we see any unknown MM parameters, rather than dying. [Dave Rolsky] - Fixed an error about how @INC and $ENV{PERL5LIB} interact during the testing of M::B itself. [jk <billy2000@fastmail.fm>] - The pass-through Makefile doesn't include 'recommended' M::B dependencies in the Makefile anymore, since they're not strictly necessary. In particular, this makes installing M::B itself easier. - A new 'create_makefile_pl' parameter lets you use Module::Build::Compat during the 'distdir' (or 'dist') action to automatically create a Makefile.PL for compatibility with ExtUtils::MakeMaker. The parameter's value should be one of the styles named in the Module::Build::Compat documentation. - When compiling C code, we now respect 'pollute' and 'inc' parameters. (XXX - needs docs) [Dave Rolsky] - Made the creation of the "install map" more generic. (XXX - needs documentation) - Fixed a problem in which add_to_cleanup() didn't note cleanup files unless create_build_script() had been called already. [Dave Rolsky] - During 'Build dist', we no longer have to load each .pm file (via Module::Info) to determine the $VERSION numbers inside. Instead, we call our internal version_from_file() method, which is the same thing MakeMaker and PAUSE and search.cpan.org do. Also fixes a failure when Module::Info is installed in a nonstandard directory. [reported by Teun Burgers] - Fixed some failing test code on Windows - open files can't be deleted. [Andrew Savige] - The Cygwin platform is now treated as a flavor of Unix rather than a flavor of Windows. [chocolateboy] - We're now more aggressive about adding temporary C compilation files (*.c, *.bs) to the cleanup list. [Dave Rolsky] - When constructing the list in META.yml of packages provided by this distribution, we now use the same rules as the PAUSE scanner does when a single .pm file contains multiple VERSIONs. [Andreas Koenig] - check_installed_status() now works as both a class method and an object method (and is documented so). [Spotted by Dave Rolsky] 0.18 Tue Apr 8 13:24:23 CDT 2003 - We now rewrite the shebang lines of scripts ourselves, rather than relying on MakeMaker routines to do it. MakeMaker changed the way this happened (not the result, but where the code lived) a few times. [Suggested by Richard Clamp] - The scripts() method has changed to script_files(), and likewise the 'scripts' parameter has changed to 'script_files'. The old names can still be used for backward compatibility. - Support for the 'scripts' parameter (which is now 'script_files') was broken in 0.17, now it's fixed. [Richard Clamp] - We now recommend ExtUtils::ParseXS 2.02, which will fail to load with perl 5.005 or earlier (which is proper, because it doesn't work with those versions). When it fails to load, we still fall back to using the xsubpp script for XS parsing. [spotted by Dave Rolsky, fix suggested by Richard Clamp] - Now works on VMS - the Build script's shebang-line-equivalent wasn't being formed correctly there - though just about everything else worked fine. [Tested & patched by Michael Schwern] - Eliminated a warning that occurred if 'perl Build.PL' or the check_installed_status() method was run with -w. [Spotted by Michael Schwern] 0.17 Sat Mar 29 18:06:01 CST 2003 - Now works under perl 5.005_03. [Richard Clamp] - When building blib/ , .PL files are now processed before doing anything else. This means .PL files can be used in any of the other contexts. - The locating and processing of .pm, .pod, .xs, .PL files and script files are now isolated into their own methods. This is aimed toward providing a stable interface for this stuff, so they can be overridden, parameterized, etc. They're not quite stable yet, though. - The internal lib_to_blib() method has gone away, because processing is now done by smaller specialized methods. This method had some duplicate assumptions about filenames that it's nice to get rid of. - .PL files are no longer automatically processed in the c_source directory, they must be specified manually in a 'PL_files' parameter. - Mention in the docs that it's useful to do "PL_FILES => {}" in a Makefile.PL if you're using both a Makefile.PL and a Build.PL. [Dom] - Add several options to the 'license' field, so that we're in better sync with PAUSE and CPAN options. [Andreas Koenig] - Created a find_perl_interpreter() method that tries to locate the currently executing perl interpreter. Following a suggestion from Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> for Inline, we prefer an absolute path in $^X, then an existent path in $Config{perlpath}, then whatever's in $^X. - Use the aforementioned perl to run scripts in run_perl_script(). This fixes the spurious warning "WARNING: Configuration was initially created with 'foo', but we are now using 'bar'" that appeared a lot in version 0.16. 0.16 Mon Feb 24 13:06:47 CST 2003 - All three C compilers that perl supports on Windows environments (MSVC, BCC, and GCC) are now supported by Module::Build. We now reportedly pass all tests on Windows. [Randy W. Sims] - The test t/xs.t, which tests building of XS modules, will be skipped if no C compiler is found. [suggested by Randy W. Sims] - The "install" action accepts new "destdir" [motivated by Michael Schwern and Chip Salzenberg] and "uninst" parameters [by Dave Rolsky]. The former prepends an arbitrary directory to all installation paths (useful for package management), and the latter will tell ExtUtils::Install to remove any differing files that are "shadowing" the stuff you're installing from a different location, just like MakeMaker's "make install UNINST=1" command will do. - Made changes to the generated Makefile in Module::Build::Compat that much better support Windows platforms [after suggestions by James Freeman] - Added experimental support for creating distribution SIGNATURE files via Module::Signature. [Dave Rolsky] - Added experimental support for installing via the "only.pm" module, which allows loading specific versions of modules. Since this module is so new, the interface may still be changing. [Brian Ingerson] - Added support for installing executable scripts, via the 'scripts' parameter to new(), and the scripts() accessor method. - Fix an infinite loop that occurred when doing 'perl Build.PL config="foo=bar"' - Fix up the formatting of the error message the user gets when prereqs aren't satisfied. 0.15 Fri Jan 17 15:00:24 CST 2003 - In link_c(), extra object files were mistakenly being treated as output files, not input files, in the up-to-date check. Fixed. - In up_to_date(), don't make an unnecessary copy of the file lists when they're specified as array references. - Split off the C compilation phase into its own method, compile_support_files(), for easier subclassing. - Start a stub of a 'manifypods' action. - Compiler optimizations weren't being included in C compilation statements. Fixed. - The 'extra_linker_flags' parameter wasn't being honored. Fixed. - The 'ccflags' Config.pm entry wasn't being properly split into separate arguments. Fixed. 0.14 Fri Dec 13 14:06:29 AEST 2002 - 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. 0.13 Wed Nov 20 20:07:53 AEST 2002 - 'cleanup' file lists are now written immediately, rather than at program termination. This helps avoid "phantom files" that don't get handled by the 'realclean' action. The internal write_cleanup() method (which was never documented) is now gone. - The 'blib/' directory is now properly cleaned up in more (all?) circumstances. Previously it could become a phantom if create_build_script() was never called. - Now scan the 'c_source' directory for .cpp (C++) files as well as .c files, and compiles them. - Use a 'phony' target for 'make manifest' in the pass-through Makefile, for the same reason as 'make install' (see version 0.12 notes below). - Module::Build::Compat now accepts any known Config.pm key and passes it through to the Build.PL. Fixes a problem with CPANPLUS, which was passing INSTALLMAN1DIR. - The file 'META.yaml' has been re-named to 'META.yml' in order to cooperate better with systems that can only handle 3 characters after the dot. - The t/xs.t test should give more informative error messages upon failure. 0.12 Thu Nov 14 18:31:47 AEST 2002 - The META.yaml file was erroneously looking for 'build_depends' instead of 'build_requires'. [spotted by Iain Truskett] - Add prompt() and y_n() methods for use in Build.PLs - Do more to work with all versions of Test::Harness when setting the TEST_VERBOSE flag and running under the debugger [patch by Dave Rolsky] - Include a test for verbosity handling - Make sure the blib/ directory is always cleaned up with the 'clean' or 'realclean' action. - In a pass-through Makefile.PL, inform 'make' that 'install' is a "fake target", so that it works properly on case-insensitive filesystems like HFS+ with distributions that contain an INSTALL file. [patch by Brian Ingerson] - In Module::Build::Compat, show an example Makefile.PL that can install Module::Build and re-invoke itself in one fell swoop [Dave Rolsky and Autrijus Tang] - Improve the formatting of the Module::Build and Module::Build::Compat documentation. 0.11 Fri Aug 23 18:50:46 AEST 2002 - 'module_version' and 'module_version_from' have been replaced by 'dist_version' and 'dist_version_from', which is what they really meant in the first place. 'dist_name' has been added. - 'module_name' is now just a way to set 'dist_name' and 'dist_version_from' in a convenient way. - The 'name' in META.yaml is now the distribution name, not the (incorrect) module name. [spotted by Graham Barr] - Added the check_installed_status() and prereq_failures() methods for checking prerequisite information with the programmatic interface - check_installed_version() now uses check_installed_status() internally - Documented the create_build_script() method, which had escaped documentation. - create_build_script() now writes prerequisite information to the _build/ directory, for use by Module::Build::Compat. - Module::Build::Compat has documentation for a safer way to write a dummy Makefile.PL. [patch by Autrijus Tang] 0.10 Wed Aug 7 19:36 2002 - Recommend YAML 0.35 instead of 0.30. - Don't die during 'Build disttest' if YAML isn't installed. This fixes tests 5-10 in runthrough.t if YAML isn't installed. - Die if an unknown license type is used, but still default to 'unknown' if no license is specified. - Use YAML::DumpFile() if we're using a recent YAML, YAML::StoreFile() otherwise. - Show specific error messages in runthrough.t. - Add a generated_by entry to the META.yaml file. - Skip a few tests if YAML isn't installed. 0.09 Fri Jun 28 11:07:08 EST 2002 - The 'distdir' action wasn't deleting the distribution directory before building it again. This meant that, say, if you did 'Build disttest' then 'Build dist', you'd end up with a blib/ directory in your distribution. I actually had this happen for version 0.08, and it's not nice to distribute a blib/ on CPAN. - We now keep track of the 'base_dir', i.e. the top-level build directory, so we can change back into it if we change out of it. This necessitated a cwd() method, which uses the Cwd.pm module. I'm aware of Cwd's limitations, particularly under taint-mode, but I don't know a way around using it here. - The 'dist_dir' action now changes back into 'base_dir' directory. - We now do write_config() inside the create_build_script() method, not inside the new() method. - Simplified the find_version() method, and improved its error messages. - Renamed module_name_to_file() to find_module_by_name(), and added a parameter specifying the directories to search in. Previously we searched in 'lib' and @INC, which wasn't correct in all situations. - Patched the docs to change "Build test" to "./Build test" [Elizabeth Mattijsen] 0.08 Wed Jun 26 20:30:56 EST 2002 - Fixed the 'prereq' alias for the 'requires' parameter - Added some tests in t/basic.t to test the dependency checking - Added 'artistic' as a licensing option [Arthur Bergman] - Fixed some bugs in requires/prereq/recommends/conflicts/build_depends - Fixed a typo in the 'distclean' action that prevented its execution [Arthur Bergman] - Separated the linking phase of building XS items into its own link_c() method. Its interface is still unstable, so it's not documented yet. [suggested by Arthur Bergman] 0.07 Jun 9 2002 15:46 - We now generate a 'META.yaml' metadata file during 'Build dist'. This can be very useful for lots of things, none of which are implemented yet. - Added a 'dynamic_config' parameter, defaulting to false. This lets distribution systems (CPAN.pm, etc.) build, test, and install "easy" modules without having to execute the Build.PL at runtime. It's also a guarantee that the list of dependencies is exactly what is present in the metadata file, and won't be changed during the build process. - Added support for "recommended" and "build-time requirement" modules, besides those that are absolutely required. Also added a "conflicts" field. - Changed the 'prereq' field to 'requires' (the old name will continue to work). - Added support for checking the installed version of perl as an explicit dependency. - Added a 'license' parameter to specify one of a fixed number of licenses for the distribution. - Fixed a bug in Module::Build::Compat that was preventing arguments from being processed properly. [patch by Ilya Martynov] - Make sure we're in the right directory when we write the cleanup file, since various ExtUtils::Install errors might leave us in an unknown directory. [patch by Ilya Martynov] - Specified the 'license', 'recommends', and 'dynamic_config' values in Build.PL, and changed 'prereq' to 'requires'. 0.06 Apr 2 2002 17:44 - Added the Module::Build::Compat module for assisting and explaining compatibility with ExtUtils::Makemaker and cohorts. - State is now saved using Data::Dumper instead of my ad-hoc mechanism, guaranteeing data integrity. Whitespace values broke in the former scheme. - Added the 'recommended' option, which works like 'prereq' but isn't insistent. - Separated the various parameters into three groups: parameters that tell Module::Build what to do, Config.pm parameters, and user-defined parameters for each build (the module author is the 'user' here). This helps avoid conflicts between names, and it was silly to have them all together. The three groups of parameters are subject to the same rules for overriding: values specified during a Build action take precedence over values specified at 'perl Build.PL' time, which in turn take precedence over values specified in the call to new(). - Improved support for .PL files. Any .PL file in the lib/ directory or the directory specified by 'c_source' will now get properly executed. I also added a 'PL_files' parameter that you can use in case the .PL doesn't create an obviously-named output file. - If a prerequisite condition is malformed, we now report a prereq failure and say why. Previously we issued a warning and kept going. 0.05 10-Jan-2002 20:26 - Added the Module::Build->subclass() method, which makes it easier to make quick-and-dirty subclasses of Module::Build. - Reorganized the docs a bit. - Added the 'testdb' action, and the 'debugger=1' argument to the 'test' action, both of which run tests under the perl debugger. (idea: Dave Rolsky) - Added prerequisite checking (Dave Rolsky) - Fixed an unlikely-to-occur bug with misquoted strings in the 'Build' script (spot: Dave Rolsky) - We're more careful about shush-ing warnings that ExtUtils::Manifest might emit (Dave Rolsky) - The 'help' action now auto-generates the list of actions (Dave Rolsky) - Added the 'distcheck', 'skipcheck', 'distclean', 'distdir', and 'disttest' actions (Dave Rolsky) - We're a little more aggressive about cleaning up temporary files - we'll try to clean them up even when we don't have write permission on them. This isn't as dastardly as it sounds; if we /really/ don't have permission, we won't be able to remove them no matter how hard we try. 0.04 Fri Nov 16 16:55 2001 - Added a 'manifest' action. It's just like MakeMaker's 'make manifest', it brings your MANIFEST file up to date with your distribution directory. - Reorganized some of the responsibilities of various methods, which allows modules to be built and tested programmatically. - The 'clean' action will now clean up files that were created more recently than the on-disk cleanup registry was written. - Undefined values from Config.pm are handled correctly now. - The dispatch() method will now accept explicit dispatch parameters, for use in a programmatic setting. - $ENV{TEST_VERBOSE} will be set in test scripts if the 'verbose=1' parameter is set. - Moved the test.pl script to t/basic.t - Created the t/xs.t script, which tests building a module with a .xs component. - Fixed the loading of $^O-specific modules (there were no such modules before). - Added a 'darwin' platform module, which removes -flat_namespace from $Config{ccflags} while building .xs modules (it's a linker flag, not a compiler flag). - Now uses $^W instead of the 'warnings' pragma, which apparently provides compatibility with perl 5.005 (I've only tested it with 5.6.x myself). - If a file called C<visual.pl> exists in the top-level directory, this file will be executed as a Perl script during 'Build test' and its output will be shown to the user. This is a good place to put speed tests or other tests that don't use the C<Test::Harness> format for output. - The 'Build install' step will now put .xs-related things in the correct architecture-dependent libraries. - Added the 'autosplit' option, even though I think autosplitting is a load of hooie. 0.03 Sun Nov 11 14:58 CDT 2001 - The 'perl Build.PL' step will now detect whether the current environment is "unixish", "windowsish", etc., and load the correct module (i.e. Module::Build::Platform::Unix). More specific modules may also be written for particular values of $^O. - Module::Build will now process any .xs files in the lib/ directory. Please let me know whether this works or not with your distribution & platform. I'll be trying out various distributions on my platform. - Corrected some embarassing errors in the POD documentation. Also added a long documentation section on the various build actions (test, install, build, etc.) and added some neato ASCII art. - Added a 'cleanup' mechanism - any method may call the $self->add_to_cleanup(@files) method to register files which need to be cleaned up during 'Build clean'. - Added a 'Build help' action that gives a little syntax help, and lists all the actions available. - Fixed a bug in which 'blib/' wasn't properly being added to @INC when running 'Build test'. - For the 'Build dist' action, we'll use the 'tar' and 'gzip' programs (as specified by Config.pm) on Unix platforms, otherwise we'll use Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib. 0.02 Wed Sep 5 00:53:04 CDT 2001 - Added POD documentation. - Added the 'install', 'fakeinstall', and 'dist' actions. - new() will now determine version string based on 'module_version', or 'module_version_from', or 'module_name', in that order. - Module::Build::Base handles its file paths in a platform-independent way, using the File:: modules 0.01 Sun Aug 5 01:23:10 2001 - original version; created by h2xs 1.1.1.4 with options -XA -n Module::Build