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1 Revision history for Perl extension Module::Build.
2
3 0.4234 - Fri 28 Apr 2023 10:46:26 CEST
4 - PodParser now respects =encoding directives
5
6 - Don't use libraries in t/bundled for Build.PL
7
8 - make_tarball: workaround for broken tar on Darwin
9
10 - Respect $Config{man1ext}/$Config{man3ext}
11
12 - Do not require a compiler if c_source is an empty list
13
14 0.42_33 - Wed Mar 29 10:38:56 PM CEST 2023
15
16 - PodParser now respects =encoding directives
17
18 - Don't use libraries in t/bundled for Build.PL
19
20 - make_tarball: workaround for broken tar on Darwin
21
22 - Respect $Config{man1ext}/$Config{man3ext}
23
24 - Do not require a compiler if c_source is an empty list
25
26 0.4232 - Thu Dec 8 10:27:44 PM CET 2022
27
28 - Drop Pod::Man dependency for 5.8 compatibility
29
30 0.4231 - Wed Jan 29 08:47:56 CET 2020
31
32 - Released 0.42_30 without code changes
33
34 0.42_30 - Wed Jul 31 13:15:39 CEST 2019
35
36 - Add dependency on ExtUtils::PL2Bat
37
38 0.4229 - Tue Apr 16 00:49:45 CEST 2019
39 - Released 0.42_28 without changes
40
41 0.42_28 - Thu Apr 19 16:34:32 CEST 2018
42
43 - Replace "MOTIVATIONS" section with "COMPARISON" [Dan Brook]
44
45 - Update configure, build, test prereqs [Karen Etheridge]
46
47 0.4227 - Wed Dec 13 11:17:51 CET 2017
48
49 - Released 0.42_26 without changes
50
51 0.42_26 - Wed Dec 13 10:52:39 CET 2017
52
53 - Improve pureperl-only support (#119914) [Shoichi Kaji]
54
55 - Improve the documentation of Module::Build::Compat and dynamic_config [Dan Brook]
56
57 0.4224 - Tue May 30 19:50:07 CEST 2017
58
59 - Released 0.42_23 without changes
60
61 0.42_23 - Sun May 14 13:17:45 CEST 2017
62
63 - Add code to special case dot-in-inc in Build
64
65 0.4222 - Thu Mar 30 15:40:10 CEST 2017
66
67 - Released 0.42_21 as 0.4222
68
69 0.42_21 - Wed Mar 22 19:04:02 CET 2017
70
71 - Include relative path for do in Build/Makefile.PL will function without . in @INC [Todd Rinaldo]
72
73 - Remove use deprecate [Graham Knop]
74
75 0.4220 - Tue Aug 16 22:11:14 CEST 2016
76
77 - Released 0.42_19 as 0.4220
78
79 0.42_19 - Sun Aug 7 17:07:38 CEST 2016
80
81 - Initialize MM Compat environmental variables to empty strings [Leon Timmermans]
82
83 - Skip PPM test when link_executable fails [Leon Timmermans]
84
85 - Make more actions deterministic [Zefram]
86
87 - Preprocess file lists generated by rscan_dir() to sort them [Niko Tyni]
88
89 0.4218 - Sun Apr 24 16:39:47 BST 2016
90
91 - Skip XS test when link_executable fails
92
93 0.42_17 - Mon Mar 21 14:02:06 CET 2016
94
95 - Read extra_linker_flags using its accessor [Salvador Fandino]
96
97 - Convert win shell splitting to m//gc parser, fixing handling of 0
98 and handling of backslashes preceeding a double quote [Graham Knop]
99
100 - Win32 installation of MB with gmake require SHELL env var to be set
101 [bulk88]
102
103 0.4216 - Wed Jan 20 10:39:27 CET 2016
104
105 - Delete test that fails with new version.pm [Leon Timmermans]
106
107 0.42_15 - Sat Nov 28 15:17:40 CET 2015
108
109 - Honor environmental variables when using TAP::Harness directly [Leon Timmermans]
110
111 - Reintroduce some level of perl 5.6 support [Leon Timmermans]
112 Note that this comes with no guarantees or commitment
113
114 - Allow Devel::Cover usage with TAP::Harness [Philipp Gortan]
115
116 - Remove "running under some shell" [Shoichi Kaji]
117
118 - Fix cookbook - code was missing trailing ` [Matthew Horsfall]
119
120 0.4214 - Fri Jun 12 00:25:00 CEST 2015
121
122 - Released 0.42_13 as 0.4214
123
124 0.42_13 - Sat Jun 6 21:18:24 CEST 2015
125
126 [BUG FIXES]
127
128 - Handle failure to guess license from key better
129
130 [ENHANCEMENTS]
131
132 - Output data in a stable order [Jérémy Bobbio]
133
134 0.4212 - Sun May 17 00:33:34 CEST 2015
135
136 [BUG FIXES]
137
138 - Revert "Stop using version->normal(); prefer stringify()"
139
140 0.4211 - Tue Jan 20 01:33:42 CET 2015
141
142 [BUG FIXES]
143
144 - Fix t/actions/installdeps.t to work on "perl in space" [Ed J]
145
146 - Stop using version->normal(); prefer stringify() [John Peacock]
147
148 [DEPRECATIONS]
149
150 - inc::latest has been split out to a separate distribution on CPAN.
151 It is an optional prerequisite, only needed for the experimental
152 bundling feature.
153
154 0.4210 - Mon Sep 1 13:30:29 CEST 2014
155
156 [BUG FIXES]
157
158 - Fixup CPAN::Meta dependency
159
160 - Handle old releases of CPAN::Meta more gracefully.
161
162 0.4209 - Mon Sep 1 12:24:40 CEST 2014
163
164 [BUG FIXES]
165
166 - Stop calling UNIVERSAL::isa as a function
167
168 [ENHANCEMENTS]
169
170 - Use CPAN::Meta::Merge for meta_merge
171
172 - Convert with CPAN::Meta::Convert in meta_add
173
174 - Add configure requirements
175
176 0.4208 - Mon Aug 18 21:44:38 CEST 2014
177
178 [BUG FIXES]
179
180 - Removed missed references to Module::Build::Version
181
182 0.4207 - Sat Aug 16 12:56:59 CEST 2014
183
184 [BUG FIXES]
185
186 - Fix type installdir -> installdirs [Leon Timmermans, Vitaliy Tokarev]
187
188 [DEPRECATIONS]
189
190 - Module::Build::YAML has been removed
191
192 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo has been removed
193
194 - Module::Build::Version has been removed
195
196 - Get rid of "use vars"
197
198 - Added use warnings to all modules
199
200 0.4206 - Sat Jul 12 14:03:01 CEST 2014
201
202 [BUG FIXES]
203
204 - Formally declare 5.8 dependency [Karen Etheridge]
205
206 - Fix MBTest to work with new and old versions of Test::Builder [Chad Granum]
207
208 [ENHANCEMENTS]
209
210 - Enable release and author tests during disttest [Leon Timmermans, Alberto Simões]
211
212 0.4205 - Sun Feb 9 17:51:22 CET 2014
213
214 [BUG FIXES]
215
216 - FIX license code regression for artistic license [Roy Ivy III, Leon Timmermans]
217
218 - Don't swallow ExtUtils::CBuilder loading errors [Matthew Horsfall, Leon Timmermans]
219
220 - Handle testing on cross-compile builds [Brian Fraser]
221
222 - Protect against platforms without getpw{nam,uid} [Brian Fraser]
223
224 0.4204 - Fri Jan 10 00:29:31 CET 2014
225
226 [BUG FIXES]
227
228 - Map conflicts back to runtime [Leon Timmermans]
229
230 - Use mod2fname whenever it's available [Leon Timmermans, Brian Fraser]
231
232 - Accept custom entries in meta_merge 1.4
233
234 0.4203 - Wed Nov 27 19:09:05 CET 2013
235
236 [BUG FIXES]
237
238 - Map recommends back to runtime recommends [Leon Timmermans]
239
240 - Map restrictive license to restricted in meta 2.0 [Leon Timmermans]
241
242 0.4202 - Tue Nov 19 12:48:19 CET 2013
243
244 [BUG FIXES]
245
246 - Don't merge prereqs from meta to mymeta [Leon Timmermans]
247
248 0.4201 - Mon Nov 18 23:23:25 CET 2013
249
250 [BUG FIXES]
251
252 - Prefer META.json over META.yml [Leon Timmermans]
253
254 0.4200 - Tue Nov 12 12:39:25 CET 2013
255
256 - Released 0.40_11 as 0.4200
257
258 0.40_11 - Wed Nov 6 12:46:59 CET 2013
259
260 [BUG FIXES]
261
262 - Do not set provides in metadata if no_index is set [Leon Timmermans]
263
264 0.40_10 - Tue Nov 5 12:11:37 CET 2013
265
266 [BUG FIXES]
267
268 - Lowercase license in fallback logic [Leon Timmermans]
269
270 0.40_09 - Tue Nov 5 00:13:11 CET 2013
271
272 [ENHANCEMENTS]
273
274 - Converted to using Meta 2.0
275
276 0.4008 - Mon Nov 4 23:10:54 CET 2013
277
278 [BUG FIXES]
279
280 - Fix test failing on ancient perls <= 5.8.1 [Peter Rabbitson]
281
282 - Do not set default switches in Test::Harness; not even -w [Leon Timmermans]
283
284 [DOCUMENTATION]
285
286 - Fix a couple more broken links to CPAN::META::Spec that should
287 have been CPAN::Meta::Spec. [Reported by Mike Doherty]
288
289 0.4007 - Fri Jul 19 13:44:39 CEST 2013
290
291 [BUG FIXES]
292
293 - Removed undeclared test dependency on parent.pm [Leon Timmermans]
294
295 - Declared dependency on Pod::Man 2.17 for utf8 support [Leon Timmermans]
296
297 - Force generation of man pages in manify_with_utf8.t [Leon Timmermans]
298
299 0.4006 - Thu Jul 18 14:19:49 CEST 2013
300
301 - Announcement: The Perl5-Porters have decided to remove
302 Module::Build from the perl core distribution. It will still be
303 available on CPAN, and development is planned to continue
304 regardless.
305
306 For more information, see:
307
308 * http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg202041.html
309 * http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2013/05/on-the-removal-of-some-core-modules.html
310 * http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2140/paying-respect-to-modulebuild/
311 * http://perlhacks.com/2013/06/removing-modules-from-core/
312
313 [BUG FIXES]
314
315 - In the 'installdeps' action, w don't need to check for an
316 executable bit on the CPAN client, just try executing it.
317 Otherwise we needlessly fail on e.g. VMS.
318
319 - Actually handle utf8 correctly in utf8-man tests. [Leon Timmermans]
320
321 - Don't clobber standard array/hash attributes in subclasses that
322 have their own array/hash attributes. [Graham Ollis]
323
324 - We now allow underscores in package names, when extracting the
325 name & abstract from POD. [Ricardo Signes, Shlomi Fish]
326
327 - When building HTML docs, fix a problem with setting the --htmlroot
328 argument. [Ken Williams]
329
330 - Lower Test::More dependency in the test metadata, so distgen
331 output won't mess up console with older Test::More installed.
332 [Tatsuhiko Miyagawa]
333
334 - Revised detildification on VMS [Craig Berry]
335
336 - Fix run_test_harness for case when $Switches is an empty string
337 [Victor Efimov, Ken Williams]
338
339 [ENHANCEMENTS]
340
341 - Significantly sped up some tests by not forcing HTML docs to be
342 built when the user's config doesn't ask for them anyway.
343 [Ken Williams]
344
345 - The Module::Metadata package was split out from this distro back
346 in 2010. Removed its regression tests. [Ken Williams]
347
348 - Removed dependence on IO::File, replacing it with safe invocations
349 of open(). [Sven Dowideit]
350
351 - Added an 'extra_manify_args' parameter to facilitate man pages
352 containing Unicode. [Joenio Costa]
353
354 - Added an '--html_links 0' argument for the 'html' action, which
355 can hugely speed things up. The main effect is speeding up the
356 M::B tests themselves. [Ken Williams]
357
358 - Added continuous integration support for the Module::Build code
359 itself, through the Travis-CI project
360 (https://travis-ci.org/). [Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Olivier Mengué]
361
362 [DOCUMENTATION]
363
364 - Removed suggestion in the INSTALL document to use the Makefile.PL
365 for installation. Making the Makefile.PL lower-profile in
366 general. [Ken Williams]
367
368 - Fix link from UpperCase CPAN::META::Spec to CPAN::Meta::Spec in
369 API.pod. [Sven Dowideit]
370
371 [OTHER]
372
373 - Removed unused platform specific modules that never contained
374 anything. [Leon Timmermans]
375
376 - Lots of typo fixes in comments & documentation. [David Steinbrunner]
377
378
379 0.4005 - Thu Apr 25 15:10:14 CEST 2013
380
381 [ENHANCEMENTS]
382
383 - Added --pureperl-only support
384
385 [BUG FIXES]
386
387 - #72176: pod2html will fail with an empty podpath in some cases. [Phillip Moore]
388
389 - Fix links between modules in HTML docs output [Michael Wild, Leon Timmermans]
390
391 0.4004 - Fri Mar 29 15:05:00 CET 2013
392
393 [BUG FIXES]
394
395 - Minor VMS fix for @INC [Craig Berry]
396
397 [ENHANCEMENTS]
398
399 - test_requires support has been added [Matsuno Tokuhiro]
400
401 0.4003 - Sat Aug 18 11:17:49 CEST 2012
402
403 [BUG FIXES]
404
405 - Get rid of outdated metadata tests [Steve Hay]
406
407 0.4002 - Fri Jul 27 20:04:09 EEST 2012
408
409 [BUG FIXES]
410
411 - Test for TAP::Harness version properly [Leon Timmermans]
412
413 - Install to 'site' on 5.12+ [Leon Timmermans]
414
415 [DOCUMENTATION]
416
417 - Document extra_{compiler|linker}_flags accessors [Nick Wellnhofer]
418
419 0.4001 - Tue Jun 26 20:54:15 CEST 2012
420 [BUG FIXES]
421
422 - Parse Pod name a litte more leniently [Paul Evans]
423
424 [DOCUMENTATION]
425
426 - Various spelling fixes [Leon Timmermans, Jonathan Yu]
427
428 - Fixes configuration keys used for script location [Leon Timmermans, reported by Samuel Ferencik]
429
430 [OTHER]
431
432 - use warnings
433
434 0.40 - Fri Feb 24 18:47:48 CET 2012
435
436 - Released 0.39_02 as 0.40 without any code changes
437
438 0.39_02 - Thu Feb 17 00:33:18 MET 2012
439
440 [BUG FIXES]
441
442 - Fixed bug where modules without $VERSION might have a version of '0'
443 listed in 'provides' metadata, which will be rejected by PAUSE
444 [David Golden, reported by Christopher Fields]
445
446 - Fixed bug in PodParser to allow numerals in module names
447 [Tokuhirom]
448
449 - Fixed bug where giving arguments twice led to them becoming arrays,
450 resulting in install paths like "ARRAY(0xdeadbeef)/lib/Foo.pm"
451 [Leon Timmermans]
452
453 [DOCUMENTATION]
454
455 - Fixed deviance from alphabetical order in documentation of
456 constructor parameters. [Eric Brine]
457
458 - Add documentation for configure_requires constructor parameter.
459 [Eric Brine]
460
461 - Change some of the docs' language describing relationship to
462 MakeMaker. [Ken Williams]
463
464 [OTHER]
465
466 - List Perl-Toolchain-Gang repo as official repo
467
468 0.39_01 - Thu Jul 21 16:48:48 EDT 2011
469
470 [BUG FIXES]
471
472 - Fixed bug with a nested directory named 'share' inside a ShareDir
473 (RT#68585) [David Golden]
474
475 - Fixed failing tilde.t when run under UID without passwd entry
476 (RT#67893) [Dominic Hargreaves]
477
478 [DOCUMENTATION]
479
480 - Fixed typo in Module::Build (RT#67008) [David Golden]
481
482 [OTHER]
483
484 - Pod to HTML internals changed to support new Pod::Html work
485 in the Perl core
486
487 0.3800 - Sat Mar 5 15:11:41 EST 2011
488
489 Summary of major changes since 0.3624:
490
491 [ENHANCEMENTS]
492
493 - Generates META.json and MYMETA.json consistent with version 2 of the
494 CPAN Meta Spec. [David Golden]
495
496 Also in this release:
497
498 [BUG FIXES]
499
500 - Autogenerated documentation no longer includes private actions from
501 Module::Build's own release subclass. [Report by Timothy Appnel,
502 fix by David Golden]
503
504 0.37_06 - Mon Feb 28 21:43:31 EST 2011
505
506 [BUG FIXES]
507
508 - prerequisites with the empty string instead of a version are
509 normalized to "0". (RT#65909)
510
511 [OTHER]
512
513 - More Pod typo/link fixes [Hongwen Qiu]
514
515 0.37_05 - Sat Feb 19 20:43:23 EST 2011
516
517 [BUG FIXES]
518
519 - fixes failing ppm.t in perl core
520
521 [OTHER]
522
523 - Pod typo fixes [Hongwen Qiu]
524
525 0.37_04 - Wed Feb 16 15:27:21 EST 2011
526
527 [OTHER]
528
529 - moved scripts/ to bin/ for less confusing porting to bleadperl
530
531 0.37_03 - Wed Feb 16 09:54:05 EST 2011
532
533 [BUG FIXES]
534
535 - removed an irrelevant test in t/actions/installdeps.t that was causing
536 failures on some Cygwin platforms
537
538 [OTHER]
539
540 - dropped configure_requires as some CPAN clients apparently get
541 confused by having things in both configure_requires and requires
542
543 - bumped Parse::CPAN::Meta build prereq to 1.4401
544
545 - bumped CPAN::Meta prereq to 2.110420
546
547 - Pod typo fixes [Hongwen Qiu]
548
549 0.37_02 - Mon Feb 7 21:05:30 EST 2011
550
551 [BUG FIXES]
552
553 - bumped CPAN::Meta prereq to 2.110390 to avoid a regression in 2.110360
554
555 0.37_01 - Thu Feb 3 03:44:38 EST 2011
556
557 [ENHANCEMENTS]
558
559 - Generates META.json and MYMETA.json consistent with version 2 of the
560 CPAN Meta Spec. [David Golden]
561
562 [BUG FIXES]
563
564 - t/signature.t now uses a mocked Module::Signature; this should be
565 more robust across platforms as it only needs to confirm that
566 Module::Build is calling Module::Signature when expected
567
568 [OTHER]
569
570 - Added CPAN::Meta and Parse::CPAN::Meta to prerequisites and dropped
571 CPAN::Meta::YAML
572
573 0.3624 - Thu Jan 27 11:38:39 EST 2011
574
575 - Fixed pod2html directory bugs and fixed creation of spurious blib
576 directory in core perl directory when running install.t (RT#63003)
577 [Chris Williams]
578
579 0.3623 - Wed Jan 26 17:45:30 EST 2011
580
581 - Fixed bugs involving bootstrapping configure_requires prerequisites
582 on older CPANPLUS clients or for either CPAN/CPANPLUS when using
583 the compatibility Makefile.PL
584
585 - Added diagnostic output when configure_requires are missing for
586 the benefit of users doing manual installation
587
588 0.3622 - Mon Jan 24 21:06:50 EST 2011
589
590 - No changes from 0.36_21
591
592 0.36_21 - Fri Jan 21 11:01:28 EST 2011
593
594 - Changed YAML::Tiny references to the new CPAN::Meta::YAML module
595 instead, which is the YAML-variant that is going into the Perl core
596
597 0.36_20 - Fri Dec 10 15:36:03 EST 2010
598
599 *** DEPRECATIONS ***
600
601 - Module::Build::Version has been deprecated. Module::Build now depends
602 directly upon version.pm. A pure-perl version has been bundled in inc/
603 solely for bootstrapping in case configure_requires is not supported.
604 M::B::Version remains as a wrapper around version.pm.
605
606 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo has been deprecated. Module::Build now
607 depends directly upon Module::Metadata (which is an extraction of
608 M::B::ModuleInfo intended for general reuse). A pure-perl version has
609 been bundled in inc/ solely for bootstrapping in case
610 configure_requires is not supported. M::B::ModuleInfo remains as a
611 wrapper around Module::Metadata.
612
613 - Module::Build::YAML has been deprecated. Module::Build now depends
614 directly upon YAML::Tiny. M::B::YAML remains as a subclass wrapper.
615 The YAML_support feature has been removed, as YAML is now an ordinary
616 dependency.
617
618 0.36_19 - Tue Dec 7 13:43:42 EST 2010
619
620 Bug fixes:
621
622 - Perl::OSType is declared as a 'configure_requires' dependency, but is
623 also bundled in inc (and loaded if needed) [David Golden]
624
625 0.36_18 - Mon Dec 6 16:46:49 EST 2010
626
627 Changes:
628
629 - Added dependency on Perl::OSType to refactor and centralize
630 management of OS type mapping [David Golden]
631
632 - When parsing a version number out of a file, any trailing alphabetical
633 characters will be dropped to avoid fatal errors when comparing version
634 numbers. These would have been dropped (with a warning) anyway during
635 an ordinary numeric comparison. (RT#56071) [David Golden]
636
637 Bug fixes:
638
639 - A Perl interpreter mismatch between running Build.PL and running Build
640 is now a fatal error, not a warning (RT#55183) [David Golden]
641
642 - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN
643 version.pm 0.86 [David Golden]
644
645 - No longer uses fake user 'foo' in t/tilde (RT#61793) [David Golden]
646
647 - Won't fail tests if an ancient Tie::IxHash is installed
648 [Christopher J. Madsen]
649
650 - Correctly report missing metafile field names [David Golden]
651
652 - Suppress uninitialized value errors during Pod creation
653 on ActiveState Perl [David Golden]
654
655 - Return to starting directory after install action; this is
656 an attempt to fix an install.t heisenbug (RT#63003) [David Golden]
657
658 - A broken version.pm load won't cause Module::Build::Version to
659 die trying to install itself as a mock version (RT#59499)
660 [Eric Wilhelm and David Golden]
661
662 - PERL_DL_NONLAZY is now always set when tests are run
663 (RT#56055) [Dmitry Karasik]
664
665 - 'fakeinstall' will use .modulebuildrc actions for 'install' if
666 no specific 'fakeinstall' options are provided (RT#57279)
667 [David Golden]
668
669 - Add install*script to search path for installdeps client
670 and search site, then vendor, then core paths
671
672 - Skip noexec tmpdir check on Windows (RT#55667) [Jan Dubois]
673
674 - Arguments with key value pairs may now have keys with "-" in them
675 (RT#53050) [David Golden]
676
677 - Add quotemeta to t/tilde.t test to fix Cygwin fails
678 [Chris Williams and David Golden]
679
680 - Build script now checks that M::B is at least the same version
681 of M::B as provided in 'configure_requires' in META
682 (RT#54954) [David Golden]
683
684 0.36_17 - Wed Oct 27 18:08:36 EDT 2010
685
686 Enhancements:
687
688 - Added 'distinstall' action to run 'Build install' inside the
689 generated distribution directory [Jeff Thalhammer]
690
691 0.36_16 - Thu Aug 26 12:44:07 EDT 2010
692
693 Bug fixes:
694
695 - Better error message in case package declaration is not found
696 when searching for version. [Alexandr Ciornii]
697
698 - Skips 'release_status' tests on perl < 5.8.1 due to buggy
699 treatment of dotted-decimal version numbers [David Golden]
700
701 0.36_15 - Wed Aug 25 10:41:28 EDT 2010
702
703 Bug fixes:
704
705 - Added a mock Software::License to prevent t/properties/license.t
706 from failing.
707
708 0.36_14 - Sun Aug 22 22:56:50 EDT 2010
709
710 Enhancements:
711
712 - Adds 'release_status' and 'dist_suffix' properties in preparation
713 for adding CPAN Meta Spec 2 support. 'dist_suffix' will be set
714 to 'TRIAL' automatically when necessary. [David Golden]
715
716 - Makes 'license' more liberal. You can now specify either a license
717 key from the approved list (c.f. Module::Build::API) or just a
718 Software::License subclass name (e.g. 'Perl_5'). This should
719 provide better support for custom or proprietary licenses.
720 [David Golden]
721
722 0.36_13 - Wed Jul 28 22:40:25 EDT 2010
723
724 Bug-fixes:
725
726 - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN
727 version.pm 0.82 [David Golden]
728
729 0.36_12 - Tue Jul 27 00:08:51 EDT 2010
730
731 Enhancements:
732
733 - Module::Build::Compat will now convert dotted-decimal prereqs into
734 decimal rather than dying (and will warn about this). [Apocalypse]
735
736 Bug fixes:
737
738 - Caches case-sensitivity checks to boost performance, fixes
739 RT#55162 and RT#56513 [Reini Urban]
740
741 - Won't try to use ActivePerl doc generation tools without confirming
742 that they are indeed installed. [David Golden]
743
744 - Sets temporary $ENV{HOME} in testing to an absolute path, which fixes
745 some issues when tested as part of the Perl core [Nicholas Clark]
746
747 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo now warns instead of dying when a module
748 has an invalid version. ->version now just returns undef
749 (RT#59593) [David Golden]
750
751 Changes:
752
753 - When authors do not specify Module::Build in configure_requires and
754 Module::Build is automatically added, a warning will be issued
755 showing the added prerequisite [David Golden]
756
757 - Moved automatic configure_requires generation into get_metadata()
758 and added an 'auto' argument to toggle it (on for META and off
759 for MYMETA) [David Golden]
760
761 0.36_11 - Thu May 27 09:41:23 EDT 2010
762
763 Bug fixes:
764
765 - Handle META/MYMETA reading and writing within Module::Build to ensure
766 utf8 mode on filehandles. Now passes/gets only strings to YAML::Tiny
767 or Module::Build::YAML
768
769 0.36_10 - Wed May 19 18:36:06 EDT 2010
770
771 Bug fixes:
772
773 - Fix failing t/manifypods.t on Windows from 0.36_09 changes [Klaus
774 Eichner]
775
776 0.36_09 - Tue May 11 09:19:12 EDT 2010
777
778 Bug fixes:
779
780 - Improve HTML documentation generation on ActivePerl (RT#53478)
781 [Scott Renner and Klaus Eichner]
782
783 0.36_08 - Mon Apr 26 08:00:15 EDT 2010
784
785 Enhancements:
786
787 - Give a list of valid licenses when given one we don't recognize
788 (RT#55951) [Yanick Champoux]
789
790 - Added 'Build manifest_skip' action to generate a default MANIFEST.SKIP
791 [David Golden]
792
793 Changes:
794
795 - When temporarily generating a MANIFEST.SKIP when none exists, it will
796 be removed on exit instead of hanging around until 'Build clean'. This
797 is less surprising/confusing and the 'Build manifest_skip' action
798 is now available instead to bootstrap the file [David Golden]
799
800 Bug fixes:
801
802 - Fixed runtime error on cygwin when searching for an executable command
803 during installdeps testing [David Golden]
804
805 0.3607 - Thu Apr 1 11:27:16 EDT 2010
806
807 Bug fixes:
808
809 - The 'dist' action now always ensures a clean dist directory before
810 creating the tarball [David Golden]
811
812 0.36_06 - Thu Apr 1 01:23:58 EDT 2010
813
814 Other:
815
816 - Migrated repository to git and updated META.yml to match
817
818 - Removed bugtracker URL (let search.cpan.org use default)
819
820 - Disabled SIGNATURE generation
821
822 0.3605 - Wed Mar 31 12:05:11 EDT 2010
823
824 - No changes from 0.36_04
825
826 0.36_04 - Tue Mar 16 21:41:41 EDT 2010
827
828 Bug fixes:
829
830 - Added missing newline to "Changing sharpbang" messages under verbose
831 output (RT#54474) [David Golden]
832
833 - Added 'beos' to list of Unix-like os types (RT#53876) [Nigel Horne]
834
835 - Sets $ENV{HOME} to a temporary directory during testing [David Golden]
836
837 - For VMS: fixed prefix handling plus other test fixes [Craig Berry]
838
839 - Support anonymous array of directories for c_source [Alberto Simões]
840
841 - Small POD formatting fix [James Keenan]
842
843 0.3603 - Mon Jan 18 22:28:59 EST 2010
844
845 (Oops, I released the last one before I realized this should have been
846 fixed along with it.)
847
848 Bug fixes:
849
850 - Module::Build::Compat would croak on distibutions that set requires
851 'perl' to a dotted decimal like '5.6.2'. We now skip that key
852 since it doesn't go into PREREQ_PM and we numify it properly for
853 'use 5.006002' in the generated Makefile.PL (RT#53409)
854 [David Golden, adapted from patch by G. Allen Morris III]
855
856 0.3602 - Mon Jan 18 22:09:54 EST 2010
857
858 Bug fixes:
859
860 - Fix failures in t/properties/needs_compiler.t when $ENV{CC} is set
861 (RT#53296) [David Golden, adapted from patch by Jens Rehsack]
862
863 0.3601 - Mon Dec 21 14:39:33 EST 2009
864
865 Bug fixes:
866
867 - When the currently running Module::Build is not the same as the one
868 that created the Build file, there is now a warning rather than a fatal
869 error. This helps installation of dependency chains where a dependency
870 might configure_requires a new Module::Build after Build.PL was already
871 run for an earlier distribution. [David Golden, on advice of Matt Trout]
872
873 Other:
874
875 - t/bundle_inc.t fails in odd ways. This test of an experimental feature
876 should not prevent users from installing Module::Build, so this test
877 now skips unless $ENV{MB_TEST_EXPERIMENTAL} is true
878
879 0.36 - Sun Dec 20 15:02:38 EST 2009
880
881 No changes from 0.35_15 other than the version number.
882
883 Summary of major changes since 0.35:
884
885 Enhancements:
886
887 - Added 'Build installdeps' action to install needed dependencies via
888 a user-configurable command line program. (Defaults to 'cpan'.)
889
890 - Command line options may be set via the PERL_MB_OPT environment
891 variable (similar to PERL_MM_OPT in ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
892
893 - Generates MYMETA.yml during Build.PL (new standard protocol for
894 communicating configuration results between toolchain components)
895
896 - Reduced amount of console output under normal operation (use --verbose
897 to see all output)
898
899 - Added experimental inc/ bundling; see Module::Build::Bundling for
900 details.
901
902 New or changed properties:
903
904 - Added 'share_dir' property to provide File::ShareDir support;
905 File::ShareDir automatically added to 'requires' if 'share_dir' is set
906
907 - Added 'needs_compiler' property. Defaults to true if XS or c_source
908 exist. If true, ExtUtils::CBuilder is also added to build_requires.
909
910 - 'C_support' is no longer an optional feature. Modern ExtUtils::CBuilder
911 and ExtUtils::ParseXS added to the 'requires' list. This ensures that
912 upgrading Module::Build will upgrade these critical modules.
913
914 - Clarified that 'apache' in the license attribute indicates the Apache
915 License 2.0 and added 'apache_1_1' for the older version of the license
916 (RT#50614)
917
918 Deprecations:
919
920 - Module::Build::Compat 'passthrough' style has been deprecated. Using
921 'passthrough' will issue warnings on Makefile.PL generation. See
922 Module::Build::Compat documentation for rationale.
923
924 Internals:
925
926 - Replaced use of YAML.pm with YAML::Tiny; Module::Build::YAML is now
927 based on YAML::Tiny as well
928
929 - A new get_metadata() method has been added as a simpler wrapper around
930 the old, kludgy prepare_metadata() API.
931
932 - Replaced guts of new_from_context(). Build.PL is now executed in a
933 separate process before resume() is called. (This is generally only of
934 interest to Module::Build or toolchain developers) (RT#49350)
935
936 - Add support for 'package NAME VERSION' syntax added in Perl 5.11.1
937
938 Notable bug fixes:
939
940 - The "test" action now dies when using the 'use_tap_harness'
941 option and tests fail, matching the behavior under Test::Harness.
942 (RT#49080) [initial patch from David Wheeler; revised by David Golden]
943
944 - Updated PPM generation to PPM v4 (RT#49600) [Olivier Mengue]
945
946 - When module_name is not supplied, no packlist was being written; fixed
947 by guessing module_name from dist_version_from or the directory name
948 (just like ExtUtils::Manifest does without NAME) [David Golden]
949
950 - Failure to detect a compiler will now warn during Build.PL and be a
951 fatal error when trying to compile during Build. (RT#48918) [David
952 Golden]
953
954 - Auto-detection of abstract and author fixed for mixed-case POD headers
955 (RT#51117) [David Wheeler]
956
957 - resume() was not restoring additions to @INC added in Build.PL
958 (RT#50145) [David Golden]
959
960 - When tarball paths are less than 100 characters, disables 'prefix'
961 mode of Archive::Tar for maximum compatibility (RT#50571) [David Golden]
962
963 - Merging 'requires' and 'build_requires' in Module::Build::Compat could
964 lead to duplicate PREREQ_PM entries; now the highest version is used
965 for PREREQ_PM. (RT#50948) [David Golden]
966
967 - Module::Build::Compat will now die with an error if advanced,
968 non-numeric prerequisites are given, as these are not supported by
969 ExtUtils::MakeMaker in PREREQ_PM [David Golden]
970
971
972 0.35_15 - Thu Dec 17 17:51:22 EST 2009
973
974 Bug fixes:
975
976 - Make sure PPM tests are skipped if IO::File is too old [David Golden]
977
978 0.35_14 - Thu Dec 17 16:02:14 EST 2009
979
980 Bug fixes:
981
982 - If not set, the 'module_name' is detected from 'dist_version_from'
983 or from 'dist_name'. The directory is no longer used. [David Golden]
984
985 - The 'share_dir' property no longer defaults to 'share' and must be
986 explicitly set instead; this fixes problems for CPAN distributions that
987 already have a 'share' directory for whatever reason [David Golden]
988
989 - Change t/00-compile.t test for more portability [David Golden]
990
991 - Skip ppm.t if Pod::Html is not available [David Goldenj]
992
993 - Changed guts of inc::latest to work properly on older versions of Perl
994 [David Golden]
995
996 - Ensure bundle_inc.t doesn't accidentally uninstall the installed M::B
997 during testing if the user had 'uninst=1' set during Build.PL
998 [David Golden]
999
1000 0.35_13 - Sat Dec 5 11:26:36 EST 2009
1001
1002 Bug fixes:
1003
1004 - Protect against tempfile errors when checking ExtUtils::Installed
1005 [David Golden]
1006
1007 0.35_12 - Fri Dec 4 23:06:49 EST 2009
1008
1009 Bug fixes:
1010
1011 - Protect inc/ bundling tests against broken ExtUtils::Installed
1012 [David Golden]
1013
1014 0.35_11 - Thu Dec 3 11:07:44 EST 2009
1015
1016 *** API CHANGE ***
1017
1018 - The old API for prepare_metadata() has been restored to avoid breaking
1019 distributions that were overriding it (e.g. BioPerl), but the method
1020 has been marked deprecated and may be made private or may disappear in
1021 some future version of Module::Build. [David Golden]
1022
1023 - A new get_metadata() method has been added as a simpler wrapper around
1024 the old, kludgy prepare_metadata() API. [David Golden]
1025
1026 0.35_10 - Tue Nov 24 22:49:19 EST 2009
1027
1028 Bug fixes:
1029
1030 - bundle_inc.t is more careful about permissions and open filehandles
1031 to avoid failures/skips on Win32 [David Golden]
1032
1033 - Fix compilation error in Module::Build::Platform::VMS (RT#51766)
1034 [David Golden]
1035
1036 - Don't generate a MANIFEST.SKIP during distclean and add any generated
1037 MANIFEST.SKIP to cleanup list [reported by Zefram, fixed by David Golden]
1038
1039 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo version parsing would fail if a module sets
1040 its $VERSION from another module, but the other module is not installed.
1041 We now try to detect such failures, prepend 'lib' to @INC and try again.
1042 [David Golden]
1043
1044 - MYMETA.yml used to be generated from scratch, overriding any
1045 customizations used to create META.yml. Now, if META.yml exists, that
1046 will be used as the base for MYMETA and only prereq fields will be
1047 updated (to reflect any dynamic configuration); also, 'dynamic_config'
1048 will be set to false and 'generated_by' will be updated [David Golden]
1049
1050 0.35_09 - Thu Nov 19 01:30:42 EST 2009
1051
1052 Bug fixes:
1053
1054 - The DB package should not be included in 'provides' in META files
1055 [David Golden]
1056
1057 - Fixed t/xs.t build failures in bleadperl for noexec temp directories
1058 [Nicholas Clark]
1059
1060 - Adjusted order of @INC in resume() (fixes par.t, ppm.t, xs.t fails):
1061 @INC = @new_additions_to_inc, @saved_additions_to_inc, @default_inc
1062 [David Golden]
1063
1064 - Skip bundle_inc.t tests if bundled Module::Build for test can't be
1065 tweaked (Works around test crashes on Win2) [David Golden]
1066
1067 Other:
1068
1069 - 'C_support' is no longer an optional feature. Modern ExtUtils::CBuilder
1070 and ExtUtils::ParseXS added to the 'requires' list. This ensures that
1071 upgrading Module::Build will upgrade this critical modules.
1072 ExtUtils::CBuilder no longer requires a compiler, so it is "safe" to
1073 require.
1074
1075 0.35_08 - Mon Nov 16 22:38:28 EST 2009
1076
1077 Bug fixes:
1078
1079 - Multiple tests were failing due to dependency problems. Author
1080 dependencies have been largely removed from core 'requires' into
1081 optional features. Feature prereq detection and messaging have been
1082 expanded and bugs on older Perls have been removed.
1083
1084 0.35_07 - Sat Nov 14 17:14:39 EST 2009
1085
1086 Bug fixes:
1087
1088 - Auto-detection of abstract and author fixed for mixed-case POD headers
1089 (RT#51117) [David Wheeler]
1090
1091 - resume() was not restoring additions to @INC added in Build.PL
1092 (RT#50145) [David Golden]
1093
1094 - When tarball paths are less than 100 characters, disables 'prefix'
1095 mode of Archive::Tar for maximum compatibility (RT#50571) [David Golden]
1096
1097 0.35_06 - Fri Nov 13 14:51:28 EST 2009
1098
1099 Enhancements:
1100
1101 - Added experimental inc/ bundling; see Module::Build::Bundling for
1102 details. [David Golden and Eric Wilhelm]
1103
1104 - Clarified that 'apache' in the license attribute indicates the Apache
1105 License 2.0 and added 'apache_1_1' for the older version of the license
1106 (RT#50614) [David Golden]
1107
1108 Bug fixes:
1109
1110 - Merging 'requires' and 'build_requires' in Module::Build::Compat could
1111 lead to duplicate PREREQ_PM entries; now the highest version is used
1112 for PREREQ_PM. (RT#50948) [David Golden]
1113
1114 - Module::Build::Compat will now die with an error if advanced,
1115 non-numeric prerequisites are given, as these are not supported by
1116 ExtUtils::MakeMaker in PREREQ_PM [David Golden]
1117
1118 - Made MYMETA generation non-fatal if fields required for META.yml
1119 are missing [David Golden]
1120
1121 - Added Pod::Simple to requirements for manpage support; avoids
1122 problems if a user has a broken Pod::Man/Pod::Simple. (RT#50081)
1123 [David Golden]
1124
1125 - Won't die if installed Pod::Readme is broken [David Golden]
1126
1127 Other:
1128
1129 - Fixed Module::Build::Notes POD [David Golden]
1130
1131 - Some commands had become silent by default, so added a few short status
1132 messages so users know something actually happened [David Golden]
1133
1134 - Cleaned up Changes file formatting [David Golden]
1135
1136 - Removed most PERL_CORE customizations from test files due to
1137 reorganization of dual-life modules in core (RT#49522) [David Golden]
1138
1139 0.35_05 - Wed Oct 28 17:20:59 EDT 2009
1140
1141 Bug fixes:
1142
1143 - Fix test failure in t/actions/installdeps.t when $^X is not the default
1144 perl [David Golden]
1145
1146 - Work around $VERSION numbers in ActiveState with multiple underscores
1147 that prevent Module::Build from installing on Win32 [David Golden]
1148
1149 - Fix bug cleaning compatibility Makefile when older ExtUtils::Manifest is
1150 installed [David Golden with help from David Cantrell]
1151
1152 Other:
1153
1154 - Suppressed more warnings from tests [David Golden]
1155
1156 - Add provisional support for 'package NAME VERSION' syntax added in
1157 Perl 5.11.1 [David Golden]
1158
1159 0.35_04 - Fri Oct 23 11:20:41 EDT 2009
1160
1161 Bug fixes:
1162
1163 - Fix test failure if IPC::Cmd isn't installed [David Golden]
1164
1165 Other:
1166
1167 - Suppressed warning messages from various tests [David Golden]
1168
1169 0.35_03 - Wed Oct 21 21:20:59 EDT 2009
1170
1171 *** API CHANGE ***
1172
1173 - The prepare_metadata() method used to take a YAML::Node object as an
1174 argument for modification. The method now takes no arguments and just
1175 returns a hash reference of metadata. [David Golden]
1176
1177 Enhancements
1178
1179 - Command line options may be set via the PERL_MB_OPT environment
1180 variable (similar to PERL_MM_OPT in ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
1181
1182 Bug fixes:
1183
1184 - Updated PPM generation to PPM v4 (RT#49600) [Olivier Mengue]
1185
1186 - When c_source is specified, the directory scan will include additional,
1187 less-common C++ extensions (RT49298) [David Golden]
1188
1189 - When module_name is not supplied, no packlist was being written; fixed
1190 by guessing module_name from dist_version_from or the directory name
1191 (just like ExtUtils::Manifest does without NAME) [David Golden]
1192
1193 - Bumped IO::File prereq to fix binmode failures in PPMMaker on Perl
1194 prior to 5.8.8 [David Golden]
1195
1196 Other:
1197
1198 - Replaced use of YAML.pm with YAML::Tiny; Module::Build::YAML is now
1199 based on YAML::Tiny as well [David Golden]
1200
1201 - Reduced amount of console output under normal operation (use --verbose
1202 to see all output) [David Golden]
1203
1204 0.35_02 - Mon Sep 7 22:37:42 EDT 2009
1205
1206 Enhancements:
1207
1208 - Added 'needs_compiler' property. Defaults to true if XS or c_source
1209 exist. If true, ExtUtils::CBuilder is also added to build_requires.
1210 [David Golden]
1211
1212 - File::ShareDir automatically added to 'requires' if 'share_dir' is set
1213 [David Golden]
1214
1215 - Added 'Build installdeps' action to install needed dependencies via
1216 a user-configurable command line program. (Defaults to 'cpan'.)
1217 [Eric Wilhelm]
1218
1219 Bug fixes:
1220
1221 - Failure to detect a compiler will now warn during Build.PL and be a
1222 fatal error when trying to compile during Build. (RT#48918) [David
1223 Golden]
1224
1225 - Fixed directory sorting failure in share_dir.t [David Golden]
1226
1227 - Property defaults that are data structures were being assigned as
1228 references to new objects. Changed so that defaults are cloned instead.
1229 (This mostly affects testing, which often creates multiple objects in the
1230 same process) [David Golden]
1231
1232 - Simplified error message on exit under use_tap_harness [suggested by
1233 David Wheeler]
1234
1235 - Fixed typemap search to use a dist-level typemap if a typemap is not
1236 found in the directory with the *.xs file; (was manifesting as warnings
1237 in Perl 5.6 tests) [David Golden]
1238
1239 Other:
1240
1241 - Replaced guts of new_from_context(). Build.PL is now executed in a
1242 separate process before resume() is called. (This is generally only of
1243 interest to Module::Build or toolchain developers) (RT#49350) [David
1244 Golden, Eric Wilhelm, Ken Williams]
1245
1246 - Revised test helper classes to fix potential bugs and add new features
1247 to make writing tests simpler and easier. Changes incorporated into
1248 t/README.pod and t/sample.t as examples for new testing. [David Golden]
1249
1250 0.35_01 - Mon Aug 31 12:11:10 EDT 2009
1251
1252 Enhancements:
1253
1254 - Generates MYMETA.yml during Build.PL (new standard protocol for
1255 communicating configuration results between toolchain components)
1256 [David Golden]
1257
1258 - Added 'share_dir' property to provide File::ShareDir support;
1259 set automatically if a directory called 'share' exists
1260 [David Golden]
1261
1262 Bug fixes:
1263
1264 - Fix the t/destinations.t fix. [David Golden, with thanks to Eric Wilhelm]
1265
1266 - Fix recursive test files in generated Makefile.PL (RT#49254) [Sawyer X]
1267
1268 - Guard against trying :utf8 when :utf8 isn't available
1269
1270 - The "test" action now dies when using the 'use_tap_harness'
1271 option and tests fail, matching the behavior under Test::Harness.
1272 (RT#49080) [initial patch from David Wheeler; revised by David Golden]
1273
1274 Other:
1275
1276 - Added t/README.pod and t/sample.t to guide developers writing new tests
1277 [David Golden, with some code from Eric Wilhelm]
1278
1279 - Module::Build::Compat 'passthrough' style has been deprecated. Using
1280 'passthrough' will issue warnings on Makefile.PL generation. See
1281 Module::Build::Compat documentation for rationale.
1282
1283 0.35 - Thu Aug 27 09:12:02 EDT 2009
1284
1285 Bug fixes:
1286
1287 - Fix t/destinations.t segfault on 5.6.2 [David Golden]
1288
1289 0.34_06 - Sat Aug 22 21:58:26 EDT 2009
1290
1291 Bug fixes:
1292
1293 - Multiple test fixes for OS2 [Ilya Zakharevich]
1294
1295 - Generated.ppd files use :utf8 if possible (RT#48827) [Olivier Mengue]
1296
1297 - Fixed preservation of custom install_paths on resume (RT#41166)
1298 [David Golden]
1299
1300 - Warn instead of crashing when Pod::Man tries to create files with
1301 colons on vfat partitions on unix (RT#45544) [David Golden]
1302
1303 0.34_05 - Sun Aug 9 22:31:37 EDT 2009
1304
1305 Bug fixes:
1306
1307 - When auto_configure_requires is true (the default), Module::Build will
1308 only add last 'major' version of Module:Build (e.g. 0.XX) to
1309 configure_requires to avoid specifying a minor development release not
1310 available on CPAN [David Golden]
1311
1312 0.34_04 - Sat Aug 8 11:02:24 EDT 2009
1313
1314 Other:
1315
1316 - Added documentation warning that 'get_options' should be capitalized
1317 to avoid conflicting with future Module::Build options and changed
1318 the examples accordingly.
1319
1320 0.34_03 - Sat Aug 8 07:39:16 EDT 2009
1321
1322 Bug fixes:
1323
1324 - Fixed failing xs.t if /tmp is mounted noexec (RT#47331) [David Golden]
1325
1326 - Fixed failing debug.t on VMS (RT#48362) [Craig Berry]
1327
1328 - Prevent par.t from dying on error in .zip extraction [David Golden]
1329
1330 - Fixed potential runthrough.t failure on 5.6.2 [David Golden]
1331
1332 Other:
1333
1334 - Archive::Tar changed from 'requires' to 'recommends' so non-authors
1335 without IO::Zlib can still use Module::Build to install modules
1336 [reported by Matt Trout, fix by David Golden]
1337
1338 0.340201 - Sun Aug 9 22:11:04 EDT 2009
1339
1340 Other:
1341
1342 - Version bump for Perl core for 5.10.1 release; no other changes
1343
1344 0.34_02 - Sun Jul 26 22:50:40 EDT 2009
1345
1346 Bug-fixes:
1347
1348 - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN
1349 version.pm 0.77 [John Peacock]
1350
1351 0.34_01 - Sat Jul 18 16:32:09 EDT 2009
1352
1353 Enhancements:
1354
1355 - Added --debug flag to trace Build action execution (RT#47933)
1356 [David Golden]
1357
1358 Bug-fixes:
1359
1360 - Bundled Module::Build::Version version code updated to fix unsafe use
1361 of $@ (RT#47980) [John Peacock]
1362
1363 0.34 - Tue Jul 7 16:56:47 EDT 2009
1364
1365 No changes from 0.33_06
1366
1367 0.33_06 - Sun Jul 5 10:11:40 EDT 2009
1368
1369 Bug-fixes:
1370
1371 - Bundled version code will use pure Perl on 5.10.0 to work around
1372 a corner case involving eval and locale [John Peacock]
1373
1374 - Reversed VMS patch from 0.33_03 [Craig Berry]
1375
1376 - PL_files in Build.PL that are in the bin/scripts directory should not be
1377 installed as if they are scripts (fixed for case-tolerant systems).
1378 [David Golden, reported by Craig Berry]
1379
1380 0.33_05 - Sun Jun 28 22:06:49 EDT 2009
1381
1382 Enhancements:
1383
1384 - New 'auto_configure_requires' parameter (default 1) controls
1385 whether Module::Build should add itself to configure_requires
1386 in META.yml if not specified in Build.PL [David Golden]
1387
1388 Bug-fixes:
1389
1390 - The default MANIFEST.SKIP created by the "manifest" action
1391 was out of date. It will now use the installed MANIFEST.SKIP
1392 and add some Module::Build and distribution specific items
1393 to it. [Michael Schwern]
1394
1395 Other:
1396
1397 - configure_requires do not necessarily need to be in requires
1398 or build_requires; warning to that effect has been removed
1399 [David Golden]
1400
1401 0.33_04 - Fri Jun 26 07:09:06 EDT 2009
1402
1403 Bug-fixes:
1404
1405 - Don't try utf8 YAML I/O on Perl 5.6 [David Golden]
1406
1407 Other:
1408
1409 - configure_requires added to prereq report (RT#47254) [Curtis Jewell]
1410
1411 - updated Module::Build::Version to match forthcoming version.pm 0.77
1412 (RT#47256) [John Peacock]
1413
1414 - skips xs.t and ppm.t when perl was not compiled with dynamic loading
1415 since Module::Buld does not support static linking (RT#46178)
1416 [David Golden]
1417
1418 - skip failing test in par.t if Archive::Zip is broken [David Golden]
1419
1420 - Added YAML utf8 patch in 0.33_03 changes list
1421
1422 - Added attribution for patches in 0.33_03 changes list
1423
1424 0.33_03 - Mon Jun 22 17:22:56 EDT 2009
1425
1426 Bug-fixes:
1427
1428 - Removes Module::Build from its own configure/build_requires
1429 [David Golden]
1430
1431 - ConfigData->feature() confirms that modules actually load successfully,
1432 not just that they are present. (RT#43557) [David Golden]
1433
1434 - Module::Build::Compat handling of INSTALL*LIB (RT#43827)
1435 [Tony Payne, David Golden]
1436
1437 - Module::Build::Compat and recursive test files (RT#39171) [Dave Rolsky]
1438
1439 - Fixed bug linking non-standard XS names on Windows (RT#38065) ["snaury"]
1440
1441 - Run PL files that don't generate any file (RT#39365)
1442 [Matisse Enzer, David Golden]
1443
1444 - HTML generation failure no longer fatal (RT#36660) [David Golden]
1445
1446 - realclean might not delete Build.bat on Windows (RT#43863)
1447 [Roy Ivy, David Golden]
1448
1449 - include_dirs parameter now works correctly when given a single
1450 string argument (RT#40177) [David Wheeler]
1451
1452 - Lots of spelling fixes in the POD (RT#45528r) [Lars Dieckow]
1453
1454 - On Unix-like systems, tilde expansion is more liberal in username
1455 characters accepted (RT#33492) [Jon Jensen]
1456
1457 Other
1458
1459 - On MSWin32, bumped File::Spec prereq to 3.30 for a variety of fixes
1460
1461 - Add support for VMS in Unix compatibility mode (RT#42157)
1462 [John E. Malmberg
1463
1464 - Added a can_action($name) method (RT#45172) [brian d foy]
1465
1466 - Documented that subclass methods should not permanently change
1467 current directory (RT#46919) [David Wheeler]
1468
1469 - META.yml encoded in UTF-8 (RT#43765) [Olivier Mengue]
1470
1471 0.33_02 - Mon Jun 15 12:23:55 EDT 2009
1472
1473 Bug-fixes:
1474
1475 - Fixed tests for bleadperl
1476
1477 0.33_01 - Sat Jun 13 20:24:42 EDT 2009
1478
1479 Bug-fixes:
1480
1481 - Fixed RT#42724: consolidated VMS fixes [patch by Craig Berry]
1482
1483 - Fixed RT#46338: passthrough Makefile.PL cleans Makefile during distclean
1484
1485 - Fixed RT#45700: t/compat.t for HP/UX make
1486
1487 Other:
1488
1489 - Adds current Module::Build to configure_requires (and build_requires)
1490 if no configure_requires is specified
1491
1492 - Always normalizes version number tuples in META.yml (e.g. 'v1.2.0')
1493 (Partially addresses RT#46150)
1494
1495 - Normalizes a generated dist_version (e.g. from a .pm file) --
1496 dist_version set manually in Build.PL is not normalized
1497
1498 - Documentation update for create_license
1499
1500 - Minor POD cleanup
1501
1502 0.33 - Sun May 3 20:16:34 PDT 2009
1503
1504 Bug-fixes:
1505
1506 - Fixed RT#45462: Compat.pm needs to reference 'Build.com' on VMS
1507 [patch from John Malmberg]
1508
1509 - Fixed RT#45461: ext.t on VMS [patch from John Malmberg]
1510
1511 - Fixed RT#43861: Module::Build::PPMMaker has broken PPD name
1512 versioning for v5.10+
1513
1514 0.32_01 - Tue Apr 14 17:14:22 PDT 2009
1515
1516 Bug-fixes:
1517
1518 - Module::Build::Compat had stopped adding "PL_FILES => {}" when no
1519 PL_files property was set in Build.PL; restored old behavior and fixed
1520 tests and documentation related to this issue [David Golden]
1521
1522 - Caches ExtUtils::CBuilder object in a temporary stash instead of properties
1523
1524 - Fixed undef resources->license in META.yml (RT #44453).
1525
1526 - Use $^X instead of 'perl' in t/ext.t [David Golden] (RT #43485)
1527
1528 Other:
1529
1530 - Generated META.yml will indicate version 1.4 of the specification
1531 (RT #37478) [patch from Alexandr Ciornii]
1532
1533 - Archive::Tar now the default for generating tarballs on all platforms
1534 (avoids problems with incompatible tar binaries)
1535
1536 - dist_dir() now uses dist_name() and dist_version() accessors rather
1537 than using its properties directly. [brian d foy] (RT #45038)
1538
1539 0.32 - Wed Feb 25 17:40:02 PST 2009
1540
1541 No changes since 0.31_04.
1542
1543 0.31_04 - Fri Feb 20 11:04:59 PST 2009
1544
1545 Other
1546
1547 - Bumped Test::Harness prereq to 3.16 for latest PERL5LIB fixes (solves
1548 test failures when installing Module::Build using CPANPLUS::Dist::Build)
1549 [David Golden]
1550
1551 0.31_03 - Sun Feb 8 14:54:01 PST 2009
1552
1553 Enhancements
1554
1555 - added a "prereq_data" action that prints a Perl data structure of
1556 all prerequisites; can be loaded by external tools using eval()
1557 [David Golden]
1558
1559 Bug-fixes
1560
1561 - 'fakeinstall' action warns and skips without ExtUtils::Install 1.32+
1562 [David Golden, reported by Zefram]
1563
1564 - allows Module::Build version mismatch when installing self; works around
1565 limitations in CPANPLUS::Dist::Build [David Golden]
1566
1567 0.31_02 - Tue Jan 27 09:16:43 PST 2009
1568
1569 Other
1570
1571 - tests now use File::Temp (added to build_requires); appears to fix
1572 Win32 testing heisenbug on directory removal during high system loads
1573
1574 - use_tap_harness.t will skip unless a release version of TAP::Harness
1575 is installed
1576
1577 - improved diagnostics to ensure_blib() tests in t/lib/MBTest.pm
1578
1579 Compat
1580
1581 - passthrough Makefile.PL will now play nice with cpantesters' on
1582 exit(0) (RT#32018) [Eric Wilhelm]
1583
1584 Bug Fixes
1585
1586 - fix for doubling-up of --prefix (RT#19951)
1587
1588 0.31012 - Wed Jan 14 01:36:19 PST 2009
1589
1590 Bug Fixes
1591
1592 - t/tilde.t maybe actually fixed on MSWin32 now.
1593
1594 0.31011 - Mon Jan 12 21:57:04 PST 2009
1595
1596 Bug Fixes
1597
1598 - t/tilde.t had been failing on MSWin32 (RT#42349)
1599
1600 0.3101 - Mon Jan 12 13:52:36 PST 2009
1601
1602 Other
1603
1604 - added 'mirbsd' as a Unix-type OS [BinGOs]
1605
1606 - added 'haiku' as a Unix-type OS (backported from bleadperl)
1607
1608 - skips certain tests on VMS (backported from bleadperl)
1609
1610 - sets $^X to absolute path in tests (backported from bleadperl)
1611
1612 0.31 - Sat Dec 20 15:03:33 2008
1613
1614 Deprecations
1615
1616 - Use of attributes as class methods is deprecated (this was never a
1617 documented feature and appears to only have worked accidentally.)
1618
1619 0.30_02 - Mon Dec 15 12:23:55 PST 2008
1620
1621 Bug Fixes
1622
1623 - make Software::License dependency "softer".
1624
1625 0.30_01 - Thu Dec 11 18:25:53 PST 2008
1626
1627 New Docs
1628
1629 - Added a recipe for writing a new action to the Cookbook
1630
1631 - Added a recipe for bundling Module::Build to the Cookbook.
1632
1633 Doc Fixes
1634
1635 - Clarified dist_abstract search procedure in API.pod (RT#41056) [Mario
1636 Domgoergen]
1637
1638 Bug Fixes
1639
1640 - Workaround HARNESS_TIMER env issue in t/compat.t (RT#39635)
1641
1642 - Fix ~ expansion when $HOME is different from /etc/passwd as
1643 when running sudo. [rt.cpan.org 39662]
1644
1645 - Fixed a small POD error in the Cookbook. [Damyan Ivanov]
1646
1647 - Unset group/other write permission bits when using Archive::Tar to
1648 build the dist tarball. (RT#39804) [David Golden]
1649
1650 Enhancements
1651
1652 - We now support a 'create_license' parameter to new() that will
1653 create a LICENSE file during the 'dist' phase with the full text of
1654 the license. This requires Software::License on the author's
1655 machine.
1656
1657 - Added lgpl2/lgpl3 entries to the supported licenses (RT#40532).
1658
1659 - Support for validating properties with a check subref. [David
1660 Wheeler]
1661
1662 Test Fixes
1663
1664 - Defend against more stray environment variables interfering
1665 with the tests.
1666
1667 Other
1668
1669 - Updated our embedded version.pm to 0.76, enhanced documentation on
1670 dist_version_from. [John Peacock]
1671
1672 0.30 - Thu Sep 25 20:57:36 2008
1673
1674 - First non-beta release since April 2007. In the meantime, Sarkozy
1675 became president of France, the 35W bridge fell in Minneapolis,
1676 Phelps won a lot of gold, a new tribe of indigenous people was
1677 discovered in the Amazon, and Bob Barker stopped doing The Price Is
1678 Right. As of this moment though, the U.S. economy still hasn't
1679 collapsed completely.
1680
1681 0.2808_05 - Thu Sep 18 23:30:39 PDT 2008
1682
1683 - Skip test in t/ext.t which tickles shellwords() in Text::ParseWords
1684 below 3.23 [David Wheeler, Ken]
1685
1686 - Fixed some shell-quoting issues in do_system() on Windows [Ken,
1687 Schwern, reported by Curtis Jewell]
1688
1689 - Fixed t/xs.t failure for missing 'const char *' typemap in 5.6
1690 [Schwern]
1691
1692 - Added build_requires for Test::More 0.49 and Test::Harness 2.03.
1693 Removed bundled Test::More (was not working for 5.005x anyway).
1694 [Schwern]
1695
1696 - Minimum required perl version is now 5.6.1. [Schwern]
1697
1698 0.2808_04 - Thu Sep 11 22:51:27 PDT 2008
1699
1700 - Backed-out incompatible Module::Build::ModuleInfo change (first in
1701 0.2808_02.)
1702
1703 0.2808_03 - Mon Sep 1 14:43:27 PDT 2008
1704
1705 - Made adjustments for the format changes of recent Test::Harness
1706 output. [Nicholas Clark]
1707
1708 - Fixed the documentation for script_files to indicate that we search
1709 bin/ for scripts by default. It has been this way for several
1710 years. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
1711
1712 0.2808_02 - Wed Jul 9 16:45:08 PDT 2008
1713
1714 - Experimental support for TAP::Harness with --use-tap-harness option
1715 and the tap_harness_args property. [David Wheeler & Eric Wilhelm]
1716
1717 - Added test_file_exts property for main-run tests other than '*.t'.
1718 [David Wheeler]
1719
1720 - Fixed getcwd()/rmtree() failure case on 5.10+mac where something is
1721 unhappy about all of the tests deleting their distgen directory
1722 before leaving it. [Eric Wilhelm & David Wheeler]
1723
1724 - Improved support for parsing qv() in modules' $VERSION
1725 declarations, and made $VERSION-parsing errors more verbose. [Jos
1726 Boumans]
1727
1728 - Integrated an omnibus patch for various VMS fixes. [Craig Berry &
1729 John E. Malmberg]
1730
1731 - Some versions of Test::Harness (or something) seem to not be
1732 stripping the ".t" suffix when outputting test reports, which was
1733 causing one of our tests in t/compat.t to fail. Fixed. [Spotted by
1734 a smoke tester]
1735
1736 - Most Unix platforms seem to allow hyphens in usernames, so we honor
1737 this in our de-tilde-fying methods now. [Spotted by s-murata]
1738
1739 - If there are multiple assignments to the $VERSION variable in
1740 someone's module and this generates warnings, tell the user what
1741 line number the problem is at.
1742
1743 - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni]
1744
1745 - Fixed a couple bugs in how we quote arguments to external processes
1746 when they have to pass through the shell. Also much more
1747 thoroughly tested our quoting now.
1748
1749 - Edited the Module::Build::API docs prose about the 'license' field
1750 in response to some comments on the module-authors mailing list.
1751
1752 - Fixed a typo in some example code in the Cookbook. [Jeremy Leader]
1753
1754 - Custom typemaps were being looked for in places that don't quite
1755 exist; fixed. [Michael G Schwern]
1756
1757 - QNX/Neutrino is now considered to be Unix. [rt.cpan.org 32214]
1758
1759 - Added 'gpl2' and 'gpl3' to the list of valid licenses. [Allen
1760 Engelhardt]
1761
1762 - Fixed our Data::Dumper wrapper's sensitivity to users who might set
1763 $Data::Dumper::Terse. [Spotted by Dominique Dumont]
1764
1765 - Documented the fix_shebang_line() method. [Elliot Shank]
1766
1767 - Applied the 'const' modifier to version() and xs_version() XS
1768 functions we use during testing. [Robin Barker]
1769
1770 - Fixed processing of INC=, POLLUTE=, INSTALLDIRS=, and LIB= for
1771 passthrough/small Makefile.PLs.
1772
1773 - perl Build.PL --sign=1 now signs. [Michael G Schwern]
1774
1775 - Fixed processing of INSTALLDIRS=whatever for compatibility
1776 Makefiles. [Spotted by John Peacock]
1777
1778 - Zillions of special-cases have been added in Compat.pm for dealing
1779 with the special Makefile system on VMS. [John E. Malmberg]
1780
1781 - Fixed some stuff in how VMS command-args get quoted. [John E. Malmberg]
1782
1783 - VMS now overrides localize_file_path() and localize_dir_path() so
1784 we don't need to do special stuff in the general case. [John
1785 E. Malmberg]
1786
1787 - Added a few more VMS-specific entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP
1788 file that (sometimes) gets created during the 'manifest'
1789 action. [John E. Malmberg]
1790
1791 - Fixed a catdir() that should have been a catfile() when creating a
1792 ppmdist. [John E. Malmberg]
1793
1794 - Removed some assumptions about what makefiles are called (not
1795 necessarily "Makefile") and how they take their arguments, to get
1796 VMS tests working better. [John E. Malmberg]
1797
1798 - Fixed our check for Archive::Tar in the t/runthrough.t test, which
1799 fixes a common failure on Win32. [Spotted by Chris Williams]
1800
1801 - Fixed a File::Spec mal-ism in t/destinations.t [Craig A. Berry]
1802
1803 - Exposed the internal ExtUtils::CBuilder object as part of our API,
1804 via the cbuilder() method. [Zefram]
1805
1806 - Upgraded to version.pm 0.74 (fixes bug #30004.)
1807
1808 - Overwrite core (post-5.9.4) Module::Build installs (bug #20528.)
1809
1810 - Pass quiet() option to ExtUtils::CBuilder object.
1811
1812 0.2808_01 - Wed Oct 24 11:51:25 2007
1813
1814 - All .pm files in the Module-Build distribution (except for
1815 M::B::Version.pm, which is kind of tied to version.pm) now have the
1816 same $VERSION number explicitly specified.
1817
1818 - When checking prerequisites, the required version of perl is now
1819 checked before we start finding the $VERSION declaration of the
1820 distribution, which results in much more intuitive error messages
1821 e.g. if the author is using 5.6-isms in their declaration but the
1822 user doesn't have 5.6. [Slaven Rezic]
1823
1824 - Added 'artistic_2' license, corrected 'lgpl' license url (bug #29783)
1825 [David Thomas]
1826
1827 - VMS find_perl_interpreter() is just $^X (bug #29810) [Craig A. Berry]
1828
1829 - Some large VMS fixes, mostly having to do with the non-case-
1830 preserving nature of most VMS filesystems, but also correcting for
1831 illegal characters in VMS file specs. [John E. Malmberg and Craig
1832 A. Berry]
1833
1834 - Fixed the _detildefy() method on VMS. [John E. Malmberg and Craig
1835 A. Berry]
1836
1837 - We now use a much more reliable method when Data::Dumper-ing saved
1838 state data. [Yves]
1839
1840 - When a module had 0.000 as its version, a few places in the code
1841 thought the module had no version at all. This is now
1842 fixed. [Andrew "Zefram" Main]
1843
1844 - When finding the default set of script_files, we now compute them
1845 as relative paths, not absolute. [Spotted by Curtis "Ovid" Poe]
1846
1847 - Got rid of a call to eliminate_macros, which isn't needed in
1848 Module::Build since there is no external make utility involved.
1849 Override expand_test_dir to make up for the fact that the
1850 home-grown glob() returns absolute, not relative, paths. [Craig
1851 A. Berry]
1852
1853 - Fixed a catdir() that needed to be catfile() in the .packlist
1854 creation code. [John E. Malmberg]
1855
1856 - If a *.PL file ended abnormally during the build, processing should
1857 have stopped, but it didn't. Fixed. [Matthew Cast and David
1858 Golden]
1859
1860 - Module::Build::Compat adds "require 5.XXXXX" to Makefile.PL when
1861 'perl' is specified as a 'requires' prerequisite [David Golden]
1862
1863 - Refactored t/compat.t for modularity and transparency; added
1864 labels for all tests; supressed subprocess output to
1865 STDOUT and STDERR [David Golden]
1866
1867 - Fixed bug in perl_version_to_float when version is already a float
1868 [David Golden]
1869
1870 - Removed a mention of $build->{config} from the documentation, the
1871 official interface to Config.pm settings is now via the
1872 $build->config() and has been for some time. [Suggested by Michael
1873 Schwern]
1874
1875 - Tweaked some text in the Cookbook to bring it into the modern age,
1876 and added a recipe for accessing Config.pm settings. [Ibid]
1877
1878 - Lots of POD link/readability improvements to the Module::Build::API
1879 documentation [Salve J. Nilsen]
1880
1881 - Added configure_requires as a new type of prereq. [Suggested by Adam
1882 Kennedy]
1883
1884 - Patch 31156 from bleadperl: some filename dot and extension help
1885 for Module::Build on VMS. [Craig Berry]
1886
1887 - Reworked the _detildefy() method so it doesn't depend on glob()
1888 anymore. This gets rid of a problem with spaces or other special
1889 shell characters in things like 'prefix' or 'install_path'
1890 entries. [Prodding by Eric Wilhelm]
1891
1892 - Added midnightbsd to the list of Unix-like OSes we know about
1893 [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
1894
1895 0.2808 - Sat Apr 28 12:59:43 2007
1896
1897 - Added is_vmsish(), is_windowsish(), and is_unixish() boolean
1898 convenience functions. Fixes some test failures on platforms where
1899 $^O is set to a value we don't know about (like 'gnu').
1900
1901 - Upgraded to version.pm 0.7203. [John Peacock]
1902
1903 - Support get_action_docs() =head2 style. [ewilhelm]
1904
1905 - Workaround Test::Pod::Coverage @INC bug. [Eric Wilhelm]
1906
1907 - Fixed the command-line args --extra_compiler_flags and
1908 --extra_linker_flags so they properly shell-split their arguments.
1909
1910 0.2807 - Sat Mar 24 22:19:02 2007
1911
1912 - Upgraded to version.pm 0.71. [John Peacock]
1913
1914 - Removed a couple small constructs in the tests ("use warnings;" and
1915 "qw$foo bar$[1]") that caused test failures under perl 5.005.
1916
1917 - Added support for an explicit default value of undef in prompt().
1918 [Eric Wilhelm]
1919
1920 - Improved our prompt() method, which could sometimes hang before the
1921 user got a chance to see a prompt. [Andreas Koenig]
1922
1923 - Added a note about --allow_mb_mismatch to the error message that
1924 happens right before someone might want to use that parameter.
1925
1926 - Added DragonflyBSD to the list of known Unix OSes.
1927
1928 - get_action_docs() dies on error rather than twiddling $@
1929
1930 - Made ModuleInfo's _evaluate_version_line() compatible with 'use
1931 version ...$VERSION' lines. [Eric Wilhelm]
1932
1933 - Added some verbiage in Module::Build::API that officially blesses
1934 the _build/prereqs file for external consumption. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig]
1935
1936 - Added test profiles support via the test_types property and "testall"
1937 target. [Eric Wilhelm, Jeff Lavallee]
1938
1939 - Use syscopy() on OS/2 in copy_if_modified() so we make sure to
1940 overwrite any existing target file. [Ilya Zakharevich]
1941
1942 - Removed seemingly silly '~~' test in t/tilde.t.
1943
1944 - In our test-time utility library t/lib/MBTest.pm, we need to know
1945 about a few .exe-like extensions on OS/2. [Ilya Zakharevich]
1946
1947 - In t/ppm.t, use DynaLoader::mod2fname() (if available) to determine
1948 the correct translation of our test module's name into a DLL
1949 name. [Ilya Zakharevich]
1950
1951 - Avoid an unlink() error on OS/2 when fixing shebang lines. [Ilya
1952 Zakharevich]
1953
1954 - When we're protecting the world from the evils of long RedHat
1955 $ENV{PERL5LIB} variables, don't assume $ENV{PERL5LIB} is already
1956 defined. This gets rid of a huge number of warnings for some
1957 people. [Dave Rolsky]
1958
1959 0.2806 - Fri Dec 15 22:20:14 2006
1960
1961 - On some systems (haven't identified the actual problem yet)
1962 $ENV{PERL5LIB} can grow to enormous enough sizes that we can't
1963 launch any more subprocesses because the environment table is full.
1964 This is the now-infamous "Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too
1965 long" error. Now we detect such situations and trim the directory
1966 list to only include directories that actually exist, listed only
1967 once each. Not the ideal solution, but it should work.
1968
1969 - Silence a warning in M::B::ModuleInfo that happens when the author
1970 is using the "$VERSION = eval $VERSION" idiom.
1971
1972 - When running the 'testcover' action, do "cover --delete" if any of
1973 the test files have changed (we already did so if any of the code
1974 under test has changed). [Suggested by Chris Dolan, RT #23584]
1975
1976 - Fixed a broken link in the documentation about PREFIX. [Spotted by
1977 David Steinbrunner]
1978
1979 - Changes to do_system() & friends on VMS to get system calls working
1980 much better there. [Craig Berry]
1981
1982 - Added the "pardist" target which creates a PAR binary distribution
1983 akin to a PPM distribution. [Steffen Mueller]
1984
1985 - Added the Interix platform as a Unix variant. [Stephen Hartland]
1986
1987 - Improved the error message we emit when a distribution contains XS
1988 files but the user has no C compiler. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig]
1989
1990 0.2805_01 Thu Sep 7 21:57:29 CDT 2006
1991
1992 - Because of a weird behavior of YAML::Node, any distribution that
1993 used version.pm objects to define their versions was generating the
1994 wrong syntax for the versions in their META.yml file. They will
1995 now appear as strings like v3.42.1 or similar, including the
1996 leading v.
1997
1998 - Upgraded to version 0.67 of version.pm. [John Peacock]
1999
2000 - Added a contrib/ directory with a bash completion function for M::B
2001 actions and switches. [Julian Mehnle]
2002
2003 - When we eval() the embedded version.pm code we will now die() if
2004 the eval() was unsuccessful, rather than continuing blindly on and
2005 dying mysteriously later.
2006
2007 - Added a 'retest' action that lets users run the current regression
2008 tests on a previously-installed version of a distribution.
2009
2010 * Instead of storing an entire dump of the Config.pm hash in the
2011 _build/ directory upon startup, we now just store any overrides the
2012 user or author has specified. Note that if you were doing anything
2013 you weren't supposed to be doing, like poking around in the
2014 internals of $buld->{config}, your code might break, so I've put
2015 the asterisk of incompatibility on this one just to cover my
2016 tuchus. [Idea originally by Randy Sims]
2017
2018 - Made copying files via copy_if_modified() a little less chatty.
2019
2020 0.2805 Sat Jul 29 22:01:24 CDT 2006
2021
2022 - We now embed a copy of version.pm right in the
2023 Module::Build::Version source code, with John Peacock's blessing,
2024 in case the user has a rough time installing version.pm. This
2025 helps alleviate troubles people were still having with working out
2026 a seemingly circular dependency (even though version.pm now ships
2027 with a standard Makefile.PL too). A version.pm >= 0.661 installed
2028 on the system will take precedence over our bundled one. [John
2029 Peacock]
2030
2031 - Fix some test warnings (or failures?) related to version.pm
2032 numification. [John Peacock]
2033
2034 - The top-level 'version' entry in META.yml files we'd generated was
2035 in the wrong format (it was being treated as a version.pm object
2036 rather than a serialized copy) due to a weird YAML::Node issue.
2037 Fixed.
2038
2039 - Don't 'use base qw(version)' anymore in our M::B::Version wrapper,
2040 just set @ISA directly, because some people have reported that the
2041 'use base' line is croaking.
2042
2043 - Added an 'allow_mb_mismatch' parameter to suppress the startup
2044 check that ensures the version of M::B currently running is the
2045 same as the one initially used to run the Build.PL. Use with
2046 caution.
2047
2048 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo will no longer detect things that look
2049 like $VERSION assignments after an __END__ or __DATA__ token.
2050
2051 - Updated documentation to mention the new mailing list on perl.org
2052 rather than the old one on sourceforge.
2053
2054 0.2804 Sun Jul 16 16:41:25 CDT 2006
2055
2056 - Added 'use version;' in Module::Build::Version, because some
2057 versions of base.pm won't automatically load version.pm when we do
2058 'use base qw/version/;'. [Spotted by Erik Tank]
2059
2060 0.2803 Sat Jul 15 08:26:34 CDT 2006
2061
2062 - The META.yml file in the last release was all screwed up, so the
2063 distribution wasn't indexed properly. Fixed in this release.
2064
2065 0.2802 Fri Jul 14 22:40:34 CDT 2006
2066
2067 - Added reliance on version.pm, which means we should deal much
2068 better with the wide range of version specifications one finds on
2069 CPAN. This is made possible by recent releases of version.pm that
2070 give the user a pure-perl option, so installing version.pm
2071 shouldn't be too onerous for most users. [John Peacock]
2072
2073 - We should be accepting the default when we're in unattended mode,
2074 not acting dumb and ignoring both the default and the [empty]
2075 answer from the user. Fixed. [Spotted by Nik Clayton]
2076
2077 0.2801 Sun May 21 00:07:40 CDT 2006
2078
2079 - Module::Build::Compat's emulation of INC is incorrectly prepending
2080 a -I to the value of INC. This is incorrect because there should
2081 already be a -I on the value. I.E. it's "perl Makefile.PL INC=-Ifoo"
2082 not "perl Makefile.PL INC=foo" so Compat should not prefix a -I.
2083 [Michael Schwern]
2084
2085 - Native batch scripts under Windows should not be converted by
2086 pl2bat. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
2087
2088 - Tweaked the way we determine whether a file is executable on Unix.
2089 We use this determination to decide whether to make it executable
2090 during installation. [Julian Mehnle]
2091
2092 - Replaced a vestigial 'next' with 'return' now that the code is in a
2093 subroutine (htmlify_pods()), not a loop. [Ron Savage]
2094
2095 - Fixed a guaranteed failure in t/signature.t when TEST_SIGNATURE was
2096 set. [Eric R. Meyers]
2097
2098 - Fixed a test failure that occurred when testing or installing in
2099 unattended mode - the code to test whether unattended mode and
2100 attended mode are working properly was assuming that we started out
2101 in attended mode. [Steve Peters]
2102
2103 - Improved our stand-in YAML generator that we use to generate
2104 META.yaml when authors don't have a copy of YAML.pm installed on
2105 their machine. It was unable to handle things like embedded
2106 newlines in the data, now it has a much more extensive escaping
2107 mechanism. [Stephen Adkins]
2108
2109 - Revised the docs for --prefix and PREFIX. [Michael Schwern]
2110
2111 0.28 Thu Apr 27 22:25:00 CDT 2006
2112
2113 - When y_n() or prompt() are called without a default value and the
2114 build seems to be unattended (e.g. in automatic CPAN testing), we
2115 now die() with an error message rather than silently returning
2116 undef for prompt(), or looping indefinitely for y_n().
2117
2118 - When searching for '.modulebuildrc', return the first HOME-like
2119 directory that actually contains the file instead of the first
2120 existing directory. Document the search locations and the order
2121 searched. [Spotted by David Golden]
2122
2123 - Split the API documentation out of Module::Build::Authoring into
2124 its own document: Module::Build::API.
2125
2126 - We should not emit a warning if a Module::Build subclass is
2127 required in a Makefile.PL that is not bundled in the current
2128 distribution; it may be installed on the user's system. [Spotted by
2129 Tyler MacDonald]
2130
2131 - copy_if_modified() now preserves the executable bit of the source
2132 file. [Spotted by Julian Mehnle]
2133
2134 - Fixed compatibility of our screen-scraping the Test::Harness output
2135 so we can recognize the most recent Test::Harness version. [Steve
2136 Hay]
2137
2138 - Backing out a requirement added in 0.27_06 on the method y_n()
2139 to always include a default. This behavior would cause existing
2140 build scripts to start failing. We now fail with a missing default
2141 only when $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} is set because there is no
2142 reasonable default.
2143
2144 - Make install_types() method smarter with respect to custom install
2145 types.
2146
2147 - Add documentation for the install_base_relpaths() and
2148 prefix_relpaths() methods. Improved their usage for a public API,
2149 and added tests.
2150
2151 0.27_10 Tue Mar 28 22:50:50 CST 2006
2152
2153 - Added the create_packlist property, default true, which controls
2154 whether packlist files will be written during installation. This
2155 was already part of Module::Build 0.2609, but for some reason we've
2156 forgotten it in the 0.27_xx series. [Spotted by Steve Kirkup]
2157
2158 - Document the versions of Module::Build where each feature, action,
2159 constructor argument, and method was first publicly documented.
2160
2161 - More fixes for find_perl_interpreter() to work with BSD flavored
2162 UNIX: Ensure we always return absolute paths; throw an exception
2163 upon failure to find correct interperter; document everything.
2164
2165 - We now include our own YAML.pm work-alike that we can use when the
2166 real YAML isn't installed. We might soon even start using it when
2167 YAML is installed, because the YAML API and dependency chain have
2168 been changing in unfavorable ways lately. [Stephen Adkins]
2169
2170 - Fixed some shell-argument-quoting issues on VMS. In the process,
2171 we have added some support for avoiding tripping over
2172 shell-argument-quoting issues on other platforms too. [Initial
2173 patch by Craig A. Berry]
2174
2175 0.27_09 Sat Mar 11 22:48:54 EST 2006
2176
2177 - Fixed find_perl_interpreter() so we can find the perl executable
2178 when running from uninstalled perl even when $^X contains a
2179 relative path. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
2180
2181 - Fixed warning message where we were printing the wrong field names.
2182 [Chris Dolan]
2183
2184 - Added a 'testpodcoverage' action that runs a POD coverage check for
2185 all modules in the distribution. [Yanick Champoux]
2186
2187 - Added a Cookbook example of subclassing to modify an action. [Dylan
2188 Martin and David Golden]
2189
2190 - When building HTML documentation, we were opening the POD file and
2191 not checking whether the open succeeded, which of course caused
2192 problems down the line if it failed. Now we do "or die(...)" like
2193 everywhere else. [Spotted by Joerg Braun]
2194
2195 0.27_08 Fri Mar 3 21:22:41 CST 2006
2196
2197 - Due to shell quoting issues and differences in syntax between
2198 various flavors of Windows, the code for the 'pl2bat' utility
2199 distributed with Perl has been incorporated into M::B::P::Windows.
2200 [Thanks to Dr Bean and Ron Savage for help testing and isolating
2201 the problem.]
2202
2203 - Modify add_build_element() so that it only adds elements if they
2204 don't already exist. [David Wheeler]
2205
2206 - Fixed a bug in the 'pass-through' Makefile.PL in which we would die
2207 if CPAN::Shell->install returned false, but apparently this return
2208 value is unreliable. Now we only die if the module is actually
2209 unavailable after installation.
2210
2211 - Fixed testing problems on VMS related to non-case-preserving
2212 filesystems. We now bundle Tie::CPHash in the distribution (just
2213 for testing purposes, it doesn't get installed) to help with
2214 this. [Craig Berry and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
2215
2216 - We incorrectly documented the 'dynamic_config' flag in the META.yml
2217 file as having a default value of false, but according to the
2218 META.yml spec (which, for heaven's sake, we wrote) its default
2219 value is true. Fixed. [Spotted by Adam Kennedy]
2220
2221 - The have_c_compiler() method was dying if the ExtUtils::CBuilder
2222 module wasn't around, which is obviously an unhelpful thing to do.
2223 Now it just returns false. [Spotted by John Peacock]
2224
2225 - Fix detection of $VERSION expressions that are not
2226 assignments. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
2227
2228 - Obfuscate one of our constructs that uses a $VERSION variable,
2229 because it was getting picked up by ExtUtils::MakeMaker's
2230 version-finder. [Spotted by Randal Schwartz]
2231
2232 - The config_data script for querying and/or setting a module's
2233 config data was forgetting to call write() after setting config
2234 values (though setting feature values was working fine).
2235 Fixed. [Brian Duggan]
2236
2237 - On Windows, remove the pl2bat generated 'Build.bat' script without
2238 the annoying "The batch file cannot be found." error. [Solution
2239 provided by RazTK and foxidrive on newsgroup alt.msdos.batch]
2240
2241 - Our version comparisons should now work correctly with modules that
2242 use version.pm to delcare their versions (e.g. "our $VERSION =
2243 version->new('1.0.0')"). [John Peacock and Ron Savage]
2244
2245 - We now create a Build.bat script on versions of Windows where it
2246 makes sense. [Yves]
2247
2248 - Fixed the verbiage around choosing the correct make-alike on
2249 different platforms to suggest using 'perl -V:make'. [Suggested by
2250 anonymous user]
2251
2252 0.27_07 Wed Feb 1 20:07:45 CST 2006
2253
2254 - The notes() method now returns the new value when called with two
2255 arguments, just like when it's called with one argument. [Tyler
2256 MacDonald]
2257
2258 - The notes() method now distinguishes among the values undef, 0, and
2259 the empty string, where previously it didn't. [Tyler MacDonald]
2260
2261 - We now unshift(@INC) rather than push(@INC) for the directory where
2262 a build subclass lives, so that we're sure to pick up the right
2263 version and not some already-installed version. [perlmonkey]
2264
2265 - The SIGNATURE file for version 0.27_06 (and I'm sure for lots of
2266 versions before that too!) was messed up, since we were modifying
2267 some files after signing. This has been band-aided for the time
2268 being by signing twice. [Reported by Chris Dolan]
2269
2270 0.27_06 Mon Jan 23 21:44:54 CST 2006
2271
2272 - Fixed an undefined-variable warning when building the META.yml file
2273 and the author hasn't used the 'module_name' mechanism. [Chris Dolan]
2274
2275 - We should now work with recent (> 0.49) versions of YAML.pm when
2276 creating the META.yml file. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
2277
2278 - The y_n() method now requires the default parameter, and the
2279 prompt() and y_n() methods have been improved with respect to
2280 how they behave/detect when there is no user to ask. We're now
2281 more consistent with MakeMaker, including respecting the
2282 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT environment variable. [Tyler MacDonald and
2283 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
2284
2285 - When building a README file using Pod::Text, work around a bug in
2286 Pod::Text 3.01, which expects Pod::Simple::parse_file to take input
2287 and output filehandles when it actually only takes an input
2288 filehandle. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
2289
2290 0.27_05 Thu Jan 12 17:39:21 CST 2006
2291
2292 - In t/common.pl, we were attempting to let the user's installed
2293 Test::More take precedence over ours, but getting thwarted by all
2294 the test scripts' loading Test::More beforehand. Fixed. [Spotted
2295 by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
2296
2297 - In various test scripts, we were outputting some strings that
2298 weren't strictly conformant with Test::Harness's expected input,
2299 though it didn't actually cause problems. Now we're more
2300 conformant, though not yet strict. [Spotted by Yitzchak
2301 Scott-Thoennes]
2302
2303 0.27_04 Fri Dec 23 10:43:34 CST 2005
2304
2305 - Removed experimental feature that extended the prerequisite system
2306 to apply ('requires', 'recommends', and 'conflicts') prereqs to all
2307 actions. Most of the internal extensiblity has been retained so
2308 that prereq types can easily be added, more selectively.
2309
2310 - Added a 'prereq_report' action that shows the user a well-formatted
2311 list of all prerequisites, the versions required, and the versions
2312 actually installed. [David Wheeler]
2313
2314 - Clarified the directory name that's created during the 'distdir'
2315 action. [Suggested by Tyler MacDonald]
2316
2317 - Fixed a bug when creating the META.yml file without the help of
2318 YAML.pm - some common strings weren't quoted & escaped properly.
2319 Now only some uncommon ones are. [Spotted by Joshua ben Jore]
2320
2321 - Fixed a bug in which an "UNINST=1" argument specified to a
2322 passthrough Makefile's "make install" wasn't actually seen by
2323 Module::Build.
2324
2325 - Rather than dying when the Build script is run from the wrong
2326 directory, it now simply chdir()s into the right directory and
2327 keeps going. [Suggested by Dominique Quatravaux]
2328
2329 - Added an "Examples on CPAN" section to the cookbook, with an
2330 initial entry pointing to John Peacock's SVN-Notify-Mirror
2331 distribution.
2332
2333 - Add an invoked_action() method to return the name of the original
2334 action invoked by the user.
2335
2336 - Add 'meta-spec' field to the generated META.yml file, including the
2337 version of the specification followed by the current Module::Build
2338 and the url where the specification can be found.
2339
2340 - Introduced two actions, 'html' & 'manpages', that generate
2341 documentation for POD when the respective feature is enabled. The
2342 actions will generate the documents even if there is no set place
2343 to install to. However, if the actions are invoked as a dependency
2344 of another action (e.g. build), the documentation will only be
2345 built when there is a default or user-specified place to install to.
2346
2347 - Added support for environment variable, 'MODULEBUILDRC', which can
2348 be used to specify the full path to an option file to use instead
2349 of the default location of ~/.modulebuildrc. A special undocumented
2350 setting of 'NONE' tells Module::Build not to load any user settings,
2351 so tests can be run without tainting from user options.
2352
2353 - Documented and improved preliminary support for more Getopt::Long
2354 style options are supported, including boolean options (--verbose,
2355 --no-verbose), and use of hyphens in option names in addition to
2356 underscores.
2357
2358 - The option to disable/enable reading of the ~/.modulebuildrc file
2359 is changed from 'skip_rcfile' to 'use_rcfile'
2360
2361 - Allow the 'distmeta' action to continue when 'MANIFEST' is missing,
2362 omitting the generation of the 'provieds' field. [Steven Schubiger]
2363
2364 - Fixed some failing regex from generated MANIFEST.SKIP file.
2365
2366 - Fixed an edge case in $VERSION parsing where we thought a package()
2367 declaration was happening but it wasn't. [David Golden]
2368
2369 - Added docs for the install_destination() and install_types() methods.
2370
2371 0.27_03 (Beta for 0.28) Mon Oct 10 11:19:23 EDT 2005
2372
2373 - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
2374 example, when compiling XS modules). (This change actually
2375 occurred in 0.27_01, but it was mistakenly omitted from the Changes
2376 file.)
2377
2378 - Fixed an issue on Win32 (and other case-tolerant
2379 non-case-preserving systems, possibly like VMS?) in which the
2380 current working directory would sometimes be reported with
2381 different case, fooling us into thinking that we were in the wrong
2382 directory. [David Golden]
2383
2384 - The extra_compiler_flags setting was not actually being passed
2385 along to ExtUtils::CBuilder so it could pass it along to the
2386 compiler. Now it is.
2387
2388 - The synonyms 'scripts' and 'prereq' for 'script_files' and
2389 'requires' were broken in a previous version (0.27_01, probably),
2390 but now they're fixed. [David Golden]
2391
2392 - Previously, we assumed that any custom subclass of Module::Build
2393 was located in _build/lib/. This is only true if the author used
2394 the subclass() method, though. We now use %INC to find where the
2395 custom subclass really is, so that we can "use lib" it. We also
2396 issue a warning if it seems to be outside the build directory.
2397 [Spotted by Peter Tandler]
2398
2399 - Added a URL for each license type that we know about, which will
2400 appear as resources=>license: in the generated META.yml file.
2401
2402 - If the user passes a no_index parameter to our constructor, we now
2403 pass that through when building the META.yml file. [Richard
2404 Soderberg, RT #9603]
2405
2406 - A few more status messages can now be suppressed by using 'quiet'
2407 mode. [Dave Rolsky]
2408
2409 - Added some more entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file. [Chris
2410 Dolan]
2411
2412 - Our POD parser will now accept "AUTHORS" as well as "AUTHOR" when
2413 looking for the author list in a module. [David Wheeler]
2414
2415 - When looking for the POD to auto-generate a README file, or for the
2416 AUTHOR or ABSTRACT for the distribution, we now also look for a
2417 *.pod with the same name as the *.pm file specified by
2418 'version_from'. [David Golden]
2419
2420 - The recommended dependency on ExtUtils::ParseXS has been moved into
2421 the "C_support" auto_feature.
2422
2423 - When building XS files, we now pass the -DVERSION and -DXS_VERSION
2424 flags to the compiler. [Spotted by Jerry Hedden]
2425
2426 - If a distribution has XS files and Module::Build has not been
2427 configured with the "C_support" feature, we now issue a
2428 warning. [Suggested by Jerry Hedden]
2429
2430 - Added a dir_contains() method.
2431
2432 - Some versions of MakeMaker, CPANPLUS, and/or PAUSE thought that a
2433 certain line of our code was declaring a $VERSION when we didn't
2434 intend to. The line has been obscurified so they won't think that
2435 anymore. [Jos Boumans, RT #14226]
2436
2437 - Added the Apache, MIT, and Mozilla licenses to the list of licenses
2438 that this module knows about. [Bob Ippolito]
2439
2440 - Fixed a pretty significant typo in the documentation for
2441 auto_features. [Spotted by Jonas B. Nielsen]
2442
2443 - In order to aid people who want to do customization of the META.yml
2444 file, we've added a "metafile" property that can then be easily
2445 overridden in subclasses, changed do_create_meta_yml() to
2446 do_create_metafile(), and split out the code that actually
2447 generates the YAML into a new method, write_metafile(). [David
2448 Wheeler]
2449
2450 - Fixed a couple of non-helpful behaviors with extra_compiler_flags
2451 and extra_linker_flags. These will automatically be run through
2452 split_like_shell() when given to new() as strings.
2453
2454 - When the user doesn't have ExtUtils::ParseXS installed and we use
2455 the old 'xsubpp', the displayed command line for creating the .c
2456 file from the .xs file was missing its newline. Now it's got it.
2457
2458 0.27_02 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Jul 15 07:34:58 CDT 2005
2459
2460 - Provided initial support for the --prefix installation parameter,
2461 which acts like MakeMaker's PREFIX. It is still highly recommended
2462 NOT to use it when you could reasonably use --install_base or
2463 --install_path or --install_dest, but that's just because the way
2464 --prefix is designed is weird and unpredictable. Ultimately the
2465 choice rests with the installing user. [Patches by Michael Schwern
2466 and Rob Kinyon]
2467
2468 - Fixed a bug in subclass() which prevented people from using it to
2469 subclass subclasses of Module::Build. [Chris Dolan]
2470
2471 - Added a 'pure_install' action, which for the time being is
2472 identical to the 'install' action. [Jos Boumans]
2473
2474 - Fixed a POD error in an L<http://...> tag. [Offer Kaye]
2475
2476 - Note several options for automatically creating a new module dev
2477 tree. [Suggested by Eric Wilhelm]
2478
2479 - Removed some hard-coded references to File::Spec::Unix in the
2480 creation of HTML docs, which should help that code work in more
2481 places, and help people not to panic when they look at it. [Spotted
2482 by Yves]
2483
2484 - We now use Pod::Readme by default (instead of Pod::Text) to
2485 generate the README file when the 'create_readme' option is used.
2486 If Pod::Readme is not installed, we will still fall back to using
2487 Pod::Text. [Robert Rothenberg]
2488
2489 - The values of the "prefix", "install_base", "install_path", and
2490 "install_dest" parameters can now begin with "~" or "~user", and
2491 we'll de-tilde-ify them by using glob().
2492
2493 - The (optional) auto-creation of the README and Makefile.PL files
2494 have been moved from the 'distdir' action to the 'distmeta'
2495 action. [David Golden]
2496
2497 - When looking for a .modulebuildrc file, we now use a fancier method
2498 of trying to find the home directory, because $ENV{HOME} isn't a
2499 very cross-platform variable. [Robert Rothenberg]
2500
2501 - We now memoize the output of the internal _default_INC() method,
2502 since it uses backticks and might be kind of slow.
2503
2504 - When processing XS files, we now look for a typemap in lib/ as well
2505 as using the system's default typemap. [John Peacock]
2506
2507 - The DESTDIR, PREFIX, and INSTALL_BASE arguments to "make install"
2508 are now supported for pass-through Makefiles (they've been
2509 supported for quite a while as arguments to "perl
2510 Makefile.PL"). [Requested by Guillaume Rousse]
2511
2512 - Test::Harness has changed its output format in recent versions,
2513 which threw off one of our tests. We now allow for this different
2514 format. [Reported by Scott Godin]
2515
2516 - Fixed an issue that prevented Module::Build from upgrading itself
2517 using its own API (which is how CPANPLUS uses it). There are still
2518 some issues with this solution, however. See ticket #13169 in
2519 rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
2520
2521 - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when a distribution's author
2522 could not be determined from its POD nor from the call to
2523 Module::Build->new() in its Build.PL. See ticket #12318 in
2524 rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
2525
2526 - Apparently on Windows and cygwin it's not possible to use the "-pi"
2527 switch to perl without a backup extension, so now we use ".bak" and
2528 remove the backup file when we're done. Thus the "dist" action for
2529 Module::Build itself can now be run on those platforms. [Yitzchak
2530 Scott-Thoennes]
2531
2532 - Improved the handling of auto_features in the config_data access
2533 script. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
2534
2535 0.27_01 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Apr 15 21:12:57 CDT 2005
2536
2537 Backward-incompatible (but better) changes:
2538
2539 * When using the 'install_base' option to choose a directory for
2540 installing everything, perl modules now go into lib/perl5/ instead
2541 of just lib/. It seems this is more consistent with people's
2542 expectations, and the way I had it before was a bit peculiar to the
2543 way I like things in my own home directory. [Michael Schwern]
2544
2545 * When the user is using the 'install_base' option, scripts will now
2546 be installed by default in $install_base/bin/ rather than
2547 $install_base/script/ . [Jan Hudec and Michael Schwern]
2548
2549 Major changes:
2550
2551 - The auto_features mechanism will now re-evaluate dependencies every
2552 time feature() is called for an auto-feature, rather than freezing
2553 the success/failure value during 'perl Build.PL' and using that
2554 value for all eternity (or module update, whichever comes first).
2555 This applies to both $build->feature() and
2556 FooModule::ConfigData->feature() calls. [Requested by many]
2557
2558 - Added the meta_add and meta_merge mechanisms, which let the module
2559 author add/merge arbitrary entries into the META.yml file.
2560
2561 - Now reads per-action default options from '$ENV{HOME}/.modulebuildrc'
2562 if it exists. Command line options override anything set in the rc file.
2563
2564 - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
2565 example, when compiling XS modules).
2566
2567 - The creation of Unix man pages is no longer a strict necessity - it
2568 has now been turned into an 'auto-feature' contingent on the
2569 presence of Pod::Man and a location specified for man pages to go.
2570
2571 - A user-specified 'install_path' setting will now take precedence
2572 over an 'install_base' setting. This allows the user to use
2573 'install_base' to set the base for all elements in one go, and then
2574 use 'install_path' to override specific paths or add paths for
2575 additional kinds of targets.
2576
2577 - Split the main documentation from 'Module/Build.pm' into two
2578 sections. The user level documentation and overview remains in
2579 'Module/Build.pm', while a new document,
2580 'Module/Build/Authoring.pod', has been created for module authors.
2581
2582 Minor changes:
2583
2584 - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
2585 because of inadequate training in forensic debate) - we now pass its
2586 arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
2587 in afterwards.
2588
2589 - Let resume() return an object blessed into the appropriate class
2590 if the user has provided a subclass, as specified by the
2591 'build_class' property. This allows current() and new_from_context()
2592 to behave more like factory methods returning objects of the correct
2593 class based on context. [Ray Zimmerman]
2594
2595 - Refactored methods relating to parsing perl module files for
2596 package, version, and pod data into a new class:
2597 Module::Build::ModuleInfo. It should not be considered part of
2598 Module::Build's API, because we may split it out entirely as a
2599 separate CPAN module that we depend on.
2600
2601 - Added new method Module::Build::prepare_metadata() for authors to
2602 override in order to add custom fields to META.yml.
2603
2604 - We now use Test::More for our regression tests. If the user
2605 doesn't have it installed, we include a copy in t/lib/ that we can
2606 use during testing.
2607
2608 - When copying files in the 'distdir' action, set permissions to match
2609 the original files. [Julian Mehnle]
2610
2611 - When adding files like META.yml to the MANIFEST, we now tell the
2612 user we're doing so by printing one of the "Added to MANIFEST: ..."
2613 lines. [Ron Savage]
2614
2615 - Added a runtime_params() method, which lets a module author see
2616 which parameters were overridden by the user on the command line
2617 (or in whatever paradigm the user originally invoked Module::Build
2618 from). [David Wheeler]
2619
2620 - Added the current_action() method, which, surprisingly, returns the
2621 name of the currently running action. [David Wheeler]
2622
2623 - Added docs for run_perl_script().
2624
2625 - Added some stuff to the docs about why PREFIX is unsupported, and
2626 what to use instead. [Steve Purkis]
2627
2628 - The simple get/set accessor methods for all the 'parameters' like
2629 verbose(), license(), etc. now have auto-generated documentation in
2630 Module/Build.pm.
2631
2632 - Created a Cookbook entry for 'Adding new elements to the install
2633 process'
2634
2635 - We now add META.yml to the MANIFEST when META.yml is created, not
2636 when MANIFEST is created. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
2637
2638 - Added some additional patterns to the suggested MANIFEST.SKIP
2639 contents, and changed the docs so that we encourage the user to use
2640 the MANIFEST.SKIP. [Ron Savage]
2641
2642 - Eliminated a redundant recipe from the Cookbook, now that there are
2643 some more extensive recipes on how to add stuff to the
2644 build/install sequences.
2645
2646 - Eliminated an undefined-variable warning when testing under perl 5.005
2647
2648 - When building HTML documentation, 'html_backlink' and 'html_css'
2649 properties are now first-class properties, so they can be set from
2650 the command line. [Suggested by Sagar R. Shah]
2651
2652 - Have script_files default to everything in bin. I believe this is
2653 the least surprising behavior. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
2654
2655 - If script_files is given a directory, consider each file in that
2656 directory tree as a script to be installed. This avoids having to
2657 remember to add to the script_files list every time you add a
2658 program. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
2659
2660 - We now only load Pod::Man when we actually need to build man pages.
2661
2662 - We now make Test::Harness use our carefully-selected path to a perl
2663 executable regardless of Test::Harness's version. Previously we
2664 let it figure stuff out for itself if it was a reasonably modern
2665 version, but it's safer to make sure we're using the same perl
2666 everywhere.
2667
2668 0.2610 Fri Apr 15 08:25:01 CDT 2005
2669
2670 - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
2671 because of inadequate training in debate) - we now pass its
2672 arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
2673 in afterwards. [Ray Zimmerman]
2674
2675 - Fixed a bug in which config_data and feature data were being
2676 forgotten and no ConfigData.pm module would get written. [Ray
2677 Zimmerman]
2678
2679 - Added a recipe to the cookbook showing how to run a single test
2680 file from the command line. [William McKee]
2681
2682 - For command-line arguments, we now accept the syntax "--foo=bar" in
2683 addition to "--foo bar" and "foo=bar". This seems to fit well with
2684 what GNU getopt and Getopt::Long do, and with people's
2685 expectations. [Adam Spiers]
2686
2687 0.2609 Wed Mar 16 22:18:35 CST 2005
2688
2689 - The html docs that were created during the first invokation of
2690 './Build' were being found and treated as pod that needed to be
2691 converted to html during subsequent invokations. We now are more
2692 specific about the directories we scan for pod that needs to be
2693 converted, effectively avoiding blib/html. [Ray Zimmerman]
2694
2695 - If Pod::Man is not available, we now skip building man pages
2696 (rather than dying) and tell the user why.
2697
2698 - We now write a .packlist file upon installation, in the same place
2699 that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does. [Johnny Lam]
2700
2701 - On some Unix platforms (BSD derivatives, mostly) perl's $^X
2702 variable isn't set to the full path of the perl executable, just
2703 'perl', when the 'Build' script is run as './Build' and not 'perl
2704 ./Build'. This can lead to some other modules (maybe
2705 Test::Harness, maybe IO::File, I dunno...) getting very confused
2706 about where they are, and they try to load stuff from the wrong
2707 perl lib, and big trouble ensues. To fix this, we now set $^X to
2708 the value of Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter().
2709
2710 - The 'distcheck' action will now die() if it finds an error in the
2711 MANIFEST, rather than just printing on STDOUT. [David Golden]
2712
2713 - When the README and/or Makefile.PL are autogenerated using
2714 create_readme or create_makefile_pl, we now automatically make sure
2715 they're also listed in the MANIFEST file. [Suggested by Michael
2716 Schwern]
2717
2718 - Got rid of the t/MANIFEST file - it's superfluous, and it had
2719 zero-length, which some versions of Tar don't like. [William
2720 Underwood]
2721
2722 - Added a mention in the documentation that each property that new()
2723 accepts also has a corresponding get/set accessor. (In the version
2724 0.27_0x series each accessor method is mentioned explicitly in the
2725 docs.) [Omission spotted by Ian Langworth]
2726
2727 0.2608 Wed Jan 26 19:46:09 CST 2005
2728
2729 - Add workaround for test files because Devel::Cover causes
2730 require to fail when the argument to require is an expression
2731 involving File::Spec. We now assign the result of the File::Spec
2732 call to a variable and then call require with that variable.
2733
2734 - Tilde-expansion is now performed on arguments passed to a
2735 compatibility-Makefile.PL [Spotted by Sam Vilain]
2736
2737 - We now run the 'gzip' and 'tar' values through split_like_shell()
2738 when running the 'dist' action, so that e.g. the 'gzip' value can
2739 be set to something like "gzip -f --best" and it'll work
2740 correctly. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
2741
2742 - Work around some bad mojo between Fedora Core [with its very long
2743 @INC] and old versions of Test::Harness [with its propensity to
2744 compound the number of @INC entries] that produced an "argument
2745 list too long" error during testing. [assisted by Ville Skytta,
2746 David Golden, & Randy Sims]
2747
2748 - Killed an infinite loop that would happen in y_n() in interactive
2749 mode if the author provided no default value. [Max Maischein]
2750
2751 0.2607 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Sat Dec 18 14:14:09 CST 2004
2752
2753 - Instead of freezing @INC in the 'Build' script to the value it had
2754 when Build.PL was run, we now just add those additional values that
2755 aren't part of the default compiled-in @INC. [Michael Schwern]
2756
2757 - The run_perl_script() method will now propagate any extra entries
2758 in @INC (such as those added by "use lib" or the -I command-line
2759 switch) to the subprocess. This helps situations in which you want
2760 to tell the subprocess where to find a certain module, for
2761 instance. [Michael Schwern]
2762
2763 0.2606 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Dec 7 22:33:11 CST 2004
2764
2765 - Fixed a linking bug on Win32, in which compiled C code object files
2766 never got linked in with the modules being built. [Dominic
2767 Mitchell]
2768
2769 - Fixed a bug in the new_from_context() method in which any arguments
2770 passed made us die. [Spotted by Jos Boumans]
2771
2772 0.2605 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Nov 30 07:16:13 CST 2004
2773
2774 - Fixed a bug in which zero-length arguments for hash-valued
2775 parameters (e.g. " --config foo= ") weren't being allowed.
2776
2777 - The tests now play better with environments in which version.pm is
2778 pre-loaded, like in bleadperl. [John Peacock & Michael Schwern]
2779
2780 - Fixed a syntax error in one of the tests under perl 5.005.
2781
2782 0.2604 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 17 14:32:42 CST 2004
2783
2784 - Fixed a split_like_shell() bug introduced in 0.2603 for Windows, in
2785 which an array reference passed as an argument was returned as an
2786 array reference, rather than as a list. [Spotted by Steve Hay]
2787
2788 - module_name() will now return '' instead of undef when module_name
2789 is not set. This eliminates a couple uninitialized-value
2790 warnings. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
2791
2792 - The expand_test_dir() method will now skip dotfiles (like ._foo.t,
2793 which sometimes gets automatically created on Mac systems) when
2794 'recursive_test_files' is in effect. [Tom Insam]
2795
2796 0.2603 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Mon Nov 15 10:28:00 CST 2004
2797
2798 - Added documentation for the new_from_context() method.
2799
2800 - Completely rewrote the split_like_shell() method for the Windows
2801 platform so it works like the command.com shell. [Randy Sims]
2802
2803 0.2602 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Thu Nov 4 11:19:29 CST 2004
2804
2805 - The two bug fixes in 0.2601 gnashed against each other incorrectly,
2806 resulting in a Win32 bug in split_like_shell(). Fixed. [Spotted
2807 by Steve Hay & Randy Sims]
2808
2809 - Removed a couple of 'use warnings' statements from the code - they
2810 were causing compile failures on 5.005_04, where warnings.pm isn't
2811 available. [Blair Zajac]
2812
2813 0.2601 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 3 20:09:27 CST 2004
2814
2815 - Fixed some backslash problems with split_like_shell() on
2816 Win32. [Steve Hay]
2817
2818 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
2819 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
2820 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
2821
2822 0.26 Sat Oct 9 17:51:01 CDT 2004
2823
2824 - Removed some language from the Module::Build::Compat documentation
2825 that encouraged people to include a Build.PL without a Makefile.PL.
2826 Also changed "a replacement for MakeMaker" to "an alternative to
2827 MakeMaker" in the main documentation, which is basically what I
2828 meant all along (i.e. a replacement for MakeMaker in your
2829 particular build process - MakeMaker is never going to be fully
2830 replaced in the perl world at large, of course), but some people
2831 got the impression I was a little more truculent toward MakeMaker
2832 than I really am.
2833
2834 - Added the formal concepts of "features" and "config data" for
2835 distributions. This allows the module author to define a certain
2836 set of features that the user can switch on and off (usually
2837 according to whether they have the proper prerequisites for them),
2838 and to save build-time configuration information in a standardized
2839 format. See the main documentation of Module::Build for more
2840 details. (Note that the name of this system was called
2841 "BuildConfig" for a while in beta, but now it's called
2842 "ConfigData".)
2843
2844 - Added an 'auto_features' capability, which simplifies the process
2845 of defining features that depend on a set of prerequisites.
2846
2847 - Added the 'get_options' parameter, which lets module authors
2848 declare certain command-line arguments their Build.PL can accept
2849 [David Wheeler]
2850
2851 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
2852 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
2853 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
2854
2855 - Added a 'testpod' action, which checks the syntactic validity of
2856 all POD files in the distribution using Test::Pod. This eliminates
2857 the need for doing so in a regression test. [Initial patch by Mark
2858 Stosberg]
2859
2860 - Added a process_files_by_extension() method, which generalizes the
2861 kind of processing (essentially just copying) that happens for .pm
2862 and .pod files, and makes it available to other user-defined types
2863 of files. See the new cookbook entry.
2864
2865 - Improved compatibility with version.pm when authors are using
2866 version objects as their $VERSION variables. Now
2867 version_from_file() can deal with these objects. Currently we
2868 stringify them right away, but perhaps in the future we will
2869 preserve them as objects for a while.
2870
2871 - During 'distdir' and 'distmeta' actions, die a bit more gracefully
2872 if there's no MANIFEST (i.e. explicitly say that a MANIFEST is
2873 required). [Spotted by Adrian Howard]
2874
2875 - Eliminated a recursive dependency between creating the MANIFEST
2876 file and creating the META.yml file. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
2877
2878 - On Win32, where a single directory might be known variously as
2879 "Module-Build-0.25_03" or "MODULE~1.25_", we now use
2880 Win32::GetShortPathName($cwd) to verify that the 'Build' script is
2881 being run from the correct directory, rather than just a string
2882 comparison.
2883
2884 - The add_to_cleanup() method will now accept glob()-style patterns
2885 in addition to explicit filenames. Also documented the fact that
2886 they can be specified in either Unix-style or native-style
2887 notation.
2888
2889 - Passing a PREFIX value to a pass-through Makefile 'make install'
2890 now has the same effect as passing it to 'perl Makefile.PL' (it
2891 dies with a helpful message).
2892
2893 - Added the 'testcover' action, which runs a test suite using
2894 Devel::Cover. [Dave Rolsky]
2895
2896 - Added the 'lib' and 'arch' installation directories to the search
2897 path for the 'diff' action, since they won't necessarily (though
2898 they usually will) be in @INC at installation time. [Suggested by
2899 Kevin Baker]
2900
2901 - The "=head3" POD directive isn't supported in older podlators
2902 (particularly Pod::Man), so we don't use it anymore.
2903
2904 - Fixed a typo & improved the docs in the SUBCLASSING section. [Ron
2905 Savage]
2906
2907 - Added the '.tmp' suffix to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file, which
2908 should avoid adding things like pod2htmi.tmp to the MANIFEST [Ron
2909 Savage]
2910
2911 - Backup files from Emacs, containing the string '.#' in their names,
2912 should no longer find their way into the blib/ directory (and from
2913 there into installation directories).
2914
2915 - Worked around an unpleasant interaction between version.pm and the
2916 version-checking code that makes sure Module::Build's version
2917 hasn't changed during the lifetime of the 'Build' script. [Reported
2918 by Trevor Schellhorn]
2919
2920 - Fixed a problem in htmlify_pods() that would produce test failures
2921 on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere). [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
2922
2923 - Fixed a test failure on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere) in
2924 t/compat.t, resulting from empty environment variables being set to
2925 the empty string (as opposed to simply being unset) by their mere
2926 presence in the "EXPORT:" list.
2927
2928 - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when the author specified
2929 'dist_author' manually in their Build.PL script. [Spotted by Ron
2930 Savage]
2931
2932 - The 'provides' section of the META.yml file wasn't being built
2933 properly on Win32, because of a mismatch between URL-format and
2934 native-format pathnames. Fixed. [Reported by Robert Rothenberg]
2935
2936 - The progress message "lib/Foo.xs -> lib/Foo.c" was previously being
2937 output even when the Foo.c file wasn't being rebuilt. It's now
2938 fixed.
2939
2940 - Fixed a couple of places in Compat.pm where it could have forgotten
2941 which perl interpreter it had been run with ($^X isn't very
2942 trustworthy).
2943
2944 - On some systems, the way we updated the timestamp on the
2945 "lib/Foo.bs" file (one of the output files for XS-based modules)
2946 was failing. It's been replaced by a simple call to utime().
2947
2948 - Fixed a problem in t/compat.t that prevented it from being run
2949 individually using 'make test TEST_FILES=t/compat.t'. The problem
2950 was that a couple environment variables (TEST_FILES, MAKEFLAGS)
2951 were being passed through to subprocesses, and confused them.
2952
2953 - Fixed an important typo in the documentation for the 'install_base'
2954 parameter ('libdoc' and 'bindoc' were switched). [Ray Zimmerman]
2955
2956 - The pass-through Makefiles (type 'small' or 'passthrough') now
2957 support the TEST_FILES parameter to 'make test'.
2958
2959 - Fixed a fatal error that would occur on perl 5.005 when building
2960 HTML documentation, because its version of Pod::Html was old and
2961 didn't like some of the parameters we fed it. [Spotted by Blair
2962 Zajac]
2963
2964 - The final line of the generated pass-through Makefile was missing
2965 its trailing newline, which is now fixed. [Chip Salzenberg]
2966
2967 - We now depend on YAML version at least 0.35 and at most version
2968 0.49, so that we don't pick up a new (and backward-incompatible) beta
2969 version from CPAN.
2970
2971 - Squashed a warning in t/basic.t about '"Foo::Module::VERSION" used
2972 only once', and one in PPMMaker about $^V being undefined. [Blair
2973 Zajac]
2974
2975 - Added a couple temporary output files from HTML documentation
2976 generation to the cleanup list. [Toby Ovod-Everett]
2977
2978 - The PodParser module will now only extract paragraphs in the
2979 'AUTHOR' section of the pod if they contain an '@' character. This
2980 tends to do a better job, heuristically speaking, of returning
2981 relevant stuff.
2982
2983 - Added regression tests and a helper method ( add_build_elements() )
2984 for adding new elements to the build process. Also some
2985 documentation.
2986
2987 - Wrote a recipe in the Cookbook for adding new elements to the build
2988 process, and a recipe for changing the order in which the steps in
2989 the build process will occur.
2990
2991 0.25 Sun Apr 25 11:12:36 CDT 2004
2992
2993 - During the 'distdir' action, if no MANIFEST.SKIP file exists, we
2994 will now create a reasonable default one. [Randy Sims]
2995
2996 - In Makefile compatibility mode, some arguments (like UNINST,
2997 TEST_VERBOSE, etc.) given to 'make' are now recognized and passed
2998 through to Module::Build. [Randy Sims]
2999
3000 - The regression tests now make sure that several pass-through
3001 Makefile.PL parameters are dealt with correctly.
3002
3003 - Added support for the 'LIB' parameter to passthrough
3004 Makefile.PLs. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
3005
3006 - Passing a 'PREFIX' parameter to a passthrough Makefile.PL was
3007 supposed to make it die with a helpful error message, but instead
3008 it just ignored it and blindly tried to install to the wrong place.
3009 This is now fixed. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
3010
3011 - Added an extra_compiler_flags() accessor method.
3012
3013 - If the 'recursive_test_files' option was turned on, the test files
3014 weren't sorted, but returned in an apparently random order. Now
3015 they're sorted. [Martyn Peck]
3016
3017 - Documented the 'tar' and 'gzip' parameters to the 'dist' and
3018 'ppmdist' actions.
3019
3020 - The generation of HTML documentation now works (it was accidentally
3021 partially implemented with an itchy patch-application finger in
3022 0.24). [Randy Kobes]
3023
3024 - Fixed a fatal bug when building META.yml with YAML.pm and
3025 'dynamic_config' is set. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
3026
3027 - Fixed some incorrect error messages that occurred when
3028 compiling/linking C sources went awry.
3029
3030 - If the author uses a custom builder subclass, that subclass will
3031 now be loaded correctly in the passthrough Makefile.PL if the
3032 author uses the 'small' or 'passthrough' Makefile.PL options in
3033 Module::Build::Compat. [Martyn Peck and Jaap Karssenberg]
3034
3035 - If the author uses a custom builder subclass created dynamically
3036 through the subclass() method, passthrough Makefile.PLs (of type
3037 'passthrough' or 'small') didn't work properly, because the custom
3038 builder module wouldn't be loaded at the right time. This has been
3039 fixed. [Reported by Toby Ovod-Everett]
3040
3041 - In M::B-generated 'traditional' Makefile.PLs, the entries in
3042 'PREREQ_PM' are now sorted ASCIIbetically rather than randomly.
3043
3044 - The install_types() method will now return any additional types
3045 given as 'install_path' arguments, as well as all elements of the
3046 current 'install_sets' entry. This makes it easier to add new
3047 types of installable objects to the mix.
3048
3049 - As a consequence of the previous change, there is no longer any
3050 need to have an explicit 'install_types' data member, so it has
3051 been removed.
3052
3053 - In the second example code for the Module::Build->subclass()
3054 method, the Module::Build module needed to be loaded before calling
3055 its methods. [John Peacock]
3056
3057 - Fixed minor error in the POD structure of Module::Build and
3058 Module::Build::Platform::VMS docs.
3059
3060
3061 0.24 Wed Feb 25 15:57:00 CST 2004
3062
3063 - Fixed a problem with incude_dirs not being propagated to the 'ccs'
3064 file when compiling XS files on Win32. [Randy Sims and Steve Hay]
3065
3066 - In 0.23, Module::Build::Compat->fake_makefile() started choking
3067 when no 'build_class' parameter was supplied in the Makefile.PL.
3068 Since these Makefile.PLs still exist on CPAN, we now default
3069 'build_class' to 'Module::Build', which was the old 0.22 behavior
3070 anyway. [Reported by Martin Titz and Jeremy Seitz]
3071
3072 - Added documentation for the 'include_dirs' parameter to
3073 new(). [Steve Hay]
3074
3075 - Changed the no-op command on Win32 from 'rem' to 'rem>nul' inside
3076 pass-through Makefiles. [Randy Sims]
3077
3078 - The 'autosplit' parameter now accepts an array reference if
3079 multiple files should be split. [Jaap Karssenberg]
3080
3081 - find_perl_interpreter() will now use $^X (if absolute), $ENV{PATH}
3082 (if $^X isn't absolute), and $Config{perlpath}, in that order.
3083 Also, we now make darn sure the result is the same version of perl,
3084 by checking Config::myconfig() for a match against the current
3085 perl. [Reported by Edward Sabol]
3086
3087 - Fixed a fatal error on Win32 (and any other platform that doesn't
3088 define an installation location for Unix-style man pages) during
3089 installation.
3090
3091 0.23 Sun Feb 8 22:01:18 CST 2004
3092
3093 - Fixed a compatibility problem in pass-through Makefiles (created by
3094 Module::Build::Compat). Some 'make' utilities (for example, BSD
3095 make) didn't like a '@' by itself on a line, so we stole some
3096 'NOOP' code from MakeMaker to fix it. [Reported by Mathieu Arnold]
3097
3098 - Added a 'ppm_dist' action, which just makes the PPD file and then
3099 makes a tarball out of the blib/ directory. [Randy Sims]
3100
3101 - The @INC of the parent process is now propagated to child processes
3102 when processing *.PL files. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
3103
3104 - We now only attempt to fix the shebang line on a script if the
3105 shebang line matches the regex /perl/i . This fixes some instances
3106 where people put shell scripts in their distributions. [Jaap
3107 Karssenberg]
3108
3109 - We no longer generate a 'requires', 'recommends', 'conflicts',
3110 etc. entry in the META.yml file if there's no data to go in it.
3111
3112 - Added a documentation reference to Michael Schwern's wiki for tips
3113 on conversion from MakeMaker to M::B. [Randy Sims]
3114
3115 - If there are script_files, we now add EXE_FILES to the
3116 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated by M::B::Compat. [Suggested by
3117 Yuval Kogman]
3118
3119 - Documented the 'test_files' parameter to new(). [Reported by Tony
3120 Bowden]
3121
3122 - Fixed a problem in "Build help <action>", which didn't find the
3123 correct help chunk if <action> was the final element in a POD
3124 list. [Jaap Karssenberg]
3125
3126 - Fixed a problem in the get_action_docs() method which gave
3127 incorrect results if the method was called more than once in the
3128 same program.
3129
3130 - Fixed a problem in which actions defined by user subclasses
3131 wouldn't be available via the pass-through Makefiles created by
3132 Module::Build::Compat. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
3133
3134 - We now use Data::Dumper instead of our own ad-hoc serialization
3135 routines to create the 'traditional' Makefile.PL
3136 arguments. [Suggested by Yuval Kojman]
3137
3138 0.22 Sat Jan 10 22:05:39 CST 2004
3139
3140 - On Unixish platforms, the syntax "FOO=BAR /bin/baz arg arg" now
3141 works when present in $Config{ld}. This solves a problem on Mac OS
3142 X 10.3. [Reported by Adam Foxson]
3143
3144 - The have_c_compiler() now also tests whether the linker seems to
3145 work too.
3146
3147 - Fixed a problem with creating the distribution tarball in which
3148 permissions would usually be all read-only. We now use our own
3149 file-copying routines rather than those in ExtUtils::Manifest,
3150 because those do some annoying extra permissions-setting stuff for
3151 no apparent reason. It makes me happy that this was a very very
3152 easy patch to make. [Reported by Thomas Klausner]
3153
3154 - The compile_c() method now includes $Config{cccdlflags} in its
3155 command invocation. It's usually empty, but not always, so we
3156 didn't notice for a while. [Richard Clamp]
3157
3158 - On some platforms it's common to have a $Config{make} defined, but
3159 no 'make' utility actually available. We now detect this and skip
3160 some 'make' compatibility tests. [Randy Sims]
3161
3162 - Fixed a spurious testing failure on non-Unix platforms that
3163 happened because we accidentally call localize_file_path() on empty
3164 strings in the test suite. [Spotted by Randy Sims on Windows]
3165
3166 - Made the 'name', 'abstract', 'author', and 'version' properties
3167 required when building a PPD file. [Spotted by Randy Sims, Dave
3168 Rolsky, & Glenn Linderman]
3169
3170 - When building a 'traditional' Makefile.PL with
3171 Module::Build::Compat, we now use 'VERSION_FROM' when possible,
3172 rather than always using 'VERSION'. This way the Makefile.PL
3173 doesn't have to get modified every release.
3174
3175 - Made some fixups to the 'PPM' info-file, improving compatibility
3176 with ActiveState's PPM tools. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
3177
3178 - The 'dist_author' property can now accept multiple authors, see the
3179 docs for more info. [Randy Sims]
3180
3181 - If the user doesn't have YAML.pm installed during ACTION_dist, we
3182 now create a minimal YAML.pm anyway, without any dependency
3183 information.
3184
3185 - The 'distribution_type' field is no longer created in META.yml
3186 files, in accordance with the finding made at the London CLPAN
3187 meeting that it's essentially meaningless and ill-defined.
3188
3189 - The 'dist' action now accepts an optional 'tar' parameter to use a
3190 system utility for building the tarball, and a 'gzip' parameter for
3191 compressing it. If these are used, Archive::Tar won't be invoked.
3192 This was added because Archive::Tar is producing some very
3193 non-cross-platform tarballs that many tar utilities can't handle.
3194
3195 - During testing, if YAML.pm isn't installed, then we won't try
3196 making a tarball either, since this would invoke YAML to create the
3197 META.yml file.
3198
3199 - Fixed a problem with chmod() being called incorrectly on MacOS
3200 (i.e. MacPerl, not Mac OS X). [Spotted by Paul Sanford Toney]
3201
3202 - Fixed a problem with the --config flag not being treated properly
3203 (essentially ignored) on the command line for 'perl Build.PL' or
3204 'Build <action>'. [Spotted by Jakub Bogusz]
3205
3206 - Added a new config() method to get at the Build object's notion of
3207 the %Config hash.
3208
3209 - Test::Harness is starting to contend for the Most Crotchety Module
3210 Award. Work around a few of its nits when setting harness
3211 switches. [Spotted by Diab Jerius]
3212
3213 - Now the Build script will die() if we're run from the wrong
3214 directory, rather than trying to chdir() to what it thinks is the
3215 right directory and do its work there. See
3216 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4039 . [Chris Dolan]
3217
3218 - Changed the manpage separator on OS/2 to '.'. [Ilya Zakharevich]
3219
3220 - On OS/2, disable C compilation, since apparently it isn't working
3221 there. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich]
3222
3223 - Inserted a comment into auto-generated Makefile.PLs saying it was
3224 auto-generated. [Randy Sims]
3225
3226 - Fixed some annoying behavior in generated passthrough Makefile.PLs
3227 when the user chose not to install Module::Build, or if
3228 installation failed. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich and Richard
3229 Clamp]
3230
3231 - Moved the documentation for 'codebase' to the section where it's
3232 relevant. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
3233
3234 - Fixed a have_c_compiler() failure on some platforms, we now define
3235 a boot_compilet() function (since we're compiling a library, not an
3236 executable). [Randy Sims]
3237
3238 - Added a recipe to the Module::Build::Cookbook describing how to
3239 maintain compatibility with older versions of CPAN.pm [Jim Cromie]
3240
3241 - Removed caveat about "looking for alternatives" in how hashes are
3242 specified on the command line, since an alternative has been found.
3243
3244 - Previously most warnings about optional prerequisites looked like
3245 they were actually error messages about required prerequisites.
3246 This has been corrected. [Reported again by Sagar Shah]
3247
3248 - Added support for building XS (and C in general) stuff on AIX.
3249 This was done by a small reorganization of prelink_c() method from
3250 Windows.pm to Build.pm, and it is only invoked for the platforms
3251 that need it invoked. AIX also massages some very naughty bits
3252 (MakeMaker macro variables) in $Config{lddlflags} that should never
3253 have been put there, but alas, they're there, so we find & resolve
3254 them.
3255
3256 - Added OS/2 ($^O = 'os2') to the list of Unix-like platforms. This
3257 basically means that most platform-specific operations will be done
3258 in a Unix-like manner.
3259
3260 - Pass-through Makefiles will now die() when they're given a PREFIX
3261 parameter, and suggest using 'destdir' or 'install_base' instead.
3262 Previously they just ignored the parameter and tried to install to
3263 the default location, which is clearly not what the user wanted.
3264
3265 - Updated my email address in the documentation to a more recent
3266 variant.
3267
3268 - Add NetBSD to the list of Unix-like systems. [Adrian Bunk]
3269
3270 - Add SVR5 to the list of Unix-like systems. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
3271
3272 - We now use Pod::Parser to find the ABSTRACT and AUTHOR when it's
3273 available on the system. [initial patch by Randy Sims]
3274
3275 - Fixed a little scalar/list buglet in a documentation example.
3276
3277 0.21 Wed Oct 15 20:47:05 CDT 2003
3278
3279 - Added a have_c_compiler() method.
3280
3281 - Added documentation for the requires(), recommends(),
3282 build_requires(), and conflicts() methods.
3283
3284 - On Unix platforms, we now create the "Build" script with a #! line
3285 matching the perl interpreter that was used to invoke the Build.PL
3286 script, rather than whatever is in $Config{startperl}. This avoids
3287 a potential warning about the interpreters not matching. [Spotted
3288 by Ken Y. Clark]
3289
3290 - The Unix version now uses the safer multi-argument form of system()
3291 when building distribution tarballs.
3292
3293 - Added a regression test for the 'dist' action to the t/runthrough.t
3294 test.
3295
3296 - Fixed a problem with File::Spec usage when creating the names of
3297 'libdoc' manual pages - the code wasn't dealing with the volume or
3298 file portions correctly on certain platforms.
3299
3300 - When creating the names of the 'libdoc' manual pages, we no longer
3301 assume that pods are under the hard-coded paths 'blib/lib' or
3302 'blib/arch'.
3303
3304 - Fixed a crashing bug that could sometimes occur when the
3305 distribution contained no 'lib' directory. [Chris Dolan]
3306
3307 - Fixed a crashing bug that happened when the user had .PL files in
3308 the lib/ directory and didn't explicitly name them in a hash
3309 reference to the new() constructor. [Chris Reinhardt, bug #4036]
3310
3311 - .PL files are now passed the names of their target file(s) on the
3312 command line when they run.
3313
3314 - When YAML.pm wasn't installed, t/runthrough.t wasn't properly
3315 skipping some tests that required YAML. This is now fixed.
3316 [Stephen J. Smith]
3317
3318 - Added documentation for the dist_version() and dist_name()
3319 methods. [Spotted by Johan Vromans]
3320
3321 - Existing values in $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} are now respected
3322 and not squashed when we run the 'test' action. [Paul Johnson]
3323
3324 - On cygwin, the separator string for manual page names has been set
3325 to '.'. Previously it was '::', inherited from Unix. [Yitzchak
3326 Scott-Thoennes]
3327
3328 - Avoid a warning when Build.PL is run (i.e. when the new() method is
3329 called) and no MANIFEST file exists. [Michael Schwern and Kevin
3330 Ruscoe]
3331
3332 - Added documentation for the 'code' and 'docs' actions. [Steve
3333 Purkis and Mark Stosberg]
3334
3335 - The internal method compile_support_files() has been renamed to
3336 process_support_files() in order to make it consistent with other
3337 processing methods. Note that it was never documented using the
3338 old name. It's still not documented, actually. Maybe later.
3339
3340 - Skip the 'write' pseudo-entry in the 'diff' action's installation
3341 map. [Chris Dolan]
3342
3343 - Fixed a bug in which notes() set in the Build.PL before
3344 create_build_script() was called would get lost unless more notes()
3345 were also set afterwards. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
3346
3347 - The process of building elements of the distribution is now driven
3348 by a list of build elements, paving the way for letting people add
3349 their own types of build elements in future versions of
3350 Module::Build (or in the current version with some difficulty).
3351
3352 - Fixed some linking errors on Cygwin. [Randy Sims, Terrence Brannon]
3353
3354 - Fixed a line-ending problem with detecting the dist_abstract
3355 properly on Cygwin. [Randy Sims]
3356
3357 - Fixed a problem with signatures that occurred if 'distsign' was
3358 called before 'distdir' - the signature would be generated twice.
3359
3360 - Added a 'create_readme' parameter to new(), which will use
3361 Pod::Text to generate a README from the main (dist_version_from)
3362 module file during the 'distdir' action.
3363
3364 - We now refuse to run the 'Build' script if it was created using a
3365 different version of Module::Build. This has caused a couple of
3366 nasty bugs in the past, I don't want to know what it would cause in
3367 the future.
3368
3369 - Documentation for do_system() has been added. [Dave Rolsky]
3370
3371 - run_perl_script() is now available as a class method, though it
3372 will need to (re-)find the perl interpreter in this case.
3373
3374 - Added a new_from_context() method that authors of automated tools
3375 like CPANPLUS and CPAN can use instead of running all tasks as
3376 sub-processes. We also use it in the regression tests for
3377 Module::Build itself. ** Note that this method is currently
3378 undocumented because its name may change in the future. **
3379
3380 - When signing distributions with Module::Signature, we now
3381 automatically add the SIGNATURE file to the MANIFEST, avoiding an
3382 unpleasant chicken/egg problem for the module author.
3383 [unpleasantness spotted by sungo]
3384
3385 - In Module::Build::Compat, added support for the 'verbose' parameter
3386 to Makefile.PL [spotted by Soren Andersen, fixed by Michael
3387 Schwern]
3388
3389 - The Module::Build distribution now has a cryptographic 'SIGNATURE'
3390 file created by Module::Signature.
3391
3392 - Added proper documentation for the subclass() method. [spotted by
3393 Jonathan Steinert]
3394
3395 - Worked around a Config.pm bug in Red Hat 9 which prevented man
3396 pages from being installed in the correct places. [spotted by Ville
3397 Skytta]
3398
3399 - Fixed a Module::Build::Compat bug in which setting INSTALLDIRS
3400 caused a crash. [spotted by Ilya Martynov]
3401
3402 0.20 Tue Aug 26 14:34:07 CDT 2003
3403
3404 - Separated the 'build' action into two separate actions, 'code' and
3405 'docs'. This is similar to MakeMaker's separation of the 'all'
3406 target into 'pure_all' and 'manifypods'. This fixes a permissions
3407 hassle in which doing 'sudo Build install' would often create local
3408 doc files that needed superuser permissions to delete.
3409
3410 - Enhanced the 'help' action - 'Build help foo' will now show the POD
3411 documentation for the 'foo' action.
3412
3413 - Added a notes() feature, which helps share data transparently
3414 between the Build.PL and t/*.t scripts.
3415
3416 - The installation process will now create man(1) and man(3) pages
3417 from POD in modules & scripts, and install them. We don't build
3418 man pages when there's nowhere to install them, such as on some
3419 Win32 or most Mac systems. [large patch by Steve Purkis, 5.005 fix
3420 by Mathieu Arnold]
3421
3422 - The 'distdir' action now copies files to the distribution
3423 directory, rather than making them hard links to the original
3424 files. This allows authors to do last-minute alterations of the
3425 files without affecting the originals. [Dave Rolsky]
3426
3427 - If the author uses XS files in nonstandard locations, the copied
3428 versions of those files will now be cleaned up properly.
3429
3430 - In invoking the 'test' action or invoking 'xsubpp', we now use the
3431 same perl executable as we use everywhere else, rather than blindly
3432 using $^X or $Config{perlpath} (neither of which are very
3433 reliable).
3434
3435 - Fixed a problem with the 'install_path' parameter given to
3436 'Build.PL' being lost in subsequent actions. [Reported by Mathieu
3437 Arnold]
3438
3439 - Fixed yet another bug with installation directories, in which the
3440 'install_base' parameter wasn't being respected on the command
3441 line. [Spotted by Jonathan Swartz]
3442
3443 - Changed the way the depends_on() method works inside action
3444 subroutines - now each action will only run once per dispatch()
3445 invocation (similar to how perl's require() function works). This
3446 helps avoid some difficult problems with dependency loops.
3447
3448 - Changed the documentation for the 'autosplit' parameter to give
3449 reasons why it may not be a good idea to use, but no longer
3450 threaten to remove it. [Suggested by Martyn J. Pearce]
3451
3452 - Improved the formatting of the 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated
3453 by Module::Build::Compat->create_makefile_pl. [Michael Schwern]
3454
3455 - The 'traditional' Makefile.PL will now use the 'module_name'
3456 parameter (as NAME) if it's available, otherwise it will continue
3457 to use the 'dist_name' (as DISTNAME). [Michael Schwern]
3458
3459 - Created read/write accessor methods for all our 'properties'.
3460 [Michael Schwern]
3461
3462 - The 'test_files' parameter can now be specified using glob() syntax
3463 (i.e. 't/*.t'), and the corresponding test_files() method is now a
3464 read/write accessor.
3465
3466 - The location of the 'blib' directory is now a property of the Build
3467 object - nobody is likely to notice this change, with any luck, but
3468 it makes the design and code cleaner.
3469
3470 - The 'disttest' and 'distsign' methods now chdir() back to the
3471 directory where they started, rather than to the base_dir of the
3472 build.
3473
3474 - Improved comparisons of version strings containing underscore
3475 characters (indicating "beta" status). [Steve Purkis]
3476
3477 - Added documentation for the 'dist_author', 'dist_abstract', and
3478 'codebase' parameters to new(), and for the 'ppd' action. [Dave
3479 Rolsky]
3480
3481 - Added documentation for the up_to_date() and contains_pod()
3482 methods. [Dave Rolsky]
3483
3484 - 'traditional' pass-through Makefile.PLs will now contain an
3485 INSTALLDIRS parameter matching the Build.PL's 'installdirs'
3486 setting.
3487
3488 - version_from_file() now ignores $VERSION variables that are defined
3489 in POD or comments. It can still be tricked by $VERSIONs in string
3490 literals, though. [Steve Purkis]
3491
3492 - The code to find packages in module files now uses Steve's scanning
3493 method (above) to skip package-declaration-lookalikes in POD or
3494 comments.
3495
3496 - The 'disttest' action will now propagate its @INC settings to its
3497 subprocesses.
3498
3499 0.19 Wed Jul 9 22:34:02 CDT 2003
3500
3501 - Added support for the 'install_path' parameter, which allows custom
3502 specification of where things should be installed. This is a major
3503 improvement to Module::Build's functionality.
3504
3505 - Added the 'install_base' parameter. Provides an easy way to
3506 install to local or alternative directory trees.
3507
3508 - We now install scripts by default to $Config{installsitebin}
3509 instead of $Config{installscript}. Neither is a great choice, but
3510 the former is likely to be [analogous to] /usr/local/bin, and the
3511 latter is likely to be [something like] /usr/bin . If/when there's
3512 a $Config{installsitescript}, we'll start using that automatically.
3513
3514 - Fixed a problem on Win32 in which C and XS files wouldn't be
3515 compiled properly, and the user would see an error about 'Can't
3516 locate object method "format_compiler_cmd"'.
3517 (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2391)
3518
3519 - We now use the correct perl interpreter (via
3520 Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter) in pass-through makefiles.
3521
3522 - The t/compat.t test now uses $Config{make} instead of just 'make'
3523 to test makefile compatibility. This fixes some failures on Win32.
3524 We also skip this test entirely if no make utility is available.
3525
3526 - Alternative distribution layouts are now supported via the
3527 'pm_files', 'pod_files', 'xs_files', 'PL_files', and 'script_files'
3528 parameters to new(). This should help people transition from
3529 MakeMaker, and might even help us write an automatic transition
3530 tool.
3531
3532 - Added tests to t/runthrough.t that check to see installation is
3533 happening correctly.
3534
3535 - Added experimental code to build a .ppd file, in support of
3536 ActiveState's "Perl Package Manager". [original patch by Dave
3537 Rolsky]
3538
3539 - For authors who use Module::Signature to sign their distributions,
3540 we now create the SIGNATURE file right in the distribution
3541 directory, rather than creating it in the top-level directory and
3542 copying it into place. This solves problems related to having
3543 files get out of date with respect to their signatures.
3544
3545 - We now don't depend on Module::Info to scan for packages during the
3546 'dist' action anymore, because it's way too aggressive about
3547 loading other modules that you may not want loaded. We now just
3548 (ick, yuck) scan the .pm files with a regular expression to find
3549 "package Foo::Bar;" statements.
3550
3551 - Silenced some annoying copyright/logo output from Microsoft 'nmake'
3552 during Makefile compatibility testing. [Randy W. Sims]
3553
3554 - Command-line arguments may now either be specified using the syntax
3555 '--foo foovalue' as well as the traditional syntax 'foo=foovalue'.
3556 The former is often more convenient for shell tab-completion when
3557 the value is a filename (as in 'Build test --test_files t/basic.t').
3558
3559 - Command-line arguments may now include non-named parameters, which
3560 make some actions more natural. For instance, the 'diff' action
3561 may now be invoked as 'Build diff -u' rather than as
3562 'Build diff flags=-u'.
3563
3564 - Pass-through Makefile.PLs now convert unknown Makefile.PL
3565 parameters to lower-case and hand them to Build.PL, rather than
3566 ignoring them. This means we only have to account for the
3567 differences in the interface, not the entire interface, in
3568 translating parameters.
3569
3570 - We now issue a warning & don't proceed if asked to make a distdir
3571 and there's no MANIFEST or it's empty.
3572
3573 - Moved INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to increase compatibility with various
3574 odd versions of 'make' during 'make install' on case-insensitive
3575 filesystems (like nmake on Win32, often). Only affects the
3576 Makefile compatibility layer. [reported by Andrew Savige]
3577
3578 - Module::Build->known_actions() now works as a class method.
3579
3580 - Pass-through makefiles now list each action individually rather
3581 than using a ".DEFAULT" catch-all. This improves compatibility
3582 with 'nmake' on Win32, and probably some other less common 'make'
3583 dialects. [Andrew Savige]
3584
3585 - We're now more aggressive about testing the pass-through makefiles,
3586 e.g. making sure they can run 'all' and 'test' targets, and making
3587 sure the Makefile itself actually exists.
3588
3589 - Fixed a problem with check_installed_status() when installed
3590 version contains non-numeric characters like underscores.
3591
3592 - Fixed a problem with a bareword 'File::Spec' in one of the test
3593 scripts that caused it not to compile under 5.8.0 (but is fine
3594 under 5.6).
3595
3596 - Fixed a problem with the 'destdir' installation parameter on
3597 platforms that have volume identifiers in path names (like "C:" on
3598 Win32). The identifier is now stripped from installation
3599 directories before prepending the destdir path. The destdir path
3600 may still have a volume identifier on it.
3601
3602 - Added an 'add_to_cleanup' parameter to new() that calls
3603 add_to_cleanup() immediately for the given files.
3604
3605 - The distribution directory (e.g. Sample-Module-0.13/ ) will now be
3606 deleted during the 'clean' or 'realclean' actions.
3607
3608 - During testing of modules, blib/lib and blib/arch are now added as
3609 absolute paths, not relative. This helps tests that load the
3610 modules at runtime and may change the current working directory
3611 (like Module::Build itself does during testing).
3612
3613 - The $Config{cc} entry on some people's systems is something like
3614 'ccache gcc', so we now split that string using split_like_shell().
3615 [Richard Clamp]
3616
3617 - Added documentation for 'extra_linker_flags' parameter, and added a
3618 corresponding 'extra_compiler_flags' parameter. [original patch by
3619 Richard Clamp]
3620
3621 - The pass-through Makefile created by Module::Build::Compat now
3622 supports MakeMaker options like POLLUTE=1 and INC. We also just
3623 warn & skip when we see any unknown MM parameters, rather than
3624 dying. [Dave Rolsky]
3625
3626 - Fixed an error about how @INC and $ENV{PERL5LIB} interact during
3627 the testing of M::B itself. [jk <billy2000@fastmail.fm>]
3628
3629 - The pass-through Makefile doesn't include 'recommended' M::B
3630 dependencies in the Makefile anymore, since they're not strictly
3631 necessary. In particular, this makes installing M::B itself
3632 easier.
3633
3634 - A new 'create_makefile_pl' parameter lets you use
3635 Module::Build::Compat during the 'distdir' (or 'dist') action to
3636 automatically create a Makefile.PL for compatibility with
3637 ExtUtils::MakeMaker. The parameter's value should be one of the
3638 styles named in the Module::Build::Compat documentation.
3639
3640 - When compiling C code, we now respect 'pollute' and 'inc'
3641 parameters. (XXX - needs docs) [Dave Rolsky]
3642
3643 - Made the creation of the "install map" more generic. (XXX - needs
3644 documentation)
3645
3646 - Fixed a problem in which add_to_cleanup() didn't note cleanup files
3647 unless create_build_script() had been called already. [Dave Rolsky]
3648
3649 - During 'Build dist', we no longer have to load each .pm file (via
3650 Module::Info) to determine the $VERSION numbers inside. Instead,
3651 we call our internal version_from_file() method, which is the same
3652 thing MakeMaker and PAUSE and search.cpan.org do. Also fixes a
3653 failure when Module::Info is installed in a nonstandard directory.
3654 [reported by Teun Burgers]
3655
3656 - Fixed some failing test code on Windows - open files can't be
3657 deleted. [Andrew Savige]
3658
3659 - The Cygwin platform is now treated as a flavor of Unix rather than
3660 a flavor of Windows. [chocolateboy]
3661
3662 - We're now more aggressive about adding temporary C compilation
3663 files (*.c, *.bs) to the cleanup list. [Dave Rolsky]
3664
3665 - When constructing the list in META.yml of packages provided by this
3666 distribution, we now use the same rules as the PAUSE scanner does
3667 when a single .pm file contains multiple VERSIONs. [Andreas Koenig]
3668
3669 - check_installed_status() now works as both a class method and an
3670 object method (and is documented so). [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
3671
3672 0.18 Tue Apr 8 13:24:23 CDT 2003
3673
3674 - We now rewrite the shebang lines of scripts ourselves, rather than
3675 relying on MakeMaker routines to do it. MakeMaker changed the way
3676 this happened (not the result, but where the code lived) a few
3677 times. [Suggested by Richard Clamp]
3678
3679 - The scripts() method has changed to script_files(), and likewise
3680 the 'scripts' parameter has changed to 'script_files'. The old
3681 names can still be used for backward compatibility.
3682
3683 - Support for the 'scripts' parameter (which is now 'script_files')
3684 was broken in 0.17, now it's fixed. [Richard Clamp]
3685
3686 - We now recommend ExtUtils::ParseXS 2.02, which will fail to load
3687 with perl 5.005 or earlier (which is proper, because it doesn't
3688 work with those versions). When it fails to load, we still fall
3689 back to using the xsubpp script for XS parsing. [spotted by Dave
3690 Rolsky, fix suggested by Richard Clamp]
3691
3692 - Now works on VMS - the Build script's shebang-line-equivalent
3693 wasn't being formed correctly there - though just about everything
3694 else worked fine. [Tested & patched by Michael Schwern]
3695
3696 - Eliminated a warning that occurred if 'perl Build.PL' or the
3697 check_installed_status() method was run with -w. [Spotted by
3698 Michael Schwern]
3699
3700 0.17 Sat Mar 29 18:06:01 CST 2003
3701
3702 - Now works under perl 5.005_03. [Richard Clamp]
3703
3704 - When building blib/ , .PL files are now processed before doing
3705 anything else. This means .PL files can be used in any of the
3706 other contexts.
3707
3708 - The locating and processing of .pm, .pod, .xs, .PL files and script
3709 files are now isolated into their own methods. This is aimed
3710 toward providing a stable interface for this stuff, so they can be
3711 overridden, parameterized, etc. They're not quite stable yet,
3712 though.
3713
3714 - The internal lib_to_blib() method has gone away, because processing
3715 is now done by smaller specialized methods. This method had some
3716 duplicate assumptions about filenames that it's nice to get rid of.
3717
3718 - .PL files are no longer automatically processed in the c_source
3719 directory, they must be specified manually in a 'PL_files'
3720 parameter.
3721
3722 - Mention in the docs that it's useful to do "PL_FILES => {}" in a
3723 Makefile.PL if you're using both a Makefile.PL and a
3724 Build.PL. [Dom]
3725
3726 - Add several options to the 'license' field, so that we're in better
3727 sync with PAUSE and CPAN options. [Andreas Koenig]
3728
3729 - Created a find_perl_interpreter() method that tries to locate the
3730 currently executing perl interpreter. Following a suggestion from
3731 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> for Inline, we prefer an absolute
3732 path in $^X, then an existent path in $Config{perlpath}, then
3733 whatever's in $^X.
3734
3735 - Use the aforementioned perl to run scripts in run_perl_script().
3736 This fixes the spurious warning "WARNING: Configuration was
3737 initially created with 'foo', but we are now using 'bar'" that
3738 appeared a lot in version 0.16.
3739
3740
3741 0.16 Mon Feb 24 13:06:47 CST 2003
3742
3743 - All three C compilers that perl supports on Windows environments
3744 (MSVC, BCC, and GCC) are now supported by Module::Build. We now
3745 reportedly pass all tests on Windows. [Randy W. Sims]
3746
3747 - The test t/xs.t, which tests building of XS modules, will be
3748 skipped if no C compiler is found. [suggested by Randy W. Sims]
3749
3750 - The "install" action accepts new "destdir" [motivated by Michael
3751 Schwern and Chip Salzenberg] and "uninst" parameters [by Dave
3752 Rolsky]. The former prepends an arbitrary directory to all
3753 installation paths (useful for package management), and the latter
3754 will tell ExtUtils::Install to remove any differing files that are
3755 "shadowing" the stuff you're installing from a different location,
3756 just like MakeMaker's "make install UNINST=1" command will do.
3757
3758 - Made changes to the generated Makefile in Module::Build::Compat
3759 that much better support Windows platforms [after suggestions by
3760 James Freeman]
3761
3762 - Added experimental support for creating distribution SIGNATURE
3763 files via Module::Signature. [Dave Rolsky]
3764
3765 - Added experimental support for installing via the "only.pm" module,
3766 which allows loading specific versions of modules. Since this
3767 module is so new, the interface may still be changing. [Brian
3768 Ingerson]
3769
3770 - Added support for installing executable scripts, via the 'scripts'
3771 parameter to new(), and the scripts() accessor method.
3772
3773 - Fix an infinite loop that occurred when doing 'perl Build.PL
3774 config="foo=bar"'
3775
3776 - Fix up the formatting of the error message the user gets when
3777 prereqs aren't satisfied.
3778
3779 0.15 Fri Jan 17 15:00:24 CST 2003
3780
3781 - In link_c(), extra object files were mistakenly being treated as
3782 output files, not input files, in the up-to-date check. Fixed.
3783
3784 - In up_to_date(), don't make an unnecessary copy of the file lists
3785 when they're specified as array references.
3786
3787 - Split off the C compilation phase into its own method,
3788 compile_support_files(), for easier subclassing.
3789
3790 - Start a stub of a 'manifypods' action.
3791
3792 - Compiler optimizations weren't being included in C compilation
3793 statements. Fixed.
3794
3795 - The 'extra_linker_flags' parameter wasn't being honored. Fixed.
3796
3797 - The 'ccflags' Config.pm entry wasn't being properly split into
3798 separate arguments. Fixed.
3799
3800
3801 0.14 Fri Dec 13 14:06:29 AEST 2002
3802
3803 - Added support for MacPerl (Mac OS version 9 and below), which (as
3804 far as I know) was never natively supported by MakeMaker. Still
3805 lacks support for the 'test' action (because Test::Harness
3806 requires forking, which MacPerl won't do) and compiling XS/C files
3807 (because I don't know how to invoke a compiler on MacOS, and one
3808 may not even be available). This change is brought to you by
3809 Michael Schwern and the letter '('.
3810
3811 - Improved processing of .xs files. Now we use the new
3812 ExtUtils::ParseXS module if it's available, otherwise we use
3813 backticks and write the result to a .c file ourselves. This
3814 avoids the need to do cross-platform shell redirection.
3815
3816 - Make sure all parts of 'Build test' use the not-yet-installed
3817 version of Module::Build. This only affects the tests for this
3818 module, not any of the module code itself. [Spotted by Schwern]
3819
3820 - Oopsie - use $Config{ld} instead of $Config{cc} for linking.
3821
3822 - Added a 'diff' action, which is useful for comparing the details
3823 of what you're about to install with what is already installed on
3824 your system. This uses File::Compare, which is in the core.
3825
3826 - Fixed a problem on Windows in which the _build/ directory wasn't
3827 getting deleted during the 'realclean' action, because we had a
3828 file open in that directory. [Spotted by Michael Schwern]
3829
3830 - delete_filetree() now always uses File::Path::rmtree(), regardless
3831 of whether the thing being deleted is a file or a directory. This
3832 helps remove things on obscure platforms with strange locking
3833 rules (or even not so obscure ones like MacOS). It also now
3834 reports the number of files or directories deleted (without
3835 recursing directory contents).
3836
3837 - rm_previous_build_script() is gone, replaced by calls to
3838 delete_filetree().
3839
3840 - 'Build' now chdir()s in a BEGIN block, so the 'use Module::Build'
3841 statement will work correctly. Solves a problem on MacOS, where
3842 the 'Build' script may often be invoked from the wrong working
3843 directory. [Fix by Michael Schwern]
3844
3845 - Internally we now use the multi-argument form of system() to run
3846 external commands (such as 'diff' or 'cc') whenever possible (and
3847 whenever we can't avoid system() altogether). Note that this
3848 means we have to handle splitting some strings (such as
3849 $Config{ccflags}) into argument lists like the shell would, which
3850 is a drag. However, the alternative would be to handle shell
3851 quoting of all arguments to commands ourselves, which is an even
3852 bigger drag across platforms and involves arbitrary filenames and
3853 so on.
3854
3855 - To handle the argument splitting mentioned above, a method
3856 split_like_shell() has been created. So far it's just doing naive
3857 processing. In practice, I've yet to actually see a %Config entry
3858 that uses quotes & spaces, so the splitting task is usually not
3859 very error-prone.
3860
3861 - The 'test' action now takes a 'test_files' parameter, similar to
3862 the (undocumented) ExtUtils::MakeMaker TEST_FILES argument. Handy
3863 during development when fixing bugs.
3864
3865 - Internally, the rscan_dir() method can now accept a predicate
3866 function that decides whether a file/directory should be matched.
3867
3868 - We now issue a warning message when the author hasn't specified a
3869 license type.
3870
3871 0.13 Wed Nov 20 20:07:53 AEST 2002
3872
3873 - 'cleanup' file lists are now written immediately, rather than at
3874 program termination. This helps avoid "phantom files" that don't
3875 get handled by the 'realclean' action. The internal
3876 write_cleanup() method (which was never documented) is now gone.
3877
3878 - The 'blib/' directory is now properly cleaned up in more (all?)
3879 circumstances. Previously it could become a phantom if
3880 create_build_script() was never called.
3881
3882 - Now scan the 'c_source' directory for .cpp (C++) files as well as
3883 .c files, and compiles them.
3884
3885 - Use a 'phony' target for 'make manifest' in the pass-through
3886 Makefile, for the same reason as 'make install' (see version 0.12
3887 notes below).
3888
3889 - Module::Build::Compat now accepts any known Config.pm key and
3890 passes it through to the Build.PL. Fixes a problem with CPANPLUS,
3891 which was passing INSTALLMAN1DIR.
3892
3893 - The file 'META.yaml' has been re-named to 'META.yml' in order to
3894 cooperate better with systems that can only handle 3 characters
3895 after the dot.
3896
3897 - The t/xs.t test should give more informative error messages upon
3898 failure.
3899
3900 0.12 Thu Nov 14 18:31:47 AEST 2002
3901
3902 - The META.yaml file was erroneously looking for 'build_depends'
3903 instead of 'build_requires'. [spotted by Iain Truskett]
3904
3905 - Add prompt() and y_n() methods for use in Build.PLs
3906
3907 - Do more to work with all versions of Test::Harness when setting
3908 the TEST_VERBOSE flag and running under the debugger [patch by
3909 Dave Rolsky]
3910
3911 - Include a test for verbosity handling
3912
3913 - Make sure the blib/ directory is always cleaned up with the
3914 'clean' or 'realclean' action.
3915
3916 - In a pass-through Makefile.PL, inform 'make' that 'install' is a
3917 "fake target", so that it works properly on case-insensitive
3918 filesystems like HFS+ with distributions that contain an INSTALL
3919 file. [patch by Brian Ingerson]
3920
3921 - In Module::Build::Compat, show an example Makefile.PL that can
3922 install Module::Build and re-invoke itself in one fell swoop [Dave
3923 Rolsky and Autrijus Tang]
3924
3925 - Improve the formatting of the Module::Build and
3926 Module::Build::Compat documentation.
3927
3928 0.11 Fri Aug 23 18:50:46 AEST 2002
3929
3930 - 'module_version' and 'module_version_from' have been replaced by
3931 'dist_version' and 'dist_version_from', which is what they really
3932 meant in the first place. 'dist_name' has been added.
3933
3934 - 'module_name' is now just a way to set 'dist_name' and
3935 'dist_version_from' in a convenient way.
3936
3937 - The 'name' in META.yaml is now the distribution name, not the
3938 (incorrect) module name. [spotted by Graham Barr]
3939
3940 - Added the check_installed_status() and prereq_failures() methods
3941 for checking prerequisite information with the programmatic
3942 interface
3943
3944 - check_installed_version() now uses check_installed_status()
3945 internally
3946
3947 - Documented the create_build_script() method, which had escaped
3948 documentation.
3949
3950 - create_build_script() now writes prerequisite information to the
3951 _build/ directory, for use by Module::Build::Compat.
3952
3953 - Module::Build::Compat has documentation for a safer way to write a
3954 dummy Makefile.PL. [patch by Autrijus Tang]
3955
3956 0.10 Wed Aug 7 19:36 2002
3957 - Recommend YAML 0.35 instead of 0.30.
3958
3959 - Don't die during 'Build disttest' if YAML isn't installed. This
3960 fixes tests 5-10 in runthrough.t if YAML isn't installed.
3961
3962 - Die if an unknown license type is used, but still default to
3963 'unknown' if no license is specified.
3964
3965 - Use YAML::DumpFile() if we're using a recent YAML,
3966 YAML::StoreFile() otherwise.
3967
3968 - Show specific error messages in runthrough.t.
3969
3970 - Add a generated_by entry to the META.yaml file.
3971
3972 - Skip a few tests if YAML isn't installed.
3973
3974 0.09 Fri Jun 28 11:07:08 EST 2002
3975
3976 - The 'distdir' action wasn't deleting the distribution directory
3977 before building it again. This meant that, say, if you did 'Build
3978 disttest' then 'Build dist', you'd end up with a blib/ directory
3979 in your distribution. I actually had this happen for version
3980 0.08, and it's not nice to distribute a blib/ on CPAN.
3981
3982 - We now keep track of the 'base_dir', i.e. the top-level build
3983 directory, so we can change back into it if we change out of it.
3984 This necessitated a cwd() method, which uses the Cwd.pm module.
3985 I'm aware of Cwd's limitations, particularly under taint-mode, but
3986 I don't know a way around using it here.
3987
3988 - The 'dist_dir' action now changes back into 'base_dir' directory.
3989
3990 - We now do write_config() inside the create_build_script() method,
3991 not inside the new() method.
3992
3993 - Simplified the find_version() method, and improved its error
3994 messages.
3995
3996 - Renamed module_name_to_file() to find_module_by_name(), and added
3997 a parameter specifying the directories to search in. Previously
3998 we searched in 'lib' and @INC, which wasn't correct in all
3999 situations.
4000
4001 - Patched the docs to change "Build test" to "./Build test"
4002 [Elizabeth Mattijsen]
4003
4004 0.08 Wed Jun 26 20:30:56 EST 2002
4005
4006 - Fixed the 'prereq' alias for the 'requires' parameter
4007
4008 - Added some tests in t/basic.t to test the dependency checking
4009
4010 - Added 'artistic' as a licensing option [Arthur Bergman]
4011
4012 - Fixed some bugs in requires/prereq/recommends/conflicts/build_depends
4013
4014 - Fixed a typo in the 'distclean' action that prevented its
4015 execution [Arthur Bergman]
4016
4017 - Separated the linking phase of building XS items into its own
4018 link_c() method. Its interface is still unstable, so it's not
4019 documented yet. [suggested by Arthur Bergman]
4020
4021 0.07 Jun 9 2002 15:46
4022
4023 - We now generate a 'META.yaml' metadata file during 'Build dist'.
4024 This can be very useful for lots of things, none of which are
4025 implemented yet.
4026
4027 - Added a 'dynamic_config' parameter, defaulting to false. This
4028 lets distribution systems (CPAN.pm, etc.) build, test, and install
4029 "easy" modules without having to execute the Build.PL at runtime.
4030 It's also a guarantee that the list of dependencies is exactly
4031 what is present in the metadata file, and won't be changed during
4032 the build process.
4033
4034 - Added support for "recommended" and "build-time requirement"
4035 modules, besides those that are absolutely required. Also added a
4036 "conflicts" field.
4037
4038 - Changed the 'prereq' field to 'requires' (the old name will
4039 continue to work).
4040
4041 - Added support for checking the installed version of perl as an
4042 explicit dependency.
4043
4044 - Added a 'license' parameter to specify one of a fixed number of
4045 licenses for the distribution.
4046
4047 - Fixed a bug in Module::Build::Compat that was preventing arguments
4048 from being processed properly. [patch by Ilya Martynov]
4049
4050 - Make sure we're in the right directory when we write the cleanup
4051 file, since various ExtUtils::Install errors might leave us in an
4052 unknown directory. [patch by Ilya Martynov]
4053
4054 - Specified the 'license', 'recommends', and 'dynamic_config'
4055 values in Build.PL, and changed 'prereq' to 'requires'.
4056
4057 0.06 Apr 2 2002 17:44
4058
4059 - Added the Module::Build::Compat module for assisting and
4060 explaining compatibility with ExtUtils::Makemaker and cohorts.
4061
4062 - State is now saved using Data::Dumper instead of my ad-hoc
4063 mechanism, guaranteeing data integrity. Whitespace values broke
4064 in the former scheme.
4065
4066 - Added the 'recommended' option, which works like 'prereq' but
4067 isn't insistent.
4068
4069 - Separated the various parameters into three groups: parameters
4070 that tell Module::Build what to do, Config.pm parameters, and
4071 user-defined parameters for each build (the module author is the
4072 'user' here). This helps avoid conflicts between names, and it
4073 was silly to have them all together. The three groups of
4074 parameters are subject to the same rules for overriding: values
4075 specified during a Build action take precedence over values
4076 specified at 'perl Build.PL' time, which in turn take precedence
4077 over values specified in the call to new().
4078
4079 - Improved support for .PL files. Any .PL file in the lib/
4080 directory or the directory specified by 'c_source' will now get
4081 properly executed. I also added a 'PL_files' parameter that you
4082 can use in case the .PL doesn't create an obviously-named output
4083 file.
4084
4085 - If a prerequisite condition is malformed, we now report a prereq
4086 failure and say why. Previously we issued a warning and kept
4087 going.
4088
4089
4090 0.05 10-Jan-2002 20:26
4091 - Added the Module::Build->subclass() method, which makes it easier to
4092 make quick-and-dirty subclasses of Module::Build.
4093
4094 - Reorganized the docs a bit.
4095
4096 - Added the 'testdb' action, and the 'debugger=1' argument to the
4097 'test' action, both of which run tests under the perl
4098 debugger. (idea: Dave Rolsky)
4099
4100 - Added prerequisite checking (Dave Rolsky)
4101
4102 - Fixed an unlikely-to-occur bug with misquoted strings in the
4103 'Build' script (spot: Dave Rolsky)
4104
4105 - We're more careful about shush-ing warnings that
4106 ExtUtils::Manifest might emit (Dave Rolsky)
4107
4108 - The 'help' action now auto-generates the list of actions (Dave Rolsky)
4109
4110 - Added the 'distcheck', 'skipcheck', 'distclean', 'distdir', and
4111 'disttest' actions (Dave Rolsky)
4112
4113 - We're a little more aggressive about cleaning up temporary files -
4114 we'll try to clean them up even when we don't have write permission
4115 on them. This isn't as dastardly as it sounds; if we /really/
4116 don't have permission, we won't be able to remove them no matter
4117 how hard we try.
4118
4119 0.04 Fri Nov 16 16:55 2001
4120 - Added a 'manifest' action. It's just like MakeMaker's 'make manifest', it
4121 brings your MANIFEST file up to date with your distribution directory.
4122
4123 - Reorganized some of the responsibilities of various methods, which
4124 allows modules to be built and tested programmatically.
4125
4126 - The 'clean' action will now clean up files that were created more
4127 recently than the on-disk cleanup registry was written.
4128
4129 - Undefined values from Config.pm are handled correctly now.
4130
4131 - The dispatch() method will now accept explicit dispatch
4132 parameters, for use in a programmatic setting.
4133
4134 - $ENV{TEST_VERBOSE} will be set in test scripts if the 'verbose=1'
4135 parameter is set.
4136
4137 - Moved the test.pl script to t/basic.t
4138
4139 - Created the t/xs.t script, which tests building a module with a
4140 .xs component.
4141
4142 - Fixed the loading of $^O-specific modules (there were no such
4143 modules before).
4144
4145 - Added a 'darwin' platform module, which removes -flat_namespace
4146 from $Config{ccflags} while building .xs modules (it's a linker
4147 flag, not a compiler flag).
4148
4149 - Now uses $^W instead of the 'warnings' pragma, which apparently
4150 provides compatibility with perl 5.005 (I've only tested it with
4151 5.6.x myself).
4152
4153 - If a file called C<visual.pl> exists in the top-level directory,
4154 this file will be executed as a Perl script during 'Build test' and
4155 its output will be shown to the user. This is a good place to put
4156 speed tests or other tests that don't use the C<Test::Harness> format
4157 for output.
4158
4159 - The 'Build install' step will now put .xs-related things in the
4160 correct architecture-dependent libraries.
4161
4162 - Added the 'autosplit' option, even though I think autosplitting is
4163 a load of hooie.
4164
4165 0.03 Sun Nov 11 14:58 CDT 2001
4166 - The 'perl Build.PL' step will now detect whether the current
4167 environment is "unixish", "windowsish", etc., and load the correct
4168 module (i.e. Module::Build::Platform::Unix). More specific
4169 modules may also be written for particular values of $^O.
4170
4171 - Module::Build will now process any .xs files in the lib/
4172 directory. Please let me know whether this works or not with your
4173 distribution & platform. I'll be trying out various distributions
4174 on my platform.
4175
4176 - Corrected some embarassing errors in the POD documentation. Also
4177 added a long documentation section on the various build actions
4178 (test, install, build, etc.) and added some neato ASCII art.
4179
4180 - Added a 'cleanup' mechanism - any method may call the
4181 $self->add_to_cleanup(@files) method to register files which need
4182 to be cleaned up during 'Build clean'.
4183
4184 - Added a 'Build help' action that gives a little syntax help, and
4185 lists all the actions available.
4186
4187 - Fixed a bug in which 'blib/' wasn't properly being added to @INC
4188 when running 'Build test'.
4189
4190 - For the 'Build dist' action, we'll use the 'tar' and 'gzip'
4191 programs (as specified by Config.pm) on Unix platforms, otherwise
4192 we'll use Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib.
4193
4194 0.02 Wed Sep 5 00:53:04 CDT 2001
4195 - Added POD documentation.
4196
4197 - Added the 'install', 'fakeinstall', and 'dist' actions.
4198
4199 - new() will now determine version string based on 'module_version', or
4200 'module_version_from', or 'module_name', in that order.
4201
4202 - Module::Build::Base handles its file paths in a platform-independent
4203 way, using the File:: modules
4204
4205
4206 0.01 Sun Aug 5 01:23:10 2001
4207 - original version; created by h2xs 1.1.1.4 with options -XA -n Module::Build
4208