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@@ -0,0 +1,4091 @@ +Revision history for Perl extension Module::Build. + +0.4214 - Fri Jun 12 00:25:00 CEST 2015 + + - Released 0.42_13 as 0.4214 + +0.42_13 - Sat Jun 6 21:18:24 CEST 2015 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Handle failure to guess license from key better + + [ENHANCEMENTS] + + - Output data in a stable order [Jérémy Bobbio] + +0.4212 - Sun May 17 00:33:34 CEST 2015 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Revert "Stop using version->normal(); prefer stringify()" + +0.4211 - Tue Jan 20 01:33:42 CET 2015 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Fix t/actions/installdeps.t to work on "perl in space" [Ed J] + + - Stop using version->normal(); prefer stringify() [John Peacock] + + [DEPRECATIONS] + + - inc::latest has been split out to a separate distribution on CPAN. + It is an optional prerequisite, only needed for the experimental + bundling feature. + +0.4210 - Mon Sep 1 13:30:29 CEST 2014 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Fixup CPAN::Meta dependency + + - Handle old releases of CPAN::Meta more gracefully. + +0.4209 - Mon Sep 1 12:24:40 CEST 2014 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Stop calling UNIVERSAL::isa as a function + + [ENHANCEMENTS] + + - Use CPAN::Meta::Merge for meta_merge + + - Convert with CPAN::Meta::Convert in meta_add + + - Add configure requirements + +0.4208 - Mon Aug 18 21:44:38 CEST 2014 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Removed missed references to Module::Build::Version + +0.4207 - Sat Aug 16 12:56:59 CEST 2014 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Fix type installdir -> installdirs [Leon Timmermans, Vitaliy Tokarev] + + [DEPRECATIONS] + + - Module::Build::YAML has been removed + + - Module::Build::ModuleInfo has been removed + + - Module::Build::Version has been removed + + - Get rid of "use vars" + + - Added use warnings to all modules + +0.4206 - Sat Jul 12 14:03:01 CEST 2014 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Formally declare 5.8 dependency [Karen Etheridge] + + - Fix MBTest to work with new and old versions of Test::Builder [Chad Granum] + + [ENHANCEMENTS] + + - Enable release and author tests during disttest [Leon Timmermans, Alberto Simões] + +0.4205 - Sun Feb 9 17:51:22 CET 2014 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - FIX license code regression for artistic license [Roy Ivy III, Leon Timmermans] + + - Don't swallow ExtUtils::CBuilder loading errors [Matthew Horsfall, Leon Timmermans] + + - Handle testing on cross-compile builds [Brian Fraser] + + - Protect against platforms without getpw{nam,uid} [Brian Fraser] + +0.4204 - Fri Jan 10 00:29:31 CET 2014 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Map conflicts back to runtime [Leon Timmermans] + + - Use mod2fname whenever it's available [Leon Timmermans, Brian Fraser] + + - Accept custom entries in meta_merge 1.4 + +0.4203 - Wed Nov 27 19:09:05 CET 2013 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Map recommends back to runtime recommends [Leon Timmermans] + + - Map restrictive license to restricted in meta 2.0 [Leon Timmermans] + +0.4202 - Tue Nov 19 12:48:19 CET 2013 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Don't merge prereqs from meta to mymeta [Leon Timmermans] + +0.4201 - Mon Nov 18 23:23:25 CET 2013 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Prefer META.json over META.yml [Leon Timmermans] + +0.4200 - Tue Nov 12 12:39:25 CET 2013 + + - Released 0.40_11 as 0.4200 + +0.40_11 - Wed Nov 6 12:46:59 CET 2013 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Do not set provides in metadata if no_index is set [Leon Timmermans] + +0.40_10 - Tue Nov 5 12:11:37 CET 2013 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Lowercase license in fallback logic [Leon Timmermans] + +0.40_09 - Tue Nov 5 00:13:11 CET 2013 + + [ENHANCEMENTS] + + - Converted to using Meta 2.0 + +0.4008 - Mon Nov 4 23:10:54 CET 2013 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Fix test failing on ancient perls <= 5.8.1 [Peter Rabbitson] + + - Do not set default switches in Test::Harness; not even -w [Leon Timmermans] + + [DOCUMENTATION] + + - Fix a couple more broken links to CPAN::META::Spec that should + have been CPAN::Meta::Spec. [Reported by Mike Doherty] + +0.4007 - Fri Jul 19 13:44:39 CEST 2013 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Removed undeclared test dependency on parent.pm [Leon Timmermans] + + - Declared dependency on Pod::Man 2.17 for utf8 support [Leon Timmermans] + + - Force generation of man pages in manify_with_utf8.t [Leon Timmermans] + +0.4006 - Thu Jul 18 14:19:49 CEST 2013 + + - Announcement: The Perl5-Porters have decided to remove + Module::Build from the perl core distribution. It will still be + available on CPAN, and development is planned to continue + regardless. + + For more information, see: + + * http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg202041.html + * http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2013/05/on-the-removal-of-some-core-modules.html + * http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2140/paying-respect-to-modulebuild/ + * http://perlhacks.com/2013/06/removing-modules-from-core/ + + [BUG FIXES] + + - In the 'installdeps' action, w don't need to check for an + executable bit on the CPAN client, just try executing it. + Otherwise we needlessly fail on e.g. VMS. + + - Actually handle utf8 correctly in utf8-man tests. [Leon Timmermans] + + - Don't clobber standard array/hash attributes in subclasses that + have their own array/hash attributes. [Graham Ollis] + + - We now allow underscores in package names, when extracting the + name & abstract from POD. [Ricardo Signes, Shlomi Fish] + + - When building HTML docs, fix a problem with setting the --htmlroot + argument. [Ken Williams] + + - Lower Test::More dependency in the test metadata, so distgen + output won't mess up console with older Test::More installed. + [Tatsuhiko Miyagawa] + + - Revised detildification on VMS [Craig Berry] + + - Fix run_test_harness for case when $Switches is an empty string + [Victor Efimov, Ken Williams] + + [ENHANCEMENTS] + + - Significantly sped up some tests by not forcing HTML docs to be + built when the user's config doesn't ask for them anyway. + [Ken Williams] + + - The Module::Metadata package was split out from this distro back + in 2010. Removed its regression tests. [Ken Williams] + + - Removed dependence on IO::File, replacing it with safe invocations + of open(). [Sven Dowideit] + + - Added an 'extra_manify_args' parameter to facilitate man pages + containing Unicode. [Joenio Costa] + + - Added an '--html_links 0' argument for the 'html' action, which + can hugely speed things up. The main effect is speeding up the + M::B tests themselves. [Ken Williams] + + - Added continuous integration support for the Module::Build code + itself, through the Travis-CI project + (https://travis-ci.org/). [Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Olivier Mengué] + + [DOCUMENTATION] + + - Removed suggestion in the INSTALL document to use the Makefile.PL + for installation. Making the Makefile.PL lower-profile in + general. [Ken Williams] + + - Fix link from UpperCase CPAN::META::Spec to CPAN::Meta::Spec in + API.pod. [Sven Dowideit] + + [OTHER] + + - Removed unused platform specific modules that never contained + anything. [Leon Timmermans] + + - Lots of typo fixes in comments & documentation. [David Steinbrunner] + + +0.4005 - Thu Apr 25 15:10:14 CEST 2013 + + [ENHANCEMENTS] + + - Added --pureperl-only support + + [BUG FIXES] + + - #72176: pod2html will fail with an empty podpath in some cases. [Phillip Moore] + + - Fix links between modules in HTML docs output [Michael Wild, Leon Timmermans] + +0.4004 - Fri Mar 29 15:05:00 CET 2013 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Minor VMS fix for @INC [Craig Berry] + + [ENHANCEMENTS] + + - test_requires support has been added [Matsuno Tokuhiro] + +0.4003 - Sat Aug 18 11:17:49 CEST 2012 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Get rid of outdated metadata tests [Steve Hay] + +0.4002 - Fri Jul 27 20:04:09 EEST 2012 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Test for TAP::Harness version properly [Leon Timmermans] + + - Install to 'site' on 5.12+ [Leon Timmermans] + + [DOCUMENTATION] + + - Document extra_{compiler|linker}_flags accessors [Nick Wellnhofer] + +0.4001 - Tue Jun 26 20:54:15 CEST 2012 + [BUG FIXES] + + - Parse Pod name a litte more leniently [Paul Evans] + + [DOCUMENTATION] + + - Various spelling fixes [Leon Timmermans, Jonathan Yu] + + - Fixes configuration keys used for script location [Leon Timmermans, reported by Samuel Ferencik] + + [OTHER] + + - use warnings + +0.40 - Fri Feb 24 18:47:48 CET 2012 + + - Released 0.39_02 as 0.40 without any code changes + +0.39_02 - Thu Feb 17 00:33:18 MET 2012 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Fixed bug where modules without $VERSION might have a version of '0' + listed in 'provides' metadata, which will be rejected by PAUSE + [David Golden, reported by Christopher Fields] + + - Fixed bug in PodParser to allow numerals in module names + [Tokuhirom] + + - Fixed bug where giving arguments twice led to them becoming arrays, + resulting in install paths like "ARRAY(0xdeadbeef)/lib/Foo.pm" + [Leon Timmermans] + + [DOCUMENTATION] + + - Fixed deviance from alphabetical order in documentation of + constructor parameters. [Eric Brine] + + - Add documentation for configure_requires constructor parameter. + [Eric Brine] + + - Change some of the docs' language describing relationship to + MakeMaker. [Ken Williams] + + [OTHER] + + - List Perl-Toolchain-Gang repo as official repo + +0.39_01 - Thu Jul 21 16:48:48 EDT 2011 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Fixed bug with a nested directory named 'share' inside a ShareDir + (RT#68585) [David Golden] + + - Fixed failing tilde.t when run under UID without passwd entry + (RT#67893) [Dominic Hargreaves] + + [DOCUMENTATION] + + - Fixed typo in Module::Build (RT#67008) [David Golden] + + [OTHER] + + - Pod to HTML internals changed to support new Pod::Html work + in the Perl core + +0.3800 - Sat Mar 5 15:11:41 EST 2011 + + Summary of major changes since 0.3624: + + [ENHANCEMENTS] + + - Generates META.json and MYMETA.json consistent with version 2 of the + CPAN Meta Spec. [David Golden] + + Also in this release: + + [BUG FIXES] + + - Autogenerated documentation no longer includes private actions from + Module::Build's own release subclass. [Report by Timothy Appnel, + fix by David Golden] + +0.37_06 - Mon Feb 28 21:43:31 EST 2011 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - prerequisites with the empty string instead of a version are + normalized to "0". (RT#65909) + + [OTHER] + + - More Pod typo/link fixes [Hongwen Qiu] + +0.37_05 - Sat Feb 19 20:43:23 EST 2011 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - fixes failing ppm.t in perl core + + [OTHER] + + - Pod typo fixes [Hongwen Qiu] + +0.37_04 - Wed Feb 16 15:27:21 EST 2011 + + [OTHER] + + - moved scripts/ to bin/ for less confusing porting to bleadperl + +0.37_03 - Wed Feb 16 09:54:05 EST 2011 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - removed an irrelevant test in t/actions/installdeps.t that was causing + failures on some Cygwin platforms + + [OTHER] + + - dropped configure_requires as some CPAN clients apparently get + confused by having things in both configure_requires and requires + + - bumped Parse::CPAN::Meta build prereq to 1.4401 + + - bumped CPAN::Meta prereq to 2.110420 + + - Pod typo fixes [Hongwen Qiu] + +0.37_02 - Mon Feb 7 21:05:30 EST 2011 + + [BUG FIXES] + + - bumped CPAN::Meta prereq to 2.110390 to avoid a regression in 2.110360 + +0.37_01 - Thu Feb 3 03:44:38 EST 2011 + + [ENHANCEMENTS] + + - Generates META.json and MYMETA.json consistent with version 2 of the + CPAN Meta Spec. [David Golden] + + [BUG FIXES] + + - t/signature.t now uses a mocked Module::Signature; this should be + more robust across platforms as it only needs to confirm that + Module::Build is calling Module::Signature when expected + + [OTHER] + + - Added CPAN::Meta and Parse::CPAN::Meta to prerequisites and dropped + CPAN::Meta::YAML + +0.3624 - Thu Jan 27 11:38:39 EST 2011 + + - Fixed pod2html directory bugs and fixed creation of spurious blib + directory in core perl directory when running install.t (RT#63003) + [Chris Williams] + +0.3623 - Wed Jan 26 17:45:30 EST 2011 + + - Fixed bugs involving bootstrapping configure_requires prerequisites + on older CPANPLUS clients or for either CPAN/CPANPLUS when using + the compatibility Makefile.PL + + - Added diagnostic output when configure_requires are missing for + the benefit of users doing manual installation + +0.3622 - Mon Jan 24 21:06:50 EST 2011 + + - No changes from 0.36_21 + +0.36_21 - Fri Jan 21 11:01:28 EST 2011 + + - Changed YAML::Tiny references to the new CPAN::Meta::YAML module + instead, which is the YAML-variant that is going into the Perl core + +0.36_20 - Fri Dec 10 15:36:03 EST 2010 + + *** DEPRECATIONS *** + + - Module::Build::Version has been deprecated. Module::Build now depends + directly upon version.pm. A pure-perl version has been bundled in inc/ + solely for bootstrapping in case configure_requires is not supported. + M::B::Version remains as a wrapper around version.pm. + + - Module::Build::ModuleInfo has been deprecated. Module::Build now + depends directly upon Module::Metadata (which is an extraction of + M::B::ModuleInfo intended for general reuse). A pure-perl version has + been bundled in inc/ solely for bootstrapping in case + configure_requires is not supported. M::B::ModuleInfo remains as a + wrapper around Module::Metadata. + + - Module::Build::YAML has been deprecated. Module::Build now depends + directly upon YAML::Tiny. M::B::YAML remains as a subclass wrapper. + The YAML_support feature has been removed, as YAML is now an ordinary + dependency. + +0.36_19 - Tue Dec 7 13:43:42 EST 2010 + + Bug fixes: + + - Perl::OSType is declared as a 'configure_requires' dependency, but is + also bundled in inc (and loaded if needed) [David Golden] + +0.36_18 - Mon Dec 6 16:46:49 EST 2010 + + Changes: + + - Added dependency on Perl::OSType to refactor and centralize + management of OS type mapping [David Golden] + + - When parsing a version number out of a file, any trailing alphabetical + characters will be dropped to avoid fatal errors when comparing version + numbers. These would have been dropped (with a warning) anyway during + an ordinary numeric comparison. (RT#56071) [David Golden] + + Bug fixes: + + - A Perl interpreter mismatch between running Build.PL and running Build + is now a fatal error, not a warning (RT#55183) [David Golden] + + - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN + version.pm 0.86 [David Golden] + + - No longer uses fake user 'foo' in t/tilde (RT#61793) [David Golden] + + - Won't fail tests if an ancient Tie::IxHash is installed + [Christopher J. Madsen] + + - Correctly report missing metafile field names [David Golden] + + - Suppress uninitialized value errors during Pod creation + on ActiveState Perl [David Golden] + + - Return to starting directory after install action; this is + an attempt to fix an install.t heisenbug (RT#63003) [David Golden] + + - A broken version.pm load won't cause Module::Build::Version to + die trying to install itself as a mock version (RT#59499) + [Eric Wilhelm and David Golden] + + - PERL_DL_NONLAZY is now always set when tests are run + (RT#56055) [Dmitry Karasik] + + - 'fakeinstall' will use .modulebuildrc actions for 'install' if + no specific 'fakeinstall' options are provided (RT#57279) + [David Golden] + + - Add install*script to search path for installdeps client + and search site, then vendor, then core paths + + - Skip noexec tmpdir check on Windows (RT#55667) [Jan Dubois] + + - Arguments with key value pairs may now have keys with "-" in them + (RT#53050) [David Golden] + + - Add quotemeta to t/tilde.t test to fix Cygwin fails + [Chris Williams and David Golden] + + - Build script now checks that M::B is at least the same version + of M::B as provided in 'configure_requires' in META + (RT#54954) [David Golden] + +0.36_17 - Wed Oct 27 18:08:36 EDT 2010 + + Enhancements: + + - Added 'distinstall' action to run 'Build install' inside the + generated distribution directory [Jeff Thalhammer] + +0.36_16 - Thu Aug 26 12:44:07 EDT 2010 + + Bug fixes: + + - Better error message in case package declaration is not found + when searching for version. [Alexandr Ciornii] + + - Skips 'release_status' tests on perl < 5.8.1 due to buggy + treatment of dotted-decimal version numbers [David Golden] + +0.36_15 - Wed Aug 25 10:41:28 EDT 2010 + + Bug fixes: + + - Added a mock Software::License to prevent t/properties/license.t + from failing. + +0.36_14 - Sun Aug 22 22:56:50 EDT 2010 + + Enhancements: + + - Adds 'release_status' and 'dist_suffix' properties in preparation + for adding CPAN Meta Spec 2 support. 'dist_suffix' will be set + to 'TRIAL' automatically when necessary. [David Golden] + + - Makes 'license' more liberal. You can now specify either a license + key from the approved list (c.f. Module::Build::API) or just a + Software::License subclass name (e.g. 'Perl_5'). This should + provide better support for custom or proprietary licenses. + [David Golden] + +0.36_13 - Wed Jul 28 22:40:25 EDT 2010 + + Bug-fixes: + + - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN + version.pm 0.82 [David Golden] + +0.36_12 - Tue Jul 27 00:08:51 EDT 2010 + + Enhancements: + + - Module::Build::Compat will now convert dotted-decimal prereqs into + decimal rather than dying (and will warn about this). [Apocalypse] + + Bug fixes: + + - Caches case-sensitivity checks to boost performance, fixes + RT#55162 and RT#56513 [Reini Urban] + + - Won't try to use ActivePerl doc generation tools without confirming + that they are indeed installed. [David Golden] + + - Sets temporary $ENV{HOME} in testing to an absolute path, which fixes + some issues when tested as part of the Perl core [Nicholas Clark] + + - Module::Build::ModuleInfo now warns instead of dying when a module + has an invalid version. ->version now just returns undef + (RT#59593) [David Golden] + + Changes: + + - When authors do not specify Module::Build in configure_requires and + Module::Build is automatically added, a warning will be issued + showing the added prerequisite [David Golden] + + - Moved automatic configure_requires generation into get_metadata() + and added an 'auto' argument to toggle it (on for META and off + for MYMETA) [David Golden] + +0.36_11 - Thu May 27 09:41:23 EDT 2010 + + Bug fixes: + + - Handle META/MYMETA reading and writing within Module::Build to ensure + utf8 mode on filehandles. Now passes/gets only strings to YAML::Tiny + or Module::Build::YAML + +0.36_10 - Wed May 19 18:36:06 EDT 2010 + + Bug fixes: + + - Fix failing t/manifypods.t on Windows from 0.36_09 changes [Klaus + Eichner] + +0.36_09 - Tue May 11 09:19:12 EDT 2010 + + Bug fixes: + + - Improve HTML documentation generation on ActivePerl (RT#53478) + [Scott Renner and Klaus Eichner] + +0.36_08 - Mon Apr 26 08:00:15 EDT 2010 + + Enhancements: + + - Give a list of valid licenses when given one we don't recognize + (RT#55951) [Yanick Champoux] + + - Added 'Build manifest_skip' action to generate a default MANIFEST.SKIP + [David Golden] + + Changes: + + - When temporarily generating a MANIFEST.SKIP when none exists, it will + be removed on exit instead of hanging around until 'Build clean'. This + is less surprising/confusing and the 'Build manifest_skip' action + is now available instead to bootstrap the file [David Golden] + + Bug fixes: + + - Fixed runtime error on cygwin when searching for an executable command + during installdeps testing [David Golden] + +0.3607 - Thu Apr 1 11:27:16 EDT 2010 + + Bug fixes: + + - The 'dist' action now always ensures a clean dist directory before + creating the tarball [David Golden] + +0.36_06 - Thu Apr 1 01:23:58 EDT 2010 + + Other: + + - Migrated repository to git and updated META.yml to match + + - Removed bugtracker URL (let search.cpan.org use default) + + - Disabled SIGNATURE generation + +0.3605 - Wed Mar 31 12:05:11 EDT 2010 + + - No changes from 0.36_04 + +0.36_04 - Tue Mar 16 21:41:41 EDT 2010 + + Bug fixes: + + - Added missing newline to "Changing sharpbang" messages under verbose + output (RT#54474) [David Golden] + + - Added 'beos' to list of Unix-like os types (RT#53876) [Nigel Horne] + + - Sets $ENV{HOME} to a temporary directory during testing [David Golden] + + - For VMS: fixed prefix handling plus other test fixes [Craig Berry] + + - Support anonymous array of directories for c_source [Alberto Simões] + + - Small POD formatting fix [James Keenan] + +0.3603 - Mon Jan 18 22:28:59 EST 2010 + +(Oops, I released the last one before I realized this should have been +fixed along with it.) + + Bug fixes: + + - Module::Build::Compat would croak on distibutions that set requires + 'perl' to a dotted decimal like '5.6.2'. We now skip that key + since it doesn't go into PREREQ_PM and we numify it properly for + 'use 5.006002' in the generated Makefile.PL (RT#53409) + [David Golden, adapted from patch by G. Allen Morris III] + +0.3602 - Mon Jan 18 22:09:54 EST 2010 + + Bug fixes: + + - Fix failures in t/properties/needs_compiler.t when $ENV{CC} is set + (RT#53296) [David Golden, adapted from patch by Jens Rehsack] + +0.3601 - Mon Dec 21 14:39:33 EST 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - When the currently running Module::Build is not the same as the one + that created the Build file, there is now a warning rather than a fatal + error. This helps installation of dependency chains where a dependency + might configure_requires a new Module::Build after Build.PL was already + run for an earlier distribution. [David Golden, on advice of Matt Trout] + + Other: + + - t/bundle_inc.t fails in odd ways. This test of an experimental feature + should not prevent users from installing Module::Build, so this test + now skips unless $ENV{MB_TEST_EXPERIMENTAL} is true + +0.36 - Sun Dec 20 15:02:38 EST 2009 + +No changes from 0.35_15 other than the version number. + +Summary of major changes since 0.35: + + Enhancements: + + - Added 'Build installdeps' action to install needed dependencies via + a user-configurable command line program. (Defaults to 'cpan'.) + + - Command line options may be set via the PERL_MB_OPT environment + variable (similar to PERL_MM_OPT in ExtUtils::MakeMaker) + + - Generates MYMETA.yml during Build.PL (new standard protocol for + communicating configuration results between toolchain components) + + - Reduced amount of console output under normal operation (use --verbose + to see all output) + + - Added experimental inc/ bundling; see Module::Build::Bundling for + details. + + New or changed properties: + + - Added 'share_dir' property to provide File::ShareDir support; + File::ShareDir automatically added to 'requires' if 'share_dir' is set + + - Added 'needs_compiler' property. Defaults to true if XS or c_source + exist. If true, ExtUtils::CBuilder is also added to build_requires. + + - 'C_support' is no longer an optional feature. Modern ExtUtils::CBuilder + and ExtUtils::ParseXS added to the 'requires' list. This ensures that + upgrading Module::Build will upgrade these critical modules. + + - Clarified that 'apache' in the license attribute indicates the Apache + License 2.0 and added 'apache_1_1' for the older version of the license + (RT#50614) + + Deprecations: + + - Module::Build::Compat 'passthrough' style has been deprecated. Using + 'passthrough' will issue warnings on Makefile.PL generation. See + Module::Build::Compat documentation for rationale. + + Internals: + + - Replaced use of YAML.pm with YAML::Tiny; Module::Build::YAML is now + based on YAML::Tiny as well + + - A new get_metadata() method has been added as a simpler wrapper around + the old, kludgy prepare_metadata() API. + + - Replaced guts of new_from_context(). Build.PL is now executed in a + separate process before resume() is called. (This is generally only of + interest to Module::Build or toolchain developers) (RT#49350) + + - Add support for 'package NAME VERSION' syntax added in Perl 5.11.1 + + Notable bug fixes: + + - The "test" action now dies when using the 'use_tap_harness' + option and tests fail, matching the behavior under Test::Harness. + (RT#49080) [initial patch from David Wheeler; revised by David Golden] + + - Updated PPM generation to PPM v4 (RT#49600) [Olivier Mengue] + + - When module_name is not supplied, no packlist was being written; fixed + by guessing module_name from dist_version_from or the directory name + (just like ExtUtils::Manifest does without NAME) [David Golden] + + - Failure to detect a compiler will now warn during Build.PL and be a + fatal error when trying to compile during Build. (RT#48918) [David + Golden] + + - Auto-detection of abstract and author fixed for mixed-case POD headers + (RT#51117) [David Wheeler] + + - resume() was not restoring additions to @INC added in Build.PL + (RT#50145) [David Golden] + + - When tarball paths are less than 100 characters, disables 'prefix' + mode of Archive::Tar for maximum compatibility (RT#50571) [David Golden] + + - Merging 'requires' and 'build_requires' in Module::Build::Compat could + lead to duplicate PREREQ_PM entries; now the highest version is used + for PREREQ_PM. (RT#50948) [David Golden] + + - Module::Build::Compat will now die with an error if advanced, + non-numeric prerequisites are given, as these are not supported by + ExtUtils::MakeMaker in PREREQ_PM [David Golden] + + +0.35_15 - Thu Dec 17 17:51:22 EST 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - Make sure PPM tests are skipped if IO::File is too old [David Golden] + +0.35_14 - Thu Dec 17 16:02:14 EST 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - If not set, the 'module_name' is detected from 'dist_version_from' + or from 'dist_name'. The directory is no longer used. [David Golden] + + - The 'share_dir' property no longer defaults to 'share' and must be + explicitly set instead; this fixes problems for CPAN distributions that + already have a 'share' directory for whatever reason [David Golden] + + - Change t/00-compile.t test for more portability [David Golden] + + - Skip ppm.t if Pod::Html is not available [David Goldenj] + + - Changed guts of inc::latest to work properly on older versions of Perl + [David Golden] + + - Ensure bundle_inc.t doesn't accidentally uninstall the installed M::B + during testing if the user had 'uninst=1' set during Build.PL + [David Golden] + +0.35_13 - Sat Dec 5 11:26:36 EST 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - Protect against tempfile errors when checking ExtUtils::Installed + [David Golden] + +0.35_12 - Fri Dec 4 23:06:49 EST 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - Protect inc/ bundling tests against broken ExtUtils::Installed + [David Golden] + +0.35_11 - Thu Dec 3 11:07:44 EST 2009 + + *** API CHANGE *** + + - The old API for prepare_metadata() has been restored to avoid breaking + distributions that were overriding it (e.g. BioPerl), but the method + has been marked deprecated and may be made private or may disappear in + some future version of Module::Build. [David Golden] + + - A new get_metadata() method has been added as a simpler wrapper around + the old, kludgy prepare_metadata() API. [David Golden] + +0.35_10 - Tue Nov 24 22:49:19 EST 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - bundle_inc.t is more careful about permissions and open filehandles + to avoid failures/skips on Win32 [David Golden] + + - Fix compilation error in Module::Build::Platform::VMS (RT#51766) + [David Golden] + + - Don't generate a MANIFEST.SKIP during distclean and add any generated + MANIFEST.SKIP to cleanup list [reported by Zefram, fixed by David Golden] + + - Module::Build::ModuleInfo version parsing would fail if a module sets + its $VERSION from another module, but the other module is not installed. + We now try to detect such failures, prepend 'lib' to @INC and try again. + [David Golden] + + - MYMETA.yml used to be generated from scratch, overriding any + customizations used to create META.yml. Now, if META.yml exists, that + will be used as the base for MYMETA and only prereq fields will be + updated (to reflect any dynamic configuration); also, 'dynamic_config' + will be set to false and 'generated_by' will be updated [David Golden] + +0.35_09 - Thu Nov 19 01:30:42 EST 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - The DB package should not be included in 'provides' in META files + [David Golden] + + - Fixed t/xs.t build failures in bleadperl for noexec temp directories + [Nicholas Clark] + + - Adjusted order of @INC in resume() (fixes par.t, ppm.t, xs.t fails): + @INC = @new_additions_to_inc, @saved_additions_to_inc, @default_inc + [David Golden] + + - Skip bundle_inc.t tests if bundled Module::Build for test can't be + tweaked (Works around test crashes on Win2) [David Golden] + + Other: + + - 'C_support' is no longer an optional feature. Modern ExtUtils::CBuilder + and ExtUtils::ParseXS added to the 'requires' list. This ensures that + upgrading Module::Build will upgrade this critical modules. + ExtUtils::CBuilder no longer requires a compiler, so it is "safe" to + require. + +0.35_08 - Mon Nov 16 22:38:28 EST 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - Multiple tests were failing due to dependency problems. Author + dependencies have been largely removed from core 'requires' into + optional features. Feature prereq detection and messaging have been + expanded and bugs on older Perls have been removed. + +0.35_07 - Sat Nov 14 17:14:39 EST 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - Auto-detection of abstract and author fixed for mixed-case POD headers + (RT#51117) [David Wheeler] + + - resume() was not restoring additions to @INC added in Build.PL + (RT#50145) [David Golden] + + - When tarball paths are less than 100 characters, disables 'prefix' + mode of Archive::Tar for maximum compatibility (RT#50571) [David Golden] + +0.35_06 - Fri Nov 13 14:51:28 EST 2009 + + Enhancements: + + - Added experimental inc/ bundling; see Module::Build::Bundling for + details. [David Golden and Eric Wilhelm] + + - Clarified that 'apache' in the license attribute indicates the Apache + License 2.0 and added 'apache_1_1' for the older version of the license + (RT#50614) [David Golden] + + Bug fixes: + + - Merging 'requires' and 'build_requires' in Module::Build::Compat could + lead to duplicate PREREQ_PM entries; now the highest version is used + for PREREQ_PM. (RT#50948) [David Golden] + + - Module::Build::Compat will now die with an error if advanced, + non-numeric prerequisites are given, as these are not supported by + ExtUtils::MakeMaker in PREREQ_PM [David Golden] + + - Made MYMETA generation non-fatal if fields required for META.yml + are missing [David Golden] + + - Added Pod::Simple to requirements for manpage support; avoids + problems if a user has a broken Pod::Man/Pod::Simple. (RT#50081) + [David Golden] + + - Won't die if installed Pod::Readme is broken [David Golden] + + Other: + + - Fixed Module::Build::Notes POD [David Golden] + + - Some commands had become silent by default, so added a few short status + messages so users know something actually happened [David Golden] + + - Cleaned up Changes file formatting [David Golden] + + - Removed most PERL_CORE customizations from test files due to + reorganization of dual-life modules in core (RT#49522) [David Golden] + +0.35_05 - Wed Oct 28 17:20:59 EDT 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - Fix test failure in t/actions/installdeps.t when $^X is not the default + perl [David Golden] + + - Work around $VERSION numbers in ActiveState with multiple underscores + that prevent Module::Build from installing on Win32 [David Golden] + + - Fix bug cleaning compatibility Makefile when older ExtUtils::Manifest is + installed [David Golden with help from David Cantrell] + + Other: + + - Suppressed more warnings from tests [David Golden] + + - Add provisional support for 'package NAME VERSION' syntax added in + Perl 5.11.1 [David Golden] + +0.35_04 - Fri Oct 23 11:20:41 EDT 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - Fix test failure if IPC::Cmd isn't installed [David Golden] + + Other: + + - Suppressed warning messages from various tests [David Golden] + +0.35_03 - Wed Oct 21 21:20:59 EDT 2009 + + *** API CHANGE *** + + - The prepare_metadata() method used to take a YAML::Node object as an + argument for modification. The method now takes no arguments and just + returns a hash reference of metadata. [David Golden] + + Enhancements + + - Command line options may be set via the PERL_MB_OPT environment + variable (similar to PERL_MM_OPT in ExtUtils::MakeMaker) + + Bug fixes: + + - Updated PPM generation to PPM v4 (RT#49600) [Olivier Mengue] + + - When c_source is specified, the directory scan will include additional, + less-common C++ extensions (RT49298) [David Golden] + + - When module_name is not supplied, no packlist was being written; fixed + by guessing module_name from dist_version_from or the directory name + (just like ExtUtils::Manifest does without NAME) [David Golden] + + - Bumped IO::File prereq to fix binmode failures in PPMMaker on Perl + prior to 5.8.8 [David Golden] + + Other: + + - Replaced use of YAML.pm with YAML::Tiny; Module::Build::YAML is now + based on YAML::Tiny as well [David Golden] + + - Reduced amount of console output under normal operation (use --verbose + to see all output) [David Golden] + +0.35_02 - Mon Sep 7 22:37:42 EDT 2009 + + Enhancements: + + - Added 'needs_compiler' property. Defaults to true if XS or c_source + exist. If true, ExtUtils::CBuilder is also added to build_requires. + [David Golden] + + - File::ShareDir automatically added to 'requires' if 'share_dir' is set + [David Golden] + + - Added 'Build installdeps' action to install needed dependencies via + a user-configurable command line program. (Defaults to 'cpan'.) + [Eric Wilhelm] + + Bug fixes: + + - Failure to detect a compiler will now warn during Build.PL and be a + fatal error when trying to compile during Build. (RT#48918) [David + Golden] + + - Fixed directory sorting failure in share_dir.t [David Golden] + + - Property defaults that are data structures were being assigned as + references to new objects. Changed so that defaults are cloned instead. + (This mostly affects testing, which often creates multiple objects in the + same process) [David Golden] + + - Simplified error message on exit under use_tap_harness [suggested by + David Wheeler] + + - Fixed typemap search to use a dist-level typemap if a typemap is not + found in the directory with the *.xs file; (was manifesting as warnings + in Perl 5.6 tests) [David Golden] + + Other: + + - Replaced guts of new_from_context(). Build.PL is now executed in a + separate process before resume() is called. (This is generally only of + interest to Module::Build or toolchain developers) (RT#49350) [David + Golden, Eric Wilhelm, Ken Williams] + + - Revised test helper classes to fix potential bugs and add new features + to make writing tests simpler and easier. Changes incorporated into + t/README.pod and t/sample.t as examples for new testing. [David Golden] + +0.35_01 - Mon Aug 31 12:11:10 EDT 2009 + + Enhancements: + + - Generates MYMETA.yml during Build.PL (new standard protocol for + communicating configuration results between toolchain components) + [David Golden] + + - Added 'share_dir' property to provide File::ShareDir support; + set automatically if a directory called 'share' exists + [David Golden] + + Bug fixes: + + - Fix the t/destinations.t fix. [David Golden, with thanks to Eric Wilhelm] + + - Fix recursive test files in generated Makefile.PL (RT#49254) [Sawyer X] + + - Guard against trying :utf8 when :utf8 isn't available + + - The "test" action now dies when using the 'use_tap_harness' + option and tests fail, matching the behavior under Test::Harness. + (RT#49080) [initial patch from David Wheeler; revised by David Golden] + + Other: + + - Added t/README.pod and t/sample.t to guide developers writing new tests + [David Golden, with some code from Eric Wilhelm] + + - Module::Build::Compat 'passthrough' style has been deprecated. Using + 'passthrough' will issue warnings on Makefile.PL generation. See + Module::Build::Compat documentation for rationale. + +0.35 - Thu Aug 27 09:12:02 EDT 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - Fix t/destinations.t segfault on 5.6.2 [David Golden] + +0.34_06 - Sat Aug 22 21:58:26 EDT 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - Multiple test fixes for OS2 [Ilya Zakharevich] + + - Generated.ppd files use :utf8 if possible (RT#48827) [Olivier Mengue] + + - Fixed preservation of custom install_paths on resume (RT#41166) + [David Golden] + + - Warn instead of crashing when Pod::Man tries to create files with + colons on vfat partitions on unix (RT#45544) [David Golden] + +0.34_05 - Sun Aug 9 22:31:37 EDT 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - When auto_configure_requires is true (the default), Module::Build will + only add last 'major' version of Module:Build (e.g. 0.XX) to + configure_requires to avoid specifying a minor development release not + available on CPAN [David Golden] + +0.34_04 - Sat Aug 8 11:02:24 EDT 2009 + + Other: + + - Added documentation warning that 'get_options' should be capitalized + to avoid conflicting with future Module::Build options and changed + the examples accordingly. + +0.34_03 - Sat Aug 8 07:39:16 EDT 2009 + + Bug fixes: + + - Fixed failing xs.t if /tmp is mounted noexec (RT#47331) [David Golden] + + - Fixed failing debug.t on VMS (RT#48362) [Craig Berry] + + - Prevent par.t from dying on error in .zip extraction [David Golden] + + - Fixed potential runthrough.t failure on 5.6.2 [David Golden] + + Other: + + - Archive::Tar changed from 'requires' to 'recommends' so non-authors + without IO::Zlib can still use Module::Build to install modules + [reported by Matt Trout, fix by David Golden] + +0.340201 - Sun Aug 9 22:11:04 EDT 2009 + + Other: + + - Version bump for Perl core for 5.10.1 release; no other changes + +0.34_02 - Sun Jul 26 22:50:40 EDT 2009 + + Bug-fixes: + + - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN + version.pm 0.77 [John Peacock] + +0.34_01 - Sat Jul 18 16:32:09 EDT 2009 + + Enhancements: + + - Added --debug flag to trace Build action execution (RT#47933) + [David Golden] + + Bug-fixes: + + - Bundled Module::Build::Version version code updated to fix unsafe use + of $@ (RT#47980) [John Peacock] + +0.34 - Tue Jul 7 16:56:47 EDT 2009 + + No changes from 0.33_06 + +0.33_06 - Sun Jul 5 10:11:40 EDT 2009 + + Bug-fixes: + + - Bundled version code will use pure Perl on 5.10.0 to work around + a corner case involving eval and locale [John Peacock] + + - Reversed VMS patch from 0.33_03 [Craig Berry] + + - PL_files in Build.PL that are in the bin/scripts directory should not be + installed as if they are scripts (fixed for case-tolerant systems). + [David Golden, reported by Craig Berry] + +0.33_05 - Sun Jun 28 22:06:49 EDT 2009 + + Enhancements: + + - New 'auto_configure_requires' parameter (default 1) controls + whether Module::Build should add itself to configure_requires + in META.yml if not specified in Build.PL [David Golden] + + Bug-fixes: + + - The default MANIFEST.SKIP created by the "manifest" action + was out of date. It will now use the installed MANIFEST.SKIP + and add some Module::Build and distribution specific items + to it. [Michael Schwern] + + Other: + + - configure_requires do not necessarily need to be in requires + or build_requires; warning to that effect has been removed + [David Golden] + +0.33_04 - Fri Jun 26 07:09:06 EDT 2009 + + Bug-fixes: + + - Don't try utf8 YAML I/O on Perl 5.6 [David Golden] + + Other: + + - configure_requires added to prereq report (RT#47254) [Curtis Jewell] + + - updated Module::Build::Version to match forthcoming version.pm 0.77 + (RT#47256) [John Peacock] + + - skips xs.t and ppm.t when perl was not compiled with dynamic loading + since Module::Buld does not support static linking (RT#46178) + [David Golden] + + - skip failing test in par.t if Archive::Zip is broken [David Golden] + + - Added YAML utf8 patch in 0.33_03 changes list + + - Added attribution for patches in 0.33_03 changes list + +0.33_03 - Mon Jun 22 17:22:56 EDT 2009 + + Bug-fixes: + + - Removes Module::Build from its own configure/build_requires + [David Golden] + + - ConfigData->feature() confirms that modules actually load successfully, + not just that they are present. (RT#43557) [David Golden] + + - Module::Build::Compat handling of INSTALL*LIB (RT#43827) + [Tony Payne, David Golden] + + - Module::Build::Compat and recursive test files (RT#39171) [Dave Rolsky] + + - Fixed bug linking non-standard XS names on Windows (RT#38065) ["snaury"] + + - Run PL files that don't generate any file (RT#39365) + [Matisse Enzer, David Golden] + + - HTML generation failure no longer fatal (RT#36660) [David Golden] + + - realclean might not delete Build.bat on Windows (RT#43863) + [Roy Ivy, David Golden] + + - include_dirs parameter now works correctly when given a single + string argument (RT#40177) [David Wheeler] + + - Lots of spelling fixes in the POD (RT#45528r) [Lars Dieckow] + + - On Unix-like systems, tilde expansion is more liberal in username + characters accepted (RT#33492) [Jon Jensen] + + Other + + - On MSWin32, bumped File::Spec prereq to 3.30 for a variety of fixes + + - Add support for VMS in Unix compatibility mode (RT#42157) + [John E. Malmberg + + - Added a can_action($name) method (RT#45172) [brian d foy] + + - Documented that subclass methods should not permanently change + current directory (RT#46919) [David Wheeler] + + - META.yml encoded in UTF-8 (RT#43765) [Olivier Mengue] + +0.33_02 - Mon Jun 15 12:23:55 EDT 2009 + + Bug-fixes: + + - Fixed tests for bleadperl + +0.33_01 - Sat Jun 13 20:24:42 EDT 2009 + + Bug-fixes: + + - Fixed RT#42724: consolidated VMS fixes [patch by Craig Berry] + + - Fixed RT#46338: passthrough Makefile.PL cleans Makefile during distclean + + - Fixed RT#45700: t/compat.t for HP/UX make + + Other: + + - Adds current Module::Build to configure_requires (and build_requires) + if no configure_requires is specified + + - Always normalizes version number tuples in META.yml (e.g. 'v1.2.0') + (Partially addresses RT#46150) + + - Normalizes a generated dist_version (e.g. from a .pm file) -- + dist_version set manually in Build.PL is not normalized + + - Documentation update for create_license + + - Minor POD cleanup + +0.33 - Sun May 3 20:16:34 PDT 2009 + + Bug-fixes: + + - Fixed RT#45462: Compat.pm needs to reference 'Build.com' on VMS + [patch from John Malmberg] + + - Fixed RT#45461: ext.t on VMS [patch from John Malmberg] + + - Fixed RT#43861: Module::Build::PPMMaker has broken PPD name + versioning for v5.10+ + +0.32_01 - Tue Apr 14 17:14:22 PDT 2009 + + Bug-fixes: + + - Module::Build::Compat had stopped adding "PL_FILES => {}" when no + PL_files property was set in Build.PL; restored old behavior and fixed + tests and documentation related to this issue [David Golden] + + - Caches ExtUtils::CBuilder object in a temporary stash instead of properties + + - Fixed undef resources->license in META.yml (RT #44453). + + - Use $^X instead of 'perl' in t/ext.t [David Golden] (RT #43485) + + Other: + + - Generated META.yml will indicate version 1.4 of the specification + (RT #37478) [patch from Alexandr Ciornii] + + - Archive::Tar now the default for generating tarballs on all platforms + (avoids problems with incompatible tar binaries) + + - dist_dir() now uses dist_name() and dist_version() accessors rather + than using its properties directly. [brian d foy] (RT #45038) + +0.32 - Wed Feb 25 17:40:02 PST 2009 + + No changes since 0.31_04. + +0.31_04 - Fri Feb 20 11:04:59 PST 2009 + + Other + +- Bumped Test::Harness prereq to 3.16 for latest PERL5LIB fixes (solves + test failures when installing Module::Build using CPANPLUS::Dist::Build) + [David Golden] + +0.31_03 - Sun Feb 8 14:54:01 PST 2009 + + Enhancements + + - added a "prereq_data" action that prints a Perl data structure of + all prerequisites; can be loaded by external tools using eval() + [David Golden] + + Bug-fixes + + - 'fakeinstall' action warns and skips without ExtUtils::Install 1.32+ + [David Golden, reported by Zefram] + + - allows Module::Build version mismatch when installing self; works around + limitations in CPANPLUS::Dist::Build [David Golden] + +0.31_02 - Tue Jan 27 09:16:43 PST 2009 + + Other + + - tests now use File::Temp (added to build_requires); appears to fix + Win32 testing heisenbug on directory removal during high system loads + + - use_tap_harness.t will skip unless a release version of TAP::Harness + is installed + + - improved diagnostics to ensure_blib() tests in t/lib/MBTest.pm + + Compat + + - passthrough Makefile.PL will now play nice with cpantesters' on + exit(0) (RT#32018) [Eric Wilhelm] + + Bug Fixes + + - fix for doubling-up of --prefix (RT#19951) + +0.31012 - Wed Jan 14 01:36:19 PST 2009 + + Bug Fixes + + - t/tilde.t maybe actually fixed on MSWin32 now. + +0.31011 - Mon Jan 12 21:57:04 PST 2009 + + Bug Fixes + + - t/tilde.t had been failing on MSWin32 (RT#42349) + +0.3101 - Mon Jan 12 13:52:36 PST 2009 + + Other + + - added 'mirbsd' as a Unix-type OS [BinGOs] + + - added 'haiku' as a Unix-type OS (backported from bleadperl) + + - skips certain tests on VMS (backported from bleadperl) + + - sets $^X to absolute path in tests (backported from bleadperl) + +0.31 - Sat Dec 20 15:03:33 2008 + + Deprecations + + - Use of attributes as class methods is deprecated (this was never a + documented feature and appears to only have worked accidentally.) + +0.30_02 - Mon Dec 15 12:23:55 PST 2008 + + Bug Fixes + + - make Software::License dependency "softer". + +0.30_01 - Thu Dec 11 18:25:53 PST 2008 + + New Docs + + - Added a recipe for writing a new action to the Cookbook + + - Added a recipe for bundling Module::Build to the Cookbook. + + Doc Fixes + + - Clarified dist_abstract search procedure in API.pod (RT#41056) [Mario + Domgoergen] + + Bug Fixes + + - Workaround HARNESS_TIMER env issue in t/compat.t (RT#39635) + + - Fix ~ expansion when $HOME is different from /etc/passwd as + when running sudo. [rt.cpan.org 39662] + + - Fixed a small POD error in the Cookbook. [Damyan Ivanov] + + - Unset group/other write permission bits when using Archive::Tar to + build the dist tarball. (RT#39804) [David Golden] + + Enhancements + + - We now support a 'create_license' parameter to new() that will + create a LICENSE file during the 'dist' phase with the full text of + the license. This requires Software::License on the author's + machine. + + - Added lgpl2/lgpl3 entries to the supported licenses (RT#40532). + + - Support for validating properties with a check subref. [David + Wheeler] + + Test Fixes + + - Defend against more stray environment variables interfering + with the tests. + + Other + + - Updated our embedded version.pm to 0.76, enhanced documentation on + dist_version_from. [John Peacock] + +0.30 - Thu Sep 25 20:57:36 2008 + + - First non-beta release since April 2007. In the meantime, Sarkozy + became president of France, the 35W bridge fell in Minneapolis, + Phelps won a lot of gold, a new tribe of indigenous people was + discovered in the Amazon, and Bob Barker stopped doing The Price Is + Right. As of this moment though, the U.S. economy still hasn't + collapsed completely. + +0.2808_05 - Thu Sep 18 23:30:39 PDT 2008 + + - Skip test in t/ext.t which tickles shellwords() in Text::ParseWords + below 3.23 [David Wheeler, Ken] + + - Fixed some shell-quoting issues in do_system() on Windows [Ken, + Schwern, reported by Curtis Jewell] + + - Fixed t/xs.t failure for missing 'const char *' typemap in 5.6 + [Schwern] + + - Added build_requires for Test::More 0.49 and Test::Harness 2.03. + Removed bundled Test::More (was not working for 5.005x anyway). + [Schwern] + + - Minimum required perl version is now 5.6.1. [Schwern] + +0.2808_04 - Thu Sep 11 22:51:27 PDT 2008 + + - Backed-out incompatible Module::Build::ModuleInfo change (first in + 0.2808_02.) + +0.2808_03 - Mon Sep 1 14:43:27 PDT 2008 + + - Made adjustments for the format changes of recent Test::Harness + output. [Nicholas Clark] + + - Fixed the documentation for script_files to indicate that we search + bin/ for scripts by default. It has been this way for several + years. [Spotted by Ron Savage] + +0.2808_02 - Wed Jul 9 16:45:08 PDT 2008 + + - Experimental support for TAP::Harness with --use-tap-harness option + and the tap_harness_args property. [David Wheeler & Eric Wilhelm] + + - Added test_file_exts property for main-run tests other than '*.t'. + [David Wheeler] + + - Fixed getcwd()/rmtree() failure case on 5.10+mac where something is + unhappy about all of the tests deleting their distgen directory + before leaving it. [Eric Wilhelm & David Wheeler] + + - Improved support for parsing qv() in modules' $VERSION + declarations, and made $VERSION-parsing errors more verbose. [Jos + Boumans] + + - Integrated an omnibus patch for various VMS fixes. [Craig Berry & + John E. Malmberg] + + - Some versions of Test::Harness (or something) seem to not be + stripping the ".t" suffix when outputting test reports, which was + causing one of our tests in t/compat.t to fail. Fixed. [Spotted by + a smoke tester] + + - Most Unix platforms seem to allow hyphens in usernames, so we honor + this in our de-tilde-fying methods now. [Spotted by s-murata] + + - If there are multiple assignments to the $VERSION variable in + someone's module and this generates warnings, tell the user what + line number the problem is at. + + - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni] + + - Fixed a couple bugs in how we quote arguments to external processes + when they have to pass through the shell. Also much more + thoroughly tested our quoting now. + + - Edited the Module::Build::API docs prose about the 'license' field + in response to some comments on the module-authors mailing list. + + - Fixed a typo in some example code in the Cookbook. [Jeremy Leader] + + - Custom typemaps were being looked for in places that don't quite + exist; fixed. [Michael G Schwern] + + - QNX/Neutrino is now considered to be Unix. [rt.cpan.org 32214] + + - Added 'gpl2' and 'gpl3' to the list of valid licenses. [Allen + Engelhardt] + + - Fixed our Data::Dumper wrapper's sensitivity to users who might set + $Data::Dumper::Terse. [Spotted by Dominique Dumont] + + - Documented the fix_shebang_line() method. [Elliot Shank] + + - Applied the 'const' modifier to version() and xs_version() XS + functions we use during testing. [Robin Barker] + + - Fixed processing of INC=, POLLUTE=, INSTALLDIRS=, and LIB= for + passthrough/small Makefile.PLs. + + - perl Build.PL --sign=1 now signs. [Michael G Schwern] + + - Fixed processing of INSTALLDIRS=whatever for compatibility + Makefiles. [Spotted by John Peacock] + + - Zillions of special-cases have been added in Compat.pm for dealing + with the special Makefile system on VMS. [John E. Malmberg] + + - Fixed some stuff in how VMS command-args get quoted. [John E. Malmberg] + + - VMS now overrides localize_file_path() and localize_dir_path() so + we don't need to do special stuff in the general case. [John + E. Malmberg] + + - Added a few more VMS-specific entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP + file that (sometimes) gets created during the 'manifest' + action. [John E. Malmberg] + + - Fixed a catdir() that should have been a catfile() when creating a + ppmdist. [John E. Malmberg] + + - Removed some assumptions about what makefiles are called (not + necessarily "Makefile") and how they take their arguments, to get + VMS tests working better. [John E. Malmberg] + + - Fixed our check for Archive::Tar in the t/runthrough.t test, which + fixes a common failure on Win32. [Spotted by Chris Williams] + + - Fixed a File::Spec mal-ism in t/destinations.t [Craig A. Berry] + + - Exposed the internal ExtUtils::CBuilder object as part of our API, + via the cbuilder() method. [Zefram] + + - Upgraded to version.pm 0.74 (fixes bug #30004.) + + - Overwrite core (post-5.9.4) Module::Build installs (bug #20528.) + + - Pass quiet() option to ExtUtils::CBuilder object. + +0.2808_01 - Wed Oct 24 11:51:25 2007 + + - All .pm files in the Module-Build distribution (except for + M::B::Version.pm, which is kind of tied to version.pm) now have the + same $VERSION number explicitly specified. + + - When checking prerequisites, the required version of perl is now + checked before we start finding the $VERSION declaration of the + distribution, which results in much more intuitive error messages + e.g. if the author is using 5.6-isms in their declaration but the + user doesn't have 5.6. [Slaven Rezic] + + - Added 'artistic_2' license, corrected 'lgpl' license url (bug #29783) + [David Thomas] + + - VMS find_perl_interpreter() is just $^X (bug #29810) [Craig A. Berry] + + - Some large VMS fixes, mostly having to do with the non-case- + preserving nature of most VMS filesystems, but also correcting for + illegal characters in VMS file specs. [John E. Malmberg and Craig + A. Berry] + + - Fixed the _detildefy() method on VMS. [John E. Malmberg and Craig + A. Berry] + + - We now use a much more reliable method when Data::Dumper-ing saved + state data. [Yves] + + - When a module had 0.000 as its version, a few places in the code + thought the module had no version at all. This is now + fixed. [Andrew "Zefram" Main] + + - When finding the default set of script_files, we now compute them + as relative paths, not absolute. [Spotted by Curtis "Ovid" Poe] + + - Got rid of a call to eliminate_macros, which isn't needed in + Module::Build since there is no external make utility involved. + Override expand_test_dir to make up for the fact that the + home-grown glob() returns absolute, not relative, paths. [Craig + A. Berry] + + - Fixed a catdir() that needed to be catfile() in the .packlist + creation code. [John E. Malmberg] + + - If a *.PL file ended abnormally during the build, processing should + have stopped, but it didn't. Fixed. [Matthew Cast and David + Golden] + + - Module::Build::Compat adds "require 5.XXXXX" to Makefile.PL when + 'perl' is specified as a 'requires' prerequisite [David Golden] + + - Refactored t/compat.t for modularity and transparency; added + labels for all tests; supressed subprocess output to + STDOUT and STDERR [David Golden] + + - Fixed bug in perl_version_to_float when version is already a float + [David Golden] + + - Removed a mention of $build->{config} from the documentation, the + official interface to Config.pm settings is now via the + $build->config() and has been for some time. [Suggested by Michael + Schwern] + + - Tweaked some text in the Cookbook to bring it into the modern age, + and added a recipe for accessing Config.pm settings. [Ibid] + + - Lots of POD link/readability improvements to the Module::Build::API + documentation [Salve J. Nilsen] + + - Added configure_requires as a new type of prereq. [Suggested by Adam + Kennedy] + + - Patch 31156 from bleadperl: some filename dot and extension help + for Module::Build on VMS. [Craig Berry] + + - Reworked the _detildefy() method so it doesn't depend on glob() + anymore. This gets rid of a problem with spaces or other special + shell characters in things like 'prefix' or 'install_path' + entries. [Prodding by Eric Wilhelm] + + - Added midnightbsd to the list of Unix-like OSes we know about + [Rafael Garcia-Suarez] + +0.2808 - Sat Apr 28 12:59:43 2007 + + - Added is_vmsish(), is_windowsish(), and is_unixish() boolean + convenience functions. Fixes some test failures on platforms where + $^O is set to a value we don't know about (like 'gnu'). + + - Upgraded to version.pm 0.7203. [John Peacock] + + - Support get_action_docs() =head2 style. [ewilhelm] + + - Workaround Test::Pod::Coverage @INC bug. [Eric Wilhelm] + + - Fixed the command-line args --extra_compiler_flags and + --extra_linker_flags so they properly shell-split their arguments. + +0.2807 - Sat Mar 24 22:19:02 2007 + + - Upgraded to version.pm 0.71. [John Peacock] + + - Removed a couple small constructs in the tests ("use warnings;" and + "qw$foo bar$[1]") that caused test failures under perl 5.005. + + - Added support for an explicit default value of undef in prompt(). + [Eric Wilhelm] + + - Improved our prompt() method, which could sometimes hang before the + user got a chance to see a prompt. [Andreas Koenig] + + - Added a note about --allow_mb_mismatch to the error message that + happens right before someone might want to use that parameter. + + - Added DragonflyBSD to the list of known Unix OSes. + + - get_action_docs() dies on error rather than twiddling $@ + + - Made ModuleInfo's _evaluate_version_line() compatible with 'use + version ...$VERSION' lines. [Eric Wilhelm] + + - Added some verbiage in Module::Build::API that officially blesses + the _build/prereqs file for external consumption. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig] + + - Added test profiles support via the test_types property and "testall" + target. [Eric Wilhelm, Jeff Lavallee] + + - Use syscopy() on OS/2 in copy_if_modified() so we make sure to + overwrite any existing target file. [Ilya Zakharevich] + + - Removed seemingly silly '~~' test in t/tilde.t. + + - In our test-time utility library t/lib/MBTest.pm, we need to know + about a few .exe-like extensions on OS/2. [Ilya Zakharevich] + + - In t/ppm.t, use DynaLoader::mod2fname() (if available) to determine + the correct translation of our test module's name into a DLL + name. [Ilya Zakharevich] + + - Avoid an unlink() error on OS/2 when fixing shebang lines. [Ilya + Zakharevich] + + - When we're protecting the world from the evils of long RedHat + $ENV{PERL5LIB} variables, don't assume $ENV{PERL5LIB} is already + defined. This gets rid of a huge number of warnings for some + people. [Dave Rolsky] + +0.2806 - Fri Dec 15 22:20:14 2006 + + - On some systems (haven't identified the actual problem yet) + $ENV{PERL5LIB} can grow to enormous enough sizes that we can't + launch any more subprocesses because the environment table is full. + This is the now-infamous "Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too + long" error. Now we detect such situations and trim the directory + list to only include directories that actually exist, listed only + once each. Not the ideal solution, but it should work. + + - Silence a warning in M::B::ModuleInfo that happens when the author + is using the "$VERSION = eval $VERSION" idiom. + + - When running the 'testcover' action, do "cover --delete" if any of + the test files have changed (we already did so if any of the code + under test has changed). [Suggested by Chris Dolan, RT #23584] + + - Fixed a broken link in the documentation about PREFIX. [Spotted by + David Steinbrunner] + + - Changes to do_system() & friends on VMS to get system calls working + much better there. [Craig Berry] + + - Added the "pardist" target which creates a PAR binary distribution + akin to a PPM distribution. [Steffen Mueller] + + - Added the Interix platform as a Unix variant. [Stephen Hartland] + + - Improved the error message we emit when a distribution contains XS + files but the user has no C compiler. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig] + +0.2805_01 Thu Sep 7 21:57:29 CDT 2006 + + - Because of a weird behavior of YAML::Node, any distribution that + used version.pm objects to define their versions was generating the + wrong syntax for the versions in their META.yml file. They will + now appear as strings like v3.42.1 or similar, including the + leading v. + + - Upgraded to version 0.67 of version.pm. [John Peacock] + + - Added a contrib/ directory with a bash completion function for M::B + actions and switches. [Julian Mehnle] + + - When we eval() the embedded version.pm code we will now die() if + the eval() was unsuccessful, rather than continuing blindly on and + dying mysteriously later. + + - Added a 'retest' action that lets users run the current regression + tests on a previously-installed version of a distribution. + + * Instead of storing an entire dump of the Config.pm hash in the + _build/ directory upon startup, we now just store any overrides the + user or author has specified. Note that if you were doing anything + you weren't supposed to be doing, like poking around in the + internals of $buld->{config}, your code might break, so I've put + the asterisk of incompatibility on this one just to cover my + tuchus. [Idea originally by Randy Sims] + + - Made copying files via copy_if_modified() a little less chatty. + +0.2805 Sat Jul 29 22:01:24 CDT 2006 + + - We now embed a copy of version.pm right in the + Module::Build::Version source code, with John Peacock's blessing, + in case the user has a rough time installing version.pm. This + helps alleviate troubles people were still having with working out + a seemingly circular dependency (even though version.pm now ships + with a standard Makefile.PL too). A version.pm >= 0.661 installed + on the system will take precedence over our bundled one. [John + Peacock] + + - Fix some test warnings (or failures?) related to version.pm + numification. [John Peacock] + + - The top-level 'version' entry in META.yml files we'd generated was + in the wrong format (it was being treated as a version.pm object + rather than a serialized copy) due to a weird YAML::Node issue. + Fixed. + + - Don't 'use base qw(version)' anymore in our M::B::Version wrapper, + just set @ISA directly, because some people have reported that the + 'use base' line is croaking. + + - Added an 'allow_mb_mismatch' parameter to suppress the startup + check that ensures the version of M::B currently running is the + same as the one initially used to run the Build.PL. Use with + caution. + + - Module::Build::ModuleInfo will no longer detect things that look + like $VERSION assignments after an __END__ or __DATA__ token. + + - Updated documentation to mention the new mailing list on perl.org + rather than the old one on sourceforge. + +0.2804 Sun Jul 16 16:41:25 CDT 2006 + + - Added 'use version;' in Module::Build::Version, because some + versions of base.pm won't automatically load version.pm when we do + 'use base qw/version/;'. [Spotted by Erik Tank] + +0.2803 Sat Jul 15 08:26:34 CDT 2006 + + - The META.yml file in the last release was all screwed up, so the + distribution wasn't indexed properly. Fixed in this release. + +0.2802 Fri Jul 14 22:40:34 CDT 2006 + + - Added reliance on version.pm, which means we should deal much + better with the wide range of version specifications one finds on + CPAN. This is made possible by recent releases of version.pm that + give the user a pure-perl option, so installing version.pm + shouldn't be too onerous for most users. [John Peacock] + + - We should be accepting the default when we're in unattended mode, + not acting dumb and ignoring both the default and the [empty] + answer from the user. Fixed. [Spotted by Nik Clayton] + +0.2801 Sun May 21 00:07:40 CDT 2006 + + - Module::Build::Compat's emulation of INC is incorrectly prepending + a -I to the value of INC. This is incorrect because there should + already be a -I on the value. I.E. it's "perl Makefile.PL INC=-Ifoo" + not "perl Makefile.PL INC=foo" so Compat should not prefix a -I. + [Michael Schwern] + + - Native batch scripts under Windows should not be converted by + pl2bat. [Spotted by Ron Savage] + + - Tweaked the way we determine whether a file is executable on Unix. + We use this determination to decide whether to make it executable + during installation. [Julian Mehnle] + + - Replaced a vestigial 'next' with 'return' now that the code is in a + subroutine (htmlify_pods()), not a loop. [Ron Savage] + + - Fixed a guaranteed failure in t/signature.t when TEST_SIGNATURE was + set. [Eric R. Meyers] + + - Fixed a test failure that occurred when testing or installing in + unattended mode - the code to test whether unattended mode and + attended mode are working properly was assuming that we started out + in attended mode. [Steve Peters] + + - Improved our stand-in YAML generator that we use to generate + META.yaml when authors don't have a copy of YAML.pm installed on + their machine. It was unable to handle things like embedded + newlines in the data, now it has a much more extensive escaping + mechanism. [Stephen Adkins] + + - Revised the docs for --prefix and PREFIX. [Michael Schwern] + +0.28 Thu Apr 27 22:25:00 CDT 2006 + + - When y_n() or prompt() are called without a default value and the + build seems to be unattended (e.g. in automatic CPAN testing), we + now die() with an error message rather than silently returning + undef for prompt(), or looping indefinitely for y_n(). + + - When searching for '.modulebuildrc', return the first HOME-like + directory that actually contains the file instead of the first + existing directory. Document the search locations and the order + searched. [Spotted by David Golden] + + - Split the API documentation out of Module::Build::Authoring into + its own document: Module::Build::API. + + - We should not emit a warning if a Module::Build subclass is + required in a Makefile.PL that is not bundled in the current + distribution; it may be installed on the user's system. [Spotted by + Tyler MacDonald] + + - copy_if_modified() now preserves the executable bit of the source + file. [Spotted by Julian Mehnle] + + - Fixed compatibility of our screen-scraping the Test::Harness output + so we can recognize the most recent Test::Harness version. [Steve + Hay] + + - Backing out a requirement added in 0.27_06 on the method y_n() + to always include a default. This behavior would cause existing + build scripts to start failing. We now fail with a missing default + only when $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} is set because there is no + reasonable default. + + - Make install_types() method smarter with respect to custom install + types. + + - Add documentation for the install_base_relpaths() and + prefix_relpaths() methods. Improved their usage for a public API, + and added tests. + +0.27_10 Tue Mar 28 22:50:50 CST 2006 + + - Added the create_packlist property, default true, which controls + whether packlist files will be written during installation. This + was already part of Module::Build 0.2609, but for some reason we've + forgotten it in the 0.27_xx series. [Spotted by Steve Kirkup] + + - Document the versions of Module::Build where each feature, action, + constructor argument, and method was first publicly documented. + + - More fixes for find_perl_interpreter() to work with BSD flavored + UNIX: Ensure we always return absolute paths; throw an exception + upon failure to find correct interperter; document everything. + + - We now include our own YAML.pm work-alike that we can use when the + real YAML isn't installed. We might soon even start using it when + YAML is installed, because the YAML API and dependency chain have + been changing in unfavorable ways lately. [Stephen Adkins] + + - Fixed some shell-argument-quoting issues on VMS. In the process, + we have added some support for avoiding tripping over + shell-argument-quoting issues on other platforms too. [Initial + patch by Craig A. Berry] + +0.27_09 Sat Mar 11 22:48:54 EST 2006 + + - Fixed find_perl_interpreter() so we can find the perl executable + when running from uninstalled perl even when $^X contains a + relative path. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] + + - Fixed warning message where we were printing the wrong field names. + [Chris Dolan] + + - Added a 'testpodcoverage' action that runs a POD coverage check for + all modules in the distribution. [Yanick Champoux] + + - Added a Cookbook example of subclassing to modify an action. [Dylan + Martin and David Golden] + + - When building HTML documentation, we were opening the POD file and + not checking whether the open succeeded, which of course caused + problems down the line if it failed. Now we do "or die(...)" like + everywhere else. [Spotted by Joerg Braun] + +0.27_08 Fri Mar 3 21:22:41 CST 2006 + + - Due to shell quoting issues and differences in syntax between + various flavors of Windows, the code for the 'pl2bat' utility + distributed with Perl has been incorporated into M::B::P::Windows. + [Thanks to Dr Bean and Ron Savage for help testing and isolating + the problem.] + + - Modify add_build_element() so that it only adds elements if they + don't already exist. [David Wheeler] + + - Fixed a bug in the 'pass-through' Makefile.PL in which we would die + if CPAN::Shell->install returned false, but apparently this return + value is unreliable. Now we only die if the module is actually + unavailable after installation. + + - Fixed testing problems on VMS related to non-case-preserving + filesystems. We now bundle Tie::CPHash in the distribution (just + for testing purposes, it doesn't get installed) to help with + this. [Craig Berry and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] + + - We incorrectly documented the 'dynamic_config' flag in the META.yml + file as having a default value of false, but according to the + META.yml spec (which, for heaven's sake, we wrote) its default + value is true. Fixed. [Spotted by Adam Kennedy] + + - The have_c_compiler() method was dying if the ExtUtils::CBuilder + module wasn't around, which is obviously an unhelpful thing to do. + Now it just returns false. [Spotted by John Peacock] + + - Fix detection of $VERSION expressions that are not + assignments. [Spotted by Chris Dolan] + + - Obfuscate one of our constructs that uses a $VERSION variable, + because it was getting picked up by ExtUtils::MakeMaker's + version-finder. [Spotted by Randal Schwartz] + + - The config_data script for querying and/or setting a module's + config data was forgetting to call write() after setting config + values (though setting feature values was working fine). + Fixed. [Brian Duggan] + + - On Windows, remove the pl2bat generated 'Build.bat' script without + the annoying "The batch file cannot be found." error. [Solution + provided by RazTK and foxidrive on newsgroup alt.msdos.batch] + + - Our version comparisons should now work correctly with modules that + use version.pm to delcare their versions (e.g. "our $VERSION = + version->new('1.0.0')"). [John Peacock and Ron Savage] + + - We now create a Build.bat script on versions of Windows where it + makes sense. [Yves] + + - Fixed the verbiage around choosing the correct make-alike on + different platforms to suggest using 'perl -V:make'. [Suggested by + anonymous user] + +0.27_07 Wed Feb 1 20:07:45 CST 2006 + + - The notes() method now returns the new value when called with two + arguments, just like when it's called with one argument. [Tyler + MacDonald] + + - The notes() method now distinguishes among the values undef, 0, and + the empty string, where previously it didn't. [Tyler MacDonald] + + - We now unshift(@INC) rather than push(@INC) for the directory where + a build subclass lives, so that we're sure to pick up the right + version and not some already-installed version. [perlmonkey] + + - The SIGNATURE file for version 0.27_06 (and I'm sure for lots of + versions before that too!) was messed up, since we were modifying + some files after signing. This has been band-aided for the time + being by signing twice. [Reported by Chris Dolan] + +0.27_06 Mon Jan 23 21:44:54 CST 2006 + + - Fixed an undefined-variable warning when building the META.yml file + and the author hasn't used the 'module_name' mechanism. [Chris Dolan] + + - We should now work with recent (> 0.49) versions of YAML.pm when + creating the META.yml file. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] + + - The y_n() method now requires the default parameter, and the + prompt() and y_n() methods have been improved with respect to + how they behave/detect when there is no user to ask. We're now + more consistent with MakeMaker, including respecting the + PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT environment variable. [Tyler MacDonald and + Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] + + - When building a README file using Pod::Text, work around a bug in + Pod::Text 3.01, which expects Pod::Simple::parse_file to take input + and output filehandles when it actually only takes an input + filehandle. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] + +0.27_05 Thu Jan 12 17:39:21 CST 2006 + + - In t/common.pl, we were attempting to let the user's installed + Test::More take precedence over ours, but getting thwarted by all + the test scripts' loading Test::More beforehand. Fixed. [Spotted + by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] + + - In various test scripts, we were outputting some strings that + weren't strictly conformant with Test::Harness's expected input, + though it didn't actually cause problems. Now we're more + conformant, though not yet strict. [Spotted by Yitzchak + Scott-Thoennes] + +0.27_04 Fri Dec 23 10:43:34 CST 2005 + + - Removed experimental feature that extended the prerequisite system + to apply ('requires', 'recommends', and 'conflicts') prereqs to all + actions. Most of the internal extensiblity has been retained so + that prereq types can easily be added, more selectively. + + - Added a 'prereq_report' action that shows the user a well-formatted + list of all prerequisites, the versions required, and the versions + actually installed. [David Wheeler] + + - Clarified the directory name that's created during the 'distdir' + action. [Suggested by Tyler MacDonald] + + - Fixed a bug when creating the META.yml file without the help of + YAML.pm - some common strings weren't quoted & escaped properly. + Now only some uncommon ones are. [Spotted by Joshua ben Jore] + + - Fixed a bug in which an "UNINST=1" argument specified to a + passthrough Makefile's "make install" wasn't actually seen by + Module::Build. + + - Rather than dying when the Build script is run from the wrong + directory, it now simply chdir()s into the right directory and + keeps going. [Suggested by Dominique Quatravaux] + + - Added an "Examples on CPAN" section to the cookbook, with an + initial entry pointing to John Peacock's SVN-Notify-Mirror + distribution. + + - Add an invoked_action() method to return the name of the original + action invoked by the user. + + - Add 'meta-spec' field to the generated META.yml file, including the + version of the specification followed by the current Module::Build + and the url where the specification can be found. + + - Introduced two actions, 'html' & 'manpages', that generate + documentation for POD when the respective feature is enabled. The + actions will generate the documents even if there is no set place + to install to. However, if the actions are invoked as a dependency + of another action (e.g. build), the documentation will only be + built when there is a default or user-specified place to install to. + + - Added support for environment variable, 'MODULEBUILDRC', which can + be used to specify the full path to an option file to use instead + of the default location of ~/.modulebuildrc. A special undocumented + setting of 'NONE' tells Module::Build not to load any user settings, + so tests can be run without tainting from user options. + + - Documented and improved preliminary support for more Getopt::Long + style options are supported, including boolean options (--verbose, + --no-verbose), and use of hyphens in option names in addition to + underscores. + + - The option to disable/enable reading of the ~/.modulebuildrc file + is changed from 'skip_rcfile' to 'use_rcfile' + + - Allow the 'distmeta' action to continue when 'MANIFEST' is missing, + omitting the generation of the 'provieds' field. [Steven Schubiger] + + - Fixed some failing regex from generated MANIFEST.SKIP file. + + - Fixed an edge case in $VERSION parsing where we thought a package() + declaration was happening but it wasn't. [David Golden] + + - Added docs for the install_destination() and install_types() methods. + +0.27_03 (Beta for 0.28) Mon Oct 10 11:19:23 EDT 2005 + + - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for + example, when compiling XS modules). (This change actually + occurred in 0.27_01, but it was mistakenly omitted from the Changes + file.) + + - Fixed an issue on Win32 (and other case-tolerant + non-case-preserving systems, possibly like VMS?) in which the + current working directory would sometimes be reported with + different case, fooling us into thinking that we were in the wrong + directory. [David Golden] + + - The extra_compiler_flags setting was not actually being passed + along to ExtUtils::CBuilder so it could pass it along to the + compiler. Now it is. + + - The synonyms 'scripts' and 'prereq' for 'script_files' and + 'requires' were broken in a previous version (0.27_01, probably), + but now they're fixed. [David Golden] + + - Previously, we assumed that any custom subclass of Module::Build + was located in _build/lib/. This is only true if the author used + the subclass() method, though. We now use %INC to find where the + custom subclass really is, so that we can "use lib" it. We also + issue a warning if it seems to be outside the build directory. + [Spotted by Peter Tandler] + + - Added a URL for each license type that we know about, which will + appear as resources=>license: in the generated META.yml file. + + - If the user passes a no_index parameter to our constructor, we now + pass that through when building the META.yml file. [Richard + Soderberg, RT #9603] + + - A few more status messages can now be suppressed by using 'quiet' + mode. [Dave Rolsky] + + - Added some more entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file. [Chris + Dolan] + + - Our POD parser will now accept "AUTHORS" as well as "AUTHOR" when + looking for the author list in a module. [David Wheeler] + + - When looking for the POD to auto-generate a README file, or for the + AUTHOR or ABSTRACT for the distribution, we now also look for a + *.pod with the same name as the *.pm file specified by + 'version_from'. [David Golden] + + - The recommended dependency on ExtUtils::ParseXS has been moved into + the "C_support" auto_feature. + + - When building XS files, we now pass the -DVERSION and -DXS_VERSION + flags to the compiler. [Spotted by Jerry Hedden] + + - If a distribution has XS files and Module::Build has not been + configured with the "C_support" feature, we now issue a + warning. [Suggested by Jerry Hedden] + + - Added a dir_contains() method. + + - Some versions of MakeMaker, CPANPLUS, and/or PAUSE thought that a + certain line of our code was declaring a $VERSION when we didn't + intend to. The line has been obscurified so they won't think that + anymore. [Jos Boumans, RT #14226] + + - Added the Apache, MIT, and Mozilla licenses to the list of licenses + that this module knows about. [Bob Ippolito] + + - Fixed a pretty significant typo in the documentation for + auto_features. [Spotted by Jonas B. Nielsen] + + - In order to aid people who want to do customization of the META.yml + file, we've added a "metafile" property that can then be easily + overridden in subclasses, changed do_create_meta_yml() to + do_create_metafile(), and split out the code that actually + generates the YAML into a new method, write_metafile(). [David + Wheeler] + + - Fixed a couple of non-helpful behaviors with extra_compiler_flags + and extra_linker_flags. These will automatically be run through + split_like_shell() when given to new() as strings. + + - When the user doesn't have ExtUtils::ParseXS installed and we use + the old 'xsubpp', the displayed command line for creating the .c + file from the .xs file was missing its newline. Now it's got it. + +0.27_02 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Jul 15 07:34:58 CDT 2005 + + - Provided initial support for the --prefix installation parameter, + which acts like MakeMaker's PREFIX. It is still highly recommended + NOT to use it when you could reasonably use --install_base or + --install_path or --install_dest, but that's just because the way + --prefix is designed is weird and unpredictable. Ultimately the + choice rests with the installing user. [Patches by Michael Schwern + and Rob Kinyon] + + - Fixed a bug in subclass() which prevented people from using it to + subclass subclasses of Module::Build. [Chris Dolan] + + - Added a 'pure_install' action, which for the time being is + identical to the 'install' action. [Jos Boumans] + + - Fixed a POD error in an L<http://...> tag. [Offer Kaye] + + - Note several options for automatically creating a new module dev + tree. [Suggested by Eric Wilhelm] + + - Removed some hard-coded references to File::Spec::Unix in the + creation of HTML docs, which should help that code work in more + places, and help people not to panic when they look at it. [Spotted + by Yves] + + - We now use Pod::Readme by default (instead of Pod::Text) to + generate the README file when the 'create_readme' option is used. + If Pod::Readme is not installed, we will still fall back to using + Pod::Text. [Robert Rothenberg] + + - The values of the "prefix", "install_base", "install_path", and + "install_dest" parameters can now begin with "~" or "~user", and + we'll de-tilde-ify them by using glob(). + + - The (optional) auto-creation of the README and Makefile.PL files + have been moved from the 'distdir' action to the 'distmeta' + action. [David Golden] + + - When looking for a .modulebuildrc file, we now use a fancier method + of trying to find the home directory, because $ENV{HOME} isn't a + very cross-platform variable. [Robert Rothenberg] + + - We now memoize the output of the internal _default_INC() method, + since it uses backticks and might be kind of slow. + + - When processing XS files, we now look for a typemap in lib/ as well + as using the system's default typemap. [John Peacock] + + - The DESTDIR, PREFIX, and INSTALL_BASE arguments to "make install" + are now supported for pass-through Makefiles (they've been + supported for quite a while as arguments to "perl + Makefile.PL"). [Requested by Guillaume Rousse] + + - Test::Harness has changed its output format in recent versions, + which threw off one of our tests. We now allow for this different + format. [Reported by Scott Godin] + + - Fixed an issue that prevented Module::Build from upgrading itself + using its own API (which is how CPANPLUS uses it). There are still + some issues with this solution, however. See ticket #13169 in + rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans] + + - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when a distribution's author + could not be determined from its POD nor from the call to + Module::Build->new() in its Build.PL. See ticket #12318 in + rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans] + + - Apparently on Windows and cygwin it's not possible to use the "-pi" + switch to perl without a backup extension, so now we use ".bak" and + remove the backup file when we're done. Thus the "dist" action for + Module::Build itself can now be run on those platforms. [Yitzchak + Scott-Thoennes] + + - Improved the handling of auto_features in the config_data access + script. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] + +0.27_01 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Apr 15 21:12:57 CDT 2005 + + Backward-incompatible (but better) changes: + + * When using the 'install_base' option to choose a directory for + installing everything, perl modules now go into lib/perl5/ instead + of just lib/. It seems this is more consistent with people's + expectations, and the way I had it before was a bit peculiar to the + way I like things in my own home directory. [Michael Schwern] + + * When the user is using the 'install_base' option, scripts will now + be installed by default in $install_base/bin/ rather than + $install_base/script/ . [Jan Hudec and Michael Schwern] + + Major changes: + + - The auto_features mechanism will now re-evaluate dependencies every + time feature() is called for an auto-feature, rather than freezing + the success/failure value during 'perl Build.PL' and using that + value for all eternity (or module update, whichever comes first). + This applies to both $build->feature() and + FooModule::ConfigData->feature() calls. [Requested by many] + + - Added the meta_add and meta_merge mechanisms, which let the module + author add/merge arbitrary entries into the META.yml file. + + - Now reads per-action default options from '$ENV{HOME}/.modulebuildrc' + if it exists. Command line options override anything set in the rc file. + + - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for + example, when compiling XS modules). + + - The creation of Unix man pages is no longer a strict necessity - it + has now been turned into an 'auto-feature' contingent on the + presence of Pod::Man and a location specified for man pages to go. + + - A user-specified 'install_path' setting will now take precedence + over an 'install_base' setting. This allows the user to use + 'install_base' to set the base for all elements in one go, and then + use 'install_path' to override specific paths or add paths for + additional kinds of targets. + + - Split the main documentation from 'Module/Build.pm' into two + sections. The user level documentation and overview remains in + 'Module/Build.pm', while a new document, + 'Module/Build/Authoring.pod', has been created for module authors. + + Minor changes: + + - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not + because of inadequate training in forensic debate) - we now pass its + arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them + in afterwards. + + - Let resume() return an object blessed into the appropriate class + if the user has provided a subclass, as specified by the + 'build_class' property. This allows current() and new_from_context() + to behave more like factory methods returning objects of the correct + class based on context. [Ray Zimmerman] + + - Refactored methods relating to parsing perl module files for + package, version, and pod data into a new class: + Module::Build::ModuleInfo. It should not be considered part of + Module::Build's API, because we may split it out entirely as a + separate CPAN module that we depend on. + + - Added new method Module::Build::prepare_metadata() for authors to + override in order to add custom fields to META.yml. + + - We now use Test::More for our regression tests. If the user + doesn't have it installed, we include a copy in t/lib/ that we can + use during testing. + + - When copying files in the 'distdir' action, set permissions to match + the original files. [Julian Mehnle] + + - When adding files like META.yml to the MANIFEST, we now tell the + user we're doing so by printing one of the "Added to MANIFEST: ..." + lines. [Ron Savage] + + - Added a runtime_params() method, which lets a module author see + which parameters were overridden by the user on the command line + (or in whatever paradigm the user originally invoked Module::Build + from). [David Wheeler] + + - Added the current_action() method, which, surprisingly, returns the + name of the currently running action. [David Wheeler] + + - Added docs for run_perl_script(). + + - Added some stuff to the docs about why PREFIX is unsupported, and + what to use instead. [Steve Purkis] + + - The simple get/set accessor methods for all the 'parameters' like + verbose(), license(), etc. now have auto-generated documentation in + Module/Build.pm. + + - Created a Cookbook entry for 'Adding new elements to the install + process' + + - We now add META.yml to the MANIFEST when META.yml is created, not + when MANIFEST is created. [Spotted by Ron Savage] + + - Added some additional patterns to the suggested MANIFEST.SKIP + contents, and changed the docs so that we encourage the user to use + the MANIFEST.SKIP. [Ron Savage] + + - Eliminated a redundant recipe from the Cookbook, now that there are + some more extensive recipes on how to add stuff to the + build/install sequences. + + - Eliminated an undefined-variable warning when testing under perl 5.005 + + - When building HTML documentation, 'html_backlink' and 'html_css' + properties are now first-class properties, so they can be set from + the command line. [Suggested by Sagar R. Shah] + + - Have script_files default to everything in bin. I believe this is + the least surprising behavior. [Suggested by Michael Schwern] + + - If script_files is given a directory, consider each file in that + directory tree as a script to be installed. This avoids having to + remember to add to the script_files list every time you add a + program. [Suggested by Michael Schwern] + + - We now only load Pod::Man when we actually need to build man pages. + + - We now make Test::Harness use our carefully-selected path to a perl + executable regardless of Test::Harness's version. Previously we + let it figure stuff out for itself if it was a reasonably modern + version, but it's safer to make sure we're using the same perl + everywhere. + +0.2610 Fri Apr 15 08:25:01 CDT 2005 + + - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not + because of inadequate training in debate) - we now pass its + arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them + in afterwards. [Ray Zimmerman] + + - Fixed a bug in which config_data and feature data were being + forgotten and no ConfigData.pm module would get written. [Ray + Zimmerman] + + - Added a recipe to the cookbook showing how to run a single test + file from the command line. [William McKee] + + - For command-line arguments, we now accept the syntax "--foo=bar" in + addition to "--foo bar" and "foo=bar". This seems to fit well with + what GNU getopt and Getopt::Long do, and with people's + expectations. [Adam Spiers] + +0.2609 Wed Mar 16 22:18:35 CST 2005 + + - The html docs that were created during the first invokation of + './Build' were being found and treated as pod that needed to be + converted to html during subsequent invokations. We now are more + specific about the directories we scan for pod that needs to be + converted, effectively avoiding blib/html. [Ray Zimmerman] + + - If Pod::Man is not available, we now skip building man pages + (rather than dying) and tell the user why. + + - We now write a .packlist file upon installation, in the same place + that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does. [Johnny Lam] + + - On some Unix platforms (BSD derivatives, mostly) perl's $^X + variable isn't set to the full path of the perl executable, just + 'perl', when the 'Build' script is run as './Build' and not 'perl + ./Build'. This can lead to some other modules (maybe + Test::Harness, maybe IO::File, I dunno...) getting very confused + about where they are, and they try to load stuff from the wrong + perl lib, and big trouble ensues. To fix this, we now set $^X to + the value of Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter(). + + - The 'distcheck' action will now die() if it finds an error in the + MANIFEST, rather than just printing on STDOUT. [David Golden] + + - When the README and/or Makefile.PL are autogenerated using + create_readme or create_makefile_pl, we now automatically make sure + they're also listed in the MANIFEST file. [Suggested by Michael + Schwern] + + - Got rid of the t/MANIFEST file - it's superfluous, and it had + zero-length, which some versions of Tar don't like. [William + Underwood] + + - Added a mention in the documentation that each property that new() + accepts also has a corresponding get/set accessor. (In the version + 0.27_0x series each accessor method is mentioned explicitly in the + docs.) [Omission spotted by Ian Langworth] + +0.2608 Wed Jan 26 19:46:09 CST 2005 + + - Add workaround for test files because Devel::Cover causes + require to fail when the argument to require is an expression + involving File::Spec. We now assign the result of the File::Spec + call to a variable and then call require with that variable. + + - Tilde-expansion is now performed on arguments passed to a + compatibility-Makefile.PL [Spotted by Sam Vilain] + + - We now run the 'gzip' and 'tar' values through split_like_shell() + when running the 'dist' action, so that e.g. the 'gzip' value can + be set to something like "gzip -f --best" and it'll work + correctly. [Spotted by Chris Dolan] + + - Work around some bad mojo between Fedora Core [with its very long + @INC] and old versions of Test::Harness [with its propensity to + compound the number of @INC entries] that produced an "argument + list too long" error during testing. [assisted by Ville Skytta, + David Golden, & Randy Sims] + + - Killed an infinite loop that would happen in y_n() in interactive + mode if the author provided no default value. [Max Maischein] + +0.2607 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Sat Dec 18 14:14:09 CST 2004 + + - Instead of freezing @INC in the 'Build' script to the value it had + when Build.PL was run, we now just add those additional values that + aren't part of the default compiled-in @INC. [Michael Schwern] + + - The run_perl_script() method will now propagate any extra entries + in @INC (such as those added by "use lib" or the -I command-line + switch) to the subprocess. This helps situations in which you want + to tell the subprocess where to find a certain module, for + instance. [Michael Schwern] + +0.2606 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Dec 7 22:33:11 CST 2004 + + - Fixed a linking bug on Win32, in which compiled C code object files + never got linked in with the modules being built. [Dominic + Mitchell] + + - Fixed a bug in the new_from_context() method in which any arguments + passed made us die. [Spotted by Jos Boumans] + +0.2605 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Nov 30 07:16:13 CST 2004 + + - Fixed a bug in which zero-length arguments for hash-valued + parameters (e.g. " --config foo= ") weren't being allowed. + + - The tests now play better with environments in which version.pm is + pre-loaded, like in bleadperl. [John Peacock & Michael Schwern] + + - Fixed a syntax error in one of the tests under perl 5.005. + +0.2604 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 17 14:32:42 CST 2004 + + - Fixed a split_like_shell() bug introduced in 0.2603 for Windows, in + which an array reference passed as an argument was returned as an + array reference, rather than as a list. [Spotted by Steve Hay] + + - module_name() will now return '' instead of undef when module_name + is not set. This eliminates a couple uninitialized-value + warnings. [Suggested by Michael Schwern] + + - The expand_test_dir() method will now skip dotfiles (like ._foo.t, + which sometimes gets automatically created on Mac systems) when + 'recursive_test_files' is in effect. [Tom Insam] + +0.2603 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Mon Nov 15 10:28:00 CST 2004 + + - Added documentation for the new_from_context() method. + + - Completely rewrote the split_like_shell() method for the Windows + platform so it works like the command.com shell. [Randy Sims] + +0.2602 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Thu Nov 4 11:19:29 CST 2004 + + - The two bug fixes in 0.2601 gnashed against each other incorrectly, + resulting in a Win32 bug in split_like_shell(). Fixed. [Spotted + by Steve Hay & Randy Sims] + + - Removed a couple of 'use warnings' statements from the code - they + were causing compile failures on 5.005_04, where warnings.pm isn't + available. [Blair Zajac] + +0.2601 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 3 20:09:27 CST 2004 + + - Fixed some backslash problems with split_like_shell() on + Win32. [Steve Hay] + + - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was + creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no + such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge] + +0.26 Sat Oct 9 17:51:01 CDT 2004 + + - Removed some language from the Module::Build::Compat documentation + that encouraged people to include a Build.PL without a Makefile.PL. + Also changed "a replacement for MakeMaker" to "an alternative to + MakeMaker" in the main documentation, which is basically what I + meant all along (i.e. a replacement for MakeMaker in your + particular build process - MakeMaker is never going to be fully + replaced in the perl world at large, of course), but some people + got the impression I was a little more truculent toward MakeMaker + than I really am. + + - Added the formal concepts of "features" and "config data" for + distributions. This allows the module author to define a certain + set of features that the user can switch on and off (usually + according to whether they have the proper prerequisites for them), + and to save build-time configuration information in a standardized + format. See the main documentation of Module::Build for more + details. (Note that the name of this system was called + "BuildConfig" for a while in beta, but now it's called + "ConfigData".) + + - Added an 'auto_features' capability, which simplifies the process + of defining features that depend on a set of prerequisites. + + - Added the 'get_options' parameter, which lets module authors + declare certain command-line arguments their Build.PL can accept + [David Wheeler] + + - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords() + function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which + does a much better job than the split() we were using. + + - Added a 'testpod' action, which checks the syntactic validity of + all POD files in the distribution using Test::Pod. This eliminates + the need for doing so in a regression test. [Initial patch by Mark + Stosberg] + + - Added a process_files_by_extension() method, which generalizes the + kind of processing (essentially just copying) that happens for .pm + and .pod files, and makes it available to other user-defined types + of files. See the new cookbook entry. + + - Improved compatibility with version.pm when authors are using + version objects as their $VERSION variables. Now + version_from_file() can deal with these objects. Currently we + stringify them right away, but perhaps in the future we will + preserve them as objects for a while. + + - During 'distdir' and 'distmeta' actions, die a bit more gracefully + if there's no MANIFEST (i.e. explicitly say that a MANIFEST is + required). [Spotted by Adrian Howard] + + - Eliminated a recursive dependency between creating the MANIFEST + file and creating the META.yml file. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky] + + - On Win32, where a single directory might be known variously as + "Module-Build-0.25_03" or "MODULE~1.25_", we now use + Win32::GetShortPathName($cwd) to verify that the 'Build' script is + being run from the correct directory, rather than just a string + comparison. + + - The add_to_cleanup() method will now accept glob()-style patterns + in addition to explicit filenames. Also documented the fact that + they can be specified in either Unix-style or native-style + notation. + + - Passing a PREFIX value to a pass-through Makefile 'make install' + now has the same effect as passing it to 'perl Makefile.PL' (it + dies with a helpful message). + + - Added the 'testcover' action, which runs a test suite using + Devel::Cover. [Dave Rolsky] + + - Added the 'lib' and 'arch' installation directories to the search + path for the 'diff' action, since they won't necessarily (though + they usually will) be in @INC at installation time. [Suggested by + Kevin Baker] + + - The "=head3" POD directive isn't supported in older podlators + (particularly Pod::Man), so we don't use it anymore. + + - Fixed a typo & improved the docs in the SUBCLASSING section. [Ron + Savage] + + - Added the '.tmp' suffix to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file, which + should avoid adding things like pod2htmi.tmp to the MANIFEST [Ron + Savage] + + - Backup files from Emacs, containing the string '.#' in their names, + should no longer find their way into the blib/ directory (and from + there into installation directories). + + - Worked around an unpleasant interaction between version.pm and the + version-checking code that makes sure Module::Build's version + hasn't changed during the lifetime of the 'Build' script. [Reported + by Trevor Schellhorn] + + - Fixed a problem in htmlify_pods() that would produce test failures + on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere). [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] + + - Fixed a test failure on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere) in + t/compat.t, resulting from empty environment variables being set to + the empty string (as opposed to simply being unset) by their mere + presence in the "EXPORT:" list. + + - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when the author specified + 'dist_author' manually in their Build.PL script. [Spotted by Ron + Savage] + + - The 'provides' section of the META.yml file wasn't being built + properly on Win32, because of a mismatch between URL-format and + native-format pathnames. Fixed. [Reported by Robert Rothenberg] + + - The progress message "lib/Foo.xs -> lib/Foo.c" was previously being + output even when the Foo.c file wasn't being rebuilt. It's now + fixed. + + - Fixed a couple of places in Compat.pm where it could have forgotten + which perl interpreter it had been run with ($^X isn't very + trustworthy). + + - On some systems, the way we updated the timestamp on the + "lib/Foo.bs" file (one of the output files for XS-based modules) + was failing. It's been replaced by a simple call to utime(). + + - Fixed a problem in t/compat.t that prevented it from being run + individually using 'make test TEST_FILES=t/compat.t'. The problem + was that a couple environment variables (TEST_FILES, MAKEFLAGS) + were being passed through to subprocesses, and confused them. + + - Fixed an important typo in the documentation for the 'install_base' + parameter ('libdoc' and 'bindoc' were switched). [Ray Zimmerman] + + - The pass-through Makefiles (type 'small' or 'passthrough') now + support the TEST_FILES parameter to 'make test'. + + - Fixed a fatal error that would occur on perl 5.005 when building + HTML documentation, because its version of Pod::Html was old and + didn't like some of the parameters we fed it. [Spotted by Blair + Zajac] + + - The final line of the generated pass-through Makefile was missing + its trailing newline, which is now fixed. [Chip Salzenberg] + + - We now depend on YAML version at least 0.35 and at most version + 0.49, so that we don't pick up a new (and backward-incompatible) beta + version from CPAN. + + - Squashed a warning in t/basic.t about '"Foo::Module::VERSION" used + only once', and one in PPMMaker about $^V being undefined. [Blair + Zajac] + + - Added a couple temporary output files from HTML documentation + generation to the cleanup list. [Toby Ovod-Everett] + + - The PodParser module will now only extract paragraphs in the + 'AUTHOR' section of the pod if they contain an '@' character. This + tends to do a better job, heuristically speaking, of returning + relevant stuff. + + - Added regression tests and a helper method ( add_build_elements() ) + for adding new elements to the build process. Also some + documentation. + + - Wrote a recipe in the Cookbook for adding new elements to the build + process, and a recipe for changing the order in which the steps in + the build process will occur. + +0.25 Sun Apr 25 11:12:36 CDT 2004 + + - During the 'distdir' action, if no MANIFEST.SKIP file exists, we + will now create a reasonable default one. [Randy Sims] + + - In Makefile compatibility mode, some arguments (like UNINST, + TEST_VERBOSE, etc.) given to 'make' are now recognized and passed + through to Module::Build. [Randy Sims] + + - The regression tests now make sure that several pass-through + Makefile.PL parameters are dealt with correctly. + + - Added support for the 'LIB' parameter to passthrough + Makefile.PLs. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum] + + - Passing a 'PREFIX' parameter to a passthrough Makefile.PL was + supposed to make it die with a helpful error message, but instead + it just ignored it and blindly tried to install to the wrong place. + This is now fixed. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum] + + - Added an extra_compiler_flags() accessor method. + + - If the 'recursive_test_files' option was turned on, the test files + weren't sorted, but returned in an apparently random order. Now + they're sorted. [Martyn Peck] + + - Documented the 'tar' and 'gzip' parameters to the 'dist' and + 'ppmdist' actions. + + - The generation of HTML documentation now works (it was accidentally + partially implemented with an itchy patch-application finger in + 0.24). [Randy Kobes] + + - Fixed a fatal bug when building META.yml with YAML.pm and + 'dynamic_config' is set. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg] + + - Fixed some incorrect error messages that occurred when + compiling/linking C sources went awry. + + - If the author uses a custom builder subclass, that subclass will + now be loaded correctly in the passthrough Makefile.PL if the + author uses the 'small' or 'passthrough' Makefile.PL options in + Module::Build::Compat. [Martyn Peck and Jaap Karssenberg] + + - If the author uses a custom builder subclass created dynamically + through the subclass() method, passthrough Makefile.PLs (of type + 'passthrough' or 'small') didn't work properly, because the custom + builder module wouldn't be loaded at the right time. This has been + fixed. [Reported by Toby Ovod-Everett] + + - In M::B-generated 'traditional' Makefile.PLs, the entries in + 'PREREQ_PM' are now sorted ASCIIbetically rather than randomly. + + - The install_types() method will now return any additional types + given as 'install_path' arguments, as well as all elements of the + current 'install_sets' entry. This makes it easier to add new + types of installable objects to the mix. + + - As a consequence of the previous change, there is no longer any + need to have an explicit 'install_types' data member, so it has + been removed. + + - In the second example code for the Module::Build->subclass() + method, the Module::Build module needed to be loaded before calling + its methods. [John Peacock] + + - Fixed minor error in the POD structure of Module::Build and + Module::Build::Platform::VMS docs. + + +0.24 Wed Feb 25 15:57:00 CST 2004 + + - Fixed a problem with incude_dirs not being propagated to the 'ccs' + file when compiling XS files on Win32. [Randy Sims and Steve Hay] + + - In 0.23, Module::Build::Compat->fake_makefile() started choking + when no 'build_class' parameter was supplied in the Makefile.PL. + Since these Makefile.PLs still exist on CPAN, we now default + 'build_class' to 'Module::Build', which was the old 0.22 behavior + anyway. [Reported by Martin Titz and Jeremy Seitz] + + - Added documentation for the 'include_dirs' parameter to + new(). [Steve Hay] + + - Changed the no-op command on Win32 from 'rem' to 'rem>nul' inside + pass-through Makefiles. [Randy Sims] + + - The 'autosplit' parameter now accepts an array reference if + multiple files should be split. [Jaap Karssenberg] + + - find_perl_interpreter() will now use $^X (if absolute), $ENV{PATH} + (if $^X isn't absolute), and $Config{perlpath}, in that order. + Also, we now make darn sure the result is the same version of perl, + by checking Config::myconfig() for a match against the current + perl. [Reported by Edward Sabol] + + - Fixed a fatal error on Win32 (and any other platform that doesn't + define an installation location for Unix-style man pages) during + installation. + +0.23 Sun Feb 8 22:01:18 CST 2004 + + - Fixed a compatibility problem in pass-through Makefiles (created by + Module::Build::Compat). Some 'make' utilities (for example, BSD + make) didn't like a '@' by itself on a line, so we stole some + 'NOOP' code from MakeMaker to fix it. [Reported by Mathieu Arnold] + + - Added a 'ppm_dist' action, which just makes the PPD file and then + makes a tarball out of the blib/ directory. [Randy Sims] + + - The @INC of the parent process is now propagated to child processes + when processing *.PL files. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg] + + - We now only attempt to fix the shebang line on a script if the + shebang line matches the regex /perl/i . This fixes some instances + where people put shell scripts in their distributions. [Jaap + Karssenberg] + + - We no longer generate a 'requires', 'recommends', 'conflicts', + etc. entry in the META.yml file if there's no data to go in it. + + - Added a documentation reference to Michael Schwern's wiki for tips + on conversion from MakeMaker to M::B. [Randy Sims] + + - If there are script_files, we now add EXE_FILES to the + 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated by M::B::Compat. [Suggested by + Yuval Kogman] + + - Documented the 'test_files' parameter to new(). [Reported by Tony + Bowden] + + - Fixed a problem in "Build help <action>", which didn't find the + correct help chunk if <action> was the final element in a POD + list. [Jaap Karssenberg] + + - Fixed a problem in the get_action_docs() method which gave + incorrect results if the method was called more than once in the + same program. + + - Fixed a problem in which actions defined by user subclasses + wouldn't be available via the pass-through Makefiles created by + Module::Build::Compat. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg] + + - We now use Data::Dumper instead of our own ad-hoc serialization + routines to create the 'traditional' Makefile.PL + arguments. [Suggested by Yuval Kojman] + +0.22 Sat Jan 10 22:05:39 CST 2004 + + - On Unixish platforms, the syntax "FOO=BAR /bin/baz arg arg" now + works when present in $Config{ld}. This solves a problem on Mac OS + X 10.3. [Reported by Adam Foxson] + + - The have_c_compiler() now also tests whether the linker seems to + work too. + + - Fixed a problem with creating the distribution tarball in which + permissions would usually be all read-only. We now use our own + file-copying routines rather than those in ExtUtils::Manifest, + because those do some annoying extra permissions-setting stuff for + no apparent reason. It makes me happy that this was a very very + easy patch to make. [Reported by Thomas Klausner] + + - The compile_c() method now includes $Config{cccdlflags} in its + command invocation. It's usually empty, but not always, so we + didn't notice for a while. [Richard Clamp] + + - On some platforms it's common to have a $Config{make} defined, but + no 'make' utility actually available. We now detect this and skip + some 'make' compatibility tests. [Randy Sims] + + - Fixed a spurious testing failure on non-Unix platforms that + happened because we accidentally call localize_file_path() on empty + strings in the test suite. [Spotted by Randy Sims on Windows] + + - Made the 'name', 'abstract', 'author', and 'version' properties + required when building a PPD file. [Spotted by Randy Sims, Dave + Rolsky, & Glenn Linderman] + + - When building a 'traditional' Makefile.PL with + Module::Build::Compat, we now use 'VERSION_FROM' when possible, + rather than always using 'VERSION'. This way the Makefile.PL + doesn't have to get modified every release. + + - Made some fixups to the 'PPM' info-file, improving compatibility + with ActiveState's PPM tools. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman] + + - The 'dist_author' property can now accept multiple authors, see the + docs for more info. [Randy Sims] + + - If the user doesn't have YAML.pm installed during ACTION_dist, we + now create a minimal YAML.pm anyway, without any dependency + information. + + - The 'distribution_type' field is no longer created in META.yml + files, in accordance with the finding made at the London CLPAN + meeting that it's essentially meaningless and ill-defined. + + - The 'dist' action now accepts an optional 'tar' parameter to use a + system utility for building the tarball, and a 'gzip' parameter for + compressing it. If these are used, Archive::Tar won't be invoked. + This was added because Archive::Tar is producing some very + non-cross-platform tarballs that many tar utilities can't handle. + + - During testing, if YAML.pm isn't installed, then we won't try + making a tarball either, since this would invoke YAML to create the + META.yml file. + + - Fixed a problem with chmod() being called incorrectly on MacOS + (i.e. MacPerl, not Mac OS X). [Spotted by Paul Sanford Toney] + + - Fixed a problem with the --config flag not being treated properly + (essentially ignored) on the command line for 'perl Build.PL' or + 'Build <action>'. [Spotted by Jakub Bogusz] + + - Added a new config() method to get at the Build object's notion of + the %Config hash. + + - Test::Harness is starting to contend for the Most Crotchety Module + Award. Work around a few of its nits when setting harness + switches. [Spotted by Diab Jerius] + + - Now the Build script will die() if we're run from the wrong + directory, rather than trying to chdir() to what it thinks is the + right directory and do its work there. See + https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4039 . [Chris Dolan] + + - Changed the manpage separator on OS/2 to '.'. [Ilya Zakharevich] + + - On OS/2, disable C compilation, since apparently it isn't working + there. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich] + + - Inserted a comment into auto-generated Makefile.PLs saying it was + auto-generated. [Randy Sims] + + - Fixed some annoying behavior in generated passthrough Makefile.PLs + when the user chose not to install Module::Build, or if + installation failed. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich and Richard + Clamp] + + - Moved the documentation for 'codebase' to the section where it's + relevant. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman] + + - Fixed a have_c_compiler() failure on some platforms, we now define + a boot_compilet() function (since we're compiling a library, not an + executable). [Randy Sims] + + - Added a recipe to the Module::Build::Cookbook describing how to + maintain compatibility with older versions of CPAN.pm [Jim Cromie] + + - Removed caveat about "looking for alternatives" in how hashes are + specified on the command line, since an alternative has been found. + + - Previously most warnings about optional prerequisites looked like + they were actually error messages about required prerequisites. + This has been corrected. [Reported again by Sagar Shah] + + - Added support for building XS (and C in general) stuff on AIX. + This was done by a small reorganization of prelink_c() method from + Windows.pm to Build.pm, and it is only invoked for the platforms + that need it invoked. AIX also massages some very naughty bits + (MakeMaker macro variables) in $Config{lddlflags} that should never + have been put there, but alas, they're there, so we find & resolve + them. + + - Added OS/2 ($^O = 'os2') to the list of Unix-like platforms. This + basically means that most platform-specific operations will be done + in a Unix-like manner. + + - Pass-through Makefiles will now die() when they're given a PREFIX + parameter, and suggest using 'destdir' or 'install_base' instead. + Previously they just ignored the parameter and tried to install to + the default location, which is clearly not what the user wanted. + + - Updated my email address in the documentation to a more recent + variant. + + - Add NetBSD to the list of Unix-like systems. [Adrian Bunk] + + - Add SVR5 to the list of Unix-like systems. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez] + + - We now use Pod::Parser to find the ABSTRACT and AUTHOR when it's + available on the system. [initial patch by Randy Sims] + + - Fixed a little scalar/list buglet in a documentation example. + +0.21 Wed Oct 15 20:47:05 CDT 2003 + + - Added a have_c_compiler() method. + + - Added documentation for the requires(), recommends(), + build_requires(), and conflicts() methods. + + - On Unix platforms, we now create the "Build" script with a #! line + matching the perl interpreter that was used to invoke the Build.PL + script, rather than whatever is in $Config{startperl}. This avoids + a potential warning about the interpreters not matching. [Spotted + by Ken Y. Clark] + + - The Unix version now uses the safer multi-argument form of system() + when building distribution tarballs. + + - Added a regression test for the 'dist' action to the t/runthrough.t + test. + + - Fixed a problem with File::Spec usage when creating the names of + 'libdoc' manual pages - the code wasn't dealing with the volume or + file portions correctly on certain platforms. + + - When creating the names of the 'libdoc' manual pages, we no longer + assume that pods are under the hard-coded paths 'blib/lib' or + 'blib/arch'. + + - Fixed a crashing bug that could sometimes occur when the + distribution contained no 'lib' directory. [Chris Dolan] + + - Fixed a crashing bug that happened when the user had .PL files in + the lib/ directory and didn't explicitly name them in a hash + reference to the new() constructor. [Chris Reinhardt, bug #4036] + + - .PL files are now passed the names of their target file(s) on the + command line when they run. + + - When YAML.pm wasn't installed, t/runthrough.t wasn't properly + skipping some tests that required YAML. This is now fixed. + [Stephen J. Smith] + + - Added documentation for the dist_version() and dist_name() + methods. [Spotted by Johan Vromans] + + - Existing values in $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} are now respected + and not squashed when we run the 'test' action. [Paul Johnson] + + - On cygwin, the separator string for manual page names has been set + to '.'. Previously it was '::', inherited from Unix. [Yitzchak + Scott-Thoennes] + + - Avoid a warning when Build.PL is run (i.e. when the new() method is + called) and no MANIFEST file exists. [Michael Schwern and Kevin + Ruscoe] + + - Added documentation for the 'code' and 'docs' actions. [Steve + Purkis and Mark Stosberg] + + - The internal method compile_support_files() has been renamed to + process_support_files() in order to make it consistent with other + processing methods. Note that it was never documented using the + old name. It's still not documented, actually. Maybe later. + + - Skip the 'write' pseudo-entry in the 'diff' action's installation + map. [Chris Dolan] + + - Fixed a bug in which notes() set in the Build.PL before + create_build_script() was called would get lost unless more notes() + were also set afterwards. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky] + + - The process of building elements of the distribution is now driven + by a list of build elements, paving the way for letting people add + their own types of build elements in future versions of + Module::Build (or in the current version with some difficulty). + + - Fixed some linking errors on Cygwin. [Randy Sims, Terrence Brannon] + + - Fixed a line-ending problem with detecting the dist_abstract + properly on Cygwin. [Randy Sims] + + - Fixed a problem with signatures that occurred if 'distsign' was + called before 'distdir' - the signature would be generated twice. + + - Added a 'create_readme' parameter to new(), which will use + Pod::Text to generate a README from the main (dist_version_from) + module file during the 'distdir' action. + + - We now refuse to run the 'Build' script if it was created using a + different version of Module::Build. This has caused a couple of + nasty bugs in the past, I don't want to know what it would cause in + the future. + + - Documentation for do_system() has been added. [Dave Rolsky] + + - run_perl_script() is now available as a class method, though it + will need to (re-)find the perl interpreter in this case. + + - Added a new_from_context() method that authors of automated tools + like CPANPLUS and CPAN can use instead of running all tasks as + sub-processes. We also use it in the regression tests for + Module::Build itself. ** Note that this method is currently + undocumented because its name may change in the future. ** + + - When signing distributions with Module::Signature, we now + automatically add the SIGNATURE file to the MANIFEST, avoiding an + unpleasant chicken/egg problem for the module author. + [unpleasantness spotted by sungo] + + - In Module::Build::Compat, added support for the 'verbose' parameter + to Makefile.PL [spotted by Soren Andersen, fixed by Michael + Schwern] + + - The Module::Build distribution now has a cryptographic 'SIGNATURE' + file created by Module::Signature. + + - Added proper documentation for the subclass() method. [spotted by + Jonathan Steinert] + + - Worked around a Config.pm bug in Red Hat 9 which prevented man + pages from being installed in the correct places. [spotted by Ville + Skytta] + + - Fixed a Module::Build::Compat bug in which setting INSTALLDIRS + caused a crash. [spotted by Ilya Martynov] + +0.20 Tue Aug 26 14:34:07 CDT 2003 + + - Separated the 'build' action into two separate actions, 'code' and + 'docs'. This is similar to MakeMaker's separation of the 'all' + target into 'pure_all' and 'manifypods'. This fixes a permissions + hassle in which doing 'sudo Build install' would often create local + doc files that needed superuser permissions to delete. + + - Enhanced the 'help' action - 'Build help foo' will now show the POD + documentation for the 'foo' action. + + - Added a notes() feature, which helps share data transparently + between the Build.PL and t/*.t scripts. + + - The installation process will now create man(1) and man(3) pages + from POD in modules & scripts, and install them. We don't build + man pages when there's nowhere to install them, such as on some + Win32 or most Mac systems. [large patch by Steve Purkis, 5.005 fix + by Mathieu Arnold] + + - The 'distdir' action now copies files to the distribution + directory, rather than making them hard links to the original + files. This allows authors to do last-minute alterations of the + files without affecting the originals. [Dave Rolsky] + + - If the author uses XS files in nonstandard locations, the copied + versions of those files will now be cleaned up properly. + + - In invoking the 'test' action or invoking 'xsubpp', we now use the + same perl executable as we use everywhere else, rather than blindly + using $^X or $Config{perlpath} (neither of which are very + reliable). + + - Fixed a problem with the 'install_path' parameter given to + 'Build.PL' being lost in subsequent actions. [Reported by Mathieu + Arnold] + + - Fixed yet another bug with installation directories, in which the + 'install_base' parameter wasn't being respected on the command + line. [Spotted by Jonathan Swartz] + + - Changed the way the depends_on() method works inside action + subroutines - now each action will only run once per dispatch() + invocation (similar to how perl's require() function works). This + helps avoid some difficult problems with dependency loops. + + - Changed the documentation for the 'autosplit' parameter to give + reasons why it may not be a good idea to use, but no longer + threaten to remove it. [Suggested by Martyn J. Pearce] + + - Improved the formatting of the 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated + by Module::Build::Compat->create_makefile_pl. [Michael Schwern] + + - The 'traditional' Makefile.PL will now use the 'module_name' + parameter (as NAME) if it's available, otherwise it will continue + to use the 'dist_name' (as DISTNAME). [Michael Schwern] + + - Created read/write accessor methods for all our 'properties'. + [Michael Schwern] + + - The 'test_files' parameter can now be specified using glob() syntax + (i.e. 't/*.t'), and the corresponding test_files() method is now a + read/write accessor. + + - The location of the 'blib' directory is now a property of the Build + object - nobody is likely to notice this change, with any luck, but + it makes the design and code cleaner. + + - The 'disttest' and 'distsign' methods now chdir() back to the + directory where they started, rather than to the base_dir of the + build. + + - Improved comparisons of version strings containing underscore + characters (indicating "beta" status). [Steve Purkis] + + - Added documentation for the 'dist_author', 'dist_abstract', and + 'codebase' parameters to new(), and for the 'ppd' action. [Dave + Rolsky] + + - Added documentation for the up_to_date() and contains_pod() + methods. [Dave Rolsky] + + - 'traditional' pass-through Makefile.PLs will now contain an + INSTALLDIRS parameter matching the Build.PL's 'installdirs' + setting. + + - version_from_file() now ignores $VERSION variables that are defined + in POD or comments. It can still be tricked by $VERSIONs in string + literals, though. [Steve Purkis] + + - The code to find packages in module files now uses Steve's scanning + method (above) to skip package-declaration-lookalikes in POD or + comments. + + - The 'disttest' action will now propagate its @INC settings to its + subprocesses. + +0.19 Wed Jul 9 22:34:02 CDT 2003 + + - Added support for the 'install_path' parameter, which allows custom + specification of where things should be installed. This is a major + improvement to Module::Build's functionality. + + - Added the 'install_base' parameter. Provides an easy way to + install to local or alternative directory trees. + + - We now install scripts by default to $Config{installsitebin} + instead of $Config{installscript}. Neither is a great choice, but + the former is likely to be [analogous to] /usr/local/bin, and the + latter is likely to be [something like] /usr/bin . If/when there's + a $Config{installsitescript}, we'll start using that automatically. + + - Fixed a problem on Win32 in which C and XS files wouldn't be + compiled properly, and the user would see an error about 'Can't + locate object method "format_compiler_cmd"'. + (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2391) + + - We now use the correct perl interpreter (via + Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter) in pass-through makefiles. + + - The t/compat.t test now uses $Config{make} instead of just 'make' + to test makefile compatibility. This fixes some failures on Win32. + We also skip this test entirely if no make utility is available. + + - Alternative distribution layouts are now supported via the + 'pm_files', 'pod_files', 'xs_files', 'PL_files', and 'script_files' + parameters to new(). This should help people transition from + MakeMaker, and might even help us write an automatic transition + tool. + + - Added tests to t/runthrough.t that check to see installation is + happening correctly. + + - Added experimental code to build a .ppd file, in support of + ActiveState's "Perl Package Manager". [original patch by Dave + Rolsky] + + - For authors who use Module::Signature to sign their distributions, + we now create the SIGNATURE file right in the distribution + directory, rather than creating it in the top-level directory and + copying it into place. This solves problems related to having + files get out of date with respect to their signatures. + + - We now don't depend on Module::Info to scan for packages during the + 'dist' action anymore, because it's way too aggressive about + loading other modules that you may not want loaded. We now just + (ick, yuck) scan the .pm files with a regular expression to find + "package Foo::Bar;" statements. + + - Silenced some annoying copyright/logo output from Microsoft 'nmake' + during Makefile compatibility testing. [Randy W. Sims] + + - Command-line arguments may now either be specified using the syntax + '--foo foovalue' as well as the traditional syntax 'foo=foovalue'. + The former is often more convenient for shell tab-completion when + the value is a filename (as in 'Build test --test_files t/basic.t'). + + - Command-line arguments may now include non-named parameters, which + make some actions more natural. For instance, the 'diff' action + may now be invoked as 'Build diff -u' rather than as + 'Build diff flags=-u'. + + - Pass-through Makefile.PLs now convert unknown Makefile.PL + parameters to lower-case and hand them to Build.PL, rather than + ignoring them. This means we only have to account for the + differences in the interface, not the entire interface, in + translating parameters. + + - We now issue a warning & don't proceed if asked to make a distdir + and there's no MANIFEST or it's empty. + + - Moved INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to increase compatibility with various + odd versions of 'make' during 'make install' on case-insensitive + filesystems (like nmake on Win32, often). Only affects the + Makefile compatibility layer. [reported by Andrew Savige] + + - Module::Build->known_actions() now works as a class method. + + - Pass-through makefiles now list each action individually rather + than using a ".DEFAULT" catch-all. This improves compatibility + with 'nmake' on Win32, and probably some other less common 'make' + dialects. [Andrew Savige] + + - We're now more aggressive about testing the pass-through makefiles, + e.g. making sure they can run 'all' and 'test' targets, and making + sure the Makefile itself actually exists. + + - Fixed a problem with check_installed_status() when installed + version contains non-numeric characters like underscores. + + - Fixed a problem with a bareword 'File::Spec' in one of the test + scripts that caused it not to compile under 5.8.0 (but is fine + under 5.6). + + - Fixed a problem with the 'destdir' installation parameter on + platforms that have volume identifiers in path names (like "C:" on + Win32). The identifier is now stripped from installation + directories before prepending the destdir path. The destdir path + may still have a volume identifier on it. + + - Added an 'add_to_cleanup' parameter to new() that calls + add_to_cleanup() immediately for the given files. + + - The distribution directory (e.g. Sample-Module-0.13/ ) will now be + deleted during the 'clean' or 'realclean' actions. + + - During testing of modules, blib/lib and blib/arch are now added as + absolute paths, not relative. This helps tests that load the + modules at runtime and may change the current working directory + (like Module::Build itself does during testing). + + - The $Config{cc} entry on some people's systems is something like + 'ccache gcc', so we now split that string using split_like_shell(). + [Richard Clamp] + + - Added documentation for 'extra_linker_flags' parameter, and added a + corresponding 'extra_compiler_flags' parameter. [original patch by + Richard Clamp] + + - The pass-through Makefile created by Module::Build::Compat now + supports MakeMaker options like POLLUTE=1 and INC. We also just + warn & skip when we see any unknown MM parameters, rather than + dying. [Dave Rolsky] + + - Fixed an error about how @INC and $ENV{PERL5LIB} interact during + the testing of M::B itself. [jk <billy2000@fastmail.fm>] + + - The pass-through Makefile doesn't include 'recommended' M::B + dependencies in the Makefile anymore, since they're not strictly + necessary. In particular, this makes installing M::B itself + easier. + + - A new 'create_makefile_pl' parameter lets you use + Module::Build::Compat during the 'distdir' (or 'dist') action to + automatically create a Makefile.PL for compatibility with + ExtUtils::MakeMaker. The parameter's value should be one of the + styles named in the Module::Build::Compat documentation. + + - When compiling C code, we now respect 'pollute' and 'inc' + parameters. (XXX - needs docs) [Dave Rolsky] + + - Made the creation of the "install map" more generic. (XXX - needs + documentation) + + - Fixed a problem in which add_to_cleanup() didn't note cleanup files + unless create_build_script() had been called already. [Dave Rolsky] + + - During 'Build dist', we no longer have to load each .pm file (via + Module::Info) to determine the $VERSION numbers inside. Instead, + we call our internal version_from_file() method, which is the same + thing MakeMaker and PAUSE and search.cpan.org do. Also fixes a + failure when Module::Info is installed in a nonstandard directory. + [reported by Teun Burgers] + + - Fixed some failing test code on Windows - open files can't be + deleted. [Andrew Savige] + + - The Cygwin platform is now treated as a flavor of Unix rather than + a flavor of Windows. [chocolateboy] + + - We're now more aggressive about adding temporary C compilation + files (*.c, *.bs) to the cleanup list. [Dave Rolsky] + + - When constructing the list in META.yml of packages provided by this + distribution, we now use the same rules as the PAUSE scanner does + when a single .pm file contains multiple VERSIONs. [Andreas Koenig] + + - check_installed_status() now works as both a class method and an + object method (and is documented so). [Spotted by Dave Rolsky] + +0.18 Tue Apr 8 13:24:23 CDT 2003 + + - We now rewrite the shebang lines of scripts ourselves, rather than + relying on MakeMaker routines to do it. MakeMaker changed the way + this happened (not the result, but where the code lived) a few + times. [Suggested by Richard Clamp] + + - The scripts() method has changed to script_files(), and likewise + the 'scripts' parameter has changed to 'script_files'. The old + names can still be used for backward compatibility. + + - Support for the 'scripts' parameter (which is now 'script_files') + was broken in 0.17, now it's fixed. [Richard Clamp] + + - We now recommend ExtUtils::ParseXS 2.02, which will fail to load + with perl 5.005 or earlier (which is proper, because it doesn't + work with those versions). When it fails to load, we still fall + back to using the xsubpp script for XS parsing. [spotted by Dave + Rolsky, fix suggested by Richard Clamp] + + - Now works on VMS - the Build script's shebang-line-equivalent + wasn't being formed correctly there - though just about everything + else worked fine. [Tested & patched by Michael Schwern] + + - Eliminated a warning that occurred if 'perl Build.PL' or the + check_installed_status() method was run with -w. [Spotted by + Michael Schwern] + +0.17 Sat Mar 29 18:06:01 CST 2003 + + - Now works under perl 5.005_03. [Richard Clamp] + + - When building blib/ , .PL files are now processed before doing + anything else. This means .PL files can be used in any of the + other contexts. + + - The locating and processing of .pm, .pod, .xs, .PL files and script + files are now isolated into their own methods. This is aimed + toward providing a stable interface for this stuff, so they can be + overridden, parameterized, etc. They're not quite stable yet, + though. + + - The internal lib_to_blib() method has gone away, because processing + is now done by smaller specialized methods. This method had some + duplicate assumptions about filenames that it's nice to get rid of. + + - .PL files are no longer automatically processed in the c_source + directory, they must be specified manually in a 'PL_files' + parameter. + + - Mention in the docs that it's useful to do "PL_FILES => {}" in a + Makefile.PL if you're using both a Makefile.PL and a + Build.PL. [Dom] + + - Add several options to the 'license' field, so that we're in better + sync with PAUSE and CPAN options. [Andreas Koenig] + + - Created a find_perl_interpreter() method that tries to locate the + currently executing perl interpreter. Following a suggestion from + Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> for Inline, we prefer an absolute + path in $^X, then an existent path in $Config{perlpath}, then + whatever's in $^X. + + - Use the aforementioned perl to run scripts in run_perl_script(). + This fixes the spurious warning "WARNING: Configuration was + initially created with 'foo', but we are now using 'bar'" that + appeared a lot in version 0.16. + + +0.16 Mon Feb 24 13:06:47 CST 2003 + + - All three C compilers that perl supports on Windows environments + (MSVC, BCC, and GCC) are now supported by Module::Build. We now + reportedly pass all tests on Windows. [Randy W. Sims] + + - The test t/xs.t, which tests building of XS modules, will be + skipped if no C compiler is found. [suggested by Randy W. Sims] + + - The "install" action accepts new "destdir" [motivated by Michael + Schwern and Chip Salzenberg] and "uninst" parameters [by Dave + Rolsky]. The former prepends an arbitrary directory to all + installation paths (useful for package management), and the latter + will tell ExtUtils::Install to remove any differing files that are + "shadowing" the stuff you're installing from a different location, + just like MakeMaker's "make install UNINST=1" command will do. + + - Made changes to the generated Makefile in Module::Build::Compat + that much better support Windows platforms [after suggestions by + James Freeman] + + - Added experimental support for creating distribution SIGNATURE + files via Module::Signature. [Dave Rolsky] + + - Added experimental support for installing via the "only.pm" module, + which allows loading specific versions of modules. Since this + module is so new, the interface may still be changing. [Brian + Ingerson] + + - Added support for installing executable scripts, via the 'scripts' + parameter to new(), and the scripts() accessor method. + + - Fix an infinite loop that occurred when doing 'perl Build.PL + config="foo=bar"' + + - Fix up the formatting of the error message the user gets when + prereqs aren't satisfied. + +0.15 Fri Jan 17 15:00:24 CST 2003 + + - In link_c(), extra object files were mistakenly being treated as + output files, not input files, in the up-to-date check. Fixed. + + - In up_to_date(), don't make an unnecessary copy of the file lists + when they're specified as array references. + + - Split off the C compilation phase into its own method, + compile_support_files(), for easier subclassing. + + - Start a stub of a 'manifypods' action. + + - Compiler optimizations weren't being included in C compilation + statements. Fixed. + + - The 'extra_linker_flags' parameter wasn't being honored. Fixed. + + - The 'ccflags' Config.pm entry wasn't being properly split into + separate arguments. Fixed. + + +0.14 Fri Dec 13 14:06:29 AEST 2002 + + - Added support for MacPerl (Mac OS version 9 and below), which (as + far as I know) was never natively supported by MakeMaker. Still + lacks support for the 'test' action (because Test::Harness + requires forking, which MacPerl won't do) and compiling XS/C files + (because I don't know how to invoke a compiler on MacOS, and one + may not even be available). This change is brought to you by + Michael Schwern and the letter '('. + + - Improved processing of .xs files. Now we use the new + ExtUtils::ParseXS module if it's available, otherwise we use + backticks and write the result to a .c file ourselves. This + avoids the need to do cross-platform shell redirection. + + - Make sure all parts of 'Build test' use the not-yet-installed + version of Module::Build. This only affects the tests for this + module, not any of the module code itself. [Spotted by Schwern] + + - Oopsie - use $Config{ld} instead of $Config{cc} for linking. + + - Added a 'diff' action, which is useful for comparing the details + of what you're about to install with what is already installed on + your system. This uses File::Compare, which is in the core. + + - Fixed a problem on Windows in which the _build/ directory wasn't + getting deleted during the 'realclean' action, because we had a + file open in that directory. [Spotted by Michael Schwern] + + - delete_filetree() now always uses File::Path::rmtree(), regardless + of whether the thing being deleted is a file or a directory. This + helps remove things on obscure platforms with strange locking + rules (or even not so obscure ones like MacOS). It also now + reports the number of files or directories deleted (without + recursing directory contents). + + - rm_previous_build_script() is gone, replaced by calls to + delete_filetree(). + + - 'Build' now chdir()s in a BEGIN block, so the 'use Module::Build' + statement will work correctly. Solves a problem on MacOS, where + the 'Build' script may often be invoked from the wrong working + directory. [Fix by Michael Schwern] + + - Internally we now use the multi-argument form of system() to run + external commands (such as 'diff' or 'cc') whenever possible (and + whenever we can't avoid system() altogether). Note that this + means we have to handle splitting some strings (such as + $Config{ccflags}) into argument lists like the shell would, which + is a drag. However, the alternative would be to handle shell + quoting of all arguments to commands ourselves, which is an even + bigger drag across platforms and involves arbitrary filenames and + so on. + + - To handle the argument splitting mentioned above, a method + split_like_shell() has been created. So far it's just doing naive + processing. In practice, I've yet to actually see a %Config entry + that uses quotes & spaces, so the splitting task is usually not + very error-prone. + + - The 'test' action now takes a 'test_files' parameter, similar to + the (undocumented) ExtUtils::MakeMaker TEST_FILES argument. Handy + during development when fixing bugs. + + - Internally, the rscan_dir() method can now accept a predicate + function that decides whether a file/directory should be matched. + + - We now issue a warning message when the author hasn't specified a + license type. + +0.13 Wed Nov 20 20:07:53 AEST 2002 + + - 'cleanup' file lists are now written immediately, rather than at + program termination. This helps avoid "phantom files" that don't + get handled by the 'realclean' action. The internal + write_cleanup() method (which was never documented) is now gone. + + - The 'blib/' directory is now properly cleaned up in more (all?) + circumstances. Previously it could become a phantom if + create_build_script() was never called. + + - Now scan the 'c_source' directory for .cpp (C++) files as well as + .c files, and compiles them. + + - Use a 'phony' target for 'make manifest' in the pass-through + Makefile, for the same reason as 'make install' (see version 0.12 + notes below). + + - Module::Build::Compat now accepts any known Config.pm key and + passes it through to the Build.PL. Fixes a problem with CPANPLUS, + which was passing INSTALLMAN1DIR. + + - The file 'META.yaml' has been re-named to 'META.yml' in order to + cooperate better with systems that can only handle 3 characters + after the dot. + + - The t/xs.t test should give more informative error messages upon + failure. + +0.12 Thu Nov 14 18:31:47 AEST 2002 + + - The META.yaml file was erroneously looking for 'build_depends' + instead of 'build_requires'. [spotted by Iain Truskett] + + - Add prompt() and y_n() methods for use in Build.PLs + + - Do more to work with all versions of Test::Harness when setting + the TEST_VERBOSE flag and running under the debugger [patch by + Dave Rolsky] + + - Include a test for verbosity handling + + - Make sure the blib/ directory is always cleaned up with the + 'clean' or 'realclean' action. + + - In a pass-through Makefile.PL, inform 'make' that 'install' is a + "fake target", so that it works properly on case-insensitive + filesystems like HFS+ with distributions that contain an INSTALL + file. [patch by Brian Ingerson] + + - In Module::Build::Compat, show an example Makefile.PL that can + install Module::Build and re-invoke itself in one fell swoop [Dave + Rolsky and Autrijus Tang] + + - Improve the formatting of the Module::Build and + Module::Build::Compat documentation. + +0.11 Fri Aug 23 18:50:46 AEST 2002 + + - 'module_version' and 'module_version_from' have been replaced by + 'dist_version' and 'dist_version_from', which is what they really + meant in the first place. 'dist_name' has been added. + + - 'module_name' is now just a way to set 'dist_name' and + 'dist_version_from' in a convenient way. + + - The 'name' in META.yaml is now the distribution name, not the + (incorrect) module name. [spotted by Graham Barr] + + - Added the check_installed_status() and prereq_failures() methods + for checking prerequisite information with the programmatic + interface + + - check_installed_version() now uses check_installed_status() + internally + + - Documented the create_build_script() method, which had escaped + documentation. + + - create_build_script() now writes prerequisite information to the + _build/ directory, for use by Module::Build::Compat. + + - Module::Build::Compat has documentation for a safer way to write a + dummy Makefile.PL. [patch by Autrijus Tang] + +0.10 Wed Aug 7 19:36 2002 + - Recommend YAML 0.35 instead of 0.30. + + - Don't die during 'Build disttest' if YAML isn't installed. This + fixes tests 5-10 in runthrough.t if YAML isn't installed. + + - Die if an unknown license type is used, but still default to + 'unknown' if no license is specified. + + - Use YAML::DumpFile() if we're using a recent YAML, + YAML::StoreFile() otherwise. + + - Show specific error messages in runthrough.t. + + - Add a generated_by entry to the META.yaml file. + + - Skip a few tests if YAML isn't installed. + +0.09 Fri Jun 28 11:07:08 EST 2002 + + - The 'distdir' action wasn't deleting the distribution directory + before building it again. This meant that, say, if you did 'Build + disttest' then 'Build dist', you'd end up with a blib/ directory + in your distribution. I actually had this happen for version + 0.08, and it's not nice to distribute a blib/ on CPAN. + + - We now keep track of the 'base_dir', i.e. the top-level build + directory, so we can change back into it if we change out of it. + This necessitated a cwd() method, which uses the Cwd.pm module. + I'm aware of Cwd's limitations, particularly under taint-mode, but + I don't know a way around using it here. + + - The 'dist_dir' action now changes back into 'base_dir' directory. + + - We now do write_config() inside the create_build_script() method, + not inside the new() method. + + - Simplified the find_version() method, and improved its error + messages. + + - Renamed module_name_to_file() to find_module_by_name(), and added + a parameter specifying the directories to search in. Previously + we searched in 'lib' and @INC, which wasn't correct in all + situations. + + - Patched the docs to change "Build test" to "./Build test" + [Elizabeth Mattijsen] + +0.08 Wed Jun 26 20:30:56 EST 2002 + + - Fixed the 'prereq' alias for the 'requires' parameter + + - Added some tests in t/basic.t to test the dependency checking + + - Added 'artistic' as a licensing option [Arthur Bergman] + + - Fixed some bugs in requires/prereq/recommends/conflicts/build_depends + + - Fixed a typo in the 'distclean' action that prevented its + execution [Arthur Bergman] + + - Separated the linking phase of building XS items into its own + link_c() method. Its interface is still unstable, so it's not + documented yet. [suggested by Arthur Bergman] + +0.07 Jun 9 2002 15:46 + + - We now generate a 'META.yaml' metadata file during 'Build dist'. + This can be very useful for lots of things, none of which are + implemented yet. + + - Added a 'dynamic_config' parameter, defaulting to false. This + lets distribution systems (CPAN.pm, etc.) build, test, and install + "easy" modules without having to execute the Build.PL at runtime. + It's also a guarantee that the list of dependencies is exactly + what is present in the metadata file, and won't be changed during + the build process. + + - Added support for "recommended" and "build-time requirement" + modules, besides those that are absolutely required. Also added a + "conflicts" field. + + - Changed the 'prereq' field to 'requires' (the old name will + continue to work). + + - Added support for checking the installed version of perl as an + explicit dependency. + + - Added a 'license' parameter to specify one of a fixed number of + licenses for the distribution. + + - Fixed a bug in Module::Build::Compat that was preventing arguments + from being processed properly. [patch by Ilya Martynov] + + - Make sure we're in the right directory when we write the cleanup + file, since various ExtUtils::Install errors might leave us in an + unknown directory. [patch by Ilya Martynov] + + - Specified the 'license', 'recommends', and 'dynamic_config' + values in Build.PL, and changed 'prereq' to 'requires'. + +0.06 Apr 2 2002 17:44 + + - Added the Module::Build::Compat module for assisting and + explaining compatibility with ExtUtils::Makemaker and cohorts. + + - State is now saved using Data::Dumper instead of my ad-hoc + mechanism, guaranteeing data integrity. Whitespace values broke + in the former scheme. + + - Added the 'recommended' option, which works like 'prereq' but + isn't insistent. + + - Separated the various parameters into three groups: parameters + that tell Module::Build what to do, Config.pm parameters, and + user-defined parameters for each build (the module author is the + 'user' here). This helps avoid conflicts between names, and it + was silly to have them all together. The three groups of + parameters are subject to the same rules for overriding: values + specified during a Build action take precedence over values + specified at 'perl Build.PL' time, which in turn take precedence + over values specified in the call to new(). + + - Improved support for .PL files. Any .PL file in the lib/ + directory or the directory specified by 'c_source' will now get + properly executed. I also added a 'PL_files' parameter that you + can use in case the .PL doesn't create an obviously-named output + file. + + - If a prerequisite condition is malformed, we now report a prereq + failure and say why. Previously we issued a warning and kept + going. + + +0.05 10-Jan-2002 20:26 + - Added the Module::Build->subclass() method, which makes it easier to + make quick-and-dirty subclasses of Module::Build. + + - Reorganized the docs a bit. + + - Added the 'testdb' action, and the 'debugger=1' argument to the + 'test' action, both of which run tests under the perl + debugger. (idea: Dave Rolsky) + + - Added prerequisite checking (Dave Rolsky) + + - Fixed an unlikely-to-occur bug with misquoted strings in the + 'Build' script (spot: Dave Rolsky) + + - We're more careful about shush-ing warnings that + ExtUtils::Manifest might emit (Dave Rolsky) + + - The 'help' action now auto-generates the list of actions (Dave Rolsky) + + - Added the 'distcheck', 'skipcheck', 'distclean', 'distdir', and + 'disttest' actions (Dave Rolsky) + + - We're a little more aggressive about cleaning up temporary files - + we'll try to clean them up even when we don't have write permission + on them. This isn't as dastardly as it sounds; if we /really/ + don't have permission, we won't be able to remove them no matter + how hard we try. + +0.04 Fri Nov 16 16:55 2001 + - Added a 'manifest' action. It's just like MakeMaker's 'make manifest', it + brings your MANIFEST file up to date with your distribution directory. + + - Reorganized some of the responsibilities of various methods, which + allows modules to be built and tested programmatically. + + - The 'clean' action will now clean up files that were created more + recently than the on-disk cleanup registry was written. + + - Undefined values from Config.pm are handled correctly now. + + - The dispatch() method will now accept explicit dispatch + parameters, for use in a programmatic setting. + + - $ENV{TEST_VERBOSE} will be set in test scripts if the 'verbose=1' + parameter is set. + + - Moved the test.pl script to t/basic.t + + - Created the t/xs.t script, which tests building a module with a + .xs component. + + - Fixed the loading of $^O-specific modules (there were no such + modules before). + + - Added a 'darwin' platform module, which removes -flat_namespace + from $Config{ccflags} while building .xs modules (it's a linker + flag, not a compiler flag). + + - Now uses $^W instead of the 'warnings' pragma, which apparently + provides compatibility with perl 5.005 (I've only tested it with + 5.6.x myself). + + - If a file called C<visual.pl> exists in the top-level directory, + this file will be executed as a Perl script during 'Build test' and + its output will be shown to the user. This is a good place to put + speed tests or other tests that don't use the C<Test::Harness> format + for output. + + - The 'Build install' step will now put .xs-related things in the + correct architecture-dependent libraries. + + - Added the 'autosplit' option, even though I think autosplitting is + a load of hooie. + +0.03 Sun Nov 11 14:58 CDT 2001 + - The 'perl Build.PL' step will now detect whether the current + environment is "unixish", "windowsish", etc., and load the correct + module (i.e. Module::Build::Platform::Unix). More specific + modules may also be written for particular values of $^O. + + - Module::Build will now process any .xs files in the lib/ + directory. Please let me know whether this works or not with your + distribution & platform. I'll be trying out various distributions + on my platform. + + - Corrected some embarassing errors in the POD documentation. Also + added a long documentation section on the various build actions + (test, install, build, etc.) and added some neato ASCII art. + + - Added a 'cleanup' mechanism - any method may call the + $self->add_to_cleanup(@files) method to register files which need + to be cleaned up during 'Build clean'. + + - Added a 'Build help' action that gives a little syntax help, and + lists all the actions available. + + - Fixed a bug in which 'blib/' wasn't properly being added to @INC + when running 'Build test'. + + - For the 'Build dist' action, we'll use the 'tar' and 'gzip' + programs (as specified by Config.pm) on Unix platforms, otherwise + we'll use Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib. + +0.02 Wed Sep 5 00:53:04 CDT 2001 + - Added POD documentation. + + - Added the 'install', 'fakeinstall', and 'dist' actions. + + - new() will now determine version string based on 'module_version', or + 'module_version_from', or 'module_name', in that order. + + - Module::Build::Base handles its file paths in a platform-independent + way, using the File:: modules + + +0.01 Sun Aug 5 01:23:10 2001 + - original version; created by h2xs 1.1.1.4 with options -XA -n Module::Build + |