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author | Chris 'BinGOs' Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk> | 2012-02-24 21:42:41 +0000 |
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committer | Chris 'BinGOs' Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk> | 2012-02-24 22:42:22 +0000 |
commit | 1f629e57df116eb70c42f5e4306c2a1eb93b4c93 (patch) | |
tree | d97de90e095b8736885a05aba3e74b825423d7ab /cpan/Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm | |
parent | 236cbe8d7a6747fb6144c93dd767895f8acffd00 (diff) | |
download | perl-smoke-me/module-build.tar.gz |
Update Module-Build to CPAN version 0.40smoke-me/module-build
[DELTA]
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 $VERSION might have a version of '0'
listed in 'provides' metadata, which will be rejected by PAUSE
[David Golden, reported by Christopher Fields]
- Fixed bug in PodParser to allow numerals in module names
[Tokuhirom]
- Fixed bug where giving arguments twice led to them becoming arrays,
resulting in install paths like "ARRAY(0xdeadbeef)/lib/Foo.pm"
[Leon Timmermans]
[DOCUMENTATION]
- Fixed deviance from alphabetical order in documentation of
constructor parameters. [Eric Brine]
- Add documentation for configure_requires constructor parameter.
[Eric Brine]
- Change some of the docs' language describing relationship to
MakeMaker. [Ken Williams]
[OTHER]
- List Perl-Toolchain-Gang repo as official repo
Diffstat (limited to 'cpan/Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm')
-rw-r--r-- | cpan/Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm | 26 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/cpan/Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm b/cpan/Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm index e1fc6cabb6..69fd77f0a3 100644 --- a/cpan/Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm +++ b/cpan/Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use Module::Build::Base; use vars qw($VERSION @ISA); @ISA = qw(Module::Build::Base); -$VERSION = '0.39_01'; +$VERSION = '0.40'; $VERSION = eval $VERSION; @@ -967,24 +967,28 @@ platform you're installing on. =item prefix Provided for compatibility with C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>'s PREFIX argument. -C<prefix> should be used when you wish Module::Build to install your -modules, documentation and scripts in the same place -C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> does. +C<prefix> should be used when you want Module::Build to install your +modules, documentation, and scripts in the same place as +C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>'s PREFIX mechanism. The following are equivalent. perl Build.PL --prefix /tmp/foo perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/tmp/foo -Because of the very complex nature of the prefixification logic, the +Because of the complex nature of the prefixification logic, the behavior of PREFIX in C<MakeMaker> has changed subtly over time. Module::Build's --prefix logic is equivalent to the PREFIX logic found in C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> 6.30. -If you do not need to retain compatibility with C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> or +The maintainers of C<MakeMaker> do understand the troubles with the +PREFIX mechanism, and added INSTALL_BASE support in version 6.31 of +C<MakeMaker>, which was released in 2006. + +If you don't need to retain compatibility with old versions (pre-6.31) of C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> or are starting a fresh Perl installation we recommend you use C<install_base> instead (and C<INSTALL_BASE> in C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>). -See L<Module::Build::Cookbook/Instaling in the same location as +See L<Module::Build::Cookbook/Installing in the same location as ExtUtils::MakeMaker> for further information. @@ -1046,14 +1050,14 @@ perl. It is risky to make major changes to C<MakeMaker>, since it does so many things, is so important, and generally works. C<Module::Build> is an entirely separate package so that I can work on it all I want, without -worrying about backward compatibility. +worrying about backward compatibility with C<MakeMaker>. =item * Finally, Perl is said to be a language for system administration. Could it really be the case that Perl isn't up to the task of building -and installing software? Even if that software is a bunch of stupid -little C<.pm> files that just need to be copied from one place to +and installing software? Even if that software is a bunch of +C<.pm> files that just need to be copied from one place to another? My sense was that we could design a system to accomplish this in a flexible, extensible, and friendly manner. Or die trying. @@ -1083,7 +1087,7 @@ Bug reports are also welcome at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Module-Build>. The latest development version is available from the Git -repository at <https://github.com/dagolden/module-build/> +repository at <https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/Module-Build> =head1 COPYRIGHT |