From 1f629e57df116eb70c42f5e4306c2a1eb93b4c93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris 'BinGOs' Williams Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:42:41 +0000 Subject: Update Module-Build to CPAN version 0.40 [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 $VERSION might have a version of '0' listed in 'provides' metadata, which will be rejected by PAUSE [David Golden, reported by Christopher Fields] - Fixed bug in PodParser to allow numerals in module names [Tokuhirom] - Fixed bug where giving arguments twice led to them becoming arrays, resulting in install paths like "ARRAY(0xdeadbeef)/lib/Foo.pm" [Leon Timmermans] [DOCUMENTATION] - Fixed deviance from alphabetical order in documentation of constructor parameters. [Eric Brine] - Add documentation for configure_requires constructor parameter. [Eric Brine] - Change some of the docs' language describing relationship to MakeMaker. [Ken Williams] [OTHER] - List Perl-Toolchain-Gang repo as official repo --- cpan/Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm | 26 +++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'cpan/Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm') diff --git a/cpan/Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm b/cpan/Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm index e1fc6cabb6..69fd77f0a3 100644 --- a/cpan/Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm +++ b/cpan/Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use Module::Build::Base; use vars qw($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's PREFIX argument. -C should be used when you wish Module::Build to install your -modules, documentation and scripts in the same place -C does. +C should be used when you want Module::Build to install your +modules, documentation, and scripts in the same place as +C'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 has changed subtly over time. Module::Build's --prefix logic is equivalent to the PREFIX logic found in C 6.30. -If you do not need to retain compatibility with C or +The maintainers of C do understand the troubles with the +PREFIX mechanism, and added INSTALL_BASE support in version 6.31 of +C, which was released in 2006. + +If you don't need to retain compatibility with old versions (pre-6.31) of C or are starting a fresh Perl installation we recommend you use C instead (and C in C). -See L for further information. @@ -1046,14 +1050,14 @@ perl. It is risky to make major changes to C, since it does so many things, is so important, and generally works. C 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. =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 . The latest development version is available from the Git -repository at +repository at =head1 COPYRIGHT -- cgit v1.2.1