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1 | Revision history for Perl extension Module::Build. |
2 | |
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3 | 0.35 - Thu Aug 27 09:12:02 EDT 2009 |
4 | |
5 | Bug fixes: |
6 | - Fix t/destinations.t segfault on 5.6.2 |
7 | |
8 | 0.34_06 - Sat Aug 22 21:58:26 EDT 2009 |
9 | |
10 | Bug fixes: |
11 | - Multiple test fixes for OS2 [Ilya Zakharevich] |
12 | - Generated.ppd files use :utf8 if possible (RT#48827) [Olivier Mengue] |
13 | - Fixed preservation of custom install_paths on resume (RT#41166) |
14 | [David Golden] |
15 | - Warn instead of crashing when Pod::Man tries to create files with |
16 | colons on vfat partitions on unix (RT#45544) [David Golden] |
17 | |
18 | 0.34_05 - Sun Aug 9 22:31:37 EDT 2009 |
19 | |
20 | Bug fixes: |
21 | - When auto_configure_requires is true (the default), Module::Build will |
22 | only add last 'major' version of Module:Build (e.g. 0.XX) to |
23 | configure_requires to avoid specifying a minor development release not |
24 | available on CPAN [David Golden] |
25 | |
26 | 0.34_04 - Sat Aug 8 11:02:24 EDT 2009 |
27 | |
28 | Other: |
29 | - Added documentation warning that 'get_options' should be capitalized |
30 | to avoid conflicting with future Module::Build options and changed |
31 | the examples accordingly. |
32 | |
33 | 0.34_03 - Sat Aug 8 07:39:16 EDT 2009 |
34 | |
35 | Bug fixes: |
36 | - Fixed failing xs.t if /tmp is mounted noexec (RT#47331) [David Golden] |
37 | - Fixed failing debug.t on VMS (RT#48362) [Craig Berry] |
38 | - Prevent par.t from dying on error in .zip extraction [David Golden] |
39 | - Fixed potential runthrough.t failure on 5.6.2 [David Golden] |
40 | |
41 | Other: |
42 | - Archive::Tar changed from 'requires' to 'recommends' so non-authors |
43 | without IO::Zlib can still use Module::Build to install modules |
44 | [reported by Matt Trout, fix by David Golden] |
45 | |
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46 | 0.340201 - Sun Aug 9 22:11:04 EDT 2009 |
47 | |
48 | Other: |
49 | - Version bump for Perl core for 5.10.1 release; no other changes |
50 | |
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51 | 0.34_02 - Sun Jul 26 22:50:40 EDT 2009 |
52 | |
53 | Bug-fixes: |
54 | - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN |
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55 | version.pm 0.77 [John Peacock] |
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56 | |
57 | 0.34_01 - Sat Jul 18 16:32:09 EDT 2009 |
58 | |
59 | Enhancements: |
60 | - Added --debug flag to trace Build action execution (RT#47933) |
61 | [David Golden] |
62 | |
63 | Bug-fixes: |
64 | - Bundled Module::Build::Version version code updated to fix unsafe use |
65 | of $@ (RT#47980) [John Peacock] |
66 | |
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67 | 0.34 - Tue Jul 7 16:56:47 EDT 2009 |
68 | |
69 | No changes from 0.33_06 |
70 | |
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71 | 0.33_06 - Sun Jul 5 10:11:40 EDT 2009 |
72 | |
73 | Bug-fixes: |
74 | - Bundled version code will use pure Perl on 5.10.0 to work around |
75 | a corner case involving eval and locale [John Peacock] |
76 | - Reversed VMS patch from 0.33_03 [Craig Berry] |
77 | - PL_files in Build.PL that are in the bin/scripts directory should not be |
78 | installed as if they are scripts (fixed for case-tolerant systems). |
79 | [David Golden, reported by Craig Berry] |
80 | |
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81 | 0.33_05 - Sun Jun 28 22:06:49 EDT 2009 |
82 | |
83 | Enhancements: |
84 | - New 'auto_configure_requires' parameter (default 1) controls |
85 | whether Module::Build should add itself to configure_requires |
86 | in META.yml if not specified in Build.PL [David Golden] |
87 | |
88 | Bug-fixes: |
89 | - The default MANIFEST.SKIP created by the "manifest" action |
90 | was out of date. It will now use the installed MANIFEST.SKIP |
91 | and add some Module::Build and distribution specific items |
92 | to it. [Michael Schwern] |
93 | |
94 | Other: |
95 | - configure_requires do not necessarily need to be in requires |
96 | or build_requires; warning to that effect has been removed |
97 | [David Golden] |
98 | |
99 | 0.33_04 - Fri Jun 26 07:09:06 EDT 2009 |
100 | |
101 | Bug-fixes: |
102 | - Don't try utf8 YAML I/O on Perl 5.6 [David Golden] |
103 | |
104 | Other: |
105 | - configure_requires added to prereq report (RT#47254) [Curtis Jewell] |
106 | - updated Module::Build::Version to match forthcoming version.pm 0.77 |
107 | (RT#47256) [John Peacock] |
108 | - skips xs.t and ppm.t when perl was not compiled with dynamic loading |
109 | since Module::Buld does not support static linking (RT#46178) |
110 | [David Golden] |
111 | - skip failing test in par.t if Archive::Zip is broken [David Golden] |
112 | - Added YAML utf8 patch in 0.33_03 changes list |
113 | - Added attribution for patches in 0.33_03 changes list |
114 | |
115 | 0.33_03 - Mon Jun 22 17:22:56 EDT 2009 |
116 | |
117 | Bug-fixes: |
118 | - Removes Module::Build from its own configure/build_requires |
119 | [David Golden] |
120 | - ConfigData->feature() confirms that modules actually load successfully, |
121 | not just that they are present. (RT#43557) [David Golden] |
122 | - Module::Build::Compat handling of INSTALL*LIB (RT#43827) |
123 | [Tony Payne, David Golden] |
124 | - Module::Build::Compat and recursive test files (RT#39171) [Dave Rolsky] |
125 | - Fixed bug linking non-standard XS names on Windows (RT#38065) ["snaury"] |
126 | - Run PL files that don't generate any file (RT#39365) |
127 | [Matisse Enzer, David Golden] |
128 | - HTML generation failure no longer fatal (RT#36660) [David Golden] |
129 | - realclean might not delete Build.bat on Windows (RT#43863) |
130 | [Roy Ivy, David Golden] |
131 | - include_dirs parameter now works correctly when given a single |
132 | string argument (RT#40177) [David Wheeler] |
133 | - Lots of spelling fixes in the POD (RT#45528r) [Lars Dieckow] |
134 | - On Unix-like systems, tilde expansion is more liberal in username |
135 | characters accepted (RT#33492) [Jon Jensen] |
136 | |
137 | Other |
138 | - On MSWin32, bumped File::Spec prereq to 3.30 for a variety of fixes |
139 | - Add support for VMS in Unix compatibility mode (RT#42157) |
140 | [John E. Malmberg |
141 | - Added a can_action($name) method (RT#45172) [brian d foy] |
142 | - Documented that subclass methods should not permanently change |
143 | current directory (RT#46919) [David Wheeler] |
144 | - META.yml encoded in UTF-8 (RT#43765) [Olivier Mengue] |
145 | |
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146 | 0.33_02 - Mon Jun 15 12:23:55 EDT 2009 |
147 | |
148 | Bug-fixes: |
149 | - Fixed tests for bleadperl |
150 | |
151 | 0.33_01 - Sat Jun 13 20:24:42 EDT 2009 |
152 | |
153 | Bug-fixes: |
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154 | - Fixed RT#42724: consolidated VMS fixes [patch by Craig Berry] |
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155 | - Fixed RT#46338: passthrough Makefile.PL cleans Makefile during distclean |
156 | - Fixed RT#45700: t/compat.t for HP/UX make |
157 | |
158 | Other: |
159 | - Adds current Module::Build to configure_requires (and build_requires) |
160 | if no configure_requires is specified |
161 | - Always normalizes version number tuples in META.yml (e.g. 'v1.2.0') |
162 | (Partially addresses RT#46150) |
163 | - Normalizes a generated dist_version (e.g. from a .pm file) -- |
164 | dist_version set manually in Build.PL is not normalized |
165 | - Documentation update for create_license |
166 | - Minor POD cleanup |
167 | |
168 | 0.33 - Sun May 3 20:16:34 PDT 2009 |
169 | |
170 | Bug-fixes: |
171 | - Fixed RT#45462: Compat.pm needs to reference 'Build.com' on VMS |
172 | [patch from John Malmberg] |
173 | - Fixed RT#45461: ext.t on VMS [patch from John Malmberg] |
174 | - Fixed RT#43861: Module::Build::PPMMaker has broken PPD name |
175 | versioning for v5.10+ |
176 | |
177 | 0.32_01 - Tue Apr 14 17:14:22 PDT 2009 |
178 | |
179 | Bug-fixes: |
180 | - Module::Build::Compat had stopped adding "PL_FILES => {}" when no |
181 | PL_files property was set in Build.PL; restored old behavior and fixed |
182 | tests and documentation related to this issue [David Golden] |
183 | - Caches ExtUtils::CBuilder object in a temporary stash instead of properties |
184 | - Fixed undef resources->license in META.yml (RT #44453). |
185 | - Use $^X instead of 'perl' in t/ext.t [David Golden] (RT #43485) |
186 | |
187 | Other: |
188 | - Generated META.yml will indicate version 1.4 of the specification |
189 | (RT #37478) [patch from Alexandr Ciornii] |
190 | - Archive::Tar now the default for generating tarballs on all platforms |
191 | (avoids problems with incompatible tar binaries) |
192 | - dist_dir() now uses dist_name() and dist_version() accessors rather |
193 | than using its properties directly. [brian d foy] (RT #45038) |
194 | |
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195 | 0.32 - Wed Feb 25 17:40:02 PST 2009 |
196 | |
197 | No changes since 0.31_04. |
198 | |
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199 | 0.31_04 - Fri Feb 20 11:04:59 PST 2009 |
200 | |
201 | Other |
202 | - Bumped Test::Harness prereq to 3.16 for latest PERL5LIB fixes (solves |
203 | test failures when installing Module::Build using CPANPLUS::Dist::Build) |
204 | [David Golden] |
205 | |
206 | 0.31_03 - Sun Feb 8 14:54:01 PST 2009 |
207 | |
208 | Enhancements |
209 | - added a "prereq_data" action that prints a Perl data structure of |
210 | all prerequisites; can be loaded by external tools using eval() |
211 | [David Golden] |
212 | |
213 | Bug-fixes |
214 | - 'fakeinstall' action warns and skips without ExtUtils::Install 1.32+ |
215 | [David Golden, reported by Zefram] |
216 | - allows Module::Build version mismatch when installing self; works around |
217 | limitations in CPANPLUS::Dist::Build [David Golden] |
218 | |
219 | 0.31_02 - Tue Jan 27 09:16:43 PST 2009 |
220 | |
221 | Other |
222 | - tests now use File::Temp (added to build_requires); appears to fix |
223 | Win32 testing heisenbug on directory removal during high system loads |
224 | - use_tap_harness.t will skip unless a release version of TAP::Harness |
225 | is installed |
226 | - improved diagnostics to ensure_blib() tests in t/lib/MBTest.pm |
227 | |
228 | Compat |
229 | - passthrough Makefile.PL will now play nice with cpantesters' on |
230 | exit(0) (RT#32018) [Eric Wilhelm] |
231 | |
232 | Bug Fixes |
233 | - fix for doubling-up of --prefix (RT#19951) |
234 | |
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235 | 0.31012 - Wed Jan 14 01:36:19 PST 2009 |
236 | |
237 | Bug Fixes |
238 | - t/tilde.t maybe actually fixed on MSWin32 now. |
239 | |
240 | 0.31011 - Mon Jan 12 21:57:04 PST 2009 |
241 | |
242 | Bug Fixes |
243 | - t/tilde.t had been failing on MSWin32 (RT#42349) |
244 | |
245 | 0.3101 - Mon Jan 12 13:52:36 PST 2009 |
246 | |
247 | Other |
248 | - added 'mirbsd' as a Unix-type OS [BinGOs] |
249 | - added 'haiku' as a Unix-type OS (backported from bleadperl) |
250 | - skips certain tests on VMS (backported from bleadperl) |
251 | - sets $^X to absolute path in tests (backported from bleadperl) |
252 | |
253 | 0.31 - Sat Dec 20 15:03:33 2008 |
254 | |
255 | Deprecations |
256 | - Use of attributes as class methods is deprecated (this was never a |
257 | documented feature and appears to only have worked accidentally.) |
258 | |
259 | 0.30_02 - Mon Dec 15 12:23:55 PST 2008 |
260 | |
261 | Bug Fixes |
262 | - make Software::License dependency "softer". |
263 | |
264 | 0.30_01 - Thu Dec 11 18:25:53 PST 2008 |
265 | |
266 | New Docs |
267 | - Added a recipe for writing a new action to the Cookbook |
268 | - Added a recipe for bundling Module::Build to the Cookbook. |
269 | |
270 | Doc Fixes |
271 | - Clarified dist_abstract search procedure in API.pod (RT#41056) [Mario |
272 | Domgoergen] |
273 | |
274 | Bug Fixes |
275 | - Workaround HARNESS_TIMER env issue in t/compat.t (RT#39635) |
276 | - Fix ~ expansion when $HOME is different from /etc/passwd as |
277 | when running sudo. [rt.cpan.org 39662] |
278 | - Fixed a small POD error in the Cookbook. [Damyan Ivanov] |
279 | - Unset group/other write permission bits when using Archive::Tar to |
280 | build the dist tarball. (RT#39804) [David Golden] |
281 | |
282 | Enhancements |
283 | - We now support a 'create_license' parameter to new() that will |
284 | create a LICENSE file during the 'dist' phase with the full text of |
285 | the license. This requires Software::License on the author's |
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286 | machine. |
4cdcc1f2 |
287 | - Added lgpl2/lgpl3 entries to the supported licenses (RT#40532). |
288 | - Support for validating properties with a check subref. [David |
289 | Wheeler] |
290 | |
291 | Test Fixes |
292 | - Defend against more stray environment variables interfering |
293 | with the tests. |
294 | |
295 | Other |
296 | - Updated our embedded version.pm to 0.76, enhanced documentation on |
297 | dist_version_from. [John Peacock] |
298 | |
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299 | 0.30 - Thu Sep 25 20:57:36 2008 |
300 | |
301 | - First non-beta release since April 2007. In the meantime, Sarkozy |
302 | became president of France, the 35W bridge fell in Minneapolis, |
303 | Phelps won a lot of gold, a new tribe of indigenous people was |
304 | discovered in the Amazon, and Bob Barker stopped doing The Price Is |
305 | Right. As of this moment though, the U.S. economy still hasn't |
306 | collapsed completely. |
307 | |
308 | 0.2808_05 - Thu Sep 18 23:30:39 PDT 2008 |
309 | |
310 | - Skip test in t/ext.t which tickles shellwords() in Text::ParseWords |
311 | below 3.23 [David Wheeler, Ken] |
312 | |
313 | - Fixed some shell-quoting issues in do_system() on Windows [Ken, |
314 | Schwern, reported by Curtis Jewell] |
315 | |
316 | - Fixed t/xs.t failure for missing 'const char *' typemap in 5.6 |
317 | [Schwern] |
318 | |
319 | - Added build_requires for Test::More 0.49 and Test::Harness 2.03. |
320 | Removed bundled Test::More (was not working for 5.005x anyway). |
321 | [Schwern] |
322 | |
323 | - Minimum required perl version is now 5.6.1. [Schwern] |
324 | |
325 | 0.2808_04 - Thu Sep 11 22:51:27 PDT 2008 |
326 | |
327 | - Backed-out incompatible Module::Build::ModuleInfo change (first in |
328 | 0.2808_02.) |
329 | |
330 | 0.2808_03 - Mon Sep 1 14:43:27 PDT 2008 |
331 | |
332 | - Made adjustments for the format changes of recent Test::Harness |
333 | output. [Nicholas Clark] |
334 | |
335 | - Fixed the documentation for script_files to indicate that we search |
336 | bin/ for scripts by default. It has been this way for several |
337 | years. [Spotted by Ron Savage] |
338 | |
339 | 0.2808_02 - Wed Jul 9 16:45:08 PDT 2008 |
340 | |
341 | - Experimental support for TAP::Harness with --use-tap-harness option |
342 | and the tap_harness_args property. [David Wheeler & Eric Wilhelm] |
343 | |
344 | - Added test_file_exts property for main-run tests other than '*.t'. |
345 | [David Wheeler] |
346 | |
347 | - Fixed getcwd()/rmtree() failure case on 5.10+mac where something is |
348 | unhappy about all of the tests deleting their distgen directory |
349 | before leaving it. [Eric Wilhelm & David Wheeler] |
350 | |
351 | - Improved support for parsing qv() in modules' $VERSION |
352 | declarations, and made $VERSION-parsing errors more verbose. [Jos |
353 | Boumans] |
354 | |
355 | - Integrated an omnibus patch for various VMS fixes. [Craig Berry & |
356 | John E. Malmberg] |
357 | |
358 | - Some versions of Test::Harness (or something) seem to not be |
359 | stripping the ".t" suffix when outputting test reports, which was |
360 | causing one of our tests in t/compat.t to fail. Fixed. [Spotted by |
361 | a smoke tester] |
362 | |
363 | - Most Unix platforms seem to allow hyphens in usernames, so we honor |
364 | this in our de-tilde-fying methods now. [Spotted by s-murata] |
365 | |
366 | - If there are multiple assignments to the $VERSION variable in |
367 | someone's module and this generates warnings, tell the user what |
368 | line number the problem is at. |
369 | |
370 | - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni] |
371 | |
372 | - Fixed a couple bugs in how we quote arguments to external processes |
373 | when they have to pass through the shell. Also much more |
374 | thoroughly tested our quoting now. |
375 | |
376 | - Edited the Module::Build::API docs prose about the 'license' field |
377 | in response to some comments on the module-authors mailing list. |
378 | |
379 | - Fixed a typo in some example code in the Cookbook. [Jeremy Leader] |
380 | |
381 | - Custom typemaps were being looked for in places that don't quite |
382 | exist; fixed. [Michael G Schwern] |
383 | |
384 | - QNX/Neutrino is now considered to be Unix. [rt.cpan.org 32214] |
385 | |
386 | - Added 'gpl2' and 'gpl3' to the list of valid licenses. [Allen |
387 | Engelhardt] |
388 | |
389 | - Fixed our Data::Dumper wrapper's sensitivity to users who might set |
390 | $Data::Dumper::Terse. [Spotted by Dominique Dumont] |
391 | |
392 | - Documented the fix_shebang_line() method. [Elliot Shank] |
393 | |
394 | - Applied the 'const' modifier to version() and xs_version() XS |
395 | functions we use during testing. [Robin Barker] |
396 | |
397 | - Fixed processing of INC=, POLLUTE=, INSTALLDIRS=, and LIB= for |
398 | passthrough/small Makefile.PLs. |
399 | |
400 | - perl Build.PL --sign=1 now signs. [Michael G Schwern] |
401 | |
402 | - Fixed processing of INSTALLDIRS=whatever for compatibility |
403 | Makefiles. [Spotted by John Peacock] |
404 | |
405 | - Zillions of special-cases have been added in Compat.pm for dealing |
406 | with the special Makefile system on VMS. [John E. Malmberg] |
407 | |
408 | - Fixed some stuff in how VMS command-args get quoted. [John E. Malmberg] |
409 | |
410 | - VMS now overrides localize_file_path() and localize_dir_path() so |
411 | we don't need to do special stuff in the general case. [John |
412 | E. Malmberg] |
413 | |
414 | - Added a few more VMS-specific entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP |
415 | file that (sometimes) gets created during the 'manifest' |
416 | action. [John E. Malmberg] |
417 | |
418 | - Fixed a catdir() that should have been a catfile() when creating a |
419 | ppmdist. [John E. Malmberg] |
420 | |
421 | - Removed some assumptions about what makefiles are called (not |
422 | necessarily "Makefile") and how they take their arguments, to get |
423 | VMS tests working better. [John E. Malmberg] |
424 | |
425 | - Fixed our check for Archive::Tar in the t/runthrough.t test, which |
426 | fixes a common failure on Win32. [Spotted by Chris Williams] |
427 | |
428 | - Fixed a File::Spec mal-ism in t/destinations.t [Craig A. Berry] |
429 | |
430 | - Exposed the internal ExtUtils::CBuilder object as part of our API, |
431 | via the cbuilder() method. [Zefram] |
432 | |
433 | - Upgraded to version.pm 0.74 (fixes bug #30004.) |
434 | |
435 | - Overwrite core (post-5.9.4) Module::Build installs (bug #20528.) |
436 | |
437 | - Pass quiet() option to ExtUtils::CBuilder object. |
438 | |
439 | 0.2808_01 - Wed Oct 24 11:51:25 2007 |
440 | |
7a827510 |
441 | - All .pm files in the Module-Build distribution (except for |
442 | M::B::Version.pm, which is kind of tied to version.pm) now have the |
443 | same $VERSION number explicitly specified. |
444 | |
445 | - When checking prerequisites, the required version of perl is now |
446 | checked before we start finding the $VERSION declaration of the |
447 | distribution, which results in much more intuitive error messages |
448 | e.g. if the author is using 5.6-isms in their declaration but the |
449 | user doesn't have 5.6. [Slaven Rezic] |
450 | |
451 | - Added 'artistic_2' license, corrected 'lgpl' license url (bug #29783) |
452 | [David Thomas] |
453 | |
454 | - VMS find_perl_interpreter() is just $^X (bug #29810) [Craig A. Berry] |
455 | |
456 | - Some large VMS fixes, mostly having to do with the non-case- |
457 | preserving nature of most VMS filesystems, but also correcting for |
458 | illegal characters in VMS file specs. [John E. Malmberg and Craig |
459 | A. Berry] |
460 | |
461 | - Fixed the _detildefy() method on VMS. [John E. Malmberg and Craig |
462 | A. Berry] |
463 | |
464 | - We now use a much more reliable method when Data::Dumper-ing saved |
465 | state data. [Yves] |
466 | |
467 | - When a module had 0.000 as its version, a few places in the code |
468 | thought the module had no version at all. This is now |
469 | fixed. [Andrew "Zefram" Main] |
470 | |
471 | - When finding the default set of script_files, we now compute them |
472 | as relative paths, not absolute. [Spotted by Curtis "Ovid" Poe] |
473 | |
474 | - Got rid of a call to eliminate_macros, which isn't needed in |
475 | Module::Build since there is no external make utility involved. |
476 | Override expand_test_dir to make up for the fact that the |
477 | home-grown glob() returns absolute, not relative, paths. [Craig |
478 | A. Berry] |
479 | |
480 | - Fixed a catdir() that needed to be catfile() in the .packlist |
481 | creation code. [John E. Malmberg] |
482 | |
483 | - If a *.PL file ended abnormally during the build, processing should |
484 | have stopped, but it didn't. Fixed. [Matthew Cast and David |
485 | Golden] |
486 | |
487 | - Module::Build::Compat adds "require 5.XXXXX" to Makefile.PL when |
488 | 'perl' is specified as a 'requires' prerequisite [David Golden] |
489 | |
490 | - Refactored t/compat.t for modularity and transparency; added |
491 | labels for all tests; supressed subprocess output to |
492 | STDOUT and STDERR [David Golden] |
493 | |
494 | - Fixed bug in perl_version_to_float when version is already a float |
495 | [David Golden] |
496 | |
497 | - Removed a mention of $build->{config} from the documentation, the |
498 | official interface to Config.pm settings is now via the |
499 | $build->config() and has been for some time. [Suggested by Michael |
500 | Schwern] |
501 | |
502 | - Tweaked some text in the Cookbook to bring it into the modern age, |
503 | and added a recipe for accessing Config.pm settings. [Ibid] |
504 | |
505 | - Lots of POD link/readability improvements to the Module::Build::API |
506 | documentation [Salve J. Nilsen] |
507 | |
508 | - Added configure_requires as a new type of prereq. [Suggested by Adam |
509 | Kennedy] |
510 | |
511 | - Patch 31156 from bleadperl: some filename dot and extension help |
512 | for Module::Build on VMS. [Craig Berry] |
513 | |
514 | - Reworked the _detildefy() method so it doesn't depend on glob() |
515 | anymore. This gets rid of a problem with spaces or other special |
516 | shell characters in things like 'prefix' or 'install_path' |
517 | entries. [Prodding by Eric Wilhelm] |
518 | |
519 | - Added midnightbsd to the list of Unix-like OSes we know about |
520 | [Rafael Garcia-Suarez] |
521 | |
522 | 0.2808 - Sat Apr 28 12:59:43 2007 |
523 | |
524 | - Added is_vmsish(), is_windowsish(), and is_unixish() boolean |
525 | convenience functions. Fixes some test failures on platforms where |
526 | $^O is set to a value we don't know about (like 'gnu'). |
527 | |
528 | - Upgraded to version.pm 0.7203. [John Peacock] |
529 | |
530 | - Support get_action_docs() =head2 style. [ewilhelm] |
531 | |
532 | - Workaround Test::Pod::Coverage @INC bug. [Eric Wilhelm] |
533 | |
534 | - Fixed the command-line args --extra_compiler_flags and |
535 | --extra_linker_flags so they properly shell-split their arguments. |
536 | |
537 | 0.2807 - Sat Mar 24 22:19:02 2007 |
538 | |
539 | - Upgraded to version.pm 0.71. [John Peacock] |
540 | |
541 | - Removed a couple small constructs in the tests ("use warnings;" and |
542 | "qw$foo bar$[1]") that caused test failures under perl 5.005. |
543 | |
544 | - Added support for an explicit default value of undef in prompt(). |
545 | [Eric Wilhelm] |
546 | |
547 | - Improved our prompt() method, which could sometimes hang before the |
548 | user got a chance to see a prompt. [Andreas Koenig] |
549 | |
550 | - Added a note about --allow_mb_mismatch to the error message that |
551 | happens right before someone might want to use that parameter. |
552 | |
553 | - Added DragonflyBSD to the list of known Unix OSes. |
554 | |
555 | - get_action_docs() dies on error rather than twiddling $@ |
556 | |
557 | - Made ModuleInfo's _evaluate_version_line() compatible with 'use |
558 | version ...$VERSION' lines. [Eric Wilhelm] |
559 | |
560 | - Added some verbiage in Module::Build::API that officially blesses |
561 | the _build/prereqs file for external consumption. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig] |
562 | |
563 | - Added test profiles support via the test_types property and "testall" |
564 | target. [Eric Wilhelm, Jeff Lavallee] |
565 | |
566 | - Use syscopy() on OS/2 in copy_if_modified() so we make sure to |
567 | overwrite any existing target file. [Ilya Zakharevich] |
568 | |
569 | - Removed seemingly silly '~~' test in t/tilde.t. |
570 | |
571 | - In our test-time utility library t/lib/MBTest.pm, we need to know |
572 | about a few .exe-like extensions on OS/2. [Ilya Zakharevich] |
573 | |
574 | - In t/ppm.t, use DynaLoader::mod2fname() (if available) to determine |
575 | the correct translation of our test module's name into a DLL |
576 | name. [Ilya Zakharevich] |
577 | |
578 | - Avoid an unlink() error on OS/2 when fixing shebang lines. [Ilya |
579 | Zakharevich] |
580 | |
581 | - When we're protecting the world from the evils of long RedHat |
582 | $ENV{PERL5LIB} variables, don't assume $ENV{PERL5LIB} is already |
583 | defined. This gets rid of a huge number of warnings for some |
584 | people. [Dave Rolsky] |
585 | |
586 | 0.2806 - Fri Dec 15 22:20:14 2006 |
587 | |
77e96e88 |
588 | - On some systems (haven't identified the actual problem yet) |
589 | $ENV{PERL5LIB} can grow to enormous enough sizes that we can't |
590 | launch any more subprocesses because the environment table is full. |
591 | This is the now-infamous "Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too |
592 | long" error. Now we detect such situations and trim the directory |
593 | list to only include directories that actually exist, listed only |
594 | once each. Not the ideal solution, but it should work. |
595 | |
596 | - Silence a warning in M::B::ModuleInfo that happens when the author |
597 | is using the "$VERSION = eval $VERSION" idiom. |
598 | |
599 | - When running the 'testcover' action, do "cover --delete" if any of |
600 | the test files have changed (we already did so if any of the code |
601 | under test has changed). [Suggested by Chris Dolan, RT #23584] |
602 | |
603 | - Fixed a broken link in the documentation about PREFIX. [Spotted by |
604 | David Steinbrunner] |
605 | |
606 | - Changes to do_system() & friends on VMS to get system calls working |
607 | much better there. [Craig Berry] |
608 | |
609 | - Added the "pardist" target which creates a PAR binary distribution |
610 | akin to a PPM distribution. [Steffen Mueller] |
611 | |
612 | - Added the Interix platform as a Unix variant. [Stephen Hartland] |
613 | |
614 | - Improved the error message we emit when a distribution contains XS |
615 | files but the user has no C compiler. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig] |
616 | |
617 | 0.2805_01 Thu Sep 7 21:57:29 CDT 2006 |
618 | |
619 | - Because of a weird behavior of YAML::Node, any distribution that |
620 | used version.pm objects to define their versions was generating the |
621 | wrong syntax for the versions in their META.yml file. They will |
622 | now appear as strings like v3.42.1 or similar, including the |
623 | leading v. |
624 | |
625 | - Upgraded to version 0.67 of version.pm. [John Peacock] |
626 | |
627 | - Added a contrib/ directory with a bash completion function for M::B |
628 | actions and switches. [Julian Mehnle] |
629 | |
630 | - When we eval() the embedded version.pm code we will now die() if |
631 | the eval() was unsuccessful, rather than continuing blindly on and |
632 | dying mysteriously later. |
633 | |
634 | - Added a 'retest' action that lets users run the current regression |
635 | tests on a previously-installed version of a distribution. |
636 | |
637 | * Instead of storing an entire dump of the Config.pm hash in the |
638 | _build/ directory upon startup, we now just store any overrides the |
639 | user or author has specified. Note that if you were doing anything |
640 | you weren't supposed to be doing, like poking around in the |
641 | internals of $buld->{config}, your code might break, so I've put |
642 | the asterisk of incompatibility on this one just to cover my |
643 | tuchus. [Idea originally by Randy Sims] |
644 | |
645 | - Made copying files via copy_if_modified() a little less chatty. |
646 | |
0ec9ad96 |
647 | 0.2805 Sat Jul 29 22:01:24 CDT 2006 |
648 | |
649 | - We now embed a copy of version.pm right in the |
650 | Module::Build::Version source code, with John Peacock's blessing, |
651 | in case the user has a rough time installing version.pm. This |
652 | helps alleviate troubles people were still having with working out |
653 | a seemingly circular dependency (even though version.pm now ships |
654 | with a standard Makefile.PL too). A version.pm >= 0.661 installed |
655 | on the system will take precedence over our bundled one. [John |
656 | Peacock] |
657 | |
658 | - Fix some test warnings (or failures?) related to version.pm |
659 | numification. [John Peacock] |
660 | |
661 | - The top-level 'version' entry in META.yml files we'd generated was |
662 | in the wrong format (it was being treated as a version.pm object |
663 | rather than a serialized copy) due to a weird YAML::Node issue. |
664 | Fixed. |
665 | |
666 | - Don't 'use base qw(version)' anymore in our M::B::Version wrapper, |
667 | just set @ISA directly, because some people have reported that the |
668 | 'use base' line is croaking. |
669 | |
670 | - Added an 'allow_mb_mismatch' parameter to suppress the startup |
671 | check that ensures the version of M::B currently running is the |
672 | same as the one initially used to run the Build.PL. Use with |
673 | caution. |
674 | |
675 | - Module::Build::ModuleInfo will no longer detect things that look |
676 | like $VERSION assignments after an __END__ or __DATA__ token. |
677 | |
678 | - Updated documentation to mention the new mailing list on perl.org |
679 | rather than the old one on sourceforge. |
680 | |
681 | 0.2804 Sun Jul 16 16:41:25 CDT 2006 |
682 | |
683 | - Added 'use version;' in Module::Build::Version, because some |
684 | versions of base.pm won't automatically load version.pm when we do |
685 | 'use base qw/version/;'. [Spotted by Erik Tank] |
686 | |
7a501b10 |
687 | 0.2803 Sat Jul 15 08:26:34 CDT 2006 |
688 | |
689 | - The META.yml file in the last release was all screwed up, so the |
690 | distribution wasn't indexed properly. Fixed in this release. |
691 | |
b3dfda33 |
692 | 0.2802 Fri Jul 14 22:40:34 CDT 2006 |
693 | |
694 | - Added reliance on version.pm, which means we should deal much |
695 | better with the wide range of version specifications one finds on |
696 | CPAN. This is made possible by recent releases of version.pm that |
697 | give the user a pure-perl option, so installing version.pm |
698 | shouldn't be too onerous for most users. [John Peacock] |
699 | |
700 | - We should be accepting the default when we're in unattended mode, |
701 | not acting dumb and ignoring both the default and the [empty] |
702 | answer from the user. Fixed. [Spotted by Nik Clayton] |
703 | |
f943a5bf |
704 | 0.2801 Sun May 21 00:07:40 CDT 2006 |
705 | |
706 | - Module::Build::Compat's emulation of INC is incorrectly prepending |
707 | a -I to the value of INC. This is incorrect because there should |
708 | already be a -I on the value. I.E. it's "perl Makefile.PL INC=-Ifoo" |
709 | not "perl Makefile.PL INC=foo" so Compat should not prefix a -I. |
710 | [Michael Schwern] |
711 | |
712 | - Native batch scripts under Windows should not be converted by |
713 | pl2bat. [Spotted by Ron Savage] |
714 | |
715 | - Tweaked the way we determine whether a file is executable on Unix. |
716 | We use this determination to decide whether to make it executable |
717 | during installation. [Julian Mehnle] |
718 | |
719 | - Replaced a vestigial 'next' with 'return' now that the code is in a |
720 | subroutine (htmlify_pods()), not a loop. [Ron Savage] |
721 | |
722 | - Fixed a guaranteed failure in t/signature.t when TEST_SIGNATURE was |
723 | set. [Eric R. Meyers] |
724 | |
725 | - Fixed a test failure that occurred when testing or installing in |
726 | unattended mode - the code to test whether unattended mode and |
727 | attended mode are working properly was assuming that we started out |
728 | in attended mode. [Steve Peters] |
729 | |
730 | - Improved our stand-in YAML generator that we use to generate |
731 | META.yaml when authors don't have a copy of YAML.pm installed on |
732 | their machine. It was unable to handle things like embedded |
733 | newlines in the data, now it has a much more extensive escaping |
734 | mechanism. [Stephen Adkins] |
735 | |
736 | - Revised the docs for --prefix and PREFIX. [Michael Schwern] |
737 | |
dc8021d3 |
738 | 0.28 Thu Apr 27 22:25:00 CDT 2006 |
739 | |
740 | - When y_n() or prompt() are called without a default value and the |
741 | build seems to be unattended (e.g. in automatic CPAN testing), we |
742 | now die() with an error message rather than silently returning |
743 | undef for prompt(), or looping indefinitely for y_n(). |
744 | |
745 | - When searching for '.modulebuildrc', return the first HOME-like |
746 | directory that actually contains the file instead of the first |
747 | existing directory. Document the search locations and the order |
748 | searched. [Spotted by David Golden] |
749 | |
750 | - Split the API documentation out of Module::Build::Authoring into |
751 | its own document: Module::Build::API. |
752 | |
753 | - We should not emit a warning if a Module::Build subclass is |
754 | required in a Makefile.PL that is not bundled in the current |
755 | distribution; it may be installed on the user's system. [Spotted by |
756 | Tyler MacDonald] |
757 | |
758 | - copy_if_modified() now preserves the executable bit of the source |
759 | file. [Spotted by Julian Mehnle] |
760 | |
761 | - Fixed compatibility of our screen-scraping the Test::Harness output |
762 | so we can recognize the most recent Test::Harness version. [Steve |
763 | Hay] |
764 | |
765 | - Backing out a requirement added in 0.27_06 on the method y_n() |
766 | to always include a default. This behavior would cause existing |
767 | build scripts to start failing. We now fail with a missing default |
768 | only when $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} is set because there is no |
769 | reasonable default. |
770 | |
771 | - Make install_types() method smarter with respect to custom install |
772 | types. |
773 | |
774 | - Add documentation for the install_base_relpaths() and |
775 | prefix_relpaths() methods. Improved their usage for a public API, |
776 | and added tests. |
777 | |
778 | 0.27_10 Tue Mar 28 22:50:50 CST 2006 |
a314697d |
779 | |
780 | - Added the create_packlist property, default true, which controls |
781 | whether packlist files will be written during installation. This |
782 | was already part of Module::Build 0.2609, but for some reason we've |
783 | forgotten it in the 0.27_xx series. [Spotted by Steve Kirkup] |
784 | |
785 | - Document the versions of Module::Build where each feature, action, |
786 | constructor argument, and method was first publicly documented. |
787 | |
788 | - More fixes for find_perl_interpreter() to work with BSD flavored |
789 | UNIX: Ensure we always return absolute paths; throw an exception |
790 | upon failure to find correct interperter; document everything. |
791 | |
792 | - We now include our own YAML.pm work-alike that we can use when the |
793 | real YAML isn't installed. We might soon even start using it when |
794 | YAML is installed, because the YAML API and dependency chain have |
795 | been changing in unfavorable ways lately. [Stephen Adkins] |
796 | |
797 | - Fixed some shell-argument-quoting issues on VMS. In the process, |
798 | we have added some support for avoiding tripping over |
799 | shell-argument-quoting issues on other platforms too. [Initial |
800 | patch by Craig A. Berry] |
801 | |
47f13fd5 |
802 | 0.27_09 Sat Mar 11 22:48:54 EST 2006 |
803 | |
804 | - Fixed find_perl_interpreter() so we can find the perl executable |
805 | when running from uninstalled perl even when $^X contains a |
806 | relative path. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] |
807 | |
808 | - Fixed warning message where we were printing the wrong field names. |
809 | [Chris Dolan] |
810 | |
811 | - Added a 'testpodcoverage' action that runs a POD coverage check for |
812 | all modules in the distribution. [Yanick Champoux] |
813 | |
814 | - Added a Cookbook example of subclassing to modify an action. [Dylan |
815 | Martin and David Golden] |
816 | |
817 | - When building HTML documentation, we were opening the POD file and |
818 | not checking whether the open succeeded, which of course caused |
819 | problems down the line if it failed. Now we do "or die(...)" like |
820 | everywhere else. [Spotted by Joerg Braun] |
821 | |
bb4e9162 |
822 | 0.27_08 Fri Mar 3 21:22:41 CST 2006 |
823 | |
824 | - Due to shell quoting issues and differences in syntax between |
825 | various flavors of Windows, the code for the 'pl2bat' utility |
826 | distributed with Perl has been incorporated into M::B::P::Windows. |
827 | [Thanks to Dr Bean and Ron Savage for help testing and isolating |
828 | the problem.] |
829 | |
830 | - Modify add_build_element() so that it only adds elements if they |
831 | don't already exist. [David Wheeler] |
832 | |
833 | - Fixed a bug in the 'pass-through' Makefile.PL in which we would die |
834 | if CPAN::Shell->install returned false, but apparently this return |
835 | value is unreliable. Now we only die if the module is actually |
836 | unavailable after installation. |
837 | |
838 | - Fixed testing problems on VMS related to non-case-preserving |
839 | filesystems. We now bundle Tie::CPHash in the distribution (just |
840 | for testing purposes, it doesn't get installed) to help with |
841 | this. [Craig Berry and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] |
842 | |
843 | - We incorrectly documented the 'dynamic_config' flag in the META.yml |
844 | file as having a default value of false, but according to the |
845 | META.yml spec (which, for heaven's sake, we wrote) its default |
846 | value is true. Fixed. [Spotted by Adam Kennedy] |
847 | |
848 | - The have_c_compiler() method was dying if the ExtUtils::CBuilder |
849 | module wasn't around, which is obviously an unhelpful thing to do. |
850 | Now it just returns false. [Spotted by John Peacock] |
851 | |
852 | - Fix detection of $VERSION expressions that are not |
853 | assignments. [Spotted by Chris Dolan] |
854 | |
855 | - Obfuscate one of our constructs that uses a $VERSION variable, |
856 | because it was getting picked up by ExtUtils::MakeMaker's |
857 | version-finder. [Spotted by Randal Schwartz] |
858 | |
859 | - The config_data script for querying and/or setting a module's |
860 | config data was forgetting to call write() after setting config |
861 | values (though setting feature values was working fine). |
862 | Fixed. [Brian Duggan] |
863 | |
864 | - On Windows, remove the pl2bat generated 'Build.bat' script without |
865 | the annoying "The batch file cannot be found." error. [Solution |
866 | provided by RazTK and foxidrive on newsgroup alt.msdos.batch] |
867 | |
868 | - Our version comparisons should now work correctly with modules that |
869 | use version.pm to delcare their versions (e.g. "our $VERSION = |
870 | version->new('1.0.0')"). [John Peacock and Ron Savage] |
871 | |
872 | - We now create a Build.bat script on versions of Windows where it |
873 | makes sense. [Yves] |
874 | |
875 | - Fixed the verbiage around choosing the correct make-alike on |
876 | different platforms to suggest using 'perl -V:make'. [Suggested by |
877 | anonymous user] |
878 | |
879 | 0.27_07 Wed Feb 1 20:07:45 CST 2006 |
880 | |
881 | - The notes() method now returns the new value when called with two |
882 | arguments, just like when it's called with one argument. [Tyler |
883 | MacDonald] |
884 | |
885 | - The notes() method now distinguishes among the values undef, 0, and |
886 | the empty string, where previously it didn't. [Tyler MacDonald] |
887 | |
888 | - We now unshift(@INC) rather than push(@INC) for the directory where |
889 | a build subclass lives, so that we're sure to pick up the right |
890 | version and not some already-installed version. [perlmonkey] |
891 | |
892 | - The SIGNATURE file for version 0.27_06 (and I'm sure for lots of |
893 | versions before that too!) was messed up, since we were modifying |
894 | some files after signing. This has been band-aided for the time |
895 | being by signing twice. [Reported by Chris Dolan] |
896 | |
897 | 0.27_06 Mon Jan 23 21:44:54 CST 2006 |
898 | |
899 | - Fixed an undefined-variable warning when building the META.yml file |
900 | and the author hasn't used the 'module_name' mechanism. [Chris Dolan] |
901 | |
902 | - We should now work with recent (> 0.49) versions of YAML.pm when |
903 | creating the META.yml file. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] |
904 | |
905 | - The y_n() method now requires the default parameter, and the |
906 | prompt() and y_n() methods have been improved with respect to |
907 | how they behave/detect when there is no user to ask. We're now |
908 | more consistent with MakeMaker, including respecting the |
909 | PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT environment variable. [Tyler MacDonald and |
910 | Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] |
911 | |
912 | - When building a README file using Pod::Text, work around a bug in |
913 | Pod::Text 3.01, which expects Pod::Simple::parse_file to take input |
914 | and output filehandles when it actually only takes an input |
915 | filehandle. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] |
916 | |
917 | 0.27_05 Thu Jan 12 17:39:21 CST 2006 |
918 | |
919 | - In t/common.pl, we were attempting to let the user's installed |
920 | Test::More take precedence over ours, but getting thwarted by all |
921 | the test scripts' loading Test::More beforehand. Fixed. [Spotted |
922 | by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] |
923 | |
924 | - In various test scripts, we were outputting some strings that |
925 | weren't strictly conformant with Test::Harness's expected input, |
926 | though it didn't actually cause problems. Now we're more |
927 | conformant, though not yet strict. [Spotted by Yitzchak |
928 | Scott-Thoennes] |
929 | |
930 | 0.27_04 Fri Dec 23 10:43:34 CST 2005 |
931 | |
932 | - Removed experimental feature that extended the prerequisite system |
933 | to apply ('requires', 'recommends', and 'conflicts') prereqs to all |
934 | actions. Most of the internal extensiblity has been retained so |
935 | that prereq types can easily be added, more selectively. |
936 | |
937 | - Added a 'prereq_report' action that shows the user a well-formatted |
938 | list of all prerequisites, the versions required, and the versions |
939 | actually installed. [David Wheeler] |
940 | |
941 | - Clarified the directory name that's created during the 'distdir' |
942 | action. [Suggested by Tyler MacDonald] |
943 | |
944 | - Fixed a bug when creating the META.yml file without the help of |
945 | YAML.pm - some common strings weren't quoted & escaped properly. |
946 | Now only some uncommon ones are. [Spotted by Joshua ben Jore] |
947 | |
948 | - Fixed a bug in which an "UNINST=1" argument specified to a |
949 | passthrough Makefile's "make install" wasn't actually seen by |
950 | Module::Build. |
951 | |
952 | - Rather than dying when the Build script is run from the wrong |
953 | directory, it now simply chdir()s into the right directory and |
954 | keeps going. [Suggested by Dominique Quatravaux] |
955 | |
956 | - Added an "Examples on CPAN" section to the cookbook, with an |
957 | initial entry pointing to John Peacock's SVN-Notify-Mirror |
958 | distribution. |
959 | |
960 | - Add an invoked_action() method to return the name of the original |
961 | action invoked by the user. |
962 | |
963 | - Add 'meta-spec' field to the generated META.yml file, including the |
964 | version of the specification followed by the current Module::Build |
965 | and the url where the specification can be found. |
966 | |
967 | - Introduced two actions, 'html' & 'manpages', that generate |
968 | documentation for POD when the respective feature is enabled. The |
969 | actions will generate the documents even if there is no set place |
970 | to install to. However, if the actions are invoked as a dependency |
971 | of another action (e.g. build), the documentation will only be |
972 | built when there is a default or user-specified place to install to. |
973 | |
974 | - Added support for environment variable, 'MODULEBUILDRC', which can |
975 | be used to specify the full path to an option file to use instead |
976 | of the default location of ~/.modulebuildrc. A special undocumented |
977 | setting of 'NONE' tells Module::Build not to load any user settings, |
978 | so tests can be run without tainting from user options. |
979 | |
980 | - Documented and improved preliminary support for more Getopt::Long |
981 | style options are supported, including boolean options (--verbose, |
982 | --no-verbose), and use of hyphens in option names in addition to |
983 | underscores. |
984 | |
985 | - The option to disable/enable reading of the ~/.modulebuildrc file |
986 | is changed from 'skip_rcfile' to 'use_rcfile' |
987 | |
988 | - Allow the 'distmeta' action to continue when 'MANIFEST' is missing, |
989 | omitting the generation of the 'provieds' field. [Steven Schubiger] |
990 | |
991 | - Fixed some failing regex from generated MANIFEST.SKIP file. |
992 | |
993 | - Fixed an edge case in $VERSION parsing where we thought a package() |
994 | declaration was happening but it wasn't. [David Golden] |
995 | |
996 | - Added docs for the install_destination() and install_types() methods. |
997 | |
998 | 0.27_03 (Beta for 0.28) Mon Oct 10 11:19:23 EDT 2005 |
999 | |
1000 | - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for |
1001 | example, when compiling XS modules). (This change actually |
1002 | occurred in 0.27_01, but it was mistakenly omitted from the Changes |
1003 | file.) |
1004 | |
1005 | - Fixed an issue on Win32 (and other case-tolerant |
1006 | non-case-preserving systems, possibly like VMS?) in which the |
1007 | current working directory would sometimes be reported with |
1008 | different case, fooling us into thinking that we were in the wrong |
1009 | directory. [David Golden] |
1010 | |
1011 | - The extra_compiler_flags setting was not actually being passed |
1012 | along to ExtUtils::CBuilder so it could pass it along to the |
1013 | compiler. Now it is. |
1014 | |
1015 | - The synonyms 'scripts' and 'prereq' for 'script_files' and |
1016 | 'requires' were broken in a previous version (0.27_01, probably), |
1017 | but now they're fixed. [David Golden] |
1018 | |
1019 | - Previously, we assumed that any custom subclass of Module::Build |
1020 | was located in _build/lib/. This is only true if the author used |
1021 | the subclass() method, though. We now use %INC to find where the |
1022 | custom subclass really is, so that we can "use lib" it. We also |
1023 | issue a warning if it seems to be outside the build directory. |
1024 | [Spotted by Peter Tandler] |
1025 | |
1026 | - Added a URL for each license type that we know about, which will |
1027 | appear as resources=>license: in the generated META.yml file. |
1028 | |
1029 | - If the user passes a no_index parameter to our constructor, we now |
1030 | pass that through when building the META.yml file. [Richard |
1031 | Soderberg, RT #9603] |
1032 | |
1033 | - A few more status messages can now be suppressed by using 'quiet' |
1034 | mode. [Dave Rolsky] |
1035 | |
1036 | - Added some more entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file. [Chris |
1037 | Dolan] |
1038 | |
1039 | - Our POD parser will now accept "AUTHORS" as well as "AUTHOR" when |
1040 | looking for the author list in a module. [David Wheeler] |
1041 | |
1042 | - When looking for the POD to auto-generate a README file, or for the |
1043 | AUTHOR or ABSTRACT for the distribution, we now also look for a |
1044 | *.pod with the same name as the *.pm file specified by |
1045 | 'version_from'. [David Golden] |
1046 | |
1047 | - The recommended dependency on ExtUtils::ParseXS has been moved into |
1048 | the "C_support" auto_feature. |
1049 | |
1050 | - When building XS files, we now pass the -DVERSION and -DXS_VERSION |
1051 | flags to the compiler. [Spotted by Jerry Hedden] |
1052 | |
1053 | - If a distribution has XS files and Module::Build has not been |
1054 | configured with the "C_support" feature, we now issue a |
1055 | warning. [Suggested by Jerry Hedden] |
1056 | |
1057 | - Added a dir_contains() method. |
1058 | |
1059 | - Some versions of MakeMaker, CPANPLUS, and/or PAUSE thought that a |
1060 | certain line of our code was declaring a $VERSION when we didn't |
1061 | intend to. The line has been obscurified so they won't think that |
1062 | anymore. [Jos Boumans, RT #14226] |
1063 | |
1064 | - Added the Apache, MIT, and Mozilla licenses to the list of licenses |
1065 | that this module knows about. [Bob Ippolito] |
1066 | |
1067 | - Fixed a pretty significant typo in the documentation for |
1068 | auto_features. [Spotted by Jonas B. Nielsen] |
1069 | |
1070 | - In order to aid people who want to do customization of the META.yml |
1071 | file, we've added a "metafile" property that can then be easily |
1072 | overridden in subclasses, changed do_create_meta_yml() to |
1073 | do_create_metafile(), and split out the code that actually |
1074 | generates the YAML into a new method, write_metafile(). [David |
1075 | Wheeler] |
1076 | |
1077 | - Fixed a couple of non-helpful behaviors with extra_compiler_flags |
1078 | and extra_linker_flags. These will automatically be run through |
1079 | split_like_shell() when given to new() as strings. |
1080 | |
1081 | - When the user doesn't have ExtUtils::ParseXS installed and we use |
1082 | the old 'xsubpp', the displayed command line for creating the .c |
1083 | file from the .xs file was missing its newline. Now it's got it. |
1084 | |
1085 | 0.27_02 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Jul 15 07:34:58 CDT 2005 |
1086 | |
1087 | - Provided initial support for the --prefix installation parameter, |
1088 | which acts like MakeMaker's PREFIX. It is still highly recommended |
1089 | NOT to use it when you could reasonably use --install_base or |
1090 | --install_path or --install_dest, but that's just because the way |
1091 | --prefix is designed is weird and unpredictable. Ultimately the |
1092 | choice rests with the installing user. [Patches by Michael Schwern |
1093 | and Rob Kinyon] |
1094 | |
1095 | - Fixed a bug in subclass() which prevented people from using it to |
1096 | subclass subclasses of Module::Build. [Chris Dolan] |
1097 | |
1098 | - Added a 'pure_install' action, which for the time being is |
1099 | identical to the 'install' action. [Jos Boumans] |
1100 | |
1101 | - Fixed a POD error in an L<http://...> tag. [Offer Kaye] |
1102 | |
1103 | - Note several options for automatically creating a new module dev |
1104 | tree. [Suggested by Eric Wilhelm] |
1105 | |
1106 | - Removed some hard-coded references to File::Spec::Unix in the |
1107 | creation of HTML docs, which should help that code work in more |
1108 | places, and help people not to panic when they look at it. [Spotted |
1109 | by Yves] |
1110 | |
1111 | - We now use Pod::Readme by default (instead of Pod::Text) to |
1112 | generate the README file when the 'create_readme' option is used. |
1113 | If Pod::Readme is not installed, we will still fall back to using |
1114 | Pod::Text. [Robert Rothenberg] |
1115 | |
1116 | - The values of the "prefix", "install_base", "install_path", and |
1117 | "install_dest" parameters can now begin with "~" or "~user", and |
1118 | we'll de-tilde-ify them by using glob(). |
1119 | |
1120 | - The (optional) auto-creation of the README and Makefile.PL files |
1121 | have been moved from the 'distdir' action to the 'distmeta' |
1122 | action. [David Golden] |
1123 | |
1124 | - When looking for a .modulebuildrc file, we now use a fancier method |
1125 | of trying to find the home directory, because $ENV{HOME} isn't a |
1126 | very cross-platform variable. [Robert Rothenberg] |
1127 | |
1128 | - We now memoize the output of the internal _default_INC() method, |
1129 | since it uses backticks and might be kind of slow. |
1130 | |
1131 | - When processing XS files, we now look for a typemap in lib/ as well |
1132 | as using the system's default typemap. [John Peacock] |
1133 | |
1134 | - The DESTDIR, PREFIX, and INSTALL_BASE arguments to "make install" |
1135 | are now supported for pass-through Makefiles (they've been |
1136 | supported for quite a while as arguments to "perl |
1137 | Makefile.PL"). [Requested by Guillaume Rousse] |
1138 | |
1139 | - Test::Harness has changed its output format in recent versions, |
1140 | which threw off one of our tests. We now allow for this different |
1141 | format. [Reported by Scott Godin] |
1142 | |
1143 | - Fixed an issue that prevented Module::Build from upgrading itself |
1144 | using its own API (which is how CPANPLUS uses it). There are still |
1145 | some issues with this solution, however. See ticket #13169 in |
1146 | rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans] |
1147 | |
1148 | - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when a distribution's author |
1149 | could not be determined from its POD nor from the call to |
1150 | Module::Build->new() in its Build.PL. See ticket #12318 in |
1151 | rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans] |
1152 | |
1153 | - Apparently on Windows and cygwin it's not possible to use the "-pi" |
1154 | switch to perl without a backup extension, so now we use ".bak" and |
1155 | remove the backup file when we're done. Thus the "dist" action for |
1156 | Module::Build itself can now be run on those platforms. [Yitzchak |
1157 | Scott-Thoennes] |
1158 | |
1159 | - Improved the handling of auto_features in the config_data access |
1160 | script. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] |
1161 | |
1162 | 0.27_01 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Apr 15 21:12:57 CDT 2005 |
1163 | |
1164 | Backward-incompatible (but better) changes: |
1165 | |
1166 | * When using the 'install_base' option to choose a directory for |
1167 | installing everything, perl modules now go into lib/perl5/ instead |
1168 | of just lib/. It seems this is more consistent with people's |
1169 | expectations, and the way I had it before was a bit peculiar to the |
1170 | way I like things in my own home directory. [Michael Schwern] |
1171 | |
1172 | * When the user is using the 'install_base' option, scripts will now |
1173 | be installed by default in $install_base/bin/ rather than |
1174 | $install_base/script/ . [Jan Hudec and Michael Schwern] |
1175 | |
1176 | Major changes: |
1177 | |
1178 | - The auto_features mechanism will now re-evaluate dependencies every |
1179 | time feature() is called for an auto-feature, rather than freezing |
1180 | the success/failure value during 'perl Build.PL' and using that |
1181 | value for all eternity (or module update, whichever comes first). |
1182 | This applies to both $build->feature() and |
1183 | FooModule::ConfigData->feature() calls. [Requested by many] |
1184 | |
1185 | - Added the meta_add and meta_merge mechanisms, which let the module |
1186 | author add/merge arbitrary entries into the META.yml file. |
1187 | |
1188 | - Now reads per-action default options from '$ENV{HOME}/.modulebuildrc' |
1189 | if it exists. Command line options override anything set in the rc file. |
1190 | |
1191 | - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for |
1192 | example, when compiling XS modules). |
1193 | |
1194 | - The creation of Unix man pages is no longer a strict necessity - it |
1195 | has now been turned into an 'auto-feature' contingent on the |
1196 | presence of Pod::Man and a location specified for man pages to go. |
1197 | |
1198 | - A user-specified 'install_path' setting will now take precedence |
1199 | over an 'install_base' setting. This allows the user to use |
1200 | 'install_base' to set the base for all elements in one go, and then |
1201 | use 'install_path' to override specific paths or add paths for |
1202 | additional kinds of targets. |
1203 | |
1204 | - Split the main documentation from 'Module/Build.pm' into two |
1205 | sections. The user level documentation and overview remains in |
1206 | 'Module/Build.pm', while a new document, |
1207 | 'Module/Build/Authoring.pod', has been created for module authors. |
1208 | |
1209 | Minor changes: |
1210 | |
1211 | - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not |
1212 | because of inadequate training in forensic debate) - we now pass its |
1213 | arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them |
1214 | in afterwards. |
1215 | |
1216 | - Let resume() return an object blessed into the appropriate class |
1217 | if the user has provided a subclass, as specified by the |
1218 | 'build_class' property. This allows current() and new_from_context() |
1219 | to behave more like factory methods returning objects of the correct |
1220 | class based on context. [Ray Zimmerman] |
1221 | |
1222 | - Refactored methods relating to parsing perl module files for |
1223 | package, version, and pod data into a new class: |
1224 | Module::Build::ModuleInfo. It should not be considered part of |
1225 | Module::Build's API, because we may split it out entirely as a |
1226 | separate CPAN module that we depend on. |
1227 | |
1228 | - Added new method Module::Build::prepare_metadata() for authors to |
1229 | override in order to add custom fields to META.yml. |
1230 | |
1231 | - We now use Test::More for our regression tests. If the user |
1232 | doesn't have it installed, we include a copy in t/lib/ that we can |
1233 | use during testing. |
1234 | |
1235 | - When copying files in the 'distdir' action, set permissions to match |
1236 | the original files. [Julian Mehnle] |
1237 | |
1238 | - When adding files like META.yml to the MANIFEST, we now tell the |
1239 | user we're doing so by printing one of the "Added to MANIFEST: ..." |
1240 | lines. [Ron Savage] |
1241 | |
1242 | - Added a runtime_params() method, which lets a module author see |
1243 | which parameters were overridden by the user on the command line |
1244 | (or in whatever paradigm the user originally invoked Module::Build |
1245 | from). [David Wheeler] |
1246 | |
1247 | - Added the current_action() method, which, surprisingly, returns the |
1248 | name of the currently running action. [David Wheeler] |
1249 | |
1250 | - Added docs for run_perl_script(). |
1251 | |
1252 | - Added some stuff to the docs about why PREFIX is unsupported, and |
1253 | what to use instead. [Steve Purkis] |
1254 | |
1255 | - The simple get/set accessor methods for all the 'parameters' like |
1256 | verbose(), license(), etc. now have auto-generated documentation in |
1257 | Module/Build.pm. |
1258 | |
1259 | - Created a Cookbook entry for 'Adding new elements to the install |
1260 | process' |
1261 | |
1262 | - We now add META.yml to the MANIFEST when META.yml is created, not |
1263 | when MANIFEST is created. [Spotted by Ron Savage] |
1264 | |
1265 | - Added some additional patterns to the suggested MANIFEST.SKIP |
1266 | contents, and changed the docs so that we encourage the user to use |
1267 | the MANIFEST.SKIP. [Ron Savage] |
1268 | |
1269 | - Eliminated a redundant recipe from the Cookbook, now that there are |
1270 | some more extensive recipes on how to add stuff to the |
1271 | build/install sequences. |
1272 | |
1273 | - Eliminated an undefined-variable warning when testing under perl 5.005 |
1274 | |
1275 | - When building HTML documentation, 'html_backlink' and 'html_css' |
1276 | properties are now first-class properties, so they can be set from |
1277 | the command line. [Suggested by Sagar R. Shah] |
1278 | |
1279 | - Have script_files default to everything in bin. I believe this is |
1280 | the least surprising behavior. [Suggested by Michael Schwern] |
1281 | |
1282 | - If script_files is given a directory, consider each file in that |
1283 | directory tree as a script to be installed. This avoids having to |
1284 | remember to add to the script_files list every time you add a |
1285 | program. [Suggested by Michael Schwern] |
1286 | |
1287 | - We now only load Pod::Man when we actually need to build man pages. |
1288 | |
1289 | - We now make Test::Harness use our carefully-selected path to a perl |
1290 | executable regardless of Test::Harness's version. Previously we |
1291 | let it figure stuff out for itself if it was a reasonably modern |
1292 | version, but it's safer to make sure we're using the same perl |
1293 | everywhere. |
1294 | |
1295 | 0.2610 Fri Apr 15 08:25:01 CDT 2005 |
1296 | |
1297 | - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not |
1298 | because of inadequate training in debate) - we now pass its |
1299 | arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them |
1300 | in afterwards. [Ray Zimmerman] |
1301 | |
1302 | - Fixed a bug in which config_data and feature data were being |
1303 | forgotten and no ConfigData.pm module would get written. [Ray |
1304 | Zimmerman] |
1305 | |
1306 | - Added a recipe to the cookbook showing how to run a single test |
1307 | file from the command line. [William McKee] |
1308 | |
1309 | - For command-line arguments, we now accept the syntax "--foo=bar" in |
1310 | addition to "--foo bar" and "foo=bar". This seems to fit well with |
1311 | what GNU getopt and Getopt::Long do, and with people's |
1312 | expectations. [Adam Spiers] |
1313 | |
1314 | 0.2609 Wed Mar 16 22:18:35 CST 2005 |
1315 | |
1316 | - The html docs that were created during the first invokation of |
1317 | './Build' were being found and treated as pod that needed to be |
1318 | converted to html during subsequent invokations. We now are more |
1319 | specific about the directories we scan for pod that needs to be |
1320 | converted, effectively avoiding blib/html. [Ray Zimmerman] |
1321 | |
1322 | - If Pod::Man is not available, we now skip building man pages |
1323 | (rather than dying) and tell the user why. |
1324 | |
1325 | - We now write a .packlist file upon installation, in the same place |
1326 | that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does. [Johnny Lam] |
1327 | |
1328 | - On some Unix platforms (BSD derivatives, mostly) perl's $^X |
1329 | variable isn't set to the full path of the perl executable, just |
1330 | 'perl', when the 'Build' script is run as './Build' and not 'perl |
1331 | ./Build'. This can lead to some other modules (maybe |
1332 | Test::Harness, maybe IO::File, I dunno...) getting very confused |
1333 | about where they are, and they try to load stuff from the wrong |
1334 | perl lib, and big trouble ensues. To fix this, we now set $^X to |
1335 | the value of Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter(). |
1336 | |
1337 | - The 'distcheck' action will now die() if it finds an error in the |
1338 | MANIFEST, rather than just printing on STDOUT. [David Golden] |
1339 | |
1340 | - When the README and/or Makefile.PL are autogenerated using |
1341 | create_readme or create_makefile_pl, we now automatically make sure |
1342 | they're also listed in the MANIFEST file. [Suggested by Michael |
1343 | Schwern] |
1344 | |
1345 | - Got rid of the t/MANIFEST file - it's superfluous, and it had |
1346 | zero-length, which some versions of Tar don't like. [William |
1347 | Underwood] |
1348 | |
1349 | - Added a mention in the documentation that each property that new() |
1350 | accepts also has a corresponding get/set accessor. (In the version |
1351 | 0.27_0x series each accessor method is mentioned explicitly in the |
1352 | docs.) [Omission spotted by Ian Langworth] |
1353 | |
1354 | 0.2608 Wed Jan 26 19:46:09 CST 2005 |
1355 | |
1356 | - Add workaround for test files because Devel::Cover causes |
1357 | require to fail when the argument to require is an expression |
1358 | involving File::Spec. We now assign the result of the File::Spec |
1359 | call to a variable and then call require with that variable. |
1360 | |
1361 | - Tilde-expansion is now performed on arguments passed to a |
1362 | compatibility-Makefile.PL [Spotted by Sam Vilain] |
1363 | |
1364 | - We now run the 'gzip' and 'tar' values through split_like_shell() |
1365 | when running the 'dist' action, so that e.g. the 'gzip' value can |
1366 | be set to something like "gzip -f --best" and it'll work |
1367 | correctly. [Spotted by Chris Dolan] |
1368 | |
1369 | - Work around some bad mojo between Fedora Core [with its very long |
1370 | @INC] and old versions of Test::Harness [with its propensity to |
1371 | compound the number of @INC entries] that produced an "argument |
1372 | list too long" error during testing. [assisted by Ville Skytta, |
1373 | David Golden, & Randy Sims] |
1374 | |
1375 | - Killed an infinite loop that would happen in y_n() in interactive |
1376 | mode if the author provided no default value. [Max Maischein] |
1377 | |
1378 | 0.2607 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Sat Dec 18 14:14:09 CST 2004 |
1379 | |
1380 | - Instead of freezing @INC in the 'Build' script to the value it had |
1381 | when Build.PL was run, we now just add those additional values that |
1382 | aren't part of the default compiled-in @INC. [Michael Schwern] |
1383 | |
1384 | - The run_perl_script() method will now propagate any extra entries |
1385 | in @INC (such as those added by "use lib" or the -I command-line |
1386 | switch) to the subprocess. This helps situations in which you want |
1387 | to tell the subprocess where to find a certain module, for |
1388 | instance. [Michael Schwern] |
1389 | |
1390 | 0.2606 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Dec 7 22:33:11 CST 2004 |
1391 | |
1392 | - Fixed a linking bug on Win32, in which compiled C code object files |
1393 | never got linked in with the modules being built. [Dominic |
1394 | Mitchell] |
1395 | |
1396 | - Fixed a bug in the new_from_context() method in which any arguments |
1397 | passed made us die. [Spotted by Jos Boumans] |
1398 | |
1399 | 0.2605 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Nov 30 07:16:13 CST 2004 |
1400 | |
1401 | - Fixed a bug in which zero-length arguments for hash-valued |
1402 | parameters (e.g. " --config foo= ") weren't being allowed. |
1403 | |
1404 | - The tests now play better with environments in which version.pm is |
1405 | pre-loaded, like in bleadperl. [John Peacock & Michael Schwern] |
1406 | |
1407 | - Fixed a syntax error in one of the tests under perl 5.005. |
1408 | |
1409 | 0.2604 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 17 14:32:42 CST 2004 |
1410 | |
1411 | - Fixed a split_like_shell() bug introduced in 0.2603 for Windows, in |
1412 | which an array reference passed as an argument was returned as an |
1413 | array reference, rather than as a list. [Spotted by Steve Hay] |
1414 | |
1415 | - module_name() will now return '' instead of undef when module_name |
1416 | is not set. This eliminates a couple uninitialized-value |
1417 | warnings. [Suggested by Michael Schwern] |
1418 | |
1419 | - The expand_test_dir() method will now skip dotfiles (like ._foo.t, |
1420 | which sometimes gets automatically created on Mac systems) when |
1421 | 'recursive_test_files' is in effect. [Tom Insam] |
1422 | |
1423 | 0.2603 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Mon Nov 15 10:28:00 CST 2004 |
1424 | |
1425 | - Added documentation for the new_from_context() method. |
1426 | |
1427 | - Completely rewrote the split_like_shell() method for the Windows |
1428 | platform so it works like the command.com shell. [Randy Sims] |
1429 | |
1430 | 0.2602 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Thu Nov 4 11:19:29 CST 2004 |
1431 | |
1432 | - The two bug fixes in 0.2601 gnashed against each other incorrectly, |
1433 | resulting in a Win32 bug in split_like_shell(). Fixed. [Spotted |
1434 | by Steve Hay & Randy Sims] |
1435 | |
1436 | - Removed a couple of 'use warnings' statements from the code - they |
1437 | were causing compile failures on 5.005_04, where warnings.pm isn't |
1438 | available. [Blair Zajac] |
1439 | |
1440 | 0.2601 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 3 20:09:27 CST 2004 |
1441 | |
1442 | - Fixed some backslash problems with split_like_shell() on |
1443 | Win32. [Steve Hay] |
1444 | |
1445 | - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was |
1446 | creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no |
1447 | such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge] |
1448 | |
1449 | 0.26 Sat Oct 9 17:51:01 CDT 2004 |
1450 | |
1451 | - Removed some language from the Module::Build::Compat documentation |
1452 | that encouraged people to include a Build.PL without a Makefile.PL. |
1453 | Also changed "a replacement for MakeMaker" to "an alternative to |
1454 | MakeMaker" in the main documentation, which is basically what I |
1455 | meant all along (i.e. a replacement for MakeMaker in your |
1456 | particular build process - MakeMaker is never going to be fully |
1457 | replaced in the perl world at large, of course), but some people |
1458 | got the impression I was a little more truculent toward MakeMaker |
1459 | than I really am. |
1460 | |
1461 | - Added the formal concepts of "features" and "config data" for |
1462 | distributions. This allows the module author to define a certain |
1463 | set of features that the user can switch on and off (usually |
1464 | according to whether they have the proper prerequisites for them), |
1465 | and to save build-time configuration information in a standardized |
1466 | format. See the main documentation of Module::Build for more |
1467 | details. (Note that the name of this system was called |
1468 | "BuildConfig" for a while in beta, but now it's called |
1469 | "ConfigData".) |
1470 | |
1471 | - Added an 'auto_features' capability, which simplifies the process |
1472 | of defining features that depend on a set of prerequisites. |
1473 | |
1474 | - Added the 'get_options' parameter, which lets module authors |
1475 | declare certain command-line arguments their Build.PL can accept |
1476 | [David Wheeler] |
1477 | |
1478 | - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords() |
1479 | function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which |
1480 | does a much better job than the split() we were using. |
1481 | |
1482 | - Added a 'testpod' action, which checks the syntactic validity of |
1483 | all POD files in the distribution using Test::Pod. This eliminates |
1484 | the need for doing so in a regression test. [Initial patch by Mark |
1485 | Stosberg] |
1486 | |
1487 | - Added a process_files_by_extension() method, which generalizes the |
1488 | kind of processing (essentially just copying) that happens for .pm |
1489 | and .pod files, and makes it available to other user-defined types |
1490 | of files. See the new cookbook entry. |
1491 | |
1492 | - Improved compatibility with version.pm when authors are using |
1493 | version objects as their $VERSION variables. Now |
1494 | version_from_file() can deal with these objects. Currently we |
1495 | stringify them right away, but perhaps in the future we will |
1496 | preserve them as objects for a while. |
1497 | |
1498 | - During 'distdir' and 'distmeta' actions, die a bit more gracefully |
1499 | if there's no MANIFEST (i.e. explicitly say that a MANIFEST is |
1500 | required). [Spotted by Adrian Howard] |
1501 | |
1502 | - Eliminated a recursive dependency between creating the MANIFEST |
1503 | file and creating the META.yml file. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky] |
1504 | |
1505 | - On Win32, where a single directory might be known variously as |
1506 | "Module-Build-0.25_03" or "MODULE~1.25_", we now use |
1507 | Win32::GetShortPathName($cwd) to verify that the 'Build' script is |
1508 | being run from the correct directory, rather than just a string |
1509 | comparison. |
1510 | |
1511 | - The add_to_cleanup() method will now accept glob()-style patterns |
1512 | in addition to explicit filenames. Also documented the fact that |
1513 | they can be specified in either Unix-style or native-style |
1514 | notation. |
1515 | |
1516 | - Passing a PREFIX value to a pass-through Makefile 'make install' |
1517 | now has the same effect as passing it to 'perl Makefile.PL' (it |
1518 | dies with a helpful message). |
1519 | |
1520 | - Added the 'testcover' action, which runs a test suite using |
1521 | Devel::Cover. [Dave Rolsky] |
1522 | |
1523 | - Added the 'lib' and 'arch' installation directories to the search |
1524 | path for the 'diff' action, since they won't necessarily (though |
1525 | they usually will) be in @INC at installation time. [Suggested by |
1526 | Kevin Baker] |
1527 | |
1528 | - The "=head3" POD directive isn't supported in older podlators |
1529 | (particularly Pod::Man), so we don't use it anymore. |
1530 | |
1531 | - Fixed a typo & improved the docs in the SUBCLASSING section. [Ron |
1532 | Savage] |
1533 | |
1534 | - Added the '.tmp' suffix to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file, which |
1535 | should avoid adding things like pod2htmi.tmp to the MANIFEST [Ron |
1536 | Savage] |
1537 | |
1538 | - Backup files from Emacs, containing the string '.#' in their names, |
1539 | should no longer find their way into the blib/ directory (and from |
1540 | there into installation directories). |
1541 | |
1542 | - Worked around an unpleasant interaction between version.pm and the |
1543 | version-checking code that makes sure Module::Build's version |
1544 | hasn't changed during the lifetime of the 'Build' script. [Reported |
1545 | by Trevor Schellhorn] |
1546 | |
1547 | - Fixed a problem in htmlify_pods() that would produce test failures |
1548 | on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere). [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] |
1549 | |
1550 | - Fixed a test failure on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere) in |
1551 | t/compat.t, resulting from empty environment variables being set to |
1552 | the empty string (as opposed to simply being unset) by their mere |
1553 | presence in the "EXPORT:" list. |
1554 | |
1555 | - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when the author specified |
1556 | 'dist_author' manually in their Build.PL script. [Spotted by Ron |
1557 | Savage] |
1558 | |
1559 | - The 'provides' section of the META.yml file wasn't being built |
1560 | properly on Win32, because of a mismatch between URL-format and |
1561 | native-format pathnames. Fixed. [Reported by Robert Rothenberg] |
1562 | |
1563 | - The progress message "lib/Foo.xs -> lib/Foo.c" was previously being |
1564 | output even when the Foo.c file wasn't being rebuilt. It's now |
1565 | fixed. |
1566 | |
1567 | - Fixed a couple of places in Compat.pm where it could have forgotten |
1568 | which perl interpreter it had been run with ($^X isn't very |
1569 | trustworthy). |
1570 | |
1571 | - On some systems, the way we updated the timestamp on the |
1572 | "lib/Foo.bs" file (one of the output files for XS-based modules) |
1573 | was failing. It's been replaced by a simple call to utime(). |
1574 | |
1575 | - Fixed a problem in t/compat.t that prevented it from being run |
1576 | individually using 'make test TEST_FILES=t/compat.t'. The problem |
1577 | was that a couple environment variables (TEST_FILES, MAKEFLAGS) |
1578 | were being passed through to subprocesses, and confused them. |
1579 | |
1580 | - Fixed an important typo in the documentation for the 'install_base' |
1581 | parameter ('libdoc' and 'bindoc' were switched). [Ray Zimmerman] |
1582 | |
1583 | - The pass-through Makefiles (type 'small' or 'passthrough') now |
1584 | support the TEST_FILES parameter to 'make test'. |
1585 | |
1586 | - Fixed a fatal error that would occur on perl 5.005 when building |
1587 | HTML documentation, because its version of Pod::Html was old and |
1588 | didn't like some of the parameters we fed it. [Spotted by Blair |
1589 | Zajac] |
1590 | |
1591 | - The final line of the generated pass-through Makefile was missing |
1592 | its trailing newline, which is now fixed. [Chip Salzenberg] |
1593 | |
1594 | - We now depend on YAML version at least 0.35 and at most version |
1595 | 0.49, so that we don't pick up a new (and backward-incompatible) beta |
1596 | version from CPAN. |
1597 | |
1598 | - Squashed a warning in t/basic.t about '"Foo::Module::VERSION" used |
1599 | only once', and one in PPMMaker about $^V being undefined. [Blair |
1600 | Zajac] |
1601 | |
1602 | - Added a couple temporary output files from HTML documentation |
1603 | generation to the cleanup list. [Toby Ovod-Everett] |
1604 | |
1605 | - The PodParser module will now only extract paragraphs in the |
1606 | 'AUTHOR' section of the pod if they contain an '@' character. This |
1607 | tends to do a better job, heuristically speaking, of returning |
1608 | relevant stuff. |
1609 | |
1610 | - Added regression tests and a helper method ( add_build_elements() ) |
1611 | for adding new elements to the build process. Also some |
1612 | documentation. |
1613 | |
1614 | - Wrote a recipe in the Cookbook for adding new elements to the build |
1615 | process, and a recipe for changing the order in which the steps in |
1616 | the build process will occur. |
1617 | |
1618 | 0.25 Sun Apr 25 11:12:36 CDT 2004 |
1619 | |
1620 | - During the 'distdir' action, if no MANIFEST.SKIP file exists, we |
1621 | will now create a reasonable default one. [Randy Sims] |
1622 | |
1623 | - In Makefile compatibility mode, some arguments (like UNINST, |
1624 | TEST_VERBOSE, etc.) given to 'make' are now recognized and passed |
1625 | through to Module::Build. [Randy Sims] |
1626 | |
1627 | - The regression tests now make sure that several pass-through |
1628 | Makefile.PL parameters are dealt with correctly. |
1629 | |
1630 | - Added support for the 'LIB' parameter to passthrough |
1631 | Makefile.PLs. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum] |
1632 | |
1633 | - Passing a 'PREFIX' parameter to a passthrough Makefile.PL was |
1634 | supposed to make it die with a helpful error message, but instead |
1635 | it just ignored it and blindly tried to install to the wrong place. |
1636 | This is now fixed. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum] |
1637 | |
1638 | - Added an extra_compiler_flags() accessor method. |
1639 | |
1640 | - If the 'recursive_test_files' option was turned on, the test files |
1641 | weren't sorted, but returned in an apparently random order. Now |
1642 | they're sorted. [Martyn Peck] |
1643 | |
1644 | - Documented the 'tar' and 'gzip' parameters to the 'dist' and |
1645 | 'ppmdist' actions. |
1646 | |
1647 | - The generation of HTML documentation now works (it was accidentally |
1648 | partially implemented with an itchy patch-application finger in |
1649 | 0.24). [Randy Kobes] |
1650 | |
1651 | - Fixed a fatal bug when building META.yml with YAML.pm and |
1652 | 'dynamic_config' is set. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg] |
1653 | |
1654 | - Fixed some incorrect error messages that occurred when |
1655 | compiling/linking C sources went awry. |
1656 | |
1657 | - If the author uses a custom builder subclass, that subclass will |
1658 | now be loaded correctly in the passthrough Makefile.PL if the |
1659 | author uses the 'small' or 'passthrough' Makefile.PL options in |
1660 | Module::Build::Compat. [Martyn Peck and Jaap Karssenberg] |
1661 | |
1662 | - If the author uses a custom builder subclass created dynamically |
1663 | through the subclass() method, passthrough Makefile.PLs (of type |
1664 | 'passthrough' or 'small') didn't work properly, because the custom |
1665 | builder module wouldn't be loaded at the right time. This has been |
1666 | fixed. [Reported by Toby Ovod-Everett] |
1667 | |
1668 | - In M::B-generated 'traditional' Makefile.PLs, the entries in |
1669 | 'PREREQ_PM' are now sorted ASCIIbetically rather than randomly. |
1670 | |
1671 | - The install_types() method will now return any additional types |
1672 | given as 'install_path' arguments, as well as all elements of the |
1673 | current 'install_sets' entry. This makes it easier to add new |
1674 | types of installable objects to the mix. |
1675 | |
1676 | - As a consequence of the previous change, there is no longer any |
1677 | need to have an explicit 'install_types' data member, so it has |
1678 | been removed. |
1679 | |
1680 | - In the second example code for the Module::Build->subclass() |
1681 | method, the Module::Build module needed to be loaded before calling |
1682 | its methods. [John Peacock] |
1683 | |
1684 | - Fixed minor error in the POD structure of Module::Build and |
1685 | Module::Build::Platform::VMS docs. |
1686 | |
1687 | |
1688 | 0.24 Wed Feb 25 15:57:00 CST 2004 |
1689 | |
1690 | - Fixed a problem with incude_dirs not being propagated to the 'ccs' |
1691 | file when compiling XS files on Win32. [Randy Sims and Steve Hay] |
1692 | |
1693 | - In 0.23, Module::Build::Compat->fake_makefile() started choking |
1694 | when no 'build_class' parameter was supplied in the Makefile.PL. |
1695 | Since these Makefile.PLs still exist on CPAN, we now default |
1696 | 'build_class' to 'Module::Build', which was the old 0.22 behavior |
1697 | anyway. [Reported by Martin Titz and Jeremy Seitz] |
1698 | |
1699 | - Added documentation for the 'include_dirs' parameter to |
1700 | new(). [Steve Hay] |
1701 | |
1702 | - Changed the no-op command on Win32 from 'rem' to 'rem>nul' inside |
1703 | pass-through Makefiles. [Randy Sims] |
1704 | |
1705 | - The 'autosplit' parameter now accepts an array reference if |
1706 | multiple files should be split. [Jaap Karssenberg] |
1707 | |
1708 | - find_perl_interpreter() will now use $^X (if absolute), $ENV{PATH} |
1709 | (if $^X isn't absolute), and $Config{perlpath}, in that order. |
1710 | Also, we now make darn sure the result is the same version of perl, |
1711 | by checking Config::myconfig() for a match against the current |
1712 | perl. [Reported by Edward Sabol] |
1713 | |
1714 | - Fixed a fatal error on Win32 (and any other platform that doesn't |
1715 | define an installation location for Unix-style man pages) during |
1716 | installation. |
1717 | |
1718 | 0.23 Sun Feb 8 22:01:18 CST 2004 |
1719 | |
1720 | - Fixed a compatibility problem in pass-through Makefiles (created by |
1721 | Module::Build::Compat). Some 'make' utilities (for example, BSD |
1722 | make) didn't like a '@' by itself on a line, so we stole some |
1723 | 'NOOP' code from MakeMaker to fix it. [Reported by Mathieu Arnold] |
1724 | |
1725 | - Added a 'ppm_dist' action, which just makes the PPD file and then |
1726 | makes a tarball out of the blib/ directory. [Randy Sims] |
1727 | |
1728 | - The @INC of the parent process is now propagated to child processes |
1729 | when processing *.PL files. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg] |
1730 | |
1731 | - We now only attempt to fix the shebang line on a script if the |
1732 | shebang line matches the regex /perl/i . This fixes some instances |
1733 | where people put shell scripts in their distributions. [Jaap |
1734 | Karssenberg] |
1735 | |
1736 | - We no longer generate a 'requires', 'recommends', 'conflicts', |
1737 | etc. entry in the META.yml file if there's no data to go in it. |
1738 | |
1739 | - Added a documentation reference to Michael Schwern's wiki for tips |
1740 | on conversion from MakeMaker to M::B. [Randy Sims] |
1741 | |
1742 | - If there are script_files, we now add EXE_FILES to the |
1743 | 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated by M::B::Compat. [Suggested by |
1744 | Yuval Kogman] |
1745 | |
1746 | - Documented the 'test_files' parameter to new(). [Reported by Tony |
1747 | Bowden] |
1748 | |
1749 | - Fixed a problem in "Build help <action>", which didn't find the |
1750 | correct help chunk if <action> was the final element in a POD |
1751 | list. [Jaap Karssenberg] |
1752 | |
1753 | - Fixed a problem in the get_action_docs() method which gave |
1754 | incorrect results if the method was called more than once in the |
1755 | same program. |
1756 | |
1757 | - Fixed a problem in which actions defined by user subclasses |
1758 | wouldn't be available via the pass-through Makefiles created by |
1759 | Module::Build::Compat. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg] |
1760 | |
1761 | - We now use Data::Dumper instead of our own ad-hoc serialization |
1762 | routines to create the 'traditional' Makefile.PL |
1763 | arguments. [Suggested by Yuval Kojman] |
1764 | |
1765 | 0.22 Sat Jan 10 22:05:39 CST 2004 |
1766 | |
1767 | - On Unixish platforms, the syntax "FOO=BAR /bin/baz arg arg" now |
1768 | works when present in $Config{ld}. This solves a problem on Mac OS |
1769 | X 10.3. [Reported by Adam Foxson] |
1770 | |
1771 | - The have_c_compiler() now also tests whether the linker seems to |
1772 | work too. |
1773 | |
1774 | - Fixed a problem with creating the distribution tarball in which |
1775 | permissions would usually be all read-only. We now use our own |
1776 | file-copying routines rather than those in ExtUtils::Manifest, |
1777 | because those do some annoying extra permissions-setting stuff for |
1778 | no apparent reason. It makes me happy that this was a very very |
1779 | easy patch to make. [Reported by Thomas Klausner] |
1780 | |
1781 | - The compile_c() method now includes $Config{cccdlflags} in its |
1782 | command invocation. It's usually empty, but not always, so we |
1783 | didn't notice for a while. [Richard Clamp] |
1784 | |
1785 | - On some platforms it's common to have a $Config{make} defined, but |
1786 | no 'make' utility actually available. We now detect this and skip |
1787 | some 'make' compatibility tests. [Randy Sims] |
1788 | |
1789 | - Fixed a spurious testing failure on non-Unix platforms that |
1790 | happened because we accidentally call localize_file_path() on empty |
1791 | strings in the test suite. [Spotted by Randy Sims on Windows] |
1792 | |
1793 | - Made the 'name', 'abstract', 'author', and 'version' properties |
1794 | required when building a PPD file. [Spotted by Randy Sims, Dave |
1795 | Rolsky, & Glenn Linderman] |
1796 | |
1797 | - When building a 'traditional' Makefile.PL with |
1798 | Module::Build::Compat, we now use 'VERSION_FROM' when possible, |
1799 | rather than always using 'VERSION'. This way the Makefile.PL |
1800 | doesn't have to get modified every release. |
1801 | |
1802 | - Made some fixups to the 'PPM' info-file, improving compatibility |
1803 | with ActiveState's PPM tools. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman] |
1804 | |
1805 | - The 'dist_author' property can now accept multiple authors, see the |
1806 | docs for more info. [Randy Sims] |
1807 | |
1808 | - If the user doesn't have YAML.pm installed during ACTION_dist, we |
1809 | now create a minimal YAML.pm anyway, without any dependency |
1810 | information. |
1811 | |
1812 | - The 'distribution_type' field is no longer created in META.yml |
1813 | files, in accordance with the finding made at the London CLPAN |
1814 | meeting that it's essentially meaningless and ill-defined. |
1815 | |
1816 | - The 'dist' action now accepts an optional 'tar' parameter to use a |
1817 | system utility for building the tarball, and a 'gzip' parameter for |
1818 | compressing it. If these are used, Archive::Tar won't be invoked. |
1819 | This was added because Archive::Tar is producing some very |
1820 | non-cross-platform tarballs that many tar utilities can't handle. |
1821 | |
1822 | - During testing, if YAML.pm isn't installed, then we won't try |
1823 | making a tarball either, since this would invoke YAML to create the |
1824 | META.yml file. |
1825 | |
1826 | - Fixed a problem with chmod() being called incorrectly on MacOS |
1827 | (i.e. MacPerl, not Mac OS X). [Spotted by Paul Sanford Toney] |
1828 | |
1829 | - Fixed a problem with the --config flag not being treated properly |
1830 | (essentially ignored) on the command line for 'perl Build.PL' or |
1831 | 'Build <action>'. [Spotted by Jakub Bogusz] |
1832 | |
1833 | - Added a new config() method to get at the Build object's notion of |
1834 | the %Config hash. |
1835 | |
1836 | - Test::Harness is starting to contend for the Most Crotchety Module |
1837 | Award. Work around a few of its nits when setting harness |
1838 | switches. [Spotted by Diab Jerius] |
1839 | |
1840 | - Now the Build script will die() if we're run from the wrong |
1841 | directory, rather than trying to chdir() to what it thinks is the |
1842 | right directory and do its work there. See |
1843 | https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4039 . [Chris Dolan] |
1844 | |
1845 | - Changed the manpage separator on OS/2 to '.'. [Ilya Zakharevich] |
1846 | |
1847 | - On OS/2, disable C compilation, since apparently it isn't working |
1848 | there. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich] |
1849 | |
1850 | - Inserted a comment into auto-generated Makefile.PLs saying it was |
1851 | auto-generated. [Randy Sims] |
1852 | |
1853 | - Fixed some annoying behavior in generated passthrough Makefile.PLs |
1854 | when the user chose not to install Module::Build, or if |
1855 | installation failed. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich and Richard |
1856 | Clamp] |
1857 | |
1858 | - Moved the documentation for 'codebase' to the section where it's |
1859 | relevant. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman] |
1860 | |
1861 | - Fixed a have_c_compiler() failure on some platforms, we now define |
1862 | a boot_compilet() function (since we're compiling a library, not an |
1863 | executable). [Randy Sims] |
1864 | |
1865 | - Added a recipe to the Module::Build::Cookbook describing how to |
1866 | maintain compatibility with older versions of CPAN.pm [Jim Cromie] |
1867 | |
1868 | - Removed caveat about "looking for alternatives" in how hashes are |
1869 | specified on the command line, since an alternative has been found. |
1870 | |
1871 | - Previously most warnings about optional prerequisites looked like |
1872 | they were actually error messages about required prerequisites. |
1873 | This has been corrected. [Reported again by Sagar Shah] |
1874 | |
1875 | - Added support for building XS (and C in general) stuff on AIX. |
1876 | This was done by a small reorganization of prelink_c() method from |
1877 | Windows.pm to Build.pm, and it is only invoked for the platforms |
1878 | that need it invoked. AIX also massages some very naughty bits |
1879 | (MakeMaker macro variables) in $Config{lddlflags} that should never |
1880 | have been put there, but alas, they're there, so we find & resolve |
1881 | them. |
1882 | |
1883 | - Added OS/2 ($^O = 'os2') to the list of Unix-like platforms. This |
1884 | basically means that most platform-specific operations will be done |
1885 | in a Unix-like manner. |
1886 | |
1887 | - Pass-through Makefiles will now die() when they're given a PREFIX |
1888 | parameter, and suggest using 'destdir' or 'install_base' instead. |
1889 | Previously they just ignored the parameter and tried to install to |
1890 | the default location, which is clearly not what the user wanted. |
1891 | |
1892 | - Updated my email address in the documentation to a more recent |
1893 | variant. |
1894 | |
1895 | - Add NetBSD to the list of Unix-like systems. [Adrian Bunk] |
1896 | |
1897 | - Add SVR5 to the list of Unix-like systems. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez] |
1898 | |
1899 | - We now use Pod::Parser to find the ABSTRACT and AUTHOR when it's |
1900 | available on the system. [initial patch by Randy Sims] |
1901 | |
1902 | - Fixed a little scalar/list buglet in a documentation example. |
1903 | |
1904 | 0.21 Wed Oct 15 20:47:05 CDT 2003 |
1905 | |
1906 | - Added a have_c_compiler() method. |
1907 | |
1908 | - Added documentation for the requires(), recommends(), |
1909 | build_requires(), and conflicts() methods. |
1910 | |
1911 | - On Unix platforms, we now create the "Build" script with a #! line |
1912 | matching the perl interpreter that was used to invoke the Build.PL |
1913 | script, rather than whatever is in $Config{startperl}. This avoids |
1914 | a potential warning about the interpreters not matching. [Spotted |
1915 | by Ken Y. Clark] |
1916 | |
1917 | - The Unix version now uses the safer multi-argument form of system() |
1918 | when building distribution tarballs. |
1919 | |
1920 | - Added a regression test for the 'dist' action to the t/runthrough.t |
1921 | test. |
1922 | |
1923 | - Fixed a problem with File::Spec usage when creating the names of |
1924 | 'libdoc' manual pages - the code wasn't dealing with the volume or |
1925 | file portions correctly on certain platforms. |
1926 | |
1927 | - When creating the names of the 'libdoc' manual pages, we no longer |
1928 | assume that pods are under the hard-coded paths 'blib/lib' or |
1929 | 'blib/arch'. |
1930 | |
1931 | - Fixed a crashing bug that could sometimes occur when the |
1932 | distribution contained no 'lib' directory. [Chris Dolan] |
1933 | |
1934 | - Fixed a crashing bug that happened when the user had .PL files in |
1935 | the lib/ directory and didn't explicitly name them in a hash |
1936 | reference to the new() constructor. [Chris Reinhardt, bug #4036] |
1937 | |
1938 | - .PL files are now passed the names of their target file(s) on the |
1939 | command line when they run. |
1940 | |
1941 | - When YAML.pm wasn't installed, t/runthrough.t wasn't properly |
1942 | skipping some tests that required YAML. This is now fixed. |
1943 | [Stephen J. Smith] |
1944 | |
1945 | - Added documentation for the dist_version() and dist_name() |
1946 | methods. [Spotted by Johan Vromans] |
1947 | |
1948 | - Existing values in $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} are now respected |
1949 | and not squashed when we run the 'test' action. [Paul Johnson] |
1950 | |
1951 | - On cygwin, the separator string for manual page names has been set |
1952 | to '.'. Previously it was '::', inherited from Unix. [Yitzchak |
1953 | Scott-Thoennes] |
1954 | |
1955 | - Avoid a warning when Build.PL is run (i.e. when the new() method is |
1956 | called) and no MANIFEST file exists. [Michael Schwern and Kevin |
1957 | Ruscoe] |
1958 | |
1959 | - Added documentation for the 'code' and 'docs' actions. [Steve |
1960 | Purkis and Mark Stosberg] |
1961 | |
1962 | - The internal method compile_support_files() has been renamed to |
1963 | process_support_files() in order to make it consistent with other |
1964 | processing methods. Note that it was never documented using the |
1965 | old name. It's still not documented, actually. Maybe later. |
1966 | |
1967 | - Skip the 'write' pseudo-entry in the 'diff' action's installation |
1968 | map. [Chris Dolan] |
1969 | |
1970 | - Fixed a bug in which notes() set in the Build.PL before |
1971 | create_build_script() was called would get lost unless more notes() |
1972 | were also set afterwards. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky] |
1973 | |
1974 | - The process of building elements of the distribution is now driven |
1975 | by a list of build elements, paving the way for letting people add |
1976 | their own types of build elements in future versions of |
1977 | Module::Build (or in the current version with some difficulty). |
1978 | |
1979 | - Fixed some linking errors on Cygwin. [Randy Sims, Terrence Brannon] |
1980 | |
1981 | - Fixed a line-ending problem with detecting the dist_abstract |
1982 | properly on Cygwin. [Randy Sims] |
1983 | |
1984 | - Fixed a problem with signatures that occurred if 'distsign' was |
1985 | called before 'distdir' - the signature would be generated twice. |
1986 | |
1987 | - Added a 'create_readme' parameter to new(), which will use |
1988 | Pod::Text to generate a README from the main (dist_version_from) |
1989 | module file during the 'distdir' action. |
1990 | |
1991 | - We now refuse to run the 'Build' script if it was created using a |
1992 | different version of Module::Build. This has caused a couple of |
1993 | nasty bugs in the past, I don't want to know what it would cause in |
1994 | the future. |
1995 | |
1996 | - Documentation for do_system() has been added. [Dave Rolsky] |
1997 | |
1998 | - run_perl_script() is now available as a class method, though it |
1999 | will need to (re-)find the perl interpreter in this case. |
2000 | |
2001 | - Added a new_from_context() method that authors of automated tools |
2002 | like CPANPLUS and CPAN can use instead of running all tasks as |
2003 | sub-processes. We also use it in the regression tests for |
2004 | Module::Build itself. ** Note that this method is currently |
2005 | undocumented because its name may change in the future. ** |
2006 | |
2007 | - When signing distributions with Module::Signature, we now |
2008 | automatically add the SIGNATURE file to the MANIFEST, avoiding an |
2009 | unpleasant chicken/egg problem for the module author. |
2010 | [unpleasantness spotted by sungo] |
2011 | |
2012 | - In Module::Build::Compat, added support for the 'verbose' parameter |
2013 | to Makefile.PL [spotted by Soren Andersen, fixed by Michael |
2014 | Schwern] |
2015 | |
2016 | - The Module::Build distribution now has a cryptographic 'SIGNATURE' |
2017 | file created by Module::Signature. |
2018 | |
2019 | - Added proper documentation for the subclass() method. [spotted by |
2020 | Jonathan Steinert] |
2021 | |
2022 | - Worked around a Config.pm bug in Red Hat 9 which prevented man |
2023 | pages from being installed in the correct places. [spotted by Ville |
2024 | Skytta] |
2025 | |
2026 | - Fixed a Module::Build::Compat bug in which setting INSTALLDIRS |
2027 | caused a crash. [spotted by Ilya Martynov] |
2028 | |
2029 | 0.20 Tue Aug 26 14:34:07 CDT 2003 |
2030 | |
2031 | - Separated the 'build' action into two separate actions, 'code' and |
2032 | 'docs'. This is similar to MakeMaker's separation of the 'all' |
2033 | target into 'pure_all' and 'manifypods'. This fixes a permissions |
2034 | hassle in which doing 'sudo Build install' would often create local |
2035 | doc files that needed superuser permissions to delete. |
2036 | |
2037 | - Enhanced the 'help' action - 'Build help foo' will now show the POD |
2038 | documentation for the 'foo' action. |
2039 | |
2040 | - Added a notes() feature, which helps share data transparently |
2041 | between the Build.PL and t/*.t scripts. |
2042 | |
2043 | - The installation process will now create man(1) and man(3) pages |
2044 | from POD in modules & scripts, and install them. We don't build |
2045 | man pages when there's nowhere to install them, such as on some |
2046 | Win32 or most Mac systems. [large patch by Steve Purkis, 5.005 fix |
2047 | by Mathieu Arnold] |
2048 | |
2049 | - The 'distdir' action now copies files to the distribution |
2050 | directory, rather than making them hard links to the original |
2051 | files. This allows authors to do last-minute alterations of the |
2052 | files without affecting the originals. [Dave Rolsky] |
2053 | |
2054 | - If the author uses XS files in nonstandard locations, the copied |
2055 | versions of those files will now be cleaned up properly. |
2056 | |
2057 | - In invoking the 'test' action or invoking 'xsubpp', we now use the |
2058 | same perl executable as we use everywhere else, rather than blindly |
2059 | using $^X or $Config{perlpath} (neither of which are very |
2060 | reliable). |
2061 | |
2062 | - Fixed a problem with the 'install_path' parameter given to |
2063 | 'Build.PL' being lost in subsequent actions. [Reported by Mathieu |
2064 | Arnold] |
2065 | |
2066 | - Fixed yet another bug with installation directories, in which the |
2067 | 'install_base' parameter wasn't being respected on the command |
2068 | line. [Spotted by Jonathan Swartz] |
2069 | |
2070 | - Changed the way the depends_on() method works inside action |
2071 | subroutines - now each action will only run once per dispatch() |
2072 | invocation (similar to how perl's require() function works). This |
2073 | helps avoid some difficult problems with dependency loops. |
2074 | |
2075 | - Changed the documentation for the 'autosplit' parameter to give |
2076 | reasons why it may not be a good idea to use, but no longer |
2077 | threaten to remove it. [Suggested by Martyn J. Pearce] |
2078 | |
2079 | - Improved the formatting of the 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated |
2080 | by Module::Build::Compat->create_makefile_pl. [Michael Schwern] |
2081 | |
2082 | - The 'traditional' Makefile.PL will now use the 'module_name' |
2083 | parameter (as NAME) if it's available, otherwise it will continue |
2084 | to use the 'dist_name' (as DISTNAME). [Michael Schwern] |
2085 | |
2086 | - Created read/write accessor methods for all our 'properties'. |
2087 | [Michael Schwern] |
2088 | |
2089 | - The 'test_files' parameter can now be specified using glob() syntax |
2090 | (i.e. 't/*.t'), and the corresponding test_files() method is now a |
2091 | read/write accessor. |
2092 | |
2093 | - The location of the 'blib' directory is now a property of the Build |
2094 | object - nobody is likely to notice this change, with any luck, but |
2095 | it makes the design and code cleaner. |
2096 | |
2097 | - The 'disttest' and 'distsign' methods now chdir() back to the |
2098 | directory where they started, rather than to the base_dir of the |
2099 | build. |
2100 | |
2101 | - Improved comparisons of version strings containing underscore |
2102 | characters (indicating "beta" status). [Steve Purkis] |
2103 | |
2104 | - Added documentation for the 'dist_author', 'dist_abstract', and |
2105 | 'codebase' parameters to new(), and for the 'ppd' action. [Dave |
2106 | Rolsky] |
2107 | |
2108 | - Added documentation for the up_to_date() and contains_pod() |
2109 | methods. [Dave Rolsky] |
2110 | |
2111 | - 'traditional' pass-through Makefile.PLs will now contain an |
2112 | INSTALLDIRS parameter matching the Build.PL's 'installdirs' |
2113 | setting. |
2114 | |
2115 | - version_from_file() now ignores $VERSION variables that are defined |
2116 | in POD or comments. It can still be tricked by $VERSIONs in string |
2117 | literals, though. [Steve Purkis] |
2118 | |
2119 | - The code to find packages in module files now uses Steve's scanning |
2120 | method (above) to skip package-declaration-lookalikes in POD or |
2121 | comments. |
2122 | |
2123 | - The 'disttest' action will now propagate its @INC settings to its |
2124 | subprocesses. |
2125 | |
2126 | 0.19 Wed Jul 9 22:34:02 CDT 2003 |
2127 | |
2128 | - Added support for the 'install_path' parameter, which allows custom |
2129 | specification of where things should be installed. This is a major |
2130 | improvement to Module::Build's functionality. |
2131 | |
2132 | - Added the 'install_base' parameter. Provides an easy way to |
2133 | install to local or alternative directory trees. |
2134 | |
2135 | - We now install scripts by default to $Config{installsitebin} |
2136 | instead of $Config{installscript}. Neither is a great choice, but |
2137 | the former is likely to be [analogous to] /usr/local/bin, and the |
2138 | latter is likely to be [something like] /usr/bin . If/when there's |
2139 | a $Config{installsitescript}, we'll start using that automatically. |
2140 | |
2141 | - Fixed a problem on Win32 in which C and XS files wouldn't be |
2142 | compiled properly, and the user would see an error about 'Can't |
2143 | locate object method "format_compiler_cmd"'. |
2144 | (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2391) |
2145 | |
2146 | - We now use the correct perl interpreter (via |
2147 | Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter) in pass-through makefiles. |
2148 | |
2149 | - The t/compat.t test now uses $Config{make} instead of just 'make' |
2150 | to test makefile compatibility. This fixes some failures on Win32. |
2151 | We also skip this test entirely if no make utility is available. |
2152 | |
2153 | - Alternative distribution layouts are now supported via the |
2154 | 'pm_files', 'pod_files', 'xs_files', 'PL_files', and 'script_files' |
2155 | parameters to new(). This should help people transition from |
2156 | MakeMaker, and might even help us write an automatic transition |
2157 | tool. |
2158 | |
2159 | - Added tests to t/runthrough.t that check to see installation is |
2160 | happening correctly. |
2161 | |
2162 | - Added experimental code to build a .ppd file, in support of |
2163 | ActiveState's "Perl Package Manager". [original patch by Dave |
2164 | Rolsky] |
2165 | |
2166 | - For authors who use Module::Signature to sign their distributions, |
2167 | we now create the SIGNATURE file right in the distribution |
2168 | directory, rather than creating it in the top-level directory and |
2169 | copying it into place. This solves problems related to having |
2170 | files get out of date with respect to their signatures. |
2171 | |
2172 | - We now don't depend on Module::Info to scan for packages during the |
2173 | 'dist' action anymore, because it's way too aggressive about |
2174 | loading other modules that you may not want loaded. We now just |
2175 | (ick, yuck) scan the .pm files with a regular expression to find |
2176 | "package Foo::Bar;" statements. |
2177 | |
2178 | - Silenced some annoying copyright/logo output from Microsoft 'nmake' |
2179 | during Makefile compatibility testing. [Randy W. Sims] |
2180 | |
2181 | - Command-line arguments may now either be specified using the syntax |
2182 | '--foo foovalue' as well as the traditional syntax 'foo=foovalue'. |
2183 | The former is often more convenient for shell tab-completion when |
2184 | the value is a filename (as in 'Build test --test_files t/basic.t'). |
2185 | |
2186 | - Command-line arguments may now include non-named parameters, which |
2187 | make some actions more natural. For instance, the 'diff' action |
2188 | may now be invoked as 'Build diff -u' rather than as |
2189 | 'Build diff flags=-u'. |
2190 | |
2191 | - Pass-through Makefile.PLs now convert unknown Makefile.PL |
2192 | parameters to lower-case and hand them to Build.PL, rather than |
2193 | ignoring them. This means we only have to account for the |
2194 | differences in the interface, not the entire interface, in |
2195 | translating parameters. |
2196 | |
2197 | - We now issue a warning & don't proceed if asked to make a distdir |
2198 | and there's no MANIFEST or it's empty. |
2199 | |
2200 | - Moved INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to increase compatibility with various |
2201 | odd versions of 'make' during 'make install' on case-insensitive |
2202 | filesystems (like nmake on Win32, often). Only affects the |
2203 | Makefile compatibility layer. [reported by Andrew Savige] |
2204 | |
2205 | - Module::Build->known_actions() now works as a class method. |
2206 | |
2207 | - Pass-through makefiles now list each action individually rather |
2208 | than using a ".DEFAULT" catch-all. This improves compatibility |
2209 | with 'nmake' on Win32, and probably some other less common 'make' |
2210 | dialects. [Andrew Savige] |
2211 | |
2212 | - We're now more aggressive about testing the pass-through makefiles, |
2213 | e.g. making sure they can run 'all' and 'test' targets, and making |
2214 | sure the Makefile itself actually exists. |
2215 | |
2216 | - Fixed a problem with check_installed_status() when installed |
2217 | version contains non-numeric characters like underscores. |
2218 | |
2219 | - Fixed a problem with a bareword 'File::Spec' in one of the test |
2220 | scripts that caused it not to compile under 5.8.0 (but is fine |
2221 | under 5.6). |
2222 | |
2223 | - Fixed a problem with the 'destdir' installation parameter on |
2224 | platforms that have volume identifiers in path names (like "C:" on |
2225 | Win32). The identifier is now stripped from installation |
2226 | directories before prepending the destdir path. The destdir path |
2227 | may still have a volume identifier on it. |
2228 | |
2229 | - Added an 'add_to_cleanup' parameter to new() that calls |
2230 | add_to_cleanup() immediately for the given files. |
2231 | |
2232 | - The distribution directory (e.g. Sample-Module-0.13/ ) will now be |
2233 | deleted during the 'clean' or 'realclean' actions. |
2234 | |
2235 | - During testing of modules, blib/lib and blib/arch are now added as |
2236 | absolute paths, not relative. This helps tests that load the |
2237 | modules at runtime and may change the current working directory |
2238 | (like Module::Build itself does during testing). |
2239 | |
2240 | - The $Config{cc} entry on some people's systems is something like |
2241 | 'ccache gcc', so we now split that string using split_like_shell(). |
2242 | [Richard Clamp] |
2243 | |
2244 | - Added documentation for 'extra_linker_flags' parameter, and added a |
2245 | corresponding 'extra_compiler_flags' parameter. [original patch by |
2246 | Richard Clamp] |
738349a8 |
2247 | |
2248 | - The pass-through Makefile created by Module::Build::Compat now |
2249 | supports MakeMaker options like POLLUTE=1 and INC. We also just |
2250 | warn & skip when we see any unknown MM parameters, rather than |
2251 | dying. [Dave Rolsky] |
2252 | |
2253 | - Fixed an error about how @INC and $ENV{PERL5LIB} interact during |
2254 | the testing of M::B itself. [jk <billy2000@fastmail.fm>] |
2255 | |
2256 | - The pass-through Makefile doesn't include 'recommended' M::B |
2257 | dependencies in the Makefile anymore, since they're not strictly |
2258 | necessary. In particular, this makes installing M::B itself |
2259 | easier. |
2260 | |
2261 | - A new 'create_makefile_pl' parameter lets you use |
2262 | Module::Build::Compat during the 'distdir' (or 'dist') action to |
2263 | automatically create a Makefile.PL for compatibility with |
2264 | ExtUtils::MakeMaker. The parameter's value should be one of the |
2265 | styles named in the Module::Build::Compat documentation. |
2266 | |
2267 | - When compiling C code, we now respect 'pollute' and 'inc' |
2268 | parameters. (XXX - needs docs) [Dave Rolsky] |
2269 | |
2270 | - Made the creation of the "install map" more generic. (XXX - needs |
2271 | documentation) |
2272 | |
2273 | - Fixed a problem in which add_to_cleanup() didn't note cleanup files |
2274 | unless create_build_script() had been called already. [Dave Rolsky] |
2275 | |
2276 | - During 'Build dist', we no longer have to load each .pm file (via |
2277 | Module::Info) to determine the $VERSION numbers inside. Instead, |
2278 | we call our internal version_from_file() method, which is the same |
2279 | thing MakeMaker and PAUSE and search.cpan.org do. Also fixes a |
2280 | failure when Module::Info is installed in a nonstandard directory. |
2281 | [reported by Teun Burgers] |
2282 | |
2283 | - Fixed some failing test code on Windows - open files can't be |
2284 | deleted. [Andrew Savige] |
2285 | |
2286 | - The Cygwin platform is now treated as a flavor of Unix rather than |
2287 | a flavor of Windows. [chocolateboy] |
2288 | |
2289 | - We're now more aggressive about adding temporary C compilation |
2290 | files (*.c, *.bs) to the cleanup list. [Dave Rolsky] |
2291 | |
2292 | - When constructing the list in META.yml of packages provided by this |
2293 | distribution, we now use the same rules as the PAUSE scanner does |
2294 | when a single .pm file contains multiple VERSIONs. [Andreas Koenig] |
2295 | |
2296 | - check_installed_status() now works as both a class method and an |
2297 | object method (and is documented so). [Spotted by Dave Rolsky] |
2298 | |
2299 | 0.18 Tue Apr 8 13:24:23 CDT 2003 |
2300 | |
2301 | - We now rewrite the shebang lines of scripts ourselves, rather than |
2302 | relying on MakeMaker routines to do it. MakeMaker changed the way |
2303 | this happened (not the result, but where the code lived) a few |
2304 | times. [Suggested by Richard Clamp] |
2305 | |
2306 | - The scripts() method has changed to script_files(), and likewise |
2307 | the 'scripts' parameter has changed to 'script_files'. The old |
2308 | names can still be used for backward compatibility. |
2309 | |
2310 | - Support for the 'scripts' parameter (which is now 'script_files') |
2311 | was broken in 0.17, now it's fixed. [Richard Clamp] |
2312 | |
2313 | - We now recommend ExtUtils::ParseXS 2.02, which will fail to load |
2314 | with perl 5.005 or earlier (which is proper, because it doesn't |
2315 | work with those versions). When it fails to load, we still fall |
2316 | back to using the xsubpp script for XS parsing. [spotted by Dave |
2317 | Rolsky, fix suggested by Richard Clamp] |
2318 | |
2319 | - Now works on VMS - the Build script's shebang-line-equivalent |
2320 | wasn't being formed correctly there - though just about everything |
2321 | else worked fine. [Tested & patched by Michael Schwern] |
2322 | |
2323 | - Eliminated a warning that occurred if 'perl Build.PL' or the |
2324 | check_installed_status() method was run with -w. [Spotted by |
2325 | Michael Schwern] |
2326 | |
2327 | 0.17 Sat Mar 29 18:06:01 CST 2003 |
2328 | |
2329 | - Now works under perl 5.005_03. [Richard Clamp] |
2330 | |
2331 | - When building blib/ , .PL files are now processed before doing |
2332 | anything else. This means .PL files can be used in any of the |
2333 | other contexts. |
2334 | |
2335 | - The locating and processing of .pm, .pod, .xs, .PL files and script |
2336 | files are now isolated into their own methods. This is aimed |
2337 | toward providing a stable interface for this stuff, so they can be |
2338 | overridden, parameterized, etc. They're not quite stable yet, |
2339 | though. |
2340 | |
2341 | - The internal lib_to_blib() method has gone away, because processing |
2342 | is now done by smaller specialized methods. This method had some |
2343 | duplicate assumptions about filenames that it's nice to get rid of. |
2344 | |
2345 | - .PL files are no longer automatically processed in the c_source |
2346 | directory, they must be specified manually in a 'PL_files' |
2347 | parameter. |
2348 | |
2349 | - Mention in the docs that it's useful to do "PL_FILES => {}" in a |
2350 | Makefile.PL if you're using both a Makefile.PL and a |
2351 | Build.PL. [Dom] |
2352 | |
2353 | - Add several options to the 'license' field, so that we're in better |
2354 | sync with PAUSE and CPAN options. [Andreas Koenig] |
2355 | |
2356 | - Created a find_perl_interpreter() method that tries to locate the |
2357 | currently executing perl interpreter. Following a suggestion from |
2358 | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> for Inline, we prefer an absolute |
2359 | path in $^X, then an existent path in $Config{perlpath}, then |
2360 | whatever's in $^X. |
2361 | |
2362 | - Use the aforementioned perl to run scripts in run_perl_script(). |
2363 | This fixes the spurious warning "WARNING: Configuration was |
2364 | initially created with 'foo', but we are now using 'bar'" that |
2365 | appeared a lot in version 0.16. |
2366 | |
2367 | |
2368 | 0.16 Mon Feb 24 13:06:47 CST 2003 |
2369 | |
2370 | - All three C compilers that perl supports on Windows environments |
2371 | (MSVC, BCC, and GCC) are now supported by Module::Build. We now |
2372 | reportedly pass all tests on Windows. [Randy W. Sims] |
2373 | |
2374 | - The test t/xs.t, which tests building of XS modules, will be |
2375 | skipped if no C compiler is found. [suggested by Randy W. Sims] |
2376 | |
2377 | - The "install" action accepts new "destdir" [motivated by Michael |
2378 | Schwern and Chip Salzenberg] and "uninst" parameters [by Dave |
2379 | Rolsky]. The former prepends an arbitrary directory to all |
2380 | installation paths (useful for package management), and the latter |
2381 | will tell ExtUtils::Install to remove any differing files that are |
2382 | "shadowing" the stuff you're installing from a different location, |
2383 | just like MakeMaker's "make install UNINST=1" command will do. |
2384 | |
2385 | - Made changes to the generated Makefile in Module::Build::Compat |
2386 | that much better support Windows platforms [after suggestions by |
2387 | James Freeman] |
2388 | |
2389 | - Added experimental support for creating distribution SIGNATURE |
2390 | files via Module::Signature. [Dave Rolsky] |
2391 | |
2392 | - Added experimental support for installing via the "only.pm" module, |
2393 | which allows loading specific versions of modules. Since this |
2394 | module is so new, the interface may still be changing. [Brian |
2395 | Ingerson] |
2396 | |
2397 | - Added support for installing executable scripts, via the 'scripts' |
2398 | parameter to new(), and the scripts() accessor method. |
2399 | |
2400 | - Fix an infinite loop that occurred when doing 'perl Build.PL |
2401 | config="foo=bar"' |
2402 | |
2403 | - Fix up the formatting of the error message the user gets when |
2404 | prereqs aren't satisfied. |
2405 | |
2406 | 0.15 Fri Jan 17 15:00:24 CST 2003 |
2407 | |
2408 | - In link_c(), extra object files were mistakenly being treated as |
2409 | output files, not input files, in the up-to-date check. Fixed. |
2410 | |
2411 | - In up_to_date(), don't make an unnecessary copy of the file lists |
2412 | when they're specified as array references. |
2413 | |
2414 | - Split off the C compilation phase into its own method, |
2415 | compile_support_files(), for easier subclassing. |
2416 | |
2417 | - Start a stub of a 'manifypods' action. |
2418 | |
2419 | - Compiler optimizations weren't being included in C compilation |
2420 | statements. Fixed. |
2421 | |
2422 | - The 'extra_linker_flags' parameter wasn't being honored. Fixed. |
2423 | |
2424 | - The 'ccflags' Config.pm entry wasn't being properly split into |
2425 | separate arguments. Fixed. |
2426 | |
2427 | |
2428 | 0.14 Fri Dec 13 14:06:29 AEST 2002 |
2429 | |
2430 | - Added support for MacPerl (Mac OS version 9 and below), which (as |
2431 | far as I know) was never natively supported by MakeMaker. Still |
2432 | lacks support for the 'test' action (because Test::Harness |
2433 | requires forking, which MacPerl won't do) and compiling XS/C files |
2434 | (because I don't know how to invoke a compiler on MacOS, and one |
2435 | may not even be available). This change is brought to you by |
2436 | Michael Schwern and the letter '('. |
2437 | |
2438 | - Improved processing of .xs files. Now we use the new |
2439 | ExtUtils::ParseXS module if it's available, otherwise we use |
2440 | backticks and write the result to a .c file ourselves. This |
2441 | avoids the need to do cross-platform shell redirection. |
2442 | |
2443 | - Make sure all parts of 'Build test' use the not-yet-installed |
2444 | version of Module::Build. This only affects the tests for this |
2445 | module, not any of the module code itself. [Spotted by Schwern] |
2446 | |
2447 | - Oopsie - use $Config{ld} instead of $Config{cc} for linking. |
2448 | |
2449 | - Added a 'diff' action, which is useful for comparing the details |
2450 | of what you're about to install with what is already installed on |
2451 | your system. This uses File::Compare, which is in the core. |
2452 | |
2453 | - Fixed a problem on Windows in which the _build/ directory wasn't |
2454 | getting deleted during the 'realclean' action, because we had a |
2455 | file open in that directory. [Spotted by Michael Schwern] |
2456 | |
2457 | - delete_filetree() now always uses File::Path::rmtree(), regardless |
2458 | of whether the thing being deleted is a file or a directory. This |
2459 | helps remove things on obscure platforms with strange locking |
2460 | rules (or even not so obscure ones like MacOS). It also now |
2461 | reports the number of files or directories deleted (without |
2462 | recursing directory contents). |
2463 | |
2464 | - rm_previous_build_script() is gone, replaced by calls to |
2465 | delete_filetree(). |
2466 | |
2467 | - 'Build' now chdir()s in a BEGIN block, so the 'use Module::Build' |
2468 | statement will work correctly. Solves a problem on MacOS, where |
2469 | the 'Build' script may often be invoked from the wrong working |
2470 | directory. [Fix by Michael Schwern] |
2471 | |
2472 | - Internally we now use the multi-argument form of system() to run |
2473 | external commands (such as 'diff' or 'cc') whenever possible (and |
2474 | whenever we can't avoid system() altogether). Note that this |
2475 | means we have to handle splitting some strings (such as |
2476 | $Config{ccflags}) into argument lists like the shell would, which |
2477 | is a drag. However, the alternative would be to handle shell |
2478 | quoting of all arguments to commands ourselves, which is an even |
2479 | bigger drag across platforms and involves arbitrary filenames and |
2480 | so on. |
2481 | |
2482 | - To handle the argument splitting mentioned above, a method |
2483 | split_like_shell() has been created. So far it's just doing naive |
2484 | processing. In practice, I've yet to actually see a %Config entry |
2485 | that uses quotes & spaces, so the splitting task is usually not |
2486 | very error-prone. |
2487 | |
2488 | - The 'test' action now takes a 'test_files' parameter, similar to |
2489 | the (undocumented) ExtUtils::MakeMaker TEST_FILES argument. Handy |
2490 | during development when fixing bugs. |
2491 | |
2492 | - Internally, the rscan_dir() method can now accept a predicate |
2493 | function that decides whether a file/directory should be matched. |
2494 | |
2495 | - We now issue a warning message when the author hasn't specified a |
2496 | license type. |
2497 | |
2498 | 0.13 Wed Nov 20 20:07:53 AEST 2002 |
2499 | |
2500 | - 'cleanup' file lists are now written immediately, rather than at |
2501 | program termination. This helps avoid "phantom files" that don't |
2502 | get handled by the 'realclean' action. The internal |
2503 | write_cleanup() method (which was never documented) is now gone. |
2504 | |
2505 | - The 'blib/' directory is now properly cleaned up in more (all?) |
2506 | circumstances. Previously it could become a phantom if |
2507 | create_build_script() was never called. |
2508 | |
2509 | - Now scan the 'c_source' directory for .cpp (C++) files as well as |
2510 | .c files, and compiles them. |
2511 | |
2512 | - Use a 'phony' target for 'make manifest' in the pass-through |
2513 | Makefile, for the same reason as 'make install' (see version 0.12 |
2514 | notes below). |
2515 | |
2516 | - Module::Build::Compat now accepts any known Config.pm key and |
2517 | passes it through to the Build.PL. Fixes a problem with CPANPLUS, |
2518 | which was passing INSTALLMAN1DIR. |
2519 | |
2520 | - The file 'META.yaml' has been re-named to 'META.yml' in order to |
2521 | cooperate better with systems that can only handle 3 characters |
2522 | after the dot. |
2523 | |
2524 | - The t/xs.t test should give more informative error messages upon |
2525 | failure. |
2526 | |
2527 | 0.12 Thu Nov 14 18:31:47 AEST 2002 |
2528 | |
2529 | - The META.yaml file was erroneously looking for 'build_depends' |
2530 | instead of 'build_requires'. [spotted by Iain Truskett] |
2531 | |
2532 | - Add prompt() and y_n() methods for use in Build.PLs |
2533 | |
2534 | - Do more to work with all versions of Test::Harness when setting |
2535 | the TEST_VERBOSE flag and running under the debugger [patch by |
2536 | Dave Rolsky] |
2537 | |
2538 | - Include a test for verbosity handling |
2539 | |
2540 | - Make sure the blib/ directory is always cleaned up with the |
2541 | 'clean' or 'realclean' action. |
2542 | |
2543 | - In a pass-through Makefile.PL, inform 'make' that 'install' is a |
2544 | "fake target", so that it works properly on case-insensitive |
2545 | filesystems like HFS+ with distributions that contain an INSTALL |
2546 | file. [patch by Brian Ingerson] |
2547 | |
2548 | - In Module::Build::Compat, show an example Makefile.PL that can |
2549 | install Module::Build and re-invoke itself in one fell swoop [Dave |
2550 | Rolsky and Autrijus Tang] |
2551 | |
2552 | - Improve the formatting of the Module::Build and |
2553 | Module::Build::Compat documentation. |
2554 | |
2555 | 0.11 Fri Aug 23 18:50:46 AEST 2002 |
2556 | |
2557 | - 'module_version' and 'module_version_from' have been replaced by |
2558 | 'dist_version' and 'dist_version_from', which is what they really |
2559 | meant in the first place. 'dist_name' has been added. |
2560 | |
2561 | - 'module_name' is now just a way to set 'dist_name' and |
2562 | 'dist_version_from' in a convenient way. |
2563 | |
2564 | - The 'name' in META.yaml is now the distribution name, not the |
2565 | (incorrect) module name. [spotted by Graham Barr] |
2566 | |
2567 | - Added the check_installed_status() and prereq_failures() methods |
2568 | for checking prerequisite information with the programmatic |
2569 | interface |
2570 | |
2571 | - check_installed_version() now uses check_installed_status() |
2572 | internally |
2573 | |
2574 | - Documented the create_build_script() method, which had escaped |
2575 | documentation. |
2576 | |
2577 | - create_build_script() now writes prerequisite information to the |
2578 | _build/ directory, for use by Module::Build::Compat. |
2579 | |
2580 | - Module::Build::Compat has documentation for a safer way to write a |
2581 | dummy Makefile.PL. [patch by Autrijus Tang] |
2582 | |
2583 | 0.10 Wed Aug 7 19:36 2002 |
2584 | - Recommend YAML 0.35 instead of 0.30. |
2585 | |
2586 | - Don't die during 'Build disttest' if YAML isn't installed. This |
2587 | fixes tests 5-10 in runthrough.t if YAML isn't installed. |
2588 | |
2589 | - Die if an unknown license type is used, but still default to |
2590 | 'unknown' if no license is specified. |
2591 | |
2592 | - Use YAML::DumpFile() if we're using a recent YAML, |
2593 | YAML::StoreFile() otherwise. |
2594 | |
2595 | - Show specific error messages in runthrough.t. |
2596 | |
2597 | - Add a generated_by entry to the META.yaml file. |
2598 | |
2599 | - Skip a few tests if YAML isn't installed. |
2600 | |
2601 | 0.09 Fri Jun 28 11:07:08 EST 2002 |
2602 | |
2603 | - The 'distdir' action wasn't deleting the distribution directory |
2604 | before building it again. This meant that, say, if you did 'Build |
2605 | disttest' then 'Build dist', you'd end up with a blib/ directory |
2606 | in your distribution. I actually had this happen for version |
2607 | 0.08, and it's not nice to distribute a blib/ on CPAN. |
2608 | |
2609 | - We now keep track of the 'base_dir', i.e. the top-level build |
2610 | directory, so we can change back into it if we change out of it. |
2611 | This necessitated a cwd() method, which uses the Cwd.pm module. |
2612 | I'm aware of Cwd's limitations, particularly under taint-mode, but |
2613 | I don't know a way around using it here. |
2614 | |
2615 | - The 'dist_dir' action now changes back into 'base_dir' directory. |
2616 | |
2617 | - We now do write_config() inside the create_build_script() method, |
2618 | not inside the new() method. |
2619 | |
2620 | - Simplified the find_version() method, and improved its error |
2621 | messages. |
2622 | |
2623 | - Renamed module_name_to_file() to find_module_by_name(), and added |
2624 | a parameter specifying the directories to search in. Previously |
2625 | we searched in 'lib' and @INC, which wasn't correct in all |
2626 | situations. |
2627 | |
2628 | - Patched the docs to change "Build test" to "./Build test" |
2629 | [Elizabeth Mattijsen] |
2630 | |
2631 | 0.08 Wed Jun 26 20:30:56 EST 2002 |
2632 | |
2633 | - Fixed the 'prereq' alias for the 'requires' parameter |
2634 | |
2635 | - Added some tests in t/basic.t to test the dependency checking |
2636 | |
2637 | - Added 'artistic' as a licensing option [Arthur Bergman] |
2638 | |
2639 | - Fixed some bugs in requires/prereq/recommends/conflicts/build_depends |
2640 | |
2641 | - Fixed a typo in the 'distclean' action that prevented its |
2642 | execution [Arthur Bergman] |
2643 | |
2644 | - Separated the linking phase of building XS items into its own |
2645 | link_c() method. Its interface is still unstable, so it's not |
2646 | documented yet. [suggested by Arthur Bergman] |
2647 | |
2648 | 0.07 Jun 9 2002 15:46 |
2649 | |
2650 | - We now generate a 'META.yaml' metadata file during 'Build dist'. |
2651 | This can be very useful for lots of things, none of which are |
2652 | implemented yet. |
2653 | |
2654 | - Added a 'dynamic_config' parameter, defaulting to false. This |
2655 | lets distribution systems (CPAN.pm, etc.) build, test, and install |
2656 | "easy" modules without having to execute the Build.PL at runtime. |
2657 | It's also a guarantee that the list of dependencies is exactly |
2658 | what is present in the metadata file, and won't be changed during |
2659 | the build process. |
2660 | |
2661 | - Added support for "recommended" and "build-time requirement" |
2662 | modules, besides those that are absolutely required. Also added a |
2663 | "conflicts" field. |
2664 | |
2665 | - Changed the 'prereq' field to 'requires' (the old name will |
2666 | continue to work). |
2667 | |
2668 | - Added support for checking the installed version of perl as an |
2669 | explicit dependency. |
2670 | |
2671 | - Added a 'license' parameter to specify one of a fixed number of |
2672 | licenses for the distribution. |
2673 | |
2674 | - Fixed a bug in Module::Build::Compat that was preventing arguments |
2675 | from being processed properly. [patch by Ilya Martynov] |
2676 | |
2677 | - Make sure we're in the right directory when we write the cleanup |
2678 | file, since various ExtUtils::Install errors might leave us in an |
2679 | unknown directory. [patch by Ilya Martynov] |
2680 | |
2681 | - Specified the 'license', 'recommends', and 'dynamic_config' |
2682 | values in Build.PL, and changed 'prereq' to 'requires'. |
2683 | |
2684 | 0.06 Apr 2 2002 17:44 |
2685 | |
2686 | - Added the Module::Build::Compat module for assisting and |
2687 | explaining compatibility with ExtUtils::Makemaker and cohorts. |
2688 | |
2689 | - State is now saved using Data::Dumper instead of my ad-hoc |
2690 | mechanism, guaranteeing data integrity. Whitespace values broke |
2691 | in the former scheme. |
2692 | |
2693 | - Added the 'recommended' option, which works like 'prereq' but |
2694 | isn't insistent. |
2695 | |
2696 | - Separated the various parameters into three groups: parameters |
2697 | that tell Module::Build what to do, Config.pm parameters, and |
2698 | user-defined parameters for each build (the module author is the |
2699 | 'user' here). This helps avoid conflicts between names, and it |
2700 | was silly to have them all together. The three groups of |
2701 | parameters are subject to the same rules for overriding: values |
2702 | specified during a Build action take precedence over values |
2703 | specified at 'perl Build.PL' time, which in turn take precedence |
2704 | over values specified in the call to new(). |
2705 | |
2706 | - Improved support for .PL files. Any .PL file in the lib/ |
2707 | directory or the directory specified by 'c_source' will now get |
2708 | properly executed. I also added a 'PL_files' parameter that you |
2709 | can use in case the .PL doesn't create an obviously-named output |
2710 | file. |
2711 | |
2712 | - If a prerequisite condition is malformed, we now report a prereq |
2713 | failure and say why. Previously we issued a warning and kept |
2714 | going. |
2715 | |
2716 | |
2717 | 0.05 10-Jan-2002 20:26 |
2718 | - Added the Module::Build->subclass() method, which makes it easier to |
2719 | make quick-and-dirty subclasses of Module::Build. |
2720 | |
2721 | - Reorganized the docs a bit. |
2722 | |
2723 | - Added the 'testdb' action, and the 'debugger=1' argument to the |
2724 | 'test' action, both of which run tests under the perl |
2725 | debugger. (idea: Dave Rolsky) |
2726 | |
2727 | - Added prerequisite checking (Dave Rolsky) |
2728 | |
2729 | - Fixed an unlikely-to-occur bug with misquoted strings in the |
2730 | 'Build' script (spot: Dave Rolsky) |
2731 | |
2732 | - We're more careful about shush-ing warnings that |
2733 | ExtUtils::Manifest might emit (Dave Rolsky) |
2734 | |
2735 | - The 'help' action now auto-generates the list of actions (Dave Rolsky) |
2736 | |
2737 | - Added the 'distcheck', 'skipcheck', 'distclean', 'distdir', and |
2738 | 'disttest' actions (Dave Rolsky) |
2739 | |
2740 | - We're a little more aggressive about cleaning up temporary files - |
2741 | we'll try to clean them up even when we don't have write permission |
2742 | on them. This isn't as dastardly as it sounds; if we /really/ |
2743 | don't have permission, we won't be able to remove them no matter |
2744 | how hard we try. |
2745 | |
2746 | 0.04 Fri Nov 16 16:55 2001 |
2747 | - Added a 'manifest' action. It's just like MakeMaker's 'make manifest', it |
2748 | brings your MANIFEST file up to date with your distribution directory. |
2749 | |
2750 | - Reorganized some of the responsibilities of various methods, which |
2751 | allows modules to be built and tested programmatically. |
2752 | |
2753 | - The 'clean' action will now clean up files that were created more |
2754 | recently than the on-disk cleanup registry was written. |
2755 | |
2756 | - Undefined values from Config.pm are handled correctly now. |
2757 | |
2758 | - The dispatch() method will now accept explicit dispatch |
2759 | parameters, for use in a programmatic setting. |
2760 | |
2761 | - $ENV{TEST_VERBOSE} will be set in test scripts if the 'verbose=1' |
2762 | parameter is set. |
2763 | |
2764 | - Moved the test.pl script to t/basic.t |
2765 | |
2766 | - Created the t/xs.t script, which tests building a module with a |
2767 | .xs component. |
2768 | |
2769 | - Fixed the loading of $^O-specific modules (there were no such |
2770 | modules before). |
2771 | |
2772 | - Added a 'darwin' platform module, which removes -flat_namespace |
2773 | from $Config{ccflags} while building .xs modules (it's a linker |
2774 | flag, not a compiler flag). |
2775 | |
2776 | - Now uses $^W instead of the 'warnings' pragma, which apparently |
2777 | provides compatibility with perl 5.005 (I've only tested it with |
2778 | 5.6.x myself). |
2779 | |
2780 | - If a file called C<visual.pl> exists in the top-level directory, |
2781 | this file will be executed as a Perl script during 'Build test' and |
2782 | its output will be shown to the user. This is a good place to put |
2783 | speed tests or other tests that don't use the C<Test::Harness> format |
2784 | for output. |
2785 | |
2786 | - The 'Build install' step will now put .xs-related things in the |
2787 | correct architecture-dependent libraries. |
2788 | |
2789 | - Added the 'autosplit' option, even though I think autosplitting is |
2790 | a load of hooie. |
2791 | |
2792 | 0.03 Sun Nov 11 14:58 CDT 2001 |
2793 | - The 'perl Build.PL' step will now detect whether the current |
2794 | environment is "unixish", "windowsish", etc., and load the correct |
2795 | module (i.e. Module::Build::Platform::Unix). More specific |
2796 | modules may also be written for particular values of $^O. |
2797 | |
2798 | - Module::Build will now process any .xs files in the lib/ |
2799 | directory. Please let me know whether this works or not with your |
2800 | distribution & platform. I'll be trying out various distributions |
2801 | on my platform. |
2802 | |
2803 | - Corrected some embarassing errors in the POD documentation. Also |
2804 | added a long documentation section on the various build actions |
2805 | (test, install, build, etc.) and added some neato ASCII art. |
2806 | |
2807 | - Added a 'cleanup' mechanism - any method may call the |
2808 | $self->add_to_cleanup(@files) method to register files which need |
2809 | to be cleaned up during 'Build clean'. |
2810 | |
2811 | - Added a 'Build help' action that gives a little syntax help, and |
2812 | lists all the actions available. |
2813 | |
2814 | - Fixed a bug in which 'blib/' wasn't properly being added to @INC |
2815 | when running 'Build test'. |
2816 | |
2817 | - For the 'Build dist' action, we'll use the 'tar' and 'gzip' |
2818 | programs (as specified by Config.pm) on Unix platforms, otherwise |
2819 | we'll use Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib. |
2820 | |
2821 | 0.02 Wed Sep 5 00:53:04 CDT 2001 |
2822 | - Added POD documentation. |
2823 | |
2824 | - Added the 'install', 'fakeinstall', and 'dist' actions. |
2825 | |
2826 | - new() will now determine version string based on 'module_version', or |
2827 | 'module_version_from', or 'module_name', in that order. |
2828 | |
2829 | - Module::Build::Base handles its file paths in a platform-independent |
2830 | way, using the File:: modules |
2831 | |
2832 | |
2833 | 0.01 Sun Aug 5 01:23:10 2001 |
2834 | - original version; created by h2xs 1.1.1.4 with options -XA -n Module::Build |
2835 | |