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