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