1 Revision history for Perl extension Module::Build.
3 0.2801 Sun May 21 00:07:40 CDT 2006
5 - Module::Build::Compat's emulation of INC is incorrectly prepending
6 a -I to the value of INC. This is incorrect because there should
7 already be a -I on the value. I.E. it's "perl Makefile.PL INC=-Ifoo"
8 not "perl Makefile.PL INC=foo" so Compat should not prefix a -I.
11 - Native batch scripts under Windows should not be converted by
12 pl2bat. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
14 - Tweaked the way we determine whether a file is executable on Unix.
15 We use this determination to decide whether to make it executable
16 during installation. [Julian Mehnle]
18 - Replaced a vestigial 'next' with 'return' now that the code is in a
19 subroutine (htmlify_pods()), not a loop. [Ron Savage]
21 - Fixed a guaranteed failure in t/signature.t when TEST_SIGNATURE was
24 - Fixed a test failure that occurred when testing or installing in
25 unattended mode - the code to test whether unattended mode and
26 attended mode are working properly was assuming that we started out
27 in attended mode. [Steve Peters]
29 - Improved our stand-in YAML generator that we use to generate
30 META.yaml when authors don't have a copy of YAML.pm installed on
31 their machine. It was unable to handle things like embedded
32 newlines in the data, now it has a much more extensive escaping
33 mechanism. [Stephen Adkins]
35 - Revised the docs for --prefix and PREFIX. [Michael Schwern]
37 0.28 Thu Apr 27 22:25:00 CDT 2006
39 - When y_n() or prompt() are called without a default value and the
40 build seems to be unattended (e.g. in automatic CPAN testing), we
41 now die() with an error message rather than silently returning
42 undef for prompt(), or looping indefinitely for y_n().
44 - When searching for '.modulebuildrc', return the first HOME-like
45 directory that actually contains the file instead of the first
46 existing directory. Document the search locations and the order
47 searched. [Spotted by David Golden]
49 - Split the API documentation out of Module::Build::Authoring into
50 its own document: Module::Build::API.
52 - We should not emit a warning if a Module::Build subclass is
53 required in a Makefile.PL that is not bundled in the current
54 distribution; it may be installed on the user's system. [Spotted by
57 - copy_if_modified() now preserves the executable bit of the source
58 file. [Spotted by Julian Mehnle]
60 - Fixed compatibility of our screen-scraping the Test::Harness output
61 so we can recognize the most recent Test::Harness version. [Steve
64 - Backing out a requirement added in 0.27_06 on the method y_n()
65 to always include a default. This behavior would cause existing
66 build scripts to start failing. We now fail with a missing default
67 only when $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} is set because there is no
70 - Make install_types() method smarter with respect to custom install
73 - Add documentation for the install_base_relpaths() and
74 prefix_relpaths() methods. Improved their usage for a public API,
77 0.27_10 Tue Mar 28 22:50:50 CST 2006
79 - Added the create_packlist property, default true, which controls
80 whether packlist files will be written during installation. This
81 was already part of Module::Build 0.2609, but for some reason we've
82 forgotten it in the 0.27_xx series. [Spotted by Steve Kirkup]
84 - Document the versions of Module::Build where each feature, action,
85 constructor argument, and method was first publicly documented.
87 - More fixes for find_perl_interpreter() to work with BSD flavored
88 UNIX: Ensure we always return absolute paths; throw an exception
89 upon failure to find correct interperter; document everything.
91 - We now include our own YAML.pm work-alike that we can use when the
92 real YAML isn't installed. We might soon even start using it when
93 YAML is installed, because the YAML API and dependency chain have
94 been changing in unfavorable ways lately. [Stephen Adkins]
96 - Fixed some shell-argument-quoting issues on VMS. In the process,
97 we have added some support for avoiding tripping over
98 shell-argument-quoting issues on other platforms too. [Initial
99 patch by Craig A. Berry]
101 0.27_09 Sat Mar 11 22:48:54 EST 2006
103 - Fixed find_perl_interpreter() so we can find the perl executable
104 when running from uninstalled perl even when $^X contains a
105 relative path. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
107 - Fixed warning message where we were printing the wrong field names.
110 - Added a 'testpodcoverage' action that runs a POD coverage check for
111 all modules in the distribution. [Yanick Champoux]
113 - Added a Cookbook example of subclassing to modify an action. [Dylan
114 Martin and David Golden]
116 - When building HTML documentation, we were opening the POD file and
117 not checking whether the open succeeded, which of course caused
118 problems down the line if it failed. Now we do "or die(...)" like
119 everywhere else. [Spotted by Joerg Braun]
121 0.27_08 Fri Mar 3 21:22:41 CST 2006
123 - Due to shell quoting issues and differences in syntax between
124 various flavors of Windows, the code for the 'pl2bat' utility
125 distributed with Perl has been incorporated into M::B::P::Windows.
126 [Thanks to Dr Bean and Ron Savage for help testing and isolating
129 - Modify add_build_element() so that it only adds elements if they
130 don't already exist. [David Wheeler]
132 - Fixed a bug in the 'pass-through' Makefile.PL in which we would die
133 if CPAN::Shell->install returned false, but apparently this return
134 value is unreliable. Now we only die if the module is actually
135 unavailable after installation.
137 - Fixed testing problems on VMS related to non-case-preserving
138 filesystems. We now bundle Tie::CPHash in the distribution (just
139 for testing purposes, it doesn't get installed) to help with
140 this. [Craig Berry and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
142 - We incorrectly documented the 'dynamic_config' flag in the META.yml
143 file as having a default value of false, but according to the
144 META.yml spec (which, for heaven's sake, we wrote) its default
145 value is true. Fixed. [Spotted by Adam Kennedy]
147 - The have_c_compiler() method was dying if the ExtUtils::CBuilder
148 module wasn't around, which is obviously an unhelpful thing to do.
149 Now it just returns false. [Spotted by John Peacock]
151 - Fix detection of $VERSION expressions that are not
152 assignments. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
154 - Obfuscate one of our constructs that uses a $VERSION variable,
155 because it was getting picked up by ExtUtils::MakeMaker's
156 version-finder. [Spotted by Randal Schwartz]
158 - The config_data script for querying and/or setting a module's
159 config data was forgetting to call write() after setting config
160 values (though setting feature values was working fine).
161 Fixed. [Brian Duggan]
163 - On Windows, remove the pl2bat generated 'Build.bat' script without
164 the annoying "The batch file cannot be found." error. [Solution
165 provided by RazTK and foxidrive on newsgroup alt.msdos.batch]
167 - Our version comparisons should now work correctly with modules that
168 use version.pm to delcare their versions (e.g. "our $VERSION =
169 version->new('1.0.0')"). [John Peacock and Ron Savage]
171 - We now create a Build.bat script on versions of Windows where it
174 - Fixed the verbiage around choosing the correct make-alike on
175 different platforms to suggest using 'perl -V:make'. [Suggested by
178 0.27_07 Wed Feb 1 20:07:45 CST 2006
180 - The notes() method now returns the new value when called with two
181 arguments, just like when it's called with one argument. [Tyler
184 - The notes() method now distinguishes among the values undef, 0, and
185 the empty string, where previously it didn't. [Tyler MacDonald]
187 - We now unshift(@INC) rather than push(@INC) for the directory where
188 a build subclass lives, so that we're sure to pick up the right
189 version and not some already-installed version. [perlmonkey]
191 - The SIGNATURE file for version 0.27_06 (and I'm sure for lots of
192 versions before that too!) was messed up, since we were modifying
193 some files after signing. This has been band-aided for the time
194 being by signing twice. [Reported by Chris Dolan]
196 0.27_06 Mon Jan 23 21:44:54 CST 2006
198 - Fixed an undefined-variable warning when building the META.yml file
199 and the author hasn't used the 'module_name' mechanism. [Chris Dolan]
201 - We should now work with recent (> 0.49) versions of YAML.pm when
202 creating the META.yml file. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
204 - The y_n() method now requires the default parameter, and the
205 prompt() and y_n() methods have been improved with respect to
206 how they behave/detect when there is no user to ask. We're now
207 more consistent with MakeMaker, including respecting the
208 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT environment variable. [Tyler MacDonald and
209 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
211 - When building a README file using Pod::Text, work around a bug in
212 Pod::Text 3.01, which expects Pod::Simple::parse_file to take input
213 and output filehandles when it actually only takes an input
214 filehandle. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
216 0.27_05 Thu Jan 12 17:39:21 CST 2006
218 - In t/common.pl, we were attempting to let the user's installed
219 Test::More take precedence over ours, but getting thwarted by all
220 the test scripts' loading Test::More beforehand. Fixed. [Spotted
221 by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
223 - In various test scripts, we were outputting some strings that
224 weren't strictly conformant with Test::Harness's expected input,
225 though it didn't actually cause problems. Now we're more
226 conformant, though not yet strict. [Spotted by Yitzchak
229 0.27_04 Fri Dec 23 10:43:34 CST 2005
231 - Removed experimental feature that extended the prerequisite system
232 to apply ('requires', 'recommends', and 'conflicts') prereqs to all
233 actions. Most of the internal extensiblity has been retained so
234 that prereq types can easily be added, more selectively.
236 - Added a 'prereq_report' action that shows the user a well-formatted
237 list of all prerequisites, the versions required, and the versions
238 actually installed. [David Wheeler]
240 - Clarified the directory name that's created during the 'distdir'
241 action. [Suggested by Tyler MacDonald]
243 - Fixed a bug when creating the META.yml file without the help of
244 YAML.pm - some common strings weren't quoted & escaped properly.
245 Now only some uncommon ones are. [Spotted by Joshua ben Jore]
247 - Fixed a bug in which an "UNINST=1" argument specified to a
248 passthrough Makefile's "make install" wasn't actually seen by
251 - Rather than dying when the Build script is run from the wrong
252 directory, it now simply chdir()s into the right directory and
253 keeps going. [Suggested by Dominique Quatravaux]
255 - Added an "Examples on CPAN" section to the cookbook, with an
256 initial entry pointing to John Peacock's SVN-Notify-Mirror
259 - Add an invoked_action() method to return the name of the original
260 action invoked by the user.
262 - Add 'meta-spec' field to the generated META.yml file, including the
263 version of the specification followed by the current Module::Build
264 and the url where the specification can be found.
266 - Introduced two actions, 'html' & 'manpages', that generate
267 documentation for POD when the respective feature is enabled. The
268 actions will generate the documents even if there is no set place
269 to install to. However, if the actions are invoked as a dependency
270 of another action (e.g. build), the documentation will only be
271 built when there is a default or user-specified place to install to.
273 - Added support for environment variable, 'MODULEBUILDRC', which can
274 be used to specify the full path to an option file to use instead
275 of the default location of ~/.modulebuildrc. A special undocumented
276 setting of 'NONE' tells Module::Build not to load any user settings,
277 so tests can be run without tainting from user options.
279 - Documented and improved preliminary support for more Getopt::Long
280 style options are supported, including boolean options (--verbose,
281 --no-verbose), and use of hyphens in option names in addition to
284 - The option to disable/enable reading of the ~/.modulebuildrc file
285 is changed from 'skip_rcfile' to 'use_rcfile'
287 - Allow the 'distmeta' action to continue when 'MANIFEST' is missing,
288 omitting the generation of the 'provieds' field. [Steven Schubiger]
290 - Fixed some failing regex from generated MANIFEST.SKIP file.
292 - Fixed an edge case in $VERSION parsing where we thought a package()
293 declaration was happening but it wasn't. [David Golden]
295 - Added docs for the install_destination() and install_types() methods.
297 0.27_03 (Beta for 0.28) Mon Oct 10 11:19:23 EDT 2005
299 - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
300 example, when compiling XS modules). (This change actually
301 occurred in 0.27_01, but it was mistakenly omitted from the Changes
304 - Fixed an issue on Win32 (and other case-tolerant
305 non-case-preserving systems, possibly like VMS?) in which the
306 current working directory would sometimes be reported with
307 different case, fooling us into thinking that we were in the wrong
308 directory. [David Golden]
310 - The extra_compiler_flags setting was not actually being passed
311 along to ExtUtils::CBuilder so it could pass it along to the
314 - The synonyms 'scripts' and 'prereq' for 'script_files' and
315 'requires' were broken in a previous version (0.27_01, probably),
316 but now they're fixed. [David Golden]
318 - Previously, we assumed that any custom subclass of Module::Build
319 was located in _build/lib/. This is only true if the author used
320 the subclass() method, though. We now use %INC to find where the
321 custom subclass really is, so that we can "use lib" it. We also
322 issue a warning if it seems to be outside the build directory.
323 [Spotted by Peter Tandler]
325 - Added a URL for each license type that we know about, which will
326 appear as resources=>license: in the generated META.yml file.
328 - If the user passes a no_index parameter to our constructor, we now
329 pass that through when building the META.yml file. [Richard
332 - A few more status messages can now be suppressed by using 'quiet'
335 - Added some more entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file. [Chris
338 - Our POD parser will now accept "AUTHORS" as well as "AUTHOR" when
339 looking for the author list in a module. [David Wheeler]
341 - When looking for the POD to auto-generate a README file, or for the
342 AUTHOR or ABSTRACT for the distribution, we now also look for a
343 *.pod with the same name as the *.pm file specified by
344 'version_from'. [David Golden]
346 - The recommended dependency on ExtUtils::ParseXS has been moved into
347 the "C_support" auto_feature.
349 - When building XS files, we now pass the -DVERSION and -DXS_VERSION
350 flags to the compiler. [Spotted by Jerry Hedden]
352 - If a distribution has XS files and Module::Build has not been
353 configured with the "C_support" feature, we now issue a
354 warning. [Suggested by Jerry Hedden]
356 - Added a dir_contains() method.
358 - Some versions of MakeMaker, CPANPLUS, and/or PAUSE thought that a
359 certain line of our code was declaring a $VERSION when we didn't
360 intend to. The line has been obscurified so they won't think that
361 anymore. [Jos Boumans, RT #14226]
363 - Added the Apache, MIT, and Mozilla licenses to the list of licenses
364 that this module knows about. [Bob Ippolito]
366 - Fixed a pretty significant typo in the documentation for
367 auto_features. [Spotted by Jonas B. Nielsen]
369 - In order to aid people who want to do customization of the META.yml
370 file, we've added a "metafile" property that can then be easily
371 overridden in subclasses, changed do_create_meta_yml() to
372 do_create_metafile(), and split out the code that actually
373 generates the YAML into a new method, write_metafile(). [David
376 - Fixed a couple of non-helpful behaviors with extra_compiler_flags
377 and extra_linker_flags. These will automatically be run through
378 split_like_shell() when given to new() as strings.
380 - When the user doesn't have ExtUtils::ParseXS installed and we use
381 the old 'xsubpp', the displayed command line for creating the .c
382 file from the .xs file was missing its newline. Now it's got it.
384 0.27_02 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Jul 15 07:34:58 CDT 2005
386 - Provided initial support for the --prefix installation parameter,
387 which acts like MakeMaker's PREFIX. It is still highly recommended
388 NOT to use it when you could reasonably use --install_base or
389 --install_path or --install_dest, but that's just because the way
390 --prefix is designed is weird and unpredictable. Ultimately the
391 choice rests with the installing user. [Patches by Michael Schwern
394 - Fixed a bug in subclass() which prevented people from using it to
395 subclass subclasses of Module::Build. [Chris Dolan]
397 - Added a 'pure_install' action, which for the time being is
398 identical to the 'install' action. [Jos Boumans]
400 - Fixed a POD error in an L<http://...> tag. [Offer Kaye]
402 - Note several options for automatically creating a new module dev
403 tree. [Suggested by Eric Wilhelm]
405 - Removed some hard-coded references to File::Spec::Unix in the
406 creation of HTML docs, which should help that code work in more
407 places, and help people not to panic when they look at it. [Spotted
410 - We now use Pod::Readme by default (instead of Pod::Text) to
411 generate the README file when the 'create_readme' option is used.
412 If Pod::Readme is not installed, we will still fall back to using
413 Pod::Text. [Robert Rothenberg]
415 - The values of the "prefix", "install_base", "install_path", and
416 "install_dest" parameters can now begin with "~" or "~user", and
417 we'll de-tilde-ify them by using glob().
419 - The (optional) auto-creation of the README and Makefile.PL files
420 have been moved from the 'distdir' action to the 'distmeta'
421 action. [David Golden]
423 - When looking for a .modulebuildrc file, we now use a fancier method
424 of trying to find the home directory, because $ENV{HOME} isn't a
425 very cross-platform variable. [Robert Rothenberg]
427 - We now memoize the output of the internal _default_INC() method,
428 since it uses backticks and might be kind of slow.
430 - When processing XS files, we now look for a typemap in lib/ as well
431 as using the system's default typemap. [John Peacock]
433 - The DESTDIR, PREFIX, and INSTALL_BASE arguments to "make install"
434 are now supported for pass-through Makefiles (they've been
435 supported for quite a while as arguments to "perl
436 Makefile.PL"). [Requested by Guillaume Rousse]
438 - Test::Harness has changed its output format in recent versions,
439 which threw off one of our tests. We now allow for this different
440 format. [Reported by Scott Godin]
442 - Fixed an issue that prevented Module::Build from upgrading itself
443 using its own API (which is how CPANPLUS uses it). There are still
444 some issues with this solution, however. See ticket #13169 in
445 rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
447 - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when a distribution's author
448 could not be determined from its POD nor from the call to
449 Module::Build->new() in its Build.PL. See ticket #12318 in
450 rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
452 - Apparently on Windows and cygwin it's not possible to use the "-pi"
453 switch to perl without a backup extension, so now we use ".bak" and
454 remove the backup file when we're done. Thus the "dist" action for
455 Module::Build itself can now be run on those platforms. [Yitzchak
458 - Improved the handling of auto_features in the config_data access
459 script. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
461 0.27_01 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Apr 15 21:12:57 CDT 2005
463 Backward-incompatible (but better) changes:
465 * When using the 'install_base' option to choose a directory for
466 installing everything, perl modules now go into lib/perl5/ instead
467 of just lib/. It seems this is more consistent with people's
468 expectations, and the way I had it before was a bit peculiar to the
469 way I like things in my own home directory. [Michael Schwern]
471 * When the user is using the 'install_base' option, scripts will now
472 be installed by default in $install_base/bin/ rather than
473 $install_base/script/ . [Jan Hudec and Michael Schwern]
477 - The auto_features mechanism will now re-evaluate dependencies every
478 time feature() is called for an auto-feature, rather than freezing
479 the success/failure value during 'perl Build.PL' and using that
480 value for all eternity (or module update, whichever comes first).
481 This applies to both $build->feature() and
482 FooModule::ConfigData->feature() calls. [Requested by many]
484 - Added the meta_add and meta_merge mechanisms, which let the module
485 author add/merge arbitrary entries into the META.yml file.
487 - Now reads per-action default options from '$ENV{HOME}/.modulebuildrc'
488 if it exists. Command line options override anything set in the rc file.
490 - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
491 example, when compiling XS modules).
493 - The creation of Unix man pages is no longer a strict necessity - it
494 has now been turned into an 'auto-feature' contingent on the
495 presence of Pod::Man and a location specified for man pages to go.
497 - A user-specified 'install_path' setting will now take precedence
498 over an 'install_base' setting. This allows the user to use
499 'install_base' to set the base for all elements in one go, and then
500 use 'install_path' to override specific paths or add paths for
501 additional kinds of targets.
503 - Split the main documentation from 'Module/Build.pm' into two
504 sections. The user level documentation and overview remains in
505 'Module/Build.pm', while a new document,
506 'Module/Build/Authoring.pod', has been created for module authors.
510 - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
511 because of inadequate training in forensic debate) - we now pass its
512 arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
515 - Let resume() return an object blessed into the appropriate class
516 if the user has provided a subclass, as specified by the
517 'build_class' property. This allows current() and new_from_context()
518 to behave more like factory methods returning objects of the correct
519 class based on context. [Ray Zimmerman]
521 - Refactored methods relating to parsing perl module files for
522 package, version, and pod data into a new class:
523 Module::Build::ModuleInfo. It should not be considered part of
524 Module::Build's API, because we may split it out entirely as a
525 separate CPAN module that we depend on.
527 - Added new method Module::Build::prepare_metadata() for authors to
528 override in order to add custom fields to META.yml.
530 - We now use Test::More for our regression tests. If the user
531 doesn't have it installed, we include a copy in t/lib/ that we can
534 - When copying files in the 'distdir' action, set permissions to match
535 the original files. [Julian Mehnle]
537 - When adding files like META.yml to the MANIFEST, we now tell the
538 user we're doing so by printing one of the "Added to MANIFEST: ..."
541 - Added a runtime_params() method, which lets a module author see
542 which parameters were overridden by the user on the command line
543 (or in whatever paradigm the user originally invoked Module::Build
544 from). [David Wheeler]
546 - Added the current_action() method, which, surprisingly, returns the
547 name of the currently running action. [David Wheeler]
549 - Added docs for run_perl_script().
551 - Added some stuff to the docs about why PREFIX is unsupported, and
552 what to use instead. [Steve Purkis]
554 - The simple get/set accessor methods for all the 'parameters' like
555 verbose(), license(), etc. now have auto-generated documentation in
558 - Created a Cookbook entry for 'Adding new elements to the install
561 - We now add META.yml to the MANIFEST when META.yml is created, not
562 when MANIFEST is created. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
564 - Added some additional patterns to the suggested MANIFEST.SKIP
565 contents, and changed the docs so that we encourage the user to use
566 the MANIFEST.SKIP. [Ron Savage]
568 - Eliminated a redundant recipe from the Cookbook, now that there are
569 some more extensive recipes on how to add stuff to the
570 build/install sequences.
572 - Eliminated an undefined-variable warning when testing under perl 5.005
574 - When building HTML documentation, 'html_backlink' and 'html_css'
575 properties are now first-class properties, so they can be set from
576 the command line. [Suggested by Sagar R. Shah]
578 - Have script_files default to everything in bin. I believe this is
579 the least surprising behavior. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
581 - If script_files is given a directory, consider each file in that
582 directory tree as a script to be installed. This avoids having to
583 remember to add to the script_files list every time you add a
584 program. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
586 - We now only load Pod::Man when we actually need to build man pages.
588 - We now make Test::Harness use our carefully-selected path to a perl
589 executable regardless of Test::Harness's version. Previously we
590 let it figure stuff out for itself if it was a reasonably modern
591 version, but it's safer to make sure we're using the same perl
594 0.2610 Fri Apr 15 08:25:01 CDT 2005
596 - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
597 because of inadequate training in debate) - we now pass its
598 arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
599 in afterwards. [Ray Zimmerman]
601 - Fixed a bug in which config_data and feature data were being
602 forgotten and no ConfigData.pm module would get written. [Ray
605 - Added a recipe to the cookbook showing how to run a single test
606 file from the command line. [William McKee]
608 - For command-line arguments, we now accept the syntax "--foo=bar" in
609 addition to "--foo bar" and "foo=bar". This seems to fit well with
610 what GNU getopt and Getopt::Long do, and with people's
611 expectations. [Adam Spiers]
613 0.2609 Wed Mar 16 22:18:35 CST 2005
615 - The html docs that were created during the first invokation of
616 './Build' were being found and treated as pod that needed to be
617 converted to html during subsequent invokations. We now are more
618 specific about the directories we scan for pod that needs to be
619 converted, effectively avoiding blib/html. [Ray Zimmerman]
621 - If Pod::Man is not available, we now skip building man pages
622 (rather than dying) and tell the user why.
624 - We now write a .packlist file upon installation, in the same place
625 that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does. [Johnny Lam]
627 - On some Unix platforms (BSD derivatives, mostly) perl's $^X
628 variable isn't set to the full path of the perl executable, just
629 'perl', when the 'Build' script is run as './Build' and not 'perl
630 ./Build'. This can lead to some other modules (maybe
631 Test::Harness, maybe IO::File, I dunno...) getting very confused
632 about where they are, and they try to load stuff from the wrong
633 perl lib, and big trouble ensues. To fix this, we now set $^X to
634 the value of Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter().
636 - The 'distcheck' action will now die() if it finds an error in the
637 MANIFEST, rather than just printing on STDOUT. [David Golden]
639 - When the README and/or Makefile.PL are autogenerated using
640 create_readme or create_makefile_pl, we now automatically make sure
641 they're also listed in the MANIFEST file. [Suggested by Michael
644 - Got rid of the t/MANIFEST file - it's superfluous, and it had
645 zero-length, which some versions of Tar don't like. [William
648 - Added a mention in the documentation that each property that new()
649 accepts also has a corresponding get/set accessor. (In the version
650 0.27_0x series each accessor method is mentioned explicitly in the
651 docs.) [Omission spotted by Ian Langworth]
653 0.2608 Wed Jan 26 19:46:09 CST 2005
655 - Add workaround for test files because Devel::Cover causes
656 require to fail when the argument to require is an expression
657 involving File::Spec. We now assign the result of the File::Spec
658 call to a variable and then call require with that variable.
660 - Tilde-expansion is now performed on arguments passed to a
661 compatibility-Makefile.PL [Spotted by Sam Vilain]
663 - We now run the 'gzip' and 'tar' values through split_like_shell()
664 when running the 'dist' action, so that e.g. the 'gzip' value can
665 be set to something like "gzip -f --best" and it'll work
666 correctly. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
668 - Work around some bad mojo between Fedora Core [with its very long
669 @INC] and old versions of Test::Harness [with its propensity to
670 compound the number of @INC entries] that produced an "argument
671 list too long" error during testing. [assisted by Ville Skytta,
672 David Golden, & Randy Sims]
674 - Killed an infinite loop that would happen in y_n() in interactive
675 mode if the author provided no default value. [Max Maischein]
677 0.2607 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Sat Dec 18 14:14:09 CST 2004
679 - Instead of freezing @INC in the 'Build' script to the value it had
680 when Build.PL was run, we now just add those additional values that
681 aren't part of the default compiled-in @INC. [Michael Schwern]
683 - The run_perl_script() method will now propagate any extra entries
684 in @INC (such as those added by "use lib" or the -I command-line
685 switch) to the subprocess. This helps situations in which you want
686 to tell the subprocess where to find a certain module, for
687 instance. [Michael Schwern]
689 0.2606 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Dec 7 22:33:11 CST 2004
691 - Fixed a linking bug on Win32, in which compiled C code object files
692 never got linked in with the modules being built. [Dominic
695 - Fixed a bug in the new_from_context() method in which any arguments
696 passed made us die. [Spotted by Jos Boumans]
698 0.2605 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Nov 30 07:16:13 CST 2004
700 - Fixed a bug in which zero-length arguments for hash-valued
701 parameters (e.g. " --config foo= ") weren't being allowed.
703 - The tests now play better with environments in which version.pm is
704 pre-loaded, like in bleadperl. [John Peacock & Michael Schwern]
706 - Fixed a syntax error in one of the tests under perl 5.005.
708 0.2604 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 17 14:32:42 CST 2004
710 - Fixed a split_like_shell() bug introduced in 0.2603 for Windows, in
711 which an array reference passed as an argument was returned as an
712 array reference, rather than as a list. [Spotted by Steve Hay]
714 - module_name() will now return '' instead of undef when module_name
715 is not set. This eliminates a couple uninitialized-value
716 warnings. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
718 - The expand_test_dir() method will now skip dotfiles (like ._foo.t,
719 which sometimes gets automatically created on Mac systems) when
720 'recursive_test_files' is in effect. [Tom Insam]
722 0.2603 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Mon Nov 15 10:28:00 CST 2004
724 - Added documentation for the new_from_context() method.
726 - Completely rewrote the split_like_shell() method for the Windows
727 platform so it works like the command.com shell. [Randy Sims]
729 0.2602 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Thu Nov 4 11:19:29 CST 2004
731 - The two bug fixes in 0.2601 gnashed against each other incorrectly,
732 resulting in a Win32 bug in split_like_shell(). Fixed. [Spotted
733 by Steve Hay & Randy Sims]
735 - Removed a couple of 'use warnings' statements from the code - they
736 were causing compile failures on 5.005_04, where warnings.pm isn't
737 available. [Blair Zajac]
739 0.2601 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 3 20:09:27 CST 2004
741 - Fixed some backslash problems with split_like_shell() on
744 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
745 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
746 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
748 0.26 Sat Oct 9 17:51:01 CDT 2004
750 - Removed some language from the Module::Build::Compat documentation
751 that encouraged people to include a Build.PL without a Makefile.PL.
752 Also changed "a replacement for MakeMaker" to "an alternative to
753 MakeMaker" in the main documentation, which is basically what I
754 meant all along (i.e. a replacement for MakeMaker in your
755 particular build process - MakeMaker is never going to be fully
756 replaced in the perl world at large, of course), but some people
757 got the impression I was a little more truculent toward MakeMaker
760 - Added the formal concepts of "features" and "config data" for
761 distributions. This allows the module author to define a certain
762 set of features that the user can switch on and off (usually
763 according to whether they have the proper prerequisites for them),
764 and to save build-time configuration information in a standardized
765 format. See the main documentation of Module::Build for more
766 details. (Note that the name of this system was called
767 "BuildConfig" for a while in beta, but now it's called
770 - Added an 'auto_features' capability, which simplifies the process
771 of defining features that depend on a set of prerequisites.
773 - Added the 'get_options' parameter, which lets module authors
774 declare certain command-line arguments their Build.PL can accept
777 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
778 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
779 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
781 - Added a 'testpod' action, which checks the syntactic validity of
782 all POD files in the distribution using Test::Pod. This eliminates
783 the need for doing so in a regression test. [Initial patch by Mark
786 - Added a process_files_by_extension() method, which generalizes the
787 kind of processing (essentially just copying) that happens for .pm
788 and .pod files, and makes it available to other user-defined types
789 of files. See the new cookbook entry.
791 - Improved compatibility with version.pm when authors are using
792 version objects as their $VERSION variables. Now
793 version_from_file() can deal with these objects. Currently we
794 stringify them right away, but perhaps in the future we will
795 preserve them as objects for a while.
797 - During 'distdir' and 'distmeta' actions, die a bit more gracefully
798 if there's no MANIFEST (i.e. explicitly say that a MANIFEST is
799 required). [Spotted by Adrian Howard]
801 - Eliminated a recursive dependency between creating the MANIFEST
802 file and creating the META.yml file. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
804 - On Win32, where a single directory might be known variously as
805 "Module-Build-0.25_03" or "MODULE~1.25_", we now use
806 Win32::GetShortPathName($cwd) to verify that the 'Build' script is
807 being run from the correct directory, rather than just a string
810 - The add_to_cleanup() method will now accept glob()-style patterns
811 in addition to explicit filenames. Also documented the fact that
812 they can be specified in either Unix-style or native-style
815 - Passing a PREFIX value to a pass-through Makefile 'make install'
816 now has the same effect as passing it to 'perl Makefile.PL' (it
817 dies with a helpful message).
819 - Added the 'testcover' action, which runs a test suite using
820 Devel::Cover. [Dave Rolsky]
822 - Added the 'lib' and 'arch' installation directories to the search
823 path for the 'diff' action, since they won't necessarily (though
824 they usually will) be in @INC at installation time. [Suggested by
827 - The "=head3" POD directive isn't supported in older podlators
828 (particularly Pod::Man), so we don't use it anymore.
830 - Fixed a typo & improved the docs in the SUBCLASSING section. [Ron
833 - Added the '.tmp' suffix to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file, which
834 should avoid adding things like pod2htmi.tmp to the MANIFEST [Ron
837 - Backup files from Emacs, containing the string '.#' in their names,
838 should no longer find their way into the blib/ directory (and from
839 there into installation directories).
841 - Worked around an unpleasant interaction between version.pm and the
842 version-checking code that makes sure Module::Build's version
843 hasn't changed during the lifetime of the 'Build' script. [Reported
844 by Trevor Schellhorn]
846 - Fixed a problem in htmlify_pods() that would produce test failures
847 on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere). [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
849 - Fixed a test failure on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere) in
850 t/compat.t, resulting from empty environment variables being set to
851 the empty string (as opposed to simply being unset) by their mere
852 presence in the "EXPORT:" list.
854 - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when the author specified
855 'dist_author' manually in their Build.PL script. [Spotted by Ron
858 - The 'provides' section of the META.yml file wasn't being built
859 properly on Win32, because of a mismatch between URL-format and
860 native-format pathnames. Fixed. [Reported by Robert Rothenberg]
862 - The progress message "lib/Foo.xs -> lib/Foo.c" was previously being
863 output even when the Foo.c file wasn't being rebuilt. It's now
866 - Fixed a couple of places in Compat.pm where it could have forgotten
867 which perl interpreter it had been run with ($^X isn't very
870 - On some systems, the way we updated the timestamp on the
871 "lib/Foo.bs" file (one of the output files for XS-based modules)
872 was failing. It's been replaced by a simple call to utime().
874 - Fixed a problem in t/compat.t that prevented it from being run
875 individually using 'make test TEST_FILES=t/compat.t'. The problem
876 was that a couple environment variables (TEST_FILES, MAKEFLAGS)
877 were being passed through to subprocesses, and confused them.
879 - Fixed an important typo in the documentation for the 'install_base'
880 parameter ('libdoc' and 'bindoc' were switched). [Ray Zimmerman]
882 - The pass-through Makefiles (type 'small' or 'passthrough') now
883 support the TEST_FILES parameter to 'make test'.
885 - Fixed a fatal error that would occur on perl 5.005 when building
886 HTML documentation, because its version of Pod::Html was old and
887 didn't like some of the parameters we fed it. [Spotted by Blair
890 - The final line of the generated pass-through Makefile was missing
891 its trailing newline, which is now fixed. [Chip Salzenberg]
893 - We now depend on YAML version at least 0.35 and at most version
894 0.49, so that we don't pick up a new (and backward-incompatible) beta
897 - Squashed a warning in t/basic.t about '"Foo::Module::VERSION" used
898 only once', and one in PPMMaker about $^V being undefined. [Blair
901 - Added a couple temporary output files from HTML documentation
902 generation to the cleanup list. [Toby Ovod-Everett]
904 - The PodParser module will now only extract paragraphs in the
905 'AUTHOR' section of the pod if they contain an '@' character. This
906 tends to do a better job, heuristically speaking, of returning
909 - Added regression tests and a helper method ( add_build_elements() )
910 for adding new elements to the build process. Also some
913 - Wrote a recipe in the Cookbook for adding new elements to the build
914 process, and a recipe for changing the order in which the steps in
915 the build process will occur.
917 0.25 Sun Apr 25 11:12:36 CDT 2004
919 - During the 'distdir' action, if no MANIFEST.SKIP file exists, we
920 will now create a reasonable default one. [Randy Sims]
922 - In Makefile compatibility mode, some arguments (like UNINST,
923 TEST_VERBOSE, etc.) given to 'make' are now recognized and passed
924 through to Module::Build. [Randy Sims]
926 - The regression tests now make sure that several pass-through
927 Makefile.PL parameters are dealt with correctly.
929 - Added support for the 'LIB' parameter to passthrough
930 Makefile.PLs. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
932 - Passing a 'PREFIX' parameter to a passthrough Makefile.PL was
933 supposed to make it die with a helpful error message, but instead
934 it just ignored it and blindly tried to install to the wrong place.
935 This is now fixed. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
937 - Added an extra_compiler_flags() accessor method.
939 - If the 'recursive_test_files' option was turned on, the test files
940 weren't sorted, but returned in an apparently random order. Now
941 they're sorted. [Martyn Peck]
943 - Documented the 'tar' and 'gzip' parameters to the 'dist' and
946 - The generation of HTML documentation now works (it was accidentally
947 partially implemented with an itchy patch-application finger in
950 - Fixed a fatal bug when building META.yml with YAML.pm and
951 'dynamic_config' is set. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
953 - Fixed some incorrect error messages that occurred when
954 compiling/linking C sources went awry.
956 - If the author uses a custom builder subclass, that subclass will
957 now be loaded correctly in the passthrough Makefile.PL if the
958 author uses the 'small' or 'passthrough' Makefile.PL options in
959 Module::Build::Compat. [Martyn Peck and Jaap Karssenberg]
961 - If the author uses a custom builder subclass created dynamically
962 through the subclass() method, passthrough Makefile.PLs (of type
963 'passthrough' or 'small') didn't work properly, because the custom
964 builder module wouldn't be loaded at the right time. This has been
965 fixed. [Reported by Toby Ovod-Everett]
967 - In M::B-generated 'traditional' Makefile.PLs, the entries in
968 'PREREQ_PM' are now sorted ASCIIbetically rather than randomly.
970 - The install_types() method will now return any additional types
971 given as 'install_path' arguments, as well as all elements of the
972 current 'install_sets' entry. This makes it easier to add new
973 types of installable objects to the mix.
975 - As a consequence of the previous change, there is no longer any
976 need to have an explicit 'install_types' data member, so it has
979 - In the second example code for the Module::Build->subclass()
980 method, the Module::Build module needed to be loaded before calling
981 its methods. [John Peacock]
983 - Fixed minor error in the POD structure of Module::Build and
984 Module::Build::Platform::VMS docs.
987 0.24 Wed Feb 25 15:57:00 CST 2004
989 - Fixed a problem with incude_dirs not being propagated to the 'ccs'
990 file when compiling XS files on Win32. [Randy Sims and Steve Hay]
992 - In 0.23, Module::Build::Compat->fake_makefile() started choking
993 when no 'build_class' parameter was supplied in the Makefile.PL.
994 Since these Makefile.PLs still exist on CPAN, we now default
995 'build_class' to 'Module::Build', which was the old 0.22 behavior
996 anyway. [Reported by Martin Titz and Jeremy Seitz]
998 - Added documentation for the 'include_dirs' parameter to
1001 - Changed the no-op command on Win32 from 'rem' to 'rem>nul' inside
1002 pass-through Makefiles. [Randy Sims]
1004 - The 'autosplit' parameter now accepts an array reference if
1005 multiple files should be split. [Jaap Karssenberg]
1007 - find_perl_interpreter() will now use $^X (if absolute), $ENV{PATH}
1008 (if $^X isn't absolute), and $Config{perlpath}, in that order.
1009 Also, we now make darn sure the result is the same version of perl,
1010 by checking Config::myconfig() for a match against the current
1011 perl. [Reported by Edward Sabol]
1013 - Fixed a fatal error on Win32 (and any other platform that doesn't
1014 define an installation location for Unix-style man pages) during
1017 0.23 Sun Feb 8 22:01:18 CST 2004
1019 - Fixed a compatibility problem in pass-through Makefiles (created by
1020 Module::Build::Compat). Some 'make' utilities (for example, BSD
1021 make) didn't like a '@' by itself on a line, so we stole some
1022 'NOOP' code from MakeMaker to fix it. [Reported by Mathieu Arnold]
1024 - Added a 'ppm_dist' action, which just makes the PPD file and then
1025 makes a tarball out of the blib/ directory. [Randy Sims]
1027 - The @INC of the parent process is now propagated to child processes
1028 when processing *.PL files. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
1030 - We now only attempt to fix the shebang line on a script if the
1031 shebang line matches the regex /perl/i . This fixes some instances
1032 where people put shell scripts in their distributions. [Jaap
1035 - We no longer generate a 'requires', 'recommends', 'conflicts',
1036 etc. entry in the META.yml file if there's no data to go in it.
1038 - Added a documentation reference to Michael Schwern's wiki for tips
1039 on conversion from MakeMaker to M::B. [Randy Sims]
1041 - If there are script_files, we now add EXE_FILES to the
1042 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated by M::B::Compat. [Suggested by
1045 - Documented the 'test_files' parameter to new(). [Reported by Tony
1048 - Fixed a problem in "Build help <action>", which didn't find the
1049 correct help chunk if <action> was the final element in a POD
1050 list. [Jaap Karssenberg]
1052 - Fixed a problem in the get_action_docs() method which gave
1053 incorrect results if the method was called more than once in the
1056 - Fixed a problem in which actions defined by user subclasses
1057 wouldn't be available via the pass-through Makefiles created by
1058 Module::Build::Compat. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
1060 - We now use Data::Dumper instead of our own ad-hoc serialization
1061 routines to create the 'traditional' Makefile.PL
1062 arguments. [Suggested by Yuval Kojman]
1064 0.22 Sat Jan 10 22:05:39 CST 2004
1066 - On Unixish platforms, the syntax "FOO=BAR /bin/baz arg arg" now
1067 works when present in $Config{ld}. This solves a problem on Mac OS
1068 X 10.3. [Reported by Adam Foxson]
1070 - The have_c_compiler() now also tests whether the linker seems to
1073 - Fixed a problem with creating the distribution tarball in which
1074 permissions would usually be all read-only. We now use our own
1075 file-copying routines rather than those in ExtUtils::Manifest,
1076 because those do some annoying extra permissions-setting stuff for
1077 no apparent reason. It makes me happy that this was a very very
1078 easy patch to make. [Reported by Thomas Klausner]
1080 - The compile_c() method now includes $Config{cccdlflags} in its
1081 command invocation. It's usually empty, but not always, so we
1082 didn't notice for a while. [Richard Clamp]
1084 - On some platforms it's common to have a $Config{make} defined, but
1085 no 'make' utility actually available. We now detect this and skip
1086 some 'make' compatibility tests. [Randy Sims]
1088 - Fixed a spurious testing failure on non-Unix platforms that
1089 happened because we accidentally call localize_file_path() on empty
1090 strings in the test suite. [Spotted by Randy Sims on Windows]
1092 - Made the 'name', 'abstract', 'author', and 'version' properties
1093 required when building a PPD file. [Spotted by Randy Sims, Dave
1094 Rolsky, & Glenn Linderman]
1096 - When building a 'traditional' Makefile.PL with
1097 Module::Build::Compat, we now use 'VERSION_FROM' when possible,
1098 rather than always using 'VERSION'. This way the Makefile.PL
1099 doesn't have to get modified every release.
1101 - Made some fixups to the 'PPM' info-file, improving compatibility
1102 with ActiveState's PPM tools. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
1104 - The 'dist_author' property can now accept multiple authors, see the
1105 docs for more info. [Randy Sims]
1107 - If the user doesn't have YAML.pm installed during ACTION_dist, we
1108 now create a minimal YAML.pm anyway, without any dependency
1111 - The 'distribution_type' field is no longer created in META.yml
1112 files, in accordance with the finding made at the London CLPAN
1113 meeting that it's essentially meaningless and ill-defined.
1115 - The 'dist' action now accepts an optional 'tar' parameter to use a
1116 system utility for building the tarball, and a 'gzip' parameter for
1117 compressing it. If these are used, Archive::Tar won't be invoked.
1118 This was added because Archive::Tar is producing some very
1119 non-cross-platform tarballs that many tar utilities can't handle.
1121 - During testing, if YAML.pm isn't installed, then we won't try
1122 making a tarball either, since this would invoke YAML to create the
1125 - Fixed a problem with chmod() being called incorrectly on MacOS
1126 (i.e. MacPerl, not Mac OS X). [Spotted by Paul Sanford Toney]
1128 - Fixed a problem with the --config flag not being treated properly
1129 (essentially ignored) on the command line for 'perl Build.PL' or
1130 'Build <action>'. [Spotted by Jakub Bogusz]
1132 - Added a new config() method to get at the Build object's notion of
1135 - Test::Harness is starting to contend for the Most Crotchety Module
1136 Award. Work around a few of its nits when setting harness
1137 switches. [Spotted by Diab Jerius]
1139 - Now the Build script will die() if we're run from the wrong
1140 directory, rather than trying to chdir() to what it thinks is the
1141 right directory and do its work there. See
1142 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4039 . [Chris Dolan]
1144 - Changed the manpage separator on OS/2 to '.'. [Ilya Zakharevich]
1146 - On OS/2, disable C compilation, since apparently it isn't working
1147 there. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich]
1149 - Inserted a comment into auto-generated Makefile.PLs saying it was
1150 auto-generated. [Randy Sims]
1152 - Fixed some annoying behavior in generated passthrough Makefile.PLs
1153 when the user chose not to install Module::Build, or if
1154 installation failed. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich and Richard
1157 - Moved the documentation for 'codebase' to the section where it's
1158 relevant. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
1160 - Fixed a have_c_compiler() failure on some platforms, we now define
1161 a boot_compilet() function (since we're compiling a library, not an
1162 executable). [Randy Sims]
1164 - Added a recipe to the Module::Build::Cookbook describing how to
1165 maintain compatibility with older versions of CPAN.pm [Jim Cromie]
1167 - Removed caveat about "looking for alternatives" in how hashes are
1168 specified on the command line, since an alternative has been found.
1170 - Previously most warnings about optional prerequisites looked like
1171 they were actually error messages about required prerequisites.
1172 This has been corrected. [Reported again by Sagar Shah]
1174 - Added support for building XS (and C in general) stuff on AIX.
1175 This was done by a small reorganization of prelink_c() method from
1176 Windows.pm to Build.pm, and it is only invoked for the platforms
1177 that need it invoked. AIX also massages some very naughty bits
1178 (MakeMaker macro variables) in $Config{lddlflags} that should never
1179 have been put there, but alas, they're there, so we find & resolve
1182 - Added OS/2 ($^O = 'os2') to the list of Unix-like platforms. This
1183 basically means that most platform-specific operations will be done
1184 in a Unix-like manner.
1186 - Pass-through Makefiles will now die() when they're given a PREFIX
1187 parameter, and suggest using 'destdir' or 'install_base' instead.
1188 Previously they just ignored the parameter and tried to install to
1189 the default location, which is clearly not what the user wanted.
1191 - Updated my email address in the documentation to a more recent
1194 - Add NetBSD to the list of Unix-like systems. [Adrian Bunk]
1196 - Add SVR5 to the list of Unix-like systems. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
1198 - We now use Pod::Parser to find the ABSTRACT and AUTHOR when it's
1199 available on the system. [initial patch by Randy Sims]
1201 - Fixed a little scalar/list buglet in a documentation example.
1203 0.21 Wed Oct 15 20:47:05 CDT 2003
1205 - Added a have_c_compiler() method.
1207 - Added documentation for the requires(), recommends(),
1208 build_requires(), and conflicts() methods.
1210 - On Unix platforms, we now create the "Build" script with a #! line
1211 matching the perl interpreter that was used to invoke the Build.PL
1212 script, rather than whatever is in $Config{startperl}. This avoids
1213 a potential warning about the interpreters not matching. [Spotted
1216 - The Unix version now uses the safer multi-argument form of system()
1217 when building distribution tarballs.
1219 - Added a regression test for the 'dist' action to the t/runthrough.t
1222 - Fixed a problem with File::Spec usage when creating the names of
1223 'libdoc' manual pages - the code wasn't dealing with the volume or
1224 file portions correctly on certain platforms.
1226 - When creating the names of the 'libdoc' manual pages, we no longer
1227 assume that pods are under the hard-coded paths 'blib/lib' or
1230 - Fixed a crashing bug that could sometimes occur when the
1231 distribution contained no 'lib' directory. [Chris Dolan]
1233 - Fixed a crashing bug that happened when the user had .PL files in
1234 the lib/ directory and didn't explicitly name them in a hash
1235 reference to the new() constructor. [Chris Reinhardt, bug #4036]
1237 - .PL files are now passed the names of their target file(s) on the
1238 command line when they run.
1240 - When YAML.pm wasn't installed, t/runthrough.t wasn't properly
1241 skipping some tests that required YAML. This is now fixed.
1244 - Added documentation for the dist_version() and dist_name()
1245 methods. [Spotted by Johan Vromans]
1247 - Existing values in $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} are now respected
1248 and not squashed when we run the 'test' action. [Paul Johnson]
1250 - On cygwin, the separator string for manual page names has been set
1251 to '.'. Previously it was '::', inherited from Unix. [Yitzchak
1254 - Avoid a warning when Build.PL is run (i.e. when the new() method is
1255 called) and no MANIFEST file exists. [Michael Schwern and Kevin
1258 - Added documentation for the 'code' and 'docs' actions. [Steve
1259 Purkis and Mark Stosberg]
1261 - The internal method compile_support_files() has been renamed to
1262 process_support_files() in order to make it consistent with other
1263 processing methods. Note that it was never documented using the
1264 old name. It's still not documented, actually. Maybe later.
1266 - Skip the 'write' pseudo-entry in the 'diff' action's installation
1269 - Fixed a bug in which notes() set in the Build.PL before
1270 create_build_script() was called would get lost unless more notes()
1271 were also set afterwards. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
1273 - The process of building elements of the distribution is now driven
1274 by a list of build elements, paving the way for letting people add
1275 their own types of build elements in future versions of
1276 Module::Build (or in the current version with some difficulty).
1278 - Fixed some linking errors on Cygwin. [Randy Sims, Terrence Brannon]
1280 - Fixed a line-ending problem with detecting the dist_abstract
1281 properly on Cygwin. [Randy Sims]
1283 - Fixed a problem with signatures that occurred if 'distsign' was
1284 called before 'distdir' - the signature would be generated twice.
1286 - Added a 'create_readme' parameter to new(), which will use
1287 Pod::Text to generate a README from the main (dist_version_from)
1288 module file during the 'distdir' action.
1290 - We now refuse to run the 'Build' script if it was created using a
1291 different version of Module::Build. This has caused a couple of
1292 nasty bugs in the past, I don't want to know what it would cause in
1295 - Documentation for do_system() has been added. [Dave Rolsky]
1297 - run_perl_script() is now available as a class method, though it
1298 will need to (re-)find the perl interpreter in this case.
1300 - Added a new_from_context() method that authors of automated tools
1301 like CPANPLUS and CPAN can use instead of running all tasks as
1302 sub-processes. We also use it in the regression tests for
1303 Module::Build itself. ** Note that this method is currently
1304 undocumented because its name may change in the future. **
1306 - When signing distributions with Module::Signature, we now
1307 automatically add the SIGNATURE file to the MANIFEST, avoiding an
1308 unpleasant chicken/egg problem for the module author.
1309 [unpleasantness spotted by sungo]
1311 - In Module::Build::Compat, added support for the 'verbose' parameter
1312 to Makefile.PL [spotted by Soren Andersen, fixed by Michael
1315 - The Module::Build distribution now has a cryptographic 'SIGNATURE'
1316 file created by Module::Signature.
1318 - Added proper documentation for the subclass() method. [spotted by
1321 - Worked around a Config.pm bug in Red Hat 9 which prevented man
1322 pages from being installed in the correct places. [spotted by Ville
1325 - Fixed a Module::Build::Compat bug in which setting INSTALLDIRS
1326 caused a crash. [spotted by Ilya Martynov]
1328 0.20 Tue Aug 26 14:34:07 CDT 2003
1330 - Separated the 'build' action into two separate actions, 'code' and
1331 'docs'. This is similar to MakeMaker's separation of the 'all'
1332 target into 'pure_all' and 'manifypods'. This fixes a permissions
1333 hassle in which doing 'sudo Build install' would often create local
1334 doc files that needed superuser permissions to delete.
1336 - Enhanced the 'help' action - 'Build help foo' will now show the POD
1337 documentation for the 'foo' action.
1339 - Added a notes() feature, which helps share data transparently
1340 between the Build.PL and t/*.t scripts.
1342 - The installation process will now create man(1) and man(3) pages
1343 from POD in modules & scripts, and install them. We don't build
1344 man pages when there's nowhere to install them, such as on some
1345 Win32 or most Mac systems. [large patch by Steve Purkis, 5.005 fix
1348 - The 'distdir' action now copies files to the distribution
1349 directory, rather than making them hard links to the original
1350 files. This allows authors to do last-minute alterations of the
1351 files without affecting the originals. [Dave Rolsky]
1353 - If the author uses XS files in nonstandard locations, the copied
1354 versions of those files will now be cleaned up properly.
1356 - In invoking the 'test' action or invoking 'xsubpp', we now use the
1357 same perl executable as we use everywhere else, rather than blindly
1358 using $^X or $Config{perlpath} (neither of which are very
1361 - Fixed a problem with the 'install_path' parameter given to
1362 'Build.PL' being lost in subsequent actions. [Reported by Mathieu
1365 - Fixed yet another bug with installation directories, in which the
1366 'install_base' parameter wasn't being respected on the command
1367 line. [Spotted by Jonathan Swartz]
1369 - Changed the way the depends_on() method works inside action
1370 subroutines - now each action will only run once per dispatch()
1371 invocation (similar to how perl's require() function works). This
1372 helps avoid some difficult problems with dependency loops.
1374 - Changed the documentation for the 'autosplit' parameter to give
1375 reasons why it may not be a good idea to use, but no longer
1376 threaten to remove it. [Suggested by Martyn J. Pearce]
1378 - Improved the formatting of the 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated
1379 by Module::Build::Compat->create_makefile_pl. [Michael Schwern]
1381 - The 'traditional' Makefile.PL will now use the 'module_name'
1382 parameter (as NAME) if it's available, otherwise it will continue
1383 to use the 'dist_name' (as DISTNAME). [Michael Schwern]
1385 - Created read/write accessor methods for all our 'properties'.
1388 - The 'test_files' parameter can now be specified using glob() syntax
1389 (i.e. 't/*.t'), and the corresponding test_files() method is now a
1390 read/write accessor.
1392 - The location of the 'blib' directory is now a property of the Build
1393 object - nobody is likely to notice this change, with any luck, but
1394 it makes the design and code cleaner.
1396 - The 'disttest' and 'distsign' methods now chdir() back to the
1397 directory where they started, rather than to the base_dir of the
1400 - Improved comparisons of version strings containing underscore
1401 characters (indicating "beta" status). [Steve Purkis]
1403 - Added documentation for the 'dist_author', 'dist_abstract', and
1404 'codebase' parameters to new(), and for the 'ppd' action. [Dave
1407 - Added documentation for the up_to_date() and contains_pod()
1408 methods. [Dave Rolsky]
1410 - 'traditional' pass-through Makefile.PLs will now contain an
1411 INSTALLDIRS parameter matching the Build.PL's 'installdirs'
1414 - version_from_file() now ignores $VERSION variables that are defined
1415 in POD or comments. It can still be tricked by $VERSIONs in string
1416 literals, though. [Steve Purkis]
1418 - The code to find packages in module files now uses Steve's scanning
1419 method (above) to skip package-declaration-lookalikes in POD or
1422 - The 'disttest' action will now propagate its @INC settings to its
1425 0.19 Wed Jul 9 22:34:02 CDT 2003
1427 - Added support for the 'install_path' parameter, which allows custom
1428 specification of where things should be installed. This is a major
1429 improvement to Module::Build's functionality.
1431 - Added the 'install_base' parameter. Provides an easy way to
1432 install to local or alternative directory trees.
1434 - We now install scripts by default to $Config{installsitebin}
1435 instead of $Config{installscript}. Neither is a great choice, but
1436 the former is likely to be [analogous to] /usr/local/bin, and the
1437 latter is likely to be [something like] /usr/bin . If/when there's
1438 a $Config{installsitescript}, we'll start using that automatically.
1440 - Fixed a problem on Win32 in which C and XS files wouldn't be
1441 compiled properly, and the user would see an error about 'Can't
1442 locate object method "format_compiler_cmd"'.
1443 (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2391)
1445 - We now use the correct perl interpreter (via
1446 Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter) in pass-through makefiles.
1448 - The t/compat.t test now uses $Config{make} instead of just 'make'
1449 to test makefile compatibility. This fixes some failures on Win32.
1450 We also skip this test entirely if no make utility is available.
1452 - Alternative distribution layouts are now supported via the
1453 'pm_files', 'pod_files', 'xs_files', 'PL_files', and 'script_files'
1454 parameters to new(). This should help people transition from
1455 MakeMaker, and might even help us write an automatic transition
1458 - Added tests to t/runthrough.t that check to see installation is
1459 happening correctly.
1461 - Added experimental code to build a .ppd file, in support of
1462 ActiveState's "Perl Package Manager". [original patch by Dave
1465 - For authors who use Module::Signature to sign their distributions,
1466 we now create the SIGNATURE file right in the distribution
1467 directory, rather than creating it in the top-level directory and
1468 copying it into place. This solves problems related to having
1469 files get out of date with respect to their signatures.
1471 - We now don't depend on Module::Info to scan for packages during the
1472 'dist' action anymore, because it's way too aggressive about
1473 loading other modules that you may not want loaded. We now just
1474 (ick, yuck) scan the .pm files with a regular expression to find
1475 "package Foo::Bar;" statements.
1477 - Silenced some annoying copyright/logo output from Microsoft 'nmake'
1478 during Makefile compatibility testing. [Randy W. Sims]
1480 - Command-line arguments may now either be specified using the syntax
1481 '--foo foovalue' as well as the traditional syntax 'foo=foovalue'.
1482 The former is often more convenient for shell tab-completion when
1483 the value is a filename (as in 'Build test --test_files t/basic.t').
1485 - Command-line arguments may now include non-named parameters, which
1486 make some actions more natural. For instance, the 'diff' action
1487 may now be invoked as 'Build diff -u' rather than as
1488 'Build diff flags=-u'.
1490 - Pass-through Makefile.PLs now convert unknown Makefile.PL
1491 parameters to lower-case and hand them to Build.PL, rather than
1492 ignoring them. This means we only have to account for the
1493 differences in the interface, not the entire interface, in
1494 translating parameters.
1496 - We now issue a warning & don't proceed if asked to make a distdir
1497 and there's no MANIFEST or it's empty.
1499 - Moved INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to increase compatibility with various
1500 odd versions of 'make' during 'make install' on case-insensitive
1501 filesystems (like nmake on Win32, often). Only affects the
1502 Makefile compatibility layer. [reported by Andrew Savige]
1504 - Module::Build->known_actions() now works as a class method.
1506 - Pass-through makefiles now list each action individually rather
1507 than using a ".DEFAULT" catch-all. This improves compatibility
1508 with 'nmake' on Win32, and probably some other less common 'make'
1509 dialects. [Andrew Savige]
1511 - We're now more aggressive about testing the pass-through makefiles,
1512 e.g. making sure they can run 'all' and 'test' targets, and making
1513 sure the Makefile itself actually exists.
1515 - Fixed a problem with check_installed_status() when installed
1516 version contains non-numeric characters like underscores.
1518 - Fixed a problem with a bareword 'File::Spec' in one of the test
1519 scripts that caused it not to compile under 5.8.0 (but is fine
1522 - Fixed a problem with the 'destdir' installation parameter on
1523 platforms that have volume identifiers in path names (like "C:" on
1524 Win32). The identifier is now stripped from installation
1525 directories before prepending the destdir path. The destdir path
1526 may still have a volume identifier on it.
1528 - Added an 'add_to_cleanup' parameter to new() that calls
1529 add_to_cleanup() immediately for the given files.
1531 - The distribution directory (e.g. Sample-Module-0.13/ ) will now be
1532 deleted during the 'clean' or 'realclean' actions.
1534 - During testing of modules, blib/lib and blib/arch are now added as
1535 absolute paths, not relative. This helps tests that load the
1536 modules at runtime and may change the current working directory
1537 (like Module::Build itself does during testing).
1539 - The $Config{cc} entry on some people's systems is something like
1540 'ccache gcc', so we now split that string using split_like_shell().
1543 - Added documentation for 'extra_linker_flags' parameter, and added a
1544 corresponding 'extra_compiler_flags' parameter. [original patch by