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