1 Revision history for Perl extension Module::Build.
3 0.31012 - Wed Jan 14 01:36:19 PST 2009
6 - t/tilde.t maybe actually fixed on MSWin32 now.
8 0.31011 - Mon Jan 12 21:57:04 PST 2009
11 - t/tilde.t had been failing on MSWin32 (RT#42349)
13 0.3101 - Mon Jan 12 13:52:36 PST 2009
16 - added 'mirbsd' as a Unix-type OS [BinGOs]
17 - added 'haiku' as a Unix-type OS (backported from bleadperl)
18 - skips certain tests on VMS (backported from bleadperl)
19 - sets $^X to absolute path in tests (backported from bleadperl)
21 0.31 - Sat Dec 20 15:03:33 2008
24 - Use of attributes as class methods is deprecated (this was never a
25 documented feature and appears to only have worked accidentally.)
27 0.30_02 - Mon Dec 15 12:23:55 PST 2008
30 - make Software::License dependency "softer".
32 0.30_01 - Thu Dec 11 18:25:53 PST 2008
35 - Added a recipe for writing a new action to the Cookbook
36 - Added a recipe for bundling Module::Build to the Cookbook.
39 - Clarified dist_abstract search procedure in API.pod (RT#41056) [Mario
43 - Workaround HARNESS_TIMER env issue in t/compat.t (RT#39635)
44 - Fix ~ expansion when $HOME is different from /etc/passwd as
45 when running sudo. [rt.cpan.org 39662]
46 - Fixed a small POD error in the Cookbook. [Damyan Ivanov]
47 - Unset group/other write permission bits when using Archive::Tar to
48 build the dist tarball. (RT#39804) [David Golden]
51 - We now support a 'create_license' parameter to new() that will
52 create a LICENSE file during the 'dist' phase with the full text of
53 the license. This requires Software::License on the author's
54 machine. THIS ALSO STILL NEEDS DOCS.
55 - Added lgpl2/lgpl3 entries to the supported licenses (RT#40532).
56 - Support for validating properties with a check subref. [David
60 - Defend against more stray environment variables interfering
64 - Updated our embedded version.pm to 0.76, enhanced documentation on
65 dist_version_from. [John Peacock]
67 0.30 - Thu Sep 25 20:57:36 2008
69 - First non-beta release since April 2007. In the meantime, Sarkozy
70 became president of France, the 35W bridge fell in Minneapolis,
71 Phelps won a lot of gold, a new tribe of indigenous people was
72 discovered in the Amazon, and Bob Barker stopped doing The Price Is
73 Right. As of this moment though, the U.S. economy still hasn't
76 0.2808_05 - Thu Sep 18 23:30:39 PDT 2008
78 - Skip test in t/ext.t which tickles shellwords() in Text::ParseWords
79 below 3.23 [David Wheeler, Ken]
81 - Fixed some shell-quoting issues in do_system() on Windows [Ken,
82 Schwern, reported by Curtis Jewell]
84 - Fixed t/xs.t failure for missing 'const char *' typemap in 5.6
87 - Added build_requires for Test::More 0.49 and Test::Harness 2.03.
88 Removed bundled Test::More (was not working for 5.005x anyway).
91 - Minimum required perl version is now 5.6.1. [Schwern]
93 0.2808_04 - Thu Sep 11 22:51:27 PDT 2008
95 - Backed-out incompatible Module::Build::ModuleInfo change (first in
98 0.2808_03 - Mon Sep 1 14:43:27 PDT 2008
100 - Made adjustments for the format changes of recent Test::Harness
101 output. [Nicholas Clark]
103 - Fixed the documentation for script_files to indicate that we search
104 bin/ for scripts by default. It has been this way for several
105 years. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
107 0.2808_02 - Wed Jul 9 16:45:08 PDT 2008
109 - Experimental support for TAP::Harness with --use-tap-harness option
110 and the tap_harness_args property. [David Wheeler & Eric Wilhelm]
112 - Added test_file_exts property for main-run tests other than '*.t'.
115 - Fixed getcwd()/rmtree() failure case on 5.10+mac where something is
116 unhappy about all of the tests deleting their distgen directory
117 before leaving it. [Eric Wilhelm & David Wheeler]
119 - Improved support for parsing qv() in modules' $VERSION
120 declarations, and made $VERSION-parsing errors more verbose. [Jos
123 - Integrated an omnibus patch for various VMS fixes. [Craig Berry &
126 - Some versions of Test::Harness (or something) seem to not be
127 stripping the ".t" suffix when outputting test reports, which was
128 causing one of our tests in t/compat.t to fail. Fixed. [Spotted by
131 - Most Unix platforms seem to allow hyphens in usernames, so we honor
132 this in our de-tilde-fying methods now. [Spotted by s-murata]
134 - If there are multiple assignments to the $VERSION variable in
135 someone's module and this generates warnings, tell the user what
136 line number the problem is at.
138 - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni]
140 - Fixed a couple bugs in how we quote arguments to external processes
141 when they have to pass through the shell. Also much more
142 thoroughly tested our quoting now.
144 - Edited the Module::Build::API docs prose about the 'license' field
145 in response to some comments on the module-authors mailing list.
147 - Fixed a typo in some example code in the Cookbook. [Jeremy Leader]
149 - Custom typemaps were being looked for in places that don't quite
150 exist; fixed. [Michael G Schwern]
152 - QNX/Neutrino is now considered to be Unix. [rt.cpan.org 32214]
154 - Added 'gpl2' and 'gpl3' to the list of valid licenses. [Allen
157 - Fixed our Data::Dumper wrapper's sensitivity to users who might set
158 $Data::Dumper::Terse. [Spotted by Dominique Dumont]
160 - Documented the fix_shebang_line() method. [Elliot Shank]
162 - Applied the 'const' modifier to version() and xs_version() XS
163 functions we use during testing. [Robin Barker]
165 - Fixed processing of INC=, POLLUTE=, INSTALLDIRS=, and LIB= for
166 passthrough/small Makefile.PLs.
168 - perl Build.PL --sign=1 now signs. [Michael G Schwern]
170 - Fixed processing of INSTALLDIRS=whatever for compatibility
171 Makefiles. [Spotted by John Peacock]
173 - Zillions of special-cases have been added in Compat.pm for dealing
174 with the special Makefile system on VMS. [John E. Malmberg]
176 - Fixed some stuff in how VMS command-args get quoted. [John E. Malmberg]
178 - VMS now overrides localize_file_path() and localize_dir_path() so
179 we don't need to do special stuff in the general case. [John
182 - Added a few more VMS-specific entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP
183 file that (sometimes) gets created during the 'manifest'
184 action. [John E. Malmberg]
186 - Fixed a catdir() that should have been a catfile() when creating a
187 ppmdist. [John E. Malmberg]
189 - Removed some assumptions about what makefiles are called (not
190 necessarily "Makefile") and how they take their arguments, to get
191 VMS tests working better. [John E. Malmberg]
193 - Fixed our check for Archive::Tar in the t/runthrough.t test, which
194 fixes a common failure on Win32. [Spotted by Chris Williams]
196 - Fixed a File::Spec mal-ism in t/destinations.t [Craig A. Berry]
198 - Exposed the internal ExtUtils::CBuilder object as part of our API,
199 via the cbuilder() method. [Zefram]
201 - Upgraded to version.pm 0.74 (fixes bug #30004.)
203 - Overwrite core (post-5.9.4) Module::Build installs (bug #20528.)
205 - Pass quiet() option to ExtUtils::CBuilder object.
207 0.2808_01 - Wed Oct 24 11:51:25 2007
209 - All .pm files in the Module-Build distribution (except for
210 M::B::Version.pm, which is kind of tied to version.pm) now have the
211 same $VERSION number explicitly specified.
213 - When checking prerequisites, the required version of perl is now
214 checked before we start finding the $VERSION declaration of the
215 distribution, which results in much more intuitive error messages
216 e.g. if the author is using 5.6-isms in their declaration but the
217 user doesn't have 5.6. [Slaven Rezic]
219 - Added 'artistic_2' license, corrected 'lgpl' license url (bug #29783)
222 - VMS find_perl_interpreter() is just $^X (bug #29810) [Craig A. Berry]
224 - Some large VMS fixes, mostly having to do with the non-case-
225 preserving nature of most VMS filesystems, but also correcting for
226 illegal characters in VMS file specs. [John E. Malmberg and Craig
229 - Fixed the _detildefy() method on VMS. [John E. Malmberg and Craig
232 - We now use a much more reliable method when Data::Dumper-ing saved
235 - When a module had 0.000 as its version, a few places in the code
236 thought the module had no version at all. This is now
237 fixed. [Andrew "Zefram" Main]
239 - When finding the default set of script_files, we now compute them
240 as relative paths, not absolute. [Spotted by Curtis "Ovid" Poe]
242 - Got rid of a call to eliminate_macros, which isn't needed in
243 Module::Build since there is no external make utility involved.
244 Override expand_test_dir to make up for the fact that the
245 home-grown glob() returns absolute, not relative, paths. [Craig
248 - Fixed a catdir() that needed to be catfile() in the .packlist
249 creation code. [John E. Malmberg]
251 - If a *.PL file ended abnormally during the build, processing should
252 have stopped, but it didn't. Fixed. [Matthew Cast and David
255 - Module::Build::Compat adds "require 5.XXXXX" to Makefile.PL when
256 'perl' is specified as a 'requires' prerequisite [David Golden]
258 - Refactored t/compat.t for modularity and transparency; added
259 labels for all tests; supressed subprocess output to
260 STDOUT and STDERR [David Golden]
262 - Fixed bug in perl_version_to_float when version is already a float
265 - Removed a mention of $build->{config} from the documentation, the
266 official interface to Config.pm settings is now via the
267 $build->config() and has been for some time. [Suggested by Michael
270 - Tweaked some text in the Cookbook to bring it into the modern age,
271 and added a recipe for accessing Config.pm settings. [Ibid]
273 - Lots of POD link/readability improvements to the Module::Build::API
274 documentation [Salve J. Nilsen]
276 - Added configure_requires as a new type of prereq. [Suggested by Adam
279 - Patch 31156 from bleadperl: some filename dot and extension help
280 for Module::Build on VMS. [Craig Berry]
282 - Reworked the _detildefy() method so it doesn't depend on glob()
283 anymore. This gets rid of a problem with spaces or other special
284 shell characters in things like 'prefix' or 'install_path'
285 entries. [Prodding by Eric Wilhelm]
287 - Added midnightbsd to the list of Unix-like OSes we know about
288 [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
290 0.2808 - Sat Apr 28 12:59:43 2007
292 - Added is_vmsish(), is_windowsish(), and is_unixish() boolean
293 convenience functions. Fixes some test failures on platforms where
294 $^O is set to a value we don't know about (like 'gnu').
296 - Upgraded to version.pm 0.7203. [John Peacock]
298 - Support get_action_docs() =head2 style. [ewilhelm]
300 - Workaround Test::Pod::Coverage @INC bug. [Eric Wilhelm]
302 - Fixed the command-line args --extra_compiler_flags and
303 --extra_linker_flags so they properly shell-split their arguments.
305 0.2807 - Sat Mar 24 22:19:02 2007
307 - Upgraded to version.pm 0.71. [John Peacock]
309 - Removed a couple small constructs in the tests ("use warnings;" and
310 "qw$foo bar$[1]") that caused test failures under perl 5.005.
312 - Added support for an explicit default value of undef in prompt().
315 - Improved our prompt() method, which could sometimes hang before the
316 user got a chance to see a prompt. [Andreas Koenig]
318 - Added a note about --allow_mb_mismatch to the error message that
319 happens right before someone might want to use that parameter.
321 - Added DragonflyBSD to the list of known Unix OSes.
323 - get_action_docs() dies on error rather than twiddling $@
325 - Made ModuleInfo's _evaluate_version_line() compatible with 'use
326 version ...$VERSION' lines. [Eric Wilhelm]
328 - Added some verbiage in Module::Build::API that officially blesses
329 the _build/prereqs file for external consumption. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig]
331 - Added test profiles support via the test_types property and "testall"
332 target. [Eric Wilhelm, Jeff Lavallee]
334 - Use syscopy() on OS/2 in copy_if_modified() so we make sure to
335 overwrite any existing target file. [Ilya Zakharevich]
337 - Removed seemingly silly '~~' test in t/tilde.t.
339 - In our test-time utility library t/lib/MBTest.pm, we need to know
340 about a few .exe-like extensions on OS/2. [Ilya Zakharevich]
342 - In t/ppm.t, use DynaLoader::mod2fname() (if available) to determine
343 the correct translation of our test module's name into a DLL
344 name. [Ilya Zakharevich]
346 - Avoid an unlink() error on OS/2 when fixing shebang lines. [Ilya
349 - When we're protecting the world from the evils of long RedHat
350 $ENV{PERL5LIB} variables, don't assume $ENV{PERL5LIB} is already
351 defined. This gets rid of a huge number of warnings for some
352 people. [Dave Rolsky]
354 0.2806 - Fri Dec 15 22:20:14 2006
356 - On some systems (haven't identified the actual problem yet)
357 $ENV{PERL5LIB} can grow to enormous enough sizes that we can't
358 launch any more subprocesses because the environment table is full.
359 This is the now-infamous "Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too
360 long" error. Now we detect such situations and trim the directory
361 list to only include directories that actually exist, listed only
362 once each. Not the ideal solution, but it should work.
364 - Silence a warning in M::B::ModuleInfo that happens when the author
365 is using the "$VERSION = eval $VERSION" idiom.
367 - When running the 'testcover' action, do "cover --delete" if any of
368 the test files have changed (we already did so if any of the code
369 under test has changed). [Suggested by Chris Dolan, RT #23584]
371 - Fixed a broken link in the documentation about PREFIX. [Spotted by
374 - Changes to do_system() & friends on VMS to get system calls working
375 much better there. [Craig Berry]
377 - Added the "pardist" target which creates a PAR binary distribution
378 akin to a PPM distribution. [Steffen Mueller]
380 - Added the Interix platform as a Unix variant. [Stephen Hartland]
382 - Improved the error message we emit when a distribution contains XS
383 files but the user has no C compiler. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig]
385 0.2805_01 Thu Sep 7 21:57:29 CDT 2006
387 - Because of a weird behavior of YAML::Node, any distribution that
388 used version.pm objects to define their versions was generating the
389 wrong syntax for the versions in their META.yml file. They will
390 now appear as strings like v3.42.1 or similar, including the
393 - Upgraded to version 0.67 of version.pm. [John Peacock]
395 - Added a contrib/ directory with a bash completion function for M::B
396 actions and switches. [Julian Mehnle]
398 - When we eval() the embedded version.pm code we will now die() if
399 the eval() was unsuccessful, rather than continuing blindly on and
400 dying mysteriously later.
402 - Added a 'retest' action that lets users run the current regression
403 tests on a previously-installed version of a distribution.
405 * Instead of storing an entire dump of the Config.pm hash in the
406 _build/ directory upon startup, we now just store any overrides the
407 user or author has specified. Note that if you were doing anything
408 you weren't supposed to be doing, like poking around in the
409 internals of $buld->{config}, your code might break, so I've put
410 the asterisk of incompatibility on this one just to cover my
411 tuchus. [Idea originally by Randy Sims]
413 - Made copying files via copy_if_modified() a little less chatty.
415 0.2805 Sat Jul 29 22:01:24 CDT 2006
417 - We now embed a copy of version.pm right in the
418 Module::Build::Version source code, with John Peacock's blessing,
419 in case the user has a rough time installing version.pm. This
420 helps alleviate troubles people were still having with working out
421 a seemingly circular dependency (even though version.pm now ships
422 with a standard Makefile.PL too). A version.pm >= 0.661 installed
423 on the system will take precedence over our bundled one. [John
426 - Fix some test warnings (or failures?) related to version.pm
427 numification. [John Peacock]
429 - The top-level 'version' entry in META.yml files we'd generated was
430 in the wrong format (it was being treated as a version.pm object
431 rather than a serialized copy) due to a weird YAML::Node issue.
434 - Don't 'use base qw(version)' anymore in our M::B::Version wrapper,
435 just set @ISA directly, because some people have reported that the
436 'use base' line is croaking.
438 - Added an 'allow_mb_mismatch' parameter to suppress the startup
439 check that ensures the version of M::B currently running is the
440 same as the one initially used to run the Build.PL. Use with
443 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo will no longer detect things that look
444 like $VERSION assignments after an __END__ or __DATA__ token.
446 - Updated documentation to mention the new mailing list on perl.org
447 rather than the old one on sourceforge.
449 0.2804 Sun Jul 16 16:41:25 CDT 2006
451 - Added 'use version;' in Module::Build::Version, because some
452 versions of base.pm won't automatically load version.pm when we do
453 'use base qw/version/;'. [Spotted by Erik Tank]
455 0.2803 Sat Jul 15 08:26:34 CDT 2006
457 - The META.yml file in the last release was all screwed up, so the
458 distribution wasn't indexed properly. Fixed in this release.
460 0.2802 Fri Jul 14 22:40:34 CDT 2006
462 - Added reliance on version.pm, which means we should deal much
463 better with the wide range of version specifications one finds on
464 CPAN. This is made possible by recent releases of version.pm that
465 give the user a pure-perl option, so installing version.pm
466 shouldn't be too onerous for most users. [John Peacock]
468 - We should be accepting the default when we're in unattended mode,
469 not acting dumb and ignoring both the default and the [empty]
470 answer from the user. Fixed. [Spotted by Nik Clayton]
472 0.2801 Sun May 21 00:07:40 CDT 2006
474 - Module::Build::Compat's emulation of INC is incorrectly prepending
475 a -I to the value of INC. This is incorrect because there should
476 already be a -I on the value. I.E. it's "perl Makefile.PL INC=-Ifoo"
477 not "perl Makefile.PL INC=foo" so Compat should not prefix a -I.
480 - Native batch scripts under Windows should not be converted by
481 pl2bat. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
483 - Tweaked the way we determine whether a file is executable on Unix.
484 We use this determination to decide whether to make it executable
485 during installation. [Julian Mehnle]
487 - Replaced a vestigial 'next' with 'return' now that the code is in a
488 subroutine (htmlify_pods()), not a loop. [Ron Savage]
490 - Fixed a guaranteed failure in t/signature.t when TEST_SIGNATURE was
491 set. [Eric R. Meyers]
493 - Fixed a test failure that occurred when testing or installing in
494 unattended mode - the code to test whether unattended mode and
495 attended mode are working properly was assuming that we started out
496 in attended mode. [Steve Peters]
498 - Improved our stand-in YAML generator that we use to generate
499 META.yaml when authors don't have a copy of YAML.pm installed on
500 their machine. It was unable to handle things like embedded
501 newlines in the data, now it has a much more extensive escaping
502 mechanism. [Stephen Adkins]
504 - Revised the docs for --prefix and PREFIX. [Michael Schwern]
506 0.28 Thu Apr 27 22:25:00 CDT 2006
508 - When y_n() or prompt() are called without a default value and the
509 build seems to be unattended (e.g. in automatic CPAN testing), we
510 now die() with an error message rather than silently returning
511 undef for prompt(), or looping indefinitely for y_n().
513 - When searching for '.modulebuildrc', return the first HOME-like
514 directory that actually contains the file instead of the first
515 existing directory. Document the search locations and the order
516 searched. [Spotted by David Golden]
518 - Split the API documentation out of Module::Build::Authoring into
519 its own document: Module::Build::API.
521 - We should not emit a warning if a Module::Build subclass is
522 required in a Makefile.PL that is not bundled in the current
523 distribution; it may be installed on the user's system. [Spotted by
526 - copy_if_modified() now preserves the executable bit of the source
527 file. [Spotted by Julian Mehnle]
529 - Fixed compatibility of our screen-scraping the Test::Harness output
530 so we can recognize the most recent Test::Harness version. [Steve
533 - Backing out a requirement added in 0.27_06 on the method y_n()
534 to always include a default. This behavior would cause existing
535 build scripts to start failing. We now fail with a missing default
536 only when $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} is set because there is no
539 - Make install_types() method smarter with respect to custom install
542 - Add documentation for the install_base_relpaths() and
543 prefix_relpaths() methods. Improved their usage for a public API,
546 0.27_10 Tue Mar 28 22:50:50 CST 2006
548 - Added the create_packlist property, default true, which controls
549 whether packlist files will be written during installation. This
550 was already part of Module::Build 0.2609, but for some reason we've
551 forgotten it in the 0.27_xx series. [Spotted by Steve Kirkup]
553 - Document the versions of Module::Build where each feature, action,
554 constructor argument, and method was first publicly documented.
556 - More fixes for find_perl_interpreter() to work with BSD flavored
557 UNIX: Ensure we always return absolute paths; throw an exception
558 upon failure to find correct interperter; document everything.
560 - We now include our own YAML.pm work-alike that we can use when the
561 real YAML isn't installed. We might soon even start using it when
562 YAML is installed, because the YAML API and dependency chain have
563 been changing in unfavorable ways lately. [Stephen Adkins]
565 - Fixed some shell-argument-quoting issues on VMS. In the process,
566 we have added some support for avoiding tripping over
567 shell-argument-quoting issues on other platforms too. [Initial
568 patch by Craig A. Berry]
570 0.27_09 Sat Mar 11 22:48:54 EST 2006
572 - Fixed find_perl_interpreter() so we can find the perl executable
573 when running from uninstalled perl even when $^X contains a
574 relative path. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
576 - Fixed warning message where we were printing the wrong field names.
579 - Added a 'testpodcoverage' action that runs a POD coverage check for
580 all modules in the distribution. [Yanick Champoux]
582 - Added a Cookbook example of subclassing to modify an action. [Dylan
583 Martin and David Golden]
585 - When building HTML documentation, we were opening the POD file and
586 not checking whether the open succeeded, which of course caused
587 problems down the line if it failed. Now we do "or die(...)" like
588 everywhere else. [Spotted by Joerg Braun]
590 0.27_08 Fri Mar 3 21:22:41 CST 2006
592 - Due to shell quoting issues and differences in syntax between
593 various flavors of Windows, the code for the 'pl2bat' utility
594 distributed with Perl has been incorporated into M::B::P::Windows.
595 [Thanks to Dr Bean and Ron Savage for help testing and isolating
598 - Modify add_build_element() so that it only adds elements if they
599 don't already exist. [David Wheeler]
601 - Fixed a bug in the 'pass-through' Makefile.PL in which we would die
602 if CPAN::Shell->install returned false, but apparently this return
603 value is unreliable. Now we only die if the module is actually
604 unavailable after installation.
606 - Fixed testing problems on VMS related to non-case-preserving
607 filesystems. We now bundle Tie::CPHash in the distribution (just
608 for testing purposes, it doesn't get installed) to help with
609 this. [Craig Berry and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
611 - We incorrectly documented the 'dynamic_config' flag in the META.yml
612 file as having a default value of false, but according to the
613 META.yml spec (which, for heaven's sake, we wrote) its default
614 value is true. Fixed. [Spotted by Adam Kennedy]
616 - The have_c_compiler() method was dying if the ExtUtils::CBuilder
617 module wasn't around, which is obviously an unhelpful thing to do.
618 Now it just returns false. [Spotted by John Peacock]
620 - Fix detection of $VERSION expressions that are not
621 assignments. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
623 - Obfuscate one of our constructs that uses a $VERSION variable,
624 because it was getting picked up by ExtUtils::MakeMaker's
625 version-finder. [Spotted by Randal Schwartz]
627 - The config_data script for querying and/or setting a module's
628 config data was forgetting to call write() after setting config
629 values (though setting feature values was working fine).
630 Fixed. [Brian Duggan]
632 - On Windows, remove the pl2bat generated 'Build.bat' script without
633 the annoying "The batch file cannot be found." error. [Solution
634 provided by RazTK and foxidrive on newsgroup alt.msdos.batch]
636 - Our version comparisons should now work correctly with modules that
637 use version.pm to delcare their versions (e.g. "our $VERSION =
638 version->new('1.0.0')"). [John Peacock and Ron Savage]
640 - We now create a Build.bat script on versions of Windows where it
643 - Fixed the verbiage around choosing the correct make-alike on
644 different platforms to suggest using 'perl -V:make'. [Suggested by
647 0.27_07 Wed Feb 1 20:07:45 CST 2006
649 - The notes() method now returns the new value when called with two
650 arguments, just like when it's called with one argument. [Tyler
653 - The notes() method now distinguishes among the values undef, 0, and
654 the empty string, where previously it didn't. [Tyler MacDonald]
656 - We now unshift(@INC) rather than push(@INC) for the directory where
657 a build subclass lives, so that we're sure to pick up the right
658 version and not some already-installed version. [perlmonkey]
660 - The SIGNATURE file for version 0.27_06 (and I'm sure for lots of
661 versions before that too!) was messed up, since we were modifying
662 some files after signing. This has been band-aided for the time
663 being by signing twice. [Reported by Chris Dolan]
665 0.27_06 Mon Jan 23 21:44:54 CST 2006
667 - Fixed an undefined-variable warning when building the META.yml file
668 and the author hasn't used the 'module_name' mechanism. [Chris Dolan]
670 - We should now work with recent (> 0.49) versions of YAML.pm when
671 creating the META.yml file. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
673 - The y_n() method now requires the default parameter, and the
674 prompt() and y_n() methods have been improved with respect to
675 how they behave/detect when there is no user to ask. We're now
676 more consistent with MakeMaker, including respecting the
677 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT environment variable. [Tyler MacDonald and
678 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
680 - When building a README file using Pod::Text, work around a bug in
681 Pod::Text 3.01, which expects Pod::Simple::parse_file to take input
682 and output filehandles when it actually only takes an input
683 filehandle. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
685 0.27_05 Thu Jan 12 17:39:21 CST 2006
687 - In t/common.pl, we were attempting to let the user's installed
688 Test::More take precedence over ours, but getting thwarted by all
689 the test scripts' loading Test::More beforehand. Fixed. [Spotted
690 by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
692 - In various test scripts, we were outputting some strings that
693 weren't strictly conformant with Test::Harness's expected input,
694 though it didn't actually cause problems. Now we're more
695 conformant, though not yet strict. [Spotted by Yitzchak
698 0.27_04 Fri Dec 23 10:43:34 CST 2005
700 - Removed experimental feature that extended the prerequisite system
701 to apply ('requires', 'recommends', and 'conflicts') prereqs to all
702 actions. Most of the internal extensiblity has been retained so
703 that prereq types can easily be added, more selectively.
705 - Added a 'prereq_report' action that shows the user a well-formatted
706 list of all prerequisites, the versions required, and the versions
707 actually installed. [David Wheeler]
709 - Clarified the directory name that's created during the 'distdir'
710 action. [Suggested by Tyler MacDonald]
712 - Fixed a bug when creating the META.yml file without the help of
713 YAML.pm - some common strings weren't quoted & escaped properly.
714 Now only some uncommon ones are. [Spotted by Joshua ben Jore]
716 - Fixed a bug in which an "UNINST=1" argument specified to a
717 passthrough Makefile's "make install" wasn't actually seen by
720 - Rather than dying when the Build script is run from the wrong
721 directory, it now simply chdir()s into the right directory and
722 keeps going. [Suggested by Dominique Quatravaux]
724 - Added an "Examples on CPAN" section to the cookbook, with an
725 initial entry pointing to John Peacock's SVN-Notify-Mirror
728 - Add an invoked_action() method to return the name of the original
729 action invoked by the user.
731 - Add 'meta-spec' field to the generated META.yml file, including the
732 version of the specification followed by the current Module::Build
733 and the url where the specification can be found.
735 - Introduced two actions, 'html' & 'manpages', that generate
736 documentation for POD when the respective feature is enabled. The
737 actions will generate the documents even if there is no set place
738 to install to. However, if the actions are invoked as a dependency
739 of another action (e.g. build), the documentation will only be
740 built when there is a default or user-specified place to install to.
742 - Added support for environment variable, 'MODULEBUILDRC', which can
743 be used to specify the full path to an option file to use instead
744 of the default location of ~/.modulebuildrc. A special undocumented
745 setting of 'NONE' tells Module::Build not to load any user settings,
746 so tests can be run without tainting from user options.
748 - Documented and improved preliminary support for more Getopt::Long
749 style options are supported, including boolean options (--verbose,
750 --no-verbose), and use of hyphens in option names in addition to
753 - The option to disable/enable reading of the ~/.modulebuildrc file
754 is changed from 'skip_rcfile' to 'use_rcfile'
756 - Allow the 'distmeta' action to continue when 'MANIFEST' is missing,
757 omitting the generation of the 'provieds' field. [Steven Schubiger]
759 - Fixed some failing regex from generated MANIFEST.SKIP file.
761 - Fixed an edge case in $VERSION parsing where we thought a package()
762 declaration was happening but it wasn't. [David Golden]
764 - Added docs for the install_destination() and install_types() methods.
766 0.27_03 (Beta for 0.28) Mon Oct 10 11:19:23 EDT 2005
768 - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
769 example, when compiling XS modules). (This change actually
770 occurred in 0.27_01, but it was mistakenly omitted from the Changes
773 - Fixed an issue on Win32 (and other case-tolerant
774 non-case-preserving systems, possibly like VMS?) in which the
775 current working directory would sometimes be reported with
776 different case, fooling us into thinking that we were in the wrong
777 directory. [David Golden]
779 - The extra_compiler_flags setting was not actually being passed
780 along to ExtUtils::CBuilder so it could pass it along to the
783 - The synonyms 'scripts' and 'prereq' for 'script_files' and
784 'requires' were broken in a previous version (0.27_01, probably),
785 but now they're fixed. [David Golden]
787 - Previously, we assumed that any custom subclass of Module::Build
788 was located in _build/lib/. This is only true if the author used
789 the subclass() method, though. We now use %INC to find where the
790 custom subclass really is, so that we can "use lib" it. We also
791 issue a warning if it seems to be outside the build directory.
792 [Spotted by Peter Tandler]
794 - Added a URL for each license type that we know about, which will
795 appear as resources=>license: in the generated META.yml file.
797 - If the user passes a no_index parameter to our constructor, we now
798 pass that through when building the META.yml file. [Richard
801 - A few more status messages can now be suppressed by using 'quiet'
804 - Added some more entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file. [Chris
807 - Our POD parser will now accept "AUTHORS" as well as "AUTHOR" when
808 looking for the author list in a module. [David Wheeler]
810 - When looking for the POD to auto-generate a README file, or for the
811 AUTHOR or ABSTRACT for the distribution, we now also look for a
812 *.pod with the same name as the *.pm file specified by
813 'version_from'. [David Golden]
815 - The recommended dependency on ExtUtils::ParseXS has been moved into
816 the "C_support" auto_feature.
818 - When building XS files, we now pass the -DVERSION and -DXS_VERSION
819 flags to the compiler. [Spotted by Jerry Hedden]
821 - If a distribution has XS files and Module::Build has not been
822 configured with the "C_support" feature, we now issue a
823 warning. [Suggested by Jerry Hedden]
825 - Added a dir_contains() method.
827 - Some versions of MakeMaker, CPANPLUS, and/or PAUSE thought that a
828 certain line of our code was declaring a $VERSION when we didn't
829 intend to. The line has been obscurified so they won't think that
830 anymore. [Jos Boumans, RT #14226]
832 - Added the Apache, MIT, and Mozilla licenses to the list of licenses
833 that this module knows about. [Bob Ippolito]
835 - Fixed a pretty significant typo in the documentation for
836 auto_features. [Spotted by Jonas B. Nielsen]
838 - In order to aid people who want to do customization of the META.yml
839 file, we've added a "metafile" property that can then be easily
840 overridden in subclasses, changed do_create_meta_yml() to
841 do_create_metafile(), and split out the code that actually
842 generates the YAML into a new method, write_metafile(). [David
845 - Fixed a couple of non-helpful behaviors with extra_compiler_flags
846 and extra_linker_flags. These will automatically be run through
847 split_like_shell() when given to new() as strings.
849 - When the user doesn't have ExtUtils::ParseXS installed and we use
850 the old 'xsubpp', the displayed command line for creating the .c
851 file from the .xs file was missing its newline. Now it's got it.
853 0.27_02 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Jul 15 07:34:58 CDT 2005
855 - Provided initial support for the --prefix installation parameter,
856 which acts like MakeMaker's PREFIX. It is still highly recommended
857 NOT to use it when you could reasonably use --install_base or
858 --install_path or --install_dest, but that's just because the way
859 --prefix is designed is weird and unpredictable. Ultimately the
860 choice rests with the installing user. [Patches by Michael Schwern
863 - Fixed a bug in subclass() which prevented people from using it to
864 subclass subclasses of Module::Build. [Chris Dolan]
866 - Added a 'pure_install' action, which for the time being is
867 identical to the 'install' action. [Jos Boumans]
869 - Fixed a POD error in an L<http://...> tag. [Offer Kaye]
871 - Note several options for automatically creating a new module dev
872 tree. [Suggested by Eric Wilhelm]
874 - Removed some hard-coded references to File::Spec::Unix in the
875 creation of HTML docs, which should help that code work in more
876 places, and help people not to panic when they look at it. [Spotted
879 - We now use Pod::Readme by default (instead of Pod::Text) to
880 generate the README file when the 'create_readme' option is used.
881 If Pod::Readme is not installed, we will still fall back to using
882 Pod::Text. [Robert Rothenberg]
884 - The values of the "prefix", "install_base", "install_path", and
885 "install_dest" parameters can now begin with "~" or "~user", and
886 we'll de-tilde-ify them by using glob().
888 - The (optional) auto-creation of the README and Makefile.PL files
889 have been moved from the 'distdir' action to the 'distmeta'
890 action. [David Golden]
892 - When looking for a .modulebuildrc file, we now use a fancier method
893 of trying to find the home directory, because $ENV{HOME} isn't a
894 very cross-platform variable. [Robert Rothenberg]
896 - We now memoize the output of the internal _default_INC() method,
897 since it uses backticks and might be kind of slow.
899 - When processing XS files, we now look for a typemap in lib/ as well
900 as using the system's default typemap. [John Peacock]
902 - The DESTDIR, PREFIX, and INSTALL_BASE arguments to "make install"
903 are now supported for pass-through Makefiles (they've been
904 supported for quite a while as arguments to "perl
905 Makefile.PL"). [Requested by Guillaume Rousse]
907 - Test::Harness has changed its output format in recent versions,
908 which threw off one of our tests. We now allow for this different
909 format. [Reported by Scott Godin]
911 - Fixed an issue that prevented Module::Build from upgrading itself
912 using its own API (which is how CPANPLUS uses it). There are still
913 some issues with this solution, however. See ticket #13169 in
914 rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
916 - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when a distribution's author
917 could not be determined from its POD nor from the call to
918 Module::Build->new() in its Build.PL. See ticket #12318 in
919 rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
921 - Apparently on Windows and cygwin it's not possible to use the "-pi"
922 switch to perl without a backup extension, so now we use ".bak" and
923 remove the backup file when we're done. Thus the "dist" action for
924 Module::Build itself can now be run on those platforms. [Yitzchak
927 - Improved the handling of auto_features in the config_data access
928 script. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
930 0.27_01 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Apr 15 21:12:57 CDT 2005
932 Backward-incompatible (but better) changes:
934 * When using the 'install_base' option to choose a directory for
935 installing everything, perl modules now go into lib/perl5/ instead
936 of just lib/. It seems this is more consistent with people's
937 expectations, and the way I had it before was a bit peculiar to the
938 way I like things in my own home directory. [Michael Schwern]
940 * When the user is using the 'install_base' option, scripts will now
941 be installed by default in $install_base/bin/ rather than
942 $install_base/script/ . [Jan Hudec and Michael Schwern]
946 - The auto_features mechanism will now re-evaluate dependencies every
947 time feature() is called for an auto-feature, rather than freezing
948 the success/failure value during 'perl Build.PL' and using that
949 value for all eternity (or module update, whichever comes first).
950 This applies to both $build->feature() and
951 FooModule::ConfigData->feature() calls. [Requested by many]
953 - Added the meta_add and meta_merge mechanisms, which let the module
954 author add/merge arbitrary entries into the META.yml file.
956 - Now reads per-action default options from '$ENV{HOME}/.modulebuildrc'
957 if it exists. Command line options override anything set in the rc file.
959 - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
960 example, when compiling XS modules).
962 - The creation of Unix man pages is no longer a strict necessity - it
963 has now been turned into an 'auto-feature' contingent on the
964 presence of Pod::Man and a location specified for man pages to go.
966 - A user-specified 'install_path' setting will now take precedence
967 over an 'install_base' setting. This allows the user to use
968 'install_base' to set the base for all elements in one go, and then
969 use 'install_path' to override specific paths or add paths for
970 additional kinds of targets.
972 - Split the main documentation from 'Module/Build.pm' into two
973 sections. The user level documentation and overview remains in
974 'Module/Build.pm', while a new document,
975 'Module/Build/Authoring.pod', has been created for module authors.
979 - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
980 because of inadequate training in forensic debate) - we now pass its
981 arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
984 - Let resume() return an object blessed into the appropriate class
985 if the user has provided a subclass, as specified by the
986 'build_class' property. This allows current() and new_from_context()
987 to behave more like factory methods returning objects of the correct
988 class based on context. [Ray Zimmerman]
990 - Refactored methods relating to parsing perl module files for
991 package, version, and pod data into a new class:
992 Module::Build::ModuleInfo. It should not be considered part of
993 Module::Build's API, because we may split it out entirely as a
994 separate CPAN module that we depend on.
996 - Added new method Module::Build::prepare_metadata() for authors to
997 override in order to add custom fields to META.yml.
999 - We now use Test::More for our regression tests. If the user
1000 doesn't have it installed, we include a copy in t/lib/ that we can
1003 - When copying files in the 'distdir' action, set permissions to match
1004 the original files. [Julian Mehnle]
1006 - When adding files like META.yml to the MANIFEST, we now tell the
1007 user we're doing so by printing one of the "Added to MANIFEST: ..."
1010 - Added a runtime_params() method, which lets a module author see
1011 which parameters were overridden by the user on the command line
1012 (or in whatever paradigm the user originally invoked Module::Build
1013 from). [David Wheeler]
1015 - Added the current_action() method, which, surprisingly, returns the
1016 name of the currently running action. [David Wheeler]
1018 - Added docs for run_perl_script().
1020 - Added some stuff to the docs about why PREFIX is unsupported, and
1021 what to use instead. [Steve Purkis]
1023 - The simple get/set accessor methods for all the 'parameters' like
1024 verbose(), license(), etc. now have auto-generated documentation in
1027 - Created a Cookbook entry for 'Adding new elements to the install
1030 - We now add META.yml to the MANIFEST when META.yml is created, not
1031 when MANIFEST is created. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
1033 - Added some additional patterns to the suggested MANIFEST.SKIP
1034 contents, and changed the docs so that we encourage the user to use
1035 the MANIFEST.SKIP. [Ron Savage]
1037 - Eliminated a redundant recipe from the Cookbook, now that there are
1038 some more extensive recipes on how to add stuff to the
1039 build/install sequences.
1041 - Eliminated an undefined-variable warning when testing under perl 5.005
1043 - When building HTML documentation, 'html_backlink' and 'html_css'
1044 properties are now first-class properties, so they can be set from
1045 the command line. [Suggested by Sagar R. Shah]
1047 - Have script_files default to everything in bin. I believe this is
1048 the least surprising behavior. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
1050 - If script_files is given a directory, consider each file in that
1051 directory tree as a script to be installed. This avoids having to
1052 remember to add to the script_files list every time you add a
1053 program. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
1055 - We now only load Pod::Man when we actually need to build man pages.
1057 - We now make Test::Harness use our carefully-selected path to a perl
1058 executable regardless of Test::Harness's version. Previously we
1059 let it figure stuff out for itself if it was a reasonably modern
1060 version, but it's safer to make sure we're using the same perl
1063 0.2610 Fri Apr 15 08:25:01 CDT 2005
1065 - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
1066 because of inadequate training in debate) - we now pass its
1067 arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
1068 in afterwards. [Ray Zimmerman]
1070 - Fixed a bug in which config_data and feature data were being
1071 forgotten and no ConfigData.pm module would get written. [Ray
1074 - Added a recipe to the cookbook showing how to run a single test
1075 file from the command line. [William McKee]
1077 - For command-line arguments, we now accept the syntax "--foo=bar" in
1078 addition to "--foo bar" and "foo=bar". This seems to fit well with
1079 what GNU getopt and Getopt::Long do, and with people's
1080 expectations. [Adam Spiers]
1082 0.2609 Wed Mar 16 22:18:35 CST 2005
1084 - The html docs that were created during the first invokation of
1085 './Build' were being found and treated as pod that needed to be
1086 converted to html during subsequent invokations. We now are more
1087 specific about the directories we scan for pod that needs to be
1088 converted, effectively avoiding blib/html. [Ray Zimmerman]
1090 - If Pod::Man is not available, we now skip building man pages
1091 (rather than dying) and tell the user why.
1093 - We now write a .packlist file upon installation, in the same place
1094 that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does. [Johnny Lam]
1096 - On some Unix platforms (BSD derivatives, mostly) perl's $^X
1097 variable isn't set to the full path of the perl executable, just
1098 'perl', when the 'Build' script is run as './Build' and not 'perl
1099 ./Build'. This can lead to some other modules (maybe
1100 Test::Harness, maybe IO::File, I dunno...) getting very confused
1101 about where they are, and they try to load stuff from the wrong
1102 perl lib, and big trouble ensues. To fix this, we now set $^X to
1103 the value of Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter().
1105 - The 'distcheck' action will now die() if it finds an error in the
1106 MANIFEST, rather than just printing on STDOUT. [David Golden]
1108 - When the README and/or Makefile.PL are autogenerated using
1109 create_readme or create_makefile_pl, we now automatically make sure
1110 they're also listed in the MANIFEST file. [Suggested by Michael
1113 - Got rid of the t/MANIFEST file - it's superfluous, and it had
1114 zero-length, which some versions of Tar don't like. [William
1117 - Added a mention in the documentation that each property that new()
1118 accepts also has a corresponding get/set accessor. (In the version
1119 0.27_0x series each accessor method is mentioned explicitly in the
1120 docs.) [Omission spotted by Ian Langworth]
1122 0.2608 Wed Jan 26 19:46:09 CST 2005
1124 - Add workaround for test files because Devel::Cover causes
1125 require to fail when the argument to require is an expression
1126 involving File::Spec. We now assign the result of the File::Spec
1127 call to a variable and then call require with that variable.
1129 - Tilde-expansion is now performed on arguments passed to a
1130 compatibility-Makefile.PL [Spotted by Sam Vilain]
1132 - We now run the 'gzip' and 'tar' values through split_like_shell()
1133 when running the 'dist' action, so that e.g. the 'gzip' value can
1134 be set to something like "gzip -f --best" and it'll work
1135 correctly. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
1137 - Work around some bad mojo between Fedora Core [with its very long
1138 @INC] and old versions of Test::Harness [with its propensity to
1139 compound the number of @INC entries] that produced an "argument
1140 list too long" error during testing. [assisted by Ville Skytta,
1141 David Golden, & Randy Sims]
1143 - Killed an infinite loop that would happen in y_n() in interactive
1144 mode if the author provided no default value. [Max Maischein]
1146 0.2607 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Sat Dec 18 14:14:09 CST 2004
1148 - Instead of freezing @INC in the 'Build' script to the value it had
1149 when Build.PL was run, we now just add those additional values that
1150 aren't part of the default compiled-in @INC. [Michael Schwern]
1152 - The run_perl_script() method will now propagate any extra entries
1153 in @INC (such as those added by "use lib" or the -I command-line
1154 switch) to the subprocess. This helps situations in which you want
1155 to tell the subprocess where to find a certain module, for
1156 instance. [Michael Schwern]
1158 0.2606 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Dec 7 22:33:11 CST 2004
1160 - Fixed a linking bug on Win32, in which compiled C code object files
1161 never got linked in with the modules being built. [Dominic
1164 - Fixed a bug in the new_from_context() method in which any arguments
1165 passed made us die. [Spotted by Jos Boumans]
1167 0.2605 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Nov 30 07:16:13 CST 2004
1169 - Fixed a bug in which zero-length arguments for hash-valued
1170 parameters (e.g. " --config foo= ") weren't being allowed.
1172 - The tests now play better with environments in which version.pm is
1173 pre-loaded, like in bleadperl. [John Peacock & Michael Schwern]
1175 - Fixed a syntax error in one of the tests under perl 5.005.
1177 0.2604 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 17 14:32:42 CST 2004
1179 - Fixed a split_like_shell() bug introduced in 0.2603 for Windows, in
1180 which an array reference passed as an argument was returned as an
1181 array reference, rather than as a list. [Spotted by Steve Hay]
1183 - module_name() will now return '' instead of undef when module_name
1184 is not set. This eliminates a couple uninitialized-value
1185 warnings. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
1187 - The expand_test_dir() method will now skip dotfiles (like ._foo.t,
1188 which sometimes gets automatically created on Mac systems) when
1189 'recursive_test_files' is in effect. [Tom Insam]
1191 0.2603 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Mon Nov 15 10:28:00 CST 2004
1193 - Added documentation for the new_from_context() method.
1195 - Completely rewrote the split_like_shell() method for the Windows
1196 platform so it works like the command.com shell. [Randy Sims]
1198 0.2602 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Thu Nov 4 11:19:29 CST 2004
1200 - The two bug fixes in 0.2601 gnashed against each other incorrectly,
1201 resulting in a Win32 bug in split_like_shell(). Fixed. [Spotted
1202 by Steve Hay & Randy Sims]
1204 - Removed a couple of 'use warnings' statements from the code - they
1205 were causing compile failures on 5.005_04, where warnings.pm isn't
1206 available. [Blair Zajac]
1208 0.2601 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 3 20:09:27 CST 2004
1210 - Fixed some backslash problems with split_like_shell() on
1213 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
1214 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
1215 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
1217 0.26 Sat Oct 9 17:51:01 CDT 2004
1219 - Removed some language from the Module::Build::Compat documentation
1220 that encouraged people to include a Build.PL without a Makefile.PL.
1221 Also changed "a replacement for MakeMaker" to "an alternative to
1222 MakeMaker" in the main documentation, which is basically what I
1223 meant all along (i.e. a replacement for MakeMaker in your
1224 particular build process - MakeMaker is never going to be fully
1225 replaced in the perl world at large, of course), but some people
1226 got the impression I was a little more truculent toward MakeMaker
1229 - Added the formal concepts of "features" and "config data" for
1230 distributions. This allows the module author to define a certain
1231 set of features that the user can switch on and off (usually
1232 according to whether they have the proper prerequisites for them),
1233 and to save build-time configuration information in a standardized
1234 format. See the main documentation of Module::Build for more
1235 details. (Note that the name of this system was called
1236 "BuildConfig" for a while in beta, but now it's called
1239 - Added an 'auto_features' capability, which simplifies the process
1240 of defining features that depend on a set of prerequisites.
1242 - Added the 'get_options' parameter, which lets module authors
1243 declare certain command-line arguments their Build.PL can accept
1246 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
1247 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
1248 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
1250 - Added a 'testpod' action, which checks the syntactic validity of
1251 all POD files in the distribution using Test::Pod. This eliminates
1252 the need for doing so in a regression test. [Initial patch by Mark
1255 - Added a process_files_by_extension() method, which generalizes the
1256 kind of processing (essentially just copying) that happens for .pm
1257 and .pod files, and makes it available to other user-defined types
1258 of files. See the new cookbook entry.
1260 - Improved compatibility with version.pm when authors are using
1261 version objects as their $VERSION variables. Now
1262 version_from_file() can deal with these objects. Currently we
1263 stringify them right away, but perhaps in the future we will
1264 preserve them as objects for a while.
1266 - During 'distdir' and 'distmeta' actions, die a bit more gracefully
1267 if there's no MANIFEST (i.e. explicitly say that a MANIFEST is
1268 required). [Spotted by Adrian Howard]
1270 - Eliminated a recursive dependency between creating the MANIFEST
1271 file and creating the META.yml file. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
1273 - On Win32, where a single directory might be known variously as
1274 "Module-Build-0.25_03" or "MODULE~1.25_", we now use
1275 Win32::GetShortPathName($cwd) to verify that the 'Build' script is
1276 being run from the correct directory, rather than just a string
1279 - The add_to_cleanup() method will now accept glob()-style patterns
1280 in addition to explicit filenames. Also documented the fact that
1281 they can be specified in either Unix-style or native-style
1284 - Passing a PREFIX value to a pass-through Makefile 'make install'
1285 now has the same effect as passing it to 'perl Makefile.PL' (it
1286 dies with a helpful message).
1288 - Added the 'testcover' action, which runs a test suite using
1289 Devel::Cover. [Dave Rolsky]
1291 - Added the 'lib' and 'arch' installation directories to the search
1292 path for the 'diff' action, since they won't necessarily (though
1293 they usually will) be in @INC at installation time. [Suggested by
1296 - The "=head3" POD directive isn't supported in older podlators
1297 (particularly Pod::Man), so we don't use it anymore.
1299 - Fixed a typo & improved the docs in the SUBCLASSING section. [Ron
1302 - Added the '.tmp' suffix to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file, which
1303 should avoid adding things like pod2htmi.tmp to the MANIFEST [Ron
1306 - Backup files from Emacs, containing the string '.#' in their names,
1307 should no longer find their way into the blib/ directory (and from
1308 there into installation directories).
1310 - Worked around an unpleasant interaction between version.pm and the
1311 version-checking code that makes sure Module::Build's version
1312 hasn't changed during the lifetime of the 'Build' script. [Reported
1313 by Trevor Schellhorn]
1315 - Fixed a problem in htmlify_pods() that would produce test failures
1316 on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere). [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
1318 - Fixed a test failure on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere) in
1319 t/compat.t, resulting from empty environment variables being set to
1320 the empty string (as opposed to simply being unset) by their mere
1321 presence in the "EXPORT:" list.
1323 - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when the author specified
1324 'dist_author' manually in their Build.PL script. [Spotted by Ron
1327 - The 'provides' section of the META.yml file wasn't being built
1328 properly on Win32, because of a mismatch between URL-format and
1329 native-format pathnames. Fixed. [Reported by Robert Rothenberg]
1331 - The progress message "lib/Foo.xs -> lib/Foo.c" was previously being
1332 output even when the Foo.c file wasn't being rebuilt. It's now
1335 - Fixed a couple of places in Compat.pm where it could have forgotten
1336 which perl interpreter it had been run with ($^X isn't very
1339 - On some systems, the way we updated the timestamp on the
1340 "lib/Foo.bs" file (one of the output files for XS-based modules)
1341 was failing. It's been replaced by a simple call to utime().
1343 - Fixed a problem in t/compat.t that prevented it from being run
1344 individually using 'make test TEST_FILES=t/compat.t'. The problem
1345 was that a couple environment variables (TEST_FILES, MAKEFLAGS)
1346 were being passed through to subprocesses, and confused them.
1348 - Fixed an important typo in the documentation for the 'install_base'
1349 parameter ('libdoc' and 'bindoc' were switched). [Ray Zimmerman]
1351 - The pass-through Makefiles (type 'small' or 'passthrough') now
1352 support the TEST_FILES parameter to 'make test'.
1354 - Fixed a fatal error that would occur on perl 5.005 when building
1355 HTML documentation, because its version of Pod::Html was old and
1356 didn't like some of the parameters we fed it. [Spotted by Blair
1359 - The final line of the generated pass-through Makefile was missing
1360 its trailing newline, which is now fixed. [Chip Salzenberg]
1362 - We now depend on YAML version at least 0.35 and at most version
1363 0.49, so that we don't pick up a new (and backward-incompatible) beta
1366 - Squashed a warning in t/basic.t about '"Foo::Module::VERSION" used
1367 only once', and one in PPMMaker about $^V being undefined. [Blair
1370 - Added a couple temporary output files from HTML documentation
1371 generation to the cleanup list. [Toby Ovod-Everett]
1373 - The PodParser module will now only extract paragraphs in the
1374 'AUTHOR' section of the pod if they contain an '@' character. This
1375 tends to do a better job, heuristically speaking, of returning
1378 - Added regression tests and a helper method ( add_build_elements() )
1379 for adding new elements to the build process. Also some
1382 - Wrote a recipe in the Cookbook for adding new elements to the build
1383 process, and a recipe for changing the order in which the steps in
1384 the build process will occur.
1386 0.25 Sun Apr 25 11:12:36 CDT 2004
1388 - During the 'distdir' action, if no MANIFEST.SKIP file exists, we
1389 will now create a reasonable default one. [Randy Sims]
1391 - In Makefile compatibility mode, some arguments (like UNINST,
1392 TEST_VERBOSE, etc.) given to 'make' are now recognized and passed
1393 through to Module::Build. [Randy Sims]
1395 - The regression tests now make sure that several pass-through
1396 Makefile.PL parameters are dealt with correctly.
1398 - Added support for the 'LIB' parameter to passthrough
1399 Makefile.PLs. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
1401 - Passing a 'PREFIX' parameter to a passthrough Makefile.PL was
1402 supposed to make it die with a helpful error message, but instead
1403 it just ignored it and blindly tried to install to the wrong place.
1404 This is now fixed. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
1406 - Added an extra_compiler_flags() accessor method.
1408 - If the 'recursive_test_files' option was turned on, the test files
1409 weren't sorted, but returned in an apparently random order. Now
1410 they're sorted. [Martyn Peck]
1412 - Documented the 'tar' and 'gzip' parameters to the 'dist' and
1415 - The generation of HTML documentation now works (it was accidentally
1416 partially implemented with an itchy patch-application finger in
1417 0.24). [Randy Kobes]
1419 - Fixed a fatal bug when building META.yml with YAML.pm and
1420 'dynamic_config' is set. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
1422 - Fixed some incorrect error messages that occurred when
1423 compiling/linking C sources went awry.
1425 - If the author uses a custom builder subclass, that subclass will
1426 now be loaded correctly in the passthrough Makefile.PL if the
1427 author uses the 'small' or 'passthrough' Makefile.PL options in
1428 Module::Build::Compat. [Martyn Peck and Jaap Karssenberg]
1430 - If the author uses a custom builder subclass created dynamically
1431 through the subclass() method, passthrough Makefile.PLs (of type
1432 'passthrough' or 'small') didn't work properly, because the custom
1433 builder module wouldn't be loaded at the right time. This has been
1434 fixed. [Reported by Toby Ovod-Everett]
1436 - In M::B-generated 'traditional' Makefile.PLs, the entries in
1437 'PREREQ_PM' are now sorted ASCIIbetically rather than randomly.
1439 - The install_types() method will now return any additional types
1440 given as 'install_path' arguments, as well as all elements of the
1441 current 'install_sets' entry. This makes it easier to add new
1442 types of installable objects to the mix.
1444 - As a consequence of the previous change, there is no longer any
1445 need to have an explicit 'install_types' data member, so it has
1448 - In the second example code for the Module::Build->subclass()
1449 method, the Module::Build module needed to be loaded before calling
1450 its methods. [John Peacock]
1452 - Fixed minor error in the POD structure of Module::Build and
1453 Module::Build::Platform::VMS docs.
1456 0.24 Wed Feb 25 15:57:00 CST 2004
1458 - Fixed a problem with incude_dirs not being propagated to the 'ccs'
1459 file when compiling XS files on Win32. [Randy Sims and Steve Hay]
1461 - In 0.23, Module::Build::Compat->fake_makefile() started choking
1462 when no 'build_class' parameter was supplied in the Makefile.PL.
1463 Since these Makefile.PLs still exist on CPAN, we now default
1464 'build_class' to 'Module::Build', which was the old 0.22 behavior
1465 anyway. [Reported by Martin Titz and Jeremy Seitz]
1467 - Added documentation for the 'include_dirs' parameter to
1470 - Changed the no-op command on Win32 from 'rem' to 'rem>nul' inside
1471 pass-through Makefiles. [Randy Sims]
1473 - The 'autosplit' parameter now accepts an array reference if
1474 multiple files should be split. [Jaap Karssenberg]
1476 - find_perl_interpreter() will now use $^X (if absolute), $ENV{PATH}
1477 (if $^X isn't absolute), and $Config{perlpath}, in that order.
1478 Also, we now make darn sure the result is the same version of perl,
1479 by checking Config::myconfig() for a match against the current
1480 perl. [Reported by Edward Sabol]
1482 - Fixed a fatal error on Win32 (and any other platform that doesn't
1483 define an installation location for Unix-style man pages) during
1486 0.23 Sun Feb 8 22:01:18 CST 2004
1488 - Fixed a compatibility problem in pass-through Makefiles (created by
1489 Module::Build::Compat). Some 'make' utilities (for example, BSD
1490 make) didn't like a '@' by itself on a line, so we stole some
1491 'NOOP' code from MakeMaker to fix it. [Reported by Mathieu Arnold]
1493 - Added a 'ppm_dist' action, which just makes the PPD file and then
1494 makes a tarball out of the blib/ directory. [Randy Sims]
1496 - The @INC of the parent process is now propagated to child processes
1497 when processing *.PL files. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
1499 - We now only attempt to fix the shebang line on a script if the
1500 shebang line matches the regex /perl/i . This fixes some instances
1501 where people put shell scripts in their distributions. [Jaap
1504 - We no longer generate a 'requires', 'recommends', 'conflicts',
1505 etc. entry in the META.yml file if there's no data to go in it.
1507 - Added a documentation reference to Michael Schwern's wiki for tips
1508 on conversion from MakeMaker to M::B. [Randy Sims]
1510 - If there are script_files, we now add EXE_FILES to the
1511 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated by M::B::Compat. [Suggested by
1514 - Documented the 'test_files' parameter to new(). [Reported by Tony
1517 - Fixed a problem in "Build help <action>", which didn't find the
1518 correct help chunk if <action> was the final element in a POD
1519 list. [Jaap Karssenberg]
1521 - Fixed a problem in the get_action_docs() method which gave
1522 incorrect results if the method was called more than once in the
1525 - Fixed a problem in which actions defined by user subclasses
1526 wouldn't be available via the pass-through Makefiles created by
1527 Module::Build::Compat. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
1529 - We now use Data::Dumper instead of our own ad-hoc serialization
1530 routines to create the 'traditional' Makefile.PL
1531 arguments. [Suggested by Yuval Kojman]
1533 0.22 Sat Jan 10 22:05:39 CST 2004
1535 - On Unixish platforms, the syntax "FOO=BAR /bin/baz arg arg" now
1536 works when present in $Config{ld}. This solves a problem on Mac OS
1537 X 10.3. [Reported by Adam Foxson]
1539 - The have_c_compiler() now also tests whether the linker seems to
1542 - Fixed a problem with creating the distribution tarball in which
1543 permissions would usually be all read-only. We now use our own
1544 file-copying routines rather than those in ExtUtils::Manifest,
1545 because those do some annoying extra permissions-setting stuff for
1546 no apparent reason. It makes me happy that this was a very very
1547 easy patch to make. [Reported by Thomas Klausner]
1549 - The compile_c() method now includes $Config{cccdlflags} in its
1550 command invocation. It's usually empty, but not always, so we
1551 didn't notice for a while. [Richard Clamp]
1553 - On some platforms it's common to have a $Config{make} defined, but
1554 no 'make' utility actually available. We now detect this and skip
1555 some 'make' compatibility tests. [Randy Sims]
1557 - Fixed a spurious testing failure on non-Unix platforms that
1558 happened because we accidentally call localize_file_path() on empty
1559 strings in the test suite. [Spotted by Randy Sims on Windows]
1561 - Made the 'name', 'abstract', 'author', and 'version' properties
1562 required when building a PPD file. [Spotted by Randy Sims, Dave
1563 Rolsky, & Glenn Linderman]
1565 - When building a 'traditional' Makefile.PL with
1566 Module::Build::Compat, we now use 'VERSION_FROM' when possible,
1567 rather than always using 'VERSION'. This way the Makefile.PL
1568 doesn't have to get modified every release.
1570 - Made some fixups to the 'PPM' info-file, improving compatibility
1571 with ActiveState's PPM tools. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
1573 - The 'dist_author' property can now accept multiple authors, see the
1574 docs for more info. [Randy Sims]
1576 - If the user doesn't have YAML.pm installed during ACTION_dist, we
1577 now create a minimal YAML.pm anyway, without any dependency
1580 - The 'distribution_type' field is no longer created in META.yml
1581 files, in accordance with the finding made at the London CLPAN
1582 meeting that it's essentially meaningless and ill-defined.
1584 - The 'dist' action now accepts an optional 'tar' parameter to use a
1585 system utility for building the tarball, and a 'gzip' parameter for
1586 compressing it. If these are used, Archive::Tar won't be invoked.
1587 This was added because Archive::Tar is producing some very
1588 non-cross-platform tarballs that many tar utilities can't handle.
1590 - During testing, if YAML.pm isn't installed, then we won't try
1591 making a tarball either, since this would invoke YAML to create the
1594 - Fixed a problem with chmod() being called incorrectly on MacOS
1595 (i.e. MacPerl, not Mac OS X). [Spotted by Paul Sanford Toney]
1597 - Fixed a problem with the --config flag not being treated properly
1598 (essentially ignored) on the command line for 'perl Build.PL' or
1599 'Build <action>'. [Spotted by Jakub Bogusz]
1601 - Added a new config() method to get at the Build object's notion of
1604 - Test::Harness is starting to contend for the Most Crotchety Module
1605 Award. Work around a few of its nits when setting harness
1606 switches. [Spotted by Diab Jerius]
1608 - Now the Build script will die() if we're run from the wrong
1609 directory, rather than trying to chdir() to what it thinks is the
1610 right directory and do its work there. See
1611 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4039 . [Chris Dolan]
1613 - Changed the manpage separator on OS/2 to '.'. [Ilya Zakharevich]
1615 - On OS/2, disable C compilation, since apparently it isn't working
1616 there. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich]
1618 - Inserted a comment into auto-generated Makefile.PLs saying it was
1619 auto-generated. [Randy Sims]
1621 - Fixed some annoying behavior in generated passthrough Makefile.PLs
1622 when the user chose not to install Module::Build, or if
1623 installation failed. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich and Richard
1626 - Moved the documentation for 'codebase' to the section where it's
1627 relevant. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
1629 - Fixed a have_c_compiler() failure on some platforms, we now define
1630 a boot_compilet() function (since we're compiling a library, not an
1631 executable). [Randy Sims]
1633 - Added a recipe to the Module::Build::Cookbook describing how to
1634 maintain compatibility with older versions of CPAN.pm [Jim Cromie]
1636 - Removed caveat about "looking for alternatives" in how hashes are
1637 specified on the command line, since an alternative has been found.
1639 - Previously most warnings about optional prerequisites looked like
1640 they were actually error messages about required prerequisites.
1641 This has been corrected. [Reported again by Sagar Shah]
1643 - Added support for building XS (and C in general) stuff on AIX.
1644 This was done by a small reorganization of prelink_c() method from
1645 Windows.pm to Build.pm, and it is only invoked for the platforms
1646 that need it invoked. AIX also massages some very naughty bits
1647 (MakeMaker macro variables) in $Config{lddlflags} that should never
1648 have been put there, but alas, they're there, so we find & resolve
1651 - Added OS/2 ($^O = 'os2') to the list of Unix-like platforms. This
1652 basically means that most platform-specific operations will be done
1653 in a Unix-like manner.
1655 - Pass-through Makefiles will now die() when they're given a PREFIX
1656 parameter, and suggest using 'destdir' or 'install_base' instead.
1657 Previously they just ignored the parameter and tried to install to
1658 the default location, which is clearly not what the user wanted.
1660 - Updated my email address in the documentation to a more recent
1663 - Add NetBSD to the list of Unix-like systems. [Adrian Bunk]
1665 - Add SVR5 to the list of Unix-like systems. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
1667 - We now use Pod::Parser to find the ABSTRACT and AUTHOR when it's
1668 available on the system. [initial patch by Randy Sims]
1670 - Fixed a little scalar/list buglet in a documentation example.
1672 0.21 Wed Oct 15 20:47:05 CDT 2003
1674 - Added a have_c_compiler() method.
1676 - Added documentation for the requires(), recommends(),
1677 build_requires(), and conflicts() methods.
1679 - On Unix platforms, we now create the "Build" script with a #! line
1680 matching the perl interpreter that was used to invoke the Build.PL
1681 script, rather than whatever is in $Config{startperl}. This avoids
1682 a potential warning about the interpreters not matching. [Spotted
1685 - The Unix version now uses the safer multi-argument form of system()
1686 when building distribution tarballs.
1688 - Added a regression test for the 'dist' action to the t/runthrough.t
1691 - Fixed a problem with File::Spec usage when creating the names of
1692 'libdoc' manual pages - the code wasn't dealing with the volume or
1693 file portions correctly on certain platforms.
1695 - When creating the names of the 'libdoc' manual pages, we no longer
1696 assume that pods are under the hard-coded paths 'blib/lib' or
1699 - Fixed a crashing bug that could sometimes occur when the
1700 distribution contained no 'lib' directory. [Chris Dolan]
1702 - Fixed a crashing bug that happened when the user had .PL files in
1703 the lib/ directory and didn't explicitly name them in a hash
1704 reference to the new() constructor. [Chris Reinhardt, bug #4036]
1706 - .PL files are now passed the names of their target file(s) on the
1707 command line when they run.
1709 - When YAML.pm wasn't installed, t/runthrough.t wasn't properly
1710 skipping some tests that required YAML. This is now fixed.
1713 - Added documentation for the dist_version() and dist_name()
1714 methods. [Spotted by Johan Vromans]
1716 - Existing values in $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} are now respected
1717 and not squashed when we run the 'test' action. [Paul Johnson]
1719 - On cygwin, the separator string for manual page names has been set
1720 to '.'. Previously it was '::', inherited from Unix. [Yitzchak
1723 - Avoid a warning when Build.PL is run (i.e. when the new() method is
1724 called) and no MANIFEST file exists. [Michael Schwern and Kevin
1727 - Added documentation for the 'code' and 'docs' actions. [Steve
1728 Purkis and Mark Stosberg]
1730 - The internal method compile_support_files() has been renamed to
1731 process_support_files() in order to make it consistent with other
1732 processing methods. Note that it was never documented using the
1733 old name. It's still not documented, actually. Maybe later.
1735 - Skip the 'write' pseudo-entry in the 'diff' action's installation
1738 - Fixed a bug in which notes() set in the Build.PL before
1739 create_build_script() was called would get lost unless more notes()
1740 were also set afterwards. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
1742 - The process of building elements of the distribution is now driven
1743 by a list of build elements, paving the way for letting people add
1744 their own types of build elements in future versions of
1745 Module::Build (or in the current version with some difficulty).
1747 - Fixed some linking errors on Cygwin. [Randy Sims, Terrence Brannon]
1749 - Fixed a line-ending problem with detecting the dist_abstract
1750 properly on Cygwin. [Randy Sims]
1752 - Fixed a problem with signatures that occurred if 'distsign' was
1753 called before 'distdir' - the signature would be generated twice.
1755 - Added a 'create_readme' parameter to new(), which will use
1756 Pod::Text to generate a README from the main (dist_version_from)
1757 module file during the 'distdir' action.
1759 - We now refuse to run the 'Build' script if it was created using a
1760 different version of Module::Build. This has caused a couple of
1761 nasty bugs in the past, I don't want to know what it would cause in
1764 - Documentation for do_system() has been added. [Dave Rolsky]
1766 - run_perl_script() is now available as a class method, though it
1767 will need to (re-)find the perl interpreter in this case.
1769 - Added a new_from_context() method that authors of automated tools
1770 like CPANPLUS and CPAN can use instead of running all tasks as
1771 sub-processes. We also use it in the regression tests for
1772 Module::Build itself. ** Note that this method is currently
1773 undocumented because its name may change in the future. **
1775 - When signing distributions with Module::Signature, we now
1776 automatically add the SIGNATURE file to the MANIFEST, avoiding an
1777 unpleasant chicken/egg problem for the module author.
1778 [unpleasantness spotted by sungo]
1780 - In Module::Build::Compat, added support for the 'verbose' parameter
1781 to Makefile.PL [spotted by Soren Andersen, fixed by Michael
1784 - The Module::Build distribution now has a cryptographic 'SIGNATURE'
1785 file created by Module::Signature.
1787 - Added proper documentation for the subclass() method. [spotted by
1790 - Worked around a Config.pm bug in Red Hat 9 which prevented man
1791 pages from being installed in the correct places. [spotted by Ville
1794 - Fixed a Module::Build::Compat bug in which setting INSTALLDIRS
1795 caused a crash. [spotted by Ilya Martynov]
1797 0.20 Tue Aug 26 14:34:07 CDT 2003
1799 - Separated the 'build' action into two separate actions, 'code' and
1800 'docs'. This is similar to MakeMaker's separation of the 'all'
1801 target into 'pure_all' and 'manifypods'. This fixes a permissions
1802 hassle in which doing 'sudo Build install' would often create local
1803 doc files that needed superuser permissions to delete.
1805 - Enhanced the 'help' action - 'Build help foo' will now show the POD
1806 documentation for the 'foo' action.
1808 - Added a notes() feature, which helps share data transparently
1809 between the Build.PL and t/*.t scripts.
1811 - The installation process will now create man(1) and man(3) pages
1812 from POD in modules & scripts, and install them. We don't build
1813 man pages when there's nowhere to install them, such as on some
1814 Win32 or most Mac systems. [large patch by Steve Purkis, 5.005 fix
1817 - The 'distdir' action now copies files to the distribution
1818 directory, rather than making them hard links to the original
1819 files. This allows authors to do last-minute alterations of the
1820 files without affecting the originals. [Dave Rolsky]
1822 - If the author uses XS files in nonstandard locations, the copied
1823 versions of those files will now be cleaned up properly.
1825 - In invoking the 'test' action or invoking 'xsubpp', we now use the
1826 same perl executable as we use everywhere else, rather than blindly
1827 using $^X or $Config{perlpath} (neither of which are very
1830 - Fixed a problem with the 'install_path' parameter given to
1831 'Build.PL' being lost in subsequent actions. [Reported by Mathieu
1834 - Fixed yet another bug with installation directories, in which the
1835 'install_base' parameter wasn't being respected on the command
1836 line. [Spotted by Jonathan Swartz]
1838 - Changed the way the depends_on() method works inside action
1839 subroutines - now each action will only run once per dispatch()
1840 invocation (similar to how perl's require() function works). This
1841 helps avoid some difficult problems with dependency loops.
1843 - Changed the documentation for the 'autosplit' parameter to give
1844 reasons why it may not be a good idea to use, but no longer
1845 threaten to remove it. [Suggested by Martyn J. Pearce]
1847 - Improved the formatting of the 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated
1848 by Module::Build::Compat->create_makefile_pl. [Michael Schwern]
1850 - The 'traditional' Makefile.PL will now use the 'module_name'
1851 parameter (as NAME) if it's available, otherwise it will continue
1852 to use the 'dist_name' (as DISTNAME). [Michael Schwern]
1854 - Created read/write accessor methods for all our 'properties'.
1857 - The 'test_files' parameter can now be specified using glob() syntax
1858 (i.e. 't/*.t'), and the corresponding test_files() method is now a
1859 read/write accessor.
1861 - The location of the 'blib' directory is now a property of the Build
1862 object - nobody is likely to notice this change, with any luck, but
1863 it makes the design and code cleaner.
1865 - The 'disttest' and 'distsign' methods now chdir() back to the
1866 directory where they started, rather than to the base_dir of the
1869 - Improved comparisons of version strings containing underscore
1870 characters (indicating "beta" status). [Steve Purkis]
1872 - Added documentation for the 'dist_author', 'dist_abstract', and
1873 'codebase' parameters to new(), and for the 'ppd' action. [Dave
1876 - Added documentation for the up_to_date() and contains_pod()
1877 methods. [Dave Rolsky]
1879 - 'traditional' pass-through Makefile.PLs will now contain an
1880 INSTALLDIRS parameter matching the Build.PL's 'installdirs'
1883 - version_from_file() now ignores $VERSION variables that are defined
1884 in POD or comments. It can still be tricked by $VERSIONs in string
1885 literals, though. [Steve Purkis]
1887 - The code to find packages in module files now uses Steve's scanning
1888 method (above) to skip package-declaration-lookalikes in POD or
1891 - The 'disttest' action will now propagate its @INC settings to its
1894 0.19 Wed Jul 9 22:34:02 CDT 2003
1896 - Added support for the 'install_path' parameter, which allows custom
1897 specification of where things should be installed. This is a major
1898 improvement to Module::Build's functionality.
1900 - Added the 'install_base' parameter. Provides an easy way to
1901 install to local or alternative directory trees.
1903 - We now install scripts by default to $Config{installsitebin}
1904 instead of $Config{installscript}. Neither is a great choice, but
1905 the former is likely to be [analogous to] /usr/local/bin, and the
1906 latter is likely to be [something like] /usr/bin . If/when there's
1907 a $Config{installsitescript}, we'll start using that automatically.
1909 - Fixed a problem on Win32 in which C and XS files wouldn't be
1910 compiled properly, and the user would see an error about 'Can't
1911 locate object method "format_compiler_cmd"'.
1912 (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2391)
1914 - We now use the correct perl interpreter (via
1915 Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter) in pass-through makefiles.
1917 - The t/compat.t test now uses $Config{make} instead of just 'make'
1918 to test makefile compatibility. This fixes some failures on Win32.
1919 We also skip this test entirely if no make utility is available.
1921 - Alternative distribution layouts are now supported via the
1922 'pm_files', 'pod_files', 'xs_files', 'PL_files', and 'script_files'
1923 parameters to new(). This should help people transition from
1924 MakeMaker, and might even help us write an automatic transition
1927 - Added tests to t/runthrough.t that check to see installation is
1928 happening correctly.
1930 - Added experimental code to build a .ppd file, in support of
1931 ActiveState's "Perl Package Manager". [original patch by Dave
1934 - For authors who use Module::Signature to sign their distributions,
1935 we now create the SIGNATURE file right in the distribution
1936 directory, rather than creating it in the top-level directory and
1937 copying it into place. This solves problems related to having
1938 files get out of date with respect to their signatures.
1940 - We now don't depend on Module::Info to scan for packages during the
1941 'dist' action anymore, because it's way too aggressive about
1942 loading other modules that you may not want loaded. We now just
1943 (ick, yuck) scan the .pm files with a regular expression to find
1944 "package Foo::Bar;" statements.
1946 - Silenced some annoying copyright/logo output from Microsoft 'nmake'
1947 during Makefile compatibility testing. [Randy W. Sims]
1949 - Command-line arguments may now either be specified using the syntax
1950 '--foo foovalue' as well as the traditional syntax 'foo=foovalue'.
1951 The former is often more convenient for shell tab-completion when
1952 the value is a filename (as in 'Build test --test_files t/basic.t').
1954 - Command-line arguments may now include non-named parameters, which
1955 make some actions more natural. For instance, the 'diff' action
1956 may now be invoked as 'Build diff -u' rather than as
1957 'Build diff flags=-u'.
1959 - Pass-through Makefile.PLs now convert unknown Makefile.PL
1960 parameters to lower-case and hand them to Build.PL, rather than
1961 ignoring them. This means we only have to account for the
1962 differences in the interface, not the entire interface, in
1963 translating parameters.
1965 - We now issue a warning & don't proceed if asked to make a distdir
1966 and there's no MANIFEST or it's empty.
1968 - Moved INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to increase compatibility with various
1969 odd versions of 'make' during 'make install' on case-insensitive
1970 filesystems (like nmake on Win32, often). Only affects the
1971 Makefile compatibility layer. [reported by Andrew Savige]
1973 - Module::Build->known_actions() now works as a class method.
1975 - Pass-through makefiles now list each action individually rather
1976 than using a ".DEFAULT" catch-all. This improves compatibility
1977 with 'nmake' on Win32, and probably some other less common 'make'
1978 dialects. [Andrew Savige]
1980 - We're now more aggressive about testing the pass-through makefiles,
1981 e.g. making sure they can run 'all' and 'test' targets, and making
1982 sure the Makefile itself actually exists.
1984 - Fixed a problem with check_installed_status() when installed
1985 version contains non-numeric characters like underscores.
1987 - Fixed a problem with a bareword 'File::Spec' in one of the test
1988 scripts that caused it not to compile under 5.8.0 (but is fine
1991 - Fixed a problem with the 'destdir' installation parameter on
1992 platforms that have volume identifiers in path names (like "C:" on
1993 Win32). The identifier is now stripped from installation
1994 directories before prepending the destdir path. The destdir path
1995 may still have a volume identifier on it.
1997 - Added an 'add_to_cleanup' parameter to new() that calls
1998 add_to_cleanup() immediately for the given files.
2000 - The distribution directory (e.g. Sample-Module-0.13/ ) will now be
2001 deleted during the 'clean' or 'realclean' actions.
2003 - During testing of modules, blib/lib and blib/arch are now added as
2004 absolute paths, not relative. This helps tests that load the
2005 modules at runtime and may change the current working directory
2006 (like Module::Build itself does during testing).
2008 - The $Config{cc} entry on some people's systems is something like
2009 'ccache gcc', so we now split that string using split_like_shell().
2012 - Added documentation for 'extra_linker_flags' parameter, and added a
2013 corresponding 'extra_compiler_flags' parameter. [original patch by
2016 - The pass-through Makefile created by Module::Build::Compat now
2017 supports MakeMaker options like POLLUTE=1 and INC. We also just
2018 warn & skip when we see any unknown MM parameters, rather than
2019 dying. [Dave Rolsky]
2021 - Fixed an error about how @INC and $ENV{PERL5LIB} interact during
2022 the testing of M::B itself. [jk <billy2000@fastmail.fm>]
2024 - The pass-through Makefile doesn't include 'recommended' M::B
2025 dependencies in the Makefile anymore, since they're not strictly
2026 necessary. In particular, this makes installing M::B itself
2029 - A new 'create_makefile_pl' parameter lets you use
2030 Module::Build::Compat during the 'distdir' (or 'dist') action to
2031 automatically create a Makefile.PL for compatibility with
2032 ExtUtils::MakeMaker. The parameter's value should be one of the
2033 styles named in the Module::Build::Compat documentation.
2035 - When compiling C code, we now respect 'pollute' and 'inc'
2036 parameters. (XXX - needs docs) [Dave Rolsky]
2038 - Made the creation of the "install map" more generic. (XXX - needs
2041 - Fixed a problem in which add_to_cleanup() didn't note cleanup files
2042 unless create_build_script() had been called already. [Dave Rolsky]
2044 - During 'Build dist', we no longer have to load each .pm file (via
2045 Module::Info) to determine the $VERSION numbers inside. Instead,
2046 we call our internal version_from_file() method, which is the same
2047 thing MakeMaker and PAUSE and search.cpan.org do. Also fixes a
2048 failure when Module::Info is installed in a nonstandard directory.
2049 [reported by Teun Burgers]
2051 - Fixed some failing test code on Windows - open files can't be
2052 deleted. [Andrew Savige]
2054 - The Cygwin platform is now treated as a flavor of Unix rather than
2055 a flavor of Windows. [chocolateboy]
2057 - We're now more aggressive about adding temporary C compilation
2058 files (*.c, *.bs) to the cleanup list. [Dave Rolsky]
2060 - When constructing the list in META.yml of packages provided by this
2061 distribution, we now use the same rules as the PAUSE scanner does
2062 when a single .pm file contains multiple VERSIONs. [Andreas Koenig]
2064 - check_installed_status() now works as both a class method and an
2065 object method (and is documented so). [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
2067 0.18 Tue Apr 8 13:24:23 CDT 2003
2069 - We now rewrite the shebang lines of scripts ourselves, rather than
2070 relying on MakeMaker routines to do it. MakeMaker changed the way
2071 this happened (not the result, but where the code lived) a few
2072 times. [Suggested by Richard Clamp]
2074 - The scripts() method has changed to script_files(), and likewise
2075 the 'scripts' parameter has changed to 'script_files'. The old
2076 names can still be used for backward compatibility.
2078 - Support for the 'scripts' parameter (which is now 'script_files')
2079 was broken in 0.17, now it's fixed. [Richard Clamp]
2081 - We now recommend ExtUtils::ParseXS 2.02, which will fail to load
2082 with perl 5.005 or earlier (which is proper, because it doesn't
2083 work with those versions). When it fails to load, we still fall
2084 back to using the xsubpp script for XS parsing. [spotted by Dave
2085 Rolsky, fix suggested by Richard Clamp]
2087 - Now works on VMS - the Build script's shebang-line-equivalent
2088 wasn't being formed correctly there - though just about everything
2089 else worked fine. [Tested & patched by Michael Schwern]
2091 - Eliminated a warning that occurred if 'perl Build.PL' or the
2092 check_installed_status() method was run with -w. [Spotted by
2095 0.17 Sat Mar 29 18:06:01 CST 2003
2097 - Now works under perl 5.005_03. [Richard Clamp]
2099 - When building blib/ , .PL files are now processed before doing
2100 anything else. This means .PL files can be used in any of the
2103 - The locating and processing of .pm, .pod, .xs, .PL files and script
2104 files are now isolated into their own methods. This is aimed
2105 toward providing a stable interface for this stuff, so they can be
2106 overridden, parameterized, etc. They're not quite stable yet,
2109 - The internal lib_to_blib() method has gone away, because processing
2110 is now done by smaller specialized methods. This method had some
2111 duplicate assumptions about filenames that it's nice to get rid of.
2113 - .PL files are no longer automatically processed in the c_source
2114 directory, they must be specified manually in a 'PL_files'
2117 - Mention in the docs that it's useful to do "PL_FILES => {}" in a
2118 Makefile.PL if you're using both a Makefile.PL and a
2121 - Add several options to the 'license' field, so that we're in better
2122 sync with PAUSE and CPAN options. [Andreas Koenig]
2124 - Created a find_perl_interpreter() method that tries to locate the
2125 currently executing perl interpreter. Following a suggestion from
2126 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> for Inline, we prefer an absolute
2127 path in $^X, then an existent path in $Config{perlpath}, then
2130 - Use the aforementioned perl to run scripts in run_perl_script().
2131 This fixes the spurious warning "WARNING: Configuration was
2132 initially created with 'foo', but we are now using 'bar'" that
2133 appeared a lot in version 0.16.
2136 0.16 Mon Feb 24 13:06:47 CST 2003
2138 - All three C compilers that perl supports on Windows environments
2139 (MSVC, BCC, and GCC) are now supported by Module::Build. We now
2140 reportedly pass all tests on Windows. [Randy W. Sims]
2142 - The test t/xs.t, which tests building of XS modules, will be
2143 skipped if no C compiler is found. [suggested by Randy W. Sims]
2145 - The "install" action accepts new "destdir" [motivated by Michael
2146 Schwern and Chip Salzenberg] and "uninst" parameters [by Dave
2147 Rolsky]. The former prepends an arbitrary directory to all
2148 installation paths (useful for package management), and the latter
2149 will tell ExtUtils::Install to remove any differing files that are
2150 "shadowing" the stuff you're installing from a different location,
2151 just like MakeMaker's "make install UNINST=1" command will do.
2153 - Made changes to the generated Makefile in Module::Build::Compat
2154 that much better support Windows platforms [after suggestions by
2157 - Added experimental support for creating distribution SIGNATURE
2158 files via Module::Signature. [Dave Rolsky]
2160 - Added experimental support for installing via the "only.pm" module,
2161 which allows loading specific versions of modules. Since this
2162 module is so new, the interface may still be changing. [Brian
2165 - Added support for installing executable scripts, via the 'scripts'
2166 parameter to new(), and the scripts() accessor method.
2168 - Fix an infinite loop that occurred when doing 'perl Build.PL
2171 - Fix up the formatting of the error message the user gets when
2172 prereqs aren't satisfied.
2174 0.15 Fri Jan 17 15:00:24 CST 2003
2176 - In link_c(), extra object files were mistakenly being treated as
2177 output files, not input files, in the up-to-date check. Fixed.
2179 - In up_to_date(), don't make an unnecessary copy of the file lists
2180 when they're specified as array references.
2182 - Split off the C compilation phase into its own method,
2183 compile_support_files(), for easier subclassing.
2185 - Start a stub of a 'manifypods' action.
2187 - Compiler optimizations weren't being included in C compilation
2190 - The 'extra_linker_flags' parameter wasn't being honored. Fixed.
2192 - The 'ccflags' Config.pm entry wasn't being properly split into
2193 separate arguments. Fixed.
2196 0.14 Fri Dec 13 14:06:29 AEST 2002
2198 - Added support for MacPerl (Mac OS version 9 and below), which (as
2199 far as I know) was never natively supported by MakeMaker. Still
2200 lacks support for the 'test' action (because Test::Harness
2201 requires forking, which MacPerl won't do) and compiling XS/C files
2202 (because I don't know how to invoke a compiler on MacOS, and one
2203 may not even be available). This change is brought to you by
2204 Michael Schwern and the letter '('.
2206 - Improved processing of .xs files. Now we use the new
2207 ExtUtils::ParseXS module if it's available, otherwise we use
2208 backticks and write the result to a .c file ourselves. This
2209 avoids the need to do cross-platform shell redirection.
2211 - Make sure all parts of 'Build test' use the not-yet-installed
2212 version of Module::Build. This only affects the tests for this
2213 module, not any of the module code itself. [Spotted by Schwern]
2215 - Oopsie - use $Config{ld} instead of $Config{cc} for linking.
2217 - Added a 'diff' action, which is useful for comparing the details
2218 of what you're about to install with what is already installed on
2219 your system. This uses File::Compare, which is in the core.
2221 - Fixed a problem on Windows in which the _build/ directory wasn't
2222 getting deleted during the 'realclean' action, because we had a
2223 file open in that directory. [Spotted by Michael Schwern]
2225 - delete_filetree() now always uses File::Path::rmtree(), regardless
2226 of whether the thing being deleted is a file or a directory. This
2227 helps remove things on obscure platforms with strange locking
2228 rules (or even not so obscure ones like MacOS). It also now
2229 reports the number of files or directories deleted (without
2230 recursing directory contents).
2232 - rm_previous_build_script() is gone, replaced by calls to
2235 - 'Build' now chdir()s in a BEGIN block, so the 'use Module::Build'
2236 statement will work correctly. Solves a problem on MacOS, where
2237 the 'Build' script may often be invoked from the wrong working
2238 directory. [Fix by Michael Schwern]
2240 - Internally we now use the multi-argument form of system() to run
2241 external commands (such as 'diff' or 'cc') whenever possible (and
2242 whenever we can't avoid system() altogether). Note that this
2243 means we have to handle splitting some strings (such as
2244 $Config{ccflags}) into argument lists like the shell would, which
2245 is a drag. However, the alternative would be to handle shell
2246 quoting of all arguments to commands ourselves, which is an even
2247 bigger drag across platforms and involves arbitrary filenames and
2250 - To handle the argument splitting mentioned above, a method
2251 split_like_shell() has been created. So far it's just doing naive
2252 processing. In practice, I've yet to actually see a %Config entry
2253 that uses quotes & spaces, so the splitting task is usually not
2256 - The 'test' action now takes a 'test_files' parameter, similar to
2257 the (undocumented) ExtUtils::MakeMaker TEST_FILES argument. Handy
2258 during development when fixing bugs.
2260 - Internally, the rscan_dir() method can now accept a predicate
2261 function that decides whether a file/directory should be matched.
2263 - We now issue a warning message when the author hasn't specified a
2266 0.13 Wed Nov 20 20:07:53 AEST 2002
2268 - 'cleanup' file lists are now written immediately, rather than at
2269 program termination. This helps avoid "phantom files" that don't
2270 get handled by the 'realclean' action. The internal
2271 write_cleanup() method (which was never documented) is now gone.
2273 - The 'blib/' directory is now properly cleaned up in more (all?)
2274 circumstances. Previously it could become a phantom if
2275 create_build_script() was never called.
2277 - Now scan the 'c_source' directory for .cpp (C++) files as well as
2278 .c files, and compiles them.
2280 - Use a 'phony' target for 'make manifest' in the pass-through
2281 Makefile, for the same reason as 'make install' (see version 0.12
2284 - Module::Build::Compat now accepts any known Config.pm key and
2285 passes it through to the Build.PL. Fixes a problem with CPANPLUS,
2286 which was passing INSTALLMAN1DIR.
2288 - The file 'META.yaml' has been re-named to 'META.yml' in order to
2289 cooperate better with systems that can only handle 3 characters
2292 - The t/xs.t test should give more informative error messages upon
2295 0.12 Thu Nov 14 18:31:47 AEST 2002
2297 - The META.yaml file was erroneously looking for 'build_depends'
2298 instead of 'build_requires'. [spotted by Iain Truskett]
2300 - Add prompt() and y_n() methods for use in Build.PLs
2302 - Do more to work with all versions of Test::Harness when setting
2303 the TEST_VERBOSE flag and running under the debugger [patch by
2306 - Include a test for verbosity handling
2308 - Make sure the blib/ directory is always cleaned up with the
2309 'clean' or 'realclean' action.
2311 - In a pass-through Makefile.PL, inform 'make' that 'install' is a
2312 "fake target", so that it works properly on case-insensitive
2313 filesystems like HFS+ with distributions that contain an INSTALL
2314 file. [patch by Brian Ingerson]
2316 - In Module::Build::Compat, show an example Makefile.PL that can
2317 install Module::Build and re-invoke itself in one fell swoop [Dave
2318 Rolsky and Autrijus Tang]
2320 - Improve the formatting of the Module::Build and
2321 Module::Build::Compat documentation.
2323 0.11 Fri Aug 23 18:50:46 AEST 2002
2325 - 'module_version' and 'module_version_from' have been replaced by
2326 'dist_version' and 'dist_version_from', which is what they really
2327 meant in the first place. 'dist_name' has been added.
2329 - 'module_name' is now just a way to set 'dist_name' and
2330 'dist_version_from' in a convenient way.
2332 - The 'name' in META.yaml is now the distribution name, not the
2333 (incorrect) module name. [spotted by Graham Barr]
2335 - Added the check_installed_status() and prereq_failures() methods
2336 for checking prerequisite information with the programmatic
2339 - check_installed_version() now uses check_installed_status()
2342 - Documented the create_build_script() method, which had escaped
2345 - create_build_script() now writes prerequisite information to the
2346 _build/ directory, for use by Module::Build::Compat.
2348 - Module::Build::Compat has documentation for a safer way to write a
2349 dummy Makefile.PL. [patch by Autrijus Tang]
2351 0.10 Wed Aug 7 19:36 2002
2352 - Recommend YAML 0.35 instead of 0.30.
2354 - Don't die during 'Build disttest' if YAML isn't installed. This
2355 fixes tests 5-10 in runthrough.t if YAML isn't installed.
2357 - Die if an unknown license type is used, but still default to
2358 'unknown' if no license is specified.
2360 - Use YAML::DumpFile() if we're using a recent YAML,
2361 YAML::StoreFile() otherwise.
2363 - Show specific error messages in runthrough.t.
2365 - Add a generated_by entry to the META.yaml file.
2367 - Skip a few tests if YAML isn't installed.
2369 0.09 Fri Jun 28 11:07:08 EST 2002
2371 - The 'distdir' action wasn't deleting the distribution directory
2372 before building it again. This meant that, say, if you did 'Build
2373 disttest' then 'Build dist', you'd end up with a blib/ directory
2374 in your distribution. I actually had this happen for version
2375 0.08, and it's not nice to distribute a blib/ on CPAN.
2377 - We now keep track of the 'base_dir', i.e. the top-level build
2378 directory, so we can change back into it if we change out of it.
2379 This necessitated a cwd() method, which uses the Cwd.pm module.
2380 I'm aware of Cwd's limitations, particularly under taint-mode, but
2381 I don't know a way around using it here.
2383 - The 'dist_dir' action now changes back into 'base_dir' directory.
2385 - We now do write_config() inside the create_build_script() method,
2386 not inside the new() method.
2388 - Simplified the find_version() method, and improved its error
2391 - Renamed module_name_to_file() to find_module_by_name(), and added
2392 a parameter specifying the directories to search in. Previously
2393 we searched in 'lib' and @INC, which wasn't correct in all
2396 - Patched the docs to change "Build test" to "./Build test"
2397 [Elizabeth Mattijsen]
2399 0.08 Wed Jun 26 20:30:56 EST 2002
2401 - Fixed the 'prereq' alias for the 'requires' parameter
2403 - Added some tests in t/basic.t to test the dependency checking
2405 - Added 'artistic' as a licensing option [Arthur Bergman]
2407 - Fixed some bugs in requires/prereq/recommends/conflicts/build_depends
2409 - Fixed a typo in the 'distclean' action that prevented its
2410 execution [Arthur Bergman]
2412 - Separated the linking phase of building XS items into its own
2413 link_c() method. Its interface is still unstable, so it's not
2414 documented yet. [suggested by Arthur Bergman]
2416 0.07 Jun 9 2002 15:46
2418 - We now generate a 'META.yaml' metadata file during 'Build dist'.
2419 This can be very useful for lots of things, none of which are
2422 - Added a 'dynamic_config' parameter, defaulting to false. This
2423 lets distribution systems (CPAN.pm, etc.) build, test, and install
2424 "easy" modules without having to execute the Build.PL at runtime.
2425 It's also a guarantee that the list of dependencies is exactly
2426 what is present in the metadata file, and won't be changed during
2429 - Added support for "recommended" and "build-time requirement"
2430 modules, besides those that are absolutely required. Also added a
2433 - Changed the 'prereq' field to 'requires' (the old name will
2436 - Added support for checking the installed version of perl as an
2437 explicit dependency.
2439 - Added a 'license' parameter to specify one of a fixed number of
2440 licenses for the distribution.
2442 - Fixed a bug in Module::Build::Compat that was preventing arguments
2443 from being processed properly. [patch by Ilya Martynov]
2445 - Make sure we're in the right directory when we write the cleanup
2446 file, since various ExtUtils::Install errors might leave us in an
2447 unknown directory. [patch by Ilya Martynov]
2449 - Specified the 'license', 'recommends', and 'dynamic_config'
2450 values in Build.PL, and changed 'prereq' to 'requires'.
2452 0.06 Apr 2 2002 17:44
2454 - Added the Module::Build::Compat module for assisting and
2455 explaining compatibility with ExtUtils::Makemaker and cohorts.
2457 - State is now saved using Data::Dumper instead of my ad-hoc
2458 mechanism, guaranteeing data integrity. Whitespace values broke
2459 in the former scheme.
2461 - Added the 'recommended' option, which works like 'prereq' but
2464 - Separated the various parameters into three groups: parameters
2465 that tell Module::Build what to do, Config.pm parameters, and
2466 user-defined parameters for each build (the module author is the
2467 'user' here). This helps avoid conflicts between names, and it
2468 was silly to have them all together. The three groups of
2469 parameters are subject to the same rules for overriding: values
2470 specified during a Build action take precedence over values
2471 specified at 'perl Build.PL' time, which in turn take precedence
2472 over values specified in the call to new().
2474 - Improved support for .PL files. Any .PL file in the lib/
2475 directory or the directory specified by 'c_source' will now get
2476 properly executed. I also added a 'PL_files' parameter that you
2477 can use in case the .PL doesn't create an obviously-named output
2480 - If a prerequisite condition is malformed, we now report a prereq
2481 failure and say why. Previously we issued a warning and kept
2485 0.05 10-Jan-2002 20:26
2486 - Added the Module::Build->subclass() method, which makes it easier to
2487 make quick-and-dirty subclasses of Module::Build.
2489 - Reorganized the docs a bit.
2491 - Added the 'testdb' action, and the 'debugger=1' argument to the
2492 'test' action, both of which run tests under the perl
2493 debugger. (idea: Dave Rolsky)
2495 - Added prerequisite checking (Dave Rolsky)
2497 - Fixed an unlikely-to-occur bug with misquoted strings in the
2498 'Build' script (spot: Dave Rolsky)
2500 - We're more careful about shush-ing warnings that
2501 ExtUtils::Manifest might emit (Dave Rolsky)
2503 - The 'help' action now auto-generates the list of actions (Dave Rolsky)
2505 - Added the 'distcheck', 'skipcheck', 'distclean', 'distdir', and
2506 'disttest' actions (Dave Rolsky)
2508 - We're a little more aggressive about cleaning up temporary files -
2509 we'll try to clean them up even when we don't have write permission
2510 on them. This isn't as dastardly as it sounds; if we /really/
2511 don't have permission, we won't be able to remove them no matter
2514 0.04 Fri Nov 16 16:55 2001
2515 - Added a 'manifest' action. It's just like MakeMaker's 'make manifest', it
2516 brings your MANIFEST file up to date with your distribution directory.
2518 - Reorganized some of the responsibilities of various methods, which
2519 allows modules to be built and tested programmatically.
2521 - The 'clean' action will now clean up files that were created more
2522 recently than the on-disk cleanup registry was written.
2524 - Undefined values from Config.pm are handled correctly now.
2526 - The dispatch() method will now accept explicit dispatch
2527 parameters, for use in a programmatic setting.
2529 - $ENV{TEST_VERBOSE} will be set in test scripts if the 'verbose=1'
2532 - Moved the test.pl script to t/basic.t
2534 - Created the t/xs.t script, which tests building a module with a
2537 - Fixed the loading of $^O-specific modules (there were no such
2540 - Added a 'darwin' platform module, which removes -flat_namespace
2541 from $Config{ccflags} while building .xs modules (it's a linker
2542 flag, not a compiler flag).
2544 - Now uses $^W instead of the 'warnings' pragma, which apparently
2545 provides compatibility with perl 5.005 (I've only tested it with
2548 - If a file called C<visual.pl> exists in the top-level directory,
2549 this file will be executed as a Perl script during 'Build test' and
2550 its output will be shown to the user. This is a good place to put
2551 speed tests or other tests that don't use the C<Test::Harness> format
2554 - The 'Build install' step will now put .xs-related things in the
2555 correct architecture-dependent libraries.
2557 - Added the 'autosplit' option, even though I think autosplitting is
2560 0.03 Sun Nov 11 14:58 CDT 2001
2561 - The 'perl Build.PL' step will now detect whether the current
2562 environment is "unixish", "windowsish", etc., and load the correct
2563 module (i.e. Module::Build::Platform::Unix). More specific
2564 modules may also be written for particular values of $^O.
2566 - Module::Build will now process any .xs files in the lib/
2567 directory. Please let me know whether this works or not with your
2568 distribution & platform. I'll be trying out various distributions
2571 - Corrected some embarassing errors in the POD documentation. Also
2572 added a long documentation section on the various build actions
2573 (test, install, build, etc.) and added some neato ASCII art.
2575 - Added a 'cleanup' mechanism - any method may call the
2576 $self->add_to_cleanup(@files) method to register files which need
2577 to be cleaned up during 'Build clean'.
2579 - Added a 'Build help' action that gives a little syntax help, and
2580 lists all the actions available.
2582 - Fixed a bug in which 'blib/' wasn't properly being added to @INC
2583 when running 'Build test'.
2585 - For the 'Build dist' action, we'll use the 'tar' and 'gzip'
2586 programs (as specified by Config.pm) on Unix platforms, otherwise
2587 we'll use Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib.
2589 0.02 Wed Sep 5 00:53:04 CDT 2001
2590 - Added POD documentation.
2592 - Added the 'install', 'fakeinstall', and 'dist' actions.
2594 - new() will now determine version string based on 'module_version', or
2595 'module_version_from', or 'module_name', in that order.
2597 - Module::Build::Base handles its file paths in a platform-independent
2598 way, using the File:: modules
2601 0.01 Sun Aug 5 01:23:10 2001
2602 - original version; created by h2xs 1.1.1.4 with options -XA -n Module::Build