1 Revision history for Perl extension Module::Build.
3 0.27_09 Sat Mar 11 22:48:54 EST 2006
5 - Fixed find_perl_interpreter() so we can find the perl executable
6 when running from uninstalled perl even when $^X contains a
7 relative path. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
9 - Fixed warning message where we were printing the wrong field names.
12 - Added a 'testpodcoverage' action that runs a POD coverage check for
13 all modules in the distribution. [Yanick Champoux]
15 - Added a Cookbook example of subclassing to modify an action. [Dylan
16 Martin and David Golden]
18 - When building HTML documentation, we were opening the POD file and
19 not checking whether the open succeeded, which of course caused
20 problems down the line if it failed. Now we do "or die(...)" like
21 everywhere else. [Spotted by Joerg Braun]
23 0.27_08 Fri Mar 3 21:22:41 CST 2006
25 - Due to shell quoting issues and differences in syntax between
26 various flavors of Windows, the code for the 'pl2bat' utility
27 distributed with Perl has been incorporated into M::B::P::Windows.
28 [Thanks to Dr Bean and Ron Savage for help testing and isolating
31 - Modify add_build_element() so that it only adds elements if they
32 don't already exist. [David Wheeler]
34 - Fixed a bug in the 'pass-through' Makefile.PL in which we would die
35 if CPAN::Shell->install returned false, but apparently this return
36 value is unreliable. Now we only die if the module is actually
37 unavailable after installation.
39 - Fixed testing problems on VMS related to non-case-preserving
40 filesystems. We now bundle Tie::CPHash in the distribution (just
41 for testing purposes, it doesn't get installed) to help with
42 this. [Craig Berry and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
44 - We incorrectly documented the 'dynamic_config' flag in the META.yml
45 file as having a default value of false, but according to the
46 META.yml spec (which, for heaven's sake, we wrote) its default
47 value is true. Fixed. [Spotted by Adam Kennedy]
49 - The have_c_compiler() method was dying if the ExtUtils::CBuilder
50 module wasn't around, which is obviously an unhelpful thing to do.
51 Now it just returns false. [Spotted by John Peacock]
53 - Fix detection of $VERSION expressions that are not
54 assignments. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
56 - Obfuscate one of our constructs that uses a $VERSION variable,
57 because it was getting picked up by ExtUtils::MakeMaker's
58 version-finder. [Spotted by Randal Schwartz]
60 - The config_data script for querying and/or setting a module's
61 config data was forgetting to call write() after setting config
62 values (though setting feature values was working fine).
65 - On Windows, remove the pl2bat generated 'Build.bat' script without
66 the annoying "The batch file cannot be found." error. [Solution
67 provided by RazTK and foxidrive on newsgroup alt.msdos.batch]
69 - Our version comparisons should now work correctly with modules that
70 use version.pm to delcare their versions (e.g. "our $VERSION =
71 version->new('1.0.0')"). [John Peacock and Ron Savage]
73 - We now create a Build.bat script on versions of Windows where it
76 - Fixed the verbiage around choosing the correct make-alike on
77 different platforms to suggest using 'perl -V:make'. [Suggested by
80 0.27_07 Wed Feb 1 20:07:45 CST 2006
82 - The notes() method now returns the new value when called with two
83 arguments, just like when it's called with one argument. [Tyler
86 - The notes() method now distinguishes among the values undef, 0, and
87 the empty string, where previously it didn't. [Tyler MacDonald]
89 - We now unshift(@INC) rather than push(@INC) for the directory where
90 a build subclass lives, so that we're sure to pick up the right
91 version and not some already-installed version. [perlmonkey]
93 - The SIGNATURE file for version 0.27_06 (and I'm sure for lots of
94 versions before that too!) was messed up, since we were modifying
95 some files after signing. This has been band-aided for the time
96 being by signing twice. [Reported by Chris Dolan]
98 0.27_06 Mon Jan 23 21:44:54 CST 2006
100 - Fixed an undefined-variable warning when building the META.yml file
101 and the author hasn't used the 'module_name' mechanism. [Chris Dolan]
103 - We should now work with recent (> 0.49) versions of YAML.pm when
104 creating the META.yml file. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
106 - The y_n() method now requires the default parameter, and the
107 prompt() and y_n() methods have been improved with respect to
108 how they behave/detect when there is no user to ask. We're now
109 more consistent with MakeMaker, including respecting the
110 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT environment variable. [Tyler MacDonald and
111 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
113 - When building a README file using Pod::Text, work around a bug in
114 Pod::Text 3.01, which expects Pod::Simple::parse_file to take input
115 and output filehandles when it actually only takes an input
116 filehandle. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
118 0.27_05 Thu Jan 12 17:39:21 CST 2006
120 - In t/common.pl, we were attempting to let the user's installed
121 Test::More take precedence over ours, but getting thwarted by all
122 the test scripts' loading Test::More beforehand. Fixed. [Spotted
123 by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
125 - In various test scripts, we were outputting some strings that
126 weren't strictly conformant with Test::Harness's expected input,
127 though it didn't actually cause problems. Now we're more
128 conformant, though not yet strict. [Spotted by Yitzchak
131 0.27_04 Fri Dec 23 10:43:34 CST 2005
133 - Removed experimental feature that extended the prerequisite system
134 to apply ('requires', 'recommends', and 'conflicts') prereqs to all
135 actions. Most of the internal extensiblity has been retained so
136 that prereq types can easily be added, more selectively.
138 - Added a 'prereq_report' action that shows the user a well-formatted
139 list of all prerequisites, the versions required, and the versions
140 actually installed. [David Wheeler]
142 - Clarified the directory name that's created during the 'distdir'
143 action. [Suggested by Tyler MacDonald]
145 - Fixed a bug when creating the META.yml file without the help of
146 YAML.pm - some common strings weren't quoted & escaped properly.
147 Now only some uncommon ones are. [Spotted by Joshua ben Jore]
149 - Fixed a bug in which an "UNINST=1" argument specified to a
150 passthrough Makefile's "make install" wasn't actually seen by
153 - Rather than dying when the Build script is run from the wrong
154 directory, it now simply chdir()s into the right directory and
155 keeps going. [Suggested by Dominique Quatravaux]
157 - Added an "Examples on CPAN" section to the cookbook, with an
158 initial entry pointing to John Peacock's SVN-Notify-Mirror
161 - Add an invoked_action() method to return the name of the original
162 action invoked by the user.
164 - Add 'meta-spec' field to the generated META.yml file, including the
165 version of the specification followed by the current Module::Build
166 and the url where the specification can be found.
168 - Introduced two actions, 'html' & 'manpages', that generate
169 documentation for POD when the respective feature is enabled. The
170 actions will generate the documents even if there is no set place
171 to install to. However, if the actions are invoked as a dependency
172 of another action (e.g. build), the documentation will only be
173 built when there is a default or user-specified place to install to.
175 - Added support for environment variable, 'MODULEBUILDRC', which can
176 be used to specify the full path to an option file to use instead
177 of the default location of ~/.modulebuildrc. A special undocumented
178 setting of 'NONE' tells Module::Build not to load any user settings,
179 so tests can be run without tainting from user options.
181 - Documented and improved preliminary support for more Getopt::Long
182 style options are supported, including boolean options (--verbose,
183 --no-verbose), and use of hyphens in option names in addition to
186 - The option to disable/enable reading of the ~/.modulebuildrc file
187 is changed from 'skip_rcfile' to 'use_rcfile'
189 - Allow the 'distmeta' action to continue when 'MANIFEST' is missing,
190 omitting the generation of the 'provieds' field. [Steven Schubiger]
192 - Fixed some failing regex from generated MANIFEST.SKIP file.
194 - Fixed an edge case in $VERSION parsing where we thought a package()
195 declaration was happening but it wasn't. [David Golden]
197 - Added docs for the install_destination() and install_types() methods.
199 0.27_03 (Beta for 0.28) Mon Oct 10 11:19:23 EDT 2005
201 - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
202 example, when compiling XS modules). (This change actually
203 occurred in 0.27_01, but it was mistakenly omitted from the Changes
206 - Fixed an issue on Win32 (and other case-tolerant
207 non-case-preserving systems, possibly like VMS?) in which the
208 current working directory would sometimes be reported with
209 different case, fooling us into thinking that we were in the wrong
210 directory. [David Golden]
212 - The extra_compiler_flags setting was not actually being passed
213 along to ExtUtils::CBuilder so it could pass it along to the
216 - The synonyms 'scripts' and 'prereq' for 'script_files' and
217 'requires' were broken in a previous version (0.27_01, probably),
218 but now they're fixed. [David Golden]
220 - Previously, we assumed that any custom subclass of Module::Build
221 was located in _build/lib/. This is only true if the author used
222 the subclass() method, though. We now use %INC to find where the
223 custom subclass really is, so that we can "use lib" it. We also
224 issue a warning if it seems to be outside the build directory.
225 [Spotted by Peter Tandler]
227 - Added a URL for each license type that we know about, which will
228 appear as resources=>license: in the generated META.yml file.
230 - If the user passes a no_index parameter to our constructor, we now
231 pass that through when building the META.yml file. [Richard
234 - A few more status messages can now be suppressed by using 'quiet'
237 - Added some more entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file. [Chris
240 - Our POD parser will now accept "AUTHORS" as well as "AUTHOR" when
241 looking for the author list in a module. [David Wheeler]
243 - When looking for the POD to auto-generate a README file, or for the
244 AUTHOR or ABSTRACT for the distribution, we now also look for a
245 *.pod with the same name as the *.pm file specified by
246 'version_from'. [David Golden]
248 - The recommended dependency on ExtUtils::ParseXS has been moved into
249 the "C_support" auto_feature.
251 - When building XS files, we now pass the -DVERSION and -DXS_VERSION
252 flags to the compiler. [Spotted by Jerry Hedden]
254 - If a distribution has XS files and Module::Build has not been
255 configured with the "C_support" feature, we now issue a
256 warning. [Suggested by Jerry Hedden]
258 - Added a dir_contains() method.
260 - Some versions of MakeMaker, CPANPLUS, and/or PAUSE thought that a
261 certain line of our code was declaring a $VERSION when we didn't
262 intend to. The line has been obscurified so they won't think that
263 anymore. [Jos Boumans, RT #14226]
265 - Added the Apache, MIT, and Mozilla licenses to the list of licenses
266 that this module knows about. [Bob Ippolito]
268 - Fixed a pretty significant typo in the documentation for
269 auto_features. [Spotted by Jonas B. Nielsen]
271 - In order to aid people who want to do customization of the META.yml
272 file, we've added a "metafile" property that can then be easily
273 overridden in subclasses, changed do_create_meta_yml() to
274 do_create_metafile(), and split out the code that actually
275 generates the YAML into a new method, write_metafile(). [David
278 - Fixed a couple of non-helpful behaviors with extra_compiler_flags
279 and extra_linker_flags. These will automatically be run through
280 split_like_shell() when given to new() as strings.
282 - When the user doesn't have ExtUtils::ParseXS installed and we use
283 the old 'xsubpp', the displayed command line for creating the .c
284 file from the .xs file was missing its newline. Now it's got it.
286 0.27_02 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Jul 15 07:34:58 CDT 2005
288 - Provided initial support for the --prefix installation parameter,
289 which acts like MakeMaker's PREFIX. It is still highly recommended
290 NOT to use it when you could reasonably use --install_base or
291 --install_path or --install_dest, but that's just because the way
292 --prefix is designed is weird and unpredictable. Ultimately the
293 choice rests with the installing user. [Patches by Michael Schwern
296 - Fixed a bug in subclass() which prevented people from using it to
297 subclass subclasses of Module::Build. [Chris Dolan]
299 - Added a 'pure_install' action, which for the time being is
300 identical to the 'install' action. [Jos Boumans]
302 - Fixed a POD error in an L<http://...> tag. [Offer Kaye]
304 - Note several options for automatically creating a new module dev
305 tree. [Suggested by Eric Wilhelm]
307 - Removed some hard-coded references to File::Spec::Unix in the
308 creation of HTML docs, which should help that code work in more
309 places, and help people not to panic when they look at it. [Spotted
312 - We now use Pod::Readme by default (instead of Pod::Text) to
313 generate the README file when the 'create_readme' option is used.
314 If Pod::Readme is not installed, we will still fall back to using
315 Pod::Text. [Robert Rothenberg]
317 - The values of the "prefix", "install_base", "install_path", and
318 "install_dest" parameters can now begin with "~" or "~user", and
319 we'll de-tilde-ify them by using glob().
321 - The (optional) auto-creation of the README and Makefile.PL files
322 have been moved from the 'distdir' action to the 'distmeta'
323 action. [David Golden]
325 - When looking for a .modulebuildrc file, we now use a fancier method
326 of trying to find the home directory, because $ENV{HOME} isn't a
327 very cross-platform variable. [Robert Rothenberg]
329 - We now memoize the output of the internal _default_INC() method,
330 since it uses backticks and might be kind of slow.
332 - When processing XS files, we now look for a typemap in lib/ as well
333 as using the system's default typemap. [John Peacock]
335 - The DESTDIR, PREFIX, and INSTALL_BASE arguments to "make install"
336 are now supported for pass-through Makefiles (they've been
337 supported for quite a while as arguments to "perl
338 Makefile.PL"). [Requested by Guillaume Rousse]
340 - Test::Harness has changed its output format in recent versions,
341 which threw off one of our tests. We now allow for this different
342 format. [Reported by Scott Godin]
344 - Fixed an issue that prevented Module::Build from upgrading itself
345 using its own API (which is how CPANPLUS uses it). There are still
346 some issues with this solution, however. See ticket #13169 in
347 rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
349 - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when a distribution's author
350 could not be determined from its POD nor from the call to
351 Module::Build->new() in its Build.PL. See ticket #12318 in
352 rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
354 - Apparently on Windows and cygwin it's not possible to use the "-pi"
355 switch to perl without a backup extension, so now we use ".bak" and
356 remove the backup file when we're done. Thus the "dist" action for
357 Module::Build itself can now be run on those platforms. [Yitzchak
360 - Improved the handling of auto_features in the config_data access
361 script. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
363 0.27_01 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Apr 15 21:12:57 CDT 2005
365 Backward-incompatible (but better) changes:
367 * When using the 'install_base' option to choose a directory for
368 installing everything, perl modules now go into lib/perl5/ instead
369 of just lib/. It seems this is more consistent with people's
370 expectations, and the way I had it before was a bit peculiar to the
371 way I like things in my own home directory. [Michael Schwern]
373 * When the user is using the 'install_base' option, scripts will now
374 be installed by default in $install_base/bin/ rather than
375 $install_base/script/ . [Jan Hudec and Michael Schwern]
379 - The auto_features mechanism will now re-evaluate dependencies every
380 time feature() is called for an auto-feature, rather than freezing
381 the success/failure value during 'perl Build.PL' and using that
382 value for all eternity (or module update, whichever comes first).
383 This applies to both $build->feature() and
384 FooModule::ConfigData->feature() calls. [Requested by many]
386 - Added the meta_add and meta_merge mechanisms, which let the module
387 author add/merge arbitrary entries into the META.yml file.
389 - Now reads per-action default options from '$ENV{HOME}/.modulebuildrc'
390 if it exists. Command line options override anything set in the rc file.
392 - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
393 example, when compiling XS modules).
395 - The creation of Unix man pages is no longer a strict necessity - it
396 has now been turned into an 'auto-feature' contingent on the
397 presence of Pod::Man and a location specified for man pages to go.
399 - A user-specified 'install_path' setting will now take precedence
400 over an 'install_base' setting. This allows the user to use
401 'install_base' to set the base for all elements in one go, and then
402 use 'install_path' to override specific paths or add paths for
403 additional kinds of targets.
405 - Split the main documentation from 'Module/Build.pm' into two
406 sections. The user level documentation and overview remains in
407 'Module/Build.pm', while a new document,
408 'Module/Build/Authoring.pod', has been created for module authors.
412 - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
413 because of inadequate training in forensic debate) - we now pass its
414 arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
417 - Let resume() return an object blessed into the appropriate class
418 if the user has provided a subclass, as specified by the
419 'build_class' property. This allows current() and new_from_context()
420 to behave more like factory methods returning objects of the correct
421 class based on context. [Ray Zimmerman]
423 - Refactored methods relating to parsing perl module files for
424 package, version, and pod data into a new class:
425 Module::Build::ModuleInfo. It should not be considered part of
426 Module::Build's API, because we may split it out entirely as a
427 separate CPAN module that we depend on.
429 - Added new method Module::Build::prepare_metadata() for authors to
430 override in order to add custom fields to META.yml.
432 - We now use Test::More for our regression tests. If the user
433 doesn't have it installed, we include a copy in t/lib/ that we can
436 - When copying files in the 'distdir' action, set permissions to match
437 the original files. [Julian Mehnle]
439 - When adding files like META.yml to the MANIFEST, we now tell the
440 user we're doing so by printing one of the "Added to MANIFEST: ..."
443 - Added a runtime_params() method, which lets a module author see
444 which parameters were overridden by the user on the command line
445 (or in whatever paradigm the user originally invoked Module::Build
446 from). [David Wheeler]
448 - Added the current_action() method, which, surprisingly, returns the
449 name of the currently running action. [David Wheeler]
451 - Added docs for run_perl_script().
453 - Added some stuff to the docs about why PREFIX is unsupported, and
454 what to use instead. [Steve Purkis]
456 - The simple get/set accessor methods for all the 'parameters' like
457 verbose(), license(), etc. now have auto-generated documentation in
460 - Created a Cookbook entry for 'Adding new elements to the install
463 - We now add META.yml to the MANIFEST when META.yml is created, not
464 when MANIFEST is created. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
466 - Added some additional patterns to the suggested MANIFEST.SKIP
467 contents, and changed the docs so that we encourage the user to use
468 the MANIFEST.SKIP. [Ron Savage]
470 - Eliminated a redundant recipe from the Cookbook, now that there are
471 some more extensive recipes on how to add stuff to the
472 build/install sequences.
474 - Eliminated an undefined-variable warning when testing under perl 5.005
476 - When building HTML documentation, 'html_backlink' and 'html_css'
477 properties are now first-class properties, so they can be set from
478 the command line. [Suggested by Sagar R. Shah]
480 - Have script_files default to everything in bin. I believe this is
481 the least surprising behavior. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
483 - If script_files is given a directory, consider each file in that
484 directory tree as a script to be installed. This avoids having to
485 remember to add to the script_files list every time you add a
486 program. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
488 - We now only load Pod::Man when we actually need to build man pages.
490 - We now make Test::Harness use our carefully-selected path to a perl
491 executable regardless of Test::Harness's version. Previously we
492 let it figure stuff out for itself if it was a reasonably modern
493 version, but it's safer to make sure we're using the same perl
496 0.2610 Fri Apr 15 08:25:01 CDT 2005
498 - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
499 because of inadequate training in debate) - we now pass its
500 arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
501 in afterwards. [Ray Zimmerman]
503 - Fixed a bug in which config_data and feature data were being
504 forgotten and no ConfigData.pm module would get written. [Ray
507 - Added a recipe to the cookbook showing how to run a single test
508 file from the command line. [William McKee]
510 - For command-line arguments, we now accept the syntax "--foo=bar" in
511 addition to "--foo bar" and "foo=bar". This seems to fit well with
512 what GNU getopt and Getopt::Long do, and with people's
513 expectations. [Adam Spiers]
515 0.2609 Wed Mar 16 22:18:35 CST 2005
517 - The html docs that were created during the first invokation of
518 './Build' were being found and treated as pod that needed to be
519 converted to html during subsequent invokations. We now are more
520 specific about the directories we scan for pod that needs to be
521 converted, effectively avoiding blib/html. [Ray Zimmerman]
523 - If Pod::Man is not available, we now skip building man pages
524 (rather than dying) and tell the user why.
526 - We now write a .packlist file upon installation, in the same place
527 that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does. [Johnny Lam]
529 - On some Unix platforms (BSD derivatives, mostly) perl's $^X
530 variable isn't set to the full path of the perl executable, just
531 'perl', when the 'Build' script is run as './Build' and not 'perl
532 ./Build'. This can lead to some other modules (maybe
533 Test::Harness, maybe IO::File, I dunno...) getting very confused
534 about where they are, and they try to load stuff from the wrong
535 perl lib, and big trouble ensues. To fix this, we now set $^X to
536 the value of Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter().
538 - The 'distcheck' action will now die() if it finds an error in the
539 MANIFEST, rather than just printing on STDOUT. [David Golden]
541 - When the README and/or Makefile.PL are autogenerated using
542 create_readme or create_makefile_pl, we now automatically make sure
543 they're also listed in the MANIFEST file. [Suggested by Michael
546 - Got rid of the t/MANIFEST file - it's superfluous, and it had
547 zero-length, which some versions of Tar don't like. [William
550 - Added a mention in the documentation that each property that new()
551 accepts also has a corresponding get/set accessor. (In the version
552 0.27_0x series each accessor method is mentioned explicitly in the
553 docs.) [Omission spotted by Ian Langworth]
555 0.2608 Wed Jan 26 19:46:09 CST 2005
557 - Add workaround for test files because Devel::Cover causes
558 require to fail when the argument to require is an expression
559 involving File::Spec. We now assign the result of the File::Spec
560 call to a variable and then call require with that variable.
562 - Tilde-expansion is now performed on arguments passed to a
563 compatibility-Makefile.PL [Spotted by Sam Vilain]
565 - We now run the 'gzip' and 'tar' values through split_like_shell()
566 when running the 'dist' action, so that e.g. the 'gzip' value can
567 be set to something like "gzip -f --best" and it'll work
568 correctly. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
570 - Work around some bad mojo between Fedora Core [with its very long
571 @INC] and old versions of Test::Harness [with its propensity to
572 compound the number of @INC entries] that produced an "argument
573 list too long" error during testing. [assisted by Ville Skytta,
574 David Golden, & Randy Sims]
576 - Killed an infinite loop that would happen in y_n() in interactive
577 mode if the author provided no default value. [Max Maischein]
579 0.2607 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Sat Dec 18 14:14:09 CST 2004
581 - Instead of freezing @INC in the 'Build' script to the value it had
582 when Build.PL was run, we now just add those additional values that
583 aren't part of the default compiled-in @INC. [Michael Schwern]
585 - The run_perl_script() method will now propagate any extra entries
586 in @INC (such as those added by "use lib" or the -I command-line
587 switch) to the subprocess. This helps situations in which you want
588 to tell the subprocess where to find a certain module, for
589 instance. [Michael Schwern]
591 0.2606 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Dec 7 22:33:11 CST 2004
593 - Fixed a linking bug on Win32, in which compiled C code object files
594 never got linked in with the modules being built. [Dominic
597 - Fixed a bug in the new_from_context() method in which any arguments
598 passed made us die. [Spotted by Jos Boumans]
600 0.2605 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Nov 30 07:16:13 CST 2004
602 - Fixed a bug in which zero-length arguments for hash-valued
603 parameters (e.g. " --config foo= ") weren't being allowed.
605 - The tests now play better with environments in which version.pm is
606 pre-loaded, like in bleadperl. [John Peacock & Michael Schwern]
608 - Fixed a syntax error in one of the tests under perl 5.005.
610 0.2604 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 17 14:32:42 CST 2004
612 - Fixed a split_like_shell() bug introduced in 0.2603 for Windows, in
613 which an array reference passed as an argument was returned as an
614 array reference, rather than as a list. [Spotted by Steve Hay]
616 - module_name() will now return '' instead of undef when module_name
617 is not set. This eliminates a couple uninitialized-value
618 warnings. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
620 - The expand_test_dir() method will now skip dotfiles (like ._foo.t,
621 which sometimes gets automatically created on Mac systems) when
622 'recursive_test_files' is in effect. [Tom Insam]
624 0.2603 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Mon Nov 15 10:28:00 CST 2004
626 - Added documentation for the new_from_context() method.
628 - Completely rewrote the split_like_shell() method for the Windows
629 platform so it works like the command.com shell. [Randy Sims]
631 0.2602 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Thu Nov 4 11:19:29 CST 2004
633 - The two bug fixes in 0.2601 gnashed against each other incorrectly,
634 resulting in a Win32 bug in split_like_shell(). Fixed. [Spotted
635 by Steve Hay & Randy Sims]
637 - Removed a couple of 'use warnings' statements from the code - they
638 were causing compile failures on 5.005_04, where warnings.pm isn't
639 available. [Blair Zajac]
641 0.2601 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 3 20:09:27 CST 2004
643 - Fixed some backslash problems with split_like_shell() on
646 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
647 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
648 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
650 0.26 Sat Oct 9 17:51:01 CDT 2004
652 - Removed some language from the Module::Build::Compat documentation
653 that encouraged people to include a Build.PL without a Makefile.PL.
654 Also changed "a replacement for MakeMaker" to "an alternative to
655 MakeMaker" in the main documentation, which is basically what I
656 meant all along (i.e. a replacement for MakeMaker in your
657 particular build process - MakeMaker is never going to be fully
658 replaced in the perl world at large, of course), but some people
659 got the impression I was a little more truculent toward MakeMaker
662 - Added the formal concepts of "features" and "config data" for
663 distributions. This allows the module author to define a certain
664 set of features that the user can switch on and off (usually
665 according to whether they have the proper prerequisites for them),
666 and to save build-time configuration information in a standardized
667 format. See the main documentation of Module::Build for more
668 details. (Note that the name of this system was called
669 "BuildConfig" for a while in beta, but now it's called
672 - Added an 'auto_features' capability, which simplifies the process
673 of defining features that depend on a set of prerequisites.
675 - Added the 'get_options' parameter, which lets module authors
676 declare certain command-line arguments their Build.PL can accept
679 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
680 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
681 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
683 - Added a 'testpod' action, which checks the syntactic validity of
684 all POD files in the distribution using Test::Pod. This eliminates
685 the need for doing so in a regression test. [Initial patch by Mark
688 - Added a process_files_by_extension() method, which generalizes the
689 kind of processing (essentially just copying) that happens for .pm
690 and .pod files, and makes it available to other user-defined types
691 of files. See the new cookbook entry.
693 - Improved compatibility with version.pm when authors are using
694 version objects as their $VERSION variables. Now
695 version_from_file() can deal with these objects. Currently we
696 stringify them right away, but perhaps in the future we will
697 preserve them as objects for a while.
699 - During 'distdir' and 'distmeta' actions, die a bit more gracefully
700 if there's no MANIFEST (i.e. explicitly say that a MANIFEST is
701 required). [Spotted by Adrian Howard]
703 - Eliminated a recursive dependency between creating the MANIFEST
704 file and creating the META.yml file. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
706 - On Win32, where a single directory might be known variously as
707 "Module-Build-0.25_03" or "MODULE~1.25_", we now use
708 Win32::GetShortPathName($cwd) to verify that the 'Build' script is
709 being run from the correct directory, rather than just a string
712 - The add_to_cleanup() method will now accept glob()-style patterns
713 in addition to explicit filenames. Also documented the fact that
714 they can be specified in either Unix-style or native-style
717 - Passing a PREFIX value to a pass-through Makefile 'make install'
718 now has the same effect as passing it to 'perl Makefile.PL' (it
719 dies with a helpful message).
721 - Added the 'testcover' action, which runs a test suite using
722 Devel::Cover. [Dave Rolsky]
724 - Added the 'lib' and 'arch' installation directories to the search
725 path for the 'diff' action, since they won't necessarily (though
726 they usually will) be in @INC at installation time. [Suggested by
729 - The "=head3" POD directive isn't supported in older podlators
730 (particularly Pod::Man), so we don't use it anymore.
732 - Fixed a typo & improved the docs in the SUBCLASSING section. [Ron
735 - Added the '.tmp' suffix to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file, which
736 should avoid adding things like pod2htmi.tmp to the MANIFEST [Ron
739 - Backup files from Emacs, containing the string '.#' in their names,
740 should no longer find their way into the blib/ directory (and from
741 there into installation directories).
743 - Worked around an unpleasant interaction between version.pm and the
744 version-checking code that makes sure Module::Build's version
745 hasn't changed during the lifetime of the 'Build' script. [Reported
746 by Trevor Schellhorn]
748 - Fixed a problem in htmlify_pods() that would produce test failures
749 on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere). [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
751 - Fixed a test failure on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere) in
752 t/compat.t, resulting from empty environment variables being set to
753 the empty string (as opposed to simply being unset) by their mere
754 presence in the "EXPORT:" list.
756 - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when the author specified
757 'dist_author' manually in their Build.PL script. [Spotted by Ron
760 - The 'provides' section of the META.yml file wasn't being built
761 properly on Win32, because of a mismatch between URL-format and
762 native-format pathnames. Fixed. [Reported by Robert Rothenberg]
764 - The progress message "lib/Foo.xs -> lib/Foo.c" was previously being
765 output even when the Foo.c file wasn't being rebuilt. It's now
768 - Fixed a couple of places in Compat.pm where it could have forgotten
769 which perl interpreter it had been run with ($^X isn't very
772 - On some systems, the way we updated the timestamp on the
773 "lib/Foo.bs" file (one of the output files for XS-based modules)
774 was failing. It's been replaced by a simple call to utime().
776 - Fixed a problem in t/compat.t that prevented it from being run
777 individually using 'make test TEST_FILES=t/compat.t'. The problem
778 was that a couple environment variables (TEST_FILES, MAKEFLAGS)
779 were being passed through to subprocesses, and confused them.
781 - Fixed an important typo in the documentation for the 'install_base'
782 parameter ('libdoc' and 'bindoc' were switched). [Ray Zimmerman]
784 - The pass-through Makefiles (type 'small' or 'passthrough') now
785 support the TEST_FILES parameter to 'make test'.
787 - Fixed a fatal error that would occur on perl 5.005 when building
788 HTML documentation, because its version of Pod::Html was old and
789 didn't like some of the parameters we fed it. [Spotted by Blair
792 - The final line of the generated pass-through Makefile was missing
793 its trailing newline, which is now fixed. [Chip Salzenberg]
795 - We now depend on YAML version at least 0.35 and at most version
796 0.49, so that we don't pick up a new (and backward-incompatible) beta
799 - Squashed a warning in t/basic.t about '"Foo::Module::VERSION" used
800 only once', and one in PPMMaker about $^V being undefined. [Blair
803 - Added a couple temporary output files from HTML documentation
804 generation to the cleanup list. [Toby Ovod-Everett]
806 - The PodParser module will now only extract paragraphs in the
807 'AUTHOR' section of the pod if they contain an '@' character. This
808 tends to do a better job, heuristically speaking, of returning
811 - Added regression tests and a helper method ( add_build_elements() )
812 for adding new elements to the build process. Also some
815 - Wrote a recipe in the Cookbook for adding new elements to the build
816 process, and a recipe for changing the order in which the steps in
817 the build process will occur.
819 0.25 Sun Apr 25 11:12:36 CDT 2004
821 - During the 'distdir' action, if no MANIFEST.SKIP file exists, we
822 will now create a reasonable default one. [Randy Sims]
824 - In Makefile compatibility mode, some arguments (like UNINST,
825 TEST_VERBOSE, etc.) given to 'make' are now recognized and passed
826 through to Module::Build. [Randy Sims]
828 - The regression tests now make sure that several pass-through
829 Makefile.PL parameters are dealt with correctly.
831 - Added support for the 'LIB' parameter to passthrough
832 Makefile.PLs. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
834 - Passing a 'PREFIX' parameter to a passthrough Makefile.PL was
835 supposed to make it die with a helpful error message, but instead
836 it just ignored it and blindly tried to install to the wrong place.
837 This is now fixed. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
839 - Added an extra_compiler_flags() accessor method.
841 - If the 'recursive_test_files' option was turned on, the test files
842 weren't sorted, but returned in an apparently random order. Now
843 they're sorted. [Martyn Peck]
845 - Documented the 'tar' and 'gzip' parameters to the 'dist' and
848 - The generation of HTML documentation now works (it was accidentally
849 partially implemented with an itchy patch-application finger in
852 - Fixed a fatal bug when building META.yml with YAML.pm and
853 'dynamic_config' is set. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
855 - Fixed some incorrect error messages that occurred when
856 compiling/linking C sources went awry.
858 - If the author uses a custom builder subclass, that subclass will
859 now be loaded correctly in the passthrough Makefile.PL if the
860 author uses the 'small' or 'passthrough' Makefile.PL options in
861 Module::Build::Compat. [Martyn Peck and Jaap Karssenberg]
863 - If the author uses a custom builder subclass created dynamically
864 through the subclass() method, passthrough Makefile.PLs (of type
865 'passthrough' or 'small') didn't work properly, because the custom
866 builder module wouldn't be loaded at the right time. This has been
867 fixed. [Reported by Toby Ovod-Everett]
869 - In M::B-generated 'traditional' Makefile.PLs, the entries in
870 'PREREQ_PM' are now sorted ASCIIbetically rather than randomly.
872 - The install_types() method will now return any additional types
873 given as 'install_path' arguments, as well as all elements of the
874 current 'install_sets' entry. This makes it easier to add new
875 types of installable objects to the mix.
877 - As a consequence of the previous change, there is no longer any
878 need to have an explicit 'install_types' data member, so it has
881 - In the second example code for the Module::Build->subclass()
882 method, the Module::Build module needed to be loaded before calling
883 its methods. [John Peacock]
885 - Fixed minor error in the POD structure of Module::Build and
886 Module::Build::Platform::VMS docs.
889 0.24 Wed Feb 25 15:57:00 CST 2004
891 - Fixed a problem with incude_dirs not being propagated to the 'ccs'
892 file when compiling XS files on Win32. [Randy Sims and Steve Hay]
894 - In 0.23, Module::Build::Compat->fake_makefile() started choking
895 when no 'build_class' parameter was supplied in the Makefile.PL.
896 Since these Makefile.PLs still exist on CPAN, we now default
897 'build_class' to 'Module::Build', which was the old 0.22 behavior
898 anyway. [Reported by Martin Titz and Jeremy Seitz]
900 - Added documentation for the 'include_dirs' parameter to
903 - Changed the no-op command on Win32 from 'rem' to 'rem>nul' inside
904 pass-through Makefiles. [Randy Sims]
906 - The 'autosplit' parameter now accepts an array reference if
907 multiple files should be split. [Jaap Karssenberg]
909 - find_perl_interpreter() will now use $^X (if absolute), $ENV{PATH}
910 (if $^X isn't absolute), and $Config{perlpath}, in that order.
911 Also, we now make darn sure the result is the same version of perl,
912 by checking Config::myconfig() for a match against the current
913 perl. [Reported by Edward Sabol]
915 - Fixed a fatal error on Win32 (and any other platform that doesn't
916 define an installation location for Unix-style man pages) during
919 0.23 Sun Feb 8 22:01:18 CST 2004
921 - Fixed a compatibility problem in pass-through Makefiles (created by
922 Module::Build::Compat). Some 'make' utilities (for example, BSD
923 make) didn't like a '@' by itself on a line, so we stole some
924 'NOOP' code from MakeMaker to fix it. [Reported by Mathieu Arnold]
926 - Added a 'ppm_dist' action, which just makes the PPD file and then
927 makes a tarball out of the blib/ directory. [Randy Sims]
929 - The @INC of the parent process is now propagated to child processes
930 when processing *.PL files. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
932 - We now only attempt to fix the shebang line on a script if the
933 shebang line matches the regex /perl/i . This fixes some instances
934 where people put shell scripts in their distributions. [Jaap
937 - We no longer generate a 'requires', 'recommends', 'conflicts',
938 etc. entry in the META.yml file if there's no data to go in it.
940 - Added a documentation reference to Michael Schwern's wiki for tips
941 on conversion from MakeMaker to M::B. [Randy Sims]
943 - If there are script_files, we now add EXE_FILES to the
944 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated by M::B::Compat. [Suggested by
947 - Documented the 'test_files' parameter to new(). [Reported by Tony
950 - Fixed a problem in "Build help <action>", which didn't find the
951 correct help chunk if <action> was the final element in a POD
952 list. [Jaap Karssenberg]
954 - Fixed a problem in the get_action_docs() method which gave
955 incorrect results if the method was called more than once in the
958 - Fixed a problem in which actions defined by user subclasses
959 wouldn't be available via the pass-through Makefiles created by
960 Module::Build::Compat. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
962 - We now use Data::Dumper instead of our own ad-hoc serialization
963 routines to create the 'traditional' Makefile.PL
964 arguments. [Suggested by Yuval Kojman]
966 0.22 Sat Jan 10 22:05:39 CST 2004
968 - On Unixish platforms, the syntax "FOO=BAR /bin/baz arg arg" now
969 works when present in $Config{ld}. This solves a problem on Mac OS
970 X 10.3. [Reported by Adam Foxson]
972 - The have_c_compiler() now also tests whether the linker seems to
975 - Fixed a problem with creating the distribution tarball in which
976 permissions would usually be all read-only. We now use our own
977 file-copying routines rather than those in ExtUtils::Manifest,
978 because those do some annoying extra permissions-setting stuff for
979 no apparent reason. It makes me happy that this was a very very
980 easy patch to make. [Reported by Thomas Klausner]
982 - The compile_c() method now includes $Config{cccdlflags} in its
983 command invocation. It's usually empty, but not always, so we
984 didn't notice for a while. [Richard Clamp]
986 - On some platforms it's common to have a $Config{make} defined, but
987 no 'make' utility actually available. We now detect this and skip
988 some 'make' compatibility tests. [Randy Sims]
990 - Fixed a spurious testing failure on non-Unix platforms that
991 happened because we accidentally call localize_file_path() on empty
992 strings in the test suite. [Spotted by Randy Sims on Windows]
994 - Made the 'name', 'abstract', 'author', and 'version' properties
995 required when building a PPD file. [Spotted by Randy Sims, Dave
996 Rolsky, & Glenn Linderman]
998 - When building a 'traditional' Makefile.PL with
999 Module::Build::Compat, we now use 'VERSION_FROM' when possible,
1000 rather than always using 'VERSION'. This way the Makefile.PL
1001 doesn't have to get modified every release.
1003 - Made some fixups to the 'PPM' info-file, improving compatibility
1004 with ActiveState's PPM tools. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
1006 - The 'dist_author' property can now accept multiple authors, see the
1007 docs for more info. [Randy Sims]
1009 - If the user doesn't have YAML.pm installed during ACTION_dist, we
1010 now create a minimal YAML.pm anyway, without any dependency
1013 - The 'distribution_type' field is no longer created in META.yml
1014 files, in accordance with the finding made at the London CLPAN
1015 meeting that it's essentially meaningless and ill-defined.
1017 - The 'dist' action now accepts an optional 'tar' parameter to use a
1018 system utility for building the tarball, and a 'gzip' parameter for
1019 compressing it. If these are used, Archive::Tar won't be invoked.
1020 This was added because Archive::Tar is producing some very
1021 non-cross-platform tarballs that many tar utilities can't handle.
1023 - During testing, if YAML.pm isn't installed, then we won't try
1024 making a tarball either, since this would invoke YAML to create the
1027 - Fixed a problem with chmod() being called incorrectly on MacOS
1028 (i.e. MacPerl, not Mac OS X). [Spotted by Paul Sanford Toney]
1030 - Fixed a problem with the --config flag not being treated properly
1031 (essentially ignored) on the command line for 'perl Build.PL' or
1032 'Build <action>'. [Spotted by Jakub Bogusz]
1034 - Added a new config() method to get at the Build object's notion of
1037 - Test::Harness is starting to contend for the Most Crotchety Module
1038 Award. Work around a few of its nits when setting harness
1039 switches. [Spotted by Diab Jerius]
1041 - Now the Build script will die() if we're run from the wrong
1042 directory, rather than trying to chdir() to what it thinks is the
1043 right directory and do its work there. See
1044 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4039 . [Chris Dolan]
1046 - Changed the manpage separator on OS/2 to '.'. [Ilya Zakharevich]
1048 - On OS/2, disable C compilation, since apparently it isn't working
1049 there. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich]
1051 - Inserted a comment into auto-generated Makefile.PLs saying it was
1052 auto-generated. [Randy Sims]
1054 - Fixed some annoying behavior in generated passthrough Makefile.PLs
1055 when the user chose not to install Module::Build, or if
1056 installation failed. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich and Richard
1059 - Moved the documentation for 'codebase' to the section where it's
1060 relevant. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
1062 - Fixed a have_c_compiler() failure on some platforms, we now define
1063 a boot_compilet() function (since we're compiling a library, not an
1064 executable). [Randy Sims]
1066 - Added a recipe to the Module::Build::Cookbook describing how to
1067 maintain compatibility with older versions of CPAN.pm [Jim Cromie]
1069 - Removed caveat about "looking for alternatives" in how hashes are
1070 specified on the command line, since an alternative has been found.
1072 - Previously most warnings about optional prerequisites looked like
1073 they were actually error messages about required prerequisites.
1074 This has been corrected. [Reported again by Sagar Shah]
1076 - Added support for building XS (and C in general) stuff on AIX.
1077 This was done by a small reorganization of prelink_c() method from
1078 Windows.pm to Build.pm, and it is only invoked for the platforms
1079 that need it invoked. AIX also massages some very naughty bits
1080 (MakeMaker macro variables) in $Config{lddlflags} that should never
1081 have been put there, but alas, they're there, so we find & resolve
1084 - Added OS/2 ($^O = 'os2') to the list of Unix-like platforms. This
1085 basically means that most platform-specific operations will be done
1086 in a Unix-like manner.
1088 - Pass-through Makefiles will now die() when they're given a PREFIX
1089 parameter, and suggest using 'destdir' or 'install_base' instead.
1090 Previously they just ignored the parameter and tried to install to
1091 the default location, which is clearly not what the user wanted.
1093 - Updated my email address in the documentation to a more recent
1096 - Add NetBSD to the list of Unix-like systems. [Adrian Bunk]
1098 - Add SVR5 to the list of Unix-like systems. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
1100 - We now use Pod::Parser to find the ABSTRACT and AUTHOR when it's
1101 available on the system. [initial patch by Randy Sims]
1103 - Fixed a little scalar/list buglet in a documentation example.
1105 0.21 Wed Oct 15 20:47:05 CDT 2003
1107 - Added a have_c_compiler() method.
1109 - Added documentation for the requires(), recommends(),
1110 build_requires(), and conflicts() methods.
1112 - On Unix platforms, we now create the "Build" script with a #! line
1113 matching the perl interpreter that was used to invoke the Build.PL
1114 script, rather than whatever is in $Config{startperl}. This avoids
1115 a potential warning about the interpreters not matching. [Spotted
1118 - The Unix version now uses the safer multi-argument form of system()
1119 when building distribution tarballs.
1121 - Added a regression test for the 'dist' action to the t/runthrough.t
1124 - Fixed a problem with File::Spec usage when creating the names of
1125 'libdoc' manual pages - the code wasn't dealing with the volume or
1126 file portions correctly on certain platforms.
1128 - When creating the names of the 'libdoc' manual pages, we no longer
1129 assume that pods are under the hard-coded paths 'blib/lib' or
1132 - Fixed a crashing bug that could sometimes occur when the
1133 distribution contained no 'lib' directory. [Chris Dolan]
1135 - Fixed a crashing bug that happened when the user had .PL files in
1136 the lib/ directory and didn't explicitly name them in a hash
1137 reference to the new() constructor. [Chris Reinhardt, bug #4036]
1139 - .PL files are now passed the names of their target file(s) on the
1140 command line when they run.
1142 - When YAML.pm wasn't installed, t/runthrough.t wasn't properly
1143 skipping some tests that required YAML. This is now fixed.
1146 - Added documentation for the dist_version() and dist_name()
1147 methods. [Spotted by Johan Vromans]
1149 - Existing values in $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} are now respected
1150 and not squashed when we run the 'test' action. [Paul Johnson]
1152 - On cygwin, the separator string for manual page names has been set
1153 to '.'. Previously it was '::', inherited from Unix. [Yitzchak
1156 - Avoid a warning when Build.PL is run (i.e. when the new() method is
1157 called) and no MANIFEST file exists. [Michael Schwern and Kevin
1160 - Added documentation for the 'code' and 'docs' actions. [Steve
1161 Purkis and Mark Stosberg]
1163 - The internal method compile_support_files() has been renamed to
1164 process_support_files() in order to make it consistent with other
1165 processing methods. Note that it was never documented using the
1166 old name. It's still not documented, actually. Maybe later.
1168 - Skip the 'write' pseudo-entry in the 'diff' action's installation
1171 - Fixed a bug in which notes() set in the Build.PL before
1172 create_build_script() was called would get lost unless more notes()
1173 were also set afterwards. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
1175 - The process of building elements of the distribution is now driven
1176 by a list of build elements, paving the way for letting people add
1177 their own types of build elements in future versions of
1178 Module::Build (or in the current version with some difficulty).
1180 - Fixed some linking errors on Cygwin. [Randy Sims, Terrence Brannon]
1182 - Fixed a line-ending problem with detecting the dist_abstract
1183 properly on Cygwin. [Randy Sims]
1185 - Fixed a problem with signatures that occurred if 'distsign' was
1186 called before 'distdir' - the signature would be generated twice.
1188 - Added a 'create_readme' parameter to new(), which will use
1189 Pod::Text to generate a README from the main (dist_version_from)
1190 module file during the 'distdir' action.
1192 - We now refuse to run the 'Build' script if it was created using a
1193 different version of Module::Build. This has caused a couple of
1194 nasty bugs in the past, I don't want to know what it would cause in
1197 - Documentation for do_system() has been added. [Dave Rolsky]
1199 - run_perl_script() is now available as a class method, though it
1200 will need to (re-)find the perl interpreter in this case.
1202 - Added a new_from_context() method that authors of automated tools
1203 like CPANPLUS and CPAN can use instead of running all tasks as
1204 sub-processes. We also use it in the regression tests for
1205 Module::Build itself. ** Note that this method is currently
1206 undocumented because its name may change in the future. **
1208 - When signing distributions with Module::Signature, we now
1209 automatically add the SIGNATURE file to the MANIFEST, avoiding an
1210 unpleasant chicken/egg problem for the module author.
1211 [unpleasantness spotted by sungo]
1213 - In Module::Build::Compat, added support for the 'verbose' parameter
1214 to Makefile.PL [spotted by Soren Andersen, fixed by Michael
1217 - The Module::Build distribution now has a cryptographic 'SIGNATURE'
1218 file created by Module::Signature.
1220 - Added proper documentation for the subclass() method. [spotted by
1223 - Worked around a Config.pm bug in Red Hat 9 which prevented man
1224 pages from being installed in the correct places. [spotted by Ville
1227 - Fixed a Module::Build::Compat bug in which setting INSTALLDIRS
1228 caused a crash. [spotted by Ilya Martynov]
1230 0.20 Tue Aug 26 14:34:07 CDT 2003
1232 - Separated the 'build' action into two separate actions, 'code' and
1233 'docs'. This is similar to MakeMaker's separation of the 'all'
1234 target into 'pure_all' and 'manifypods'. This fixes a permissions
1235 hassle in which doing 'sudo Build install' would often create local
1236 doc files that needed superuser permissions to delete.
1238 - Enhanced the 'help' action - 'Build help foo' will now show the POD
1239 documentation for the 'foo' action.
1241 - Added a notes() feature, which helps share data transparently
1242 between the Build.PL and t/*.t scripts.
1244 - The installation process will now create man(1) and man(3) pages
1245 from POD in modules & scripts, and install them. We don't build
1246 man pages when there's nowhere to install them, such as on some
1247 Win32 or most Mac systems. [large patch by Steve Purkis, 5.005 fix
1250 - The 'distdir' action now copies files to the distribution
1251 directory, rather than making them hard links to the original
1252 files. This allows authors to do last-minute alterations of the
1253 files without affecting the originals. [Dave Rolsky]
1255 - If the author uses XS files in nonstandard locations, the copied
1256 versions of those files will now be cleaned up properly.
1258 - In invoking the 'test' action or invoking 'xsubpp', we now use the
1259 same perl executable as we use everywhere else, rather than blindly
1260 using $^X or $Config{perlpath} (neither of which are very
1263 - Fixed a problem with the 'install_path' parameter given to
1264 'Build.PL' being lost in subsequent actions. [Reported by Mathieu
1267 - Fixed yet another bug with installation directories, in which the
1268 'install_base' parameter wasn't being respected on the command
1269 line. [Spotted by Jonathan Swartz]
1271 - Changed the way the depends_on() method works inside action
1272 subroutines - now each action will only run once per dispatch()
1273 invocation (similar to how perl's require() function works). This
1274 helps avoid some difficult problems with dependency loops.
1276 - Changed the documentation for the 'autosplit' parameter to give
1277 reasons why it may not be a good idea to use, but no longer
1278 threaten to remove it. [Suggested by Martyn J. Pearce]
1280 - Improved the formatting of the 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated
1281 by Module::Build::Compat->create_makefile_pl. [Michael Schwern]
1283 - The 'traditional' Makefile.PL will now use the 'module_name'
1284 parameter (as NAME) if it's available, otherwise it will continue
1285 to use the 'dist_name' (as DISTNAME). [Michael Schwern]
1287 - Created read/write accessor methods for all our 'properties'.
1290 - The 'test_files' parameter can now be specified using glob() syntax
1291 (i.e. 't/*.t'), and the corresponding test_files() method is now a
1292 read/write accessor.
1294 - The location of the 'blib' directory is now a property of the Build
1295 object - nobody is likely to notice this change, with any luck, but
1296 it makes the design and code cleaner.
1298 - The 'disttest' and 'distsign' methods now chdir() back to the
1299 directory where they started, rather than to the base_dir of the
1302 - Improved comparisons of version strings containing underscore
1303 characters (indicating "beta" status). [Steve Purkis]
1305 - Added documentation for the 'dist_author', 'dist_abstract', and
1306 'codebase' parameters to new(), and for the 'ppd' action. [Dave
1309 - Added documentation for the up_to_date() and contains_pod()
1310 methods. [Dave Rolsky]
1312 - 'traditional' pass-through Makefile.PLs will now contain an
1313 INSTALLDIRS parameter matching the Build.PL's 'installdirs'
1316 - version_from_file() now ignores $VERSION variables that are defined
1317 in POD or comments. It can still be tricked by $VERSIONs in string
1318 literals, though. [Steve Purkis]
1320 - The code to find packages in module files now uses Steve's scanning
1321 method (above) to skip package-declaration-lookalikes in POD or
1324 - The 'disttest' action will now propagate its @INC settings to its
1327 0.19 Wed Jul 9 22:34:02 CDT 2003
1329 - Added support for the 'install_path' parameter, which allows custom
1330 specification of where things should be installed. This is a major
1331 improvement to Module::Build's functionality.
1333 - Added the 'install_base' parameter. Provides an easy way to
1334 install to local or alternative directory trees.
1336 - We now install scripts by default to $Config{installsitebin}
1337 instead of $Config{installscript}. Neither is a great choice, but
1338 the former is likely to be [analogous to] /usr/local/bin, and the
1339 latter is likely to be [something like] /usr/bin . If/when there's
1340 a $Config{installsitescript}, we'll start using that automatically.
1342 - Fixed a problem on Win32 in which C and XS files wouldn't be
1343 compiled properly, and the user would see an error about 'Can't
1344 locate object method "format_compiler_cmd"'.
1345 (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2391)
1347 - We now use the correct perl interpreter (via
1348 Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter) in pass-through makefiles.
1350 - The t/compat.t test now uses $Config{make} instead of just 'make'
1351 to test makefile compatibility. This fixes some failures on Win32.
1352 We also skip this test entirely if no make utility is available.
1354 - Alternative distribution layouts are now supported via the
1355 'pm_files', 'pod_files', 'xs_files', 'PL_files', and 'script_files'
1356 parameters to new(). This should help people transition from
1357 MakeMaker, and might even help us write an automatic transition
1360 - Added tests to t/runthrough.t that check to see installation is
1361 happening correctly.
1363 - Added experimental code to build a .ppd file, in support of
1364 ActiveState's "Perl Package Manager". [original patch by Dave
1367 - For authors who use Module::Signature to sign their distributions,
1368 we now create the SIGNATURE file right in the distribution
1369 directory, rather than creating it in the top-level directory and
1370 copying it into place. This solves problems related to having
1371 files get out of date with respect to their signatures.
1373 - We now don't depend on Module::Info to scan for packages during the
1374 'dist' action anymore, because it's way too aggressive about
1375 loading other modules that you may not want loaded. We now just
1376 (ick, yuck) scan the .pm files with a regular expression to find
1377 "package Foo::Bar;" statements.
1379 - Silenced some annoying copyright/logo output from Microsoft 'nmake'
1380 during Makefile compatibility testing. [Randy W. Sims]
1382 - Command-line arguments may now either be specified using the syntax
1383 '--foo foovalue' as well as the traditional syntax 'foo=foovalue'.
1384 The former is often more convenient for shell tab-completion when
1385 the value is a filename (as in 'Build test --test_files t/basic.t').
1387 - Command-line arguments may now include non-named parameters, which
1388 make some actions more natural. For instance, the 'diff' action
1389 may now be invoked as 'Build diff -u' rather than as
1390 'Build diff flags=-u'.
1392 - Pass-through Makefile.PLs now convert unknown Makefile.PL
1393 parameters to lower-case and hand them to Build.PL, rather than
1394 ignoring them. This means we only have to account for the
1395 differences in the interface, not the entire interface, in
1396 translating parameters.
1398 - We now issue a warning & don't proceed if asked to make a distdir
1399 and there's no MANIFEST or it's empty.
1401 - Moved INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to increase compatibility with various
1402 odd versions of 'make' during 'make install' on case-insensitive
1403 filesystems (like nmake on Win32, often). Only affects the
1404 Makefile compatibility layer. [reported by Andrew Savige]
1406 - Module::Build->known_actions() now works as a class method.
1408 - Pass-through makefiles now list each action individually rather
1409 than using a ".DEFAULT" catch-all. This improves compatibility
1410 with 'nmake' on Win32, and probably some other less common 'make'
1411 dialects. [Andrew Savige]
1413 - We're now more aggressive about testing the pass-through makefiles,
1414 e.g. making sure they can run 'all' and 'test' targets, and making
1415 sure the Makefile itself actually exists.
1417 - Fixed a problem with check_installed_status() when installed
1418 version contains non-numeric characters like underscores.
1420 - Fixed a problem with a bareword 'File::Spec' in one of the test
1421 scripts that caused it not to compile under 5.8.0 (but is fine
1424 - Fixed a problem with the 'destdir' installation parameter on
1425 platforms that have volume identifiers in path names (like "C:" on
1426 Win32). The identifier is now stripped from installation
1427 directories before prepending the destdir path. The destdir path
1428 may still have a volume identifier on it.
1430 - Added an 'add_to_cleanup' parameter to new() that calls
1431 add_to_cleanup() immediately for the given files.
1433 - The distribution directory (e.g. Sample-Module-0.13/ ) will now be
1434 deleted during the 'clean' or 'realclean' actions.
1436 - During testing of modules, blib/lib and blib/arch are now added as
1437 absolute paths, not relative. This helps tests that load the
1438 modules at runtime and may change the current working directory
1439 (like Module::Build itself does during testing).
1441 - The $Config{cc} entry on some people's systems is something like
1442 'ccache gcc', so we now split that string using split_like_shell().
1445 - Added documentation for 'extra_linker_flags' parameter, and added a
1446 corresponding 'extra_compiler_flags' parameter. [original patch by