Revision history for Perl extension Module::Build.
0.27_11 Tue Mar 28 22:50:50 CST 2006
- Added the create_packlist property, default true, which controls
whether packlist files will be written during installation. This
was already part of Module::Build 0.2609, but for some reason we've
forgotten it in the 0.27_xx series. [Spotted by Steve Kirkup]
- Document the versions of Module::Build where each feature, action,
constructor argument, and method was first publicly documented.
- More fixes for find_perl_interpreter() to work with BSD flavored
UNIX: Ensure we always return absolute paths; throw an exception
upon failure to find correct interperter; document everything.
- We now include our own YAML.pm work-alike that we can use when the
real YAML isn't installed. We might soon even start using it when
YAML is installed, because the YAML API and dependency chain have
been changing in unfavorable ways lately. [Stephen Adkins]
- Fixed some shell-argument-quoting issues on VMS. In the process,
we have added some support for avoiding tripping over
shell-argument-quoting issues on other platforms too. [Initial
patch by Craig A. Berry]
0.27_09 Sat Mar 11 22:48:54 EST 2006
- Fixed find_perl_interpreter() so we can find the perl executable
when running from uninstalled perl even when $^X contains a
relative path. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
- Fixed warning message where we were printing the wrong field names.
[Chris Dolan]
- Added a 'testpodcoverage' action that runs a POD coverage check for
all modules in the distribution. [Yanick Champoux]
- Added a Cookbook example of subclassing to modify an action. [Dylan
Martin and David Golden]
- When building HTML documentation, we were opening the POD file and
not checking whether the open succeeded, which of course caused
problems down the line if it failed. Now we do "or die(...)" like
everywhere else. [Spotted by Joerg Braun]
0.27_08 Fri Mar 3 21:22:41 CST 2006
- Due to shell quoting issues and differences in syntax between
various flavors of Windows, the code for the 'pl2bat' utility
distributed with Perl has been incorporated into M::B::P::Windows.
[Thanks to Dr Bean and Ron Savage for help testing and isolating
the problem.]
- Modify add_build_element() so that it only adds elements if they
don't already exist. [David Wheeler]
- Fixed a bug in the 'pass-through' Makefile.PL in which we would die
if CPAN::Shell->install returned false, but apparently this return
value is unreliable. Now we only die if the module is actually
unavailable after installation.
- Fixed testing problems on VMS related to non-case-preserving
filesystems. We now bundle Tie::CPHash in the distribution (just
for testing purposes, it doesn't get installed) to help with
this. [Craig Berry and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
- We incorrectly documented the 'dynamic_config' flag in the META.yml
file as having a default value of false, but according to the
META.yml spec (which, for heaven's sake, we wrote) its default
value is true. Fixed. [Spotted by Adam Kennedy]
- The have_c_compiler() method was dying if the ExtUtils::CBuilder
module wasn't around, which is obviously an unhelpful thing to do.
Now it just returns false. [Spotted by John Peacock]
- Fix detection of $VERSION expressions that are not
assignments. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
- Obfuscate one of our constructs that uses a $VERSION variable,
because it was getting picked up by ExtUtils::MakeMaker's
version-finder. [Spotted by Randal Schwartz]
- The config_data script for querying and/or setting a module's
config data was forgetting to call write() after setting config
values (though setting feature values was working fine).
Fixed. [Brian Duggan]
- On Windows, remove the pl2bat generated 'Build.bat' script without
the annoying "The batch file cannot be found." error. [Solution
provided by RazTK and foxidrive on newsgroup alt.msdos.batch]
- Our version comparisons should now work correctly with modules that
use version.pm to delcare their versions (e.g. "our $VERSION =
version->new('1.0.0')"). [John Peacock and Ron Savage]
- We now create a Build.bat script on versions of Windows where it
makes sense. [Yves]
- Fixed the verbiage around choosing the correct make-alike on
different platforms to suggest using 'perl -V:make'. [Suggested by
anonymous user]
0.27_07 Wed Feb 1 20:07:45 CST 2006
- The notes() method now returns the new value when called with two
arguments, just like when it's called with one argument. [Tyler
MacDonald]
- The notes() method now distinguishes among the values undef, 0, and
the empty string, where previously it didn't. [Tyler MacDonald]
- We now unshift(@INC) rather than push(@INC) for the directory where
a build subclass lives, so that we're sure to pick up the right
version and not some already-installed version. [perlmonkey]
- The SIGNATURE file for version 0.27_06 (and I'm sure for lots of
versions before that too!) was messed up, since we were modifying
some files after signing. This has been band-aided for the time
being by signing twice. [Reported by Chris Dolan]
0.27_06 Mon Jan 23 21:44:54 CST 2006
- Fixed an undefined-variable warning when building the META.yml file
and the author hasn't used the 'module_name' mechanism. [Chris Dolan]
- We should now work with recent (> 0.49) versions of YAML.pm when
creating the META.yml file. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
- The y_n() method now requires the default parameter, and the
prompt() and y_n() methods have been improved with respect to
how they behave/detect when there is no user to ask. We're now
more consistent with MakeMaker, including respecting the
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT environment variable. [Tyler MacDonald and
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
- When building a README file using Pod::Text, work around a bug in
Pod::Text 3.01, which expects Pod::Simple::parse_file to take input
and output filehandles when it actually only takes an input
filehandle. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
0.27_05 Thu Jan 12 17:39:21 CST 2006
- In t/common.pl, we were attempting to let the user's installed
Test::More take precedence over ours, but getting thwarted by all
the test scripts' loading Test::More beforehand. Fixed. [Spotted
by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
- In various test scripts, we were outputting some strings that
weren't strictly conformant with Test::Harness's expected input,
though it didn't actually cause problems. Now we're more
conformant, though not yet strict. [Spotted by Yitzchak
Scott-Thoennes]
0.27_04 Fri Dec 23 10:43:34 CST 2005
- Removed experimental feature that extended the prerequisite system
to apply ('requires', 'recommends', and 'conflicts') prereqs to all
actions. Most of the internal extensiblity has been retained so
that prereq types can easily be added, more selectively.
- Added a 'prereq_report' action that shows the user a well-formatted
list of all prerequisites, the versions required, and the versions
actually installed. [David Wheeler]
- Clarified the directory name that's created during the 'distdir'
action. [Suggested by Tyler MacDonald]
- Fixed a bug when creating the META.yml file without the help of
YAML.pm - some common strings weren't quoted & escaped properly.
Now only some uncommon ones are. [Spotted by Joshua ben Jore]
- Fixed a bug in which an "UNINST=1" argument specified to a
passthrough Makefile's "make install" wasn't actually seen by
Module::Build.
- Rather than dying when the Build script is run from the wrong
directory, it now simply chdir()s into the right directory and
keeps going. [Suggested by Dominique Quatravaux]
- Added an "Examples on CPAN" section to the cookbook, with an
initial entry pointing to John Peacock's SVN-Notify-Mirror
distribution.
- Add an invoked_action() method to return the name of the original
action invoked by the user.
- Add 'meta-spec' field to the generated META.yml file, including the
version of the specification followed by the current Module::Build
and the url where the specification can be found.
- Introduced two actions, 'html' & 'manpages', that generate
documentation for POD when the respective feature is enabled. The
actions will generate the documents even if there is no set place
to install to. However, if the actions are invoked as a dependency
of another action (e.g. build), the documentation will only be
built when there is a default or user-specified place to install to.
- Added support for environment variable, 'MODULEBUILDRC', which can
be used to specify the full path to an option file to use instead
of the default location of ~/.modulebuildrc. A special undocumented
setting of 'NONE' tells Module::Build not to load any user settings,
so tests can be run without tainting from user options.
- Documented and improved preliminary support for more Getopt::Long
style options are supported, including boolean options (--verbose,
--no-verbose), and use of hyphens in option names in addition to
underscores.
- The option to disable/enable reading of the ~/.modulebuildrc file
is changed from 'skip_rcfile' to 'use_rcfile'
- Allow the 'distmeta' action to continue when 'MANIFEST' is missing,
omitting the generation of the 'provieds' field. [Steven Schubiger]
- Fixed some failing regex from generated MANIFEST.SKIP file.
- Fixed an edge case in $VERSION parsing where we thought a package()
declaration was happening but it wasn't. [David Golden]
- Added docs for the install_destination() and install_types() methods.
0.27_03 (Beta for 0.28) Mon Oct 10 11:19:23 EDT 2005
- We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
example, when compiling XS modules). (This change actually
occurred in 0.27_01, but it was mistakenly omitted from the Changes
file.)
- Fixed an issue on Win32 (and other case-tolerant
non-case-preserving systems, possibly like VMS?) in which the
current working directory would sometimes be reported with
different case, fooling us into thinking that we were in the wrong
directory. [David Golden]
- The extra_compiler_flags setting was not actually being passed
along to ExtUtils::CBuilder so it could pass it along to the
compiler. Now it is.
- The synonyms 'scripts' and 'prereq' for 'script_files' and
'requires' were broken in a previous version (0.27_01, probably),
but now they're fixed. [David Golden]
- Previously, we assumed that any custom subclass of Module::Build
was located in _build/lib/. This is only true if the author used
the subclass() method, though. We now use %INC to find where the
custom subclass really is, so that we can "use lib" it. We also
issue a warning if it seems to be outside the build directory.
[Spotted by Peter Tandler]
- Added a URL for each license type that we know about, which will
appear as resources=>license: in the generated META.yml file.
- If the user passes a no_index parameter to our constructor, we now
pass that through when building the META.yml file. [Richard
Soderberg, RT #9603]
- A few more status messages can now be suppressed by using 'quiet'
mode. [Dave Rolsky]
- Added some more entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file. [Chris
Dolan]
- Our POD parser will now accept "AUTHORS" as well as "AUTHOR" when
looking for the author list in a module. [David Wheeler]
- When looking for the POD to auto-generate a README file, or for the
AUTHOR or ABSTRACT for the distribution, we now also look for a
*.pod with the same name as the *.pm file specified by
'version_from'. [David Golden]
- The recommended dependency on ExtUtils::ParseXS has been moved into
the "C_support" auto_feature.
- When building XS files, we now pass the -DVERSION and -DXS_VERSION
flags to the compiler. [Spotted by Jerry Hedden]
- If a distribution has XS files and Module::Build has not been
configured with the "C_support" feature, we now issue a
warning. [Suggested by Jerry Hedden]
- Added a dir_contains() method.
- Some versions of MakeMaker, CPANPLUS, and/or PAUSE thought that a
certain line of our code was declaring a $VERSION when we didn't
intend to. The line has been obscurified so they won't think that
anymore. [Jos Boumans, RT #14226]
- Added the Apache, MIT, and Mozilla licenses to the list of licenses
that this module knows about. [Bob Ippolito]
- Fixed a pretty significant typo in the documentation for
auto_features. [Spotted by Jonas B. Nielsen]
- In order to aid people who want to do customization of the META.yml
file, we've added a "metafile" property that can then be easily
overridden in subclasses, changed do_create_meta_yml() to
do_create_metafile(), and split out the code that actually
generates the YAML into a new method, write_metafile(). [David
Wheeler]
- Fixed a couple of non-helpful behaviors with extra_compiler_flags
and extra_linker_flags. These will automatically be run through
split_like_shell() when given to new() as strings.
- When the user doesn't have ExtUtils::ParseXS installed and we use
the old 'xsubpp', the displayed command line for creating the .c
file from the .xs file was missing its newline. Now it's got it.
0.27_02 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Jul 15 07:34:58 CDT 2005
- Provided initial support for the --prefix installation parameter,
which acts like MakeMaker's PREFIX. It is still highly recommended
NOT to use it when you could reasonably use --install_base or
--install_path or --install_dest, but that's just because the way
--prefix is designed is weird and unpredictable. Ultimately the
choice rests with the installing user. [Patches by Michael Schwern
and Rob Kinyon]
- Fixed a bug in subclass() which prevented people from using it to
subclass subclasses of Module::Build. [Chris Dolan]
- Added a 'pure_install' action, which for the time being is
identical to the 'install' action. [Jos Boumans]
- Fixed a POD error in an L<http://...> tag. [Offer Kaye]
- Note several options for automatically creating a new module dev
tree. [Suggested by Eric Wilhelm]
- Removed some hard-coded references to File::Spec::Unix in the
creation of HTML docs, which should help that code work in more
places, and help people not to panic when they look at it. [Spotted
by Yves]
- We now use Pod::Readme by default (instead of Pod::Text) to
generate the README file when the 'create_readme' option is used.
If Pod::Readme is not installed, we will still fall back to using
Pod::Text. [Robert Rothenberg]
- The values of the "prefix", "install_base", "install_path", and
"install_dest" parameters can now begin with "~" or "~user", and
we'll de-tilde-ify them by using glob().
- The (optional) auto-creation of the README and Makefile.PL files
have been moved from the 'distdir' action to the 'distmeta'
action. [David Golden]
- When looking for a .modulebuildrc file, we now use a fancier method
of trying to find the home directory, because $ENV{HOME} isn't a
very cross-platform variable. [Robert Rothenberg]
- We now memoize the output of the internal _default_INC() method,
since it uses backticks and might be kind of slow.
- When processing XS files, we now look for a typemap in lib/ as well
as using the system's default typemap. [John Peacock]
- The DESTDIR, PREFIX, and INSTALL_BASE arguments to "make install"
are now supported for pass-through Makefiles (they've been
supported for quite a while as arguments to "perl
Makefile.PL"). [Requested by Guillaume Rousse]
- Test::Harness has changed its output format in recent versions,
which threw off one of our tests. We now allow for this different
format. [Reported by Scott Godin]
- Fixed an issue that prevented Module::Build from upgrading itself
using its own API (which is how CPANPLUS uses it). There are still
some issues with this solution, however. See ticket #13169 in
rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
- Fixed a fatal error that occurred when a distribution's author
could not be determined from its POD nor from the call to
Module::Build->new() in its Build.PL. See ticket #12318 in
rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
- Apparently on Windows and cygwin it's not possible to use the "-pi"
switch to perl without a backup extension, so now we use ".bak" and
remove the backup file when we're done. Thus the "dist" action for
Module::Build itself can now be run on those platforms. [Yitzchak
Scott-Thoennes]
- Improved the handling of auto_features in the config_data access
script. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
0.27_01 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Apr 15 21:12:57 CDT 2005
Backward-incompatible (but better) changes:
* When using the 'install_base' option to choose a directory for
installing everything, perl modules now go into lib/perl5/ instead
of just lib/. It seems this is more consistent with people's
expectations, and the way I had it before was a bit peculiar to the
way I like things in my own home directory. [Michael Schwern]
* When the user is using the 'install_base' option, scripts will now
be installed by default in $install_base/bin/ rather than
$install_base/script/ . [Jan Hudec and Michael Schwern]
Major changes:
- The auto_features mechanism will now re-evaluate dependencies every
time feature() is called for an auto-feature, rather than freezing
the success/failure value during 'perl Build.PL' and using that
value for all eternity (or module update, whichever comes first).
This applies to both $build->feature() and
FooModule::ConfigData->feature() calls. [Requested by many]
- Added the meta_add and meta_merge mechanisms, which let the module
author add/merge arbitrary entries into the META.yml file.
- Now reads per-action default options from '$ENV{HOME}/.modulebuildrc'
if it exists. Command line options override anything set in the rc file.
- We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
example, when compiling XS modules).
- The creation of Unix man pages is no longer a strict necessity - it
has now been turned into an 'auto-feature' contingent on the
presence of Pod::Man and a location specified for man pages to go.
- A user-specified 'install_path' setting will now take precedence
over an 'install_base' setting. This allows the user to use
'install_base' to set the base for all elements in one go, and then
use 'install_path' to override specific paths or add paths for
additional kinds of targets.
- Split the main documentation from 'Module/Build.pm' into two
sections. The user level documentation and overview remains in
'Module/Build.pm', while a new document,
'Module/Build/Authoring.pod', has been created for module authors.
Minor changes:
- new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
because of inadequate training in forensic debate) - we now pass its
arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
in afterwards.
- Let resume() return an object blessed into the appropriate class
if the user has provided a subclass, as specified by the
'build_class' property. This allows current() and new_from_context()
to behave more like factory methods returning objects of the correct
class based on context. [Ray Zimmerman]
- Refactored methods relating to parsing perl module files for
package, version, and pod data into a new class:
Module::Build::ModuleInfo. It should not be considered part of
Module::Build's API, because we may split it out entirely as a
separate CPAN module that we depend on.
- Added new method Module::Build::prepare_metadata() for authors to
override in order to add custom fields to META.yml.
- We now use Test::More for our regression tests. If the user
doesn't have it installed, we include a copy in t/lib/ that we can
use during testing.
- When copying files in the 'distdir' action, set permissions to match
the original files. [Julian Mehnle]
- When adding files like META.yml to the MANIFEST, we now tell the
user we're doing so by printing one of the "Added to MANIFEST: ..."
lines. [Ron Savage]
- Added a runtime_params() method, which lets a module author see
which parameters were overridden by the user on the command line
(or in whatever paradigm the user originally invoked Module::Build
from). [David Wheeler]
- Added the current_action() method, which, surprisingly, returns the
name of the currently running action. [David Wheeler]
- Added docs for run_perl_script().
- Added some stuff to the docs about why PREFIX is unsupported, and
what to use instead. [Steve Purkis]
- The simple get/set accessor methods for all the 'parameters' like
verbose(), license(), etc. now have auto-generated documentation in
Module/Build.pm.
- Created a Cookbook entry for 'Adding new elements to the install
process'
- We now add META.yml to the MANIFEST when META.yml is created, not
when MANIFEST is created. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
- Added some additional patterns to the suggested MANIFEST.SKIP
contents, and changed the docs so that we encourage the user to use
the MANIFEST.SKIP. [Ron Savage]
- Eliminated a redundant recipe from the Cookbook, now that there are
some more extensive recipes on how to add stuff to the
build/install sequences.
- Eliminated an undefined-variable warning when testing under perl 5.005
- When building HTML documentation, 'html_backlink' and 'html_css'
properties are now first-class properties, so they can be set from
the command line. [Suggested by Sagar R. Shah]
- Have script_files default to everything in bin. I believe this is
the least surprising behavior. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
- If script_files is given a directory, consider each file in that
directory tree as a script to be installed. This avoids having to
remember to add to the script_files list every time you add a
program. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
- We now only load Pod::Man when we actually need to build man pages.
- We now make Test::Harness use our carefully-selected path to a perl
executable regardless of Test::Harness's version. Previously we
let it figure stuff out for itself if it was a reasonably modern
version, but it's safer to make sure we're using the same perl
everywhere.
0.2610 Fri Apr 15 08:25:01 CDT 2005
- new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
because of inadequate training in debate) - we now pass its
arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
in afterwards. [Ray Zimmerman]
- Fixed a bug in which config_data and feature data were being
forgotten and no ConfigData.pm module would get written. [Ray
Zimmerman]
- Added a recipe to the cookbook showing how to run a single test
file from the command line. [William McKee]
- For command-line arguments, we now accept the syntax "--foo=bar" in
addition to "--foo bar" and "foo=bar". This seems to fit well with
what GNU getopt and Getopt::Long do, and with people's
expectations. [Adam Spiers]
0.2609 Wed Mar 16 22:18:35 CST 2005
- The html docs that were created during the first invokation of
'./Build' were being found and treated as pod that needed to be
converted to html during subsequent invokations. We now are more
specific about the directories we scan for pod that needs to be
converted, effectively avoiding blib/html. [Ray Zimmerman]
- If Pod::Man is not available, we now skip building man pages
(rather than dying) and tell the user why.
- We now write a .packlist file upon installation, in the same place
that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does. [Johnny Lam]
- On some Unix platforms (BSD derivatives, mostly) perl's $^X
variable isn't set to the full path of the perl executable, just
'perl', when the 'Build' script is run as './Build' and not 'perl
./Build'. This can lead to some other modules (maybe
Test::Harness, maybe IO::File, I dunno...) getting very confused
about where they are, and they try to load stuff from the wrong
perl lib, and big trouble ensues. To fix this, we now set $^X to
the value of Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter().
- The 'distcheck' action will now die() if it finds an error in the
MANIFEST, rather than just printing on STDOUT. [David Golden]
- When the README and/or Makefile.PL are autogenerated using
create_readme or create_makefile_pl, we now automatically make sure
they're also listed in the MANIFEST file. [Suggested by Michael
Schwern]
- Got rid of the t/MANIFEST file - it's superfluous, and it had
zero-length, which some versions of Tar don't like. [William
Underwood]
- Added a mention in the documentation that each property that new()
accepts also has a corresponding get/set accessor. (In the version
0.27_0x series each accessor method is mentioned explicitly in the
docs.) [Omission spotted by Ian Langworth]
0.2608 Wed Jan 26 19:46:09 CST 2005
- Add workaround for test files because Devel::Cover causes
require to fail when the argument to require is an expression
involving File::Spec. We now assign the result of the File::Spec
call to a variable and then call require with that variable.
- Tilde-expansion is now performed on arguments passed to a
compatibility-Makefile.PL [Spotted by Sam Vilain]
- We now run the 'gzip' and 'tar' values through split_like_shell()
when running the 'dist' action, so that e.g. the 'gzip' value can
be set to something like "gzip -f --best" and it'll work
correctly. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
- Work around some bad mojo between Fedora Core [with its very long
@INC] and old versions of Test::Harness [with its propensity to
compound the number of @INC entries] that produced an "argument
list too long" error during testing. [assisted by Ville Skytta,
David Golden, & Randy Sims]
- Killed an infinite loop that would happen in y_n() in interactive
mode if the author provided no default value. [Max Maischein]
0.2607 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Sat Dec 18 14:14:09 CST 2004
- Instead of freezing @INC in the 'Build' script to the value it had
when Build.PL was run, we now just add those additional values that
aren't part of the default compiled-in @INC. [Michael Schwern]
- The run_perl_script() method will now propagate any extra entries
in @INC (such as those added by "use lib" or the -I command-line
switch) to the subprocess. This helps situations in which you want
to tell the subprocess where to find a certain module, for
instance. [Michael Schwern]
0.2606 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Dec 7 22:33:11 CST 2004
- Fixed a linking bug on Win32, in which compiled C code object files
never got linked in with the modules being built. [Dominic
Mitchell]
- Fixed a bug in the new_from_context() method in which any arguments
passed made us die. [Spotted by Jos Boumans]
0.2605 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Nov 30 07:16:13 CST 2004
- Fixed a bug in which zero-length arguments for hash-valued
parameters (e.g. " --config foo= ") weren't being allowed.
- The tests now play better with environments in which version.pm is
pre-loaded, like in bleadperl. [John Peacock & Michael Schwern]
- Fixed a syntax error in one of the tests under perl 5.005.
0.2604 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 17 14:32:42 CST 2004
- Fixed a split_like_shell() bug introduced in 0.2603 for Windows, in
which an array reference passed as an argument was returned as an
array reference, rather than as a list. [Spotted by Steve Hay]
- module_name() will now return '' instead of undef when module_name
is not set. This eliminates a couple uninitialized-value
warnings. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
- The expand_test_dir() method will now skip dotfiles (like ._foo.t,
which sometimes gets automatically created on Mac systems) when
'recursive_test_files' is in effect. [Tom Insam]
0.2603 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Mon Nov 15 10:28:00 CST 2004
- Added documentation for the new_from_context() method.
- Completely rewrote the split_like_shell() method for the Windows
platform so it works like the command.com shell. [Randy Sims]
0.2602 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Thu Nov 4 11:19:29 CST 2004
- The two bug fixes in 0.2601 gnashed against each other incorrectly,
resulting in a Win32 bug in split_like_shell(). Fixed. [Spotted
by Steve Hay & Randy Sims]
- Removed a couple of 'use warnings' statements from the code - they
were causing compile failures on 5.005_04, where warnings.pm isn't
available. [Blair Zajac]
0.2601 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 3 20:09:27 CST 2004
- Fixed some backslash problems with split_like_shell() on
Win32. [Steve Hay]
- Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
0.26 Sat Oct 9 17:51:01 CDT 2004
- Removed some language from the Module::Build::Compat documentation
that encouraged people to include a Build.PL without a Makefile.PL.
Also changed "a replacement for MakeMaker" to "an alternative to
MakeMaker" in the main documentation, which is basically what I
meant all along (i.e. a replacement for MakeMaker in your
particular build process - MakeMaker is never going to be fully
replaced in the perl world at large, of course), but some people
got the impression I was a little more truculent toward MakeMaker
than I really am.
- Added the formal concepts of "features" and "config data" for
distributions. This allows the module author to define a certain
set of features that the user can switch on and off (usually
according to whether they have the proper prerequisites for them),
and to save build-time configuration information in a standardized
format. See the main documentation of Module::Build for more
details. (Note that the name of this system was called
"BuildConfig" for a while in beta, but now it's called
"ConfigData".)
- Added an 'auto_features' capability, which simplifies the process
of defining features that depend on a set of prerequisites.
- Added the 'get_options' parameter, which lets module authors
declare certain command-line arguments their Build.PL can accept
[David Wheeler]
- Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
does a much better job than the split() we were using.
- Added a 'testpod' action, which checks the syntactic validity of
all POD files in the distribution using Test::Pod. This eliminates
the need for doing so in a regression test. [Initial patch by Mark
Stosberg]
- Added a process_files_by_extension() method, which generalizes the
kind of processing (essentially just copying) that happens for .pm
and .pod files, and makes it available to other user-defined types
of files. See the new cookbook entry.
- Improved compatibility with version.pm when authors are using
version objects as their $VERSION variables. Now
version_from_file() can deal with these objects. Currently we
stringify them right away, but perhaps in the future we will
preserve them as objects for a while.
- During 'distdir' and 'distmeta' actions, die a bit more gracefully
if there's no MANIFEST (i.e. explicitly say that a MANIFEST is
required). [Spotted by Adrian Howard]
- Eliminated a recursive dependency between creating the MANIFEST
file and creating the META.yml file. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
- On Win32, where a single directory might be known variously as
"Module-Build-0.25_03" or "MODULE~1.25_", we now use
Win32::GetShortPathName($cwd) to verify that the 'Build' script is
being run from the correct directory, rather than just a string
comparison.
- The add_to_cleanup() method will now accept glob()-style patterns
in addition to explicit filenames. Also documented the fact that
they can be specified in either Unix-style or native-style
notation.
- Passing a PREFIX value to a pass-through Makefile 'make install'
now has the same effect as passing it to 'perl Makefile.PL' (it
dies with a helpful message).
- Added the 'testcover' action, which runs a test suite using
Devel::Cover. [Dave Rolsky]
- Added the 'lib' and 'arch' installation directories to the search
path for the 'diff' action, since they won't necessarily (though
they usually will) be in @INC at installation time. [Suggested by
Kevin Baker]
- The "=head3" POD directive isn't supported in older podlators
(particularly Pod::Man), so we don't use it anymore.
- Fixed a typo & improved the docs in the SUBCLASSING section. [Ron
Savage]
- Added the '.tmp' suffix to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file, which
should avoid adding things like pod2htmi.tmp to the MANIFEST [Ron
Savage]
- Backup files from Emacs, containing the string '.#' in their names,
should no longer find their way into the blib/ directory (and from
there into installation directories).
- Worked around an unpleasant interaction between version.pm and the
version-checking code that makes sure Module::Build's version
hasn't changed during the lifetime of the 'Build' script. [Reported
by Trevor Schellhorn]
- Fixed a problem in htmlify_pods() that would produce test failures
on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere). [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
- Fixed a test failure on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere) in
t/compat.t, resulting from empty environment variables being set to
the empty string (as opposed to simply being unset) by their mere
presence in the "EXPORT:" list.
- Fixed a fatal error that occurred when the author specified
'dist_author' manually in their Build.PL script. [Spotted by Ron
Savage]
- The 'provides' section of the META.yml file wasn't being built
properly on Win32, because of a mismatch between URL-format and
native-format pathnames. Fixed. [Reported by Robert Rothenberg]
- The progress message "lib/Foo.xs -> lib/Foo.c" was previously being
output even when the Foo.c file wasn't being rebuilt. It's now
fixed.
- Fixed a couple of places in Compat.pm where it could have forgotten
which perl interpreter it had been run with ($^X isn't very
trustworthy).
- On some systems, the way we updated the timestamp on the
"lib/Foo.bs" file (one of the output files for XS-based modules)
was failing. It's been replaced by a simple call to utime().
- Fixed a problem in t/compat.t that prevented it from being run
individually using 'make test TEST_FILES=t/compat.t'. The problem
was that a couple environment variables (TEST_FILES, MAKEFLAGS)
were being passed through to subprocesses, and confused them.
- Fixed an important typo in the documentation for the 'install_base'
parameter ('libdoc' and 'bindoc' were switched). [Ray Zimmerman]
- The pass-through Makefiles (type 'small' or 'passthrough') now
support the TEST_FILES parameter to 'make test'.
- Fixed a fatal error that would occur on perl 5.005 when building
HTML documentation, because its version of Pod::Html was old and
didn't like some of the parameters we fed it. [Spotted by Blair
Zajac]
- The final line of the generated pass-through Makefile was missing
its trailing newline, which is now fixed. [Chip Salzenberg]
- We now depend on YAML version at least 0.35 and at most version
0.49, so that we don't pick up a new (and backward-incompatible) beta
version from CPAN.
- Squashed a warning in t/basic.t about '"Foo::Module::VERSION" used
only once', and one in PPMMaker about $^V being undefined. [Blair
Zajac]
- Added a couple temporary output files from HTML documentation
generation to the cleanup list. [Toby Ovod-Everett]
- The PodParser module will now only extract paragraphs in the
'AUTHOR' section of the pod if they contain an '@' character. This
tends to do a better job, heuristically speaking, of returning
relevant stuff.
- Added regression tests and a helper method ( add_build_elements() )
for adding new elements to the build process. Also some
documentation.
- Wrote a recipe in the Cookbook for adding new elements to the build
process, and a recipe for changing the order in which the steps in
the build process will occur.
0.25 Sun Apr 25 11:12:36 CDT 2004
- During the 'distdir' action, if no MANIFEST.SKIP file exists, we
will now create a reasonable default one. [Randy Sims]
- In Makefile compatibility mode, some arguments (like UNINST,
TEST_VERBOSE, etc.) given to 'make' are now recognized and passed
through to Module::Build. [Randy Sims]
- The regression tests now make sure that several pass-through
Makefile.PL parameters are dealt with correctly.
- Added support for the 'LIB' parameter to passthrough
Makefile.PLs. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
- Passing a 'PREFIX' parameter to a passthrough Makefile.PL was
supposed to make it die with a helpful error message, but instead
it just ignored it and blindly tried to install to the wrong place.
This is now fixed. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
- Added an extra_compiler_flags() accessor method.
- If the 'recursive_test_files' option was turned on, the test files
weren't sorted, but returned in an apparently random order. Now
they're sorted. [Martyn Peck]
- Documented the 'tar' and 'gzip' parameters to the 'dist' and
'ppmdist' actions.
- The generation of HTML documentation now works (it was accidentally
partially implemented with an itchy patch-application finger in
0.24). [Randy Kobes]
- Fixed a fatal bug when building META.yml with YAML.pm and
'dynamic_config' is set. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
- Fixed some incorrect error messages that occurred when
compiling/linking C sources went awry.
- If the author uses a custom builder subclass, that subclass will
now be loaded correctly in the passthrough Makefile.PL if the
author uses the 'small' or 'passthrough' Makefile.PL options in
Module::Build::Compat. [Martyn Peck and Jaap Karssenberg]
- If the author uses a custom builder subclass created dynamically
through the subclass() method, passthrough Makefile.PLs (of type
'passthrough' or 'small') didn't work properly, because the custom
builder module wouldn't be loaded at the right time. This has been
fixed. [Reported by Toby Ovod-Everett]
- In M::B-generated 'traditional' Makefile.PLs, the entries in
'PREREQ_PM' are now sorted ASCIIbetically rather than randomly.
- The install_types() method will now return any additional types
given as 'install_path' arguments, as well as all elements of the
current 'install_sets' entry. This makes it easier to add new
types of installable objects to the mix.
- As a consequence of the previous change, there is no longer any
need to have an explicit 'install_types' data member, so it has
been removed.
- In the second example code for the Module::Build->subclass()
method, the Module::Build module needed to be loaded before calling
its methods. [John Peacock]
- Fixed minor error in the POD structure of Module::Build and
Module::Build::Platform::VMS docs.
0.24 Wed Feb 25 15:57:00 CST 2004
- Fixed a problem with incude_dirs not being propagated to the 'ccs'
file when compiling XS files on Win32. [Randy Sims and Steve Hay]
- In 0.23, Module::Build::Compat->fake_makefile() started choking
when no 'build_class' parameter was supplied in the Makefile.PL.
Since these Makefile.PLs still exist on CPAN, we now default
'build_class' to 'Module::Build', which was the old 0.22 behavior
anyway. [Reported by Martin Titz and Jeremy Seitz]
- Added documentation for the 'include_dirs' parameter to
new(). [Steve Hay]
- Changed the no-op command on Win32 from 'rem' to 'rem>nul' inside
pass-through Makefiles. [Randy Sims]
- The 'autosplit' parameter now accepts an array reference if
multiple files should be split. [Jaap Karssenberg]
- find_perl_interpreter() will now use $^X (if absolute), $ENV{PATH}
(if $^X isn't absolute), and $Config{perlpath}, in that order.
Also, we now make darn sure the result is the same version of perl,
by checking Config::myconfig() for a match against the current
perl. [Reported by Edward Sabol]
- Fixed a fatal error on Win32 (and any other platform that doesn't
define an installation location for Unix-style man pages) during
installation.
0.23 Sun Feb 8 22:01:18 CST 2004
- Fixed a compatibility problem in pass-through Makefiles (created by
Module::Build::Compat). Some 'make' utilities (for example, BSD
make) didn't like a '@' by itself on a line, so we stole some
'NOOP' code from MakeMaker to fix it. [Reported by Mathieu Arnold]
- Added a 'ppm_dist' action, which just makes the PPD file and then
makes a tarball out of the blib/ directory. [Randy Sims]
- The @INC of the parent process is now propagated to child processes
when processing *.PL files. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
- We now only attempt to fix the shebang line on a script if the
shebang line matches the regex /perl/i . This fixes some instances
where people put shell scripts in their distributions. [Jaap
Karssenberg]
- We no longer generate a 'requires', 'recommends', 'conflicts',
etc. entry in the META.yml file if there's no data to go in it.
- Added a documentation reference to Michael Schwern's wiki for tips
on conversion from MakeMaker to M::B. [Randy Sims]
- If there are script_files, we now add EXE_FILES to the
'traditional' Makefile.PL generated by M::B::Compat. [Suggested by
Yuval Kogman]
- Documented the 'test_files' parameter to new(). [Reported by Tony
Bowden]
- Fixed a problem in "Build help <action>", which didn't find the
correct help chunk if <action> was the final element in a POD
list. [Jaap Karssenberg]
- Fixed a problem in the get_action_docs() method which gave
incorrect results if the method was called more than once in the
same program.
- Fixed a problem in which actions defined by user subclasses
wouldn't be available via the pass-through Makefiles created by
Module::Build::Compat. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
- We now use Data::Dumper instead of our own ad-hoc serialization
routines to create the 'traditional' Makefile.PL
arguments. [Suggested by Yuval Kojman]
0.22 Sat Jan 10 22:05:39 CST 2004
- On Unixish platforms, the syntax "FOO=BAR /bin/baz arg arg" now
works when present in $Config{ld}. This solves a problem on Mac OS
X 10.3. [Reported by Adam Foxson]
- The have_c_compiler() now also tests whether the linker seems to
work too.
- Fixed a problem with creating the distribution tarball in which
permissions would usually be all read-only. We now use our own
file-copying routines rather than those in ExtUtils::Manifest,
because those do some annoying extra permissions-setting stuff for
no apparent reason. It makes me happy that this was a very very
easy patch to make. [Reported by Thomas Klausner]
- The compile_c() method now includes $Config{cccdlflags} in its
command invocation. It's usually empty, but not always, so we
didn't notice for a while. [Richard Clamp]
- On some platforms it's common to have a $Config{make} defined, but
no 'make' utility actually available. We now detect this and skip
some 'make' compatibility tests. [Randy Sims]
- Fixed a spurious testing failure on non-Unix platforms that
happened because we accidentally call localize_file_path() on empty
strings in the test suite. [Spotted by Randy Sims on Windows]
- Made the 'name', 'abstract', 'author', and 'version' properties
required when building a PPD file. [Spotted by Randy Sims, Dave
Rolsky, & Glenn Linderman]
- When building a 'traditional' Makefile.PL with
Module::Build::Compat, we now use 'VERSION_FROM' when possible,
rather than always using 'VERSION'. This way the Makefile.PL
doesn't have to get modified every release.
- Made some fixups to the 'PPM' info-file, improving compatibility
with ActiveState's PPM tools. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
- The 'dist_author' property can now accept multiple authors, see the
docs for more info. [Randy Sims]
- If the user doesn't have YAML.pm installed during ACTION_dist, we
now create a minimal YAML.pm anyway, without any dependency
information.
- The 'distribution_type' field is no longer created in META.yml
files, in accordance with the finding made at the London CLPAN
meeting that it's essentially meaningless and ill-defined.
- The 'dist' action now accepts an optional 'tar' parameter to use a
system utility for building the tarball, and a 'gzip' parameter for
compressing it. If these are used, Archive::Tar won't be invoked.
This was added because Archive::Tar is producing some very
non-cross-platform tarballs that many tar utilities can't handle.
- During testing, if YAML.pm isn't installed, then we won't try
making a tarball either, since this would invoke YAML to create the
META.yml file.
- Fixed a problem with chmod() being called incorrectly on MacOS
(i.e. MacPerl, not Mac OS X). [Spotted by Paul Sanford Toney]
- Fixed a problem with the --config flag not being treated properly
(essentially ignored) on the command line for 'perl Build.PL' or
'Build <action>'. [Spotted by Jakub Bogusz]
- Added a new config() method to get at the Build object's notion of
the %Config hash.
- Test::Harness is starting to contend for the Most Crotchety Module
Award. Work around a few of its nits when setting harness
switches. [Spotted by Diab Jerius]
- Now the Build script will die() if we're run from the wrong
directory, rather than trying to chdir() to what it thinks is the
right directory and do its work there. See
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4039 . [Chris Dolan]
- Changed the manpage separator on OS/2 to '.'. [Ilya Zakharevich]
- On OS/2, disable C compilation, since apparently it isn't working
there. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich]
- Inserted a comment into auto-generated Makefile.PLs saying it was
auto-generated. [Randy Sims]
- Fixed some annoying behavior in generated passthrough Makefile.PLs
when the user chose not to install Module::Build, or if
installation failed. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich and Richard
Clamp]
- Moved the documentation for 'codebase' to the section where it's
relevant. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
- Fixed a have_c_compiler() failure on some platforms, we now define
a boot_compilet() function (since we're compiling a library, not an
executable). [Randy Sims]
- Added a recipe to the Module::Build::Cookbook describing how to
maintain compatibility with older versions of CPAN.pm [Jim Cromie]
- Removed caveat about "looking for alternatives" in how hashes are
specified on the command line, since an alternative has been found.
- Previously most warnings about optional prerequisites looked like
they were actually error messages about required prerequisites.
This has been corrected. [Reported again by Sagar Shah]
- Added support for building XS (and C in general) stuff on AIX.
This was done by a small reorganization of prelink_c() method from
Windows.pm to Build.pm, and it is only invoked for the platforms
that need it invoked. AIX also massages some very naughty bits
(MakeMaker macro variables) in $Config{lddlflags} that should never
have been put there, but alas, they're there, so we find & resolve
them.
- Added OS/2 ($^O = 'os2') to the list of Unix-like platforms. This
basically means that most platform-specific operations will be done
in a Unix-like manner.
- Pass-through Makefiles will now die() when they're given a PREFIX
parameter, and suggest using 'destdir' or 'install_base' instead.
Previously they just ignored the parameter and tried to install to
the default location, which is clearly not what the user wanted.
- Updated my email address in the documentation to a more recent
variant.
- Add NetBSD to the list of Unix-like systems. [Adrian Bunk]
- Add SVR5 to the list of Unix-like systems. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
- We now use Pod::Parser to find the ABSTRACT and AUTHOR when it's
available on the system. [initial patch by Randy Sims]
- Fixed a little scalar/list buglet in a documentation example.
0.21 Wed Oct 15 20:47:05 CDT 2003
- Added a have_c_compiler() method.
- Added documentation for the requires(), recommends(),
build_requires(), and conflicts() methods.
- On Unix platforms, we now create the "Build" script with a #! line
matching the perl interpreter that was used to invoke the Build.PL
script, rather than whatever is in $Config{startperl}. This avoids
a potential warning about the interpreters not matching. [Spotted
by Ken Y. Clark]
- The Unix version now uses the safer multi-argument form of system()
when building distribution tarballs.
- Added a regression test for the 'dist' action to the t/runthrough.t
test.
- Fixed a problem with File::Spec usage when creating the names of
'libdoc' manual pages - the code wasn't dealing with the volume or
file portions correctly on certain platforms.
- When creating the names of the 'libdoc' manual pages, we no longer
assume that pods are under the hard-coded paths 'blib/lib' or
'blib/arch'.
- Fixed a crashing bug that could sometimes occur when the
distribution contained no 'lib' directory. [Chris Dolan]
- Fixed a crashing bug that happened when the user had .PL files in
the lib/ directory and didn't explicitly name them in a hash
reference to the new() constructor. [Chris Reinhardt, bug #4036]
- .PL files are now passed the names of their target file(s) on the
command line when they run.
- When YAML.pm wasn't installed, t/runthrough.t wasn't properly
skipping some tests that required YAML. This is now fixed.
[Stephen J. Smith]
- Added documentation for the dist_version() and dist_name()
methods. [Spotted by Johan Vromans]
- Existing values in $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} are now respected
and not squashed when we run the 'test' action. [Paul Johnson]
- On cygwin, the separator string for manual page names has been set
to '.'. Previously it was '::', inherited from Unix. [Yitzchak
Scott-Thoennes]
- Avoid a warning when Build.PL is run (i.e. when the new() method is
called) and no MANIFEST file exists. [Michael Schwern and Kevin
Ruscoe]
- Added documentation for the 'code' and 'docs' actions. [Steve
Purkis and Mark Stosberg]
- The internal method compile_support_files() has been renamed to
process_support_files() in order to make it consistent with other
processing methods. Note that it was never documented using the
old name. It's still not documented, actually. Maybe later.
- Skip the 'write' pseudo-entry in the 'diff' action's installation
map. [Chris Dolan]
- Fixed a bug in which notes() set in the Build.PL before
create_build_script() was called would get lost unless more notes()
were also set afterwards. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
- The process of building elements of the distribution is now driven
by a list of build elements, paving the way for letting people add
their own types of build elements in future versions of
Module::Build (or in the current version with some difficulty).
- Fixed some linking errors on Cygwin. [Randy Sims, Terrence Brannon]
- Fixed a line-ending problem with detecting the dist_abstract
properly on Cygwin. [Randy Sims]
- Fixed a problem with signatures that occurred if 'distsign' was
called before 'distdir' - the signature would be generated twice.
- Added a 'create_readme' parameter to new(), which will use
Pod::Text to generate a README from the main (dist_version_from)
module file during the 'distdir' action.
- We now refuse to run the 'Build' script if it was created using a
different version of Module::Build. This has caused a couple of
nasty bugs in the past, I don't want to know what it would cause in
the future.
- Documentation for do_system() has been added. [Dave Rolsky]
- run_perl_script() is now available as a class method, though it
will need to (re-)find the perl interpreter in this case.
- Added a new_from_context() method that authors of automated tools
like CPANPLUS and CPAN can use instead of running all tasks as
sub-processes. We also use it in the regression tests for
Module::Build itself. ** Note that this method is currently
undocumented because its name may change in the future. **
- When signing distributions with Module::Signature, we now
automatically add the SIGNATURE file to the MANIFEST, avoiding an
unpleasant chicken/egg problem for the module author.
[unpleasantness spotted by sungo]
- In Module::Build::Compat, added support for the 'verbose' parameter
to Makefile.PL [spotted by Soren Andersen, fixed by Michael
Schwern]
- The Module::Build distribution now has a cryptographic 'SIGNATURE'
file created by Module::Signature.
- Added proper documentation for the subclass() method. [spotted by
Jonathan Steinert]
- Worked around a Config.pm bug in Red Hat 9 which prevented man
pages from being installed in the correct places. [spotted by Ville
Skytta]
- Fixed a Module::Build::Compat bug in which setting INSTALLDIRS
caused a crash. [spotted by Ilya Martynov]
0.20 Tue Aug 26 14:34:07 CDT 2003
- Separated the 'build' action into two separate actions, 'code' and
'docs'. This is similar to MakeMaker's separation of the 'all'
target into 'pure_all' and 'manifypods'. This fixes a permissions
hassle in which doing 'sudo Build install' would often create local
doc files that needed superuser permissions to delete.
- Enhanced the 'help' action - 'Build help foo' will now show the POD
documentation for the 'foo' action.
- Added a notes() feature, which helps share data transparently
between the Build.PL and t/*.t scripts.
- The installation process will now create man(1) and man(3) pages
from POD in modules & scripts, and install them. We don't build
man pages when there's nowhere to install them, such as on some
Win32 or most Mac systems. [large patch by Steve Purkis, 5.005 fix
by Mathieu Arnold]
- The 'distdir' action now copies files to the distribution
directory, rather than making them hard links to the original
files. This allows authors to do last-minute alterations of the
files without affecting the originals. [Dave Rolsky]
- If the author uses XS files in nonstandard locations, the copied
versions of those files will now be cleaned up properly.
- In invoking the 'test' action or invoking 'xsubpp', we now use the
same perl executable as we use everywhere else, rather than blindly
using $^X or $Config{perlpath} (neither of which are very
reliable).
- Fixed a problem with the 'install_path' parameter given to
'Build.PL' being lost in subsequent actions. [Reported by Mathieu
Arnold]
- Fixed yet another bug with installation directories, in which the
'install_base' parameter wasn't being respected on the command
line. [Spotted by Jonathan Swartz]
- Changed the way the depends_on() method works inside action
subroutines - now each action will only run once per dispatch()
invocation (similar to how perl's require() function works). This
helps avoid some difficult problems with dependency loops.
- Changed the documentation for the 'autosplit' parameter to give
reasons why it may not be a good idea to use, but no longer
threaten to remove it. [Suggested by Martyn J. Pearce]
- Improved the formatting of the 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated
by Module::Build::Compat->create_makefile_pl. [Michael Schwern]
- The 'traditional' Makefile.PL will now use the 'module_name'
parameter (as NAME) if it's available, otherwise it will continue
to use the 'dist_name' (as DISTNAME). [Michael Schwern]
- Created read/write accessor methods for all our 'properties'.
[Michael Schwern]
- The 'test_files' parameter can now be specified using glob() syntax
(i.e. 't/*.t'), and the corresponding test_files() method is now a
read/write accessor.
- The location of the 'blib' directory is now a property of the Build
object - nobody is likely to notice this change, with any luck, but
it makes the design and code cleaner.
- The 'disttest' and 'distsign' methods now chdir() back to the
directory where they started, rather than to the base_dir of the
build.
- Improved comparisons of version strings containing underscore
characters (indicating "beta" status). [Steve Purkis]
- Added documentation for the 'dist_author', 'dist_abstract', and
'codebase' parameters to new(), and for the 'ppd' action. [Dave
Rolsky]
- Added documentation for the up_to_date() and contains_pod()
methods. [Dave Rolsky]
- 'traditional' pass-through Makefile.PLs will now contain an
INSTALLDIRS parameter matching the Build.PL's 'installdirs'
setting.
- version_from_file() now ignores $VERSION variables that are defined
in POD or comments. It can still be tricked by $VERSIONs in string
literals, though. [Steve Purkis]
- The code to find packages in module files now uses Steve's scanning
method (above) to skip package-declaration-lookalikes in POD or
comments.
- The 'disttest' action will now propagate its @INC settings to its
subprocesses.
0.19 Wed Jul 9 22:34:02 CDT 2003
- Added support for the 'install_path' parameter, which allows custom
specification of where things should be installed. This is a major
improvement to Module::Build's functionality.
- Added the 'install_base' parameter. Provides an easy way to
install to local or alternative directory trees.
- We now install scripts by default to $Config{installsitebin}
instead of $Config{installscript}. Neither is a great choice, but
the former is likely to be [analogous to] /usr/local/bin, and the
latter is likely to be [something like] /usr/bin . If/when there's
a $Config{installsitescript}, we'll start using that automatically.
- Fixed a problem on Win32 in which C and XS files wouldn't be
compiled properly, and the user would see an error about 'Can't
locate object method "format_compiler_cmd"'.
(http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2391)
- We now use the correct perl interpreter (via
Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter) in pass-through makefiles.
- The t/compat.t test now uses $Config{make} instead of just 'make'
to test makefile compatibility. This fixes some failures on Win32.
We also skip this test entirely if no make utility is available.
- Alternative distribution layouts are now supported via the
'pm_files', 'pod_files', 'xs_files', 'PL_files', and 'script_files'
parameters to new(). This should help people transition from
MakeMaker, and might even help us write an automatic transition
tool.
- Added tests to t/runthrough.t that check to see installation is
happening correctly.
- Added experimental code to build a .ppd file, in support of
ActiveState's "Perl Package Manager". [original patch by Dave
Rolsky]
- For authors who use Module::Signature to sign their distributions,
we now create the SIGNATURE file right in the distribution
directory, rather than creating it in the top-level directory and
copying it into place. This solves problems related to having
files get out of date with respect to their signatures.
- We now don't depend on Module::Info to scan for packages during the
'dist' action anymore, because it's way too aggressive about
loading other modules that you may not want loaded. We now just
(ick, yuck) scan the .pm files with a regular expression to find
"package Foo::Bar;" statements.
- Silenced some annoying copyright/logo output from Microsoft 'nmake'
during Makefile compatibility testing. [Randy W. Sims]
- Command-line arguments may now either be specified using the syntax
'--foo foovalue' as well as the traditional syntax 'foo=foovalue'.
The former is often more convenient for shell tab-completion when
the value is a filename (as in 'Build test --test_files t/basic.t').
- Command-line arguments may now include non-named parameters, which
make some actions more natural. For instance, the 'diff' action
may now be invoked as 'Build diff -u' rather than as
'Build diff flags=-u'.
- Pass-through Makefile.PLs now convert unknown Makefile.PL
parameters to lower-case and hand them to Build.PL, rather than
ignoring them. This means we only have to account for the
differences in the interface, not the entire interface, in
translating parameters.
- We now issue a warning & don't proceed if asked to make a distdir
and there's no MANIFEST or it's empty.
- Moved INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to increase compatibility with various
odd versions of 'make' during 'make install' on case-insensitive
filesystems (like nmake on Win32, often). Only affects the
Makefile compatibility layer. [reported by Andrew Savige]
- Module::Build->known_actions() now works as a class method.
- Pass-through makefiles now list each action individually rather
than using a ".DEFAULT" catch-all. This improves compatibility
with 'nmake' on Win32, and probably some other less common 'make'
dialects. [Andrew Savige]
- We're now more aggressive about testing the pass-through makefiles,
e.g. making sure they can run 'all' and 'test' targets, and making
sure the Makefile itself actually exists.
- Fixed a problem with check_installed_status() when installed
version contains non-numeric characters like underscores.
- Fixed a problem with a bareword 'File::Spec' in one of the test
scripts that caused it not to compile under 5.8.0 (but is fine
under 5.6).
- Fixed a problem with the 'destdir' installation parameter on
platforms that have volume identifiers in path names (like "C:" on
Win32). The identifier is now stripped from installation
directories before prepending the destdir path. The destdir path
may still have a volume identifier on it.
- Added an 'add_to_cleanup' parameter to new() that calls
add_to_cleanup() immediately for the given files.
- The distribution directory (e.g. Sample-Module-0.13/ ) will now be
deleted during the 'clean' or 'realclean' actions.
- During testing of modules, blib/lib and blib/arch are now added as
absolute paths, not relative. This helps tests that load the
modules at runtime and may change the current working directory
(like Module::Build itself does during testing).
- The $Config{cc} entry on some people's systems is something like
'ccache gcc', so we now split that string using split_like_shell().
[Richard Clamp]
- Added documentation for 'extra_linker_flags' parameter, and added a
corresponding 'extra_compiler_flags' parameter. [original patch by
Richard Clamp]