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1 | Revision history for Perl extension Module::Build. |
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3 | 0.31_04 - Fri Feb 20 11:04:59 PST 2009 |
4 | ||
5 | Other | |
6 | - Bumped Test::Harness prereq to 3.16 for latest PERL5LIB fixes (solves | |
7 | test failures when installing Module::Build using CPANPLUS::Dist::Build) | |
8 | [David Golden] | |
9 | ||
10 | 0.31_03 - Sun Feb 8 14:54:01 PST 2009 | |
11 | ||
12 | Enhancements | |
13 | - added a "prereq_data" action that prints a Perl data structure of | |
14 | all prerequisites; can be loaded by external tools using eval() | |
15 | [David Golden] | |
16 | ||
17 | Bug-fixes | |
18 | - 'fakeinstall' action warns and skips without ExtUtils::Install 1.32+ | |
19 | [David Golden, reported by Zefram] | |
20 | - allows Module::Build version mismatch when installing self; works around | |
21 | limitations in CPANPLUS::Dist::Build [David Golden] | |
22 | ||
23 | 0.31_02 - Tue Jan 27 09:16:43 PST 2009 | |
24 | ||
25 | Other | |
26 | - tests now use File::Temp (added to build_requires); appears to fix | |
27 | Win32 testing heisenbug on directory removal during high system loads | |
28 | - use_tap_harness.t will skip unless a release version of TAP::Harness | |
29 | is installed | |
30 | - improved diagnostics to ensure_blib() tests in t/lib/MBTest.pm | |
31 | ||
32 | Compat | |
33 | - passthrough Makefile.PL will now play nice with cpantesters' on | |
34 | exit(0) (RT#32018) [Eric Wilhelm] | |
35 | ||
36 | Bug Fixes | |
37 | - fix for doubling-up of --prefix (RT#19951) | |
38 | ||
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39 | 0.31012 - Wed Jan 14 01:36:19 PST 2009 |
40 | ||
41 | Bug Fixes | |
42 | - t/tilde.t maybe actually fixed on MSWin32 now. | |
43 | ||
44 | 0.31011 - Mon Jan 12 21:57:04 PST 2009 | |
45 | ||
46 | Bug Fixes | |
47 | - t/tilde.t had been failing on MSWin32 (RT#42349) | |
48 | ||
49 | 0.3101 - Mon Jan 12 13:52:36 PST 2009 | |
50 | ||
51 | Other | |
52 | - added 'mirbsd' as a Unix-type OS [BinGOs] | |
53 | - added 'haiku' as a Unix-type OS (backported from bleadperl) | |
54 | - skips certain tests on VMS (backported from bleadperl) | |
55 | - sets $^X to absolute path in tests (backported from bleadperl) | |
56 | ||
57 | 0.31 - Sat Dec 20 15:03:33 2008 | |
58 | ||
59 | Deprecations | |
60 | - Use of attributes as class methods is deprecated (this was never a | |
61 | documented feature and appears to only have worked accidentally.) | |
62 | ||
63 | 0.30_02 - Mon Dec 15 12:23:55 PST 2008 | |
64 | ||
65 | Bug Fixes | |
66 | - make Software::License dependency "softer". | |
67 | ||
68 | 0.30_01 - Thu Dec 11 18:25:53 PST 2008 | |
69 | ||
70 | New Docs | |
71 | - Added a recipe for writing a new action to the Cookbook | |
72 | - Added a recipe for bundling Module::Build to the Cookbook. | |
73 | ||
74 | Doc Fixes | |
75 | - Clarified dist_abstract search procedure in API.pod (RT#41056) [Mario | |
76 | Domgoergen] | |
77 | ||
78 | Bug Fixes | |
79 | - Workaround HARNESS_TIMER env issue in t/compat.t (RT#39635) | |
80 | - Fix ~ expansion when $HOME is different from /etc/passwd as | |
81 | when running sudo. [rt.cpan.org 39662] | |
82 | - Fixed a small POD error in the Cookbook. [Damyan Ivanov] | |
83 | - Unset group/other write permission bits when using Archive::Tar to | |
84 | build the dist tarball. (RT#39804) [David Golden] | |
85 | ||
86 | Enhancements | |
87 | - We now support a 'create_license' parameter to new() that will | |
88 | create a LICENSE file during the 'dist' phase with the full text of | |
89 | the license. This requires Software::License on the author's | |
90 | machine. THIS ALSO STILL NEEDS DOCS. | |
91 | - Added lgpl2/lgpl3 entries to the supported licenses (RT#40532). | |
92 | - Support for validating properties with a check subref. [David | |
93 | Wheeler] | |
94 | ||
95 | Test Fixes | |
96 | - Defend against more stray environment variables interfering | |
97 | with the tests. | |
98 | ||
99 | Other | |
100 | - Updated our embedded version.pm to 0.76, enhanced documentation on | |
101 | dist_version_from. [John Peacock] | |
102 | ||
738349a8 SH |
103 | 0.30 - Thu Sep 25 20:57:36 2008 |
104 | ||
105 | - First non-beta release since April 2007. In the meantime, Sarkozy | |
106 | became president of France, the 35W bridge fell in Minneapolis, | |
107 | Phelps won a lot of gold, a new tribe of indigenous people was | |
108 | discovered in the Amazon, and Bob Barker stopped doing The Price Is | |
109 | Right. As of this moment though, the U.S. economy still hasn't | |
110 | collapsed completely. | |
111 | ||
112 | 0.2808_05 - Thu Sep 18 23:30:39 PDT 2008 | |
113 | ||
114 | - Skip test in t/ext.t which tickles shellwords() in Text::ParseWords | |
115 | below 3.23 [David Wheeler, Ken] | |
116 | ||
117 | - Fixed some shell-quoting issues in do_system() on Windows [Ken, | |
118 | Schwern, reported by Curtis Jewell] | |
119 | ||
120 | - Fixed t/xs.t failure for missing 'const char *' typemap in 5.6 | |
121 | [Schwern] | |
122 | ||
123 | - Added build_requires for Test::More 0.49 and Test::Harness 2.03. | |
124 | Removed bundled Test::More (was not working for 5.005x anyway). | |
125 | [Schwern] | |
126 | ||
127 | - Minimum required perl version is now 5.6.1. [Schwern] | |
128 | ||
129 | 0.2808_04 - Thu Sep 11 22:51:27 PDT 2008 | |
130 | ||
131 | - Backed-out incompatible Module::Build::ModuleInfo change (first in | |
132 | 0.2808_02.) | |
133 | ||
134 | 0.2808_03 - Mon Sep 1 14:43:27 PDT 2008 | |
135 | ||
136 | - Made adjustments for the format changes of recent Test::Harness | |
137 | output. [Nicholas Clark] | |
138 | ||
139 | - Fixed the documentation for script_files to indicate that we search | |
140 | bin/ for scripts by default. It has been this way for several | |
141 | years. [Spotted by Ron Savage] | |
142 | ||
143 | 0.2808_02 - Wed Jul 9 16:45:08 PDT 2008 | |
144 | ||
145 | - Experimental support for TAP::Harness with --use-tap-harness option | |
146 | and the tap_harness_args property. [David Wheeler & Eric Wilhelm] | |
147 | ||
148 | - Added test_file_exts property for main-run tests other than '*.t'. | |
149 | [David Wheeler] | |
150 | ||
151 | - Fixed getcwd()/rmtree() failure case on 5.10+mac where something is | |
152 | unhappy about all of the tests deleting their distgen directory | |
153 | before leaving it. [Eric Wilhelm & David Wheeler] | |
154 | ||
155 | - Improved support for parsing qv() in modules' $VERSION | |
156 | declarations, and made $VERSION-parsing errors more verbose. [Jos | |
157 | Boumans] | |
158 | ||
159 | - Integrated an omnibus patch for various VMS fixes. [Craig Berry & | |
160 | John E. Malmberg] | |
161 | ||
162 | - Some versions of Test::Harness (or something) seem to not be | |
163 | stripping the ".t" suffix when outputting test reports, which was | |
164 | causing one of our tests in t/compat.t to fail. Fixed. [Spotted by | |
165 | a smoke tester] | |
166 | ||
167 | - Most Unix platforms seem to allow hyphens in usernames, so we honor | |
168 | this in our de-tilde-fying methods now. [Spotted by s-murata] | |
169 | ||
170 | - If there are multiple assignments to the $VERSION variable in | |
171 | someone's module and this generates warnings, tell the user what | |
172 | line number the problem is at. | |
173 | ||
174 | - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni] | |
175 | ||
176 | - Fixed a couple bugs in how we quote arguments to external processes | |
177 | when they have to pass through the shell. Also much more | |
178 | thoroughly tested our quoting now. | |
179 | ||
180 | - Edited the Module::Build::API docs prose about the 'license' field | |
181 | in response to some comments on the module-authors mailing list. | |
182 | ||
183 | - Fixed a typo in some example code in the Cookbook. [Jeremy Leader] | |
184 | ||
185 | - Custom typemaps were being looked for in places that don't quite | |
186 | exist; fixed. [Michael G Schwern] | |
187 | ||
188 | - QNX/Neutrino is now considered to be Unix. [rt.cpan.org 32214] | |
189 | ||
190 | - Added 'gpl2' and 'gpl3' to the list of valid licenses. [Allen | |
191 | Engelhardt] | |
192 | ||
193 | - Fixed our Data::Dumper wrapper's sensitivity to users who might set | |
194 | $Data::Dumper::Terse. [Spotted by Dominique Dumont] | |
195 | ||
196 | - Documented the fix_shebang_line() method. [Elliot Shank] | |
197 | ||
198 | - Applied the 'const' modifier to version() and xs_version() XS | |
199 | functions we use during testing. [Robin Barker] | |
200 | ||
201 | - Fixed processing of INC=, POLLUTE=, INSTALLDIRS=, and LIB= for | |
202 | passthrough/small Makefile.PLs. | |
203 | ||
204 | - perl Build.PL --sign=1 now signs. [Michael G Schwern] | |
205 | ||
206 | - Fixed processing of INSTALLDIRS=whatever for compatibility | |
207 | Makefiles. [Spotted by John Peacock] | |
208 | ||
209 | - Zillions of special-cases have been added in Compat.pm for dealing | |
210 | with the special Makefile system on VMS. [John E. Malmberg] | |
211 | ||
212 | - Fixed some stuff in how VMS command-args get quoted. [John E. Malmberg] | |
213 | ||
214 | - VMS now overrides localize_file_path() and localize_dir_path() so | |
215 | we don't need to do special stuff in the general case. [John | |
216 | E. Malmberg] | |
217 | ||
218 | - Added a few more VMS-specific entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP | |
219 | file that (sometimes) gets created during the 'manifest' | |
220 | action. [John E. Malmberg] | |
221 | ||
222 | - Fixed a catdir() that should have been a catfile() when creating a | |
223 | ppmdist. [John E. Malmberg] | |
224 | ||
225 | - Removed some assumptions about what makefiles are called (not | |
226 | necessarily "Makefile") and how they take their arguments, to get | |
227 | VMS tests working better. [John E. Malmberg] | |
228 | ||
229 | - Fixed our check for Archive::Tar in the t/runthrough.t test, which | |
230 | fixes a common failure on Win32. [Spotted by Chris Williams] | |
231 | ||
232 | - Fixed a File::Spec mal-ism in t/destinations.t [Craig A. Berry] | |
233 | ||
234 | - Exposed the internal ExtUtils::CBuilder object as part of our API, | |
235 | via the cbuilder() method. [Zefram] | |
236 | ||
237 | - Upgraded to version.pm 0.74 (fixes bug #30004.) | |
238 | ||
239 | - Overwrite core (post-5.9.4) Module::Build installs (bug #20528.) | |
240 | ||
241 | - Pass quiet() option to ExtUtils::CBuilder object. | |
242 | ||
243 | 0.2808_01 - Wed Oct 24 11:51:25 2007 | |
244 | ||
7a827510 RGS |
245 | - All .pm files in the Module-Build distribution (except for |
246 | M::B::Version.pm, which is kind of tied to version.pm) now have the | |
247 | same $VERSION number explicitly specified. | |
248 | ||
249 | - When checking prerequisites, the required version of perl is now | |
250 | checked before we start finding the $VERSION declaration of the | |
251 | distribution, which results in much more intuitive error messages | |
252 | e.g. if the author is using 5.6-isms in their declaration but the | |
253 | user doesn't have 5.6. [Slaven Rezic] | |
254 | ||
255 | - Added 'artistic_2' license, corrected 'lgpl' license url (bug #29783) | |
256 | [David Thomas] | |
257 | ||
258 | - VMS find_perl_interpreter() is just $^X (bug #29810) [Craig A. Berry] | |
259 | ||
260 | - Some large VMS fixes, mostly having to do with the non-case- | |
261 | preserving nature of most VMS filesystems, but also correcting for | |
262 | illegal characters in VMS file specs. [John E. Malmberg and Craig | |
263 | A. Berry] | |
264 | ||
265 | - Fixed the _detildefy() method on VMS. [John E. Malmberg and Craig | |
266 | A. Berry] | |
267 | ||
268 | - We now use a much more reliable method when Data::Dumper-ing saved | |
269 | state data. [Yves] | |
270 | ||
271 | - When a module had 0.000 as its version, a few places in the code | |
272 | thought the module had no version at all. This is now | |
273 | fixed. [Andrew "Zefram" Main] | |
274 | ||
275 | - When finding the default set of script_files, we now compute them | |
276 | as relative paths, not absolute. [Spotted by Curtis "Ovid" Poe] | |
277 | ||
278 | - Got rid of a call to eliminate_macros, which isn't needed in | |
279 | Module::Build since there is no external make utility involved. | |
280 | Override expand_test_dir to make up for the fact that the | |
281 | home-grown glob() returns absolute, not relative, paths. [Craig | |
282 | A. Berry] | |
283 | ||
284 | - Fixed a catdir() that needed to be catfile() in the .packlist | |
285 | creation code. [John E. Malmberg] | |
286 | ||
287 | - If a *.PL file ended abnormally during the build, processing should | |
288 | have stopped, but it didn't. Fixed. [Matthew Cast and David | |
289 | Golden] | |
290 | ||
291 | - Module::Build::Compat adds "require 5.XXXXX" to Makefile.PL when | |
292 | 'perl' is specified as a 'requires' prerequisite [David Golden] | |
293 | ||
294 | - Refactored t/compat.t for modularity and transparency; added | |
295 | labels for all tests; supressed subprocess output to | |
296 | STDOUT and STDERR [David Golden] | |
297 | ||
298 | - Fixed bug in perl_version_to_float when version is already a float | |
299 | [David Golden] | |
300 | ||
301 | - Removed a mention of $build->{config} from the documentation, the | |
302 | official interface to Config.pm settings is now via the | |
303 | $build->config() and has been for some time. [Suggested by Michael | |
304 | Schwern] | |
305 | ||
306 | - Tweaked some text in the Cookbook to bring it into the modern age, | |
307 | and added a recipe for accessing Config.pm settings. [Ibid] | |
308 | ||
309 | - Lots of POD link/readability improvements to the Module::Build::API | |
310 | documentation [Salve J. Nilsen] | |
311 | ||
312 | - Added configure_requires as a new type of prereq. [Suggested by Adam | |
313 | Kennedy] | |
314 | ||
315 | - Patch 31156 from bleadperl: some filename dot and extension help | |
316 | for Module::Build on VMS. [Craig Berry] | |
317 | ||
318 | - Reworked the _detildefy() method so it doesn't depend on glob() | |
319 | anymore. This gets rid of a problem with spaces or other special | |
320 | shell characters in things like 'prefix' or 'install_path' | |
321 | entries. [Prodding by Eric Wilhelm] | |
322 | ||
323 | - Added midnightbsd to the list of Unix-like OSes we know about | |
324 | [Rafael Garcia-Suarez] | |
325 | ||
326 | 0.2808 - Sat Apr 28 12:59:43 2007 | |
327 | ||
328 | - Added is_vmsish(), is_windowsish(), and is_unixish() boolean | |
329 | convenience functions. Fixes some test failures on platforms where | |
330 | $^O is set to a value we don't know about (like 'gnu'). | |
331 | ||
332 | - Upgraded to version.pm 0.7203. [John Peacock] | |
333 | ||
334 | - Support get_action_docs() =head2 style. [ewilhelm] | |
335 | ||
336 | - Workaround Test::Pod::Coverage @INC bug. [Eric Wilhelm] | |
337 | ||
338 | - Fixed the command-line args --extra_compiler_flags and | |
339 | --extra_linker_flags so they properly shell-split their arguments. | |
340 | ||
341 | 0.2807 - Sat Mar 24 22:19:02 2007 | |
342 | ||
343 | - Upgraded to version.pm 0.71. [John Peacock] | |
344 | ||
345 | - Removed a couple small constructs in the tests ("use warnings;" and | |
346 | "qw$foo bar$[1]") that caused test failures under perl 5.005. | |
347 | ||
348 | - Added support for an explicit default value of undef in prompt(). | |
349 | [Eric Wilhelm] | |
350 | ||
351 | - Improved our prompt() method, which could sometimes hang before the | |
352 | user got a chance to see a prompt. [Andreas Koenig] | |
353 | ||
354 | - Added a note about --allow_mb_mismatch to the error message that | |
355 | happens right before someone might want to use that parameter. | |
356 | ||
357 | - Added DragonflyBSD to the list of known Unix OSes. | |
358 | ||
359 | - get_action_docs() dies on error rather than twiddling $@ | |
360 | ||
361 | - Made ModuleInfo's _evaluate_version_line() compatible with 'use | |
362 | version ...$VERSION' lines. [Eric Wilhelm] | |
363 | ||
364 | - Added some verbiage in Module::Build::API that officially blesses | |
365 | the _build/prereqs file for external consumption. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig] | |
366 | ||
367 | - Added test profiles support via the test_types property and "testall" | |
368 | target. [Eric Wilhelm, Jeff Lavallee] | |
369 | ||
370 | - Use syscopy() on OS/2 in copy_if_modified() so we make sure to | |
371 | overwrite any existing target file. [Ilya Zakharevich] | |
372 | ||
373 | - Removed seemingly silly '~~' test in t/tilde.t. | |
374 | ||
375 | - In our test-time utility library t/lib/MBTest.pm, we need to know | |
376 | about a few .exe-like extensions on OS/2. [Ilya Zakharevich] | |
377 | ||
378 | - In t/ppm.t, use DynaLoader::mod2fname() (if available) to determine | |
379 | the correct translation of our test module's name into a DLL | |
380 | name. [Ilya Zakharevich] | |
381 | ||
382 | - Avoid an unlink() error on OS/2 when fixing shebang lines. [Ilya | |
383 | Zakharevich] | |
384 | ||
385 | - When we're protecting the world from the evils of long RedHat | |
386 | $ENV{PERL5LIB} variables, don't assume $ENV{PERL5LIB} is already | |
387 | defined. This gets rid of a huge number of warnings for some | |
388 | people. [Dave Rolsky] | |
389 | ||
390 | 0.2806 - Fri Dec 15 22:20:14 2006 | |
391 | ||
77e96e88 RGS |
392 | - On some systems (haven't identified the actual problem yet) |
393 | $ENV{PERL5LIB} can grow to enormous enough sizes that we can't | |
394 | launch any more subprocesses because the environment table is full. | |
395 | This is the now-infamous "Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too | |
396 | long" error. Now we detect such situations and trim the directory | |
397 | list to only include directories that actually exist, listed only | |
398 | once each. Not the ideal solution, but it should work. | |
399 | ||
400 | - Silence a warning in M::B::ModuleInfo that happens when the author | |
401 | is using the "$VERSION = eval $VERSION" idiom. | |
402 | ||
403 | - When running the 'testcover' action, do "cover --delete" if any of | |
404 | the test files have changed (we already did so if any of the code | |
405 | under test has changed). [Suggested by Chris Dolan, RT #23584] | |
406 | ||
407 | - Fixed a broken link in the documentation about PREFIX. [Spotted by | |
408 | David Steinbrunner] | |
409 | ||
410 | - Changes to do_system() & friends on VMS to get system calls working | |
411 | much better there. [Craig Berry] | |
412 | ||
413 | - Added the "pardist" target which creates a PAR binary distribution | |
414 | akin to a PPM distribution. [Steffen Mueller] | |
415 | ||
416 | - Added the Interix platform as a Unix variant. [Stephen Hartland] | |
417 | ||
418 | - Improved the error message we emit when a distribution contains XS | |
419 | files but the user has no C compiler. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig] | |
420 | ||
421 | 0.2805_01 Thu Sep 7 21:57:29 CDT 2006 | |
422 | ||
423 | - Because of a weird behavior of YAML::Node, any distribution that | |
424 | used version.pm objects to define their versions was generating the | |
425 | wrong syntax for the versions in their META.yml file. They will | |
426 | now appear as strings like v3.42.1 or similar, including the | |
427 | leading v. | |
428 | ||
429 | - Upgraded to version 0.67 of version.pm. [John Peacock] | |
430 | ||
431 | - Added a contrib/ directory with a bash completion function for M::B | |
432 | actions and switches. [Julian Mehnle] | |
433 | ||
434 | - When we eval() the embedded version.pm code we will now die() if | |
435 | the eval() was unsuccessful, rather than continuing blindly on and | |
436 | dying mysteriously later. | |
437 | ||
438 | - Added a 'retest' action that lets users run the current regression | |
439 | tests on a previously-installed version of a distribution. | |
440 | ||
441 | * Instead of storing an entire dump of the Config.pm hash in the | |
442 | _build/ directory upon startup, we now just store any overrides the | |
443 | user or author has specified. Note that if you were doing anything | |
444 | you weren't supposed to be doing, like poking around in the | |
445 | internals of $buld->{config}, your code might break, so I've put | |
446 | the asterisk of incompatibility on this one just to cover my | |
447 | tuchus. [Idea originally by Randy Sims] | |
448 | ||
449 | - Made copying files via copy_if_modified() a little less chatty. | |
450 | ||
0ec9ad96 SP |
451 | 0.2805 Sat Jul 29 22:01:24 CDT 2006 |
452 | ||
453 | - We now embed a copy of version.pm right in the | |
454 | Module::Build::Version source code, with John Peacock's blessing, | |
455 | in case the user has a rough time installing version.pm. This | |
456 | helps alleviate troubles people were still having with working out | |
457 | a seemingly circular dependency (even though version.pm now ships | |
458 | with a standard Makefile.PL too). A version.pm >= 0.661 installed | |
459 | on the system will take precedence over our bundled one. [John | |
460 | Peacock] | |
461 | ||
462 | - Fix some test warnings (or failures?) related to version.pm | |
463 | numification. [John Peacock] | |
464 | ||
465 | - The top-level 'version' entry in META.yml files we'd generated was | |
466 | in the wrong format (it was being treated as a version.pm object | |
467 | rather than a serialized copy) due to a weird YAML::Node issue. | |
468 | Fixed. | |
469 | ||
470 | - Don't 'use base qw(version)' anymore in our M::B::Version wrapper, | |
471 | just set @ISA directly, because some people have reported that the | |
472 | 'use base' line is croaking. | |
473 | ||
474 | - Added an 'allow_mb_mismatch' parameter to suppress the startup | |
475 | check that ensures the version of M::B currently running is the | |
476 | same as the one initially used to run the Build.PL. Use with | |
477 | caution. | |
478 | ||
479 | - Module::Build::ModuleInfo will no longer detect things that look | |
480 | like $VERSION assignments after an __END__ or __DATA__ token. | |
481 | ||
482 | - Updated documentation to mention the new mailing list on perl.org | |
483 | rather than the old one on sourceforge. | |
484 | ||
485 | 0.2804 Sun Jul 16 16:41:25 CDT 2006 | |
486 | ||
487 | - Added 'use version;' in Module::Build::Version, because some | |
488 | versions of base.pm won't automatically load version.pm when we do | |
489 | 'use base qw/version/;'. [Spotted by Erik Tank] | |
490 | ||
7a501b10 SP |
491 | 0.2803 Sat Jul 15 08:26:34 CDT 2006 |
492 | ||
493 | - The META.yml file in the last release was all screwed up, so the | |
494 | distribution wasn't indexed properly. Fixed in this release. | |
495 | ||
b3dfda33 SP |
496 | 0.2802 Fri Jul 14 22:40:34 CDT 2006 |
497 | ||
498 | - Added reliance on version.pm, which means we should deal much | |
499 | better with the wide range of version specifications one finds on | |
500 | CPAN. This is made possible by recent releases of version.pm that | |
501 | give the user a pure-perl option, so installing version.pm | |
502 | shouldn't be too onerous for most users. [John Peacock] | |
503 | ||
504 | - We should be accepting the default when we're in unattended mode, | |
505 | not acting dumb and ignoring both the default and the [empty] | |
506 | answer from the user. Fixed. [Spotted by Nik Clayton] | |
507 | ||
f943a5bf SP |
508 | 0.2801 Sun May 21 00:07:40 CDT 2006 |
509 | ||
510 | - Module::Build::Compat's emulation of INC is incorrectly prepending | |
511 | a -I to the value of INC. This is incorrect because there should | |
512 | already be a -I on the value. I.E. it's "perl Makefile.PL INC=-Ifoo" | |
513 | not "perl Makefile.PL INC=foo" so Compat should not prefix a -I. | |
514 | [Michael Schwern] | |
515 | ||
516 | - Native batch scripts under Windows should not be converted by | |
517 | pl2bat. [Spotted by Ron Savage] | |
518 | ||
519 | - Tweaked the way we determine whether a file is executable on Unix. | |
520 | We use this determination to decide whether to make it executable | |
521 | during installation. [Julian Mehnle] | |
522 | ||
523 | - Replaced a vestigial 'next' with 'return' now that the code is in a | |
524 | subroutine (htmlify_pods()), not a loop. [Ron Savage] | |
525 | ||
526 | - Fixed a guaranteed failure in t/signature.t when TEST_SIGNATURE was | |
527 | set. [Eric R. Meyers] | |
528 | ||
529 | - Fixed a test failure that occurred when testing or installing in | |
530 | unattended mode - the code to test whether unattended mode and | |
531 | attended mode are working properly was assuming that we started out | |
532 | in attended mode. [Steve Peters] | |
533 | ||
534 | - Improved our stand-in YAML generator that we use to generate | |
535 | META.yaml when authors don't have a copy of YAML.pm installed on | |
536 | their machine. It was unable to handle things like embedded | |
537 | newlines in the data, now it has a much more extensive escaping | |
538 | mechanism. [Stephen Adkins] | |
539 | ||
540 | - Revised the docs for --prefix and PREFIX. [Michael Schwern] | |
541 | ||
dc8021d3 SP |
542 | 0.28 Thu Apr 27 22:25:00 CDT 2006 |
543 | ||
544 | - When y_n() or prompt() are called without a default value and the | |
545 | build seems to be unattended (e.g. in automatic CPAN testing), we | |
546 | now die() with an error message rather than silently returning | |
547 | undef for prompt(), or looping indefinitely for y_n(). | |
548 | ||
549 | - When searching for '.modulebuildrc', return the first HOME-like | |
550 | directory that actually contains the file instead of the first | |
551 | existing directory. Document the search locations and the order | |
552 | searched. [Spotted by David Golden] | |
553 | ||
554 | - Split the API documentation out of Module::Build::Authoring into | |
555 | its own document: Module::Build::API. | |
556 | ||
557 | - We should not emit a warning if a Module::Build subclass is | |
558 | required in a Makefile.PL that is not bundled in the current | |
559 | distribution; it may be installed on the user's system. [Spotted by | |
560 | Tyler MacDonald] | |
561 | ||
562 | - copy_if_modified() now preserves the executable bit of the source | |
563 | file. [Spotted by Julian Mehnle] | |
564 | ||
565 | - Fixed compatibility of our screen-scraping the Test::Harness output | |
566 | so we can recognize the most recent Test::Harness version. [Steve | |
567 | Hay] | |
568 | ||
569 | - Backing out a requirement added in 0.27_06 on the method y_n() | |
570 | to always include a default. This behavior would cause existing | |
571 | build scripts to start failing. We now fail with a missing default | |
572 | only when $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} is set because there is no | |
573 | reasonable default. | |
574 | ||
575 | - Make install_types() method smarter with respect to custom install | |
576 | types. | |
577 | ||
578 | - Add documentation for the install_base_relpaths() and | |
579 | prefix_relpaths() methods. Improved their usage for a public API, | |
580 | and added tests. | |
581 | ||
582 | 0.27_10 Tue Mar 28 22:50:50 CST 2006 | |
a314697d RS |
583 | |
584 | - Added the create_packlist property, default true, which controls | |
585 | whether packlist files will be written during installation. This | |
586 | was already part of Module::Build 0.2609, but for some reason we've | |
587 | forgotten it in the 0.27_xx series. [Spotted by Steve Kirkup] | |
588 | ||
589 | - Document the versions of Module::Build where each feature, action, | |
590 | constructor argument, and method was first publicly documented. | |
591 | ||
592 | - More fixes for find_perl_interpreter() to work with BSD flavored | |
593 | UNIX: Ensure we always return absolute paths; throw an exception | |
594 | upon failure to find correct interperter; document everything. | |
595 | ||
596 | - We now include our own YAML.pm work-alike that we can use when the | |
597 | real YAML isn't installed. We might soon even start using it when | |
598 | YAML is installed, because the YAML API and dependency chain have | |
599 | been changing in unfavorable ways lately. [Stephen Adkins] | |
600 | ||
601 | - Fixed some shell-argument-quoting issues on VMS. In the process, | |
602 | we have added some support for avoiding tripping over | |
603 | shell-argument-quoting issues on other platforms too. [Initial | |
604 | patch by Craig A. Berry] | |
605 | ||
47f13fd5 SP |
606 | 0.27_09 Sat Mar 11 22:48:54 EST 2006 |
607 | ||
608 | - Fixed find_perl_interpreter() so we can find the perl executable | |
609 | when running from uninstalled perl even when $^X contains a | |
610 | relative path. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] | |
611 | ||
612 | - Fixed warning message where we were printing the wrong field names. | |
613 | [Chris Dolan] | |
614 | ||
615 | - Added a 'testpodcoverage' action that runs a POD coverage check for | |
616 | all modules in the distribution. [Yanick Champoux] | |
617 | ||
618 | - Added a Cookbook example of subclassing to modify an action. [Dylan | |
619 | Martin and David Golden] | |
620 | ||
621 | - When building HTML documentation, we were opening the POD file and | |
622 | not checking whether the open succeeded, which of course caused | |
623 | problems down the line if it failed. Now we do "or die(...)" like | |
624 | everywhere else. [Spotted by Joerg Braun] | |
625 | ||
bb4e9162 YST |
626 | 0.27_08 Fri Mar 3 21:22:41 CST 2006 |
627 | ||
628 | - Due to shell quoting issues and differences in syntax between | |
629 | various flavors of Windows, the code for the 'pl2bat' utility | |
630 | distributed with Perl has been incorporated into M::B::P::Windows. | |
631 | [Thanks to Dr Bean and Ron Savage for help testing and isolating | |
632 | the problem.] | |
633 | ||
634 | - Modify add_build_element() so that it only adds elements if they | |
635 | don't already exist. [David Wheeler] | |
636 | ||
637 | - Fixed a bug in the 'pass-through' Makefile.PL in which we would die | |
638 | if CPAN::Shell->install returned false, but apparently this return | |
639 | value is unreliable. Now we only die if the module is actually | |
640 | unavailable after installation. | |
641 | ||
642 | - Fixed testing problems on VMS related to non-case-preserving | |
643 | filesystems. We now bundle Tie::CPHash in the distribution (just | |
644 | for testing purposes, it doesn't get installed) to help with | |
645 | this. [Craig Berry and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] | |
646 | ||
647 | - We incorrectly documented the 'dynamic_config' flag in the META.yml | |
648 | file as having a default value of false, but according to the | |
649 | META.yml spec (which, for heaven's sake, we wrote) its default | |
650 | value is true. Fixed. [Spotted by Adam Kennedy] | |
651 | ||
652 | - The have_c_compiler() method was dying if the ExtUtils::CBuilder | |
653 | module wasn't around, which is obviously an unhelpful thing to do. | |
654 | Now it just returns false. [Spotted by John Peacock] | |
655 | ||
656 | - Fix detection of $VERSION expressions that are not | |
657 | assignments. [Spotted by Chris Dolan] | |
658 | ||
659 | - Obfuscate one of our constructs that uses a $VERSION variable, | |
660 | because it was getting picked up by ExtUtils::MakeMaker's | |
661 | version-finder. [Spotted by Randal Schwartz] | |
662 | ||
663 | - The config_data script for querying and/or setting a module's | |
664 | config data was forgetting to call write() after setting config | |
665 | values (though setting feature values was working fine). | |
666 | Fixed. [Brian Duggan] | |
667 | ||
668 | - On Windows, remove the pl2bat generated 'Build.bat' script without | |
669 | the annoying "The batch file cannot be found." error. [Solution | |
670 | provided by RazTK and foxidrive on newsgroup alt.msdos.batch] | |
671 | ||
672 | - Our version comparisons should now work correctly with modules that | |
673 | use version.pm to delcare their versions (e.g. "our $VERSION = | |
674 | version->new('1.0.0')"). [John Peacock and Ron Savage] | |
675 | ||
676 | - We now create a Build.bat script on versions of Windows where it | |
677 | makes sense. [Yves] | |
678 | ||
679 | - Fixed the verbiage around choosing the correct make-alike on | |
680 | different platforms to suggest using 'perl -V:make'. [Suggested by | |
681 | anonymous user] | |
682 | ||
683 | 0.27_07 Wed Feb 1 20:07:45 CST 2006 | |
684 | ||
685 | - The notes() method now returns the new value when called with two | |
686 | arguments, just like when it's called with one argument. [Tyler | |
687 | MacDonald] | |
688 | ||
689 | - The notes() method now distinguishes among the values undef, 0, and | |
690 | the empty string, where previously it didn't. [Tyler MacDonald] | |
691 | ||
692 | - We now unshift(@INC) rather than push(@INC) for the directory where | |
693 | a build subclass lives, so that we're sure to pick up the right | |
694 | version and not some already-installed version. [perlmonkey] | |
695 | ||
696 | - The SIGNATURE file for version 0.27_06 (and I'm sure for lots of | |
697 | versions before that too!) was messed up, since we were modifying | |
698 | some files after signing. This has been band-aided for the time | |
699 | being by signing twice. [Reported by Chris Dolan] | |
700 | ||
701 | 0.27_06 Mon Jan 23 21:44:54 CST 2006 | |
702 | ||
703 | - Fixed an undefined-variable warning when building the META.yml file | |
704 | and the author hasn't used the 'module_name' mechanism. [Chris Dolan] | |
705 | ||
706 | - We should now work with recent (> 0.49) versions of YAML.pm when | |
707 | creating the META.yml file. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] | |
708 | ||
709 | - The y_n() method now requires the default parameter, and the | |
710 | prompt() and y_n() methods have been improved with respect to | |
711 | how they behave/detect when there is no user to ask. We're now | |
712 | more consistent with MakeMaker, including respecting the | |
713 | PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT environment variable. [Tyler MacDonald and | |
714 | Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] | |
715 | ||
716 | - When building a README file using Pod::Text, work around a bug in | |
717 | Pod::Text 3.01, which expects Pod::Simple::parse_file to take input | |
718 | and output filehandles when it actually only takes an input | |
719 | filehandle. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] | |
720 | ||
721 | 0.27_05 Thu Jan 12 17:39:21 CST 2006 | |
722 | ||
723 | - In t/common.pl, we were attempting to let the user's installed | |
724 | Test::More take precedence over ours, but getting thwarted by all | |
725 | the test scripts' loading Test::More beforehand. Fixed. [Spotted | |
726 | by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] | |
727 | ||
728 | - In various test scripts, we were outputting some strings that | |
729 | weren't strictly conformant with Test::Harness's expected input, | |
730 | though it didn't actually cause problems. Now we're more | |
731 | conformant, though not yet strict. [Spotted by Yitzchak | |
732 | Scott-Thoennes] | |
733 | ||
734 | 0.27_04 Fri Dec 23 10:43:34 CST 2005 | |
735 | ||
736 | - Removed experimental feature that extended the prerequisite system | |
737 | to apply ('requires', 'recommends', and 'conflicts') prereqs to all | |
738 | actions. Most of the internal extensiblity has been retained so | |
739 | that prereq types can easily be added, more selectively. | |
740 | ||
741 | - Added a 'prereq_report' action that shows the user a well-formatted | |
742 | list of all prerequisites, the versions required, and the versions | |
743 | actually installed. [David Wheeler] | |
744 | ||
745 | - Clarified the directory name that's created during the 'distdir' | |
746 | action. [Suggested by Tyler MacDonald] | |
747 | ||
748 | - Fixed a bug when creating the META.yml file without the help of | |
749 | YAML.pm - some common strings weren't quoted & escaped properly. | |
750 | Now only some uncommon ones are. [Spotted by Joshua ben Jore] | |
751 | ||
752 | - Fixed a bug in which an "UNINST=1" argument specified to a | |
753 | passthrough Makefile's "make install" wasn't actually seen by | |
754 | Module::Build. | |
755 | ||
756 | - Rather than dying when the Build script is run from the wrong | |
757 | directory, it now simply chdir()s into the right directory and | |
758 | keeps going. [Suggested by Dominique Quatravaux] | |
759 | ||
760 | - Added an "Examples on CPAN" section to the cookbook, with an | |
761 | initial entry pointing to John Peacock's SVN-Notify-Mirror | |
762 | distribution. | |
763 | ||
764 | - Add an invoked_action() method to return the name of the original | |
765 | action invoked by the user. | |
766 | ||
767 | - Add 'meta-spec' field to the generated META.yml file, including the | |
768 | version of the specification followed by the current Module::Build | |
769 | and the url where the specification can be found. | |
770 | ||
771 | - Introduced two actions, 'html' & 'manpages', that generate | |
772 | documentation for POD when the respective feature is enabled. The | |
773 | actions will generate the documents even if there is no set place | |
774 | to install to. However, if the actions are invoked as a dependency | |
775 | of another action (e.g. build), the documentation will only be | |
776 | built when there is a default or user-specified place to install to. | |
777 | ||
778 | - Added support for environment variable, 'MODULEBUILDRC', which can | |
779 | be used to specify the full path to an option file to use instead | |
780 | of the default location of ~/.modulebuildrc. A special undocumented | |
781 | setting of 'NONE' tells Module::Build not to load any user settings, | |
782 | so tests can be run without tainting from user options. | |
783 | ||
784 | - Documented and improved preliminary support for more Getopt::Long | |
785 | style options are supported, including boolean options (--verbose, | |
786 | --no-verbose), and use of hyphens in option names in addition to | |
787 | underscores. | |
788 | ||
789 | - The option to disable/enable reading of the ~/.modulebuildrc file | |
790 | is changed from 'skip_rcfile' to 'use_rcfile' | |
791 | ||
792 | - Allow the 'distmeta' action to continue when 'MANIFEST' is missing, | |
793 | omitting the generation of the 'provieds' field. [Steven Schubiger] | |
794 | ||
795 | - Fixed some failing regex from generated MANIFEST.SKIP file. | |
796 | ||
797 | - Fixed an edge case in $VERSION parsing where we thought a package() | |
798 | declaration was happening but it wasn't. [David Golden] | |
799 | ||
800 | - Added docs for the install_destination() and install_types() methods. | |
801 | ||
802 | 0.27_03 (Beta for 0.28) Mon Oct 10 11:19:23 EDT 2005 | |
803 | ||
804 | - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for | |
805 | example, when compiling XS modules). (This change actually | |
806 | occurred in 0.27_01, but it was mistakenly omitted from the Changes | |
807 | file.) | |
808 | ||
809 | - Fixed an issue on Win32 (and other case-tolerant | |
810 | non-case-preserving systems, possibly like VMS?) in which the | |
811 | current working directory would sometimes be reported with | |
812 | different case, fooling us into thinking that we were in the wrong | |
813 | directory. [David Golden] | |
814 | ||
815 | - The extra_compiler_flags setting was not actually being passed | |
816 | along to ExtUtils::CBuilder so it could pass it along to the | |
817 | compiler. Now it is. | |
818 | ||
819 | - The synonyms 'scripts' and 'prereq' for 'script_files' and | |
820 | 'requires' were broken in a previous version (0.27_01, probably), | |
821 | but now they're fixed. [David Golden] | |
822 | ||
823 | - Previously, we assumed that any custom subclass of Module::Build | |
824 | was located in _build/lib/. This is only true if the author used | |
825 | the subclass() method, though. We now use %INC to find where the | |
826 | custom subclass really is, so that we can "use lib" it. We also | |
827 | issue a warning if it seems to be outside the build directory. | |
828 | [Spotted by Peter Tandler] | |
829 | ||
830 | - Added a URL for each license type that we know about, which will | |
831 | appear as resources=>license: in the generated META.yml file. | |
832 | ||
833 | - If the user passes a no_index parameter to our constructor, we now | |
834 | pass that through when building the META.yml file. [Richard | |
835 | Soderberg, RT #9603] | |
836 | ||
837 | - A few more status messages can now be suppressed by using 'quiet' | |
838 | mode. [Dave Rolsky] | |
839 | ||
840 | - Added some more entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file. [Chris | |
841 | Dolan] | |
842 | ||
843 | - Our POD parser will now accept "AUTHORS" as well as "AUTHOR" when | |
844 | looking for the author list in a module. [David Wheeler] | |
845 | ||
846 | - When looking for the POD to auto-generate a README file, or for the | |
847 | AUTHOR or ABSTRACT for the distribution, we now also look for a | |
848 | *.pod with the same name as the *.pm file specified by | |
849 | 'version_from'. [David Golden] | |
850 | ||
851 | - The recommended dependency on ExtUtils::ParseXS has been moved into | |
852 | the "C_support" auto_feature. | |
853 | ||
854 | - When building XS files, we now pass the -DVERSION and -DXS_VERSION | |
855 | flags to the compiler. [Spotted by Jerry Hedden] | |
856 | ||
857 | - If a distribution has XS files and Module::Build has not been | |
858 | configured with the "C_support" feature, we now issue a | |
859 | warning. [Suggested by Jerry Hedden] | |
860 | ||
861 | - Added a dir_contains() method. | |
862 | ||
863 | - Some versions of MakeMaker, CPANPLUS, and/or PAUSE thought that a | |
864 | certain line of our code was declaring a $VERSION when we didn't | |
865 | intend to. The line has been obscurified so they won't think that | |
866 | anymore. [Jos Boumans, RT #14226] | |
867 | ||
868 | - Added the Apache, MIT, and Mozilla licenses to the list of licenses | |
869 | that this module knows about. [Bob Ippolito] | |
870 | ||
871 | - Fixed a pretty significant typo in the documentation for | |
872 | auto_features. [Spotted by Jonas B. Nielsen] | |
873 | ||
874 | - In order to aid people who want to do customization of the META.yml | |
875 | file, we've added a "metafile" property that can then be easily | |
876 | overridden in subclasses, changed do_create_meta_yml() to | |
877 | do_create_metafile(), and split out the code that actually | |
878 | generates the YAML into a new method, write_metafile(). [David | |
879 | Wheeler] | |
880 | ||
881 | - Fixed a couple of non-helpful behaviors with extra_compiler_flags | |
882 | and extra_linker_flags. These will automatically be run through | |
883 | split_like_shell() when given to new() as strings. | |
884 | ||
885 | - When the user doesn't have ExtUtils::ParseXS installed and we use | |
886 | the old 'xsubpp', the displayed command line for creating the .c | |
887 | file from the .xs file was missing its newline. Now it's got it. | |
888 | ||
889 | 0.27_02 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Jul 15 07:34:58 CDT 2005 | |
890 | ||
891 | - Provided initial support for the --prefix installation parameter, | |
892 | which acts like MakeMaker's PREFIX. It is still highly recommended | |
893 | NOT to use it when you could reasonably use --install_base or | |
894 | --install_path or --install_dest, but that's just because the way | |
895 | --prefix is designed is weird and unpredictable. Ultimately the | |
896 | choice rests with the installing user. [Patches by Michael Schwern | |
897 | and Rob Kinyon] | |
898 | ||
899 | - Fixed a bug in subclass() which prevented people from using it to | |
900 | subclass subclasses of Module::Build. [Chris Dolan] | |
901 | ||
902 | - Added a 'pure_install' action, which for the time being is | |
903 | identical to the 'install' action. [Jos Boumans] | |
904 | ||
905 | - Fixed a POD error in an L<http://...> tag. [Offer Kaye] | |
906 | ||
907 | - Note several options for automatically creating a new module dev | |
908 | tree. [Suggested by Eric Wilhelm] | |
909 | ||
910 | - Removed some hard-coded references to File::Spec::Unix in the | |
911 | creation of HTML docs, which should help that code work in more | |
912 | places, and help people not to panic when they look at it. [Spotted | |
913 | by Yves] | |
914 | ||
915 | - We now use Pod::Readme by default (instead of Pod::Text) to | |
916 | generate the README file when the 'create_readme' option is used. | |
917 | If Pod::Readme is not installed, we will still fall back to using | |
918 | Pod::Text. [Robert Rothenberg] | |
919 | ||
920 | - The values of the "prefix", "install_base", "install_path", and | |
921 | "install_dest" parameters can now begin with "~" or "~user", and | |
922 | we'll de-tilde-ify them by using glob(). | |
923 | ||
924 | - The (optional) auto-creation of the README and Makefile.PL files | |
925 | have been moved from the 'distdir' action to the 'distmeta' | |
926 | action. [David Golden] | |
927 | ||
928 | - When looking for a .modulebuildrc file, we now use a fancier method | |
929 | of trying to find the home directory, because $ENV{HOME} isn't a | |
930 | very cross-platform variable. [Robert Rothenberg] | |
931 | ||
932 | - We now memoize the output of the internal _default_INC() method, | |
933 | since it uses backticks and might be kind of slow. | |
934 | ||
935 | - When processing XS files, we now look for a typemap in lib/ as well | |
936 | as using the system's default typemap. [John Peacock] | |
937 | ||
938 | - The DESTDIR, PREFIX, and INSTALL_BASE arguments to "make install" | |
939 | are now supported for pass-through Makefiles (they've been | |
940 | supported for quite a while as arguments to "perl | |
941 | Makefile.PL"). [Requested by Guillaume Rousse] | |
942 | ||
943 | - Test::Harness has changed its output format in recent versions, | |
944 | which threw off one of our tests. We now allow for this different | |
945 | format. [Reported by Scott Godin] | |
946 | ||
947 | - Fixed an issue that prevented Module::Build from upgrading itself | |
948 | using its own API (which is how CPANPLUS uses it). There are still | |
949 | some issues with this solution, however. See ticket #13169 in | |
950 | rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans] | |
951 | ||
952 | - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when a distribution's author | |
953 | could not be determined from its POD nor from the call to | |
954 | Module::Build->new() in its Build.PL. See ticket #12318 in | |
955 | rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans] | |
956 | ||
957 | - Apparently on Windows and cygwin it's not possible to use the "-pi" | |
958 | switch to perl without a backup extension, so now we use ".bak" and | |
959 | remove the backup file when we're done. Thus the "dist" action for | |
960 | Module::Build itself can now be run on those platforms. [Yitzchak | |
961 | Scott-Thoennes] | |
962 | ||
963 | - Improved the handling of auto_features in the config_data access | |
964 | script. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] | |
965 | ||
966 | 0.27_01 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Apr 15 21:12:57 CDT 2005 | |
967 | ||
968 | Backward-incompatible (but better) changes: | |
969 | ||
970 | * When using the 'install_base' option to choose a directory for | |
971 | installing everything, perl modules now go into lib/perl5/ instead | |
972 | of just lib/. It seems this is more consistent with people's | |
973 | expectations, and the way I had it before was a bit peculiar to the | |
974 | way I like things in my own home directory. [Michael Schwern] | |
975 | ||
976 | * When the user is using the 'install_base' option, scripts will now | |
977 | be installed by default in $install_base/bin/ rather than | |
978 | $install_base/script/ . [Jan Hudec and Michael Schwern] | |
979 | ||
980 | Major changes: | |
981 | ||
982 | - The auto_features mechanism will now re-evaluate dependencies every | |
983 | time feature() is called for an auto-feature, rather than freezing | |
984 | the success/failure value during 'perl Build.PL' and using that | |
985 | value for all eternity (or module update, whichever comes first). | |
986 | This applies to both $build->feature() and | |
987 | FooModule::ConfigData->feature() calls. [Requested by many] | |
988 | ||
989 | - Added the meta_add and meta_merge mechanisms, which let the module | |
990 | author add/merge arbitrary entries into the META.yml file. | |
991 | ||
992 | - Now reads per-action default options from '$ENV{HOME}/.modulebuildrc' | |
993 | if it exists. Command line options override anything set in the rc file. | |
994 | ||
995 | - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for | |
996 | example, when compiling XS modules). | |
997 | ||
998 | - The creation of Unix man pages is no longer a strict necessity - it | |
999 | has now been turned into an 'auto-feature' contingent on the | |
1000 | presence of Pod::Man and a location specified for man pages to go. | |
1001 | ||
1002 | - A user-specified 'install_path' setting will now take precedence | |
1003 | over an 'install_base' setting. This allows the user to use | |
1004 | 'install_base' to set the base for all elements in one go, and then | |
1005 | use 'install_path' to override specific paths or add paths for | |
1006 | additional kinds of targets. | |
1007 | ||
1008 | - Split the main documentation from 'Module/Build.pm' into two | |
1009 | sections. The user level documentation and overview remains in | |
1010 | 'Module/Build.pm', while a new document, | |
1011 | 'Module/Build/Authoring.pod', has been created for module authors. | |
1012 | ||
1013 | Minor changes: | |
1014 | ||
1015 | - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not | |
1016 | because of inadequate training in forensic debate) - we now pass its | |
1017 | arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them | |
1018 | in afterwards. | |
1019 | ||
1020 | - Let resume() return an object blessed into the appropriate class | |
1021 | if the user has provided a subclass, as specified by the | |
1022 | 'build_class' property. This allows current() and new_from_context() | |
1023 | to behave more like factory methods returning objects of the correct | |
1024 | class based on context. [Ray Zimmerman] | |
1025 | ||
1026 | - Refactored methods relating to parsing perl module files for | |
1027 | package, version, and pod data into a new class: | |
1028 | Module::Build::ModuleInfo. It should not be considered part of | |
1029 | Module::Build's API, because we may split it out entirely as a | |
1030 | separate CPAN module that we depend on. | |
1031 | ||
1032 | - Added new method Module::Build::prepare_metadata() for authors to | |
1033 | override in order to add custom fields to META.yml. | |
1034 | ||
1035 | - We now use Test::More for our regression tests. If the user | |
1036 | doesn't have it installed, we include a copy in t/lib/ that we can | |
1037 | use during testing. | |
1038 | ||
1039 | - When copying files in the 'distdir' action, set permissions to match | |
1040 | the original files. [Julian Mehnle] | |
1041 | ||
1042 | - When adding files like META.yml to the MANIFEST, we now tell the | |
1043 | user we're doing so by printing one of the "Added to MANIFEST: ..." | |
1044 | lines. [Ron Savage] | |
1045 | ||
1046 | - Added a runtime_params() method, which lets a module author see | |
1047 | which parameters were overridden by the user on the command line | |
1048 | (or in whatever paradigm the user originally invoked Module::Build | |
1049 | from). [David Wheeler] | |
1050 | ||
1051 | - Added the current_action() method, which, surprisingly, returns the | |
1052 | name of the currently running action. [David Wheeler] | |
1053 | ||
1054 | - Added docs for run_perl_script(). | |
1055 | ||
1056 | - Added some stuff to the docs about why PREFIX is unsupported, and | |
1057 | what to use instead. [Steve Purkis] | |
1058 | ||
1059 | - The simple get/set accessor methods for all the 'parameters' like | |
1060 | verbose(), license(), etc. now have auto-generated documentation in | |
1061 | Module/Build.pm. | |
1062 | ||
1063 | - Created a Cookbook entry for 'Adding new elements to the install | |
1064 | process' | |
1065 | ||
1066 | - We now add META.yml to the MANIFEST when META.yml is created, not | |
1067 | when MANIFEST is created. [Spotted by Ron Savage] | |
1068 | ||
1069 | - Added some additional patterns to the suggested MANIFEST.SKIP | |
1070 | contents, and changed the docs so that we encourage the user to use | |
1071 | the MANIFEST.SKIP. [Ron Savage] | |
1072 | ||
1073 | - Eliminated a redundant recipe from the Cookbook, now that there are | |
1074 | some more extensive recipes on how to add stuff to the | |
1075 | build/install sequences. | |
1076 | ||
1077 | - Eliminated an undefined-variable warning when testing under perl 5.005 | |
1078 | ||
1079 | - When building HTML documentation, 'html_backlink' and 'html_css' | |
1080 | properties are now first-class properties, so they can be set from | |
1081 | the command line. [Suggested by Sagar R. Shah] | |
1082 | ||
1083 | - Have script_files default to everything in bin. I believe this is | |
1084 | the least surprising behavior. [Suggested by Michael Schwern] | |
1085 | ||
1086 | - If script_files is given a directory, consider each file in that | |
1087 | directory tree as a script to be installed. This avoids having to | |
1088 | remember to add to the script_files list every time you add a | |
1089 | program. [Suggested by Michael Schwern] | |
1090 | ||
1091 | - We now only load Pod::Man when we actually need to build man pages. | |
1092 | ||
1093 | - We now make Test::Harness use our carefully-selected path to a perl | |
1094 | executable regardless of Test::Harness's version. Previously we | |
1095 | let it figure stuff out for itself if it was a reasonably modern | |
1096 | version, but it's safer to make sure we're using the same perl | |
1097 | everywhere. | |
1098 | ||
1099 | 0.2610 Fri Apr 15 08:25:01 CDT 2005 | |
1100 | ||
1101 | - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not | |
1102 | because of inadequate training in debate) - we now pass its | |
1103 | arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them | |
1104 | in afterwards. [Ray Zimmerman] | |
1105 | ||
1106 | - Fixed a bug in which config_data and feature data were being | |
1107 | forgotten and no ConfigData.pm module would get written. [Ray | |
1108 | Zimmerman] | |
1109 | ||
1110 | - Added a recipe to the cookbook showing how to run a single test | |
1111 | file from the command line. [William McKee] | |
1112 | ||
1113 | - For command-line arguments, we now accept the syntax "--foo=bar" in | |
1114 | addition to "--foo bar" and "foo=bar". This seems to fit well with | |
1115 | what GNU getopt and Getopt::Long do, and with people's | |
1116 | expectations. [Adam Spiers] | |
1117 | ||
1118 | 0.2609 Wed Mar 16 22:18:35 CST 2005 | |
1119 | ||
1120 | - The html docs that were created during the first invokation of | |
1121 | './Build' were being found and treated as pod that needed to be | |
1122 | converted to html during subsequent invokations. We now are more | |
1123 | specific about the directories we scan for pod that needs to be | |
1124 | converted, effectively avoiding blib/html. [Ray Zimmerman] | |
1125 | ||
1126 | - If Pod::Man is not available, we now skip building man pages | |
1127 | (rather than dying) and tell the user why. | |
1128 | ||
1129 | - We now write a .packlist file upon installation, in the same place | |
1130 | that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does. [Johnny Lam] | |
1131 | ||
1132 | - On some Unix platforms (BSD derivatives, mostly) perl's $^X | |
1133 | variable isn't set to the full path of the perl executable, just | |
1134 | 'perl', when the 'Build' script is run as './Build' and not 'perl | |
1135 | ./Build'. This can lead to some other modules (maybe | |
1136 | Test::Harness, maybe IO::File, I dunno...) getting very confused | |
1137 | about where they are, and they try to load stuff from the wrong | |
1138 | perl lib, and big trouble ensues. To fix this, we now set $^X to | |
1139 | the value of Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter(). | |
1140 | ||
1141 | - The 'distcheck' action will now die() if it finds an error in the | |
1142 | MANIFEST, rather than just printing on STDOUT. [David Golden] | |
1143 | ||
1144 | - When the README and/or Makefile.PL are autogenerated using | |
1145 | create_readme or create_makefile_pl, we now automatically make sure | |
1146 | they're also listed in the MANIFEST file. [Suggested by Michael | |
1147 | Schwern] | |
1148 | ||
1149 | - Got rid of the t/MANIFEST file - it's superfluous, and it had | |
1150 | zero-length, which some versions of Tar don't like. [William | |
1151 | Underwood] | |
1152 | ||
1153 | - Added a mention in the documentation that each property that new() | |
1154 | accepts also has a corresponding get/set accessor. (In the version | |
1155 | 0.27_0x series each accessor method is mentioned explicitly in the | |
1156 | docs.) [Omission spotted by Ian Langworth] | |
1157 | ||
1158 | 0.2608 Wed Jan 26 19:46:09 CST 2005 | |
1159 | ||
1160 | - Add workaround for test files because Devel::Cover causes | |
1161 | require to fail when the argument to require is an expression | |
1162 | involving File::Spec. We now assign the result of the File::Spec | |
1163 | call to a variable and then call require with that variable. | |
1164 | ||
1165 | - Tilde-expansion is now performed on arguments passed to a | |
1166 | compatibility-Makefile.PL [Spotted by Sam Vilain] | |
1167 | ||
1168 | - We now run the 'gzip' and 'tar' values through split_like_shell() | |
1169 | when running the 'dist' action, so that e.g. the 'gzip' value can | |
1170 | be set to something like "gzip -f --best" and it'll work | |
1171 | correctly. [Spotted by Chris Dolan] | |
1172 | ||
1173 | - Work around some bad mojo between Fedora Core [with its very long | |
1174 | @INC] and old versions of Test::Harness [with its propensity to | |
1175 | compound the number of @INC entries] that produced an "argument | |
1176 | list too long" error during testing. [assisted by Ville Skytta, | |
1177 | David Golden, & Randy Sims] | |
1178 | ||
1179 | - Killed an infinite loop that would happen in y_n() in interactive | |
1180 | mode if the author provided no default value. [Max Maischein] | |
1181 | ||
1182 | 0.2607 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Sat Dec 18 14:14:09 CST 2004 | |
1183 | ||
1184 | - Instead of freezing @INC in the 'Build' script to the value it had | |
1185 | when Build.PL was run, we now just add those additional values that | |
1186 | aren't part of the default compiled-in @INC. [Michael Schwern] | |
1187 | ||
1188 | - The run_perl_script() method will now propagate any extra entries | |
1189 | in @INC (such as those added by "use lib" or the -I command-line | |
1190 | switch) to the subprocess. This helps situations in which you want | |
1191 | to tell the subprocess where to find a certain module, for | |
1192 | instance. [Michael Schwern] | |
1193 | ||
1194 | 0.2606 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Dec 7 22:33:11 CST 2004 | |
1195 | ||
1196 | - Fixed a linking bug on Win32, in which compiled C code object files | |
1197 | never got linked in with the modules being built. [Dominic | |
1198 | Mitchell] | |
1199 | ||
1200 | - Fixed a bug in the new_from_context() method in which any arguments | |
1201 | passed made us die. [Spotted by Jos Boumans] | |
1202 | ||
1203 | 0.2605 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Nov 30 07:16:13 CST 2004 | |
1204 | ||
1205 | - Fixed a bug in which zero-length arguments for hash-valued | |
1206 | parameters (e.g. " --config foo= ") weren't being allowed. | |
1207 | ||
1208 | - The tests now play better with environments in which version.pm is | |
1209 | pre-loaded, like in bleadperl. [John Peacock & Michael Schwern] | |
1210 | ||
1211 | - Fixed a syntax error in one of the tests under perl 5.005. | |
1212 | ||
1213 | 0.2604 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 17 14:32:42 CST 2004 | |
1214 | ||
1215 | - Fixed a split_like_shell() bug introduced in 0.2603 for Windows, in | |
1216 | which an array reference passed as an argument was returned as an | |
1217 | array reference, rather than as a list. [Spotted by Steve Hay] | |
1218 | ||
1219 | - module_name() will now return '' instead of undef when module_name | |
1220 | is not set. This eliminates a couple uninitialized-value | |
1221 | warnings. [Suggested by Michael Schwern] | |
1222 | ||
1223 | - The expand_test_dir() method will now skip dotfiles (like ._foo.t, | |
1224 | which sometimes gets automatically created on Mac systems) when | |
1225 | 'recursive_test_files' is in effect. [Tom Insam] | |
1226 | ||
1227 | 0.2603 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Mon Nov 15 10:28:00 CST 2004 | |
1228 | ||
1229 | - Added documentation for the new_from_context() method. | |
1230 | ||
1231 | - Completely rewrote the split_like_shell() method for the Windows | |
1232 | platform so it works like the command.com shell. [Randy Sims] | |
1233 | ||
1234 | 0.2602 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Thu Nov 4 11:19:29 CST 2004 | |
1235 | ||
1236 | - The two bug fixes in 0.2601 gnashed against each other incorrectly, | |
1237 | resulting in a Win32 bug in split_like_shell(). Fixed. [Spotted | |
1238 | by Steve Hay & Randy Sims] | |
1239 | ||
1240 | - Removed a couple of 'use warnings' statements from the code - they | |
1241 | were causing compile failures on 5.005_04, where warnings.pm isn't | |
1242 | available. [Blair Zajac] | |
1243 | ||
1244 | 0.2601 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 3 20:09:27 CST 2004 | |
1245 | ||
1246 | - Fixed some backslash problems with split_like_shell() on | |
1247 | Win32. [Steve Hay] | |
1248 | ||
1249 | - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was | |
1250 | creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no | |
1251 | such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge] | |
1252 | ||
1253 | 0.26 Sat Oct 9 17:51:01 CDT 2004 | |
1254 | ||
1255 | - Removed some language from the Module::Build::Compat documentation | |
1256 | that encouraged people to include a Build.PL without a Makefile.PL. | |
1257 | Also changed "a replacement for MakeMaker" to "an alternative to | |
1258 | MakeMaker" in the main documentation, which is basically what I | |
1259 | meant all along (i.e. a replacement for MakeMaker in your | |
1260 | particular build process - MakeMaker is never going to be fully | |
1261 | replaced in the perl world at large, of course), but some people | |
1262 | got the impression I was a little more truculent toward MakeMaker | |
1263 | than I really am. | |
1264 | ||
1265 | - Added the formal concepts of "features" and "config data" for | |
1266 | distributions. This allows the module author to define a certain | |
1267 | set of features that the user can switch on and off (usually | |
1268 | according to whether they have the proper prerequisites for them), | |
1269 | and to save build-time configuration information in a standardized | |
1270 | format. See the main documentation of Module::Build for more | |
1271 | details. (Note that the name of this system was called | |
1272 | "BuildConfig" for a while in beta, but now it's called | |
1273 | "ConfigData".) | |
1274 | ||
1275 | - Added an 'auto_features' capability, which simplifies the process | |
1276 | of defining features that depend on a set of prerequisites. | |
1277 | ||
1278 | - Added the 'get_options' parameter, which lets module authors | |
1279 | declare certain command-line arguments their Build.PL can accept | |
1280 | [David Wheeler] | |
1281 | ||
1282 | - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords() | |
1283 | function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which | |
1284 | does a much better job than the split() we were using. | |
1285 | ||
1286 | - Added a 'testpod' action, which checks the syntactic validity of | |
1287 | all POD files in the distribution using Test::Pod. This eliminates | |
1288 | the need for doing so in a regression test. [Initial patch by Mark | |
1289 | Stosberg] | |
1290 | ||
1291 | - Added a process_files_by_extension() method, which generalizes the | |
1292 | kind of processing (essentially just copying) that happens for .pm | |
1293 | and .pod files, and makes it available to other user-defined types | |
1294 | of files. See the new cookbook entry. | |
1295 | ||
1296 | - Improved compatibility with version.pm when authors are using | |
1297 | version objects as their $VERSION variables. Now | |
1298 | version_from_file() can deal with these objects. Currently we | |
1299 | stringify them right away, but perhaps in the future we will | |
1300 | preserve them as objects for a while. | |
1301 | ||
1302 | - During 'distdir' and 'distmeta' actions, die a bit more gracefully | |
1303 | if there's no MANIFEST (i.e. explicitly say that a MANIFEST is | |
1304 | required). [Spotted by Adrian Howard] | |
1305 | ||
1306 | - Eliminated a recursive dependency between creating the MANIFEST | |
1307 | file and creating the META.yml file. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky] | |
1308 | ||
1309 | - On Win32, where a single directory might be known variously as | |
1310 | "Module-Build-0.25_03" or "MODULE~1.25_", we now use | |
1311 | Win32::GetShortPathName($cwd) to verify that the 'Build' script is | |
1312 | being run from the correct directory, rather than just a string | |
1313 | comparison. | |
1314 | ||
1315 | - The add_to_cleanup() method will now accept glob()-style patterns | |
1316 | in addition to explicit filenames. Also documented the fact that | |
1317 | they can be specified in either Unix-style or native-style | |
1318 | notation. | |
1319 | ||
1320 | - Passing a PREFIX value to a pass-through Makefile 'make install' | |
1321 | now has the same effect as passing it to 'perl Makefile.PL' (it | |
1322 | dies with a helpful message). | |
1323 | ||
1324 | - Added the 'testcover' action, which runs a test suite using | |
1325 | Devel::Cover. [Dave Rolsky] | |
1326 | ||
1327 | - Added the 'lib' and 'arch' installation directories to the search | |
1328 | path for the 'diff' action, since they won't necessarily (though | |
1329 | they usually will) be in @INC at installation time. [Suggested by | |
1330 | Kevin Baker] | |
1331 | ||
1332 | - The "=head3" POD directive isn't supported in older podlators | |
1333 | (particularly Pod::Man), so we don't use it anymore. | |
1334 | ||
1335 | - Fixed a typo & improved the docs in the SUBCLASSING section. [Ron | |
1336 | Savage] | |
1337 | ||
1338 | - Added the '.tmp' suffix to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file, which | |
1339 | should avoid adding things like pod2htmi.tmp to the MANIFEST [Ron | |
1340 | Savage] | |
1341 | ||
1342 | - Backup files from Emacs, containing the string '.#' in their names, | |
1343 | should no longer find their way into the blib/ directory (and from | |
1344 | there into installation directories). | |
1345 | ||
1346 | - Worked around an unpleasant interaction between version.pm and the | |
1347 | version-checking code that makes sure Module::Build's version | |
1348 | hasn't changed during the lifetime of the 'Build' script. [Reported | |
1349 | by Trevor Schellhorn] | |
1350 | ||
1351 | - Fixed a problem in htmlify_pods() that would produce test failures | |
1352 | on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere). [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes] | |
1353 | ||
1354 | - Fixed a test failure on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere) in | |
1355 | t/compat.t, resulting from empty environment variables being set to | |
1356 | the empty string (as opposed to simply being unset) by their mere | |
1357 | presence in the "EXPORT:" list. | |
1358 | ||
1359 | - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when the author specified | |
1360 | 'dist_author' manually in their Build.PL script. [Spotted by Ron | |
1361 | Savage] | |
1362 | ||
1363 | - The 'provides' section of the META.yml file wasn't being built | |
1364 | properly on Win32, because of a mismatch between URL-format and | |
1365 | native-format pathnames. Fixed. [Reported by Robert Rothenberg] | |
1366 | ||
1367 | - The progress message "lib/Foo.xs -> lib/Foo.c" was previously being | |
1368 | output even when the Foo.c file wasn't being rebuilt. It's now | |
1369 | fixed. | |
1370 | ||
1371 | - Fixed a couple of places in Compat.pm where it could have forgotten | |
1372 | which perl interpreter it had been run with ($^X isn't very | |
1373 | trustworthy). | |
1374 | ||
1375 | - On some systems, the way we updated the timestamp on the | |
1376 | "lib/Foo.bs" file (one of the output files for XS-based modules) | |
1377 | was failing. It's been replaced by a simple call to utime(). | |
1378 | ||
1379 | - Fixed a problem in t/compat.t that prevented it from being run | |
1380 | individually using 'make test TEST_FILES=t/compat.t'. The problem | |
1381 | was that a couple environment variables (TEST_FILES, MAKEFLAGS) | |
1382 | were being passed through to subprocesses, and confused them. | |
1383 | ||
1384 | - Fixed an important typo in the documentation for the 'install_base' | |
1385 | parameter ('libdoc' and 'bindoc' were switched). [Ray Zimmerman] | |
1386 | ||
1387 | - The pass-through Makefiles (type 'small' or 'passthrough') now | |
1388 | support the TEST_FILES parameter to 'make test'. | |
1389 | ||
1390 | - Fixed a fatal error that would occur on perl 5.005 when building | |
1391 | HTML documentation, because its version of Pod::Html was old and | |
1392 | didn't like some of the parameters we fed it. [Spotted by Blair | |
1393 | Zajac] | |
1394 | ||
1395 | - The final line of the generated pass-through Makefile was missing | |
1396 | its trailing newline, which is now fixed. [Chip Salzenberg] | |
1397 | ||
1398 | - We now depend on YAML version at least 0.35 and at most version | |
1399 | 0.49, so that we don't pick up a new (and backward-incompatible) beta | |
1400 | version from CPAN. | |
1401 | ||
1402 | - Squashed a warning in t/basic.t about '"Foo::Module::VERSION" used | |
1403 | only once', and one in PPMMaker about $^V being undefined. [Blair | |
1404 | Zajac] | |
1405 | ||
1406 | - Added a couple temporary output files from HTML documentation | |
1407 | generation to the cleanup list. [Toby Ovod-Everett] | |
1408 | ||
1409 | - The PodParser module will now only extract paragraphs in the | |
1410 | 'AUTHOR' section of the pod if they contain an '@' character. This | |
1411 | tends to do a better job, heuristically speaking, of returning | |
1412 | relevant stuff. | |
1413 | ||
1414 | - Added regression tests and a helper method ( add_build_elements() ) | |
1415 | for adding new elements to the build process. Also some | |
1416 | documentation. | |
1417 | ||
1418 | - Wrote a recipe in the Cookbook for adding new elements to the build | |
1419 | process, and a recipe for changing the order in which the steps in | |
1420 | the build process will occur. | |
1421 | ||
1422 | 0.25 Sun Apr 25 11:12:36 CDT 2004 | |
1423 | ||
1424 | - During the 'distdir' action, if no MANIFEST.SKIP file exists, we | |
1425 | will now create a reasonable default one. [Randy Sims] | |
1426 | ||
1427 | - In Makefile compatibility mode, some arguments (like UNINST, | |
1428 | TEST_VERBOSE, etc.) given to 'make' are now recognized and passed | |
1429 | through to Module::Build. [Randy Sims] | |
1430 | ||
1431 | - The regression tests now make sure that several pass-through | |
1432 | Makefile.PL parameters are dealt with correctly. | |
1433 | ||
1434 | - Added support for the 'LIB' parameter to passthrough | |
1435 | Makefile.PLs. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum] | |
1436 | ||
1437 | - Passing a 'PREFIX' parameter to a passthrough Makefile.PL was | |
1438 | supposed to make it die with a helpful error message, but instead | |
1439 | it just ignored it and blindly tried to install to the wrong place. | |
1440 | This is now fixed. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum] | |
1441 | ||
1442 | - Added an extra_compiler_flags() accessor method. | |
1443 | ||
1444 | - If the 'recursive_test_files' option was turned on, the test files | |
1445 | weren't sorted, but returned in an apparently random order. Now | |
1446 | they're sorted. [Martyn Peck] | |
1447 | ||
1448 | - Documented the 'tar' and 'gzip' parameters to the 'dist' and | |
1449 | 'ppmdist' actions. | |
1450 | ||
1451 | - The generation of HTML documentation now works (it was accidentally | |
1452 | partially implemented with an itchy patch-application finger in | |
1453 | 0.24). [Randy Kobes] | |
1454 | ||
1455 | - Fixed a fatal bug when building META.yml with YAML.pm and | |
1456 | 'dynamic_config' is set. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg] | |
1457 | ||
1458 | - Fixed some incorrect error messages that occurred when | |
1459 | compiling/linking C sources went awry. | |
1460 | ||
1461 | - If the author uses a custom builder subclass, that subclass will | |
1462 | now be loaded correctly in the passthrough Makefile.PL if the | |
1463 | author uses the 'small' or 'passthrough' Makefile.PL options in | |
1464 | Module::Build::Compat. [Martyn Peck and Jaap Karssenberg] | |
1465 | ||
1466 | - If the author uses a custom builder subclass created dynamically | |
1467 | through the subclass() method, passthrough Makefile.PLs (of type | |
1468 | 'passthrough' or 'small') didn't work properly, because the custom | |
1469 | builder module wouldn't be loaded at the right time. This has been | |
1470 | fixed. [Reported by Toby Ovod-Everett] | |
1471 | ||
1472 | - In M::B-generated 'traditional' Makefile.PLs, the entries in | |
1473 | 'PREREQ_PM' are now sorted ASCIIbetically rather than randomly. | |
1474 | ||
1475 | - The install_types() method will now return any additional types | |
1476 | given as 'install_path' arguments, as well as all elements of the | |
1477 | current 'install_sets' entry. This makes it easier to add new | |
1478 | types of installable objects to the mix. | |
1479 | ||
1480 | - As a consequence of the previous change, there is no longer any | |
1481 | need to have an explicit 'install_types' data member, so it has | |
1482 | been removed. | |
1483 | ||
1484 | - In the second example code for the Module::Build->subclass() | |
1485 | method, the Module::Build module needed to be loaded before calling | |
1486 | its methods. [John Peacock] | |
1487 | ||
1488 | - Fixed minor error in the POD structure of Module::Build and | |
1489 | Module::Build::Platform::VMS docs. | |
1490 | ||
1491 | ||
1492 | 0.24 Wed Feb 25 15:57:00 CST 2004 | |
1493 | ||
1494 | - Fixed a problem with incude_dirs not being propagated to the 'ccs' | |
1495 | file when compiling XS files on Win32. [Randy Sims and Steve Hay] | |
1496 | ||
1497 | - In 0.23, Module::Build::Compat->fake_makefile() started choking | |
1498 | when no 'build_class' parameter was supplied in the Makefile.PL. | |
1499 | Since these Makefile.PLs still exist on CPAN, we now default | |
1500 | 'build_class' to 'Module::Build', which was the old 0.22 behavior | |
1501 | anyway. [Reported by Martin Titz and Jeremy Seitz] | |
1502 | ||
1503 | - Added documentation for the 'include_dirs' parameter to | |
1504 | new(). [Steve Hay] | |
1505 | ||
1506 | - Changed the no-op command on Win32 from 'rem' to 'rem>nul' inside | |
1507 | pass-through Makefiles. [Randy Sims] | |
1508 | ||
1509 | - The 'autosplit' parameter now accepts an array reference if | |
1510 | multiple files should be split. [Jaap Karssenberg] | |
1511 | ||
1512 | - find_perl_interpreter() will now use $^X (if absolute), $ENV{PATH} | |
1513 | (if $^X isn't absolute), and $Config{perlpath}, in that order. | |
1514 | Also, we now make darn sure the result is the same version of perl, | |
1515 | by checking Config::myconfig() for a match against the current | |
1516 | perl. [Reported by Edward Sabol] | |
1517 | ||
1518 | - Fixed a fatal error on Win32 (and any other platform that doesn't | |
1519 | define an installation location for Unix-style man pages) during | |
1520 | installation. | |
1521 | ||
1522 | 0.23 Sun Feb 8 22:01:18 CST 2004 | |
1523 | ||
1524 | - Fixed a compatibility problem in pass-through Makefiles (created by | |
1525 | Module::Build::Compat). Some 'make' utilities (for example, BSD | |
1526 | make) didn't like a '@' by itself on a line, so we stole some | |
1527 | 'NOOP' code from MakeMaker to fix it. [Reported by Mathieu Arnold] | |
1528 | ||
1529 | - Added a 'ppm_dist' action, which just makes the PPD file and then | |
1530 | makes a tarball out of the blib/ directory. [Randy Sims] | |
1531 | ||
1532 | - The @INC of the parent process is now propagated to child processes | |
1533 | when processing *.PL files. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg] | |
1534 | ||
1535 | - We now only attempt to fix the shebang line on a script if the | |
1536 | shebang line matches the regex /perl/i . This fixes some instances | |
1537 | where people put shell scripts in their distributions. [Jaap | |
1538 | Karssenberg] | |
1539 | ||
1540 | - We no longer generate a 'requires', 'recommends', 'conflicts', | |
1541 | etc. entry in the META.yml file if there's no data to go in it. | |
1542 | ||
1543 | - Added a documentation reference to Michael Schwern's wiki for tips | |
1544 | on conversion from MakeMaker to M::B. [Randy Sims] | |
1545 | ||
1546 | - If there are script_files, we now add EXE_FILES to the | |
1547 | 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated by M::B::Compat. [Suggested by | |
1548 | Yuval Kogman] | |
1549 | ||
1550 | - Documented the 'test_files' parameter to new(). [Reported by Tony | |
1551 | Bowden] | |
1552 | ||
1553 | - Fixed a problem in "Build help <action>", which didn't find the | |
1554 | correct help chunk if <action> was the final element in a POD | |
1555 | list. [Jaap Karssenberg] | |
1556 | ||
1557 | - Fixed a problem in the get_action_docs() method which gave | |
1558 | incorrect results if the method was called more than once in the | |
1559 | same program. | |
1560 | ||
1561 | - Fixed a problem in which actions defined by user subclasses | |
1562 | wouldn't be available via the pass-through Makefiles created by | |
1563 | Module::Build::Compat. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg] | |
1564 | ||
1565 | - We now use Data::Dumper instead of our own ad-hoc serialization | |
1566 | routines to create the 'traditional' Makefile.PL | |
1567 | arguments. [Suggested by Yuval Kojman] | |
1568 | ||
1569 | 0.22 Sat Jan 10 22:05:39 CST 2004 | |
1570 | ||
1571 | - On Unixish platforms, the syntax "FOO=BAR /bin/baz arg arg" now | |
1572 | works when present in $Config{ld}. This solves a problem on Mac OS | |
1573 | X 10.3. [Reported by Adam Foxson] | |
1574 | ||
1575 | - The have_c_compiler() now also tests whether the linker seems to | |
1576 | work too. | |
1577 | ||
1578 | - Fixed a problem with creating the distribution tarball in which | |
1579 | permissions would usually be all read-only. We now use our own | |
1580 | file-copying routines rather than those in ExtUtils::Manifest, | |
1581 | because those do some annoying extra permissions-setting stuff for | |
1582 | no apparent reason. It makes me happy that this was a very very | |
1583 | easy patch to make. [Reported by Thomas Klausner] | |
1584 | ||
1585 | - The compile_c() method now includes $Config{cccdlflags} in its | |
1586 | command invocation. It's usually empty, but not always, so we | |
1587 | didn't notice for a while. [Richard Clamp] | |
1588 | ||
1589 | - On some platforms it's common to have a $Config{make} defined, but | |
1590 | no 'make' utility actually available. We now detect this and skip | |
1591 | some 'make' compatibility tests. [Randy Sims] | |
1592 | ||
1593 | - Fixed a spurious testing failure on non-Unix platforms that | |
1594 | happened because we accidentally call localize_file_path() on empty | |
1595 | strings in the test suite. [Spotted by Randy Sims on Windows] | |
1596 | ||
1597 | - Made the 'name', 'abstract', 'author', and 'version' properties | |
1598 | required when building a PPD file. [Spotted by Randy Sims, Dave | |
1599 | Rolsky, & Glenn Linderman] | |
1600 | ||
1601 | - When building a 'traditional' Makefile.PL with | |
1602 | Module::Build::Compat, we now use 'VERSION_FROM' when possible, | |
1603 | rather than always using 'VERSION'. This way the Makefile.PL | |
1604 | doesn't have to get modified every release. | |
1605 | ||
1606 | - Made some fixups to the 'PPM' info-file, improving compatibility | |
1607 | with ActiveState's PPM tools. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman] | |
1608 | ||
1609 | - The 'dist_author' property can now accept multiple authors, see the | |
1610 | docs for more info. [Randy Sims] | |
1611 | ||
1612 | - If the user doesn't have YAML.pm installed during ACTION_dist, we | |
1613 | now create a minimal YAML.pm anyway, without any dependency | |
1614 | information. | |
1615 | ||
1616 | - The 'distribution_type' field is no longer created in META.yml | |
1617 | files, in accordance with the finding made at the London CLPAN | |
1618 | meeting that it's essentially meaningless and ill-defined. | |
1619 | ||
1620 | - The 'dist' action now accepts an optional 'tar' parameter to use a | |
1621 | system utility for building the tarball, and a 'gzip' parameter for | |
1622 | compressing it. If these are used, Archive::Tar won't be invoked. | |
1623 | This was added because Archive::Tar is producing some very | |
1624 | non-cross-platform tarballs that many tar utilities can't handle. | |
1625 | ||
1626 | - During testing, if YAML.pm isn't installed, then we won't try | |
1627 | making a tarball either, since this would invoke YAML to create the | |
1628 | META.yml file. | |
1629 | ||
1630 | - Fixed a problem with chmod() being called incorrectly on MacOS | |
1631 | (i.e. MacPerl, not Mac OS X). [Spotted by Paul Sanford Toney] | |
1632 | ||
1633 | - Fixed a problem with the --config flag not being treated properly | |
1634 | (essentially ignored) on the command line for 'perl Build.PL' or | |
1635 | 'Build <action>'. [Spotted by Jakub Bogusz] | |
1636 | ||
1637 | - Added a new config() method to get at the Build object's notion of | |
1638 | the %Config hash. | |
1639 | ||
1640 | - Test::Harness is starting to contend for the Most Crotchety Module | |
1641 | Award. Work around a few of its nits when setting harness | |
1642 | switches. [Spotted by Diab Jerius] | |
1643 | ||
1644 | - Now the Build script will die() if we're run from the wrong | |
1645 | directory, rather than trying to chdir() to what it thinks is the | |
1646 | right directory and do its work there. See | |
1647 | https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4039 . [Chris Dolan] | |
1648 | ||
1649 | - Changed the manpage separator on OS/2 to '.'. [Ilya Zakharevich] | |
1650 | ||
1651 | - On OS/2, disable C compilation, since apparently it isn't working | |
1652 | there. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich] | |
1653 | ||
1654 | - Inserted a comment into auto-generated Makefile.PLs saying it was | |
1655 | auto-generated. [Randy Sims] | |
1656 | ||
1657 | - Fixed some annoying behavior in generated passthrough Makefile.PLs | |
1658 | when the user chose not to install Module::Build, or if | |
1659 | installation failed. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich and Richard | |
1660 | Clamp] | |
1661 | ||
1662 | - Moved the documentation for 'codebase' to the section where it's | |
1663 | relevant. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman] | |
1664 | ||
1665 | - Fixed a have_c_compiler() failure on some platforms, we now define | |
1666 | a boot_compilet() function (since we're compiling a library, not an | |
1667 | executable). [Randy Sims] | |
1668 | ||
1669 | - Added a recipe to the Module::Build::Cookbook describing how to | |
1670 | maintain compatibility with older versions of CPAN.pm [Jim Cromie] | |
1671 | ||
1672 | - Removed caveat about "looking for alternatives" in how hashes are | |
1673 | specified on the command line, since an alternative has been found. | |
1674 | ||
1675 | - Previously most warnings about optional prerequisites looked like | |
1676 | they were actually error messages about required prerequisites. | |
1677 | This has been corrected. [Reported again by Sagar Shah] | |
1678 | ||
1679 | - Added support for building XS (and C in general) stuff on AIX. | |
1680 | This was done by a small reorganization of prelink_c() method from | |
1681 | Windows.pm to Build.pm, and it is only invoked for the platforms | |
1682 | that need it invoked. AIX also massages some very naughty bits | |
1683 | (MakeMaker macro variables) in $Config{lddlflags} that should never | |
1684 | have been put there, but alas, they're there, so we find & resolve | |
1685 | them. | |
1686 | ||
1687 | - Added OS/2 ($^O = 'os2') to the list of Unix-like platforms. This | |
1688 | basically means that most platform-specific operations will be done | |
1689 | in a Unix-like manner. | |
1690 | ||
1691 | - Pass-through Makefiles will now die() when they're given a PREFIX | |
1692 | parameter, and suggest using 'destdir' or 'install_base' instead. | |
1693 | Previously they just ignored the parameter and tried to install to | |
1694 | the default location, which is clearly not what the user wanted. | |
1695 | ||
1696 | - Updated my email address in the documentation to a more recent | |
1697 | variant. | |
1698 | ||
1699 | - Add NetBSD to the list of Unix-like systems. [Adrian Bunk] | |
1700 | ||
1701 | - Add SVR5 to the list of Unix-like systems. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez] | |
1702 | ||
1703 | - We now use Pod::Parser to find the ABSTRACT and AUTHOR when it's | |
1704 | available on the system. [initial patch by Randy Sims] | |
1705 | ||
1706 | - Fixed a little scalar/list buglet in a documentation example. | |
1707 | ||
1708 | 0.21 Wed Oct 15 20:47:05 CDT 2003 | |
1709 | ||
1710 | - Added a have_c_compiler() method. | |
1711 | ||
1712 | - Added documentation for the requires(), recommends(), | |
1713 | build_requires(), and conflicts() methods. | |
1714 | ||
1715 | - On Unix platforms, we now create the "Build" script with a #! line | |
1716 | matching the perl interpreter that was used to invoke the Build.PL | |
1717 | script, rather than whatever is in $Config{startperl}. This avoids | |
1718 | a potential warning about the interpreters not matching. [Spotted | |
1719 | by Ken Y. Clark] | |
1720 | ||
1721 | - The Unix version now uses the safer multi-argument form of system() | |
1722 | when building distribution tarballs. | |
1723 | ||
1724 | - Added a regression test for the 'dist' action to the t/runthrough.t | |
1725 | test. | |
1726 | ||
1727 | - Fixed a problem with File::Spec usage when creating the names of | |
1728 | 'libdoc' manual pages - the code wasn't dealing with the volume or | |
1729 | file portions correctly on certain platforms. | |
1730 | ||
1731 | - When creating the names of the 'libdoc' manual pages, we no longer | |
1732 | assume that pods are under the hard-coded paths 'blib/lib' or | |
1733 | 'blib/arch'. | |
1734 | ||
1735 | - Fixed a crashing bug that could sometimes occur when the | |
1736 | distribution contained no 'lib' directory. [Chris Dolan] | |
1737 | ||
1738 | - Fixed a crashing bug that happened when the user had .PL files in | |
1739 | the lib/ directory and didn't explicitly name them in a hash | |
1740 | reference to the new() constructor. [Chris Reinhardt, bug #4036] | |
1741 | ||
1742 | - .PL files are now passed the names of their target file(s) on the | |
1743 | command line when they run. | |
1744 | ||
1745 | - When YAML.pm wasn't installed, t/runthrough.t wasn't properly | |
1746 | skipping some tests that required YAML. This is now fixed. | |
1747 | [Stephen J. Smith] | |
1748 | ||
1749 | - Added documentation for the dist_version() and dist_name() | |
1750 | methods. [Spotted by Johan Vromans] | |
1751 | ||
1752 | - Existing values in $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} are now respected | |
1753 | and not squashed when we run the 'test' action. [Paul Johnson] | |
1754 | ||
1755 | - On cygwin, the separator string for manual page names has been set | |
1756 | to '.'. Previously it was '::', inherited from Unix. [Yitzchak | |
1757 | Scott-Thoennes] | |
1758 | ||
1759 | - Avoid a warning when Build.PL is run (i.e. when the new() method is | |
1760 | called) and no MANIFEST file exists. [Michael Schwern and Kevin | |
1761 | Ruscoe] | |
1762 | ||
1763 | - Added documentation for the 'code' and 'docs' actions. [Steve | |
1764 | Purkis and Mark Stosberg] | |
1765 | ||
1766 | - The internal method compile_support_files() has been renamed to | |
1767 | process_support_files() in order to make it consistent with other | |
1768 | processing methods. Note that it was never documented using the | |
1769 | old name. It's still not documented, actually. Maybe later. | |
1770 | ||
1771 | - Skip the 'write' pseudo-entry in the 'diff' action's installation | |
1772 | map. [Chris Dolan] | |
1773 | ||
1774 | - Fixed a bug in which notes() set in the Build.PL before | |
1775 | create_build_script() was called would get lost unless more notes() | |
1776 | were also set afterwards. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky] | |
1777 | ||
1778 | - The process of building elements of the distribution is now driven | |
1779 | by a list of build elements, paving the way for letting people add | |
1780 | their own types of build elements in future versions of | |
1781 | Module::Build (or in the current version with some difficulty). | |
1782 | ||
1783 | - Fixed some linking errors on Cygwin. [Randy Sims, Terrence Brannon] | |
1784 | ||
1785 | - Fixed a line-ending problem with detecting the dist_abstract | |
1786 | properly on Cygwin. [Randy Sims] | |
1787 | ||
1788 | - Fixed a problem with signatures that occurred if 'distsign' was | |
1789 | called before 'distdir' - the signature would be generated twice. | |
1790 | ||
1791 | - Added a 'create_readme' parameter to new(), which will use | |
1792 | Pod::Text to generate a README from the main (dist_version_from) | |
1793 | module file during the 'distdir' action. | |
1794 | ||
1795 | - We now refuse to run the 'Build' script if it was created using a | |
1796 | different version of Module::Build. This has caused a couple of | |
1797 | nasty bugs in the past, I don't want to know what it would cause in | |
1798 | the future. | |
1799 | ||
1800 | - Documentation for do_system() has been added. [Dave Rolsky] | |
1801 | ||
1802 | - run_perl_script() is now available as a class method, though it | |
1803 | will need to (re-)find the perl interpreter in this case. | |
1804 | ||
1805 | - Added a new_from_context() method that authors of automated tools | |
1806 | like CPANPLUS and CPAN can use instead of running all tasks as | |
1807 | sub-processes. We also use it in the regression tests for | |
1808 | Module::Build itself. ** Note that this method is currently | |
1809 | undocumented because its name may change in the future. ** | |
1810 | ||
1811 | - When signing distributions with Module::Signature, we now | |
1812 | automatically add the SIGNATURE file to the MANIFEST, avoiding an | |
1813 | unpleasant chicken/egg problem for the module author. | |
1814 | [unpleasantness spotted by sungo] | |
1815 | ||
1816 | - In Module::Build::Compat, added support for the 'verbose' parameter | |
1817 | to Makefile.PL [spotted by Soren Andersen, fixed by Michael | |
1818 | Schwern] | |
1819 | ||
1820 | - The Module::Build distribution now has a cryptographic 'SIGNATURE' | |
1821 | file created by Module::Signature. | |
1822 | ||
1823 | - Added proper documentation for the subclass() method. [spotted by | |
1824 | Jonathan Steinert] | |
1825 | ||
1826 | - Worked around a Config.pm bug in Red Hat 9 which prevented man | |
1827 | pages from being installed in the correct places. [spotted by Ville | |
1828 | Skytta] | |
1829 | ||
1830 | - Fixed a Module::Build::Compat bug in which setting INSTALLDIRS | |
1831 | caused a crash. [spotted by Ilya Martynov] | |
1832 | ||
1833 | 0.20 Tue Aug 26 14:34:07 CDT 2003 | |
1834 | ||
1835 | - Separated the 'build' action into two separate actions, 'code' and | |
1836 | 'docs'. This is similar to MakeMaker's separation of the 'all' | |
1837 | target into 'pure_all' and 'manifypods'. This fixes a permissions | |
1838 | hassle in which doing 'sudo Build install' would often create local | |
1839 | doc files that needed superuser permissions to delete. | |
1840 | ||
1841 | - Enhanced the 'help' action - 'Build help foo' will now show the POD | |
1842 | documentation for the 'foo' action. | |
1843 | ||
1844 | - Added a notes() feature, which helps share data transparently | |
1845 | between the Build.PL and t/*.t scripts. | |
1846 | ||
1847 | - The installation process will now create man(1) and man(3) pages | |
1848 | from POD in modules & scripts, and install them. We don't build | |
1849 | man pages when there's nowhere to install them, such as on some | |
1850 | Win32 or most Mac systems. [large patch by Steve Purkis, 5.005 fix | |
1851 | by Mathieu Arnold] | |
1852 | ||
1853 | - The 'distdir' action now copies files to the distribution | |
1854 | directory, rather than making them hard links to the original | |
1855 | files. This allows authors to do last-minute alterations of the | |
1856 | files without affecting the originals. [Dave Rolsky] | |
1857 | ||
1858 | - If the author uses XS files in nonstandard locations, the copied | |
1859 | versions of those files will now be cleaned up properly. | |
1860 | ||
1861 | - In invoking the 'test' action or invoking 'xsubpp', we now use the | |
1862 | same perl executable as we use everywhere else, rather than blindly | |
1863 | using $^X or $Config{perlpath} (neither of which are very | |
1864 | reliable). | |
1865 | ||
1866 | - Fixed a problem with the 'install_path' parameter given to | |
1867 | 'Build.PL' being lost in subsequent actions. [Reported by Mathieu | |
1868 | Arnold] | |
1869 | ||
1870 | - Fixed yet another bug with installation directories, in which the | |
1871 | 'install_base' parameter wasn't being respected on the command | |
1872 | line. [Spotted by Jonathan Swartz] | |
1873 | ||
1874 | - Changed the way the depends_on() method works inside action | |
1875 | subroutines - now each action will only run once per dispatch() | |
1876 | invocation (similar to how perl's require() function works). This | |
1877 | helps avoid some difficult problems with dependency loops. | |
1878 | ||
1879 | - Changed the documentation for the 'autosplit' parameter to give | |
1880 | reasons why it may not be a good idea to use, but no longer | |
1881 | threaten to remove it. [Suggested by Martyn J. Pearce] | |
1882 | ||
1883 | - Improved the formatting of the 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated | |
1884 | by Module::Build::Compat->create_makefile_pl. [Michael Schwern] | |
1885 | ||
1886 | - The 'traditional' Makefile.PL will now use the 'module_name' | |
1887 | parameter (as NAME) if it's available, otherwise it will continue | |
1888 | to use the 'dist_name' (as DISTNAME). [Michael Schwern] | |
1889 | ||
1890 | - Created read/write accessor methods for all our 'properties'. | |
1891 | [Michael Schwern] | |
1892 | ||
1893 | - The 'test_files' parameter can now be specified using glob() syntax | |
1894 | (i.e. 't/*.t'), and the corresponding test_files() method is now a | |
1895 | read/write accessor. | |
1896 | ||
1897 | - The location of the 'blib' directory is now a property of the Build | |
1898 | object - nobody is likely to notice this change, with any luck, but | |
1899 | it makes the design and code cleaner. | |
1900 | ||
1901 | - The 'disttest' and 'distsign' methods now chdir() back to the | |
1902 | directory where they started, rather than to the base_dir of the | |
1903 | build. | |
1904 | ||
1905 | - Improved comparisons of version strings containing underscore | |
1906 | characters (indicating "beta" status). [Steve Purkis] | |
1907 | ||
1908 | - Added documentation for the 'dist_author', 'dist_abstract', and | |
1909 | 'codebase' parameters to new(), and for the 'ppd' action. [Dave | |
1910 | Rolsky] | |
1911 | ||
1912 | - Added documentation for the up_to_date() and contains_pod() | |
1913 | methods. [Dave Rolsky] | |
1914 | ||
1915 | - 'traditional' pass-through Makefile.PLs will now contain an | |
1916 | INSTALLDIRS parameter matching the Build.PL's 'installdirs' | |
1917 | setting. | |
1918 | ||
1919 | - version_from_file() now ignores $VERSION variables that are defined | |
1920 | in POD or comments. It can still be tricked by $VERSIONs in string | |
1921 | literals, though. [Steve Purkis] | |
1922 | ||
1923 | - The code to find packages in module files now uses Steve's scanning | |
1924 | method (above) to skip package-declaration-lookalikes in POD or | |
1925 | comments. | |
1926 | ||
1927 | - The 'disttest' action will now propagate its @INC settings to its | |
1928 | subprocesses. | |
1929 | ||
1930 | 0.19 Wed Jul 9 22:34:02 CDT 2003 | |
1931 | ||
1932 | - Added support for the 'install_path' parameter, which allows custom | |
1933 | specification of where things should be installed. This is a major | |
1934 | improvement to Module::Build's functionality. | |
1935 | ||
1936 | - Added the 'install_base' parameter. Provides an easy way to | |
1937 | install to local or alternative directory trees. | |
1938 | ||
1939 | - We now install scripts by default to $Config{installsitebin} | |
1940 | instead of $Config{installscript}. Neither is a great choice, but | |
1941 | the former is likely to be [analogous to] /usr/local/bin, and the | |
1942 | latter is likely to be [something like] /usr/bin . If/when there's | |
1943 | a $Config{installsitescript}, we'll start using that automatically. | |
1944 | ||
1945 | - Fixed a problem on Win32 in which C and XS files wouldn't be | |
1946 | compiled properly, and the user would see an error about 'Can't | |
1947 | locate object method "format_compiler_cmd"'. | |
1948 | (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2391) | |
1949 | ||
1950 | - We now use the correct perl interpreter (via | |
1951 | Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter) in pass-through makefiles. | |
1952 | ||
1953 | - The t/compat.t test now uses $Config{make} instead of just 'make' | |
1954 | to test makefile compatibility. This fixes some failures on Win32. | |
1955 | We also skip this test entirely if no make utility is available. | |
1956 | ||
1957 | - Alternative distribution layouts are now supported via the | |
1958 | 'pm_files', 'pod_files', 'xs_files', 'PL_files', and 'script_files' | |
1959 | parameters to new(). This should help people transition from | |
1960 | MakeMaker, and might even help us write an automatic transition | |
1961 | tool. | |
1962 | ||
1963 | - Added tests to t/runthrough.t that check to see installation is | |
1964 | happening correctly. | |
1965 | ||
1966 | - Added experimental code to build a .ppd file, in support of | |
1967 | ActiveState's "Perl Package Manager". [original patch by Dave | |
1968 | Rolsky] | |
1969 | ||
1970 | - For authors who use Module::Signature to sign their distributions, | |
1971 | we now create the SIGNATURE file right in the distribution | |
1972 | directory, rather than creating it in the top-level directory and | |
1973 | copying it into place. This solves problems related to having | |
1974 | files get out of date with respect to their signatures. | |
1975 | ||
1976 | - We now don't depend on Module::Info to scan for packages during the | |
1977 | 'dist' action anymore, because it's way too aggressive about | |
1978 | loading other modules that you may not want loaded. We now just | |
1979 | (ick, yuck) scan the .pm files with a regular expression to find | |
1980 | "package Foo::Bar;" statements. | |
1981 | ||
1982 | - Silenced some annoying copyright/logo output from Microsoft 'nmake' | |
1983 | during Makefile compatibility testing. [Randy W. Sims] | |
1984 | ||
1985 | - Command-line arguments may now either be specified using the syntax | |
1986 | '--foo foovalue' as well as the traditional syntax 'foo=foovalue'. | |
1987 | The former is often more convenient for shell tab-completion when | |
1988 | the value is a filename (as in 'Build test --test_files t/basic.t'). | |
1989 | ||
1990 | - Command-line arguments may now include non-named parameters, which | |
1991 | make some actions more natural. For instance, the 'diff' action | |
1992 | may now be invoked as 'Build diff -u' rather than as | |
1993 | 'Build diff flags=-u'. | |
1994 | ||
1995 | - Pass-through Makefile.PLs now convert unknown Makefile.PL | |
1996 | parameters to lower-case and hand them to Build.PL, rather than | |
1997 | ignoring them. This means we only have to account for the | |
1998 | differences in the interface, not the entire interface, in | |
1999 | translating parameters. | |
2000 | ||
2001 | - We now issue a warning & don't proceed if asked to make a distdir | |
2002 | and there's no MANIFEST or it's empty. | |
2003 | ||
2004 | - Moved INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to increase compatibility with various | |
2005 | odd versions of 'make' during 'make install' on case-insensitive | |
2006 | filesystems (like nmake on Win32, often). Only affects the | |
2007 | Makefile compatibility layer. [reported by Andrew Savige] | |
2008 | ||
2009 | - Module::Build->known_actions() now works as a class method. | |
2010 | ||
2011 | - Pass-through makefiles now list each action individually rather | |
2012 | than using a ".DEFAULT" catch-all. This improves compatibility | |
2013 | with 'nmake' on Win32, and probably some other less common 'make' | |
2014 | dialects. [Andrew Savige] | |
2015 | ||
2016 | - We're now more aggressive about testing the pass-through makefiles, | |
2017 | e.g. making sure they can run 'all' and 'test' targets, and making | |
2018 | sure the Makefile itself actually exists. | |
2019 | ||
2020 | - Fixed a problem with check_installed_status() when installed | |
2021 | version contains non-numeric characters like underscores. | |
2022 | ||
2023 | - Fixed a problem with a bareword 'File::Spec' in one of the test | |
2024 | scripts that caused it not to compile under 5.8.0 (but is fine | |
2025 | under 5.6). | |
2026 | ||
2027 | - Fixed a problem with the 'destdir' installation parameter on | |
2028 | platforms that have volume identifiers in path names (like "C:" on | |
2029 | Win32). The identifier is now stripped from installation | |
2030 | directories before prepending the destdir path. The destdir path | |
2031 | may still have a volume identifier on it. | |
2032 | ||
2033 | - Added an 'add_to_cleanup' parameter to new() that calls | |
2034 | add_to_cleanup() immediately for the given files. | |
2035 | ||
2036 | - The distribution directory (e.g. Sample-Module-0.13/ ) will now be | |
2037 | deleted during the 'clean' or 'realclean' actions. | |
2038 | ||
2039 | - During testing of modules, blib/lib and blib/arch are now added as | |
2040 | absolute paths, not relative. This helps tests that load the | |
2041 | modules at runtime and may change the current working directory | |
2042 | (like Module::Build itself does during testing). | |
2043 | ||
2044 | - The $Config{cc} entry on some people's systems is something like | |
2045 | 'ccache gcc', so we now split that string using split_like_shell(). | |
2046 | [Richard Clamp] | |
2047 | ||
2048 | - Added documentation for 'extra_linker_flags' parameter, and added a | |
2049 | corresponding 'extra_compiler_flags' parameter. [original patch by | |
2050 | Richard Clamp] | |
738349a8 SH |
2051 | |
2052 | - The pass-through Makefile created by Module::Build::Compat now | |
2053 | supports MakeMaker options like POLLUTE=1 and INC. We also just | |
2054 | warn & skip when we see any unknown MM parameters, rather than | |
2055 | dying. [Dave Rolsky] | |
2056 | ||
2057 | - Fixed an error about how @INC and $ENV{PERL5LIB} interact during | |
2058 | the testing of M::B itself. [jk <billy2000@fastmail.fm>] | |
2059 | ||
2060 | - The pass-through Makefile doesn't include 'recommended' M::B | |
2061 | dependencies in the Makefile anymore, since they're not strictly | |
2062 | necessary. In particular, this makes installing M::B itself | |
2063 | easier. | |
2064 | ||
2065 | - A new 'create_makefile_pl' parameter lets you use | |
2066 | Module::Build::Compat during the 'distdir' (or 'dist') action to | |
2067 | automatically create a Makefile.PL for compatibility with | |
2068 | ExtUtils::MakeMaker. The parameter's value should be one of the | |
2069 | styles named in the Module::Build::Compat documentation. | |
2070 | ||
2071 | - When compiling C code, we now respect 'pollute' and 'inc' | |
2072 | parameters. (XXX - needs docs) [Dave Rolsky] | |
2073 | ||
2074 | - Made the creation of the "install map" more generic. (XXX - needs | |
2075 | documentation) | |
2076 | ||
2077 | - Fixed a problem in which add_to_cleanup() didn't note cleanup files | |
2078 | unless create_build_script() had been called already. [Dave Rolsky] | |
2079 | ||
2080 | - During 'Build dist', we no longer have to load each .pm file (via | |
2081 | Module::Info) to determine the $VERSION numbers inside. Instead, | |
2082 | we call our internal version_from_file() method, which is the same | |
2083 | thing MakeMaker and PAUSE and search.cpan.org do. Also fixes a | |
2084 | failure when Module::Info is installed in a nonstandard directory. | |
2085 | [reported by Teun Burgers] | |
2086 | ||
2087 | - Fixed some failing test code on Windows - open files can't be | |
2088 | deleted. [Andrew Savige] | |
2089 | ||
2090 | - The Cygwin platform is now treated as a flavor of Unix rather than | |
2091 | a flavor of Windows. [chocolateboy] | |
2092 | ||
2093 | - We're now more aggressive about adding temporary C compilation | |
2094 | files (*.c, *.bs) to the cleanup list. [Dave Rolsky] | |
2095 | ||
2096 | - When constructing the list in META.yml of packages provided by this | |
2097 | distribution, we now use the same rules as the PAUSE scanner does | |
2098 | when a single .pm file contains multiple VERSIONs. [Andreas Koenig] | |
2099 | ||
2100 | - check_installed_status() now works as both a class method and an | |
2101 | object method (and is documented so). [Spotted by Dave Rolsky] | |
2102 | ||
2103 | 0.18 Tue Apr 8 13:24:23 CDT 2003 | |
2104 | ||
2105 | - We now rewrite the shebang lines of scripts ourselves, rather than | |
2106 | relying on MakeMaker routines to do it. MakeMaker changed the way | |
2107 | this happened (not the result, but where the code lived) a few | |
2108 | times. [Suggested by Richard Clamp] | |
2109 | ||
2110 | - The scripts() method has changed to script_files(), and likewise | |
2111 | the 'scripts' parameter has changed to 'script_files'. The old | |
2112 | names can still be used for backward compatibility. | |
2113 | ||
2114 | - Support for the 'scripts' parameter (which is now 'script_files') | |
2115 | was broken in 0.17, now it's fixed. [Richard Clamp] | |
2116 | ||
2117 | - We now recommend ExtUtils::ParseXS 2.02, which will fail to load | |
2118 | with perl 5.005 or earlier (which is proper, because it doesn't | |
2119 | work with those versions). When it fails to load, we still fall | |
2120 | back to using the xsubpp script for XS parsing. [spotted by Dave | |
2121 | Rolsky, fix suggested by Richard Clamp] | |
2122 | ||
2123 | - Now works on VMS - the Build script's shebang-line-equivalent | |
2124 | wasn't being formed correctly there - though just about everything | |
2125 | else worked fine. [Tested & patched by Michael Schwern] | |
2126 | ||
2127 | - Eliminated a warning that occurred if 'perl Build.PL' or the | |
2128 | check_installed_status() method was run with -w. [Spotted by | |
2129 | Michael Schwern] | |
2130 | ||
2131 | 0.17 Sat Mar 29 18:06:01 CST 2003 | |
2132 | ||
2133 | - Now works under perl 5.005_03. [Richard Clamp] | |
2134 | ||
2135 | - When building blib/ , .PL files are now processed before doing | |
2136 | anything else. This means .PL files can be used in any of the | |
2137 | other contexts. | |
2138 | ||
2139 | - The locating and processing of .pm, .pod, .xs, .PL files and script | |
2140 | files are now isolated into their own methods. This is aimed | |
2141 | toward providing a stable interface for this stuff, so they can be | |
2142 | overridden, parameterized, etc. They're not quite stable yet, | |
2143 | though. | |
2144 | ||
2145 | - The internal lib_to_blib() method has gone away, because processing | |
2146 | is now done by smaller specialized methods. This method had some | |
2147 | duplicate assumptions about filenames that it's nice to get rid of. | |
2148 | ||
2149 | - .PL files are no longer automatically processed in the c_source | |
2150 | directory, they must be specified manually in a 'PL_files' | |
2151 | parameter. | |
2152 | ||
2153 | - Mention in the docs that it's useful to do "PL_FILES => {}" in a | |
2154 | Makefile.PL if you're using both a Makefile.PL and a | |
2155 | Build.PL. [Dom] | |
2156 | ||
2157 | - Add several options to the 'license' field, so that we're in better | |
2158 | sync with PAUSE and CPAN options. [Andreas Koenig] | |
2159 | ||
2160 | - Created a find_perl_interpreter() method that tries to locate the | |
2161 | currently executing perl interpreter. Following a suggestion from | |
2162 | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> for Inline, we prefer an absolute | |
2163 | path in $^X, then an existent path in $Config{perlpath}, then | |
2164 | whatever's in $^X. | |
2165 | ||
2166 | - Use the aforementioned perl to run scripts in run_perl_script(). | |
2167 | This fixes the spurious warning "WARNING: Configuration was | |
2168 | initially created with 'foo', but we are now using 'bar'" that | |
2169 | appeared a lot in version 0.16. | |
2170 | ||
2171 | ||
2172 | 0.16 Mon Feb 24 13:06:47 CST 2003 | |
2173 | ||
2174 | - All three C compilers that perl supports on Windows environments | |
2175 | (MSVC, BCC, and GCC) are now supported by Module::Build. We now | |
2176 | reportedly pass all tests on Windows. [Randy W. Sims] | |
2177 | ||
2178 | - The test t/xs.t, which tests building of XS modules, will be | |
2179 | skipped if no C compiler is found. [suggested by Randy W. Sims] | |
2180 | ||
2181 | - The "install" action accepts new "destdir" [motivated by Michael | |
2182 | Schwern and Chip Salzenberg] and "uninst" parameters [by Dave | |
2183 | Rolsky]. The former prepends an arbitrary directory to all | |
2184 | installation paths (useful for package management), and the latter | |
2185 | will tell ExtUtils::Install to remove any differing files that are | |
2186 | "shadowing" the stuff you're installing from a different location, | |
2187 | just like MakeMaker's "make install UNINST=1" command will do. | |
2188 | ||
2189 | - Made changes to the generated Makefile in Module::Build::Compat | |
2190 | that much better support Windows platforms [after suggestions by | |
2191 | James Freeman] | |
2192 | ||
2193 | - Added experimental support for creating distribution SIGNATURE | |
2194 | files via Module::Signature. [Dave Rolsky] | |
2195 | ||
2196 | - Added experimental support for installing via the "only.pm" module, | |
2197 | which allows loading specific versions of modules. Since this | |
2198 | module is so new, the interface may still be changing. [Brian | |
2199 | Ingerson] | |
2200 | ||
2201 | - Added support for installing executable scripts, via the 'scripts' | |
2202 | parameter to new(), and the scripts() accessor method. | |
2203 | ||
2204 | - Fix an infinite loop that occurred when doing 'perl Build.PL | |
2205 | config="foo=bar"' | |
2206 | ||
2207 | - Fix up the formatting of the error message the user gets when | |
2208 | prereqs aren't satisfied. | |
2209 | ||
2210 | 0.15 Fri Jan 17 15:00:24 CST 2003 | |
2211 | ||
2212 | - In link_c(), extra object files were mistakenly being treated as | |
2213 | output files, not input files, in the up-to-date check. Fixed. | |
2214 | ||
2215 | - In up_to_date(), don't make an unnecessary copy of the file lists | |
2216 | when they're specified as array references. | |
2217 | ||
2218 | - Split off the C compilation phase into its own method, | |
2219 | compile_support_files(), for easier subclassing. | |
2220 | ||
2221 | - Start a stub of a 'manifypods' action. | |
2222 | ||
2223 | - Compiler optimizations weren't being included in C compilation | |
2224 | statements. Fixed. | |
2225 | ||
2226 | - The 'extra_linker_flags' parameter wasn't being honored. Fixed. | |
2227 | ||
2228 | - The 'ccflags' Config.pm entry wasn't being properly split into | |
2229 | separate arguments. Fixed. | |
2230 | ||
2231 | ||
2232 | 0.14 Fri Dec 13 14:06:29 AEST 2002 | |
2233 | ||
2234 | - Added support for MacPerl (Mac OS version 9 and below), which (as | |
2235 | far as I know) was never natively supported by MakeMaker. Still | |
2236 | lacks support for the 'test' action (because Test::Harness | |
2237 | requires forking, which MacPerl won't do) and compiling XS/C files | |
2238 | (because I don't know how to invoke a compiler on MacOS, and one | |
2239 | may not even be available). This change is brought to you by | |
2240 | Michael Schwern and the letter '('. | |
2241 | ||
2242 | - Improved processing of .xs files. Now we use the new | |
2243 | ExtUtils::ParseXS module if it's available, otherwise we use | |
2244 | backticks and write the result to a .c file ourselves. This | |
2245 | avoids the need to do cross-platform shell redirection. | |
2246 | ||
2247 | - Make sure all parts of 'Build test' use the not-yet-installed | |
2248 | version of Module::Build. This only affects the tests for this | |
2249 | module, not any of the module code itself. [Spotted by Schwern] | |
2250 | ||
2251 | - Oopsie - use $Config{ld} instead of $Config{cc} for linking. | |
2252 | ||
2253 | - Added a 'diff' action, which is useful for comparing the details | |
2254 | of what you're about to install with what is already installed on | |
2255 | your system. This uses File::Compare, which is in the core. | |
2256 | ||
2257 | - Fixed a problem on Windows in which the _build/ directory wasn't | |
2258 | getting deleted during the 'realclean' action, because we had a | |
2259 | file open in that directory. [Spotted by Michael Schwern] | |
2260 | ||
2261 | - delete_filetree() now always uses File::Path::rmtree(), regardless | |
2262 | of whether the thing being deleted is a file or a directory. This | |
2263 | helps remove things on obscure platforms with strange locking | |
2264 | rules (or even not so obscure ones like MacOS). It also now | |
2265 | reports the number of files or directories deleted (without | |
2266 | recursing directory contents). | |
2267 | ||
2268 | - rm_previous_build_script() is gone, replaced by calls to | |
2269 | delete_filetree(). | |
2270 | ||
2271 | - 'Build' now chdir()s in a BEGIN block, so the 'use Module::Build' | |
2272 | statement will work correctly. Solves a problem on MacOS, where | |
2273 | the 'Build' script may often be invoked from the wrong working | |
2274 | directory. [Fix by Michael Schwern] | |
2275 | ||
2276 | - Internally we now use the multi-argument form of system() to run | |
2277 | external commands (such as 'diff' or 'cc') whenever possible (and | |
2278 | whenever we can't avoid system() altogether). Note that this | |
2279 | means we have to handle splitting some strings (such as | |
2280 | $Config{ccflags}) into argument lists like the shell would, which | |
2281 | is a drag. However, the alternative would be to handle shell | |
2282 | quoting of all arguments to commands ourselves, which is an even | |
2283 | bigger drag across platforms and involves arbitrary filenames and | |
2284 | so on. | |
2285 | ||
2286 | - To handle the argument splitting mentioned above, a method | |
2287 | split_like_shell() has been created. So far it's just doing naive | |
2288 | processing. In practice, I've yet to actually see a %Config entry | |
2289 | that uses quotes & spaces, so the splitting task is usually not | |
2290 | very error-prone. | |
2291 | ||
2292 | - The 'test' action now takes a 'test_files' parameter, similar to | |
2293 | the (undocumented) ExtUtils::MakeMaker TEST_FILES argument. Handy | |
2294 | during development when fixing bugs. | |
2295 | ||
2296 | - Internally, the rscan_dir() method can now accept a predicate | |
2297 | function that decides whether a file/directory should be matched. | |
2298 | ||
2299 | - We now issue a warning message when the author hasn't specified a | |
2300 | license type. | |
2301 | ||
2302 | 0.13 Wed Nov 20 20:07:53 AEST 2002 | |
2303 | ||
2304 | - 'cleanup' file lists are now written immediately, rather than at | |
2305 | program termination. This helps avoid "phantom files" that don't | |
2306 | get handled by the 'realclean' action. The internal | |
2307 | write_cleanup() method (which was never documented) is now gone. | |
2308 | ||
2309 | - The 'blib/' directory is now properly cleaned up in more (all?) | |
2310 | circumstances. Previously it could become a phantom if | |
2311 | create_build_script() was never called. | |
2312 | ||
2313 | - Now scan the 'c_source' directory for .cpp (C++) files as well as | |
2314 | .c files, and compiles them. | |
2315 | ||
2316 | - Use a 'phony' target for 'make manifest' in the pass-through | |
2317 | Makefile, for the same reason as 'make install' (see version 0.12 | |
2318 | notes below). | |
2319 | ||
2320 | - Module::Build::Compat now accepts any known Config.pm key and | |
2321 | passes it through to the Build.PL. Fixes a problem with CPANPLUS, | |
2322 | which was passing INSTALLMAN1DIR. | |
2323 | ||
2324 | - The file 'META.yaml' has been re-named to 'META.yml' in order to | |
2325 | cooperate better with systems that can only handle 3 characters | |
2326 | after the dot. | |
2327 | ||
2328 | - The t/xs.t test should give more informative error messages upon | |
2329 | failure. | |
2330 | ||
2331 | 0.12 Thu Nov 14 18:31:47 AEST 2002 | |
2332 | ||
2333 | - The META.yaml file was erroneously looking for 'build_depends' | |
2334 | instead of 'build_requires'. [spotted by Iain Truskett] | |
2335 | ||
2336 | - Add prompt() and y_n() methods for use in Build.PLs | |
2337 | ||
2338 | - Do more to work with all versions of Test::Harness when setting | |
2339 | the TEST_VERBOSE flag and running under the debugger [patch by | |
2340 | Dave Rolsky] | |
2341 | ||
2342 | - Include a test for verbosity handling | |
2343 | ||
2344 | - Make sure the blib/ directory is always cleaned up with the | |
2345 | 'clean' or 'realclean' action. | |
2346 | ||
2347 | - In a pass-through Makefile.PL, inform 'make' that 'install' is a | |
2348 | "fake target", so that it works properly on case-insensitive | |
2349 | filesystems like HFS+ with distributions that contain an INSTALL | |
2350 | file. [patch by Brian Ingerson] | |
2351 | ||
2352 | - In Module::Build::Compat, show an example Makefile.PL that can | |
2353 | install Module::Build and re-invoke itself in one fell swoop [Dave | |
2354 | Rolsky and Autrijus Tang] | |
2355 | ||
2356 | - Improve the formatting of the Module::Build and | |
2357 | Module::Build::Compat documentation. | |
2358 | ||
2359 | 0.11 Fri Aug 23 18:50:46 AEST 2002 | |
2360 | ||
2361 | - 'module_version' and 'module_version_from' have been replaced by | |
2362 | 'dist_version' and 'dist_version_from', which is what they really | |
2363 | meant in the first place. 'dist_name' has been added. | |
2364 | ||
2365 | - 'module_name' is now just a way to set 'dist_name' and | |
2366 | 'dist_version_from' in a convenient way. | |
2367 | ||
2368 | - The 'name' in META.yaml is now the distribution name, not the | |
2369 | (incorrect) module name. [spotted by Graham Barr] | |
2370 | ||
2371 | - Added the check_installed_status() and prereq_failures() methods | |
2372 | for checking prerequisite information with the programmatic | |
2373 | interface | |
2374 | ||
2375 | - check_installed_version() now uses check_installed_status() | |
2376 | internally | |
2377 | ||
2378 | - Documented the create_build_script() method, which had escaped | |
2379 | documentation. | |
2380 | ||
2381 | - create_build_script() now writes prerequisite information to the | |
2382 | _build/ directory, for use by Module::Build::Compat. | |
2383 | ||
2384 | - Module::Build::Compat has documentation for a safer way to write a | |
2385 | dummy Makefile.PL. [patch by Autrijus Tang] | |
2386 | ||
2387 | 0.10 Wed Aug 7 19:36 2002 | |
2388 | - Recommend YAML 0.35 instead of 0.30. | |
2389 | ||
2390 | - Don't die during 'Build disttest' if YAML isn't installed. This | |
2391 | fixes tests 5-10 in runthrough.t if YAML isn't installed. | |
2392 | ||
2393 | - Die if an unknown license type is used, but still default to | |
2394 | 'unknown' if no license is specified. | |
2395 | ||
2396 | - Use YAML::DumpFile() if we're using a recent YAML, | |
2397 | YAML::StoreFile() otherwise. | |
2398 | ||
2399 | - Show specific error messages in runthrough.t. | |
2400 | ||
2401 | - Add a generated_by entry to the META.yaml file. | |
2402 | ||
2403 | - Skip a few tests if YAML isn't installed. | |
2404 | ||
2405 | 0.09 Fri Jun 28 11:07:08 EST 2002 | |
2406 | ||
2407 | - The 'distdir' action wasn't deleting the distribution directory | |
2408 | before building it again. This meant that, say, if you did 'Build | |
2409 | disttest' then 'Build dist', you'd end up with a blib/ directory | |
2410 | in your distribution. I actually had this happen for version | |
2411 | 0.08, and it's not nice to distribute a blib/ on CPAN. | |
2412 | ||
2413 | - We now keep track of the 'base_dir', i.e. the top-level build | |
2414 | directory, so we can change back into it if we change out of it. | |
2415 | This necessitated a cwd() method, which uses the Cwd.pm module. | |
2416 | I'm aware of Cwd's limitations, particularly under taint-mode, but | |
2417 | I don't know a way around using it here. | |
2418 | ||
2419 | - The 'dist_dir' action now changes back into 'base_dir' directory. | |
2420 | ||
2421 | - We now do write_config() inside the create_build_script() method, | |
2422 | not inside the new() method. | |
2423 | ||
2424 | - Simplified the find_version() method, and improved its error | |
2425 | messages. | |
2426 | ||
2427 | - Renamed module_name_to_file() to find_module_by_name(), and added | |
2428 | a parameter specifying the directories to search in. Previously | |
2429 | we searched in 'lib' and @INC, which wasn't correct in all | |
2430 | situations. | |
2431 | ||
2432 | - Patched the docs to change "Build test" to "./Build test" | |
2433 | [Elizabeth Mattijsen] | |
2434 | ||
2435 | 0.08 Wed Jun 26 20:30:56 EST 2002 | |
2436 | ||
2437 | - Fixed the 'prereq' alias for the 'requires' parameter | |
2438 | ||
2439 | - Added some tests in t/basic.t to test the dependency checking | |
2440 | ||
2441 | - Added 'artistic' as a licensing option [Arthur Bergman] | |
2442 | ||
2443 | - Fixed some bugs in requires/prereq/recommends/conflicts/build_depends | |
2444 | ||
2445 | - Fixed a typo in the 'distclean' action that prevented its | |
2446 | execution [Arthur Bergman] | |
2447 | ||
2448 | - Separated the linking phase of building XS items into its own | |
2449 | link_c() method. Its interface is still unstable, so it's not | |
2450 | documented yet. [suggested by Arthur Bergman] | |
2451 | ||
2452 | 0.07 Jun 9 2002 15:46 | |
2453 | ||
2454 | - We now generate a 'META.yaml' metadata file during 'Build dist'. | |
2455 | This can be very useful for lots of things, none of which are | |
2456 | implemented yet. | |
2457 | ||
2458 | - Added a 'dynamic_config' parameter, defaulting to false. This | |
2459 | lets distribution systems (CPAN.pm, etc.) build, test, and install | |
2460 | "easy" modules without having to execute the Build.PL at runtime. | |
2461 | It's also a guarantee that the list of dependencies is exactly | |
2462 | what is present in the metadata file, and won't be changed during | |
2463 | the build process. | |
2464 | ||
2465 | - Added support for "recommended" and "build-time requirement" | |
2466 | modules, besides those that are absolutely required. Also added a | |
2467 | "conflicts" field. | |
2468 | ||
2469 | - Changed the 'prereq' field to 'requires' (the old name will | |
2470 | continue to work). | |
2471 | ||
2472 | - Added support for checking the installed version of perl as an | |
2473 | explicit dependency. | |
2474 | ||
2475 | - Added a 'license' parameter to specify one of a fixed number of | |
2476 | licenses for the distribution. | |
2477 | ||
2478 | - Fixed a bug in Module::Build::Compat that was preventing arguments | |
2479 | from being processed properly. [patch by Ilya Martynov] | |
2480 | ||
2481 | - Make sure we're in the right directory when we write the cleanup | |
2482 | file, since various ExtUtils::Install errors might leave us in an | |
2483 | unknown directory. [patch by Ilya Martynov] | |
2484 | ||
2485 | - Specified the 'license', 'recommends', and 'dynamic_config' | |
2486 | values in Build.PL, and changed 'prereq' to 'requires'. | |
2487 | ||
2488 | 0.06 Apr 2 2002 17:44 | |
2489 | ||
2490 | - Added the Module::Build::Compat module for assisting and | |
2491 | explaining compatibility with ExtUtils::Makemaker and cohorts. | |
2492 | ||
2493 | - State is now saved using Data::Dumper instead of my ad-hoc | |
2494 | mechanism, guaranteeing data integrity. Whitespace values broke | |
2495 | in the former scheme. | |
2496 | ||
2497 | - Added the 'recommended' option, which works like 'prereq' but | |
2498 | isn't insistent. | |
2499 | ||
2500 | - Separated the various parameters into three groups: parameters | |
2501 | that tell Module::Build what to do, Config.pm parameters, and | |
2502 | user-defined parameters for each build (the module author is the | |
2503 | 'user' here). This helps avoid conflicts between names, and it | |
2504 | was silly to have them all together. The three groups of | |
2505 | parameters are subject to the same rules for overriding: values | |
2506 | specified during a Build action take precedence over values | |
2507 | specified at 'perl Build.PL' time, which in turn take precedence | |
2508 | over values specified in the call to new(). | |
2509 | ||
2510 | - Improved support for .PL files. Any .PL file in the lib/ | |
2511 | directory or the directory specified by 'c_source' will now get | |
2512 | properly executed. I also added a 'PL_files' parameter that you | |
2513 | can use in case the .PL doesn't create an obviously-named output | |
2514 | file. | |
2515 | ||
2516 | - If a prerequisite condition is malformed, we now report a prereq | |
2517 | failure and say why. Previously we issued a warning and kept | |
2518 | going. | |
2519 | ||
2520 | ||
2521 | 0.05 10-Jan-2002 20:26 | |
2522 | - Added the Module::Build->subclass() method, which makes it easier to | |
2523 | make quick-and-dirty subclasses of Module::Build. | |
2524 | ||
2525 | - Reorganized the docs a bit. | |
2526 | ||
2527 | - Added the 'testdb' action, and the 'debugger=1' argument to the | |
2528 | 'test' action, both of which run tests under the perl | |
2529 | debugger. (idea: Dave Rolsky) | |
2530 | ||
2531 | - Added prerequisite checking (Dave Rolsky) | |
2532 | ||
2533 | - Fixed an unlikely-to-occur bug with misquoted strings in the | |
2534 | 'Build' script (spot: Dave Rolsky) | |
2535 | ||
2536 | - We're more careful about shush-ing warnings that | |
2537 | ExtUtils::Manifest might emit (Dave Rolsky) | |
2538 | ||
2539 | - The 'help' action now auto-generates the list of actions (Dave Rolsky) | |
2540 | ||
2541 | - Added the 'distcheck', 'skipcheck', 'distclean', 'distdir', and | |
2542 | 'disttest' actions (Dave Rolsky) | |
2543 | ||
2544 | - We're a little more aggressive about cleaning up temporary files - | |
2545 | we'll try to clean them up even when we don't have write permission | |
2546 | on them. This isn't as dastardly as it sounds; if we /really/ | |
2547 | don't have permission, we won't be able to remove them no matter | |
2548 | how hard we try. | |
2549 | ||
2550 | 0.04 Fri Nov 16 16:55 2001 | |
2551 | - Added a 'manifest' action. It's just like MakeMaker's 'make manifest', it | |
2552 | brings your MANIFEST file up to date with your distribution directory. | |
2553 | ||
2554 | - Reorganized some of the responsibilities of various methods, which | |
2555 | allows modules to be built and tested programmatically. | |
2556 | ||
2557 | - The 'clean' action will now clean up files that were created more | |
2558 | recently than the on-disk cleanup registry was written. | |
2559 | ||
2560 | - Undefined values from Config.pm are handled correctly now. | |
2561 | ||
2562 | - The dispatch() method will now accept explicit dispatch | |
2563 | parameters, for use in a programmatic setting. | |
2564 | ||
2565 | - $ENV{TEST_VERBOSE} will be set in test scripts if the 'verbose=1' | |
2566 | parameter is set. | |
2567 | ||
2568 | - Moved the test.pl script to t/basic.t | |
2569 | ||
2570 | - Created the t/xs.t script, which tests building a module with a | |
2571 | .xs component. | |
2572 | ||
2573 | - Fixed the loading of $^O-specific modules (there were no such | |
2574 | modules before). | |
2575 | ||
2576 | - Added a 'darwin' platform module, which removes -flat_namespace | |
2577 | from $Config{ccflags} while building .xs modules (it's a linker | |
2578 | flag, not a compiler flag). | |
2579 | ||
2580 | - Now uses $^W instead of the 'warnings' pragma, which apparently | |
2581 | provides compatibility with perl 5.005 (I've only tested it with | |
2582 | 5.6.x myself). | |
2583 | ||
2584 | - If a file called C<visual.pl> exists in the top-level directory, | |
2585 | this file will be executed as a Perl script during 'Build test' and | |
2586 | its output will be shown to the user. This is a good place to put | |
2587 | speed tests or other tests that don't use the C<Test::Harness> format | |
2588 | for output. | |
2589 | ||
2590 | - The 'Build install' step will now put .xs-related things in the | |
2591 | correct architecture-dependent libraries. | |
2592 | ||
2593 | - Added the 'autosplit' option, even though I think autosplitting is | |
2594 | a load of hooie. | |
2595 | ||
2596 | 0.03 Sun Nov 11 14:58 CDT 2001 | |
2597 | - The 'perl Build.PL' step will now detect whether the current | |
2598 | environment is "unixish", "windowsish", etc., and load the correct | |
2599 | module (i.e. Module::Build::Platform::Unix). More specific | |
2600 | modules may also be written for particular values of $^O. | |
2601 | ||
2602 | - Module::Build will now process any .xs files in the lib/ | |
2603 | directory. Please let me know whether this works or not with your | |
2604 | distribution & platform. I'll be trying out various distributions | |
2605 | on my platform. | |
2606 | ||
2607 | - Corrected some embarassing errors in the POD documentation. Also | |
2608 | added a long documentation section on the various build actions | |
2609 | (test, install, build, etc.) and added some neato ASCII art. | |
2610 | ||
2611 | - Added a 'cleanup' mechanism - any method may call the | |
2612 | $self->add_to_cleanup(@files) method to register files which need | |
2613 | to be cleaned up during 'Build clean'. | |
2614 | ||
2615 | - Added a 'Build help' action that gives a little syntax help, and | |
2616 | lists all the actions available. | |
2617 | ||
2618 | - Fixed a bug in which 'blib/' wasn't properly being added to @INC | |
2619 | when running 'Build test'. | |
2620 | ||
2621 | - For the 'Build dist' action, we'll use the 'tar' and 'gzip' | |
2622 | programs (as specified by Config.pm) on Unix platforms, otherwise | |
2623 | we'll use Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib. | |
2624 | ||
2625 | 0.02 Wed Sep 5 00:53:04 CDT 2001 | |
2626 | - Added POD documentation. | |
2627 | ||
2628 | - Added the 'install', 'fakeinstall', and 'dist' actions. | |
2629 | ||
2630 | - new() will now determine version string based on 'module_version', or | |
2631 | 'module_version_from', or 'module_name', in that order. | |
2632 | ||
2633 | - Module::Build::Base handles its file paths in a platform-independent | |
2634 | way, using the File:: modules | |
2635 | ||
2636 | ||
2637 | 0.01 Sun Aug 5 01:23:10 2001 | |
2638 | - original version; created by h2xs 1.1.1.4 with options -XA -n Module::Build | |
2639 |