1 Revision history for Perl extension Module::Build.
3 0.3800 - Sat Mar 5 15:11:41 EST 2011
5 Summary of major changes since 0.3624:
9 - Generates META.json and MYMETA.json consistent with version 2 of the
10 CPAN Meta Spec. [David Golden]
16 - Autogenerated documentation no longer includes private actions from
17 Module::Build's own release subclass. [Report by Timothy Appnel,
20 0.37_06 - Mon Feb 28 21:43:31 EST 2011
24 - prerequisites with the empty string instead of a version are
25 normalized to "0". (RT#65909)
29 - More Pod typo/link fixes [Hongwen Qiu]
31 0.37_05 - Sat Feb 19 20:43:23 EST 2011
35 - fixes failing ppm.t in perl core
39 - Pod typo fixes [Hongwen Qiu]
41 0.37_04 - Wed Feb 16 15:27:21 EST 2011
45 - moved scripts/ to bin/ for less confusing porting to bleadperl
47 0.37_03 - Wed Feb 16 09:54:05 EST 2011
51 - removed an irrelevant test in t/actions/installdeps.t that was causing
52 failures on some Cygwin platforms
56 - dropped configure_requires as some CPAN clients apparently get
57 confused by having things in both configure_requires and requires
59 - bumped Parse::CPAN::Meta build prereq to 1.4401
61 - bumped CPAN::Meta prereq to 2.110420
63 - Pod typo fixes [Hongwen Qiu]
65 0.37_02 - Mon Feb 7 21:05:30 EST 2011
69 - bumped CPAN::Meta prereq to 2.110390 to avoid a regression in 2.110360
71 0.37_01 - Thu Feb 3 03:44:38 EST 2011
75 - Generates META.json and MYMETA.json consistent with version 2 of the
76 CPAN Meta Spec. [David Golden]
80 - t/signature.t now uses a mocked Module::Signature; this should be
81 more robust across platforms as it only needs to confirm that
82 Module::Build is calling Module::Signature when expected
86 - Added CPAN::Meta and Parse::CPAN::Meta to prerequisites and dropped
89 0.3624 - Thu Jan 27 11:38:39 EST 2011
91 - Fixed pod2html directory bugs and fixed creation of spurious blib
92 directory in core perl directory when running install.t (RT#63003)
95 0.3623 - Wed Jan 26 17:45:30 EST 2011
97 - Fixed bugs involving bootstrapping configure_requires prerequisites
98 on older CPANPLUS clients or for either CPAN/CPANPLUS when using
99 the compatibility Makefile.PL
101 - Added diagnostic output when configure_requires are missing for
102 the benefit of users doing manual installation
104 0.3622 - Mon Jan 24 21:06:50 EST 2011
106 - No changes from 0.36_21
108 0.36_21 - Fri Jan 21 11:01:28 EST 2011
110 - Changed YAML::Tiny references to the new CPAN::Meta::YAML module
111 instead, which is the YAML-variant that is going into the Perl core
113 0.36_20 - Fri Dec 10 15:36:03 EST 2010
117 - Module::Build::Version has been deprecated. Module::Build now depends
118 directly upon version.pm. A pure-perl version has been bundled in inc/
119 solely for bootstrapping in case configure_requires is not supported.
120 M::B::Version remains as a wrapper around version.pm.
122 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo has been deprecated. Module::Build now
123 depends directly upon Module::Metadata (which is an extraction of
124 M::B::ModuleInfo intended for general reuse). A pure-perl version has
125 been bundled in inc/ solely for bootstrapping in case
126 configure_requires is not supported. M::B::ModuleInfo remains as a
127 wrapper around Module::Metadata.
129 - Module::Build::YAML has been deprecated. Module::Build now depends
130 directly upon YAML::Tiny. M::B::YAML remains as a subclass wrapper.
131 The YAML_support feature has been removed, as YAML is now an ordinary
134 0.36_19 - Tue Dec 7 13:43:42 EST 2010
138 - Perl::OSType is declared as a 'configure_requires' dependency, but is
139 also bundled in inc (and loaded if needed) [David Golden]
141 0.36_18 - Mon Dec 6 16:46:49 EST 2010
145 - Added dependency on Perl::OSType to refactor and centralize
146 management of OS type mapping [David Golden]
148 - When parsing a version number out of a file, any trailing alphabetical
149 characters will be dropped to avoid fatal errors when comparing version
150 numbers. These would have been dropped (with a warning) anyway during
151 an ordinary numeric comparison. (RT#56071) [David Golden]
155 - A Perl interpreter mismatch between running Build.PL and running Build
156 is now a fatal error, not a warning (RT#55183) [David Golden]
158 - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN
159 version.pm 0.86 [David Golden]
161 - No longer uses fake user 'foo' in t/tilde (RT#61793) [David Golden]
163 - Won't fail tests if an ancient Tie::IxHash is installed
164 [Christopher J. Madsen]
166 - Correctly report missing metafile field names [David Golden]
168 - Suppress uninitialized value errors during Pod creation
169 on ActiveState Perl [David Golden]
171 - Return to starting directory after install action; this is
172 an attempt to fix an install.t heisenbug (RT#63003) [David Golden]
174 - A broken version.pm load won't cause Module::Build::Version to
175 die trying to install itself as a mock version (RT#59499)
176 [Eric Wilhelm and David Golden]
178 - PERL_DL_NONLAZY is now always set when tests are run
179 (RT#56055) [Dmitry Karasik]
181 - 'fakeinstall' will use .modulebuildrc actions for 'install' if
182 no specific 'fakeinstall' options are provided (RT#57279)
185 - Add install*script to search path for installdeps client
186 and search site, then vendor, then core paths
188 - Skip noexec tmpdir check on Windows (RT#55667) [Jan Dubois]
190 - Arguments with key value pairs may now have keys with "-" in them
191 (RT#53050) [David Golden]
193 - Add quotemeta to t/tilde.t test to fix Cygwin fails
194 [Chris Williams and David Golden]
196 - Build script now checks that M::B is at least the same version
197 of M::B as provided in 'configure_requires' in META
198 (RT#54954) [David Golden]
200 0.36_17 - Wed Oct 27 18:08:36 EDT 2010
204 - Added 'distinstall' action to run 'Build install' inside the
205 generated distribution directory [Jeff Thalhammer]
207 0.36_16 - Thu Aug 26 12:44:07 EDT 2010
211 - Better error message in case package declaration is not found
212 when searching for version. [Alexandr Ciornii]
214 - Skips 'release_status' tests on perl < 5.8.1 due to buggy
215 treatment of dotted-decimal version numbers [David Golden]
217 0.36_15 - Wed Aug 25 10:41:28 EDT 2010
221 - Added a mock Software::License to prevent t/properties/license.t
224 0.36_14 - Sun Aug 22 22:56:50 EDT 2010
228 - Adds 'release_status' and 'dist_suffix' properties in preparation
229 for adding CPAN Meta Spec 2 support. 'dist_suffix' will be set
230 to 'TRIAL' automatically when necessary. [David Golden]
232 - Makes 'license' more liberal. You can now specify either a license
233 key from the approved list (c.f. Module::Build::API) or just a
234 Software::License subclass name (e.g. 'Perl_5'). This should
235 provide better support for custom or proprietary licenses.
238 0.36_13 - Wed Jul 28 22:40:25 EDT 2010
242 - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN
243 version.pm 0.82 [David Golden]
245 0.36_12 - Tue Jul 27 00:08:51 EDT 2010
249 - Module::Build::Compat will now convert dotted-decimal prereqs into
250 decimal rather than dying (and will warn about this). [Apocalypse]
254 - Caches case-sensitivity checks to boost performance, fixes
255 RT#55162 and RT#56513 [Reini Urban]
257 - Won't try to use ActivePerl doc generation tools without confirming
258 that they are indeed installed. [David Golden]
260 - Sets temporary $ENV{HOME} in testing to an absolute path, which fixes
261 some issues when tested as part of the Perl core [Nicholas Clark]
263 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo now warns instead of dying when a module
264 has an invalid version. ->version now just returns undef
265 (RT#59593) [David Golden]
269 - When authors do not specify Module::Build in configure_requires and
270 Module::Build is automatically added, a warning will be issued
271 showing the added prerequisite [David Golden]
273 - Moved automatic configure_requires generation into get_metadata()
274 and added an 'auto' argument to toggle it (on for META and off
275 for MYMETA) [David Golden]
277 0.36_11 - Thu May 27 09:41:23 EDT 2010
281 - Handle META/MYMETA reading and writing within Module::Build to ensure
282 utf8 mode on filehandles. Now passes/gets only strings to YAML::Tiny
283 or Module::Build::YAML
285 0.36_10 - Wed May 19 18:36:06 EDT 2010
289 - Fix failing t/manifypods.t on Windows from 0.36_09 changes [Klaus
292 0.36_09 - Tue May 11 09:19:12 EDT 2010
296 - Improve HTML documentation generation on ActivePerl (RT#53478)
297 [Scott Renner and Klaus Eichner]
299 0.36_08 - Mon Apr 26 08:00:15 EDT 2010
303 - Give a list of valid licenses when given one we don't recognize
304 (RT#55951) [Yanick Champoux]
306 - Added 'Build manifest_skip' action to generate a default MANIFEST.SKIP
311 - When temporarily generating a MANIFEST.SKIP when none exists, it will
312 be removed on exit instead of hanging around until 'Build clean'. This
313 is less surprising/confusing and the 'Build manifest_skip' action
314 is now available instead to bootstrap the file [David Golden]
318 - Fixed runtime error on cygwin when searching for an executable command
319 during installdeps testing [David Golden]
321 0.3607 - Thu Apr 1 11:27:16 EDT 2010
325 - The 'dist' action now always ensures a clean dist directory before
326 creating the tarball [David Golden]
328 0.36_06 - Thu Apr 1 01:23:58 EDT 2010
332 - Migrated repository to git and updated META.yml to match
334 - Removed bugtracker URL (let search.cpan.org use default)
336 - Disabled SIGNATURE generation
338 0.3605 - Wed Mar 31 12:05:11 EDT 2010
340 - No changes from 0.36_04
342 0.36_04 - Tue Mar 16 21:41:41 EDT 2010
346 - Added missing newline to "Changing sharpbang" messages under verbose
347 output (RT#54474) [David Golden]
349 - Added 'beos' to list of Unix-like os types (RT#53876) [Nigel Horne]
351 - Sets $ENV{HOME} to a temporary directory during testing [David Golden]
353 - For VMS: fixed prefix handling plus other test fixes [Craig Berry]
355 - Support anonymous array of directories for c_source [Alberto Simões]
357 - Small POD formatting fix [James Keenan]
359 0.3603 - Mon Jan 18 22:28:59 EST 2010
361 (Oops, I released the last one before I realized this should have been
362 fixed along with it.)
366 - Module::Build::Compat would croak on distibutions that set requires
367 'perl' to a dotted decimal like '5.6.2'. We now skip that key
368 since it doesn't go into PREREQ_PM and we numify it properly for
369 'use 5.006002' in the generated Makefile.PL (RT#53409)
370 [David Golden, adapted from patch by G. Allen Morris III]
372 0.3602 - Mon Jan 18 22:09:54 EST 2010
376 - Fix failures in t/properties/needs_compiler.t when $ENV{CC} is set
377 (RT#53296) [David Golden, adapted from patch by Jens Rehsack]
379 0.3601 - Mon Dec 21 14:39:33 EST 2009
383 - When the currently running Module::Build is not the same as the one
384 that created the Build file, there is now a warning rather than a fatal
385 error. This helps installation of dependency chains where a dependency
386 might configure_requires a new Module::Build after Build.PL was already
387 run for an earlier distribution. [David Golden, on advice of Matt Trout]
391 - t/bundle_inc.t fails in odd ways. This test of an experimental feature
392 should not prevent users from installing Module::Build, so this test
393 now skips unless $ENV{MB_TEST_EXPERIMENTAL} is true
395 0.36 - Sun Dec 20 15:02:38 EST 2009
397 No changes from 0.35_15 other than the version number.
399 Summary of major changes since 0.35:
403 - Added 'Build installdeps' action to install needed dependencies via
404 a user-configurable command line program. (Defaults to 'cpan'.)
406 - Command line options may be set via the PERL_MB_OPT environment
407 variable (similar to PERL_MM_OPT in ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
409 - Generates MYMETA.yml during Build.PL (new standard protocol for
410 communicating configuration results between toolchain components)
412 - Reduced amount of console output under normal operation (use --verbose
415 - Added experimental inc/ bundling; see Module::Build::Bundling for
418 New or changed properties:
420 - Added 'share_dir' property to provide File::ShareDir support;
421 File::ShareDir automatically added to 'requires' if 'share_dir' is set
423 - Added 'needs_compiler' property. Defaults to true if XS or c_source
424 exist. If true, ExtUtils::CBuilder is also added to build_requires.
426 - 'C_support' is no longer an optional feature. Modern ExtUtils::CBuilder
427 and ExtUtils::ParseXS added to the 'requires' list. This ensures that
428 upgrading Module::Build will upgrade these critical modules.
430 - Clarified that 'apache' in the license attribute indicates the Apache
431 License 2.0 and added 'apache_1_1' for the older version of the license
436 - Module::Build::Compat 'passthrough' style has been deprecated. Using
437 'passthrough' will issue warnings on Makefile.PL generation. See
438 Module::Build::Compat documentation for rationale.
442 - Replaced use of YAML.pm with YAML::Tiny; Module::Build::YAML is now
443 based on YAML::Tiny as well
445 - A new get_metadata() method has been added as a simpler wrapper around
446 the old, kludgy prepare_metadata() API.
448 - Replaced guts of new_from_context(). Build.PL is now executed in a
449 separate process before resume() is called. (This is generally only of
450 interest to Module::Build or toolchain developers) (RT#49350)
452 - Add support for 'package NAME VERSION' syntax added in Perl 5.11.1
456 - The "test" action now dies when using the 'use_tap_harness'
457 option and tests fail, matching the behavior under Test::Harness.
458 (RT#49080) [initial patch from David Wheeler; revised by David Golden]
460 - Updated PPM generation to PPM v4 (RT#49600) [Olivier Mengue]
462 - When module_name is not supplied, no packlist was being written; fixed
463 by guessing module_name from dist_version_from or the directory name
464 (just like ExtUtils::Manifest does without NAME) [David Golden]
466 - Failure to detect a compiler will now warn during Build.PL and be a
467 fatal error when trying to compile during Build. (RT#48918) [David
470 - Auto-detection of abstract and author fixed for mixed-case POD headers
471 (RT#51117) [David Wheeler]
473 - resume() was not restoring additions to @INC added in Build.PL
474 (RT#50145) [David Golden]
476 - When tarball paths are less than 100 characters, disables 'prefix'
477 mode of Archive::Tar for maximum compatibility (RT#50571) [David Golden]
479 - Merging 'requires' and 'build_requires' in Module::Build::Compat could
480 lead to duplicate PREREQ_PM entries; now the highest version is used
481 for PREREQ_PM. (RT#50948) [David Golden]
483 - Module::Build::Compat will now die with an error if advanced,
484 non-numeric prerequisites are given, as these are not supported by
485 ExtUtils::MakeMaker in PREREQ_PM [David Golden]
488 0.35_15 - Thu Dec 17 17:51:22 EST 2009
492 - Make sure PPM tests are skipped if IO::File is too old [David Golden]
494 0.35_14 - Thu Dec 17 16:02:14 EST 2009
498 - If not set, the 'module_name' is detected from 'dist_version_from'
499 or from 'dist_name'. The directory is no longer used. [David Golden]
501 - The 'share_dir' property no longer defaults to 'share' and must be
502 explicitly set instead; this fixes problems for CPAN distributions that
503 already have a 'share' directory for whatever reason [David Golden]
505 - Change t/00-compile.t test for more portability [David Golden]
507 - Skip ppm.t if Pod::Html is not available [David Goldenj]
509 - Changed guts of inc::latest to work properly on older versions of Perl
512 - Ensure bundle_inc.t doesn't accidentally uninstall the installed M::B
513 during testing if the user had 'uninst=1' set during Build.PL
516 0.35_13 - Sat Dec 5 11:26:36 EST 2009
520 - Protect against tempfile errors when checking ExtUtils::Installed
523 0.35_12 - Fri Dec 4 23:06:49 EST 2009
527 - Protect inc/ bundling tests against broken ExtUtils::Installed
530 0.35_11 - Thu Dec 3 11:07:44 EST 2009
534 - The old API for prepare_metadata() has been restored to avoid breaking
535 distributions that were overriding it (e.g. BioPerl), but the method
536 has been marked deprecated and may be made private or may disappear in
537 some future version of Module::Build. [David Golden]
539 - A new get_metadata() method has been added as a simpler wrapper around
540 the old, kludgy prepare_metadata() API. [David Golden]
542 0.35_10 - Tue Nov 24 22:49:19 EST 2009
546 - bundle_inc.t is more careful about permissions and open filehandles
547 to avoid failures/skips on Win32 [David Golden]
549 - Fix compilation error in Module::Build::Platform::VMS (RT#51766)
552 - Don't generate a MANIFEST.SKIP during distclean and add any generated
553 MANIFEST.SKIP to cleanup list [reported by Zefram, fixed by David Golden]
555 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo version parsing would fail if a module sets
556 its $VERSION from another module, but the other module is not installed.
557 We now try to detect such failures, prepend 'lib' to @INC and try again.
560 - MYMETA.yml used to be generated from scratch, overriding any
561 customizations used to create META.yml. Now, if META.yml exists, that
562 will be used as the base for MYMETA and only prereq fields will be
563 updated (to reflect any dynamic configuration); also, 'dynamic_config'
564 will be set to false and 'generated_by' will be updated [David Golden]
566 0.35_09 - Thu Nov 19 01:30:42 EST 2009
570 - The DB package should not be included in 'provides' in META files
573 - Fixed t/xs.t build failures in bleadperl for noexec temp directories
576 - Adjusted order of @INC in resume() (fixes par.t, ppm.t, xs.t fails):
577 @INC = @new_additions_to_inc, @saved_additions_to_inc, @default_inc
580 - Skip bundle_inc.t tests if bundled Module::Build for test can't be
581 tweaked (Works around test crashes on Win2) [David Golden]
585 - 'C_support' is no longer an optional feature. Modern ExtUtils::CBuilder
586 and ExtUtils::ParseXS added to the 'requires' list. This ensures that
587 upgrading Module::Build will upgrade this critical modules.
588 ExtUtils::CBuilder no longer requires a compiler, so it is "safe" to
591 0.35_08 - Mon Nov 16 22:38:28 EST 2009
595 - Multiple tests were failing due to dependency problems. Author
596 dependencies have been largely removed from core 'requires' into
597 optional features. Feature prereq detection and messaging have been
598 expanded and bugs on older Perls have been removed.
600 0.35_07 - Sat Nov 14 17:14:39 EST 2009
604 - Auto-detection of abstract and author fixed for mixed-case POD headers
605 (RT#51117) [David Wheeler]
607 - resume() was not restoring additions to @INC added in Build.PL
608 (RT#50145) [David Golden]
610 - When tarball paths are less than 100 characters, disables 'prefix'
611 mode of Archive::Tar for maximum compatibility (RT#50571) [David Golden]
613 0.35_06 - Fri Nov 13 14:51:28 EST 2009
617 - Added experimental inc/ bundling; see Module::Build::Bundling for
618 details. [David Golden and Eric Wilhelm]
620 - Clarified that 'apache' in the license attribute indicates the Apache
621 License 2.0 and added 'apache_1_1' for the older version of the license
622 (RT#50614) [David Golden]
626 - Merging 'requires' and 'build_requires' in Module::Build::Compat could
627 lead to duplicate PREREQ_PM entries; now the highest version is used
628 for PREREQ_PM. (RT#50948) [David Golden]
630 - Module::Build::Compat will now die with an error if advanced,
631 non-numeric prerequisites are given, as these are not supported by
632 ExtUtils::MakeMaker in PREREQ_PM [David Golden]
634 - Made MYMETA generation non-fatal if fields required for META.yml
635 are missing [David Golden]
637 - Added Pod::Simple to requirements for manpage support; avoids
638 problems if a user has a broken Pod::Man/Pod::Simple. (RT#50081)
641 - Won't die if installed Pod::Readme is broken [David Golden]
645 - Fixed Module::Build::Notes POD [David Golden]
647 - Some commands had become silent by default, so added a few short status
648 messages so users know something actually happened [David Golden]
650 - Cleaned up Changes file formatting [David Golden]
652 - Removed most PERL_CORE customizations from test files due to
653 reorganization of dual-life modules in core (RT#49522) [David Golden]
655 0.35_05 - Wed Oct 28 17:20:59 EDT 2009
659 - Fix test failure in t/actions/installdeps.t when $^X is not the default
662 - Work around $VERSION numbers in ActiveState with multiple underscores
663 that prevent Module::Build from installing on Win32 [David Golden]
665 - Fix bug cleaning compatibility Makefile when older ExtUtils::Manifest is
666 installed [David Golden with help from David Cantrell]
670 - Suppressed more warnings from tests [David Golden]
672 - Add provisional support for 'package NAME VERSION' syntax added in
673 Perl 5.11.1 [David Golden]
675 0.35_04 - Fri Oct 23 11:20:41 EDT 2009
679 - Fix test failure if IPC::Cmd isn't installed [David Golden]
683 - Suppressed warning messages from various tests [David Golden]
685 0.35_03 - Wed Oct 21 21:20:59 EDT 2009
689 - The prepare_metadata() method used to take a YAML::Node object as an
690 argument for modification. The method now takes no arguments and just
691 returns a hash reference of metadata. [David Golden]
695 - Command line options may be set via the PERL_MB_OPT environment
696 variable (similar to PERL_MM_OPT in ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
700 - Updated PPM generation to PPM v4 (RT#49600) [Olivier Mengue]
702 - When c_source is specified, the directory scan will include additional,
703 less-common C++ extensions (RT49298) [David Golden]
705 - When module_name is not supplied, no packlist was being written; fixed
706 by guessing module_name from dist_version_from or the directory name
707 (just like ExtUtils::Manifest does without NAME) [David Golden]
709 - Bumped IO::File prereq to fix binmode failures in PPMMaker on Perl
710 prior to 5.8.8 [David Golden]
714 - Replaced use of YAML.pm with YAML::Tiny; Module::Build::YAML is now
715 based on YAML::Tiny as well [David Golden]
717 - Reduced amount of console output under normal operation (use --verbose
718 to see all output) [David Golden]
720 0.35_02 - Mon Sep 7 22:37:42 EDT 2009
724 - Added 'needs_compiler' property. Defaults to true if XS or c_source
725 exist. If true, ExtUtils::CBuilder is also added to build_requires.
728 - File::ShareDir automatically added to 'requires' if 'share_dir' is set
731 - Added 'Build installdeps' action to install needed dependencies via
732 a user-configurable command line program. (Defaults to 'cpan'.)
737 - Failure to detect a compiler will now warn during Build.PL and be a
738 fatal error when trying to compile during Build. (RT#48918) [David
741 - Fixed directory sorting failure in share_dir.t [David Golden]
743 - Property defaults that are data structures were being assigned as
744 references to new objects. Changed so that defaults are cloned instead.
745 (This mostly affects testing, which often creates multiple objects in the
746 same process) [David Golden]
748 - Simplified error message on exit under use_tap_harness [suggested by
751 - Fixed typemap search to use a dist-level typemap if a typemap is not
752 found in the directory with the *.xs file; (was manifesting as warnings
753 in Perl 5.6 tests) [David Golden]
757 - Replaced guts of new_from_context(). Build.PL is now executed in a
758 separate process before resume() is called. (This is generally only of
759 interest to Module::Build or toolchain developers) (RT#49350) [David
760 Golden, Eric Wilhelm, Ken Williams]
762 - Revised test helper classes to fix potential bugs and add new features
763 to make writing tests simpler and easier. Changes incorporated into
764 t/README.pod and t/sample.t as examples for new testing. [David Golden]
766 0.35_01 - Mon Aug 31 12:11:10 EDT 2009
770 - Generates MYMETA.yml during Build.PL (new standard protocol for
771 communicating configuration results between toolchain components)
774 - Added 'share_dir' property to provide File::ShareDir support;
775 set automatically if a directory called 'share' exists
780 - Fix the t/destinations.t fix. [David Golden, with thanks to Eric Wilhelm]
782 - Fix recursive test files in generated Makefile.PL (RT#49254) [Sawyer X]
784 - Guard against trying :utf8 when :utf8 isn't available
786 - The "test" action now dies when using the 'use_tap_harness'
787 option and tests fail, matching the behavior under Test::Harness.
788 (RT#49080) [initial patch from David Wheeler; revised by David Golden]
792 - Added t/README.pod and t/sample.t to guide developers writing new tests
793 [David Golden, with some code from Eric Wilhelm]
795 - Module::Build::Compat 'passthrough' style has been deprecated. Using
796 'passthrough' will issue warnings on Makefile.PL generation. See
797 Module::Build::Compat documentation for rationale.
799 0.35 - Thu Aug 27 09:12:02 EDT 2009
803 - Fix t/destinations.t segfault on 5.6.2 [David Golden]
805 0.34_06 - Sat Aug 22 21:58:26 EDT 2009
809 - Multiple test fixes for OS2 [Ilya Zakharevich]
811 - Generated.ppd files use :utf8 if possible (RT#48827) [Olivier Mengue]
813 - Fixed preservation of custom install_paths on resume (RT#41166)
816 - Warn instead of crashing when Pod::Man tries to create files with
817 colons on vfat partitions on unix (RT#45544) [David Golden]
819 0.34_05 - Sun Aug 9 22:31:37 EDT 2009
823 - When auto_configure_requires is true (the default), Module::Build will
824 only add last 'major' version of Module:Build (e.g. 0.XX) to
825 configure_requires to avoid specifying a minor development release not
826 available on CPAN [David Golden]
828 0.34_04 - Sat Aug 8 11:02:24 EDT 2009
832 - Added documentation warning that 'get_options' should be capitalized
833 to avoid conflicting with future Module::Build options and changed
834 the examples accordingly.
836 0.34_03 - Sat Aug 8 07:39:16 EDT 2009
840 - Fixed failing xs.t if /tmp is mounted noexec (RT#47331) [David Golden]
842 - Fixed failing debug.t on VMS (RT#48362) [Craig Berry]
844 - Prevent par.t from dying on error in .zip extraction [David Golden]
846 - Fixed potential runthrough.t failure on 5.6.2 [David Golden]
850 - Archive::Tar changed from 'requires' to 'recommends' so non-authors
851 without IO::Zlib can still use Module::Build to install modules
852 [reported by Matt Trout, fix by David Golden]
854 0.340201 - Sun Aug 9 22:11:04 EDT 2009
858 - Version bump for Perl core for 5.10.1 release; no other changes
860 0.34_02 - Sun Jul 26 22:50:40 EDT 2009
864 - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN
865 version.pm 0.77 [John Peacock]
867 0.34_01 - Sat Jul 18 16:32:09 EDT 2009
871 - Added --debug flag to trace Build action execution (RT#47933)
876 - Bundled Module::Build::Version version code updated to fix unsafe use
877 of $@ (RT#47980) [John Peacock]
879 0.34 - Tue Jul 7 16:56:47 EDT 2009
881 No changes from 0.33_06
883 0.33_06 - Sun Jul 5 10:11:40 EDT 2009
887 - Bundled version code will use pure Perl on 5.10.0 to work around
888 a corner case involving eval and locale [John Peacock]
890 - Reversed VMS patch from 0.33_03 [Craig Berry]
892 - PL_files in Build.PL that are in the bin/scripts directory should not be
893 installed as if they are scripts (fixed for case-tolerant systems).
894 [David Golden, reported by Craig Berry]
896 0.33_05 - Sun Jun 28 22:06:49 EDT 2009
900 - New 'auto_configure_requires' parameter (default 1) controls
901 whether Module::Build should add itself to configure_requires
902 in META.yml if not specified in Build.PL [David Golden]
906 - The default MANIFEST.SKIP created by the "manifest" action
907 was out of date. It will now use the installed MANIFEST.SKIP
908 and add some Module::Build and distribution specific items
909 to it. [Michael Schwern]
913 - configure_requires do not necessarily need to be in requires
914 or build_requires; warning to that effect has been removed
917 0.33_04 - Fri Jun 26 07:09:06 EDT 2009
921 - Don't try utf8 YAML I/O on Perl 5.6 [David Golden]
925 - configure_requires added to prereq report (RT#47254) [Curtis Jewell]
927 - updated Module::Build::Version to match forthcoming version.pm 0.77
928 (RT#47256) [John Peacock]
930 - skips xs.t and ppm.t when perl was not compiled with dynamic loading
931 since Module::Buld does not support static linking (RT#46178)
934 - skip failing test in par.t if Archive::Zip is broken [David Golden]
936 - Added YAML utf8 patch in 0.33_03 changes list
938 - Added attribution for patches in 0.33_03 changes list
940 0.33_03 - Mon Jun 22 17:22:56 EDT 2009
944 - Removes Module::Build from its own configure/build_requires
947 - ConfigData->feature() confirms that modules actually load successfully,
948 not just that they are present. (RT#43557) [David Golden]
950 - Module::Build::Compat handling of INSTALL*LIB (RT#43827)
951 [Tony Payne, David Golden]
953 - Module::Build::Compat and recursive test files (RT#39171) [Dave Rolsky]
955 - Fixed bug linking non-standard XS names on Windows (RT#38065) ["snaury"]
957 - Run PL files that don't generate any file (RT#39365)
958 [Matisse Enzer, David Golden]
960 - HTML generation failure no longer fatal (RT#36660) [David Golden]
962 - realclean might not delete Build.bat on Windows (RT#43863)
963 [Roy Ivy, David Golden]
965 - include_dirs parameter now works correctly when given a single
966 string argument (RT#40177) [David Wheeler]
968 - Lots of spelling fixes in the POD (RT#45528r) [Lars Dieckow]
970 - On Unix-like systems, tilde expansion is more liberal in username
971 characters accepted (RT#33492) [Jon Jensen]
975 - On MSWin32, bumped File::Spec prereq to 3.30 for a variety of fixes
977 - Add support for VMS in Unix compatibility mode (RT#42157)
980 - Added a can_action($name) method (RT#45172) [brian d foy]
982 - Documented that subclass methods should not permanently change
983 current directory (RT#46919) [David Wheeler]
985 - META.yml encoded in UTF-8 (RT#43765) [Olivier Mengue]
987 0.33_02 - Mon Jun 15 12:23:55 EDT 2009
991 - Fixed tests for bleadperl
993 0.33_01 - Sat Jun 13 20:24:42 EDT 2009
997 - Fixed RT#42724: consolidated VMS fixes [patch by Craig Berry]
999 - Fixed RT#46338: passthrough Makefile.PL cleans Makefile during distclean
1001 - Fixed RT#45700: t/compat.t for HP/UX make
1005 - Adds current Module::Build to configure_requires (and build_requires)
1006 if no configure_requires is specified
1008 - Always normalizes version number tuples in META.yml (e.g. 'v1.2.0')
1009 (Partially addresses RT#46150)
1011 - Normalizes a generated dist_version (e.g. from a .pm file) --
1012 dist_version set manually in Build.PL is not normalized
1014 - Documentation update for create_license
1018 0.33 - Sun May 3 20:16:34 PDT 2009
1022 - Fixed RT#45462: Compat.pm needs to reference 'Build.com' on VMS
1023 [patch from John Malmberg]
1025 - Fixed RT#45461: ext.t on VMS [patch from John Malmberg]
1027 - Fixed RT#43861: Module::Build::PPMMaker has broken PPD name
1028 versioning for v5.10+
1030 0.32_01 - Tue Apr 14 17:14:22 PDT 2009
1034 - Module::Build::Compat had stopped adding "PL_FILES => {}" when no
1035 PL_files property was set in Build.PL; restored old behavior and fixed
1036 tests and documentation related to this issue [David Golden]
1038 - Caches ExtUtils::CBuilder object in a temporary stash instead of properties
1040 - Fixed undef resources->license in META.yml (RT #44453).
1042 - Use $^X instead of 'perl' in t/ext.t [David Golden] (RT #43485)
1046 - Generated META.yml will indicate version 1.4 of the specification
1047 (RT #37478) [patch from Alexandr Ciornii]
1049 - Archive::Tar now the default for generating tarballs on all platforms
1050 (avoids problems with incompatible tar binaries)
1052 - dist_dir() now uses dist_name() and dist_version() accessors rather
1053 than using its properties directly. [brian d foy] (RT #45038)
1055 0.32 - Wed Feb 25 17:40:02 PST 2009
1057 No changes since 0.31_04.
1059 0.31_04 - Fri Feb 20 11:04:59 PST 2009
1063 - Bumped Test::Harness prereq to 3.16 for latest PERL5LIB fixes (solves
1064 test failures when installing Module::Build using CPANPLUS::Dist::Build)
1067 0.31_03 - Sun Feb 8 14:54:01 PST 2009
1071 - added a "prereq_data" action that prints a Perl data structure of
1072 all prerequisites; can be loaded by external tools using eval()
1077 - 'fakeinstall' action warns and skips without ExtUtils::Install 1.32+
1078 [David Golden, reported by Zefram]
1080 - allows Module::Build version mismatch when installing self; works around
1081 limitations in CPANPLUS::Dist::Build [David Golden]
1083 0.31_02 - Tue Jan 27 09:16:43 PST 2009
1087 - tests now use File::Temp (added to build_requires); appears to fix
1088 Win32 testing heisenbug on directory removal during high system loads
1090 - use_tap_harness.t will skip unless a release version of TAP::Harness
1093 - improved diagnostics to ensure_blib() tests in t/lib/MBTest.pm
1097 - passthrough Makefile.PL will now play nice with cpantesters' on
1098 exit(0) (RT#32018) [Eric Wilhelm]
1102 - fix for doubling-up of --prefix (RT#19951)
1104 0.31012 - Wed Jan 14 01:36:19 PST 2009
1108 - t/tilde.t maybe actually fixed on MSWin32 now.
1110 0.31011 - Mon Jan 12 21:57:04 PST 2009
1114 - t/tilde.t had been failing on MSWin32 (RT#42349)
1116 0.3101 - Mon Jan 12 13:52:36 PST 2009
1120 - added 'mirbsd' as a Unix-type OS [BinGOs]
1122 - added 'haiku' as a Unix-type OS (backported from bleadperl)
1124 - skips certain tests on VMS (backported from bleadperl)
1126 - sets $^X to absolute path in tests (backported from bleadperl)
1128 0.31 - Sat Dec 20 15:03:33 2008
1132 - Use of attributes as class methods is deprecated (this was never a
1133 documented feature and appears to only have worked accidentally.)
1135 0.30_02 - Mon Dec 15 12:23:55 PST 2008
1139 - make Software::License dependency "softer".
1141 0.30_01 - Thu Dec 11 18:25:53 PST 2008
1145 - Added a recipe for writing a new action to the Cookbook
1147 - Added a recipe for bundling Module::Build to the Cookbook.
1151 - Clarified dist_abstract search procedure in API.pod (RT#41056) [Mario
1156 - Workaround HARNESS_TIMER env issue in t/compat.t (RT#39635)
1158 - Fix ~ expansion when $HOME is different from /etc/passwd as
1159 when running sudo. [rt.cpan.org 39662]
1161 - Fixed a small POD error in the Cookbook. [Damyan Ivanov]
1163 - Unset group/other write permission bits when using Archive::Tar to
1164 build the dist tarball. (RT#39804) [David Golden]
1168 - We now support a 'create_license' parameter to new() that will
1169 create a LICENSE file during the 'dist' phase with the full text of
1170 the license. This requires Software::License on the author's
1173 - Added lgpl2/lgpl3 entries to the supported licenses (RT#40532).
1175 - Support for validating properties with a check subref. [David
1180 - Defend against more stray environment variables interfering
1185 - Updated our embedded version.pm to 0.76, enhanced documentation on
1186 dist_version_from. [John Peacock]
1188 0.30 - Thu Sep 25 20:57:36 2008
1190 - First non-beta release since April 2007. In the meantime, Sarkozy
1191 became president of France, the 35W bridge fell in Minneapolis,
1192 Phelps won a lot of gold, a new tribe of indigenous people was
1193 discovered in the Amazon, and Bob Barker stopped doing The Price Is
1194 Right. As of this moment though, the U.S. economy still hasn't
1195 collapsed completely.
1197 0.2808_05 - Thu Sep 18 23:30:39 PDT 2008
1199 - Skip test in t/ext.t which tickles shellwords() in Text::ParseWords
1200 below 3.23 [David Wheeler, Ken]
1202 - Fixed some shell-quoting issues in do_system() on Windows [Ken,
1203 Schwern, reported by Curtis Jewell]
1205 - Fixed t/xs.t failure for missing 'const char *' typemap in 5.6
1208 - Added build_requires for Test::More 0.49 and Test::Harness 2.03.
1209 Removed bundled Test::More (was not working for 5.005x anyway).
1212 - Minimum required perl version is now 5.6.1. [Schwern]
1214 0.2808_04 - Thu Sep 11 22:51:27 PDT 2008
1216 - Backed-out incompatible Module::Build::ModuleInfo change (first in
1219 0.2808_03 - Mon Sep 1 14:43:27 PDT 2008
1221 - Made adjustments for the format changes of recent Test::Harness
1222 output. [Nicholas Clark]
1224 - Fixed the documentation for script_files to indicate that we search
1225 bin/ for scripts by default. It has been this way for several
1226 years. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
1228 0.2808_02 - Wed Jul 9 16:45:08 PDT 2008
1230 - Experimental support for TAP::Harness with --use-tap-harness option
1231 and the tap_harness_args property. [David Wheeler & Eric Wilhelm]
1233 - Added test_file_exts property for main-run tests other than '*.t'.
1236 - Fixed getcwd()/rmtree() failure case on 5.10+mac where something is
1237 unhappy about all of the tests deleting their distgen directory
1238 before leaving it. [Eric Wilhelm & David Wheeler]
1240 - Improved support for parsing qv() in modules' $VERSION
1241 declarations, and made $VERSION-parsing errors more verbose. [Jos
1244 - Integrated an omnibus patch for various VMS fixes. [Craig Berry &
1247 - Some versions of Test::Harness (or something) seem to not be
1248 stripping the ".t" suffix when outputting test reports, which was
1249 causing one of our tests in t/compat.t to fail. Fixed. [Spotted by
1252 - Most Unix platforms seem to allow hyphens in usernames, so we honor
1253 this in our de-tilde-fying methods now. [Spotted by s-murata]
1255 - If there are multiple assignments to the $VERSION variable in
1256 someone's module and this generates warnings, tell the user what
1257 line number the problem is at.
1259 - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni]
1261 - Fixed a couple bugs in how we quote arguments to external processes
1262 when they have to pass through the shell. Also much more
1263 thoroughly tested our quoting now.
1265 - Edited the Module::Build::API docs prose about the 'license' field
1266 in response to some comments on the module-authors mailing list.
1268 - Fixed a typo in some example code in the Cookbook. [Jeremy Leader]
1270 - Custom typemaps were being looked for in places that don't quite
1271 exist; fixed. [Michael G Schwern]
1273 - QNX/Neutrino is now considered to be Unix. [rt.cpan.org 32214]
1275 - Added 'gpl2' and 'gpl3' to the list of valid licenses. [Allen
1278 - Fixed our Data::Dumper wrapper's sensitivity to users who might set
1279 $Data::Dumper::Terse. [Spotted by Dominique Dumont]
1281 - Documented the fix_shebang_line() method. [Elliot Shank]
1283 - Applied the 'const' modifier to version() and xs_version() XS
1284 functions we use during testing. [Robin Barker]
1286 - Fixed processing of INC=, POLLUTE=, INSTALLDIRS=, and LIB= for
1287 passthrough/small Makefile.PLs.
1289 - perl Build.PL --sign=1 now signs. [Michael G Schwern]
1291 - Fixed processing of INSTALLDIRS=whatever for compatibility
1292 Makefiles. [Spotted by John Peacock]
1294 - Zillions of special-cases have been added in Compat.pm for dealing
1295 with the special Makefile system on VMS. [John E. Malmberg]
1297 - Fixed some stuff in how VMS command-args get quoted. [John E. Malmberg]
1299 - VMS now overrides localize_file_path() and localize_dir_path() so
1300 we don't need to do special stuff in the general case. [John
1303 - Added a few more VMS-specific entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP
1304 file that (sometimes) gets created during the 'manifest'
1305 action. [John E. Malmberg]
1307 - Fixed a catdir() that should have been a catfile() when creating a
1308 ppmdist. [John E. Malmberg]
1310 - Removed some assumptions about what makefiles are called (not
1311 necessarily "Makefile") and how they take their arguments, to get
1312 VMS tests working better. [John E. Malmberg]
1314 - Fixed our check for Archive::Tar in the t/runthrough.t test, which
1315 fixes a common failure on Win32. [Spotted by Chris Williams]
1317 - Fixed a File::Spec mal-ism in t/destinations.t [Craig A. Berry]
1319 - Exposed the internal ExtUtils::CBuilder object as part of our API,
1320 via the cbuilder() method. [Zefram]
1322 - Upgraded to version.pm 0.74 (fixes bug #30004.)
1324 - Overwrite core (post-5.9.4) Module::Build installs (bug #20528.)
1326 - Pass quiet() option to ExtUtils::CBuilder object.
1328 0.2808_01 - Wed Oct 24 11:51:25 2007
1330 - All .pm files in the Module-Build distribution (except for
1331 M::B::Version.pm, which is kind of tied to version.pm) now have the
1332 same $VERSION number explicitly specified.
1334 - When checking prerequisites, the required version of perl is now
1335 checked before we start finding the $VERSION declaration of the
1336 distribution, which results in much more intuitive error messages
1337 e.g. if the author is using 5.6-isms in their declaration but the
1338 user doesn't have 5.6. [Slaven Rezic]
1340 - Added 'artistic_2' license, corrected 'lgpl' license url (bug #29783)
1343 - VMS find_perl_interpreter() is just $^X (bug #29810) [Craig A. Berry]
1345 - Some large VMS fixes, mostly having to do with the non-case-
1346 preserving nature of most VMS filesystems, but also correcting for
1347 illegal characters in VMS file specs. [John E. Malmberg and Craig
1350 - Fixed the _detildefy() method on VMS. [John E. Malmberg and Craig
1353 - We now use a much more reliable method when Data::Dumper-ing saved
1356 - When a module had 0.000 as its version, a few places in the code
1357 thought the module had no version at all. This is now
1358 fixed. [Andrew "Zefram" Main]
1360 - When finding the default set of script_files, we now compute them
1361 as relative paths, not absolute. [Spotted by Curtis "Ovid" Poe]
1363 - Got rid of a call to eliminate_macros, which isn't needed in
1364 Module::Build since there is no external make utility involved.
1365 Override expand_test_dir to make up for the fact that the
1366 home-grown glob() returns absolute, not relative, paths. [Craig
1369 - Fixed a catdir() that needed to be catfile() in the .packlist
1370 creation code. [John E. Malmberg]
1372 - If a *.PL file ended abnormally during the build, processing should
1373 have stopped, but it didn't. Fixed. [Matthew Cast and David
1376 - Module::Build::Compat adds "require 5.XXXXX" to Makefile.PL when
1377 'perl' is specified as a 'requires' prerequisite [David Golden]
1379 - Refactored t/compat.t for modularity and transparency; added
1380 labels for all tests; supressed subprocess output to
1381 STDOUT and STDERR [David Golden]
1383 - Fixed bug in perl_version_to_float when version is already a float
1386 - Removed a mention of $build->{config} from the documentation, the
1387 official interface to Config.pm settings is now via the
1388 $build->config() and has been for some time. [Suggested by Michael
1391 - Tweaked some text in the Cookbook to bring it into the modern age,
1392 and added a recipe for accessing Config.pm settings. [Ibid]
1394 - Lots of POD link/readability improvements to the Module::Build::API
1395 documentation [Salve J. Nilsen]
1397 - Added configure_requires as a new type of prereq. [Suggested by Adam
1400 - Patch 31156 from bleadperl: some filename dot and extension help
1401 for Module::Build on VMS. [Craig Berry]
1403 - Reworked the _detildefy() method so it doesn't depend on glob()
1404 anymore. This gets rid of a problem with spaces or other special
1405 shell characters in things like 'prefix' or 'install_path'
1406 entries. [Prodding by Eric Wilhelm]
1408 - Added midnightbsd to the list of Unix-like OSes we know about
1409 [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
1411 0.2808 - Sat Apr 28 12:59:43 2007
1413 - Added is_vmsish(), is_windowsish(), and is_unixish() boolean
1414 convenience functions. Fixes some test failures on platforms where
1415 $^O is set to a value we don't know about (like 'gnu').
1417 - Upgraded to version.pm 0.7203. [John Peacock]
1419 - Support get_action_docs() =head2 style. [ewilhelm]
1421 - Workaround Test::Pod::Coverage @INC bug. [Eric Wilhelm]
1423 - Fixed the command-line args --extra_compiler_flags and
1424 --extra_linker_flags so they properly shell-split their arguments.
1426 0.2807 - Sat Mar 24 22:19:02 2007
1428 - Upgraded to version.pm 0.71. [John Peacock]
1430 - Removed a couple small constructs in the tests ("use warnings;" and
1431 "qw$foo bar$[1]") that caused test failures under perl 5.005.
1433 - Added support for an explicit default value of undef in prompt().
1436 - Improved our prompt() method, which could sometimes hang before the
1437 user got a chance to see a prompt. [Andreas Koenig]
1439 - Added a note about --allow_mb_mismatch to the error message that
1440 happens right before someone might want to use that parameter.
1442 - Added DragonflyBSD to the list of known Unix OSes.
1444 - get_action_docs() dies on error rather than twiddling $@
1446 - Made ModuleInfo's _evaluate_version_line() compatible with 'use
1447 version ...$VERSION' lines. [Eric Wilhelm]
1449 - Added some verbiage in Module::Build::API that officially blesses
1450 the _build/prereqs file for external consumption. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig]
1452 - Added test profiles support via the test_types property and "testall"
1453 target. [Eric Wilhelm, Jeff Lavallee]
1455 - Use syscopy() on OS/2 in copy_if_modified() so we make sure to
1456 overwrite any existing target file. [Ilya Zakharevich]
1458 - Removed seemingly silly '~~' test in t/tilde.t.
1460 - In our test-time utility library t/lib/MBTest.pm, we need to know
1461 about a few .exe-like extensions on OS/2. [Ilya Zakharevich]
1463 - In t/ppm.t, use DynaLoader::mod2fname() (if available) to determine
1464 the correct translation of our test module's name into a DLL
1465 name. [Ilya Zakharevich]
1467 - Avoid an unlink() error on OS/2 when fixing shebang lines. [Ilya
1470 - When we're protecting the world from the evils of long RedHat
1471 $ENV{PERL5LIB} variables, don't assume $ENV{PERL5LIB} is already
1472 defined. This gets rid of a huge number of warnings for some
1473 people. [Dave Rolsky]
1475 0.2806 - Fri Dec 15 22:20:14 2006
1477 - On some systems (haven't identified the actual problem yet)
1478 $ENV{PERL5LIB} can grow to enormous enough sizes that we can't
1479 launch any more subprocesses because the environment table is full.
1480 This is the now-infamous "Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too
1481 long" error. Now we detect such situations and trim the directory
1482 list to only include directories that actually exist, listed only
1483 once each. Not the ideal solution, but it should work.
1485 - Silence a warning in M::B::ModuleInfo that happens when the author
1486 is using the "$VERSION = eval $VERSION" idiom.
1488 - When running the 'testcover' action, do "cover --delete" if any of
1489 the test files have changed (we already did so if any of the code
1490 under test has changed). [Suggested by Chris Dolan, RT #23584]
1492 - Fixed a broken link in the documentation about PREFIX. [Spotted by
1495 - Changes to do_system() & friends on VMS to get system calls working
1496 much better there. [Craig Berry]
1498 - Added the "pardist" target which creates a PAR binary distribution
1499 akin to a PPM distribution. [Steffen Mueller]
1501 - Added the Interix platform as a Unix variant. [Stephen Hartland]
1503 - Improved the error message we emit when a distribution contains XS
1504 files but the user has no C compiler. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig]
1506 0.2805_01 Thu Sep 7 21:57:29 CDT 2006
1508 - Because of a weird behavior of YAML::Node, any distribution that
1509 used version.pm objects to define their versions was generating the
1510 wrong syntax for the versions in their META.yml file. They will
1511 now appear as strings like v3.42.1 or similar, including the
1514 - Upgraded to version 0.67 of version.pm. [John Peacock]
1516 - Added a contrib/ directory with a bash completion function for M::B
1517 actions and switches. [Julian Mehnle]
1519 - When we eval() the embedded version.pm code we will now die() if
1520 the eval() was unsuccessful, rather than continuing blindly on and
1521 dying mysteriously later.
1523 - Added a 'retest' action that lets users run the current regression
1524 tests on a previously-installed version of a distribution.
1526 * Instead of storing an entire dump of the Config.pm hash in the
1527 _build/ directory upon startup, we now just store any overrides the
1528 user or author has specified. Note that if you were doing anything
1529 you weren't supposed to be doing, like poking around in the
1530 internals of $buld->{config}, your code might break, so I've put
1531 the asterisk of incompatibility on this one just to cover my
1532 tuchus. [Idea originally by Randy Sims]
1534 - Made copying files via copy_if_modified() a little less chatty.
1536 0.2805 Sat Jul 29 22:01:24 CDT 2006
1538 - We now embed a copy of version.pm right in the
1539 Module::Build::Version source code, with John Peacock's blessing,
1540 in case the user has a rough time installing version.pm. This
1541 helps alleviate troubles people were still having with working out
1542 a seemingly circular dependency (even though version.pm now ships
1543 with a standard Makefile.PL too). A version.pm >= 0.661 installed
1544 on the system will take precedence over our bundled one. [John
1547 - Fix some test warnings (or failures?) related to version.pm
1548 numification. [John Peacock]
1550 - The top-level 'version' entry in META.yml files we'd generated was
1551 in the wrong format (it was being treated as a version.pm object
1552 rather than a serialized copy) due to a weird YAML::Node issue.
1555 - Don't 'use base qw(version)' anymore in our M::B::Version wrapper,
1556 just set @ISA directly, because some people have reported that the
1557 'use base' line is croaking.
1559 - Added an 'allow_mb_mismatch' parameter to suppress the startup
1560 check that ensures the version of M::B currently running is the
1561 same as the one initially used to run the Build.PL. Use with
1564 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo will no longer detect things that look
1565 like $VERSION assignments after an __END__ or __DATA__ token.
1567 - Updated documentation to mention the new mailing list on perl.org
1568 rather than the old one on sourceforge.
1570 0.2804 Sun Jul 16 16:41:25 CDT 2006
1572 - Added 'use version;' in Module::Build::Version, because some
1573 versions of base.pm won't automatically load version.pm when we do
1574 'use base qw/version/;'. [Spotted by Erik Tank]
1576 0.2803 Sat Jul 15 08:26:34 CDT 2006
1578 - The META.yml file in the last release was all screwed up, so the
1579 distribution wasn't indexed properly. Fixed in this release.
1581 0.2802 Fri Jul 14 22:40:34 CDT 2006
1583 - Added reliance on version.pm, which means we should deal much
1584 better with the wide range of version specifications one finds on
1585 CPAN. This is made possible by recent releases of version.pm that
1586 give the user a pure-perl option, so installing version.pm
1587 shouldn't be too onerous for most users. [John Peacock]
1589 - We should be accepting the default when we're in unattended mode,
1590 not acting dumb and ignoring both the default and the [empty]
1591 answer from the user. Fixed. [Spotted by Nik Clayton]
1593 0.2801 Sun May 21 00:07:40 CDT 2006
1595 - Module::Build::Compat's emulation of INC is incorrectly prepending
1596 a -I to the value of INC. This is incorrect because there should
1597 already be a -I on the value. I.E. it's "perl Makefile.PL INC=-Ifoo"
1598 not "perl Makefile.PL INC=foo" so Compat should not prefix a -I.
1601 - Native batch scripts under Windows should not be converted by
1602 pl2bat. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
1604 - Tweaked the way we determine whether a file is executable on Unix.
1605 We use this determination to decide whether to make it executable
1606 during installation. [Julian Mehnle]
1608 - Replaced a vestigial 'next' with 'return' now that the code is in a
1609 subroutine (htmlify_pods()), not a loop. [Ron Savage]
1611 - Fixed a guaranteed failure in t/signature.t when TEST_SIGNATURE was
1612 set. [Eric R. Meyers]
1614 - Fixed a test failure that occurred when testing or installing in
1615 unattended mode - the code to test whether unattended mode and
1616 attended mode are working properly was assuming that we started out
1617 in attended mode. [Steve Peters]
1619 - Improved our stand-in YAML generator that we use to generate
1620 META.yaml when authors don't have a copy of YAML.pm installed on
1621 their machine. It was unable to handle things like embedded
1622 newlines in the data, now it has a much more extensive escaping
1623 mechanism. [Stephen Adkins]
1625 - Revised the docs for --prefix and PREFIX. [Michael Schwern]
1627 0.28 Thu Apr 27 22:25:00 CDT 2006
1629 - When y_n() or prompt() are called without a default value and the
1630 build seems to be unattended (e.g. in automatic CPAN testing), we
1631 now die() with an error message rather than silently returning
1632 undef for prompt(), or looping indefinitely for y_n().
1634 - When searching for '.modulebuildrc', return the first HOME-like
1635 directory that actually contains the file instead of the first
1636 existing directory. Document the search locations and the order
1637 searched. [Spotted by David Golden]
1639 - Split the API documentation out of Module::Build::Authoring into
1640 its own document: Module::Build::API.
1642 - We should not emit a warning if a Module::Build subclass is
1643 required in a Makefile.PL that is not bundled in the current
1644 distribution; it may be installed on the user's system. [Spotted by
1647 - copy_if_modified() now preserves the executable bit of the source
1648 file. [Spotted by Julian Mehnle]
1650 - Fixed compatibility of our screen-scraping the Test::Harness output
1651 so we can recognize the most recent Test::Harness version. [Steve
1654 - Backing out a requirement added in 0.27_06 on the method y_n()
1655 to always include a default. This behavior would cause existing
1656 build scripts to start failing. We now fail with a missing default
1657 only when $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} is set because there is no
1660 - Make install_types() method smarter with respect to custom install
1663 - Add documentation for the install_base_relpaths() and
1664 prefix_relpaths() methods. Improved their usage for a public API,
1667 0.27_10 Tue Mar 28 22:50:50 CST 2006
1669 - Added the create_packlist property, default true, which controls
1670 whether packlist files will be written during installation. This
1671 was already part of Module::Build 0.2609, but for some reason we've
1672 forgotten it in the 0.27_xx series. [Spotted by Steve Kirkup]
1674 - Document the versions of Module::Build where each feature, action,
1675 constructor argument, and method was first publicly documented.
1677 - More fixes for find_perl_interpreter() to work with BSD flavored
1678 UNIX: Ensure we always return absolute paths; throw an exception
1679 upon failure to find correct interperter; document everything.
1681 - We now include our own YAML.pm work-alike that we can use when the
1682 real YAML isn't installed. We might soon even start using it when
1683 YAML is installed, because the YAML API and dependency chain have
1684 been changing in unfavorable ways lately. [Stephen Adkins]
1686 - Fixed some shell-argument-quoting issues on VMS. In the process,
1687 we have added some support for avoiding tripping over
1688 shell-argument-quoting issues on other platforms too. [Initial
1689 patch by Craig A. Berry]
1691 0.27_09 Sat Mar 11 22:48:54 EST 2006
1693 - Fixed find_perl_interpreter() so we can find the perl executable
1694 when running from uninstalled perl even when $^X contains a
1695 relative path. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
1697 - Fixed warning message where we were printing the wrong field names.
1700 - Added a 'testpodcoverage' action that runs a POD coverage check for
1701 all modules in the distribution. [Yanick Champoux]
1703 - Added a Cookbook example of subclassing to modify an action. [Dylan
1704 Martin and David Golden]
1706 - When building HTML documentation, we were opening the POD file and
1707 not checking whether the open succeeded, which of course caused
1708 problems down the line if it failed. Now we do "or die(...)" like
1709 everywhere else. [Spotted by Joerg Braun]
1711 0.27_08 Fri Mar 3 21:22:41 CST 2006
1713 - Due to shell quoting issues and differences in syntax between
1714 various flavors of Windows, the code for the 'pl2bat' utility
1715 distributed with Perl has been incorporated into M::B::P::Windows.
1716 [Thanks to Dr Bean and Ron Savage for help testing and isolating
1719 - Modify add_build_element() so that it only adds elements if they
1720 don't already exist. [David Wheeler]
1722 - Fixed a bug in the 'pass-through' Makefile.PL in which we would die
1723 if CPAN::Shell->install returned false, but apparently this return
1724 value is unreliable. Now we only die if the module is actually
1725 unavailable after installation.
1727 - Fixed testing problems on VMS related to non-case-preserving
1728 filesystems. We now bundle Tie::CPHash in the distribution (just
1729 for testing purposes, it doesn't get installed) to help with
1730 this. [Craig Berry and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
1732 - We incorrectly documented the 'dynamic_config' flag in the META.yml
1733 file as having a default value of false, but according to the
1734 META.yml spec (which, for heaven's sake, we wrote) its default
1735 value is true. Fixed. [Spotted by Adam Kennedy]
1737 - The have_c_compiler() method was dying if the ExtUtils::CBuilder
1738 module wasn't around, which is obviously an unhelpful thing to do.
1739 Now it just returns false. [Spotted by John Peacock]
1741 - Fix detection of $VERSION expressions that are not
1742 assignments. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
1744 - Obfuscate one of our constructs that uses a $VERSION variable,
1745 because it was getting picked up by ExtUtils::MakeMaker's
1746 version-finder. [Spotted by Randal Schwartz]
1748 - The config_data script for querying and/or setting a module's
1749 config data was forgetting to call write() after setting config
1750 values (though setting feature values was working fine).
1751 Fixed. [Brian Duggan]
1753 - On Windows, remove the pl2bat generated 'Build.bat' script without
1754 the annoying "The batch file cannot be found." error. [Solution
1755 provided by RazTK and foxidrive on newsgroup alt.msdos.batch]
1757 - Our version comparisons should now work correctly with modules that
1758 use version.pm to delcare their versions (e.g. "our $VERSION =
1759 version->new('1.0.0')"). [John Peacock and Ron Savage]
1761 - We now create a Build.bat script on versions of Windows where it
1764 - Fixed the verbiage around choosing the correct make-alike on
1765 different platforms to suggest using 'perl -V:make'. [Suggested by
1768 0.27_07 Wed Feb 1 20:07:45 CST 2006
1770 - The notes() method now returns the new value when called with two
1771 arguments, just like when it's called with one argument. [Tyler
1774 - The notes() method now distinguishes among the values undef, 0, and
1775 the empty string, where previously it didn't. [Tyler MacDonald]
1777 - We now unshift(@INC) rather than push(@INC) for the directory where
1778 a build subclass lives, so that we're sure to pick up the right
1779 version and not some already-installed version. [perlmonkey]
1781 - The SIGNATURE file for version 0.27_06 (and I'm sure for lots of
1782 versions before that too!) was messed up, since we were modifying
1783 some files after signing. This has been band-aided for the time
1784 being by signing twice. [Reported by Chris Dolan]
1786 0.27_06 Mon Jan 23 21:44:54 CST 2006
1788 - Fixed an undefined-variable warning when building the META.yml file
1789 and the author hasn't used the 'module_name' mechanism. [Chris Dolan]
1791 - We should now work with recent (> 0.49) versions of YAML.pm when
1792 creating the META.yml file. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
1794 - The y_n() method now requires the default parameter, and the
1795 prompt() and y_n() methods have been improved with respect to
1796 how they behave/detect when there is no user to ask. We're now
1797 more consistent with MakeMaker, including respecting the
1798 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT environment variable. [Tyler MacDonald and
1799 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
1801 - When building a README file using Pod::Text, work around a bug in
1802 Pod::Text 3.01, which expects Pod::Simple::parse_file to take input
1803 and output filehandles when it actually only takes an input
1804 filehandle. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
1806 0.27_05 Thu Jan 12 17:39:21 CST 2006
1808 - In t/common.pl, we were attempting to let the user's installed
1809 Test::More take precedence over ours, but getting thwarted by all
1810 the test scripts' loading Test::More beforehand. Fixed. [Spotted
1811 by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
1813 - In various test scripts, we were outputting some strings that
1814 weren't strictly conformant with Test::Harness's expected input,
1815 though it didn't actually cause problems. Now we're more
1816 conformant, though not yet strict. [Spotted by Yitzchak
1819 0.27_04 Fri Dec 23 10:43:34 CST 2005
1821 - Removed experimental feature that extended the prerequisite system
1822 to apply ('requires', 'recommends', and 'conflicts') prereqs to all
1823 actions. Most of the internal extensiblity has been retained so
1824 that prereq types can easily be added, more selectively.
1826 - Added a 'prereq_report' action that shows the user a well-formatted
1827 list of all prerequisites, the versions required, and the versions
1828 actually installed. [David Wheeler]
1830 - Clarified the directory name that's created during the 'distdir'
1831 action. [Suggested by Tyler MacDonald]
1833 - Fixed a bug when creating the META.yml file without the help of
1834 YAML.pm - some common strings weren't quoted & escaped properly.
1835 Now only some uncommon ones are. [Spotted by Joshua ben Jore]
1837 - Fixed a bug in which an "UNINST=1" argument specified to a
1838 passthrough Makefile's "make install" wasn't actually seen by
1841 - Rather than dying when the Build script is run from the wrong
1842 directory, it now simply chdir()s into the right directory and
1843 keeps going. [Suggested by Dominique Quatravaux]
1845 - Added an "Examples on CPAN" section to the cookbook, with an
1846 initial entry pointing to John Peacock's SVN-Notify-Mirror
1849 - Add an invoked_action() method to return the name of the original
1850 action invoked by the user.
1852 - Add 'meta-spec' field to the generated META.yml file, including the
1853 version of the specification followed by the current Module::Build
1854 and the url where the specification can be found.
1856 - Introduced two actions, 'html' & 'manpages', that generate
1857 documentation for POD when the respective feature is enabled. The
1858 actions will generate the documents even if there is no set place
1859 to install to. However, if the actions are invoked as a dependency
1860 of another action (e.g. build), the documentation will only be
1861 built when there is a default or user-specified place to install to.
1863 - Added support for environment variable, 'MODULEBUILDRC', which can
1864 be used to specify the full path to an option file to use instead
1865 of the default location of ~/.modulebuildrc. A special undocumented
1866 setting of 'NONE' tells Module::Build not to load any user settings,
1867 so tests can be run without tainting from user options.
1869 - Documented and improved preliminary support for more Getopt::Long
1870 style options are supported, including boolean options (--verbose,
1871 --no-verbose), and use of hyphens in option names in addition to
1874 - The option to disable/enable reading of the ~/.modulebuildrc file
1875 is changed from 'skip_rcfile' to 'use_rcfile'
1877 - Allow the 'distmeta' action to continue when 'MANIFEST' is missing,
1878 omitting the generation of the 'provieds' field. [Steven Schubiger]
1880 - Fixed some failing regex from generated MANIFEST.SKIP file.
1882 - Fixed an edge case in $VERSION parsing where we thought a package()
1883 declaration was happening but it wasn't. [David Golden]
1885 - Added docs for the install_destination() and install_types() methods.
1887 0.27_03 (Beta for 0.28) Mon Oct 10 11:19:23 EDT 2005
1889 - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
1890 example, when compiling XS modules). (This change actually
1891 occurred in 0.27_01, but it was mistakenly omitted from the Changes
1894 - Fixed an issue on Win32 (and other case-tolerant
1895 non-case-preserving systems, possibly like VMS?) in which the
1896 current working directory would sometimes be reported with
1897 different case, fooling us into thinking that we were in the wrong
1898 directory. [David Golden]
1900 - The extra_compiler_flags setting was not actually being passed
1901 along to ExtUtils::CBuilder so it could pass it along to the
1902 compiler. Now it is.
1904 - The synonyms 'scripts' and 'prereq' for 'script_files' and
1905 'requires' were broken in a previous version (0.27_01, probably),
1906 but now they're fixed. [David Golden]
1908 - Previously, we assumed that any custom subclass of Module::Build
1909 was located in _build/lib/. This is only true if the author used
1910 the subclass() method, though. We now use %INC to find where the
1911 custom subclass really is, so that we can "use lib" it. We also
1912 issue a warning if it seems to be outside the build directory.
1913 [Spotted by Peter Tandler]
1915 - Added a URL for each license type that we know about, which will
1916 appear as resources=>license: in the generated META.yml file.
1918 - If the user passes a no_index parameter to our constructor, we now
1919 pass that through when building the META.yml file. [Richard
1920 Soderberg, RT #9603]
1922 - A few more status messages can now be suppressed by using 'quiet'
1925 - Added some more entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file. [Chris
1928 - Our POD parser will now accept "AUTHORS" as well as "AUTHOR" when
1929 looking for the author list in a module. [David Wheeler]
1931 - When looking for the POD to auto-generate a README file, or for the
1932 AUTHOR or ABSTRACT for the distribution, we now also look for a
1933 *.pod with the same name as the *.pm file specified by
1934 'version_from'. [David Golden]
1936 - The recommended dependency on ExtUtils::ParseXS has been moved into
1937 the "C_support" auto_feature.
1939 - When building XS files, we now pass the -DVERSION and -DXS_VERSION
1940 flags to the compiler. [Spotted by Jerry Hedden]
1942 - If a distribution has XS files and Module::Build has not been
1943 configured with the "C_support" feature, we now issue a
1944 warning. [Suggested by Jerry Hedden]
1946 - Added a dir_contains() method.
1948 - Some versions of MakeMaker, CPANPLUS, and/or PAUSE thought that a
1949 certain line of our code was declaring a $VERSION when we didn't
1950 intend to. The line has been obscurified so they won't think that
1951 anymore. [Jos Boumans, RT #14226]
1953 - Added the Apache, MIT, and Mozilla licenses to the list of licenses
1954 that this module knows about. [Bob Ippolito]
1956 - Fixed a pretty significant typo in the documentation for
1957 auto_features. [Spotted by Jonas B. Nielsen]
1959 - In order to aid people who want to do customization of the META.yml
1960 file, we've added a "metafile" property that can then be easily
1961 overridden in subclasses, changed do_create_meta_yml() to
1962 do_create_metafile(), and split out the code that actually
1963 generates the YAML into a new method, write_metafile(). [David
1966 - Fixed a couple of non-helpful behaviors with extra_compiler_flags
1967 and extra_linker_flags. These will automatically be run through
1968 split_like_shell() when given to new() as strings.
1970 - When the user doesn't have ExtUtils::ParseXS installed and we use
1971 the old 'xsubpp', the displayed command line for creating the .c
1972 file from the .xs file was missing its newline. Now it's got it.
1974 0.27_02 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Jul 15 07:34:58 CDT 2005
1976 - Provided initial support for the --prefix installation parameter,
1977 which acts like MakeMaker's PREFIX. It is still highly recommended
1978 NOT to use it when you could reasonably use --install_base or
1979 --install_path or --install_dest, but that's just because the way
1980 --prefix is designed is weird and unpredictable. Ultimately the
1981 choice rests with the installing user. [Patches by Michael Schwern
1984 - Fixed a bug in subclass() which prevented people from using it to
1985 subclass subclasses of Module::Build. [Chris Dolan]
1987 - Added a 'pure_install' action, which for the time being is
1988 identical to the 'install' action. [Jos Boumans]
1990 - Fixed a POD error in an L<http://...> tag. [Offer Kaye]
1992 - Note several options for automatically creating a new module dev
1993 tree. [Suggested by Eric Wilhelm]
1995 - Removed some hard-coded references to File::Spec::Unix in the
1996 creation of HTML docs, which should help that code work in more
1997 places, and help people not to panic when they look at it. [Spotted
2000 - We now use Pod::Readme by default (instead of Pod::Text) to
2001 generate the README file when the 'create_readme' option is used.
2002 If Pod::Readme is not installed, we will still fall back to using
2003 Pod::Text. [Robert Rothenberg]
2005 - The values of the "prefix", "install_base", "install_path", and
2006 "install_dest" parameters can now begin with "~" or "~user", and
2007 we'll de-tilde-ify them by using glob().
2009 - The (optional) auto-creation of the README and Makefile.PL files
2010 have been moved from the 'distdir' action to the 'distmeta'
2011 action. [David Golden]
2013 - When looking for a .modulebuildrc file, we now use a fancier method
2014 of trying to find the home directory, because $ENV{HOME} isn't a
2015 very cross-platform variable. [Robert Rothenberg]
2017 - We now memoize the output of the internal _default_INC() method,
2018 since it uses backticks and might be kind of slow.
2020 - When processing XS files, we now look for a typemap in lib/ as well
2021 as using the system's default typemap. [John Peacock]
2023 - The DESTDIR, PREFIX, and INSTALL_BASE arguments to "make install"
2024 are now supported for pass-through Makefiles (they've been
2025 supported for quite a while as arguments to "perl
2026 Makefile.PL"). [Requested by Guillaume Rousse]
2028 - Test::Harness has changed its output format in recent versions,
2029 which threw off one of our tests. We now allow for this different
2030 format. [Reported by Scott Godin]
2032 - Fixed an issue that prevented Module::Build from upgrading itself
2033 using its own API (which is how CPANPLUS uses it). There are still
2034 some issues with this solution, however. See ticket #13169 in
2035 rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
2037 - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when a distribution's author
2038 could not be determined from its POD nor from the call to
2039 Module::Build->new() in its Build.PL. See ticket #12318 in
2040 rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
2042 - Apparently on Windows and cygwin it's not possible to use the "-pi"
2043 switch to perl without a backup extension, so now we use ".bak" and
2044 remove the backup file when we're done. Thus the "dist" action for
2045 Module::Build itself can now be run on those platforms. [Yitzchak
2048 - Improved the handling of auto_features in the config_data access
2049 script. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
2051 0.27_01 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Apr 15 21:12:57 CDT 2005
2053 Backward-incompatible (but better) changes:
2055 * When using the 'install_base' option to choose a directory for
2056 installing everything, perl modules now go into lib/perl5/ instead
2057 of just lib/. It seems this is more consistent with people's
2058 expectations, and the way I had it before was a bit peculiar to the
2059 way I like things in my own home directory. [Michael Schwern]
2061 * When the user is using the 'install_base' option, scripts will now
2062 be installed by default in $install_base/bin/ rather than
2063 $install_base/script/ . [Jan Hudec and Michael Schwern]
2067 - The auto_features mechanism will now re-evaluate dependencies every
2068 time feature() is called for an auto-feature, rather than freezing
2069 the success/failure value during 'perl Build.PL' and using that
2070 value for all eternity (or module update, whichever comes first).
2071 This applies to both $build->feature() and
2072 FooModule::ConfigData->feature() calls. [Requested by many]
2074 - Added the meta_add and meta_merge mechanisms, which let the module
2075 author add/merge arbitrary entries into the META.yml file.
2077 - Now reads per-action default options from '$ENV{HOME}/.modulebuildrc'
2078 if it exists. Command line options override anything set in the rc file.
2080 - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
2081 example, when compiling XS modules).
2083 - The creation of Unix man pages is no longer a strict necessity - it
2084 has now been turned into an 'auto-feature' contingent on the
2085 presence of Pod::Man and a location specified for man pages to go.
2087 - A user-specified 'install_path' setting will now take precedence
2088 over an 'install_base' setting. This allows the user to use
2089 'install_base' to set the base for all elements in one go, and then
2090 use 'install_path' to override specific paths or add paths for
2091 additional kinds of targets.
2093 - Split the main documentation from 'Module/Build.pm' into two
2094 sections. The user level documentation and overview remains in
2095 'Module/Build.pm', while a new document,
2096 'Module/Build/Authoring.pod', has been created for module authors.
2100 - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
2101 because of inadequate training in forensic debate) - we now pass its
2102 arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
2105 - Let resume() return an object blessed into the appropriate class
2106 if the user has provided a subclass, as specified by the
2107 'build_class' property. This allows current() and new_from_context()
2108 to behave more like factory methods returning objects of the correct
2109 class based on context. [Ray Zimmerman]
2111 - Refactored methods relating to parsing perl module files for
2112 package, version, and pod data into a new class:
2113 Module::Build::ModuleInfo. It should not be considered part of
2114 Module::Build's API, because we may split it out entirely as a
2115 separate CPAN module that we depend on.
2117 - Added new method Module::Build::prepare_metadata() for authors to
2118 override in order to add custom fields to META.yml.
2120 - We now use Test::More for our regression tests. If the user
2121 doesn't have it installed, we include a copy in t/lib/ that we can
2124 - When copying files in the 'distdir' action, set permissions to match
2125 the original files. [Julian Mehnle]
2127 - When adding files like META.yml to the MANIFEST, we now tell the
2128 user we're doing so by printing one of the "Added to MANIFEST: ..."
2131 - Added a runtime_params() method, which lets a module author see
2132 which parameters were overridden by the user on the command line
2133 (or in whatever paradigm the user originally invoked Module::Build
2134 from). [David Wheeler]
2136 - Added the current_action() method, which, surprisingly, returns the
2137 name of the currently running action. [David Wheeler]
2139 - Added docs for run_perl_script().
2141 - Added some stuff to the docs about why PREFIX is unsupported, and
2142 what to use instead. [Steve Purkis]
2144 - The simple get/set accessor methods for all the 'parameters' like
2145 verbose(), license(), etc. now have auto-generated documentation in
2148 - Created a Cookbook entry for 'Adding new elements to the install
2151 - We now add META.yml to the MANIFEST when META.yml is created, not
2152 when MANIFEST is created. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
2154 - Added some additional patterns to the suggested MANIFEST.SKIP
2155 contents, and changed the docs so that we encourage the user to use
2156 the MANIFEST.SKIP. [Ron Savage]
2158 - Eliminated a redundant recipe from the Cookbook, now that there are
2159 some more extensive recipes on how to add stuff to the
2160 build/install sequences.
2162 - Eliminated an undefined-variable warning when testing under perl 5.005
2164 - When building HTML documentation, 'html_backlink' and 'html_css'
2165 properties are now first-class properties, so they can be set from
2166 the command line. [Suggested by Sagar R. Shah]
2168 - Have script_files default to everything in bin. I believe this is
2169 the least surprising behavior. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
2171 - If script_files is given a directory, consider each file in that
2172 directory tree as a script to be installed. This avoids having to
2173 remember to add to the script_files list every time you add a
2174 program. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
2176 - We now only load Pod::Man when we actually need to build man pages.
2178 - We now make Test::Harness use our carefully-selected path to a perl
2179 executable regardless of Test::Harness's version. Previously we
2180 let it figure stuff out for itself if it was a reasonably modern
2181 version, but it's safer to make sure we're using the same perl
2184 0.2610 Fri Apr 15 08:25:01 CDT 2005
2186 - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
2187 because of inadequate training in debate) - we now pass its
2188 arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
2189 in afterwards. [Ray Zimmerman]
2191 - Fixed a bug in which config_data and feature data were being
2192 forgotten and no ConfigData.pm module would get written. [Ray
2195 - Added a recipe to the cookbook showing how to run a single test
2196 file from the command line. [William McKee]
2198 - For command-line arguments, we now accept the syntax "--foo=bar" in
2199 addition to "--foo bar" and "foo=bar". This seems to fit well with
2200 what GNU getopt and Getopt::Long do, and with people's
2201 expectations. [Adam Spiers]
2203 0.2609 Wed Mar 16 22:18:35 CST 2005
2205 - The html docs that were created during the first invokation of
2206 './Build' were being found and treated as pod that needed to be
2207 converted to html during subsequent invokations. We now are more
2208 specific about the directories we scan for pod that needs to be
2209 converted, effectively avoiding blib/html. [Ray Zimmerman]
2211 - If Pod::Man is not available, we now skip building man pages
2212 (rather than dying) and tell the user why.
2214 - We now write a .packlist file upon installation, in the same place
2215 that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does. [Johnny Lam]
2217 - On some Unix platforms (BSD derivatives, mostly) perl's $^X
2218 variable isn't set to the full path of the perl executable, just
2219 'perl', when the 'Build' script is run as './Build' and not 'perl
2220 ./Build'. This can lead to some other modules (maybe
2221 Test::Harness, maybe IO::File, I dunno...) getting very confused
2222 about where they are, and they try to load stuff from the wrong
2223 perl lib, and big trouble ensues. To fix this, we now set $^X to
2224 the value of Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter().
2226 - The 'distcheck' action will now die() if it finds an error in the
2227 MANIFEST, rather than just printing on STDOUT. [David Golden]
2229 - When the README and/or Makefile.PL are autogenerated using
2230 create_readme or create_makefile_pl, we now automatically make sure
2231 they're also listed in the MANIFEST file. [Suggested by Michael
2234 - Got rid of the t/MANIFEST file - it's superfluous, and it had
2235 zero-length, which some versions of Tar don't like. [William
2238 - Added a mention in the documentation that each property that new()
2239 accepts also has a corresponding get/set accessor. (In the version
2240 0.27_0x series each accessor method is mentioned explicitly in the
2241 docs.) [Omission spotted by Ian Langworth]
2243 0.2608 Wed Jan 26 19:46:09 CST 2005
2245 - Add workaround for test files because Devel::Cover causes
2246 require to fail when the argument to require is an expression
2247 involving File::Spec. We now assign the result of the File::Spec
2248 call to a variable and then call require with that variable.
2250 - Tilde-expansion is now performed on arguments passed to a
2251 compatibility-Makefile.PL [Spotted by Sam Vilain]
2253 - We now run the 'gzip' and 'tar' values through split_like_shell()
2254 when running the 'dist' action, so that e.g. the 'gzip' value can
2255 be set to something like "gzip -f --best" and it'll work
2256 correctly. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
2258 - Work around some bad mojo between Fedora Core [with its very long
2259 @INC] and old versions of Test::Harness [with its propensity to
2260 compound the number of @INC entries] that produced an "argument
2261 list too long" error during testing. [assisted by Ville Skytta,
2262 David Golden, & Randy Sims]
2264 - Killed an infinite loop that would happen in y_n() in interactive
2265 mode if the author provided no default value. [Max Maischein]
2267 0.2607 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Sat Dec 18 14:14:09 CST 2004
2269 - Instead of freezing @INC in the 'Build' script to the value it had
2270 when Build.PL was run, we now just add those additional values that
2271 aren't part of the default compiled-in @INC. [Michael Schwern]
2273 - The run_perl_script() method will now propagate any extra entries
2274 in @INC (such as those added by "use lib" or the -I command-line
2275 switch) to the subprocess. This helps situations in which you want
2276 to tell the subprocess where to find a certain module, for
2277 instance. [Michael Schwern]
2279 0.2606 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Dec 7 22:33:11 CST 2004
2281 - Fixed a linking bug on Win32, in which compiled C code object files
2282 never got linked in with the modules being built. [Dominic
2285 - Fixed a bug in the new_from_context() method in which any arguments
2286 passed made us die. [Spotted by Jos Boumans]
2288 0.2605 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Nov 30 07:16:13 CST 2004
2290 - Fixed a bug in which zero-length arguments for hash-valued
2291 parameters (e.g. " --config foo= ") weren't being allowed.
2293 - The tests now play better with environments in which version.pm is
2294 pre-loaded, like in bleadperl. [John Peacock & Michael Schwern]
2296 - Fixed a syntax error in one of the tests under perl 5.005.
2298 0.2604 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 17 14:32:42 CST 2004
2300 - Fixed a split_like_shell() bug introduced in 0.2603 for Windows, in
2301 which an array reference passed as an argument was returned as an
2302 array reference, rather than as a list. [Spotted by Steve Hay]
2304 - module_name() will now return '' instead of undef when module_name
2305 is not set. This eliminates a couple uninitialized-value
2306 warnings. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
2308 - The expand_test_dir() method will now skip dotfiles (like ._foo.t,
2309 which sometimes gets automatically created on Mac systems) when
2310 'recursive_test_files' is in effect. [Tom Insam]
2312 0.2603 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Mon Nov 15 10:28:00 CST 2004
2314 - Added documentation for the new_from_context() method.
2316 - Completely rewrote the split_like_shell() method for the Windows
2317 platform so it works like the command.com shell. [Randy Sims]
2319 0.2602 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Thu Nov 4 11:19:29 CST 2004
2321 - The two bug fixes in 0.2601 gnashed against each other incorrectly,
2322 resulting in a Win32 bug in split_like_shell(). Fixed. [Spotted
2323 by Steve Hay & Randy Sims]
2325 - Removed a couple of 'use warnings' statements from the code - they
2326 were causing compile failures on 5.005_04, where warnings.pm isn't
2327 available. [Blair Zajac]
2329 0.2601 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 3 20:09:27 CST 2004
2331 - Fixed some backslash problems with split_like_shell() on
2334 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
2335 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
2336 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
2338 0.26 Sat Oct 9 17:51:01 CDT 2004
2340 - Removed some language from the Module::Build::Compat documentation
2341 that encouraged people to include a Build.PL without a Makefile.PL.
2342 Also changed "a replacement for MakeMaker" to "an alternative to
2343 MakeMaker" in the main documentation, which is basically what I
2344 meant all along (i.e. a replacement for MakeMaker in your
2345 particular build process - MakeMaker is never going to be fully
2346 replaced in the perl world at large, of course), but some people
2347 got the impression I was a little more truculent toward MakeMaker
2350 - Added the formal concepts of "features" and "config data" for
2351 distributions. This allows the module author to define a certain
2352 set of features that the user can switch on and off (usually
2353 according to whether they have the proper prerequisites for them),
2354 and to save build-time configuration information in a standardized
2355 format. See the main documentation of Module::Build for more
2356 details. (Note that the name of this system was called
2357 "BuildConfig" for a while in beta, but now it's called
2360 - Added an 'auto_features' capability, which simplifies the process
2361 of defining features that depend on a set of prerequisites.
2363 - Added the 'get_options' parameter, which lets module authors
2364 declare certain command-line arguments their Build.PL can accept
2367 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
2368 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
2369 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
2371 - Added a 'testpod' action, which checks the syntactic validity of
2372 all POD files in the distribution using Test::Pod. This eliminates
2373 the need for doing so in a regression test. [Initial patch by Mark
2376 - Added a process_files_by_extension() method, which generalizes the
2377 kind of processing (essentially just copying) that happens for .pm
2378 and .pod files, and makes it available to other user-defined types
2379 of files. See the new cookbook entry.
2381 - Improved compatibility with version.pm when authors are using
2382 version objects as their $VERSION variables. Now
2383 version_from_file() can deal with these objects. Currently we
2384 stringify them right away, but perhaps in the future we will
2385 preserve them as objects for a while.
2387 - During 'distdir' and 'distmeta' actions, die a bit more gracefully
2388 if there's no MANIFEST (i.e. explicitly say that a MANIFEST is
2389 required). [Spotted by Adrian Howard]
2391 - Eliminated a recursive dependency between creating the MANIFEST
2392 file and creating the META.yml file. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
2394 - On Win32, where a single directory might be known variously as
2395 "Module-Build-0.25_03" or "MODULE~1.25_", we now use
2396 Win32::GetShortPathName($cwd) to verify that the 'Build' script is
2397 being run from the correct directory, rather than just a string
2400 - The add_to_cleanup() method will now accept glob()-style patterns
2401 in addition to explicit filenames. Also documented the fact that
2402 they can be specified in either Unix-style or native-style
2405 - Passing a PREFIX value to a pass-through Makefile 'make install'
2406 now has the same effect as passing it to 'perl Makefile.PL' (it
2407 dies with a helpful message).
2409 - Added the 'testcover' action, which runs a test suite using
2410 Devel::Cover. [Dave Rolsky]
2412 - Added the 'lib' and 'arch' installation directories to the search
2413 path for the 'diff' action, since they won't necessarily (though
2414 they usually will) be in @INC at installation time. [Suggested by
2417 - The "=head3" POD directive isn't supported in older podlators
2418 (particularly Pod::Man), so we don't use it anymore.
2420 - Fixed a typo & improved the docs in the SUBCLASSING section. [Ron
2423 - Added the '.tmp' suffix to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file, which
2424 should avoid adding things like pod2htmi.tmp to the MANIFEST [Ron
2427 - Backup files from Emacs, containing the string '.#' in their names,
2428 should no longer find their way into the blib/ directory (and from
2429 there into installation directories).
2431 - Worked around an unpleasant interaction between version.pm and the
2432 version-checking code that makes sure Module::Build's version
2433 hasn't changed during the lifetime of the 'Build' script. [Reported
2434 by Trevor Schellhorn]
2436 - Fixed a problem in htmlify_pods() that would produce test failures
2437 on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere). [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
2439 - Fixed a test failure on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere) in
2440 t/compat.t, resulting from empty environment variables being set to
2441 the empty string (as opposed to simply being unset) by their mere
2442 presence in the "EXPORT:" list.
2444 - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when the author specified
2445 'dist_author' manually in their Build.PL script. [Spotted by Ron
2448 - The 'provides' section of the META.yml file wasn't being built
2449 properly on Win32, because of a mismatch between URL-format and
2450 native-format pathnames. Fixed. [Reported by Robert Rothenberg]
2452 - The progress message "lib/Foo.xs -> lib/Foo.c" was previously being
2453 output even when the Foo.c file wasn't being rebuilt. It's now
2456 - Fixed a couple of places in Compat.pm where it could have forgotten
2457 which perl interpreter it had been run with ($^X isn't very
2460 - On some systems, the way we updated the timestamp on the
2461 "lib/Foo.bs" file (one of the output files for XS-based modules)
2462 was failing. It's been replaced by a simple call to utime().
2464 - Fixed a problem in t/compat.t that prevented it from being run
2465 individually using 'make test TEST_FILES=t/compat.t'. The problem
2466 was that a couple environment variables (TEST_FILES, MAKEFLAGS)
2467 were being passed through to subprocesses, and confused them.
2469 - Fixed an important typo in the documentation for the 'install_base'
2470 parameter ('libdoc' and 'bindoc' were switched). [Ray Zimmerman]
2472 - The pass-through Makefiles (type 'small' or 'passthrough') now
2473 support the TEST_FILES parameter to 'make test'.
2475 - Fixed a fatal error that would occur on perl 5.005 when building
2476 HTML documentation, because its version of Pod::Html was old and
2477 didn't like some of the parameters we fed it. [Spotted by Blair
2480 - The final line of the generated pass-through Makefile was missing
2481 its trailing newline, which is now fixed. [Chip Salzenberg]
2483 - We now depend on YAML version at least 0.35 and at most version
2484 0.49, so that we don't pick up a new (and backward-incompatible) beta
2487 - Squashed a warning in t/basic.t about '"Foo::Module::VERSION" used
2488 only once', and one in PPMMaker about $^V being undefined. [Blair
2491 - Added a couple temporary output files from HTML documentation
2492 generation to the cleanup list. [Toby Ovod-Everett]
2494 - The PodParser module will now only extract paragraphs in the
2495 'AUTHOR' section of the pod if they contain an '@' character. This
2496 tends to do a better job, heuristically speaking, of returning
2499 - Added regression tests and a helper method ( add_build_elements() )
2500 for adding new elements to the build process. Also some
2503 - Wrote a recipe in the Cookbook for adding new elements to the build
2504 process, and a recipe for changing the order in which the steps in
2505 the build process will occur.
2507 0.25 Sun Apr 25 11:12:36 CDT 2004
2509 - During the 'distdir' action, if no MANIFEST.SKIP file exists, we
2510 will now create a reasonable default one. [Randy Sims]
2512 - In Makefile compatibility mode, some arguments (like UNINST,
2513 TEST_VERBOSE, etc.) given to 'make' are now recognized and passed
2514 through to Module::Build. [Randy Sims]
2516 - The regression tests now make sure that several pass-through
2517 Makefile.PL parameters are dealt with correctly.
2519 - Added support for the 'LIB' parameter to passthrough
2520 Makefile.PLs. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
2522 - Passing a 'PREFIX' parameter to a passthrough Makefile.PL was
2523 supposed to make it die with a helpful error message, but instead
2524 it just ignored it and blindly tried to install to the wrong place.
2525 This is now fixed. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
2527 - Added an extra_compiler_flags() accessor method.
2529 - If the 'recursive_test_files' option was turned on, the test files
2530 weren't sorted, but returned in an apparently random order. Now
2531 they're sorted. [Martyn Peck]
2533 - Documented the 'tar' and 'gzip' parameters to the 'dist' and
2536 - The generation of HTML documentation now works (it was accidentally
2537 partially implemented with an itchy patch-application finger in
2538 0.24). [Randy Kobes]
2540 - Fixed a fatal bug when building META.yml with YAML.pm and
2541 'dynamic_config' is set. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
2543 - Fixed some incorrect error messages that occurred when
2544 compiling/linking C sources went awry.
2546 - If the author uses a custom builder subclass, that subclass will
2547 now be loaded correctly in the passthrough Makefile.PL if the
2548 author uses the 'small' or 'passthrough' Makefile.PL options in
2549 Module::Build::Compat. [Martyn Peck and Jaap Karssenberg]
2551 - If the author uses a custom builder subclass created dynamically
2552 through the subclass() method, passthrough Makefile.PLs (of type
2553 'passthrough' or 'small') didn't work properly, because the custom
2554 builder module wouldn't be loaded at the right time. This has been
2555 fixed. [Reported by Toby Ovod-Everett]
2557 - In M::B-generated 'traditional' Makefile.PLs, the entries in
2558 'PREREQ_PM' are now sorted ASCIIbetically rather than randomly.
2560 - The install_types() method will now return any additional types
2561 given as 'install_path' arguments, as well as all elements of the
2562 current 'install_sets' entry. This makes it easier to add new
2563 types of installable objects to the mix.
2565 - As a consequence of the previous change, there is no longer any
2566 need to have an explicit 'install_types' data member, so it has
2569 - In the second example code for the Module::Build->subclass()
2570 method, the Module::Build module needed to be loaded before calling
2571 its methods. [John Peacock]
2573 - Fixed minor error in the POD structure of Module::Build and
2574 Module::Build::Platform::VMS docs.
2577 0.24 Wed Feb 25 15:57:00 CST 2004
2579 - Fixed a problem with incude_dirs not being propagated to the 'ccs'
2580 file when compiling XS files on Win32. [Randy Sims and Steve Hay]
2582 - In 0.23, Module::Build::Compat->fake_makefile() started choking
2583 when no 'build_class' parameter was supplied in the Makefile.PL.
2584 Since these Makefile.PLs still exist on CPAN, we now default
2585 'build_class' to 'Module::Build', which was the old 0.22 behavior
2586 anyway. [Reported by Martin Titz and Jeremy Seitz]
2588 - Added documentation for the 'include_dirs' parameter to
2591 - Changed the no-op command on Win32 from 'rem' to 'rem>nul' inside
2592 pass-through Makefiles. [Randy Sims]
2594 - The 'autosplit' parameter now accepts an array reference if
2595 multiple files should be split. [Jaap Karssenberg]
2597 - find_perl_interpreter() will now use $^X (if absolute), $ENV{PATH}
2598 (if $^X isn't absolute), and $Config{perlpath}, in that order.
2599 Also, we now make darn sure the result is the same version of perl,
2600 by checking Config::myconfig() for a match against the current
2601 perl. [Reported by Edward Sabol]
2603 - Fixed a fatal error on Win32 (and any other platform that doesn't
2604 define an installation location for Unix-style man pages) during
2607 0.23 Sun Feb 8 22:01:18 CST 2004
2609 - Fixed a compatibility problem in pass-through Makefiles (created by
2610 Module::Build::Compat). Some 'make' utilities (for example, BSD
2611 make) didn't like a '@' by itself on a line, so we stole some
2612 'NOOP' code from MakeMaker to fix it. [Reported by Mathieu Arnold]
2614 - Added a 'ppm_dist' action, which just makes the PPD file and then
2615 makes a tarball out of the blib/ directory. [Randy Sims]
2617 - The @INC of the parent process is now propagated to child processes
2618 when processing *.PL files. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
2620 - We now only attempt to fix the shebang line on a script if the
2621 shebang line matches the regex /perl/i . This fixes some instances
2622 where people put shell scripts in their distributions. [Jaap
2625 - We no longer generate a 'requires', 'recommends', 'conflicts',
2626 etc. entry in the META.yml file if there's no data to go in it.
2628 - Added a documentation reference to Michael Schwern's wiki for tips
2629 on conversion from MakeMaker to M::B. [Randy Sims]
2631 - If there are script_files, we now add EXE_FILES to the
2632 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated by M::B::Compat. [Suggested by
2635 - Documented the 'test_files' parameter to new(). [Reported by Tony
2638 - Fixed a problem in "Build help <action>", which didn't find the
2639 correct help chunk if <action> was the final element in a POD
2640 list. [Jaap Karssenberg]
2642 - Fixed a problem in the get_action_docs() method which gave
2643 incorrect results if the method was called more than once in the
2646 - Fixed a problem in which actions defined by user subclasses
2647 wouldn't be available via the pass-through Makefiles created by
2648 Module::Build::Compat. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
2650 - We now use Data::Dumper instead of our own ad-hoc serialization
2651 routines to create the 'traditional' Makefile.PL
2652 arguments. [Suggested by Yuval Kojman]
2654 0.22 Sat Jan 10 22:05:39 CST 2004
2656 - On Unixish platforms, the syntax "FOO=BAR /bin/baz arg arg" now
2657 works when present in $Config{ld}. This solves a problem on Mac OS
2658 X 10.3. [Reported by Adam Foxson]
2660 - The have_c_compiler() now also tests whether the linker seems to
2663 - Fixed a problem with creating the distribution tarball in which
2664 permissions would usually be all read-only. We now use our own
2665 file-copying routines rather than those in ExtUtils::Manifest,
2666 because those do some annoying extra permissions-setting stuff for
2667 no apparent reason. It makes me happy that this was a very very
2668 easy patch to make. [Reported by Thomas Klausner]
2670 - The compile_c() method now includes $Config{cccdlflags} in its
2671 command invocation. It's usually empty, but not always, so we
2672 didn't notice for a while. [Richard Clamp]
2674 - On some platforms it's common to have a $Config{make} defined, but
2675 no 'make' utility actually available. We now detect this and skip
2676 some 'make' compatibility tests. [Randy Sims]
2678 - Fixed a spurious testing failure on non-Unix platforms that
2679 happened because we accidentally call localize_file_path() on empty
2680 strings in the test suite. [Spotted by Randy Sims on Windows]
2682 - Made the 'name', 'abstract', 'author', and 'version' properties
2683 required when building a PPD file. [Spotted by Randy Sims, Dave
2684 Rolsky, & Glenn Linderman]
2686 - When building a 'traditional' Makefile.PL with
2687 Module::Build::Compat, we now use 'VERSION_FROM' when possible,
2688 rather than always using 'VERSION'. This way the Makefile.PL
2689 doesn't have to get modified every release.
2691 - Made some fixups to the 'PPM' info-file, improving compatibility
2692 with ActiveState's PPM tools. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
2694 - The 'dist_author' property can now accept multiple authors, see the
2695 docs for more info. [Randy Sims]
2697 - If the user doesn't have YAML.pm installed during ACTION_dist, we
2698 now create a minimal YAML.pm anyway, without any dependency
2701 - The 'distribution_type' field is no longer created in META.yml
2702 files, in accordance with the finding made at the London CLPAN
2703 meeting that it's essentially meaningless and ill-defined.
2705 - The 'dist' action now accepts an optional 'tar' parameter to use a
2706 system utility for building the tarball, and a 'gzip' parameter for
2707 compressing it. If these are used, Archive::Tar won't be invoked.
2708 This was added because Archive::Tar is producing some very
2709 non-cross-platform tarballs that many tar utilities can't handle.
2711 - During testing, if YAML.pm isn't installed, then we won't try
2712 making a tarball either, since this would invoke YAML to create the
2715 - Fixed a problem with chmod() being called incorrectly on MacOS
2716 (i.e. MacPerl, not Mac OS X). [Spotted by Paul Sanford Toney]
2718 - Fixed a problem with the --config flag not being treated properly
2719 (essentially ignored) on the command line for 'perl Build.PL' or
2720 'Build <action>'. [Spotted by Jakub Bogusz]
2722 - Added a new config() method to get at the Build object's notion of
2725 - Test::Harness is starting to contend for the Most Crotchety Module
2726 Award. Work around a few of its nits when setting harness
2727 switches. [Spotted by Diab Jerius]
2729 - Now the Build script will die() if we're run from the wrong
2730 directory, rather than trying to chdir() to what it thinks is the
2731 right directory and do its work there. See
2732 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4039 . [Chris Dolan]
2734 - Changed the manpage separator on OS/2 to '.'. [Ilya Zakharevich]
2736 - On OS/2, disable C compilation, since apparently it isn't working
2737 there. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich]
2739 - Inserted a comment into auto-generated Makefile.PLs saying it was
2740 auto-generated. [Randy Sims]
2742 - Fixed some annoying behavior in generated passthrough Makefile.PLs
2743 when the user chose not to install Module::Build, or if
2744 installation failed. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich and Richard
2747 - Moved the documentation for 'codebase' to the section where it's
2748 relevant. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
2750 - Fixed a have_c_compiler() failure on some platforms, we now define
2751 a boot_compilet() function (since we're compiling a library, not an
2752 executable). [Randy Sims]
2754 - Added a recipe to the Module::Build::Cookbook describing how to
2755 maintain compatibility with older versions of CPAN.pm [Jim Cromie]
2757 - Removed caveat about "looking for alternatives" in how hashes are
2758 specified on the command line, since an alternative has been found.
2760 - Previously most warnings about optional prerequisites looked like
2761 they were actually error messages about required prerequisites.
2762 This has been corrected. [Reported again by Sagar Shah]
2764 - Added support for building XS (and C in general) stuff on AIX.
2765 This was done by a small reorganization of prelink_c() method from
2766 Windows.pm to Build.pm, and it is only invoked for the platforms
2767 that need it invoked. AIX also massages some very naughty bits
2768 (MakeMaker macro variables) in $Config{lddlflags} that should never
2769 have been put there, but alas, they're there, so we find & resolve
2772 - Added OS/2 ($^O = 'os2') to the list of Unix-like platforms. This
2773 basically means that most platform-specific operations will be done
2774 in a Unix-like manner.
2776 - Pass-through Makefiles will now die() when they're given a PREFIX
2777 parameter, and suggest using 'destdir' or 'install_base' instead.
2778 Previously they just ignored the parameter and tried to install to
2779 the default location, which is clearly not what the user wanted.
2781 - Updated my email address in the documentation to a more recent
2784 - Add NetBSD to the list of Unix-like systems. [Adrian Bunk]
2786 - Add SVR5 to the list of Unix-like systems. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
2788 - We now use Pod::Parser to find the ABSTRACT and AUTHOR when it's
2789 available on the system. [initial patch by Randy Sims]
2791 - Fixed a little scalar/list buglet in a documentation example.
2793 0.21 Wed Oct 15 20:47:05 CDT 2003
2795 - Added a have_c_compiler() method.
2797 - Added documentation for the requires(), recommends(),
2798 build_requires(), and conflicts() methods.
2800 - On Unix platforms, we now create the "Build" script with a #! line
2801 matching the perl interpreter that was used to invoke the Build.PL
2802 script, rather than whatever is in $Config{startperl}. This avoids
2803 a potential warning about the interpreters not matching. [Spotted
2806 - The Unix version now uses the safer multi-argument form of system()
2807 when building distribution tarballs.
2809 - Added a regression test for the 'dist' action to the t/runthrough.t
2812 - Fixed a problem with File::Spec usage when creating the names of
2813 'libdoc' manual pages - the code wasn't dealing with the volume or
2814 file portions correctly on certain platforms.
2816 - When creating the names of the 'libdoc' manual pages, we no longer
2817 assume that pods are under the hard-coded paths 'blib/lib' or
2820 - Fixed a crashing bug that could sometimes occur when the
2821 distribution contained no 'lib' directory. [Chris Dolan]
2823 - Fixed a crashing bug that happened when the user had .PL files in
2824 the lib/ directory and didn't explicitly name them in a hash
2825 reference to the new() constructor. [Chris Reinhardt, bug #4036]
2827 - .PL files are now passed the names of their target file(s) on the
2828 command line when they run.
2830 - When YAML.pm wasn't installed, t/runthrough.t wasn't properly
2831 skipping some tests that required YAML. This is now fixed.
2834 - Added documentation for the dist_version() and dist_name()
2835 methods. [Spotted by Johan Vromans]
2837 - Existing values in $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} are now respected
2838 and not squashed when we run the 'test' action. [Paul Johnson]
2840 - On cygwin, the separator string for manual page names has been set
2841 to '.'. Previously it was '::', inherited from Unix. [Yitzchak
2844 - Avoid a warning when Build.PL is run (i.e. when the new() method is
2845 called) and no MANIFEST file exists. [Michael Schwern and Kevin
2848 - Added documentation for the 'code' and 'docs' actions. [Steve
2849 Purkis and Mark Stosberg]
2851 - The internal method compile_support_files() has been renamed to
2852 process_support_files() in order to make it consistent with other
2853 processing methods. Note that it was never documented using the
2854 old name. It's still not documented, actually. Maybe later.
2856 - Skip the 'write' pseudo-entry in the 'diff' action's installation
2859 - Fixed a bug in which notes() set in the Build.PL before
2860 create_build_script() was called would get lost unless more notes()
2861 were also set afterwards. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
2863 - The process of building elements of the distribution is now driven
2864 by a list of build elements, paving the way for letting people add
2865 their own types of build elements in future versions of
2866 Module::Build (or in the current version with some difficulty).
2868 - Fixed some linking errors on Cygwin. [Randy Sims, Terrence Brannon]
2870 - Fixed a line-ending problem with detecting the dist_abstract
2871 properly on Cygwin. [Randy Sims]
2873 - Fixed a problem with signatures that occurred if 'distsign' was
2874 called before 'distdir' - the signature would be generated twice.
2876 - Added a 'create_readme' parameter to new(), which will use
2877 Pod::Text to generate a README from the main (dist_version_from)
2878 module file during the 'distdir' action.
2880 - We now refuse to run the 'Build' script if it was created using a
2881 different version of Module::Build. This has caused a couple of
2882 nasty bugs in the past, I don't want to know what it would cause in
2885 - Documentation for do_system() has been added. [Dave Rolsky]
2887 - run_perl_script() is now available as a class method, though it
2888 will need to (re-)find the perl interpreter in this case.
2890 - Added a new_from_context() method that authors of automated tools
2891 like CPANPLUS and CPAN can use instead of running all tasks as
2892 sub-processes. We also use it in the regression tests for
2893 Module::Build itself. ** Note that this method is currently
2894 undocumented because its name may change in the future. **
2896 - When signing distributions with Module::Signature, we now
2897 automatically add the SIGNATURE file to the MANIFEST, avoiding an
2898 unpleasant chicken/egg problem for the module author.
2899 [unpleasantness spotted by sungo]
2901 - In Module::Build::Compat, added support for the 'verbose' parameter
2902 to Makefile.PL [spotted by Soren Andersen, fixed by Michael
2905 - The Module::Build distribution now has a cryptographic 'SIGNATURE'
2906 file created by Module::Signature.
2908 - Added proper documentation for the subclass() method. [spotted by
2911 - Worked around a Config.pm bug in Red Hat 9 which prevented man
2912 pages from being installed in the correct places. [spotted by Ville
2915 - Fixed a Module::Build::Compat bug in which setting INSTALLDIRS
2916 caused a crash. [spotted by Ilya Martynov]
2918 0.20 Tue Aug 26 14:34:07 CDT 2003
2920 - Separated the 'build' action into two separate actions, 'code' and
2921 'docs'. This is similar to MakeMaker's separation of the 'all'
2922 target into 'pure_all' and 'manifypods'. This fixes a permissions
2923 hassle in which doing 'sudo Build install' would often create local
2924 doc files that needed superuser permissions to delete.
2926 - Enhanced the 'help' action - 'Build help foo' will now show the POD
2927 documentation for the 'foo' action.
2929 - Added a notes() feature, which helps share data transparently
2930 between the Build.PL and t/*.t scripts.
2932 - The installation process will now create man(1) and man(3) pages
2933 from POD in modules & scripts, and install them. We don't build
2934 man pages when there's nowhere to install them, such as on some
2935 Win32 or most Mac systems. [large patch by Steve Purkis, 5.005 fix
2938 - The 'distdir' action now copies files to the distribution
2939 directory, rather than making them hard links to the original
2940 files. This allows authors to do last-minute alterations of the
2941 files without affecting the originals. [Dave Rolsky]
2943 - If the author uses XS files in nonstandard locations, the copied
2944 versions of those files will now be cleaned up properly.
2946 - In invoking the 'test' action or invoking 'xsubpp', we now use the
2947 same perl executable as we use everywhere else, rather than blindly
2948 using $^X or $Config{perlpath} (neither of which are very
2951 - Fixed a problem with the 'install_path' parameter given to
2952 'Build.PL' being lost in subsequent actions. [Reported by Mathieu
2955 - Fixed yet another bug with installation directories, in which the
2956 'install_base' parameter wasn't being respected on the command
2957 line. [Spotted by Jonathan Swartz]
2959 - Changed the way the depends_on() method works inside action
2960 subroutines - now each action will only run once per dispatch()
2961 invocation (similar to how perl's require() function works). This
2962 helps avoid some difficult problems with dependency loops.
2964 - Changed the documentation for the 'autosplit' parameter to give
2965 reasons why it may not be a good idea to use, but no longer
2966 threaten to remove it. [Suggested by Martyn J. Pearce]
2968 - Improved the formatting of the 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated
2969 by Module::Build::Compat->create_makefile_pl. [Michael Schwern]
2971 - The 'traditional' Makefile.PL will now use the 'module_name'
2972 parameter (as NAME) if it's available, otherwise it will continue
2973 to use the 'dist_name' (as DISTNAME). [Michael Schwern]
2975 - Created read/write accessor methods for all our 'properties'.
2978 - The 'test_files' parameter can now be specified using glob() syntax
2979 (i.e. 't/*.t'), and the corresponding test_files() method is now a
2980 read/write accessor.
2982 - The location of the 'blib' directory is now a property of the Build
2983 object - nobody is likely to notice this change, with any luck, but
2984 it makes the design and code cleaner.
2986 - The 'disttest' and 'distsign' methods now chdir() back to the
2987 directory where they started, rather than to the base_dir of the
2990 - Improved comparisons of version strings containing underscore
2991 characters (indicating "beta" status). [Steve Purkis]
2993 - Added documentation for the 'dist_author', 'dist_abstract', and
2994 'codebase' parameters to new(), and for the 'ppd' action. [Dave
2997 - Added documentation for the up_to_date() and contains_pod()
2998 methods. [Dave Rolsky]
3000 - 'traditional' pass-through Makefile.PLs will now contain an
3001 INSTALLDIRS parameter matching the Build.PL's 'installdirs'
3004 - version_from_file() now ignores $VERSION variables that are defined
3005 in POD or comments. It can still be tricked by $VERSIONs in string
3006 literals, though. [Steve Purkis]
3008 - The code to find packages in module files now uses Steve's scanning
3009 method (above) to skip package-declaration-lookalikes in POD or
3012 - The 'disttest' action will now propagate its @INC settings to its
3015 0.19 Wed Jul 9 22:34:02 CDT 2003
3017 - Added support for the 'install_path' parameter, which allows custom
3018 specification of where things should be installed. This is a major
3019 improvement to Module::Build's functionality.
3021 - Added the 'install_base' parameter. Provides an easy way to
3022 install to local or alternative directory trees.
3024 - We now install scripts by default to $Config{installsitebin}
3025 instead of $Config{installscript}. Neither is a great choice, but
3026 the former is likely to be [analogous to] /usr/local/bin, and the
3027 latter is likely to be [something like] /usr/bin . If/when there's
3028 a $Config{installsitescript}, we'll start using that automatically.
3030 - Fixed a problem on Win32 in which C and XS files wouldn't be
3031 compiled properly, and the user would see an error about 'Can't
3032 locate object method "format_compiler_cmd"'.
3033 (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2391)
3035 - We now use the correct perl interpreter (via
3036 Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter) in pass-through makefiles.
3038 - The t/compat.t test now uses $Config{make} instead of just 'make'
3039 to test makefile compatibility. This fixes some failures on Win32.
3040 We also skip this test entirely if no make utility is available.
3042 - Alternative distribution layouts are now supported via the
3043 'pm_files', 'pod_files', 'xs_files', 'PL_files', and 'script_files'
3044 parameters to new(). This should help people transition from
3045 MakeMaker, and might even help us write an automatic transition
3048 - Added tests to t/runthrough.t that check to see installation is
3049 happening correctly.
3051 - Added experimental code to build a .ppd file, in support of
3052 ActiveState's "Perl Package Manager". [original patch by Dave
3055 - For authors who use Module::Signature to sign their distributions,
3056 we now create the SIGNATURE file right in the distribution
3057 directory, rather than creating it in the top-level directory and
3058 copying it into place. This solves problems related to having
3059 files get out of date with respect to their signatures.
3061 - We now don't depend on Module::Info to scan for packages during the
3062 'dist' action anymore, because it's way too aggressive about
3063 loading other modules that you may not want loaded. We now just
3064 (ick, yuck) scan the .pm files with a regular expression to find
3065 "package Foo::Bar;" statements.
3067 - Silenced some annoying copyright/logo output from Microsoft 'nmake'
3068 during Makefile compatibility testing. [Randy W. Sims]
3070 - Command-line arguments may now either be specified using the syntax
3071 '--foo foovalue' as well as the traditional syntax 'foo=foovalue'.
3072 The former is often more convenient for shell tab-completion when
3073 the value is a filename (as in 'Build test --test_files t/basic.t').
3075 - Command-line arguments may now include non-named parameters, which
3076 make some actions more natural. For instance, the 'diff' action
3077 may now be invoked as 'Build diff -u' rather than as
3078 'Build diff flags=-u'.
3080 - Pass-through Makefile.PLs now convert unknown Makefile.PL
3081 parameters to lower-case and hand them to Build.PL, rather than
3082 ignoring them. This means we only have to account for the
3083 differences in the interface, not the entire interface, in
3084 translating parameters.
3086 - We now issue a warning & don't proceed if asked to make a distdir
3087 and there's no MANIFEST or it's empty.
3089 - Moved INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to increase compatibility with various
3090 odd versions of 'make' during 'make install' on case-insensitive
3091 filesystems (like nmake on Win32, often). Only affects the
3092 Makefile compatibility layer. [reported by Andrew Savige]
3094 - Module::Build->known_actions() now works as a class method.
3096 - Pass-through makefiles now list each action individually rather
3097 than using a ".DEFAULT" catch-all. This improves compatibility
3098 with 'nmake' on Win32, and probably some other less common 'make'
3099 dialects. [Andrew Savige]
3101 - We're now more aggressive about testing the pass-through makefiles,
3102 e.g. making sure they can run 'all' and 'test' targets, and making
3103 sure the Makefile itself actually exists.
3105 - Fixed a problem with check_installed_status() when installed
3106 version contains non-numeric characters like underscores.
3108 - Fixed a problem with a bareword 'File::Spec' in one of the test
3109 scripts that caused it not to compile under 5.8.0 (but is fine
3112 - Fixed a problem with the 'destdir' installation parameter on
3113 platforms that have volume identifiers in path names (like "C:" on
3114 Win32). The identifier is now stripped from installation
3115 directories before prepending the destdir path. The destdir path
3116 may still have a volume identifier on it.
3118 - Added an 'add_to_cleanup' parameter to new() that calls
3119 add_to_cleanup() immediately for the given files.
3121 - The distribution directory (e.g. Sample-Module-0.13/ ) will now be
3122 deleted during the 'clean' or 'realclean' actions.
3124 - During testing of modules, blib/lib and blib/arch are now added as
3125 absolute paths, not relative. This helps tests that load the
3126 modules at runtime and may change the current working directory
3127 (like Module::Build itself does during testing).
3129 - The $Config{cc} entry on some people's systems is something like
3130 'ccache gcc', so we now split that string using split_like_shell().
3133 - Added documentation for 'extra_linker_flags' parameter, and added a
3134 corresponding 'extra_compiler_flags' parameter. [original patch by
3137 - The pass-through Makefile created by Module::Build::Compat now
3138 supports MakeMaker options like POLLUTE=1 and INC. We also just
3139 warn & skip when we see any unknown MM parameters, rather than
3140 dying. [Dave Rolsky]
3142 - Fixed an error about how @INC and $ENV{PERL5LIB} interact during
3143 the testing of M::B itself. [jk <billy2000@fastmail.fm>]
3145 - The pass-through Makefile doesn't include 'recommended' M::B
3146 dependencies in the Makefile anymore, since they're not strictly
3147 necessary. In particular, this makes installing M::B itself
3150 - A new 'create_makefile_pl' parameter lets you use
3151 Module::Build::Compat during the 'distdir' (or 'dist') action to
3152 automatically create a Makefile.PL for compatibility with
3153 ExtUtils::MakeMaker. The parameter's value should be one of the
3154 styles named in the Module::Build::Compat documentation.
3156 - When compiling C code, we now respect 'pollute' and 'inc'
3157 parameters. (XXX - needs docs) [Dave Rolsky]
3159 - Made the creation of the "install map" more generic. (XXX - needs
3162 - Fixed a problem in which add_to_cleanup() didn't note cleanup files
3163 unless create_build_script() had been called already. [Dave Rolsky]
3165 - During 'Build dist', we no longer have to load each .pm file (via
3166 Module::Info) to determine the $VERSION numbers inside. Instead,
3167 we call our internal version_from_file() method, which is the same
3168 thing MakeMaker and PAUSE and search.cpan.org do. Also fixes a
3169 failure when Module::Info is installed in a nonstandard directory.
3170 [reported by Teun Burgers]
3172 - Fixed some failing test code on Windows - open files can't be
3173 deleted. [Andrew Savige]
3175 - The Cygwin platform is now treated as a flavor of Unix rather than
3176 a flavor of Windows. [chocolateboy]
3178 - We're now more aggressive about adding temporary C compilation
3179 files (*.c, *.bs) to the cleanup list. [Dave Rolsky]
3181 - When constructing the list in META.yml of packages provided by this
3182 distribution, we now use the same rules as the PAUSE scanner does
3183 when a single .pm file contains multiple VERSIONs. [Andreas Koenig]
3185 - check_installed_status() now works as both a class method and an
3186 object method (and is documented so). [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
3188 0.18 Tue Apr 8 13:24:23 CDT 2003
3190 - We now rewrite the shebang lines of scripts ourselves, rather than
3191 relying on MakeMaker routines to do it. MakeMaker changed the way
3192 this happened (not the result, but where the code lived) a few
3193 times. [Suggested by Richard Clamp]
3195 - The scripts() method has changed to script_files(), and likewise
3196 the 'scripts' parameter has changed to 'script_files'. The old
3197 names can still be used for backward compatibility.
3199 - Support for the 'scripts' parameter (which is now 'script_files')
3200 was broken in 0.17, now it's fixed. [Richard Clamp]
3202 - We now recommend ExtUtils::ParseXS 2.02, which will fail to load
3203 with perl 5.005 or earlier (which is proper, because it doesn't
3204 work with those versions). When it fails to load, we still fall
3205 back to using the xsubpp script for XS parsing. [spotted by Dave
3206 Rolsky, fix suggested by Richard Clamp]
3208 - Now works on VMS - the Build script's shebang-line-equivalent
3209 wasn't being formed correctly there - though just about everything
3210 else worked fine. [Tested & patched by Michael Schwern]
3212 - Eliminated a warning that occurred if 'perl Build.PL' or the
3213 check_installed_status() method was run with -w. [Spotted by
3216 0.17 Sat Mar 29 18:06:01 CST 2003
3218 - Now works under perl 5.005_03. [Richard Clamp]
3220 - When building blib/ , .PL files are now processed before doing
3221 anything else. This means .PL files can be used in any of the
3224 - The locating and processing of .pm, .pod, .xs, .PL files and script
3225 files are now isolated into their own methods. This is aimed
3226 toward providing a stable interface for this stuff, so they can be
3227 overridden, parameterized, etc. They're not quite stable yet,
3230 - The internal lib_to_blib() method has gone away, because processing
3231 is now done by smaller specialized methods. This method had some
3232 duplicate assumptions about filenames that it's nice to get rid of.
3234 - .PL files are no longer automatically processed in the c_source
3235 directory, they must be specified manually in a 'PL_files'
3238 - Mention in the docs that it's useful to do "PL_FILES => {}" in a
3239 Makefile.PL if you're using both a Makefile.PL and a
3242 - Add several options to the 'license' field, so that we're in better
3243 sync with PAUSE and CPAN options. [Andreas Koenig]
3245 - Created a find_perl_interpreter() method that tries to locate the
3246 currently executing perl interpreter. Following a suggestion from
3247 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> for Inline, we prefer an absolute
3248 path in $^X, then an existent path in $Config{perlpath}, then
3251 - Use the aforementioned perl to run scripts in run_perl_script().
3252 This fixes the spurious warning "WARNING: Configuration was
3253 initially created with 'foo', but we are now using 'bar'" that
3254 appeared a lot in version 0.16.
3257 0.16 Mon Feb 24 13:06:47 CST 2003
3259 - All three C compilers that perl supports on Windows environments
3260 (MSVC, BCC, and GCC) are now supported by Module::Build. We now
3261 reportedly pass all tests on Windows. [Randy W. Sims]
3263 - The test t/xs.t, which tests building of XS modules, will be
3264 skipped if no C compiler is found. [suggested by Randy W. Sims]
3266 - The "install" action accepts new "destdir" [motivated by Michael
3267 Schwern and Chip Salzenberg] and "uninst" parameters [by Dave
3268 Rolsky]. The former prepends an arbitrary directory to all
3269 installation paths (useful for package management), and the latter
3270 will tell ExtUtils::Install to remove any differing files that are
3271 "shadowing" the stuff you're installing from a different location,
3272 just like MakeMaker's "make install UNINST=1" command will do.
3274 - Made changes to the generated Makefile in Module::Build::Compat
3275 that much better support Windows platforms [after suggestions by
3278 - Added experimental support for creating distribution SIGNATURE
3279 files via Module::Signature. [Dave Rolsky]
3281 - Added experimental support for installing via the "only.pm" module,
3282 which allows loading specific versions of modules. Since this
3283 module is so new, the interface may still be changing. [Brian
3286 - Added support for installing executable scripts, via the 'scripts'
3287 parameter to new(), and the scripts() accessor method.
3289 - Fix an infinite loop that occurred when doing 'perl Build.PL
3292 - Fix up the formatting of the error message the user gets when
3293 prereqs aren't satisfied.
3295 0.15 Fri Jan 17 15:00:24 CST 2003
3297 - In link_c(), extra object files were mistakenly being treated as
3298 output files, not input files, in the up-to-date check. Fixed.
3300 - In up_to_date(), don't make an unnecessary copy of the file lists
3301 when they're specified as array references.
3303 - Split off the C compilation phase into its own method,
3304 compile_support_files(), for easier subclassing.
3306 - Start a stub of a 'manifypods' action.
3308 - Compiler optimizations weren't being included in C compilation
3311 - The 'extra_linker_flags' parameter wasn't being honored. Fixed.
3313 - The 'ccflags' Config.pm entry wasn't being properly split into
3314 separate arguments. Fixed.
3317 0.14 Fri Dec 13 14:06:29 AEST 2002
3319 - Added support for MacPerl (Mac OS version 9 and below), which (as
3320 far as I know) was never natively supported by MakeMaker. Still
3321 lacks support for the 'test' action (because Test::Harness
3322 requires forking, which MacPerl won't do) and compiling XS/C files
3323 (because I don't know how to invoke a compiler on MacOS, and one
3324 may not even be available). This change is brought to you by
3325 Michael Schwern and the letter '('.
3327 - Improved processing of .xs files. Now we use the new
3328 ExtUtils::ParseXS module if it's available, otherwise we use
3329 backticks and write the result to a .c file ourselves. This
3330 avoids the need to do cross-platform shell redirection.
3332 - Make sure all parts of 'Build test' use the not-yet-installed
3333 version of Module::Build. This only affects the tests for this
3334 module, not any of the module code itself. [Spotted by Schwern]
3336 - Oopsie - use $Config{ld} instead of $Config{cc} for linking.
3338 - Added a 'diff' action, which is useful for comparing the details
3339 of what you're about to install with what is already installed on
3340 your system. This uses File::Compare, which is in the core.
3342 - Fixed a problem on Windows in which the _build/ directory wasn't
3343 getting deleted during the 'realclean' action, because we had a
3344 file open in that directory. [Spotted by Michael Schwern]
3346 - delete_filetree() now always uses File::Path::rmtree(), regardless
3347 of whether the thing being deleted is a file or a directory. This
3348 helps remove things on obscure platforms with strange locking
3349 rules (or even not so obscure ones like MacOS). It also now
3350 reports the number of files or directories deleted (without
3351 recursing directory contents).
3353 - rm_previous_build_script() is gone, replaced by calls to
3356 - 'Build' now chdir()s in a BEGIN block, so the 'use Module::Build'
3357 statement will work correctly. Solves a problem on MacOS, where
3358 the 'Build' script may often be invoked from the wrong working
3359 directory. [Fix by Michael Schwern]
3361 - Internally we now use the multi-argument form of system() to run
3362 external commands (such as 'diff' or 'cc') whenever possible (and
3363 whenever we can't avoid system() altogether). Note that this
3364 means we have to handle splitting some strings (such as
3365 $Config{ccflags}) into argument lists like the shell would, which
3366 is a drag. However, the alternative would be to handle shell
3367 quoting of all arguments to commands ourselves, which is an even
3368 bigger drag across platforms and involves arbitrary filenames and
3371 - To handle the argument splitting mentioned above, a method
3372 split_like_shell() has been created. So far it's just doing naive
3373 processing. In practice, I've yet to actually see a %Config entry
3374 that uses quotes & spaces, so the splitting task is usually not
3377 - The 'test' action now takes a 'test_files' parameter, similar to
3378 the (undocumented) ExtUtils::MakeMaker TEST_FILES argument. Handy
3379 during development when fixing bugs.
3381 - Internally, the rscan_dir() method can now accept a predicate
3382 function that decides whether a file/directory should be matched.
3384 - We now issue a warning message when the author hasn't specified a
3387 0.13 Wed Nov 20 20:07:53 AEST 2002
3389 - 'cleanup' file lists are now written immediately, rather than at
3390 program termination. This helps avoid "phantom files" that don't
3391 get handled by the 'realclean' action. The internal
3392 write_cleanup() method (which was never documented) is now gone.
3394 - The 'blib/' directory is now properly cleaned up in more (all?)
3395 circumstances. Previously it could become a phantom if
3396 create_build_script() was never called.
3398 - Now scan the 'c_source' directory for .cpp (C++) files as well as
3399 .c files, and compiles them.
3401 - Use a 'phony' target for 'make manifest' in the pass-through
3402 Makefile, for the same reason as 'make install' (see version 0.12
3405 - Module::Build::Compat now accepts any known Config.pm key and
3406 passes it through to the Build.PL. Fixes a problem with CPANPLUS,
3407 which was passing INSTALLMAN1DIR.
3409 - The file 'META.yaml' has been re-named to 'META.yml' in order to
3410 cooperate better with systems that can only handle 3 characters
3413 - The t/xs.t test should give more informative error messages upon
3416 0.12 Thu Nov 14 18:31:47 AEST 2002
3418 - The META.yaml file was erroneously looking for 'build_depends'
3419 instead of 'build_requires'. [spotted by Iain Truskett]
3421 - Add prompt() and y_n() methods for use in Build.PLs
3423 - Do more to work with all versions of Test::Harness when setting
3424 the TEST_VERBOSE flag and running under the debugger [patch by
3427 - Include a test for verbosity handling
3429 - Make sure the blib/ directory is always cleaned up with the
3430 'clean' or 'realclean' action.
3432 - In a pass-through Makefile.PL, inform 'make' that 'install' is a
3433 "fake target", so that it works properly on case-insensitive
3434 filesystems like HFS+ with distributions that contain an INSTALL
3435 file. [patch by Brian Ingerson]
3437 - In Module::Build::Compat, show an example Makefile.PL that can
3438 install Module::Build and re-invoke itself in one fell swoop [Dave
3439 Rolsky and Autrijus Tang]
3441 - Improve the formatting of the Module::Build and
3442 Module::Build::Compat documentation.
3444 0.11 Fri Aug 23 18:50:46 AEST 2002
3446 - 'module_version' and 'module_version_from' have been replaced by
3447 'dist_version' and 'dist_version_from', which is what they really
3448 meant in the first place. 'dist_name' has been added.
3450 - 'module_name' is now just a way to set 'dist_name' and
3451 'dist_version_from' in a convenient way.
3453 - The 'name' in META.yaml is now the distribution name, not the
3454 (incorrect) module name. [spotted by Graham Barr]
3456 - Added the check_installed_status() and prereq_failures() methods
3457 for checking prerequisite information with the programmatic
3460 - check_installed_version() now uses check_installed_status()
3463 - Documented the create_build_script() method, which had escaped
3466 - create_build_script() now writes prerequisite information to the
3467 _build/ directory, for use by Module::Build::Compat.
3469 - Module::Build::Compat has documentation for a safer way to write a
3470 dummy Makefile.PL. [patch by Autrijus Tang]
3472 0.10 Wed Aug 7 19:36 2002
3473 - Recommend YAML 0.35 instead of 0.30.
3475 - Don't die during 'Build disttest' if YAML isn't installed. This
3476 fixes tests 5-10 in runthrough.t if YAML isn't installed.
3478 - Die if an unknown license type is used, but still default to
3479 'unknown' if no license is specified.
3481 - Use YAML::DumpFile() if we're using a recent YAML,
3482 YAML::StoreFile() otherwise.
3484 - Show specific error messages in runthrough.t.
3486 - Add a generated_by entry to the META.yaml file.
3488 - Skip a few tests if YAML isn't installed.
3490 0.09 Fri Jun 28 11:07:08 EST 2002
3492 - The 'distdir' action wasn't deleting the distribution directory
3493 before building it again. This meant that, say, if you did 'Build
3494 disttest' then 'Build dist', you'd end up with a blib/ directory
3495 in your distribution. I actually had this happen for version
3496 0.08, and it's not nice to distribute a blib/ on CPAN.
3498 - We now keep track of the 'base_dir', i.e. the top-level build
3499 directory, so we can change back into it if we change out of it.
3500 This necessitated a cwd() method, which uses the Cwd.pm module.
3501 I'm aware of Cwd's limitations, particularly under taint-mode, but
3502 I don't know a way around using it here.
3504 - The 'dist_dir' action now changes back into 'base_dir' directory.
3506 - We now do write_config() inside the create_build_script() method,
3507 not inside the new() method.
3509 - Simplified the find_version() method, and improved its error
3512 - Renamed module_name_to_file() to find_module_by_name(), and added
3513 a parameter specifying the directories to search in. Previously
3514 we searched in 'lib' and @INC, which wasn't correct in all
3517 - Patched the docs to change "Build test" to "./Build test"
3518 [Elizabeth Mattijsen]
3520 0.08 Wed Jun 26 20:30:56 EST 2002
3522 - Fixed the 'prereq' alias for the 'requires' parameter
3524 - Added some tests in t/basic.t to test the dependency checking
3526 - Added 'artistic' as a licensing option [Arthur Bergman]
3528 - Fixed some bugs in requires/prereq/recommends/conflicts/build_depends
3530 - Fixed a typo in the 'distclean' action that prevented its
3531 execution [Arthur Bergman]
3533 - Separated the linking phase of building XS items into its own
3534 link_c() method. Its interface is still unstable, so it's not
3535 documented yet. [suggested by Arthur Bergman]
3537 0.07 Jun 9 2002 15:46
3539 - We now generate a 'META.yaml' metadata file during 'Build dist'.
3540 This can be very useful for lots of things, none of which are
3543 - Added a 'dynamic_config' parameter, defaulting to false. This
3544 lets distribution systems (CPAN.pm, etc.) build, test, and install
3545 "easy" modules without having to execute the Build.PL at runtime.
3546 It's also a guarantee that the list of dependencies is exactly
3547 what is present in the metadata file, and won't be changed during
3550 - Added support for "recommended" and "build-time requirement"
3551 modules, besides those that are absolutely required. Also added a
3554 - Changed the 'prereq' field to 'requires' (the old name will
3557 - Added support for checking the installed version of perl as an
3558 explicit dependency.
3560 - Added a 'license' parameter to specify one of a fixed number of
3561 licenses for the distribution.
3563 - Fixed a bug in Module::Build::Compat that was preventing arguments
3564 from being processed properly. [patch by Ilya Martynov]
3566 - Make sure we're in the right directory when we write the cleanup
3567 file, since various ExtUtils::Install errors might leave us in an
3568 unknown directory. [patch by Ilya Martynov]
3570 - Specified the 'license', 'recommends', and 'dynamic_config'
3571 values in Build.PL, and changed 'prereq' to 'requires'.
3573 0.06 Apr 2 2002 17:44
3575 - Added the Module::Build::Compat module for assisting and
3576 explaining compatibility with ExtUtils::Makemaker and cohorts.
3578 - State is now saved using Data::Dumper instead of my ad-hoc
3579 mechanism, guaranteeing data integrity. Whitespace values broke
3580 in the former scheme.
3582 - Added the 'recommended' option, which works like 'prereq' but
3585 - Separated the various parameters into three groups: parameters
3586 that tell Module::Build what to do, Config.pm parameters, and
3587 user-defined parameters for each build (the module author is the
3588 'user' here). This helps avoid conflicts between names, and it
3589 was silly to have them all together. The three groups of
3590 parameters are subject to the same rules for overriding: values
3591 specified during a Build action take precedence over values
3592 specified at 'perl Build.PL' time, which in turn take precedence
3593 over values specified in the call to new().
3595 - Improved support for .PL files. Any .PL file in the lib/
3596 directory or the directory specified by 'c_source' will now get
3597 properly executed. I also added a 'PL_files' parameter that you
3598 can use in case the .PL doesn't create an obviously-named output
3601 - If a prerequisite condition is malformed, we now report a prereq
3602 failure and say why. Previously we issued a warning and kept
3606 0.05 10-Jan-2002 20:26
3607 - Added the Module::Build->subclass() method, which makes it easier to
3608 make quick-and-dirty subclasses of Module::Build.
3610 - Reorganized the docs a bit.
3612 - Added the 'testdb' action, and the 'debugger=1' argument to the
3613 'test' action, both of which run tests under the perl
3614 debugger. (idea: Dave Rolsky)
3616 - Added prerequisite checking (Dave Rolsky)
3618 - Fixed an unlikely-to-occur bug with misquoted strings in the
3619 'Build' script (spot: Dave Rolsky)
3621 - We're more careful about shush-ing warnings that
3622 ExtUtils::Manifest might emit (Dave Rolsky)
3624 - The 'help' action now auto-generates the list of actions (Dave Rolsky)
3626 - Added the 'distcheck', 'skipcheck', 'distclean', 'distdir', and
3627 'disttest' actions (Dave Rolsky)
3629 - We're a little more aggressive about cleaning up temporary files -
3630 we'll try to clean them up even when we don't have write permission
3631 on them. This isn't as dastardly as it sounds; if we /really/
3632 don't have permission, we won't be able to remove them no matter
3635 0.04 Fri Nov 16 16:55 2001
3636 - Added a 'manifest' action. It's just like MakeMaker's 'make manifest', it
3637 brings your MANIFEST file up to date with your distribution directory.
3639 - Reorganized some of the responsibilities of various methods, which
3640 allows modules to be built and tested programmatically.
3642 - The 'clean' action will now clean up files that were created more
3643 recently than the on-disk cleanup registry was written.
3645 - Undefined values from Config.pm are handled correctly now.
3647 - The dispatch() method will now accept explicit dispatch
3648 parameters, for use in a programmatic setting.
3650 - $ENV{TEST_VERBOSE} will be set in test scripts if the 'verbose=1'
3653 - Moved the test.pl script to t/basic.t
3655 - Created the t/xs.t script, which tests building a module with a
3658 - Fixed the loading of $^O-specific modules (there were no such
3661 - Added a 'darwin' platform module, which removes -flat_namespace
3662 from $Config{ccflags} while building .xs modules (it's a linker
3663 flag, not a compiler flag).
3665 - Now uses $^W instead of the 'warnings' pragma, which apparently
3666 provides compatibility with perl 5.005 (I've only tested it with
3669 - If a file called C<visual.pl> exists in the top-level directory,
3670 this file will be executed as a Perl script during 'Build test' and
3671 its output will be shown to the user. This is a good place to put
3672 speed tests or other tests that don't use the C<Test::Harness> format
3675 - The 'Build install' step will now put .xs-related things in the
3676 correct architecture-dependent libraries.
3678 - Added the 'autosplit' option, even though I think autosplitting is
3681 0.03 Sun Nov 11 14:58 CDT 2001
3682 - The 'perl Build.PL' step will now detect whether the current
3683 environment is "unixish", "windowsish", etc., and load the correct
3684 module (i.e. Module::Build::Platform::Unix). More specific
3685 modules may also be written for particular values of $^O.
3687 - Module::Build will now process any .xs files in the lib/
3688 directory. Please let me know whether this works or not with your
3689 distribution & platform. I'll be trying out various distributions
3692 - Corrected some embarassing errors in the POD documentation. Also
3693 added a long documentation section on the various build actions
3694 (test, install, build, etc.) and added some neato ASCII art.
3696 - Added a 'cleanup' mechanism - any method may call the
3697 $self->add_to_cleanup(@files) method to register files which need
3698 to be cleaned up during 'Build clean'.
3700 - Added a 'Build help' action that gives a little syntax help, and
3701 lists all the actions available.
3703 - Fixed a bug in which 'blib/' wasn't properly being added to @INC
3704 when running 'Build test'.
3706 - For the 'Build dist' action, we'll use the 'tar' and 'gzip'
3707 programs (as specified by Config.pm) on Unix platforms, otherwise
3708 we'll use Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib.
3710 0.02 Wed Sep 5 00:53:04 CDT 2001
3711 - Added POD documentation.
3713 - Added the 'install', 'fakeinstall', and 'dist' actions.
3715 - new() will now determine version string based on 'module_version', or
3716 'module_version_from', or 'module_name', in that order.
3718 - Module::Build::Base handles its file paths in a platform-independent
3719 way, using the File:: modules
3722 0.01 Sun Aug 5 01:23:10 2001
3723 - original version; created by h2xs 1.1.1.4 with options -XA -n Module::Build