1 Revision history for Perl extension Module::Build.
3 0.4003 - Sat Aug 18 11:17:49 CEST 2012
7 - Get rid of outdated metadata tests [Steve Hay]
9 0.4002 - Fri Jul 27 20:04:09 EEST 2012
13 - Test for TAP::Harness version properly [Leon Timmermans]
15 - Install to 'site' on 5.12+ [Leon Timmermans]
19 - Document extra_{compiler|linker}_flags accessors [Nick Wellnhofer]
21 0.4001 - Tue Jun 26 20:54:15 CEST 2012
24 - Parse Pod name a litte more leniently [Paul Evans]
28 - Various spelling fixes [Leon Timmermans, Jonathan Yu]
30 - Fixes configuration keys used for script location [Leon Timmermans, reported by Samuel Ferencik]
36 0.40 - Fri Feb 24 18:47:48 CET 2012
38 - Released 0.39_02 as 0.40 without any code changes
40 0.39_02 - Thu Feb 17 00:33:18 MET 2012
44 - Fixed bug where modules without $VERSION might have a version of '0'
45 listed in 'provides' metadata, which will be rejected by PAUSE
46 [David Golden, reported by Christopher Fields]
48 - Fixed bug in PodParser to allow numerals in module names
51 - Fixed bug where giving arguments twice led to them becoming arrays,
52 resulting in install paths like "ARRAY(0xdeadbeef)/lib/Foo.pm"
57 - Fixed deviance from alphabetical order in documentation of
58 constructor parameters. [Eric Brine]
60 - Add documentation for configure_requires constructor parameter.
63 - Change some of the docs' language describing relationship to
64 MakeMaker. [Ken Williams]
68 - List Perl-Toolchain-Gang repo as official repo
70 0.39_01 - Thu Jul 21 16:48:48 EDT 2011
74 - Fixed bug with a nested directory named 'share' inside a ShareDir
75 (RT#68585) [David Golden]
77 - Fixed failing tilde.t when run under UID without passwd entry
78 (RT#67893) [Dominic Hargreaves]
82 - Fixed typo in Module::Build (RT#67008) [David Golden]
86 - Pod to HTML internals changed to support new Pod::Html work
89 0.3800 - Sat Mar 5 15:11:41 EST 2011
91 Summary of major changes since 0.3624:
95 - Generates META.json and MYMETA.json consistent with version 2 of the
96 CPAN Meta Spec. [David Golden]
102 - Autogenerated documentation no longer includes private actions from
103 Module::Build's own release subclass. [Report by Timothy Appnel,
106 0.37_06 - Mon Feb 28 21:43:31 EST 2011
110 - prerequisites with the empty string instead of a version are
111 normalized to "0". (RT#65909)
115 - More Pod typo/link fixes [Hongwen Qiu]
117 0.37_05 - Sat Feb 19 20:43:23 EST 2011
121 - fixes failing ppm.t in perl core
125 - Pod typo fixes [Hongwen Qiu]
127 0.37_04 - Wed Feb 16 15:27:21 EST 2011
131 - moved scripts/ to bin/ for less confusing porting to bleadperl
133 0.37_03 - Wed Feb 16 09:54:05 EST 2011
137 - removed an irrelevant test in t/actions/installdeps.t that was causing
138 failures on some Cygwin platforms
142 - dropped configure_requires as some CPAN clients apparently get
143 confused by having things in both configure_requires and requires
145 - bumped Parse::CPAN::Meta build prereq to 1.4401
147 - bumped CPAN::Meta prereq to 2.110420
149 - Pod typo fixes [Hongwen Qiu]
151 0.37_02 - Mon Feb 7 21:05:30 EST 2011
155 - bumped CPAN::Meta prereq to 2.110390 to avoid a regression in 2.110360
157 0.37_01 - Thu Feb 3 03:44:38 EST 2011
161 - Generates META.json and MYMETA.json consistent with version 2 of the
162 CPAN Meta Spec. [David Golden]
166 - t/signature.t now uses a mocked Module::Signature; this should be
167 more robust across platforms as it only needs to confirm that
168 Module::Build is calling Module::Signature when expected
172 - Added CPAN::Meta and Parse::CPAN::Meta to prerequisites and dropped
175 0.3624 - Thu Jan 27 11:38:39 EST 2011
177 - Fixed pod2html directory bugs and fixed creation of spurious blib
178 directory in core perl directory when running install.t (RT#63003)
181 0.3623 - Wed Jan 26 17:45:30 EST 2011
183 - Fixed bugs involving bootstrapping configure_requires prerequisites
184 on older CPANPLUS clients or for either CPAN/CPANPLUS when using
185 the compatibility Makefile.PL
187 - Added diagnostic output when configure_requires are missing for
188 the benefit of users doing manual installation
190 0.3622 - Mon Jan 24 21:06:50 EST 2011
192 - No changes from 0.36_21
194 0.36_21 - Fri Jan 21 11:01:28 EST 2011
196 - Changed YAML::Tiny references to the new CPAN::Meta::YAML module
197 instead, which is the YAML-variant that is going into the Perl core
199 0.36_20 - Fri Dec 10 15:36:03 EST 2010
203 - Module::Build::Version has been deprecated. Module::Build now depends
204 directly upon version.pm. A pure-perl version has been bundled in inc/
205 solely for bootstrapping in case configure_requires is not supported.
206 M::B::Version remains as a wrapper around version.pm.
208 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo has been deprecated. Module::Build now
209 depends directly upon Module::Metadata (which is an extraction of
210 M::B::ModuleInfo intended for general reuse). A pure-perl version has
211 been bundled in inc/ solely for bootstrapping in case
212 configure_requires is not supported. M::B::ModuleInfo remains as a
213 wrapper around Module::Metadata.
215 - Module::Build::YAML has been deprecated. Module::Build now depends
216 directly upon YAML::Tiny. M::B::YAML remains as a subclass wrapper.
217 The YAML_support feature has been removed, as YAML is now an ordinary
220 0.36_19 - Tue Dec 7 13:43:42 EST 2010
224 - Perl::OSType is declared as a 'configure_requires' dependency, but is
225 also bundled in inc (and loaded if needed) [David Golden]
227 0.36_18 - Mon Dec 6 16:46:49 EST 2010
231 - Added dependency on Perl::OSType to refactor and centralize
232 management of OS type mapping [David Golden]
234 - When parsing a version number out of a file, any trailing alphabetical
235 characters will be dropped to avoid fatal errors when comparing version
236 numbers. These would have been dropped (with a warning) anyway during
237 an ordinary numeric comparison. (RT#56071) [David Golden]
241 - A Perl interpreter mismatch between running Build.PL and running Build
242 is now a fatal error, not a warning (RT#55183) [David Golden]
244 - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN
245 version.pm 0.86 [David Golden]
247 - No longer uses fake user 'foo' in t/tilde (RT#61793) [David Golden]
249 - Won't fail tests if an ancient Tie::IxHash is installed
250 [Christopher J. Madsen]
252 - Correctly report missing metafile field names [David Golden]
254 - Suppress uninitialized value errors during Pod creation
255 on ActiveState Perl [David Golden]
257 - Return to starting directory after install action; this is
258 an attempt to fix an install.t heisenbug (RT#63003) [David Golden]
260 - A broken version.pm load won't cause Module::Build::Version to
261 die trying to install itself as a mock version (RT#59499)
262 [Eric Wilhelm and David Golden]
264 - PERL_DL_NONLAZY is now always set when tests are run
265 (RT#56055) [Dmitry Karasik]
267 - 'fakeinstall' will use .modulebuildrc actions for 'install' if
268 no specific 'fakeinstall' options are provided (RT#57279)
271 - Add install*script to search path for installdeps client
272 and search site, then vendor, then core paths
274 - Skip noexec tmpdir check on Windows (RT#55667) [Jan Dubois]
276 - Arguments with key value pairs may now have keys with "-" in them
277 (RT#53050) [David Golden]
279 - Add quotemeta to t/tilde.t test to fix Cygwin fails
280 [Chris Williams and David Golden]
282 - Build script now checks that M::B is at least the same version
283 of M::B as provided in 'configure_requires' in META
284 (RT#54954) [David Golden]
286 0.36_17 - Wed Oct 27 18:08:36 EDT 2010
290 - Added 'distinstall' action to run 'Build install' inside the
291 generated distribution directory [Jeff Thalhammer]
293 0.36_16 - Thu Aug 26 12:44:07 EDT 2010
297 - Better error message in case package declaration is not found
298 when searching for version. [Alexandr Ciornii]
300 - Skips 'release_status' tests on perl < 5.8.1 due to buggy
301 treatment of dotted-decimal version numbers [David Golden]
303 0.36_15 - Wed Aug 25 10:41:28 EDT 2010
307 - Added a mock Software::License to prevent t/properties/license.t
310 0.36_14 - Sun Aug 22 22:56:50 EDT 2010
314 - Adds 'release_status' and 'dist_suffix' properties in preparation
315 for adding CPAN Meta Spec 2 support. 'dist_suffix' will be set
316 to 'TRIAL' automatically when necessary. [David Golden]
318 - Makes 'license' more liberal. You can now specify either a license
319 key from the approved list (c.f. Module::Build::API) or just a
320 Software::License subclass name (e.g. 'Perl_5'). This should
321 provide better support for custom or proprietary licenses.
324 0.36_13 - Wed Jul 28 22:40:25 EDT 2010
328 - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN
329 version.pm 0.82 [David Golden]
331 0.36_12 - Tue Jul 27 00:08:51 EDT 2010
335 - Module::Build::Compat will now convert dotted-decimal prereqs into
336 decimal rather than dying (and will warn about this). [Apocalypse]
340 - Caches case-sensitivity checks to boost performance, fixes
341 RT#55162 and RT#56513 [Reini Urban]
343 - Won't try to use ActivePerl doc generation tools without confirming
344 that they are indeed installed. [David Golden]
346 - Sets temporary $ENV{HOME} in testing to an absolute path, which fixes
347 some issues when tested as part of the Perl core [Nicholas Clark]
349 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo now warns instead of dying when a module
350 has an invalid version. ->version now just returns undef
351 (RT#59593) [David Golden]
355 - When authors do not specify Module::Build in configure_requires and
356 Module::Build is automatically added, a warning will be issued
357 showing the added prerequisite [David Golden]
359 - Moved automatic configure_requires generation into get_metadata()
360 and added an 'auto' argument to toggle it (on for META and off
361 for MYMETA) [David Golden]
363 0.36_11 - Thu May 27 09:41:23 EDT 2010
367 - Handle META/MYMETA reading and writing within Module::Build to ensure
368 utf8 mode on filehandles. Now passes/gets only strings to YAML::Tiny
369 or Module::Build::YAML
371 0.36_10 - Wed May 19 18:36:06 EDT 2010
375 - Fix failing t/manifypods.t on Windows from 0.36_09 changes [Klaus
378 0.36_09 - Tue May 11 09:19:12 EDT 2010
382 - Improve HTML documentation generation on ActivePerl (RT#53478)
383 [Scott Renner and Klaus Eichner]
385 0.36_08 - Mon Apr 26 08:00:15 EDT 2010
389 - Give a list of valid licenses when given one we don't recognize
390 (RT#55951) [Yanick Champoux]
392 - Added 'Build manifest_skip' action to generate a default MANIFEST.SKIP
397 - When temporarily generating a MANIFEST.SKIP when none exists, it will
398 be removed on exit instead of hanging around until 'Build clean'. This
399 is less surprising/confusing and the 'Build manifest_skip' action
400 is now available instead to bootstrap the file [David Golden]
404 - Fixed runtime error on cygwin when searching for an executable command
405 during installdeps testing [David Golden]
407 0.3607 - Thu Apr 1 11:27:16 EDT 2010
411 - The 'dist' action now always ensures a clean dist directory before
412 creating the tarball [David Golden]
414 0.36_06 - Thu Apr 1 01:23:58 EDT 2010
418 - Migrated repository to git and updated META.yml to match
420 - Removed bugtracker URL (let search.cpan.org use default)
422 - Disabled SIGNATURE generation
424 0.3605 - Wed Mar 31 12:05:11 EDT 2010
426 - No changes from 0.36_04
428 0.36_04 - Tue Mar 16 21:41:41 EDT 2010
432 - Added missing newline to "Changing sharpbang" messages under verbose
433 output (RT#54474) [David Golden]
435 - Added 'beos' to list of Unix-like os types (RT#53876) [Nigel Horne]
437 - Sets $ENV{HOME} to a temporary directory during testing [David Golden]
439 - For VMS: fixed prefix handling plus other test fixes [Craig Berry]
441 - Support anonymous array of directories for c_source [Alberto Simões]
443 - Small POD formatting fix [James Keenan]
445 0.3603 - Mon Jan 18 22:28:59 EST 2010
447 (Oops, I released the last one before I realized this should have been
448 fixed along with it.)
452 - Module::Build::Compat would croak on distibutions that set requires
453 'perl' to a dotted decimal like '5.6.2'. We now skip that key
454 since it doesn't go into PREREQ_PM and we numify it properly for
455 'use 5.006002' in the generated Makefile.PL (RT#53409)
456 [David Golden, adapted from patch by G. Allen Morris III]
458 0.3602 - Mon Jan 18 22:09:54 EST 2010
462 - Fix failures in t/properties/needs_compiler.t when $ENV{CC} is set
463 (RT#53296) [David Golden, adapted from patch by Jens Rehsack]
465 0.3601 - Mon Dec 21 14:39:33 EST 2009
469 - When the currently running Module::Build is not the same as the one
470 that created the Build file, there is now a warning rather than a fatal
471 error. This helps installation of dependency chains where a dependency
472 might configure_requires a new Module::Build after Build.PL was already
473 run for an earlier distribution. [David Golden, on advice of Matt Trout]
477 - t/bundle_inc.t fails in odd ways. This test of an experimental feature
478 should not prevent users from installing Module::Build, so this test
479 now skips unless $ENV{MB_TEST_EXPERIMENTAL} is true
481 0.36 - Sun Dec 20 15:02:38 EST 2009
483 No changes from 0.35_15 other than the version number.
485 Summary of major changes since 0.35:
489 - Added 'Build installdeps' action to install needed dependencies via
490 a user-configurable command line program. (Defaults to 'cpan'.)
492 - Command line options may be set via the PERL_MB_OPT environment
493 variable (similar to PERL_MM_OPT in ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
495 - Generates MYMETA.yml during Build.PL (new standard protocol for
496 communicating configuration results between toolchain components)
498 - Reduced amount of console output under normal operation (use --verbose
501 - Added experimental inc/ bundling; see Module::Build::Bundling for
504 New or changed properties:
506 - Added 'share_dir' property to provide File::ShareDir support;
507 File::ShareDir automatically added to 'requires' if 'share_dir' is set
509 - Added 'needs_compiler' property. Defaults to true if XS or c_source
510 exist. If true, ExtUtils::CBuilder is also added to build_requires.
512 - 'C_support' is no longer an optional feature. Modern ExtUtils::CBuilder
513 and ExtUtils::ParseXS added to the 'requires' list. This ensures that
514 upgrading Module::Build will upgrade these critical modules.
516 - Clarified that 'apache' in the license attribute indicates the Apache
517 License 2.0 and added 'apache_1_1' for the older version of the license
522 - Module::Build::Compat 'passthrough' style has been deprecated. Using
523 'passthrough' will issue warnings on Makefile.PL generation. See
524 Module::Build::Compat documentation for rationale.
528 - Replaced use of YAML.pm with YAML::Tiny; Module::Build::YAML is now
529 based on YAML::Tiny as well
531 - A new get_metadata() method has been added as a simpler wrapper around
532 the old, kludgy prepare_metadata() API.
534 - Replaced guts of new_from_context(). Build.PL is now executed in a
535 separate process before resume() is called. (This is generally only of
536 interest to Module::Build or toolchain developers) (RT#49350)
538 - Add support for 'package NAME VERSION' syntax added in Perl 5.11.1
542 - The "test" action now dies when using the 'use_tap_harness'
543 option and tests fail, matching the behavior under Test::Harness.
544 (RT#49080) [initial patch from David Wheeler; revised by David Golden]
546 - Updated PPM generation to PPM v4 (RT#49600) [Olivier Mengue]
548 - When module_name is not supplied, no packlist was being written; fixed
549 by guessing module_name from dist_version_from or the directory name
550 (just like ExtUtils::Manifest does without NAME) [David Golden]
552 - Failure to detect a compiler will now warn during Build.PL and be a
553 fatal error when trying to compile during Build. (RT#48918) [David
556 - Auto-detection of abstract and author fixed for mixed-case POD headers
557 (RT#51117) [David Wheeler]
559 - resume() was not restoring additions to @INC added in Build.PL
560 (RT#50145) [David Golden]
562 - When tarball paths are less than 100 characters, disables 'prefix'
563 mode of Archive::Tar for maximum compatibility (RT#50571) [David Golden]
565 - Merging 'requires' and 'build_requires' in Module::Build::Compat could
566 lead to duplicate PREREQ_PM entries; now the highest version is used
567 for PREREQ_PM. (RT#50948) [David Golden]
569 - Module::Build::Compat will now die with an error if advanced,
570 non-numeric prerequisites are given, as these are not supported by
571 ExtUtils::MakeMaker in PREREQ_PM [David Golden]
574 0.35_15 - Thu Dec 17 17:51:22 EST 2009
578 - Make sure PPM tests are skipped if IO::File is too old [David Golden]
580 0.35_14 - Thu Dec 17 16:02:14 EST 2009
584 - If not set, the 'module_name' is detected from 'dist_version_from'
585 or from 'dist_name'. The directory is no longer used. [David Golden]
587 - The 'share_dir' property no longer defaults to 'share' and must be
588 explicitly set instead; this fixes problems for CPAN distributions that
589 already have a 'share' directory for whatever reason [David Golden]
591 - Change t/00-compile.t test for more portability [David Golden]
593 - Skip ppm.t if Pod::Html is not available [David Goldenj]
595 - Changed guts of inc::latest to work properly on older versions of Perl
598 - Ensure bundle_inc.t doesn't accidentally uninstall the installed M::B
599 during testing if the user had 'uninst=1' set during Build.PL
602 0.35_13 - Sat Dec 5 11:26:36 EST 2009
606 - Protect against tempfile errors when checking ExtUtils::Installed
609 0.35_12 - Fri Dec 4 23:06:49 EST 2009
613 - Protect inc/ bundling tests against broken ExtUtils::Installed
616 0.35_11 - Thu Dec 3 11:07:44 EST 2009
620 - The old API for prepare_metadata() has been restored to avoid breaking
621 distributions that were overriding it (e.g. BioPerl), but the method
622 has been marked deprecated and may be made private or may disappear in
623 some future version of Module::Build. [David Golden]
625 - A new get_metadata() method has been added as a simpler wrapper around
626 the old, kludgy prepare_metadata() API. [David Golden]
628 0.35_10 - Tue Nov 24 22:49:19 EST 2009
632 - bundle_inc.t is more careful about permissions and open filehandles
633 to avoid failures/skips on Win32 [David Golden]
635 - Fix compilation error in Module::Build::Platform::VMS (RT#51766)
638 - Don't generate a MANIFEST.SKIP during distclean and add any generated
639 MANIFEST.SKIP to cleanup list [reported by Zefram, fixed by David Golden]
641 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo version parsing would fail if a module sets
642 its $VERSION from another module, but the other module is not installed.
643 We now try to detect such failures, prepend 'lib' to @INC and try again.
646 - MYMETA.yml used to be generated from scratch, overriding any
647 customizations used to create META.yml. Now, if META.yml exists, that
648 will be used as the base for MYMETA and only prereq fields will be
649 updated (to reflect any dynamic configuration); also, 'dynamic_config'
650 will be set to false and 'generated_by' will be updated [David Golden]
652 0.35_09 - Thu Nov 19 01:30:42 EST 2009
656 - The DB package should not be included in 'provides' in META files
659 - Fixed t/xs.t build failures in bleadperl for noexec temp directories
662 - Adjusted order of @INC in resume() (fixes par.t, ppm.t, xs.t fails):
663 @INC = @new_additions_to_inc, @saved_additions_to_inc, @default_inc
666 - Skip bundle_inc.t tests if bundled Module::Build for test can't be
667 tweaked (Works around test crashes on Win2) [David Golden]
671 - 'C_support' is no longer an optional feature. Modern ExtUtils::CBuilder
672 and ExtUtils::ParseXS added to the 'requires' list. This ensures that
673 upgrading Module::Build will upgrade this critical modules.
674 ExtUtils::CBuilder no longer requires a compiler, so it is "safe" to
677 0.35_08 - Mon Nov 16 22:38:28 EST 2009
681 - Multiple tests were failing due to dependency problems. Author
682 dependencies have been largely removed from core 'requires' into
683 optional features. Feature prereq detection and messaging have been
684 expanded and bugs on older Perls have been removed.
686 0.35_07 - Sat Nov 14 17:14:39 EST 2009
690 - Auto-detection of abstract and author fixed for mixed-case POD headers
691 (RT#51117) [David Wheeler]
693 - resume() was not restoring additions to @INC added in Build.PL
694 (RT#50145) [David Golden]
696 - When tarball paths are less than 100 characters, disables 'prefix'
697 mode of Archive::Tar for maximum compatibility (RT#50571) [David Golden]
699 0.35_06 - Fri Nov 13 14:51:28 EST 2009
703 - Added experimental inc/ bundling; see Module::Build::Bundling for
704 details. [David Golden and Eric Wilhelm]
706 - Clarified that 'apache' in the license attribute indicates the Apache
707 License 2.0 and added 'apache_1_1' for the older version of the license
708 (RT#50614) [David Golden]
712 - Merging 'requires' and 'build_requires' in Module::Build::Compat could
713 lead to duplicate PREREQ_PM entries; now the highest version is used
714 for PREREQ_PM. (RT#50948) [David Golden]
716 - Module::Build::Compat will now die with an error if advanced,
717 non-numeric prerequisites are given, as these are not supported by
718 ExtUtils::MakeMaker in PREREQ_PM [David Golden]
720 - Made MYMETA generation non-fatal if fields required for META.yml
721 are missing [David Golden]
723 - Added Pod::Simple to requirements for manpage support; avoids
724 problems if a user has a broken Pod::Man/Pod::Simple. (RT#50081)
727 - Won't die if installed Pod::Readme is broken [David Golden]
731 - Fixed Module::Build::Notes POD [David Golden]
733 - Some commands had become silent by default, so added a few short status
734 messages so users know something actually happened [David Golden]
736 - Cleaned up Changes file formatting [David Golden]
738 - Removed most PERL_CORE customizations from test files due to
739 reorganization of dual-life modules in core (RT#49522) [David Golden]
741 0.35_05 - Wed Oct 28 17:20:59 EDT 2009
745 - Fix test failure in t/actions/installdeps.t when $^X is not the default
748 - Work around $VERSION numbers in ActiveState with multiple underscores
749 that prevent Module::Build from installing on Win32 [David Golden]
751 - Fix bug cleaning compatibility Makefile when older ExtUtils::Manifest is
752 installed [David Golden with help from David Cantrell]
756 - Suppressed more warnings from tests [David Golden]
758 - Add provisional support for 'package NAME VERSION' syntax added in
759 Perl 5.11.1 [David Golden]
761 0.35_04 - Fri Oct 23 11:20:41 EDT 2009
765 - Fix test failure if IPC::Cmd isn't installed [David Golden]
769 - Suppressed warning messages from various tests [David Golden]
771 0.35_03 - Wed Oct 21 21:20:59 EDT 2009
775 - The prepare_metadata() method used to take a YAML::Node object as an
776 argument for modification. The method now takes no arguments and just
777 returns a hash reference of metadata. [David Golden]
781 - Command line options may be set via the PERL_MB_OPT environment
782 variable (similar to PERL_MM_OPT in ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
786 - Updated PPM generation to PPM v4 (RT#49600) [Olivier Mengue]
788 - When c_source is specified, the directory scan will include additional,
789 less-common C++ extensions (RT49298) [David Golden]
791 - When module_name is not supplied, no packlist was being written; fixed
792 by guessing module_name from dist_version_from or the directory name
793 (just like ExtUtils::Manifest does without NAME) [David Golden]
795 - Bumped IO::File prereq to fix binmode failures in PPMMaker on Perl
796 prior to 5.8.8 [David Golden]
800 - Replaced use of YAML.pm with YAML::Tiny; Module::Build::YAML is now
801 based on YAML::Tiny as well [David Golden]
803 - Reduced amount of console output under normal operation (use --verbose
804 to see all output) [David Golden]
806 0.35_02 - Mon Sep 7 22:37:42 EDT 2009
810 - Added 'needs_compiler' property. Defaults to true if XS or c_source
811 exist. If true, ExtUtils::CBuilder is also added to build_requires.
814 - File::ShareDir automatically added to 'requires' if 'share_dir' is set
817 - Added 'Build installdeps' action to install needed dependencies via
818 a user-configurable command line program. (Defaults to 'cpan'.)
823 - Failure to detect a compiler will now warn during Build.PL and be a
824 fatal error when trying to compile during Build. (RT#48918) [David
827 - Fixed directory sorting failure in share_dir.t [David Golden]
829 - Property defaults that are data structures were being assigned as
830 references to new objects. Changed so that defaults are cloned instead.
831 (This mostly affects testing, which often creates multiple objects in the
832 same process) [David Golden]
834 - Simplified error message on exit under use_tap_harness [suggested by
837 - Fixed typemap search to use a dist-level typemap if a typemap is not
838 found in the directory with the *.xs file; (was manifesting as warnings
839 in Perl 5.6 tests) [David Golden]
843 - Replaced guts of new_from_context(). Build.PL is now executed in a
844 separate process before resume() is called. (This is generally only of
845 interest to Module::Build or toolchain developers) (RT#49350) [David
846 Golden, Eric Wilhelm, Ken Williams]
848 - Revised test helper classes to fix potential bugs and add new features
849 to make writing tests simpler and easier. Changes incorporated into
850 t/README.pod and t/sample.t as examples for new testing. [David Golden]
852 0.35_01 - Mon Aug 31 12:11:10 EDT 2009
856 - Generates MYMETA.yml during Build.PL (new standard protocol for
857 communicating configuration results between toolchain components)
860 - Added 'share_dir' property to provide File::ShareDir support;
861 set automatically if a directory called 'share' exists
866 - Fix the t/destinations.t fix. [David Golden, with thanks to Eric Wilhelm]
868 - Fix recursive test files in generated Makefile.PL (RT#49254) [Sawyer X]
870 - Guard against trying :utf8 when :utf8 isn't available
872 - The "test" action now dies when using the 'use_tap_harness'
873 option and tests fail, matching the behavior under Test::Harness.
874 (RT#49080) [initial patch from David Wheeler; revised by David Golden]
878 - Added t/README.pod and t/sample.t to guide developers writing new tests
879 [David Golden, with some code from Eric Wilhelm]
881 - Module::Build::Compat 'passthrough' style has been deprecated. Using
882 'passthrough' will issue warnings on Makefile.PL generation. See
883 Module::Build::Compat documentation for rationale.
885 0.35 - Thu Aug 27 09:12:02 EDT 2009
889 - Fix t/destinations.t segfault on 5.6.2 [David Golden]
891 0.34_06 - Sat Aug 22 21:58:26 EDT 2009
895 - Multiple test fixes for OS2 [Ilya Zakharevich]
897 - Generated.ppd files use :utf8 if possible (RT#48827) [Olivier Mengue]
899 - Fixed preservation of custom install_paths on resume (RT#41166)
902 - Warn instead of crashing when Pod::Man tries to create files with
903 colons on vfat partitions on unix (RT#45544) [David Golden]
905 0.34_05 - Sun Aug 9 22:31:37 EDT 2009
909 - When auto_configure_requires is true (the default), Module::Build will
910 only add last 'major' version of Module:Build (e.g. 0.XX) to
911 configure_requires to avoid specifying a minor development release not
912 available on CPAN [David Golden]
914 0.34_04 - Sat Aug 8 11:02:24 EDT 2009
918 - Added documentation warning that 'get_options' should be capitalized
919 to avoid conflicting with future Module::Build options and changed
920 the examples accordingly.
922 0.34_03 - Sat Aug 8 07:39:16 EDT 2009
926 - Fixed failing xs.t if /tmp is mounted noexec (RT#47331) [David Golden]
928 - Fixed failing debug.t on VMS (RT#48362) [Craig Berry]
930 - Prevent par.t from dying on error in .zip extraction [David Golden]
932 - Fixed potential runthrough.t failure on 5.6.2 [David Golden]
936 - Archive::Tar changed from 'requires' to 'recommends' so non-authors
937 without IO::Zlib can still use Module::Build to install modules
938 [reported by Matt Trout, fix by David Golden]
940 0.340201 - Sun Aug 9 22:11:04 EDT 2009
944 - Version bump for Perl core for 5.10.1 release; no other changes
946 0.34_02 - Sun Jul 26 22:50:40 EDT 2009
950 - Bundled Module::Build::Version updated to bring into sync with CPAN
951 version.pm 0.77 [John Peacock]
953 0.34_01 - Sat Jul 18 16:32:09 EDT 2009
957 - Added --debug flag to trace Build action execution (RT#47933)
962 - Bundled Module::Build::Version version code updated to fix unsafe use
963 of $@ (RT#47980) [John Peacock]
965 0.34 - Tue Jul 7 16:56:47 EDT 2009
967 No changes from 0.33_06
969 0.33_06 - Sun Jul 5 10:11:40 EDT 2009
973 - Bundled version code will use pure Perl on 5.10.0 to work around
974 a corner case involving eval and locale [John Peacock]
976 - Reversed VMS patch from 0.33_03 [Craig Berry]
978 - PL_files in Build.PL that are in the bin/scripts directory should not be
979 installed as if they are scripts (fixed for case-tolerant systems).
980 [David Golden, reported by Craig Berry]
982 0.33_05 - Sun Jun 28 22:06:49 EDT 2009
986 - New 'auto_configure_requires' parameter (default 1) controls
987 whether Module::Build should add itself to configure_requires
988 in META.yml if not specified in Build.PL [David Golden]
992 - The default MANIFEST.SKIP created by the "manifest" action
993 was out of date. It will now use the installed MANIFEST.SKIP
994 and add some Module::Build and distribution specific items
995 to it. [Michael Schwern]
999 - configure_requires do not necessarily need to be in requires
1000 or build_requires; warning to that effect has been removed
1003 0.33_04 - Fri Jun 26 07:09:06 EDT 2009
1007 - Don't try utf8 YAML I/O on Perl 5.6 [David Golden]
1011 - configure_requires added to prereq report (RT#47254) [Curtis Jewell]
1013 - updated Module::Build::Version to match forthcoming version.pm 0.77
1014 (RT#47256) [John Peacock]
1016 - skips xs.t and ppm.t when perl was not compiled with dynamic loading
1017 since Module::Buld does not support static linking (RT#46178)
1020 - skip failing test in par.t if Archive::Zip is broken [David Golden]
1022 - Added YAML utf8 patch in 0.33_03 changes list
1024 - Added attribution for patches in 0.33_03 changes list
1026 0.33_03 - Mon Jun 22 17:22:56 EDT 2009
1030 - Removes Module::Build from its own configure/build_requires
1033 - ConfigData->feature() confirms that modules actually load successfully,
1034 not just that they are present. (RT#43557) [David Golden]
1036 - Module::Build::Compat handling of INSTALL*LIB (RT#43827)
1037 [Tony Payne, David Golden]
1039 - Module::Build::Compat and recursive test files (RT#39171) [Dave Rolsky]
1041 - Fixed bug linking non-standard XS names on Windows (RT#38065) ["snaury"]
1043 - Run PL files that don't generate any file (RT#39365)
1044 [Matisse Enzer, David Golden]
1046 - HTML generation failure no longer fatal (RT#36660) [David Golden]
1048 - realclean might not delete Build.bat on Windows (RT#43863)
1049 [Roy Ivy, David Golden]
1051 - include_dirs parameter now works correctly when given a single
1052 string argument (RT#40177) [David Wheeler]
1054 - Lots of spelling fixes in the POD (RT#45528r) [Lars Dieckow]
1056 - On Unix-like systems, tilde expansion is more liberal in username
1057 characters accepted (RT#33492) [Jon Jensen]
1061 - On MSWin32, bumped File::Spec prereq to 3.30 for a variety of fixes
1063 - Add support for VMS in Unix compatibility mode (RT#42157)
1066 - Added a can_action($name) method (RT#45172) [brian d foy]
1068 - Documented that subclass methods should not permanently change
1069 current directory (RT#46919) [David Wheeler]
1071 - META.yml encoded in UTF-8 (RT#43765) [Olivier Mengue]
1073 0.33_02 - Mon Jun 15 12:23:55 EDT 2009
1077 - Fixed tests for bleadperl
1079 0.33_01 - Sat Jun 13 20:24:42 EDT 2009
1083 - Fixed RT#42724: consolidated VMS fixes [patch by Craig Berry]
1085 - Fixed RT#46338: passthrough Makefile.PL cleans Makefile during distclean
1087 - Fixed RT#45700: t/compat.t for HP/UX make
1091 - Adds current Module::Build to configure_requires (and build_requires)
1092 if no configure_requires is specified
1094 - Always normalizes version number tuples in META.yml (e.g. 'v1.2.0')
1095 (Partially addresses RT#46150)
1097 - Normalizes a generated dist_version (e.g. from a .pm file) --
1098 dist_version set manually in Build.PL is not normalized
1100 - Documentation update for create_license
1104 0.33 - Sun May 3 20:16:34 PDT 2009
1108 - Fixed RT#45462: Compat.pm needs to reference 'Build.com' on VMS
1109 [patch from John Malmberg]
1111 - Fixed RT#45461: ext.t on VMS [patch from John Malmberg]
1113 - Fixed RT#43861: Module::Build::PPMMaker has broken PPD name
1114 versioning for v5.10+
1116 0.32_01 - Tue Apr 14 17:14:22 PDT 2009
1120 - Module::Build::Compat had stopped adding "PL_FILES => {}" when no
1121 PL_files property was set in Build.PL; restored old behavior and fixed
1122 tests and documentation related to this issue [David Golden]
1124 - Caches ExtUtils::CBuilder object in a temporary stash instead of properties
1126 - Fixed undef resources->license in META.yml (RT #44453).
1128 - Use $^X instead of 'perl' in t/ext.t [David Golden] (RT #43485)
1132 - Generated META.yml will indicate version 1.4 of the specification
1133 (RT #37478) [patch from Alexandr Ciornii]
1135 - Archive::Tar now the default for generating tarballs on all platforms
1136 (avoids problems with incompatible tar binaries)
1138 - dist_dir() now uses dist_name() and dist_version() accessors rather
1139 than using its properties directly. [brian d foy] (RT #45038)
1141 0.32 - Wed Feb 25 17:40:02 PST 2009
1143 No changes since 0.31_04.
1145 0.31_04 - Fri Feb 20 11:04:59 PST 2009
1149 - Bumped Test::Harness prereq to 3.16 for latest PERL5LIB fixes (solves
1150 test failures when installing Module::Build using CPANPLUS::Dist::Build)
1153 0.31_03 - Sun Feb 8 14:54:01 PST 2009
1157 - added a "prereq_data" action that prints a Perl data structure of
1158 all prerequisites; can be loaded by external tools using eval()
1163 - 'fakeinstall' action warns and skips without ExtUtils::Install 1.32+
1164 [David Golden, reported by Zefram]
1166 - allows Module::Build version mismatch when installing self; works around
1167 limitations in CPANPLUS::Dist::Build [David Golden]
1169 0.31_02 - Tue Jan 27 09:16:43 PST 2009
1173 - tests now use File::Temp (added to build_requires); appears to fix
1174 Win32 testing heisenbug on directory removal during high system loads
1176 - use_tap_harness.t will skip unless a release version of TAP::Harness
1179 - improved diagnostics to ensure_blib() tests in t/lib/MBTest.pm
1183 - passthrough Makefile.PL will now play nice with cpantesters' on
1184 exit(0) (RT#32018) [Eric Wilhelm]
1188 - fix for doubling-up of --prefix (RT#19951)
1190 0.31012 - Wed Jan 14 01:36:19 PST 2009
1194 - t/tilde.t maybe actually fixed on MSWin32 now.
1196 0.31011 - Mon Jan 12 21:57:04 PST 2009
1200 - t/tilde.t had been failing on MSWin32 (RT#42349)
1202 0.3101 - Mon Jan 12 13:52:36 PST 2009
1206 - added 'mirbsd' as a Unix-type OS [BinGOs]
1208 - added 'haiku' as a Unix-type OS (backported from bleadperl)
1210 - skips certain tests on VMS (backported from bleadperl)
1212 - sets $^X to absolute path in tests (backported from bleadperl)
1214 0.31 - Sat Dec 20 15:03:33 2008
1218 - Use of attributes as class methods is deprecated (this was never a
1219 documented feature and appears to only have worked accidentally.)
1221 0.30_02 - Mon Dec 15 12:23:55 PST 2008
1225 - make Software::License dependency "softer".
1227 0.30_01 - Thu Dec 11 18:25:53 PST 2008
1231 - Added a recipe for writing a new action to the Cookbook
1233 - Added a recipe for bundling Module::Build to the Cookbook.
1237 - Clarified dist_abstract search procedure in API.pod (RT#41056) [Mario
1242 - Workaround HARNESS_TIMER env issue in t/compat.t (RT#39635)
1244 - Fix ~ expansion when $HOME is different from /etc/passwd as
1245 when running sudo. [rt.cpan.org 39662]
1247 - Fixed a small POD error in the Cookbook. [Damyan Ivanov]
1249 - Unset group/other write permission bits when using Archive::Tar to
1250 build the dist tarball. (RT#39804) [David Golden]
1254 - We now support a 'create_license' parameter to new() that will
1255 create a LICENSE file during the 'dist' phase with the full text of
1256 the license. This requires Software::License on the author's
1259 - Added lgpl2/lgpl3 entries to the supported licenses (RT#40532).
1261 - Support for validating properties with a check subref. [David
1266 - Defend against more stray environment variables interfering
1271 - Updated our embedded version.pm to 0.76, enhanced documentation on
1272 dist_version_from. [John Peacock]
1274 0.30 - Thu Sep 25 20:57:36 2008
1276 - First non-beta release since April 2007. In the meantime, Sarkozy
1277 became president of France, the 35W bridge fell in Minneapolis,
1278 Phelps won a lot of gold, a new tribe of indigenous people was
1279 discovered in the Amazon, and Bob Barker stopped doing The Price Is
1280 Right. As of this moment though, the U.S. economy still hasn't
1281 collapsed completely.
1283 0.2808_05 - Thu Sep 18 23:30:39 PDT 2008
1285 - Skip test in t/ext.t which tickles shellwords() in Text::ParseWords
1286 below 3.23 [David Wheeler, Ken]
1288 - Fixed some shell-quoting issues in do_system() on Windows [Ken,
1289 Schwern, reported by Curtis Jewell]
1291 - Fixed t/xs.t failure for missing 'const char *' typemap in 5.6
1294 - Added build_requires for Test::More 0.49 and Test::Harness 2.03.
1295 Removed bundled Test::More (was not working for 5.005x anyway).
1298 - Minimum required perl version is now 5.6.1. [Schwern]
1300 0.2808_04 - Thu Sep 11 22:51:27 PDT 2008
1302 - Backed-out incompatible Module::Build::ModuleInfo change (first in
1305 0.2808_03 - Mon Sep 1 14:43:27 PDT 2008
1307 - Made adjustments for the format changes of recent Test::Harness
1308 output. [Nicholas Clark]
1310 - Fixed the documentation for script_files to indicate that we search
1311 bin/ for scripts by default. It has been this way for several
1312 years. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
1314 0.2808_02 - Wed Jul 9 16:45:08 PDT 2008
1316 - Experimental support for TAP::Harness with --use-tap-harness option
1317 and the tap_harness_args property. [David Wheeler & Eric Wilhelm]
1319 - Added test_file_exts property for main-run tests other than '*.t'.
1322 - Fixed getcwd()/rmtree() failure case on 5.10+mac where something is
1323 unhappy about all of the tests deleting their distgen directory
1324 before leaving it. [Eric Wilhelm & David Wheeler]
1326 - Improved support for parsing qv() in modules' $VERSION
1327 declarations, and made $VERSION-parsing errors more verbose. [Jos
1330 - Integrated an omnibus patch for various VMS fixes. [Craig Berry &
1333 - Some versions of Test::Harness (or something) seem to not be
1334 stripping the ".t" suffix when outputting test reports, which was
1335 causing one of our tests in t/compat.t to fail. Fixed. [Spotted by
1338 - Most Unix platforms seem to allow hyphens in usernames, so we honor
1339 this in our de-tilde-fying methods now. [Spotted by s-murata]
1341 - If there are multiple assignments to the $VERSION variable in
1342 someone's module and this generates warnings, tell the user what
1343 line number the problem is at.
1345 - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni]
1347 - Fixed a couple bugs in how we quote arguments to external processes
1348 when they have to pass through the shell. Also much more
1349 thoroughly tested our quoting now.
1351 - Edited the Module::Build::API docs prose about the 'license' field
1352 in response to some comments on the module-authors mailing list.
1354 - Fixed a typo in some example code in the Cookbook. [Jeremy Leader]
1356 - Custom typemaps were being looked for in places that don't quite
1357 exist; fixed. [Michael G Schwern]
1359 - QNX/Neutrino is now considered to be Unix. [rt.cpan.org 32214]
1361 - Added 'gpl2' and 'gpl3' to the list of valid licenses. [Allen
1364 - Fixed our Data::Dumper wrapper's sensitivity to users who might set
1365 $Data::Dumper::Terse. [Spotted by Dominique Dumont]
1367 - Documented the fix_shebang_line() method. [Elliot Shank]
1369 - Applied the 'const' modifier to version() and xs_version() XS
1370 functions we use during testing. [Robin Barker]
1372 - Fixed processing of INC=, POLLUTE=, INSTALLDIRS=, and LIB= for
1373 passthrough/small Makefile.PLs.
1375 - perl Build.PL --sign=1 now signs. [Michael G Schwern]
1377 - Fixed processing of INSTALLDIRS=whatever for compatibility
1378 Makefiles. [Spotted by John Peacock]
1380 - Zillions of special-cases have been added in Compat.pm for dealing
1381 with the special Makefile system on VMS. [John E. Malmberg]
1383 - Fixed some stuff in how VMS command-args get quoted. [John E. Malmberg]
1385 - VMS now overrides localize_file_path() and localize_dir_path() so
1386 we don't need to do special stuff in the general case. [John
1389 - Added a few more VMS-specific entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP
1390 file that (sometimes) gets created during the 'manifest'
1391 action. [John E. Malmberg]
1393 - Fixed a catdir() that should have been a catfile() when creating a
1394 ppmdist. [John E. Malmberg]
1396 - Removed some assumptions about what makefiles are called (not
1397 necessarily "Makefile") and how they take their arguments, to get
1398 VMS tests working better. [John E. Malmberg]
1400 - Fixed our check for Archive::Tar in the t/runthrough.t test, which
1401 fixes a common failure on Win32. [Spotted by Chris Williams]
1403 - Fixed a File::Spec mal-ism in t/destinations.t [Craig A. Berry]
1405 - Exposed the internal ExtUtils::CBuilder object as part of our API,
1406 via the cbuilder() method. [Zefram]
1408 - Upgraded to version.pm 0.74 (fixes bug #30004.)
1410 - Overwrite core (post-5.9.4) Module::Build installs (bug #20528.)
1412 - Pass quiet() option to ExtUtils::CBuilder object.
1414 0.2808_01 - Wed Oct 24 11:51:25 2007
1416 - All .pm files in the Module-Build distribution (except for
1417 M::B::Version.pm, which is kind of tied to version.pm) now have the
1418 same $VERSION number explicitly specified.
1420 - When checking prerequisites, the required version of perl is now
1421 checked before we start finding the $VERSION declaration of the
1422 distribution, which results in much more intuitive error messages
1423 e.g. if the author is using 5.6-isms in their declaration but the
1424 user doesn't have 5.6. [Slaven Rezic]
1426 - Added 'artistic_2' license, corrected 'lgpl' license url (bug #29783)
1429 - VMS find_perl_interpreter() is just $^X (bug #29810) [Craig A. Berry]
1431 - Some large VMS fixes, mostly having to do with the non-case-
1432 preserving nature of most VMS filesystems, but also correcting for
1433 illegal characters in VMS file specs. [John E. Malmberg and Craig
1436 - Fixed the _detildefy() method on VMS. [John E. Malmberg and Craig
1439 - We now use a much more reliable method when Data::Dumper-ing saved
1442 - When a module had 0.000 as its version, a few places in the code
1443 thought the module had no version at all. This is now
1444 fixed. [Andrew "Zefram" Main]
1446 - When finding the default set of script_files, we now compute them
1447 as relative paths, not absolute. [Spotted by Curtis "Ovid" Poe]
1449 - Got rid of a call to eliminate_macros, which isn't needed in
1450 Module::Build since there is no external make utility involved.
1451 Override expand_test_dir to make up for the fact that the
1452 home-grown glob() returns absolute, not relative, paths. [Craig
1455 - Fixed a catdir() that needed to be catfile() in the .packlist
1456 creation code. [John E. Malmberg]
1458 - If a *.PL file ended abnormally during the build, processing should
1459 have stopped, but it didn't. Fixed. [Matthew Cast and David
1462 - Module::Build::Compat adds "require 5.XXXXX" to Makefile.PL when
1463 'perl' is specified as a 'requires' prerequisite [David Golden]
1465 - Refactored t/compat.t for modularity and transparency; added
1466 labels for all tests; supressed subprocess output to
1467 STDOUT and STDERR [David Golden]
1469 - Fixed bug in perl_version_to_float when version is already a float
1472 - Removed a mention of $build->{config} from the documentation, the
1473 official interface to Config.pm settings is now via the
1474 $build->config() and has been for some time. [Suggested by Michael
1477 - Tweaked some text in the Cookbook to bring it into the modern age,
1478 and added a recipe for accessing Config.pm settings. [Ibid]
1480 - Lots of POD link/readability improvements to the Module::Build::API
1481 documentation [Salve J. Nilsen]
1483 - Added configure_requires as a new type of prereq. [Suggested by Adam
1486 - Patch 31156 from bleadperl: some filename dot and extension help
1487 for Module::Build on VMS. [Craig Berry]
1489 - Reworked the _detildefy() method so it doesn't depend on glob()
1490 anymore. This gets rid of a problem with spaces or other special
1491 shell characters in things like 'prefix' or 'install_path'
1492 entries. [Prodding by Eric Wilhelm]
1494 - Added midnightbsd to the list of Unix-like OSes we know about
1495 [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
1497 0.2808 - Sat Apr 28 12:59:43 2007
1499 - Added is_vmsish(), is_windowsish(), and is_unixish() boolean
1500 convenience functions. Fixes some test failures on platforms where
1501 $^O is set to a value we don't know about (like 'gnu').
1503 - Upgraded to version.pm 0.7203. [John Peacock]
1505 - Support get_action_docs() =head2 style. [ewilhelm]
1507 - Workaround Test::Pod::Coverage @INC bug. [Eric Wilhelm]
1509 - Fixed the command-line args --extra_compiler_flags and
1510 --extra_linker_flags so they properly shell-split their arguments.
1512 0.2807 - Sat Mar 24 22:19:02 2007
1514 - Upgraded to version.pm 0.71. [John Peacock]
1516 - Removed a couple small constructs in the tests ("use warnings;" and
1517 "qw$foo bar$[1]") that caused test failures under perl 5.005.
1519 - Added support for an explicit default value of undef in prompt().
1522 - Improved our prompt() method, which could sometimes hang before the
1523 user got a chance to see a prompt. [Andreas Koenig]
1525 - Added a note about --allow_mb_mismatch to the error message that
1526 happens right before someone might want to use that parameter.
1528 - Added DragonflyBSD to the list of known Unix OSes.
1530 - get_action_docs() dies on error rather than twiddling $@
1532 - Made ModuleInfo's _evaluate_version_line() compatible with 'use
1533 version ...$VERSION' lines. [Eric Wilhelm]
1535 - Added some verbiage in Module::Build::API that officially blesses
1536 the _build/prereqs file for external consumption. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig]
1538 - Added test profiles support via the test_types property and "testall"
1539 target. [Eric Wilhelm, Jeff Lavallee]
1541 - Use syscopy() on OS/2 in copy_if_modified() so we make sure to
1542 overwrite any existing target file. [Ilya Zakharevich]
1544 - Removed seemingly silly '~~' test in t/tilde.t.
1546 - In our test-time utility library t/lib/MBTest.pm, we need to know
1547 about a few .exe-like extensions on OS/2. [Ilya Zakharevich]
1549 - In t/ppm.t, use DynaLoader::mod2fname() (if available) to determine
1550 the correct translation of our test module's name into a DLL
1551 name. [Ilya Zakharevich]
1553 - Avoid an unlink() error on OS/2 when fixing shebang lines. [Ilya
1556 - When we're protecting the world from the evils of long RedHat
1557 $ENV{PERL5LIB} variables, don't assume $ENV{PERL5LIB} is already
1558 defined. This gets rid of a huge number of warnings for some
1559 people. [Dave Rolsky]
1561 0.2806 - Fri Dec 15 22:20:14 2006
1563 - On some systems (haven't identified the actual problem yet)
1564 $ENV{PERL5LIB} can grow to enormous enough sizes that we can't
1565 launch any more subprocesses because the environment table is full.
1566 This is the now-infamous "Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too
1567 long" error. Now we detect such situations and trim the directory
1568 list to only include directories that actually exist, listed only
1569 once each. Not the ideal solution, but it should work.
1571 - Silence a warning in M::B::ModuleInfo that happens when the author
1572 is using the "$VERSION = eval $VERSION" idiom.
1574 - When running the 'testcover' action, do "cover --delete" if any of
1575 the test files have changed (we already did so if any of the code
1576 under test has changed). [Suggested by Chris Dolan, RT #23584]
1578 - Fixed a broken link in the documentation about PREFIX. [Spotted by
1581 - Changes to do_system() & friends on VMS to get system calls working
1582 much better there. [Craig Berry]
1584 - Added the "pardist" target which creates a PAR binary distribution
1585 akin to a PPM distribution. [Steffen Mueller]
1587 - Added the Interix platform as a Unix variant. [Stephen Hartland]
1589 - Improved the error message we emit when a distribution contains XS
1590 files but the user has no C compiler. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig]
1592 0.2805_01 Thu Sep 7 21:57:29 CDT 2006
1594 - Because of a weird behavior of YAML::Node, any distribution that
1595 used version.pm objects to define their versions was generating the
1596 wrong syntax for the versions in their META.yml file. They will
1597 now appear as strings like v3.42.1 or similar, including the
1600 - Upgraded to version 0.67 of version.pm. [John Peacock]
1602 - Added a contrib/ directory with a bash completion function for M::B
1603 actions and switches. [Julian Mehnle]
1605 - When we eval() the embedded version.pm code we will now die() if
1606 the eval() was unsuccessful, rather than continuing blindly on and
1607 dying mysteriously later.
1609 - Added a 'retest' action that lets users run the current regression
1610 tests on a previously-installed version of a distribution.
1612 * Instead of storing an entire dump of the Config.pm hash in the
1613 _build/ directory upon startup, we now just store any overrides the
1614 user or author has specified. Note that if you were doing anything
1615 you weren't supposed to be doing, like poking around in the
1616 internals of $buld->{config}, your code might break, so I've put
1617 the asterisk of incompatibility on this one just to cover my
1618 tuchus. [Idea originally by Randy Sims]
1620 - Made copying files via copy_if_modified() a little less chatty.
1622 0.2805 Sat Jul 29 22:01:24 CDT 2006
1624 - We now embed a copy of version.pm right in the
1625 Module::Build::Version source code, with John Peacock's blessing,
1626 in case the user has a rough time installing version.pm. This
1627 helps alleviate troubles people were still having with working out
1628 a seemingly circular dependency (even though version.pm now ships
1629 with a standard Makefile.PL too). A version.pm >= 0.661 installed
1630 on the system will take precedence over our bundled one. [John
1633 - Fix some test warnings (or failures?) related to version.pm
1634 numification. [John Peacock]
1636 - The top-level 'version' entry in META.yml files we'd generated was
1637 in the wrong format (it was being treated as a version.pm object
1638 rather than a serialized copy) due to a weird YAML::Node issue.
1641 - Don't 'use base qw(version)' anymore in our M::B::Version wrapper,
1642 just set @ISA directly, because some people have reported that the
1643 'use base' line is croaking.
1645 - Added an 'allow_mb_mismatch' parameter to suppress the startup
1646 check that ensures the version of M::B currently running is the
1647 same as the one initially used to run the Build.PL. Use with
1650 - Module::Build::ModuleInfo will no longer detect things that look
1651 like $VERSION assignments after an __END__ or __DATA__ token.
1653 - Updated documentation to mention the new mailing list on perl.org
1654 rather than the old one on sourceforge.
1656 0.2804 Sun Jul 16 16:41:25 CDT 2006
1658 - Added 'use version;' in Module::Build::Version, because some
1659 versions of base.pm won't automatically load version.pm when we do
1660 'use base qw/version/;'. [Spotted by Erik Tank]
1662 0.2803 Sat Jul 15 08:26:34 CDT 2006
1664 - The META.yml file in the last release was all screwed up, so the
1665 distribution wasn't indexed properly. Fixed in this release.
1667 0.2802 Fri Jul 14 22:40:34 CDT 2006
1669 - Added reliance on version.pm, which means we should deal much
1670 better with the wide range of version specifications one finds on
1671 CPAN. This is made possible by recent releases of version.pm that
1672 give the user a pure-perl option, so installing version.pm
1673 shouldn't be too onerous for most users. [John Peacock]
1675 - We should be accepting the default when we're in unattended mode,
1676 not acting dumb and ignoring both the default and the [empty]
1677 answer from the user. Fixed. [Spotted by Nik Clayton]
1679 0.2801 Sun May 21 00:07:40 CDT 2006
1681 - Module::Build::Compat's emulation of INC is incorrectly prepending
1682 a -I to the value of INC. This is incorrect because there should
1683 already be a -I on the value. I.E. it's "perl Makefile.PL INC=-Ifoo"
1684 not "perl Makefile.PL INC=foo" so Compat should not prefix a -I.
1687 - Native batch scripts under Windows should not be converted by
1688 pl2bat. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
1690 - Tweaked the way we determine whether a file is executable on Unix.
1691 We use this determination to decide whether to make it executable
1692 during installation. [Julian Mehnle]
1694 - Replaced a vestigial 'next' with 'return' now that the code is in a
1695 subroutine (htmlify_pods()), not a loop. [Ron Savage]
1697 - Fixed a guaranteed failure in t/signature.t when TEST_SIGNATURE was
1698 set. [Eric R. Meyers]
1700 - Fixed a test failure that occurred when testing or installing in
1701 unattended mode - the code to test whether unattended mode and
1702 attended mode are working properly was assuming that we started out
1703 in attended mode. [Steve Peters]
1705 - Improved our stand-in YAML generator that we use to generate
1706 META.yaml when authors don't have a copy of YAML.pm installed on
1707 their machine. It was unable to handle things like embedded
1708 newlines in the data, now it has a much more extensive escaping
1709 mechanism. [Stephen Adkins]
1711 - Revised the docs for --prefix and PREFIX. [Michael Schwern]
1713 0.28 Thu Apr 27 22:25:00 CDT 2006
1715 - When y_n() or prompt() are called without a default value and the
1716 build seems to be unattended (e.g. in automatic CPAN testing), we
1717 now die() with an error message rather than silently returning
1718 undef for prompt(), or looping indefinitely for y_n().
1720 - When searching for '.modulebuildrc', return the first HOME-like
1721 directory that actually contains the file instead of the first
1722 existing directory. Document the search locations and the order
1723 searched. [Spotted by David Golden]
1725 - Split the API documentation out of Module::Build::Authoring into
1726 its own document: Module::Build::API.
1728 - We should not emit a warning if a Module::Build subclass is
1729 required in a Makefile.PL that is not bundled in the current
1730 distribution; it may be installed on the user's system. [Spotted by
1733 - copy_if_modified() now preserves the executable bit of the source
1734 file. [Spotted by Julian Mehnle]
1736 - Fixed compatibility of our screen-scraping the Test::Harness output
1737 so we can recognize the most recent Test::Harness version. [Steve
1740 - Backing out a requirement added in 0.27_06 on the method y_n()
1741 to always include a default. This behavior would cause existing
1742 build scripts to start failing. We now fail with a missing default
1743 only when $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} is set because there is no
1746 - Make install_types() method smarter with respect to custom install
1749 - Add documentation for the install_base_relpaths() and
1750 prefix_relpaths() methods. Improved their usage for a public API,
1753 0.27_10 Tue Mar 28 22:50:50 CST 2006
1755 - Added the create_packlist property, default true, which controls
1756 whether packlist files will be written during installation. This
1757 was already part of Module::Build 0.2609, but for some reason we've
1758 forgotten it in the 0.27_xx series. [Spotted by Steve Kirkup]
1760 - Document the versions of Module::Build where each feature, action,
1761 constructor argument, and method was first publicly documented.
1763 - More fixes for find_perl_interpreter() to work with BSD flavored
1764 UNIX: Ensure we always return absolute paths; throw an exception
1765 upon failure to find correct interperter; document everything.
1767 - We now include our own YAML.pm work-alike that we can use when the
1768 real YAML isn't installed. We might soon even start using it when
1769 YAML is installed, because the YAML API and dependency chain have
1770 been changing in unfavorable ways lately. [Stephen Adkins]
1772 - Fixed some shell-argument-quoting issues on VMS. In the process,
1773 we have added some support for avoiding tripping over
1774 shell-argument-quoting issues on other platforms too. [Initial
1775 patch by Craig A. Berry]
1777 0.27_09 Sat Mar 11 22:48:54 EST 2006
1779 - Fixed find_perl_interpreter() so we can find the perl executable
1780 when running from uninstalled perl even when $^X contains a
1781 relative path. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
1783 - Fixed warning message where we were printing the wrong field names.
1786 - Added a 'testpodcoverage' action that runs a POD coverage check for
1787 all modules in the distribution. [Yanick Champoux]
1789 - Added a Cookbook example of subclassing to modify an action. [Dylan
1790 Martin and David Golden]
1792 - When building HTML documentation, we were opening the POD file and
1793 not checking whether the open succeeded, which of course caused
1794 problems down the line if it failed. Now we do "or die(...)" like
1795 everywhere else. [Spotted by Joerg Braun]
1797 0.27_08 Fri Mar 3 21:22:41 CST 2006
1799 - Due to shell quoting issues and differences in syntax between
1800 various flavors of Windows, the code for the 'pl2bat' utility
1801 distributed with Perl has been incorporated into M::B::P::Windows.
1802 [Thanks to Dr Bean and Ron Savage for help testing and isolating
1805 - Modify add_build_element() so that it only adds elements if they
1806 don't already exist. [David Wheeler]
1808 - Fixed a bug in the 'pass-through' Makefile.PL in which we would die
1809 if CPAN::Shell->install returned false, but apparently this return
1810 value is unreliable. Now we only die if the module is actually
1811 unavailable after installation.
1813 - Fixed testing problems on VMS related to non-case-preserving
1814 filesystems. We now bundle Tie::CPHash in the distribution (just
1815 for testing purposes, it doesn't get installed) to help with
1816 this. [Craig Berry and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
1818 - We incorrectly documented the 'dynamic_config' flag in the META.yml
1819 file as having a default value of false, but according to the
1820 META.yml spec (which, for heaven's sake, we wrote) its default
1821 value is true. Fixed. [Spotted by Adam Kennedy]
1823 - The have_c_compiler() method was dying if the ExtUtils::CBuilder
1824 module wasn't around, which is obviously an unhelpful thing to do.
1825 Now it just returns false. [Spotted by John Peacock]
1827 - Fix detection of $VERSION expressions that are not
1828 assignments. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
1830 - Obfuscate one of our constructs that uses a $VERSION variable,
1831 because it was getting picked up by ExtUtils::MakeMaker's
1832 version-finder. [Spotted by Randal Schwartz]
1834 - The config_data script for querying and/or setting a module's
1835 config data was forgetting to call write() after setting config
1836 values (though setting feature values was working fine).
1837 Fixed. [Brian Duggan]
1839 - On Windows, remove the pl2bat generated 'Build.bat' script without
1840 the annoying "The batch file cannot be found." error. [Solution
1841 provided by RazTK and foxidrive on newsgroup alt.msdos.batch]
1843 - Our version comparisons should now work correctly with modules that
1844 use version.pm to delcare their versions (e.g. "our $VERSION =
1845 version->new('1.0.0')"). [John Peacock and Ron Savage]
1847 - We now create a Build.bat script on versions of Windows where it
1850 - Fixed the verbiage around choosing the correct make-alike on
1851 different platforms to suggest using 'perl -V:make'. [Suggested by
1854 0.27_07 Wed Feb 1 20:07:45 CST 2006
1856 - The notes() method now returns the new value when called with two
1857 arguments, just like when it's called with one argument. [Tyler
1860 - The notes() method now distinguishes among the values undef, 0, and
1861 the empty string, where previously it didn't. [Tyler MacDonald]
1863 - We now unshift(@INC) rather than push(@INC) for the directory where
1864 a build subclass lives, so that we're sure to pick up the right
1865 version and not some already-installed version. [perlmonkey]
1867 - The SIGNATURE file for version 0.27_06 (and I'm sure for lots of
1868 versions before that too!) was messed up, since we were modifying
1869 some files after signing. This has been band-aided for the time
1870 being by signing twice. [Reported by Chris Dolan]
1872 0.27_06 Mon Jan 23 21:44:54 CST 2006
1874 - Fixed an undefined-variable warning when building the META.yml file
1875 and the author hasn't used the 'module_name' mechanism. [Chris Dolan]
1877 - We should now work with recent (> 0.49) versions of YAML.pm when
1878 creating the META.yml file. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
1880 - The y_n() method now requires the default parameter, and the
1881 prompt() and y_n() methods have been improved with respect to
1882 how they behave/detect when there is no user to ask. We're now
1883 more consistent with MakeMaker, including respecting the
1884 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT environment variable. [Tyler MacDonald and
1885 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
1887 - When building a README file using Pod::Text, work around a bug in
1888 Pod::Text 3.01, which expects Pod::Simple::parse_file to take input
1889 and output filehandles when it actually only takes an input
1890 filehandle. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
1892 0.27_05 Thu Jan 12 17:39:21 CST 2006
1894 - In t/common.pl, we were attempting to let the user's installed
1895 Test::More take precedence over ours, but getting thwarted by all
1896 the test scripts' loading Test::More beforehand. Fixed. [Spotted
1897 by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
1899 - In various test scripts, we were outputting some strings that
1900 weren't strictly conformant with Test::Harness's expected input,
1901 though it didn't actually cause problems. Now we're more
1902 conformant, though not yet strict. [Spotted by Yitzchak
1905 0.27_04 Fri Dec 23 10:43:34 CST 2005
1907 - Removed experimental feature that extended the prerequisite system
1908 to apply ('requires', 'recommends', and 'conflicts') prereqs to all
1909 actions. Most of the internal extensiblity has been retained so
1910 that prereq types can easily be added, more selectively.
1912 - Added a 'prereq_report' action that shows the user a well-formatted
1913 list of all prerequisites, the versions required, and the versions
1914 actually installed. [David Wheeler]
1916 - Clarified the directory name that's created during the 'distdir'
1917 action. [Suggested by Tyler MacDonald]
1919 - Fixed a bug when creating the META.yml file without the help of
1920 YAML.pm - some common strings weren't quoted & escaped properly.
1921 Now only some uncommon ones are. [Spotted by Joshua ben Jore]
1923 - Fixed a bug in which an "UNINST=1" argument specified to a
1924 passthrough Makefile's "make install" wasn't actually seen by
1927 - Rather than dying when the Build script is run from the wrong
1928 directory, it now simply chdir()s into the right directory and
1929 keeps going. [Suggested by Dominique Quatravaux]
1931 - Added an "Examples on CPAN" section to the cookbook, with an
1932 initial entry pointing to John Peacock's SVN-Notify-Mirror
1935 - Add an invoked_action() method to return the name of the original
1936 action invoked by the user.
1938 - Add 'meta-spec' field to the generated META.yml file, including the
1939 version of the specification followed by the current Module::Build
1940 and the url where the specification can be found.
1942 - Introduced two actions, 'html' & 'manpages', that generate
1943 documentation for POD when the respective feature is enabled. The
1944 actions will generate the documents even if there is no set place
1945 to install to. However, if the actions are invoked as a dependency
1946 of another action (e.g. build), the documentation will only be
1947 built when there is a default or user-specified place to install to.
1949 - Added support for environment variable, 'MODULEBUILDRC', which can
1950 be used to specify the full path to an option file to use instead
1951 of the default location of ~/.modulebuildrc. A special undocumented
1952 setting of 'NONE' tells Module::Build not to load any user settings,
1953 so tests can be run without tainting from user options.
1955 - Documented and improved preliminary support for more Getopt::Long
1956 style options are supported, including boolean options (--verbose,
1957 --no-verbose), and use of hyphens in option names in addition to
1960 - The option to disable/enable reading of the ~/.modulebuildrc file
1961 is changed from 'skip_rcfile' to 'use_rcfile'
1963 - Allow the 'distmeta' action to continue when 'MANIFEST' is missing,
1964 omitting the generation of the 'provieds' field. [Steven Schubiger]
1966 - Fixed some failing regex from generated MANIFEST.SKIP file.
1968 - Fixed an edge case in $VERSION parsing where we thought a package()
1969 declaration was happening but it wasn't. [David Golden]
1971 - Added docs for the install_destination() and install_types() methods.
1973 0.27_03 (Beta for 0.28) Mon Oct 10 11:19:23 EDT 2005
1975 - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
1976 example, when compiling XS modules). (This change actually
1977 occurred in 0.27_01, but it was mistakenly omitted from the Changes
1980 - Fixed an issue on Win32 (and other case-tolerant
1981 non-case-preserving systems, possibly like VMS?) in which the
1982 current working directory would sometimes be reported with
1983 different case, fooling us into thinking that we were in the wrong
1984 directory. [David Golden]
1986 - The extra_compiler_flags setting was not actually being passed
1987 along to ExtUtils::CBuilder so it could pass it along to the
1988 compiler. Now it is.
1990 - The synonyms 'scripts' and 'prereq' for 'script_files' and
1991 'requires' were broken in a previous version (0.27_01, probably),
1992 but now they're fixed. [David Golden]
1994 - Previously, we assumed that any custom subclass of Module::Build
1995 was located in _build/lib/. This is only true if the author used
1996 the subclass() method, though. We now use %INC to find where the
1997 custom subclass really is, so that we can "use lib" it. We also
1998 issue a warning if it seems to be outside the build directory.
1999 [Spotted by Peter Tandler]
2001 - Added a URL for each license type that we know about, which will
2002 appear as resources=>license: in the generated META.yml file.
2004 - If the user passes a no_index parameter to our constructor, we now
2005 pass that through when building the META.yml file. [Richard
2006 Soderberg, RT #9603]
2008 - A few more status messages can now be suppressed by using 'quiet'
2011 - Added some more entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file. [Chris
2014 - Our POD parser will now accept "AUTHORS" as well as "AUTHOR" when
2015 looking for the author list in a module. [David Wheeler]
2017 - When looking for the POD to auto-generate a README file, or for the
2018 AUTHOR or ABSTRACT for the distribution, we now also look for a
2019 *.pod with the same name as the *.pm file specified by
2020 'version_from'. [David Golden]
2022 - The recommended dependency on ExtUtils::ParseXS has been moved into
2023 the "C_support" auto_feature.
2025 - When building XS files, we now pass the -DVERSION and -DXS_VERSION
2026 flags to the compiler. [Spotted by Jerry Hedden]
2028 - If a distribution has XS files and Module::Build has not been
2029 configured with the "C_support" feature, we now issue a
2030 warning. [Suggested by Jerry Hedden]
2032 - Added a dir_contains() method.
2034 - Some versions of MakeMaker, CPANPLUS, and/or PAUSE thought that a
2035 certain line of our code was declaring a $VERSION when we didn't
2036 intend to. The line has been obscurified so they won't think that
2037 anymore. [Jos Boumans, RT #14226]
2039 - Added the Apache, MIT, and Mozilla licenses to the list of licenses
2040 that this module knows about. [Bob Ippolito]
2042 - Fixed a pretty significant typo in the documentation for
2043 auto_features. [Spotted by Jonas B. Nielsen]
2045 - In order to aid people who want to do customization of the META.yml
2046 file, we've added a "metafile" property that can then be easily
2047 overridden in subclasses, changed do_create_meta_yml() to
2048 do_create_metafile(), and split out the code that actually
2049 generates the YAML into a new method, write_metafile(). [David
2052 - Fixed a couple of non-helpful behaviors with extra_compiler_flags
2053 and extra_linker_flags. These will automatically be run through
2054 split_like_shell() when given to new() as strings.
2056 - When the user doesn't have ExtUtils::ParseXS installed and we use
2057 the old 'xsubpp', the displayed command line for creating the .c
2058 file from the .xs file was missing its newline. Now it's got it.
2060 0.27_02 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Jul 15 07:34:58 CDT 2005
2062 - Provided initial support for the --prefix installation parameter,
2063 which acts like MakeMaker's PREFIX. It is still highly recommended
2064 NOT to use it when you could reasonably use --install_base or
2065 --install_path or --install_dest, but that's just because the way
2066 --prefix is designed is weird and unpredictable. Ultimately the
2067 choice rests with the installing user. [Patches by Michael Schwern
2070 - Fixed a bug in subclass() which prevented people from using it to
2071 subclass subclasses of Module::Build. [Chris Dolan]
2073 - Added a 'pure_install' action, which for the time being is
2074 identical to the 'install' action. [Jos Boumans]
2076 - Fixed a POD error in an L<http://...> tag. [Offer Kaye]
2078 - Note several options for automatically creating a new module dev
2079 tree. [Suggested by Eric Wilhelm]
2081 - Removed some hard-coded references to File::Spec::Unix in the
2082 creation of HTML docs, which should help that code work in more
2083 places, and help people not to panic when they look at it. [Spotted
2086 - We now use Pod::Readme by default (instead of Pod::Text) to
2087 generate the README file when the 'create_readme' option is used.
2088 If Pod::Readme is not installed, we will still fall back to using
2089 Pod::Text. [Robert Rothenberg]
2091 - The values of the "prefix", "install_base", "install_path", and
2092 "install_dest" parameters can now begin with "~" or "~user", and
2093 we'll de-tilde-ify them by using glob().
2095 - The (optional) auto-creation of the README and Makefile.PL files
2096 have been moved from the 'distdir' action to the 'distmeta'
2097 action. [David Golden]
2099 - When looking for a .modulebuildrc file, we now use a fancier method
2100 of trying to find the home directory, because $ENV{HOME} isn't a
2101 very cross-platform variable. [Robert Rothenberg]
2103 - We now memoize the output of the internal _default_INC() method,
2104 since it uses backticks and might be kind of slow.
2106 - When processing XS files, we now look for a typemap in lib/ as well
2107 as using the system's default typemap. [John Peacock]
2109 - The DESTDIR, PREFIX, and INSTALL_BASE arguments to "make install"
2110 are now supported for pass-through Makefiles (they've been
2111 supported for quite a while as arguments to "perl
2112 Makefile.PL"). [Requested by Guillaume Rousse]
2114 - Test::Harness has changed its output format in recent versions,
2115 which threw off one of our tests. We now allow for this different
2116 format. [Reported by Scott Godin]
2118 - Fixed an issue that prevented Module::Build from upgrading itself
2119 using its own API (which is how CPANPLUS uses it). There are still
2120 some issues with this solution, however. See ticket #13169 in
2121 rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
2123 - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when a distribution's author
2124 could not be determined from its POD nor from the call to
2125 Module::Build->new() in its Build.PL. See ticket #12318 in
2126 rt.cpan.org. [Reported by Jos Boumans]
2128 - Apparently on Windows and cygwin it's not possible to use the "-pi"
2129 switch to perl without a backup extension, so now we use ".bak" and
2130 remove the backup file when we're done. Thus the "dist" action for
2131 Module::Build itself can now be run on those platforms. [Yitzchak
2134 - Improved the handling of auto_features in the config_data access
2135 script. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
2137 0.27_01 (Beta for 0.28) Fri Apr 15 21:12:57 CDT 2005
2139 Backward-incompatible (but better) changes:
2141 * When using the 'install_base' option to choose a directory for
2142 installing everything, perl modules now go into lib/perl5/ instead
2143 of just lib/. It seems this is more consistent with people's
2144 expectations, and the way I had it before was a bit peculiar to the
2145 way I like things in my own home directory. [Michael Schwern]
2147 * When the user is using the 'install_base' option, scripts will now
2148 be installed by default in $install_base/bin/ rather than
2149 $install_base/script/ . [Jan Hudec and Michael Schwern]
2153 - The auto_features mechanism will now re-evaluate dependencies every
2154 time feature() is called for an auto-feature, rather than freezing
2155 the success/failure value during 'perl Build.PL' and using that
2156 value for all eternity (or module update, whichever comes first).
2157 This applies to both $build->feature() and
2158 FooModule::ConfigData->feature() calls. [Requested by many]
2160 - Added the meta_add and meta_merge mechanisms, which let the module
2161 author add/merge arbitrary entries into the META.yml file.
2163 - Now reads per-action default options from '$ENV{HOME}/.modulebuildrc'
2164 if it exists. Command line options override anything set in the rc file.
2166 - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
2167 example, when compiling XS modules).
2169 - The creation of Unix man pages is no longer a strict necessity - it
2170 has now been turned into an 'auto-feature' contingent on the
2171 presence of Pod::Man and a location specified for man pages to go.
2173 - A user-specified 'install_path' setting will now take precedence
2174 over an 'install_base' setting. This allows the user to use
2175 'install_base' to set the base for all elements in one go, and then
2176 use 'install_path' to override specific paths or add paths for
2177 additional kinds of targets.
2179 - Split the main documentation from 'Module/Build.pm' into two
2180 sections. The user level documentation and overview remains in
2181 'Module/Build.pm', while a new document,
2182 'Module/Build/Authoring.pod', has been created for module authors.
2186 - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
2187 because of inadequate training in forensic debate) - we now pass its
2188 arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
2191 - Let resume() return an object blessed into the appropriate class
2192 if the user has provided a subclass, as specified by the
2193 'build_class' property. This allows current() and new_from_context()
2194 to behave more like factory methods returning objects of the correct
2195 class based on context. [Ray Zimmerman]
2197 - Refactored methods relating to parsing perl module files for
2198 package, version, and pod data into a new class:
2199 Module::Build::ModuleInfo. It should not be considered part of
2200 Module::Build's API, because we may split it out entirely as a
2201 separate CPAN module that we depend on.
2203 - Added new method Module::Build::prepare_metadata() for authors to
2204 override in order to add custom fields to META.yml.
2206 - We now use Test::More for our regression tests. If the user
2207 doesn't have it installed, we include a copy in t/lib/ that we can
2210 - When copying files in the 'distdir' action, set permissions to match
2211 the original files. [Julian Mehnle]
2213 - When adding files like META.yml to the MANIFEST, we now tell the
2214 user we're doing so by printing one of the "Added to MANIFEST: ..."
2217 - Added a runtime_params() method, which lets a module author see
2218 which parameters were overridden by the user on the command line
2219 (or in whatever paradigm the user originally invoked Module::Build
2220 from). [David Wheeler]
2222 - Added the current_action() method, which, surprisingly, returns the
2223 name of the currently running action. [David Wheeler]
2225 - Added docs for run_perl_script().
2227 - Added some stuff to the docs about why PREFIX is unsupported, and
2228 what to use instead. [Steve Purkis]
2230 - The simple get/set accessor methods for all the 'parameters' like
2231 verbose(), license(), etc. now have auto-generated documentation in
2234 - Created a Cookbook entry for 'Adding new elements to the install
2237 - We now add META.yml to the MANIFEST when META.yml is created, not
2238 when MANIFEST is created. [Spotted by Ron Savage]
2240 - Added some additional patterns to the suggested MANIFEST.SKIP
2241 contents, and changed the docs so that we encourage the user to use
2242 the MANIFEST.SKIP. [Ron Savage]
2244 - Eliminated a redundant recipe from the Cookbook, now that there are
2245 some more extensive recipes on how to add stuff to the
2246 build/install sequences.
2248 - Eliminated an undefined-variable warning when testing under perl 5.005
2250 - When building HTML documentation, 'html_backlink' and 'html_css'
2251 properties are now first-class properties, so they can be set from
2252 the command line. [Suggested by Sagar R. Shah]
2254 - Have script_files default to everything in bin. I believe this is
2255 the least surprising behavior. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
2257 - If script_files is given a directory, consider each file in that
2258 directory tree as a script to be installed. This avoids having to
2259 remember to add to the script_files list every time you add a
2260 program. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
2262 - We now only load Pod::Man when we actually need to build man pages.
2264 - We now make Test::Harness use our carefully-selected path to a perl
2265 executable regardless of Test::Harness's version. Previously we
2266 let it figure stuff out for itself if it was a reasonably modern
2267 version, but it's safer to make sure we're using the same perl
2270 0.2610 Fri Apr 15 08:25:01 CDT 2005
2272 - new_from_context() was losing its arguments in some cases (and not
2273 because of inadequate training in debate) - we now pass its
2274 arguments directly to the Build.PL script rather than merging them
2275 in afterwards. [Ray Zimmerman]
2277 - Fixed a bug in which config_data and feature data were being
2278 forgotten and no ConfigData.pm module would get written. [Ray
2281 - Added a recipe to the cookbook showing how to run a single test
2282 file from the command line. [William McKee]
2284 - For command-line arguments, we now accept the syntax "--foo=bar" in
2285 addition to "--foo bar" and "foo=bar". This seems to fit well with
2286 what GNU getopt and Getopt::Long do, and with people's
2287 expectations. [Adam Spiers]
2289 0.2609 Wed Mar 16 22:18:35 CST 2005
2291 - The html docs that were created during the first invokation of
2292 './Build' were being found and treated as pod that needed to be
2293 converted to html during subsequent invokations. We now are more
2294 specific about the directories we scan for pod that needs to be
2295 converted, effectively avoiding blib/html. [Ray Zimmerman]
2297 - If Pod::Man is not available, we now skip building man pages
2298 (rather than dying) and tell the user why.
2300 - We now write a .packlist file upon installation, in the same place
2301 that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does. [Johnny Lam]
2303 - On some Unix platforms (BSD derivatives, mostly) perl's $^X
2304 variable isn't set to the full path of the perl executable, just
2305 'perl', when the 'Build' script is run as './Build' and not 'perl
2306 ./Build'. This can lead to some other modules (maybe
2307 Test::Harness, maybe IO::File, I dunno...) getting very confused
2308 about where they are, and they try to load stuff from the wrong
2309 perl lib, and big trouble ensues. To fix this, we now set $^X to
2310 the value of Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter().
2312 - The 'distcheck' action will now die() if it finds an error in the
2313 MANIFEST, rather than just printing on STDOUT. [David Golden]
2315 - When the README and/or Makefile.PL are autogenerated using
2316 create_readme or create_makefile_pl, we now automatically make sure
2317 they're also listed in the MANIFEST file. [Suggested by Michael
2320 - Got rid of the t/MANIFEST file - it's superfluous, and it had
2321 zero-length, which some versions of Tar don't like. [William
2324 - Added a mention in the documentation that each property that new()
2325 accepts also has a corresponding get/set accessor. (In the version
2326 0.27_0x series each accessor method is mentioned explicitly in the
2327 docs.) [Omission spotted by Ian Langworth]
2329 0.2608 Wed Jan 26 19:46:09 CST 2005
2331 - Add workaround for test files because Devel::Cover causes
2332 require to fail when the argument to require is an expression
2333 involving File::Spec. We now assign the result of the File::Spec
2334 call to a variable and then call require with that variable.
2336 - Tilde-expansion is now performed on arguments passed to a
2337 compatibility-Makefile.PL [Spotted by Sam Vilain]
2339 - We now run the 'gzip' and 'tar' values through split_like_shell()
2340 when running the 'dist' action, so that e.g. the 'gzip' value can
2341 be set to something like "gzip -f --best" and it'll work
2342 correctly. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]
2344 - Work around some bad mojo between Fedora Core [with its very long
2345 @INC] and old versions of Test::Harness [with its propensity to
2346 compound the number of @INC entries] that produced an "argument
2347 list too long" error during testing. [assisted by Ville Skytta,
2348 David Golden, & Randy Sims]
2350 - Killed an infinite loop that would happen in y_n() in interactive
2351 mode if the author provided no default value. [Max Maischein]
2353 0.2607 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Sat Dec 18 14:14:09 CST 2004
2355 - Instead of freezing @INC in the 'Build' script to the value it had
2356 when Build.PL was run, we now just add those additional values that
2357 aren't part of the default compiled-in @INC. [Michael Schwern]
2359 - The run_perl_script() method will now propagate any extra entries
2360 in @INC (such as those added by "use lib" or the -I command-line
2361 switch) to the subprocess. This helps situations in which you want
2362 to tell the subprocess where to find a certain module, for
2363 instance. [Michael Schwern]
2365 0.2606 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Dec 7 22:33:11 CST 2004
2367 - Fixed a linking bug on Win32, in which compiled C code object files
2368 never got linked in with the modules being built. [Dominic
2371 - Fixed a bug in the new_from_context() method in which any arguments
2372 passed made us die. [Spotted by Jos Boumans]
2374 0.2605 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Tue Nov 30 07:16:13 CST 2004
2376 - Fixed a bug in which zero-length arguments for hash-valued
2377 parameters (e.g. " --config foo= ") weren't being allowed.
2379 - The tests now play better with environments in which version.pm is
2380 pre-loaded, like in bleadperl. [John Peacock & Michael Schwern]
2382 - Fixed a syntax error in one of the tests under perl 5.005.
2384 0.2604 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 17 14:32:42 CST 2004
2386 - Fixed a split_like_shell() bug introduced in 0.2603 for Windows, in
2387 which an array reference passed as an argument was returned as an
2388 array reference, rather than as a list. [Spotted by Steve Hay]
2390 - module_name() will now return '' instead of undef when module_name
2391 is not set. This eliminates a couple uninitialized-value
2392 warnings. [Suggested by Michael Schwern]
2394 - The expand_test_dir() method will now skip dotfiles (like ._foo.t,
2395 which sometimes gets automatically created on Mac systems) when
2396 'recursive_test_files' is in effect. [Tom Insam]
2398 0.2603 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Mon Nov 15 10:28:00 CST 2004
2400 - Added documentation for the new_from_context() method.
2402 - Completely rewrote the split_like_shell() method for the Windows
2403 platform so it works like the command.com shell. [Randy Sims]
2405 0.2602 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Thu Nov 4 11:19:29 CST 2004
2407 - The two bug fixes in 0.2601 gnashed against each other incorrectly,
2408 resulting in a Win32 bug in split_like_shell(). Fixed. [Spotted
2409 by Steve Hay & Randy Sims]
2411 - Removed a couple of 'use warnings' statements from the code - they
2412 were causing compile failures on 5.005_04, where warnings.pm isn't
2413 available. [Blair Zajac]
2415 0.2601 (Bug fix release in 0.26 series) Wed Nov 3 20:09:27 CST 2004
2417 - Fixed some backslash problems with split_like_shell() on
2420 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
2421 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
2422 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
2424 0.26 Sat Oct 9 17:51:01 CDT 2004
2426 - Removed some language from the Module::Build::Compat documentation
2427 that encouraged people to include a Build.PL without a Makefile.PL.
2428 Also changed "a replacement for MakeMaker" to "an alternative to
2429 MakeMaker" in the main documentation, which is basically what I
2430 meant all along (i.e. a replacement for MakeMaker in your
2431 particular build process - MakeMaker is never going to be fully
2432 replaced in the perl world at large, of course), but some people
2433 got the impression I was a little more truculent toward MakeMaker
2436 - Added the formal concepts of "features" and "config data" for
2437 distributions. This allows the module author to define a certain
2438 set of features that the user can switch on and off (usually
2439 according to whether they have the proper prerequisites for them),
2440 and to save build-time configuration information in a standardized
2441 format. See the main documentation of Module::Build for more
2442 details. (Note that the name of this system was called
2443 "BuildConfig" for a while in beta, but now it's called
2446 - Added an 'auto_features' capability, which simplifies the process
2447 of defining features that depend on a set of prerequisites.
2449 - Added the 'get_options' parameter, which lets module authors
2450 declare certain command-line arguments their Build.PL can accept
2453 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
2454 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
2455 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
2457 - Added a 'testpod' action, which checks the syntactic validity of
2458 all POD files in the distribution using Test::Pod. This eliminates
2459 the need for doing so in a regression test. [Initial patch by Mark
2462 - Added a process_files_by_extension() method, which generalizes the
2463 kind of processing (essentially just copying) that happens for .pm
2464 and .pod files, and makes it available to other user-defined types
2465 of files. See the new cookbook entry.
2467 - Improved compatibility with version.pm when authors are using
2468 version objects as their $VERSION variables. Now
2469 version_from_file() can deal with these objects. Currently we
2470 stringify them right away, but perhaps in the future we will
2471 preserve them as objects for a while.
2473 - During 'distdir' and 'distmeta' actions, die a bit more gracefully
2474 if there's no MANIFEST (i.e. explicitly say that a MANIFEST is
2475 required). [Spotted by Adrian Howard]
2477 - Eliminated a recursive dependency between creating the MANIFEST
2478 file and creating the META.yml file. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
2480 - On Win32, where a single directory might be known variously as
2481 "Module-Build-0.25_03" or "MODULE~1.25_", we now use
2482 Win32::GetShortPathName($cwd) to verify that the 'Build' script is
2483 being run from the correct directory, rather than just a string
2486 - The add_to_cleanup() method will now accept glob()-style patterns
2487 in addition to explicit filenames. Also documented the fact that
2488 they can be specified in either Unix-style or native-style
2491 - Passing a PREFIX value to a pass-through Makefile 'make install'
2492 now has the same effect as passing it to 'perl Makefile.PL' (it
2493 dies with a helpful message).
2495 - Added the 'testcover' action, which runs a test suite using
2496 Devel::Cover. [Dave Rolsky]
2498 - Added the 'lib' and 'arch' installation directories to the search
2499 path for the 'diff' action, since they won't necessarily (though
2500 they usually will) be in @INC at installation time. [Suggested by
2503 - The "=head3" POD directive isn't supported in older podlators
2504 (particularly Pod::Man), so we don't use it anymore.
2506 - Fixed a typo & improved the docs in the SUBCLASSING section. [Ron
2509 - Added the '.tmp' suffix to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file, which
2510 should avoid adding things like pod2htmi.tmp to the MANIFEST [Ron
2513 - Backup files from Emacs, containing the string '.#' in their names,
2514 should no longer find their way into the blib/ directory (and from
2515 there into installation directories).
2517 - Worked around an unpleasant interaction between version.pm and the
2518 version-checking code that makes sure Module::Build's version
2519 hasn't changed during the lifetime of the 'Build' script. [Reported
2520 by Trevor Schellhorn]
2522 - Fixed a problem in htmlify_pods() that would produce test failures
2523 on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere). [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
2525 - Fixed a test failure on Cygwin (and probably elsewhere) in
2526 t/compat.t, resulting from empty environment variables being set to
2527 the empty string (as opposed to simply being unset) by their mere
2528 presence in the "EXPORT:" list.
2530 - Fixed a fatal error that occurred when the author specified
2531 'dist_author' manually in their Build.PL script. [Spotted by Ron
2534 - The 'provides' section of the META.yml file wasn't being built
2535 properly on Win32, because of a mismatch between URL-format and
2536 native-format pathnames. Fixed. [Reported by Robert Rothenberg]
2538 - The progress message "lib/Foo.xs -> lib/Foo.c" was previously being
2539 output even when the Foo.c file wasn't being rebuilt. It's now
2542 - Fixed a couple of places in Compat.pm where it could have forgotten
2543 which perl interpreter it had been run with ($^X isn't very
2546 - On some systems, the way we updated the timestamp on the
2547 "lib/Foo.bs" file (one of the output files for XS-based modules)
2548 was failing. It's been replaced by a simple call to utime().
2550 - Fixed a problem in t/compat.t that prevented it from being run
2551 individually using 'make test TEST_FILES=t/compat.t'. The problem
2552 was that a couple environment variables (TEST_FILES, MAKEFLAGS)
2553 were being passed through to subprocesses, and confused them.
2555 - Fixed an important typo in the documentation for the 'install_base'
2556 parameter ('libdoc' and 'bindoc' were switched). [Ray Zimmerman]
2558 - The pass-through Makefiles (type 'small' or 'passthrough') now
2559 support the TEST_FILES parameter to 'make test'.
2561 - Fixed a fatal error that would occur on perl 5.005 when building
2562 HTML documentation, because its version of Pod::Html was old and
2563 didn't like some of the parameters we fed it. [Spotted by Blair
2566 - The final line of the generated pass-through Makefile was missing
2567 its trailing newline, which is now fixed. [Chip Salzenberg]
2569 - We now depend on YAML version at least 0.35 and at most version
2570 0.49, so that we don't pick up a new (and backward-incompatible) beta
2573 - Squashed a warning in t/basic.t about '"Foo::Module::VERSION" used
2574 only once', and one in PPMMaker about $^V being undefined. [Blair
2577 - Added a couple temporary output files from HTML documentation
2578 generation to the cleanup list. [Toby Ovod-Everett]
2580 - The PodParser module will now only extract paragraphs in the
2581 'AUTHOR' section of the pod if they contain an '@' character. This
2582 tends to do a better job, heuristically speaking, of returning
2585 - Added regression tests and a helper method ( add_build_elements() )
2586 for adding new elements to the build process. Also some
2589 - Wrote a recipe in the Cookbook for adding new elements to the build
2590 process, and a recipe for changing the order in which the steps in
2591 the build process will occur.
2593 0.25 Sun Apr 25 11:12:36 CDT 2004
2595 - During the 'distdir' action, if no MANIFEST.SKIP file exists, we
2596 will now create a reasonable default one. [Randy Sims]
2598 - In Makefile compatibility mode, some arguments (like UNINST,
2599 TEST_VERBOSE, etc.) given to 'make' are now recognized and passed
2600 through to Module::Build. [Randy Sims]
2602 - The regression tests now make sure that several pass-through
2603 Makefile.PL parameters are dealt with correctly.
2605 - Added support for the 'LIB' parameter to passthrough
2606 Makefile.PLs. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
2608 - Passing a 'PREFIX' parameter to a passthrough Makefile.PL was
2609 supposed to make it die with a helpful error message, but instead
2610 it just ignored it and blindly tried to install to the wrong place.
2611 This is now fixed. [Spotted by Jesse Erlbaum]
2613 - Added an extra_compiler_flags() accessor method.
2615 - If the 'recursive_test_files' option was turned on, the test files
2616 weren't sorted, but returned in an apparently random order. Now
2617 they're sorted. [Martyn Peck]
2619 - Documented the 'tar' and 'gzip' parameters to the 'dist' and
2622 - The generation of HTML documentation now works (it was accidentally
2623 partially implemented with an itchy patch-application finger in
2624 0.24). [Randy Kobes]
2626 - Fixed a fatal bug when building META.yml with YAML.pm and
2627 'dynamic_config' is set. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
2629 - Fixed some incorrect error messages that occurred when
2630 compiling/linking C sources went awry.
2632 - If the author uses a custom builder subclass, that subclass will
2633 now be loaded correctly in the passthrough Makefile.PL if the
2634 author uses the 'small' or 'passthrough' Makefile.PL options in
2635 Module::Build::Compat. [Martyn Peck and Jaap Karssenberg]
2637 - If the author uses a custom builder subclass created dynamically
2638 through the subclass() method, passthrough Makefile.PLs (of type
2639 'passthrough' or 'small') didn't work properly, because the custom
2640 builder module wouldn't be loaded at the right time. This has been
2641 fixed. [Reported by Toby Ovod-Everett]
2643 - In M::B-generated 'traditional' Makefile.PLs, the entries in
2644 'PREREQ_PM' are now sorted ASCIIbetically rather than randomly.
2646 - The install_types() method will now return any additional types
2647 given as 'install_path' arguments, as well as all elements of the
2648 current 'install_sets' entry. This makes it easier to add new
2649 types of installable objects to the mix.
2651 - As a consequence of the previous change, there is no longer any
2652 need to have an explicit 'install_types' data member, so it has
2655 - In the second example code for the Module::Build->subclass()
2656 method, the Module::Build module needed to be loaded before calling
2657 its methods. [John Peacock]
2659 - Fixed minor error in the POD structure of Module::Build and
2660 Module::Build::Platform::VMS docs.
2663 0.24 Wed Feb 25 15:57:00 CST 2004
2665 - Fixed a problem with incude_dirs not being propagated to the 'ccs'
2666 file when compiling XS files on Win32. [Randy Sims and Steve Hay]
2668 - In 0.23, Module::Build::Compat->fake_makefile() started choking
2669 when no 'build_class' parameter was supplied in the Makefile.PL.
2670 Since these Makefile.PLs still exist on CPAN, we now default
2671 'build_class' to 'Module::Build', which was the old 0.22 behavior
2672 anyway. [Reported by Martin Titz and Jeremy Seitz]
2674 - Added documentation for the 'include_dirs' parameter to
2677 - Changed the no-op command on Win32 from 'rem' to 'rem>nul' inside
2678 pass-through Makefiles. [Randy Sims]
2680 - The 'autosplit' parameter now accepts an array reference if
2681 multiple files should be split. [Jaap Karssenberg]
2683 - find_perl_interpreter() will now use $^X (if absolute), $ENV{PATH}
2684 (if $^X isn't absolute), and $Config{perlpath}, in that order.
2685 Also, we now make darn sure the result is the same version of perl,
2686 by checking Config::myconfig() for a match against the current
2687 perl. [Reported by Edward Sabol]
2689 - Fixed a fatal error on Win32 (and any other platform that doesn't
2690 define an installation location for Unix-style man pages) during
2693 0.23 Sun Feb 8 22:01:18 CST 2004
2695 - Fixed a compatibility problem in pass-through Makefiles (created by
2696 Module::Build::Compat). Some 'make' utilities (for example, BSD
2697 make) didn't like a '@' by itself on a line, so we stole some
2698 'NOOP' code from MakeMaker to fix it. [Reported by Mathieu Arnold]
2700 - Added a 'ppm_dist' action, which just makes the PPD file and then
2701 makes a tarball out of the blib/ directory. [Randy Sims]
2703 - The @INC of the parent process is now propagated to child processes
2704 when processing *.PL files. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
2706 - We now only attempt to fix the shebang line on a script if the
2707 shebang line matches the regex /perl/i . This fixes some instances
2708 where people put shell scripts in their distributions. [Jaap
2711 - We no longer generate a 'requires', 'recommends', 'conflicts',
2712 etc. entry in the META.yml file if there's no data to go in it.
2714 - Added a documentation reference to Michael Schwern's wiki for tips
2715 on conversion from MakeMaker to M::B. [Randy Sims]
2717 - If there are script_files, we now add EXE_FILES to the
2718 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated by M::B::Compat. [Suggested by
2721 - Documented the 'test_files' parameter to new(). [Reported by Tony
2724 - Fixed a problem in "Build help <action>", which didn't find the
2725 correct help chunk if <action> was the final element in a POD
2726 list. [Jaap Karssenberg]
2728 - Fixed a problem in the get_action_docs() method which gave
2729 incorrect results if the method was called more than once in the
2732 - Fixed a problem in which actions defined by user subclasses
2733 wouldn't be available via the pass-through Makefiles created by
2734 Module::Build::Compat. [Reported by Jaap Karssenberg]
2736 - We now use Data::Dumper instead of our own ad-hoc serialization
2737 routines to create the 'traditional' Makefile.PL
2738 arguments. [Suggested by Yuval Kojman]
2740 0.22 Sat Jan 10 22:05:39 CST 2004
2742 - On Unixish platforms, the syntax "FOO=BAR /bin/baz arg arg" now
2743 works when present in $Config{ld}. This solves a problem on Mac OS
2744 X 10.3. [Reported by Adam Foxson]
2746 - The have_c_compiler() now also tests whether the linker seems to
2749 - Fixed a problem with creating the distribution tarball in which
2750 permissions would usually be all read-only. We now use our own
2751 file-copying routines rather than those in ExtUtils::Manifest,
2752 because those do some annoying extra permissions-setting stuff for
2753 no apparent reason. It makes me happy that this was a very very
2754 easy patch to make. [Reported by Thomas Klausner]
2756 - The compile_c() method now includes $Config{cccdlflags} in its
2757 command invocation. It's usually empty, but not always, so we
2758 didn't notice for a while. [Richard Clamp]
2760 - On some platforms it's common to have a $Config{make} defined, but
2761 no 'make' utility actually available. We now detect this and skip
2762 some 'make' compatibility tests. [Randy Sims]
2764 - Fixed a spurious testing failure on non-Unix platforms that
2765 happened because we accidentally call localize_file_path() on empty
2766 strings in the test suite. [Spotted by Randy Sims on Windows]
2768 - Made the 'name', 'abstract', 'author', and 'version' properties
2769 required when building a PPD file. [Spotted by Randy Sims, Dave
2770 Rolsky, & Glenn Linderman]
2772 - When building a 'traditional' Makefile.PL with
2773 Module::Build::Compat, we now use 'VERSION_FROM' when possible,
2774 rather than always using 'VERSION'. This way the Makefile.PL
2775 doesn't have to get modified every release.
2777 - Made some fixups to the 'PPM' info-file, improving compatibility
2778 with ActiveState's PPM tools. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
2780 - The 'dist_author' property can now accept multiple authors, see the
2781 docs for more info. [Randy Sims]
2783 - If the user doesn't have YAML.pm installed during ACTION_dist, we
2784 now create a minimal YAML.pm anyway, without any dependency
2787 - The 'distribution_type' field is no longer created in META.yml
2788 files, in accordance with the finding made at the London CLPAN
2789 meeting that it's essentially meaningless and ill-defined.
2791 - The 'dist' action now accepts an optional 'tar' parameter to use a
2792 system utility for building the tarball, and a 'gzip' parameter for
2793 compressing it. If these are used, Archive::Tar won't be invoked.
2794 This was added because Archive::Tar is producing some very
2795 non-cross-platform tarballs that many tar utilities can't handle.
2797 - During testing, if YAML.pm isn't installed, then we won't try
2798 making a tarball either, since this would invoke YAML to create the
2801 - Fixed a problem with chmod() being called incorrectly on MacOS
2802 (i.e. MacPerl, not Mac OS X). [Spotted by Paul Sanford Toney]
2804 - Fixed a problem with the --config flag not being treated properly
2805 (essentially ignored) on the command line for 'perl Build.PL' or
2806 'Build <action>'. [Spotted by Jakub Bogusz]
2808 - Added a new config() method to get at the Build object's notion of
2811 - Test::Harness is starting to contend for the Most Crotchety Module
2812 Award. Work around a few of its nits when setting harness
2813 switches. [Spotted by Diab Jerius]
2815 - Now the Build script will die() if we're run from the wrong
2816 directory, rather than trying to chdir() to what it thinks is the
2817 right directory and do its work there. See
2818 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4039 . [Chris Dolan]
2820 - Changed the manpage separator on OS/2 to '.'. [Ilya Zakharevich]
2822 - On OS/2, disable C compilation, since apparently it isn't working
2823 there. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich]
2825 - Inserted a comment into auto-generated Makefile.PLs saying it was
2826 auto-generated. [Randy Sims]
2828 - Fixed some annoying behavior in generated passthrough Makefile.PLs
2829 when the user chose not to install Module::Build, or if
2830 installation failed. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich and Richard
2833 - Moved the documentation for 'codebase' to the section where it's
2834 relevant. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
2836 - Fixed a have_c_compiler() failure on some platforms, we now define
2837 a boot_compilet() function (since we're compiling a library, not an
2838 executable). [Randy Sims]
2840 - Added a recipe to the Module::Build::Cookbook describing how to
2841 maintain compatibility with older versions of CPAN.pm [Jim Cromie]
2843 - Removed caveat about "looking for alternatives" in how hashes are
2844 specified on the command line, since an alternative has been found.
2846 - Previously most warnings about optional prerequisites looked like
2847 they were actually error messages about required prerequisites.
2848 This has been corrected. [Reported again by Sagar Shah]
2850 - Added support for building XS (and C in general) stuff on AIX.
2851 This was done by a small reorganization of prelink_c() method from
2852 Windows.pm to Build.pm, and it is only invoked for the platforms
2853 that need it invoked. AIX also massages some very naughty bits
2854 (MakeMaker macro variables) in $Config{lddlflags} that should never
2855 have been put there, but alas, they're there, so we find & resolve
2858 - Added OS/2 ($^O = 'os2') to the list of Unix-like platforms. This
2859 basically means that most platform-specific operations will be done
2860 in a Unix-like manner.
2862 - Pass-through Makefiles will now die() when they're given a PREFIX
2863 parameter, and suggest using 'destdir' or 'install_base' instead.
2864 Previously they just ignored the parameter and tried to install to
2865 the default location, which is clearly not what the user wanted.
2867 - Updated my email address in the documentation to a more recent
2870 - Add NetBSD to the list of Unix-like systems. [Adrian Bunk]
2872 - Add SVR5 to the list of Unix-like systems. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
2874 - We now use Pod::Parser to find the ABSTRACT and AUTHOR when it's
2875 available on the system. [initial patch by Randy Sims]
2877 - Fixed a little scalar/list buglet in a documentation example.
2879 0.21 Wed Oct 15 20:47:05 CDT 2003
2881 - Added a have_c_compiler() method.
2883 - Added documentation for the requires(), recommends(),
2884 build_requires(), and conflicts() methods.
2886 - On Unix platforms, we now create the "Build" script with a #! line
2887 matching the perl interpreter that was used to invoke the Build.PL
2888 script, rather than whatever is in $Config{startperl}. This avoids
2889 a potential warning about the interpreters not matching. [Spotted
2892 - The Unix version now uses the safer multi-argument form of system()
2893 when building distribution tarballs.
2895 - Added a regression test for the 'dist' action to the t/runthrough.t
2898 - Fixed a problem with File::Spec usage when creating the names of
2899 'libdoc' manual pages - the code wasn't dealing with the volume or
2900 file portions correctly on certain platforms.
2902 - When creating the names of the 'libdoc' manual pages, we no longer
2903 assume that pods are under the hard-coded paths 'blib/lib' or
2906 - Fixed a crashing bug that could sometimes occur when the
2907 distribution contained no 'lib' directory. [Chris Dolan]
2909 - Fixed a crashing bug that happened when the user had .PL files in
2910 the lib/ directory and didn't explicitly name them in a hash
2911 reference to the new() constructor. [Chris Reinhardt, bug #4036]
2913 - .PL files are now passed the names of their target file(s) on the
2914 command line when they run.
2916 - When YAML.pm wasn't installed, t/runthrough.t wasn't properly
2917 skipping some tests that required YAML. This is now fixed.
2920 - Added documentation for the dist_version() and dist_name()
2921 methods. [Spotted by Johan Vromans]
2923 - Existing values in $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} are now respected
2924 and not squashed when we run the 'test' action. [Paul Johnson]
2926 - On cygwin, the separator string for manual page names has been set
2927 to '.'. Previously it was '::', inherited from Unix. [Yitzchak
2930 - Avoid a warning when Build.PL is run (i.e. when the new() method is
2931 called) and no MANIFEST file exists. [Michael Schwern and Kevin
2934 - Added documentation for the 'code' and 'docs' actions. [Steve
2935 Purkis and Mark Stosberg]
2937 - The internal method compile_support_files() has been renamed to
2938 process_support_files() in order to make it consistent with other
2939 processing methods. Note that it was never documented using the
2940 old name. It's still not documented, actually. Maybe later.
2942 - Skip the 'write' pseudo-entry in the 'diff' action's installation
2945 - Fixed a bug in which notes() set in the Build.PL before
2946 create_build_script() was called would get lost unless more notes()
2947 were also set afterwards. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
2949 - The process of building elements of the distribution is now driven
2950 by a list of build elements, paving the way for letting people add
2951 their own types of build elements in future versions of
2952 Module::Build (or in the current version with some difficulty).
2954 - Fixed some linking errors on Cygwin. [Randy Sims, Terrence Brannon]
2956 - Fixed a line-ending problem with detecting the dist_abstract
2957 properly on Cygwin. [Randy Sims]
2959 - Fixed a problem with signatures that occurred if 'distsign' was
2960 called before 'distdir' - the signature would be generated twice.
2962 - Added a 'create_readme' parameter to new(), which will use
2963 Pod::Text to generate a README from the main (dist_version_from)
2964 module file during the 'distdir' action.
2966 - We now refuse to run the 'Build' script if it was created using a
2967 different version of Module::Build. This has caused a couple of
2968 nasty bugs in the past, I don't want to know what it would cause in
2971 - Documentation for do_system() has been added. [Dave Rolsky]
2973 - run_perl_script() is now available as a class method, though it
2974 will need to (re-)find the perl interpreter in this case.
2976 - Added a new_from_context() method that authors of automated tools
2977 like CPANPLUS and CPAN can use instead of running all tasks as
2978 sub-processes. We also use it in the regression tests for
2979 Module::Build itself. ** Note that this method is currently
2980 undocumented because its name may change in the future. **
2982 - When signing distributions with Module::Signature, we now
2983 automatically add the SIGNATURE file to the MANIFEST, avoiding an
2984 unpleasant chicken/egg problem for the module author.
2985 [unpleasantness spotted by sungo]
2987 - In Module::Build::Compat, added support for the 'verbose' parameter
2988 to Makefile.PL [spotted by Soren Andersen, fixed by Michael
2991 - The Module::Build distribution now has a cryptographic 'SIGNATURE'
2992 file created by Module::Signature.
2994 - Added proper documentation for the subclass() method. [spotted by
2997 - Worked around a Config.pm bug in Red Hat 9 which prevented man
2998 pages from being installed in the correct places. [spotted by Ville
3001 - Fixed a Module::Build::Compat bug in which setting INSTALLDIRS
3002 caused a crash. [spotted by Ilya Martynov]
3004 0.20 Tue Aug 26 14:34:07 CDT 2003
3006 - Separated the 'build' action into two separate actions, 'code' and
3007 'docs'. This is similar to MakeMaker's separation of the 'all'
3008 target into 'pure_all' and 'manifypods'. This fixes a permissions
3009 hassle in which doing 'sudo Build install' would often create local
3010 doc files that needed superuser permissions to delete.
3012 - Enhanced the 'help' action - 'Build help foo' will now show the POD
3013 documentation for the 'foo' action.
3015 - Added a notes() feature, which helps share data transparently
3016 between the Build.PL and t/*.t scripts.
3018 - The installation process will now create man(1) and man(3) pages
3019 from POD in modules & scripts, and install them. We don't build
3020 man pages when there's nowhere to install them, such as on some
3021 Win32 or most Mac systems. [large patch by Steve Purkis, 5.005 fix
3024 - The 'distdir' action now copies files to the distribution
3025 directory, rather than making them hard links to the original
3026 files. This allows authors to do last-minute alterations of the
3027 files without affecting the originals. [Dave Rolsky]
3029 - If the author uses XS files in nonstandard locations, the copied
3030 versions of those files will now be cleaned up properly.
3032 - In invoking the 'test' action or invoking 'xsubpp', we now use the
3033 same perl executable as we use everywhere else, rather than blindly
3034 using $^X or $Config{perlpath} (neither of which are very
3037 - Fixed a problem with the 'install_path' parameter given to
3038 'Build.PL' being lost in subsequent actions. [Reported by Mathieu
3041 - Fixed yet another bug with installation directories, in which the
3042 'install_base' parameter wasn't being respected on the command
3043 line. [Spotted by Jonathan Swartz]
3045 - Changed the way the depends_on() method works inside action
3046 subroutines - now each action will only run once per dispatch()
3047 invocation (similar to how perl's require() function works). This
3048 helps avoid some difficult problems with dependency loops.
3050 - Changed the documentation for the 'autosplit' parameter to give
3051 reasons why it may not be a good idea to use, but no longer
3052 threaten to remove it. [Suggested by Martyn J. Pearce]
3054 - Improved the formatting of the 'traditional' Makefile.PL generated
3055 by Module::Build::Compat->create_makefile_pl. [Michael Schwern]
3057 - The 'traditional' Makefile.PL will now use the 'module_name'
3058 parameter (as NAME) if it's available, otherwise it will continue
3059 to use the 'dist_name' (as DISTNAME). [Michael Schwern]
3061 - Created read/write accessor methods for all our 'properties'.
3064 - The 'test_files' parameter can now be specified using glob() syntax
3065 (i.e. 't/*.t'), and the corresponding test_files() method is now a
3066 read/write accessor.
3068 - The location of the 'blib' directory is now a property of the Build
3069 object - nobody is likely to notice this change, with any luck, but
3070 it makes the design and code cleaner.
3072 - The 'disttest' and 'distsign' methods now chdir() back to the
3073 directory where they started, rather than to the base_dir of the
3076 - Improved comparisons of version strings containing underscore
3077 characters (indicating "beta" status). [Steve Purkis]
3079 - Added documentation for the 'dist_author', 'dist_abstract', and
3080 'codebase' parameters to new(), and for the 'ppd' action. [Dave
3083 - Added documentation for the up_to_date() and contains_pod()
3084 methods. [Dave Rolsky]
3086 - 'traditional' pass-through Makefile.PLs will now contain an
3087 INSTALLDIRS parameter matching the Build.PL's 'installdirs'
3090 - version_from_file() now ignores $VERSION variables that are defined
3091 in POD or comments. It can still be tricked by $VERSIONs in string
3092 literals, though. [Steve Purkis]
3094 - The code to find packages in module files now uses Steve's scanning
3095 method (above) to skip package-declaration-lookalikes in POD or
3098 - The 'disttest' action will now propagate its @INC settings to its
3101 0.19 Wed Jul 9 22:34:02 CDT 2003
3103 - Added support for the 'install_path' parameter, which allows custom
3104 specification of where things should be installed. This is a major
3105 improvement to Module::Build's functionality.
3107 - Added the 'install_base' parameter. Provides an easy way to
3108 install to local or alternative directory trees.
3110 - We now install scripts by default to $Config{installsitebin}
3111 instead of $Config{installscript}. Neither is a great choice, but
3112 the former is likely to be [analogous to] /usr/local/bin, and the
3113 latter is likely to be [something like] /usr/bin . If/when there's
3114 a $Config{installsitescript}, we'll start using that automatically.
3116 - Fixed a problem on Win32 in which C and XS files wouldn't be
3117 compiled properly, and the user would see an error about 'Can't
3118 locate object method "format_compiler_cmd"'.
3119 (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2391)
3121 - We now use the correct perl interpreter (via
3122 Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter) in pass-through makefiles.
3124 - The t/compat.t test now uses $Config{make} instead of just 'make'
3125 to test makefile compatibility. This fixes some failures on Win32.
3126 We also skip this test entirely if no make utility is available.
3128 - Alternative distribution layouts are now supported via the
3129 'pm_files', 'pod_files', 'xs_files', 'PL_files', and 'script_files'
3130 parameters to new(). This should help people transition from
3131 MakeMaker, and might even help us write an automatic transition
3134 - Added tests to t/runthrough.t that check to see installation is
3135 happening correctly.
3137 - Added experimental code to build a .ppd file, in support of
3138 ActiveState's "Perl Package Manager". [original patch by Dave
3141 - For authors who use Module::Signature to sign their distributions,
3142 we now create the SIGNATURE file right in the distribution
3143 directory, rather than creating it in the top-level directory and
3144 copying it into place. This solves problems related to having
3145 files get out of date with respect to their signatures.
3147 - We now don't depend on Module::Info to scan for packages during the
3148 'dist' action anymore, because it's way too aggressive about
3149 loading other modules that you may not want loaded. We now just
3150 (ick, yuck) scan the .pm files with a regular expression to find
3151 "package Foo::Bar;" statements.
3153 - Silenced some annoying copyright/logo output from Microsoft 'nmake'
3154 during Makefile compatibility testing. [Randy W. Sims]
3156 - Command-line arguments may now either be specified using the syntax
3157 '--foo foovalue' as well as the traditional syntax 'foo=foovalue'.
3158 The former is often more convenient for shell tab-completion when
3159 the value is a filename (as in 'Build test --test_files t/basic.t').
3161 - Command-line arguments may now include non-named parameters, which
3162 make some actions more natural. For instance, the 'diff' action
3163 may now be invoked as 'Build diff -u' rather than as
3164 'Build diff flags=-u'.
3166 - Pass-through Makefile.PLs now convert unknown Makefile.PL
3167 parameters to lower-case and hand them to Build.PL, rather than
3168 ignoring them. This means we only have to account for the
3169 differences in the interface, not the entire interface, in
3170 translating parameters.
3172 - We now issue a warning & don't proceed if asked to make a distdir
3173 and there's no MANIFEST or it's empty.
3175 - Moved INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to increase compatibility with various
3176 odd versions of 'make' during 'make install' on case-insensitive
3177 filesystems (like nmake on Win32, often). Only affects the
3178 Makefile compatibility layer. [reported by Andrew Savige]
3180 - Module::Build->known_actions() now works as a class method.
3182 - Pass-through makefiles now list each action individually rather
3183 than using a ".DEFAULT" catch-all. This improves compatibility
3184 with 'nmake' on Win32, and probably some other less common 'make'
3185 dialects. [Andrew Savige]
3187 - We're now more aggressive about testing the pass-through makefiles,
3188 e.g. making sure they can run 'all' and 'test' targets, and making
3189 sure the Makefile itself actually exists.
3191 - Fixed a problem with check_installed_status() when installed
3192 version contains non-numeric characters like underscores.
3194 - Fixed a problem with a bareword 'File::Spec' in one of the test
3195 scripts that caused it not to compile under 5.8.0 (but is fine
3198 - Fixed a problem with the 'destdir' installation parameter on
3199 platforms that have volume identifiers in path names (like "C:" on
3200 Win32). The identifier is now stripped from installation
3201 directories before prepending the destdir path. The destdir path
3202 may still have a volume identifier on it.
3204 - Added an 'add_to_cleanup' parameter to new() that calls
3205 add_to_cleanup() immediately for the given files.
3207 - The distribution directory (e.g. Sample-Module-0.13/ ) will now be
3208 deleted during the 'clean' or 'realclean' actions.
3210 - During testing of modules, blib/lib and blib/arch are now added as
3211 absolute paths, not relative. This helps tests that load the
3212 modules at runtime and may change the current working directory
3213 (like Module::Build itself does during testing).
3215 - The $Config{cc} entry on some people's systems is something like
3216 'ccache gcc', so we now split that string using split_like_shell().
3219 - Added documentation for 'extra_linker_flags' parameter, and added a
3220 corresponding 'extra_compiler_flags' parameter. [original patch by
3223 - The pass-through Makefile created by Module::Build::Compat now
3224 supports MakeMaker options like POLLUTE=1 and INC. We also just
3225 warn & skip when we see any unknown MM parameters, rather than
3226 dying. [Dave Rolsky]
3228 - Fixed an error about how @INC and $ENV{PERL5LIB} interact during
3229 the testing of M::B itself. [jk <billy2000@fastmail.fm>]
3231 - The pass-through Makefile doesn't include 'recommended' M::B
3232 dependencies in the Makefile anymore, since they're not strictly
3233 necessary. In particular, this makes installing M::B itself
3236 - A new 'create_makefile_pl' parameter lets you use
3237 Module::Build::Compat during the 'distdir' (or 'dist') action to
3238 automatically create a Makefile.PL for compatibility with
3239 ExtUtils::MakeMaker. The parameter's value should be one of the
3240 styles named in the Module::Build::Compat documentation.
3242 - When compiling C code, we now respect 'pollute' and 'inc'
3243 parameters. (XXX - needs docs) [Dave Rolsky]
3245 - Made the creation of the "install map" more generic. (XXX - needs
3248 - Fixed a problem in which add_to_cleanup() didn't note cleanup files
3249 unless create_build_script() had been called already. [Dave Rolsky]
3251 - During 'Build dist', we no longer have to load each .pm file (via
3252 Module::Info) to determine the $VERSION numbers inside. Instead,
3253 we call our internal version_from_file() method, which is the same
3254 thing MakeMaker and PAUSE and search.cpan.org do. Also fixes a
3255 failure when Module::Info is installed in a nonstandard directory.
3256 [reported by Teun Burgers]
3258 - Fixed some failing test code on Windows - open files can't be
3259 deleted. [Andrew Savige]
3261 - The Cygwin platform is now treated as a flavor of Unix rather than
3262 a flavor of Windows. [chocolateboy]
3264 - We're now more aggressive about adding temporary C compilation
3265 files (*.c, *.bs) to the cleanup list. [Dave Rolsky]
3267 - When constructing the list in META.yml of packages provided by this
3268 distribution, we now use the same rules as the PAUSE scanner does
3269 when a single .pm file contains multiple VERSIONs. [Andreas Koenig]
3271 - check_installed_status() now works as both a class method and an
3272 object method (and is documented so). [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
3274 0.18 Tue Apr 8 13:24:23 CDT 2003
3276 - We now rewrite the shebang lines of scripts ourselves, rather than
3277 relying on MakeMaker routines to do it. MakeMaker changed the way
3278 this happened (not the result, but where the code lived) a few
3279 times. [Suggested by Richard Clamp]
3281 - The scripts() method has changed to script_files(), and likewise
3282 the 'scripts' parameter has changed to 'script_files'. The old
3283 names can still be used for backward compatibility.
3285 - Support for the 'scripts' parameter (which is now 'script_files')
3286 was broken in 0.17, now it's fixed. [Richard Clamp]
3288 - We now recommend ExtUtils::ParseXS 2.02, which will fail to load
3289 with perl 5.005 or earlier (which is proper, because it doesn't
3290 work with those versions). When it fails to load, we still fall
3291 back to using the xsubpp script for XS parsing. [spotted by Dave
3292 Rolsky, fix suggested by Richard Clamp]
3294 - Now works on VMS - the Build script's shebang-line-equivalent
3295 wasn't being formed correctly there - though just about everything
3296 else worked fine. [Tested & patched by Michael Schwern]
3298 - Eliminated a warning that occurred if 'perl Build.PL' or the
3299 check_installed_status() method was run with -w. [Spotted by
3302 0.17 Sat Mar 29 18:06:01 CST 2003
3304 - Now works under perl 5.005_03. [Richard Clamp]
3306 - When building blib/ , .PL files are now processed before doing
3307 anything else. This means .PL files can be used in any of the
3310 - The locating and processing of .pm, .pod, .xs, .PL files and script
3311 files are now isolated into their own methods. This is aimed
3312 toward providing a stable interface for this stuff, so they can be
3313 overridden, parameterized, etc. They're not quite stable yet,
3316 - The internal lib_to_blib() method has gone away, because processing
3317 is now done by smaller specialized methods. This method had some
3318 duplicate assumptions about filenames that it's nice to get rid of.
3320 - .PL files are no longer automatically processed in the c_source
3321 directory, they must be specified manually in a 'PL_files'
3324 - Mention in the docs that it's useful to do "PL_FILES => {}" in a
3325 Makefile.PL if you're using both a Makefile.PL and a
3328 - Add several options to the 'license' field, so that we're in better
3329 sync with PAUSE and CPAN options. [Andreas Koenig]
3331 - Created a find_perl_interpreter() method that tries to locate the
3332 currently executing perl interpreter. Following a suggestion from
3333 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> for Inline, we prefer an absolute
3334 path in $^X, then an existent path in $Config{perlpath}, then
3337 - Use the aforementioned perl to run scripts in run_perl_script().
3338 This fixes the spurious warning "WARNING: Configuration was
3339 initially created with 'foo', but we are now using 'bar'" that
3340 appeared a lot in version 0.16.
3343 0.16 Mon Feb 24 13:06:47 CST 2003
3345 - All three C compilers that perl supports on Windows environments
3346 (MSVC, BCC, and GCC) are now supported by Module::Build. We now
3347 reportedly pass all tests on Windows. [Randy W. Sims]
3349 - The test t/xs.t, which tests building of XS modules, will be
3350 skipped if no C compiler is found. [suggested by Randy W. Sims]
3352 - The "install" action accepts new "destdir" [motivated by Michael
3353 Schwern and Chip Salzenberg] and "uninst" parameters [by Dave
3354 Rolsky]. The former prepends an arbitrary directory to all
3355 installation paths (useful for package management), and the latter
3356 will tell ExtUtils::Install to remove any differing files that are
3357 "shadowing" the stuff you're installing from a different location,
3358 just like MakeMaker's "make install UNINST=1" command will do.
3360 - Made changes to the generated Makefile in Module::Build::Compat
3361 that much better support Windows platforms [after suggestions by
3364 - Added experimental support for creating distribution SIGNATURE
3365 files via Module::Signature. [Dave Rolsky]
3367 - Added experimental support for installing via the "only.pm" module,
3368 which allows loading specific versions of modules. Since this
3369 module is so new, the interface may still be changing. [Brian
3372 - Added support for installing executable scripts, via the 'scripts'
3373 parameter to new(), and the scripts() accessor method.
3375 - Fix an infinite loop that occurred when doing 'perl Build.PL
3378 - Fix up the formatting of the error message the user gets when
3379 prereqs aren't satisfied.
3381 0.15 Fri Jan 17 15:00:24 CST 2003
3383 - In link_c(), extra object files were mistakenly being treated as
3384 output files, not input files, in the up-to-date check. Fixed.
3386 - In up_to_date(), don't make an unnecessary copy of the file lists
3387 when they're specified as array references.
3389 - Split off the C compilation phase into its own method,
3390 compile_support_files(), for easier subclassing.
3392 - Start a stub of a 'manifypods' action.
3394 - Compiler optimizations weren't being included in C compilation
3397 - The 'extra_linker_flags' parameter wasn't being honored. Fixed.
3399 - The 'ccflags' Config.pm entry wasn't being properly split into
3400 separate arguments. Fixed.
3403 0.14 Fri Dec 13 14:06:29 AEST 2002
3405 - Added support for MacPerl (Mac OS version 9 and below), which (as
3406 far as I know) was never natively supported by MakeMaker. Still
3407 lacks support for the 'test' action (because Test::Harness
3408 requires forking, which MacPerl won't do) and compiling XS/C files
3409 (because I don't know how to invoke a compiler on MacOS, and one
3410 may not even be available). This change is brought to you by
3411 Michael Schwern and the letter '('.
3413 - Improved processing of .xs files. Now we use the new
3414 ExtUtils::ParseXS module if it's available, otherwise we use
3415 backticks and write the result to a .c file ourselves. This
3416 avoids the need to do cross-platform shell redirection.
3418 - Make sure all parts of 'Build test' use the not-yet-installed
3419 version of Module::Build. This only affects the tests for this
3420 module, not any of the module code itself. [Spotted by Schwern]
3422 - Oopsie - use $Config{ld} instead of $Config{cc} for linking.
3424 - Added a 'diff' action, which is useful for comparing the details
3425 of what you're about to install with what is already installed on
3426 your system. This uses File::Compare, which is in the core.
3428 - Fixed a problem on Windows in which the _build/ directory wasn't
3429 getting deleted during the 'realclean' action, because we had a
3430 file open in that directory. [Spotted by Michael Schwern]
3432 - delete_filetree() now always uses File::Path::rmtree(), regardless
3433 of whether the thing being deleted is a file or a directory. This
3434 helps remove things on obscure platforms with strange locking
3435 rules (or even not so obscure ones like MacOS). It also now
3436 reports the number of files or directories deleted (without
3437 recursing directory contents).
3439 - rm_previous_build_script() is gone, replaced by calls to
3442 - 'Build' now chdir()s in a BEGIN block, so the 'use Module::Build'
3443 statement will work correctly. Solves a problem on MacOS, where
3444 the 'Build' script may often be invoked from the wrong working
3445 directory. [Fix by Michael Schwern]
3447 - Internally we now use the multi-argument form of system() to run
3448 external commands (such as 'diff' or 'cc') whenever possible (and
3449 whenever we can't avoid system() altogether). Note that this
3450 means we have to handle splitting some strings (such as
3451 $Config{ccflags}) into argument lists like the shell would, which
3452 is a drag. However, the alternative would be to handle shell
3453 quoting of all arguments to commands ourselves, which is an even
3454 bigger drag across platforms and involves arbitrary filenames and
3457 - To handle the argument splitting mentioned above, a method
3458 split_like_shell() has been created. So far it's just doing naive
3459 processing. In practice, I've yet to actually see a %Config entry
3460 that uses quotes & spaces, so the splitting task is usually not
3463 - The 'test' action now takes a 'test_files' parameter, similar to
3464 the (undocumented) ExtUtils::MakeMaker TEST_FILES argument. Handy
3465 during development when fixing bugs.
3467 - Internally, the rscan_dir() method can now accept a predicate
3468 function that decides whether a file/directory should be matched.
3470 - We now issue a warning message when the author hasn't specified a
3473 0.13 Wed Nov 20 20:07:53 AEST 2002
3475 - 'cleanup' file lists are now written immediately, rather than at
3476 program termination. This helps avoid "phantom files" that don't
3477 get handled by the 'realclean' action. The internal
3478 write_cleanup() method (which was never documented) is now gone.
3480 - The 'blib/' directory is now properly cleaned up in more (all?)
3481 circumstances. Previously it could become a phantom if
3482 create_build_script() was never called.
3484 - Now scan the 'c_source' directory for .cpp (C++) files as well as
3485 .c files, and compiles them.
3487 - Use a 'phony' target for 'make manifest' in the pass-through
3488 Makefile, for the same reason as 'make install' (see version 0.12
3491 - Module::Build::Compat now accepts any known Config.pm key and
3492 passes it through to the Build.PL. Fixes a problem with CPANPLUS,
3493 which was passing INSTALLMAN1DIR.
3495 - The file 'META.yaml' has been re-named to 'META.yml' in order to
3496 cooperate better with systems that can only handle 3 characters
3499 - The t/xs.t test should give more informative error messages upon
3502 0.12 Thu Nov 14 18:31:47 AEST 2002
3504 - The META.yaml file was erroneously looking for 'build_depends'
3505 instead of 'build_requires'. [spotted by Iain Truskett]
3507 - Add prompt() and y_n() methods for use in Build.PLs
3509 - Do more to work with all versions of Test::Harness when setting
3510 the TEST_VERBOSE flag and running under the debugger [patch by
3513 - Include a test for verbosity handling
3515 - Make sure the blib/ directory is always cleaned up with the
3516 'clean' or 'realclean' action.
3518 - In a pass-through Makefile.PL, inform 'make' that 'install' is a
3519 "fake target", so that it works properly on case-insensitive
3520 filesystems like HFS+ with distributions that contain an INSTALL
3521 file. [patch by Brian Ingerson]
3523 - In Module::Build::Compat, show an example Makefile.PL that can
3524 install Module::Build and re-invoke itself in one fell swoop [Dave
3525 Rolsky and Autrijus Tang]
3527 - Improve the formatting of the Module::Build and
3528 Module::Build::Compat documentation.
3530 0.11 Fri Aug 23 18:50:46 AEST 2002
3532 - 'module_version' and 'module_version_from' have been replaced by
3533 'dist_version' and 'dist_version_from', which is what they really
3534 meant in the first place. 'dist_name' has been added.
3536 - 'module_name' is now just a way to set 'dist_name' and
3537 'dist_version_from' in a convenient way.
3539 - The 'name' in META.yaml is now the distribution name, not the
3540 (incorrect) module name. [spotted by Graham Barr]
3542 - Added the check_installed_status() and prereq_failures() methods
3543 for checking prerequisite information with the programmatic
3546 - check_installed_version() now uses check_installed_status()
3549 - Documented the create_build_script() method, which had escaped
3552 - create_build_script() now writes prerequisite information to the
3553 _build/ directory, for use by Module::Build::Compat.
3555 - Module::Build::Compat has documentation for a safer way to write a
3556 dummy Makefile.PL. [patch by Autrijus Tang]
3558 0.10 Wed Aug 7 19:36 2002
3559 - Recommend YAML 0.35 instead of 0.30.
3561 - Don't die during 'Build disttest' if YAML isn't installed. This
3562 fixes tests 5-10 in runthrough.t if YAML isn't installed.
3564 - Die if an unknown license type is used, but still default to
3565 'unknown' if no license is specified.
3567 - Use YAML::DumpFile() if we're using a recent YAML,
3568 YAML::StoreFile() otherwise.
3570 - Show specific error messages in runthrough.t.
3572 - Add a generated_by entry to the META.yaml file.
3574 - Skip a few tests if YAML isn't installed.
3576 0.09 Fri Jun 28 11:07:08 EST 2002
3578 - The 'distdir' action wasn't deleting the distribution directory
3579 before building it again. This meant that, say, if you did 'Build
3580 disttest' then 'Build dist', you'd end up with a blib/ directory
3581 in your distribution. I actually had this happen for version
3582 0.08, and it's not nice to distribute a blib/ on CPAN.
3584 - We now keep track of the 'base_dir', i.e. the top-level build
3585 directory, so we can change back into it if we change out of it.
3586 This necessitated a cwd() method, which uses the Cwd.pm module.
3587 I'm aware of Cwd's limitations, particularly under taint-mode, but
3588 I don't know a way around using it here.
3590 - The 'dist_dir' action now changes back into 'base_dir' directory.
3592 - We now do write_config() inside the create_build_script() method,
3593 not inside the new() method.
3595 - Simplified the find_version() method, and improved its error
3598 - Renamed module_name_to_file() to find_module_by_name(), and added
3599 a parameter specifying the directories to search in. Previously
3600 we searched in 'lib' and @INC, which wasn't correct in all
3603 - Patched the docs to change "Build test" to "./Build test"
3604 [Elizabeth Mattijsen]
3606 0.08 Wed Jun 26 20:30:56 EST 2002
3608 - Fixed the 'prereq' alias for the 'requires' parameter
3610 - Added some tests in t/basic.t to test the dependency checking
3612 - Added 'artistic' as a licensing option [Arthur Bergman]
3614 - Fixed some bugs in requires/prereq/recommends/conflicts/build_depends
3616 - Fixed a typo in the 'distclean' action that prevented its
3617 execution [Arthur Bergman]
3619 - Separated the linking phase of building XS items into its own
3620 link_c() method. Its interface is still unstable, so it's not
3621 documented yet. [suggested by Arthur Bergman]
3623 0.07 Jun 9 2002 15:46
3625 - We now generate a 'META.yaml' metadata file during 'Build dist'.
3626 This can be very useful for lots of things, none of which are
3629 - Added a 'dynamic_config' parameter, defaulting to false. This
3630 lets distribution systems (CPAN.pm, etc.) build, test, and install
3631 "easy" modules without having to execute the Build.PL at runtime.
3632 It's also a guarantee that the list of dependencies is exactly
3633 what is present in the metadata file, and won't be changed during
3636 - Added support for "recommended" and "build-time requirement"
3637 modules, besides those that are absolutely required. Also added a
3640 - Changed the 'prereq' field to 'requires' (the old name will
3643 - Added support for checking the installed version of perl as an
3644 explicit dependency.
3646 - Added a 'license' parameter to specify one of a fixed number of
3647 licenses for the distribution.
3649 - Fixed a bug in Module::Build::Compat that was preventing arguments
3650 from being processed properly. [patch by Ilya Martynov]
3652 - Make sure we're in the right directory when we write the cleanup
3653 file, since various ExtUtils::Install errors might leave us in an
3654 unknown directory. [patch by Ilya Martynov]
3656 - Specified the 'license', 'recommends', and 'dynamic_config'
3657 values in Build.PL, and changed 'prereq' to 'requires'.
3659 0.06 Apr 2 2002 17:44
3661 - Added the Module::Build::Compat module for assisting and
3662 explaining compatibility with ExtUtils::Makemaker and cohorts.
3664 - State is now saved using Data::Dumper instead of my ad-hoc
3665 mechanism, guaranteeing data integrity. Whitespace values broke
3666 in the former scheme.
3668 - Added the 'recommended' option, which works like 'prereq' but
3671 - Separated the various parameters into three groups: parameters
3672 that tell Module::Build what to do, Config.pm parameters, and
3673 user-defined parameters for each build (the module author is the
3674 'user' here). This helps avoid conflicts between names, and it
3675 was silly to have them all together. The three groups of
3676 parameters are subject to the same rules for overriding: values
3677 specified during a Build action take precedence over values
3678 specified at 'perl Build.PL' time, which in turn take precedence
3679 over values specified in the call to new().
3681 - Improved support for .PL files. Any .PL file in the lib/
3682 directory or the directory specified by 'c_source' will now get
3683 properly executed. I also added a 'PL_files' parameter that you
3684 can use in case the .PL doesn't create an obviously-named output
3687 - If a prerequisite condition is malformed, we now report a prereq
3688 failure and say why. Previously we issued a warning and kept
3692 0.05 10-Jan-2002 20:26
3693 - Added the Module::Build->subclass() method, which makes it easier to
3694 make quick-and-dirty subclasses of Module::Build.
3696 - Reorganized the docs a bit.
3698 - Added the 'testdb' action, and the 'debugger=1' argument to the
3699 'test' action, both of which run tests under the perl
3700 debugger. (idea: Dave Rolsky)
3702 - Added prerequisite checking (Dave Rolsky)
3704 - Fixed an unlikely-to-occur bug with misquoted strings in the
3705 'Build' script (spot: Dave Rolsky)
3707 - We're more careful about shush-ing warnings that
3708 ExtUtils::Manifest might emit (Dave Rolsky)
3710 - The 'help' action now auto-generates the list of actions (Dave Rolsky)
3712 - Added the 'distcheck', 'skipcheck', 'distclean', 'distdir', and
3713 'disttest' actions (Dave Rolsky)
3715 - We're a little more aggressive about cleaning up temporary files -
3716 we'll try to clean them up even when we don't have write permission
3717 on them. This isn't as dastardly as it sounds; if we /really/
3718 don't have permission, we won't be able to remove them no matter
3721 0.04 Fri Nov 16 16:55 2001
3722 - Added a 'manifest' action. It's just like MakeMaker's 'make manifest', it
3723 brings your MANIFEST file up to date with your distribution directory.
3725 - Reorganized some of the responsibilities of various methods, which
3726 allows modules to be built and tested programmatically.
3728 - The 'clean' action will now clean up files that were created more
3729 recently than the on-disk cleanup registry was written.
3731 - Undefined values from Config.pm are handled correctly now.
3733 - The dispatch() method will now accept explicit dispatch
3734 parameters, for use in a programmatic setting.
3736 - $ENV{TEST_VERBOSE} will be set in test scripts if the 'verbose=1'
3739 - Moved the test.pl script to t/basic.t
3741 - Created the t/xs.t script, which tests building a module with a
3744 - Fixed the loading of $^O-specific modules (there were no such
3747 - Added a 'darwin' platform module, which removes -flat_namespace
3748 from $Config{ccflags} while building .xs modules (it's a linker
3749 flag, not a compiler flag).
3751 - Now uses $^W instead of the 'warnings' pragma, which apparently
3752 provides compatibility with perl 5.005 (I've only tested it with
3755 - If a file called C<visual.pl> exists in the top-level directory,
3756 this file will be executed as a Perl script during 'Build test' and
3757 its output will be shown to the user. This is a good place to put
3758 speed tests or other tests that don't use the C<Test::Harness> format
3761 - The 'Build install' step will now put .xs-related things in the
3762 correct architecture-dependent libraries.
3764 - Added the 'autosplit' option, even though I think autosplitting is
3767 0.03 Sun Nov 11 14:58 CDT 2001
3768 - The 'perl Build.PL' step will now detect whether the current
3769 environment is "unixish", "windowsish", etc., and load the correct
3770 module (i.e. Module::Build::Platform::Unix). More specific
3771 modules may also be written for particular values of $^O.
3773 - Module::Build will now process any .xs files in the lib/
3774 directory. Please let me know whether this works or not with your
3775 distribution & platform. I'll be trying out various distributions
3778 - Corrected some embarassing errors in the POD documentation. Also
3779 added a long documentation section on the various build actions
3780 (test, install, build, etc.) and added some neato ASCII art.
3782 - Added a 'cleanup' mechanism - any method may call the
3783 $self->add_to_cleanup(@files) method to register files which need
3784 to be cleaned up during 'Build clean'.
3786 - Added a 'Build help' action that gives a little syntax help, and
3787 lists all the actions available.
3789 - Fixed a bug in which 'blib/' wasn't properly being added to @INC
3790 when running 'Build test'.
3792 - For the 'Build dist' action, we'll use the 'tar' and 'gzip'
3793 programs (as specified by Config.pm) on Unix platforms, otherwise
3794 we'll use Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib.
3796 0.02 Wed Sep 5 00:53:04 CDT 2001
3797 - Added POD documentation.
3799 - Added the 'install', 'fakeinstall', and 'dist' actions.
3801 - new() will now determine version string based on 'module_version', or
3802 'module_version_from', or 'module_name', in that order.
3804 - Module::Build::Base handles its file paths in a platform-independent
3805 way, using the File:: modules
3808 0.01 Sun Aug 5 01:23:10 2001
3809 - original version; created by h2xs 1.1.1.4 with options -XA -n Module::Build