First New Releases in (Too Many) Years

For years, the Perl-RPM package languished untouched, due to a combination of
my frustration with what was then a rapidly-changing API (which has since
leveled off) and a lack of available time. After a while, the package was just
too far into the back of my mind for me to even remember to work on it.

Thanks to some fantastic work by Alexey Tourbin	(<[email protected]>), this has
changed. Alexey got the package working with the current version of RPM *and*
maintained compatibility with the previous major-version. He released the
package as a developer release, and I then merged all his work into my own CVS
repo and release a new "official" release.

By now, 1.51 should be on all CPAN mirrors. The drastic numbering jump is
because the package number is now tracked along with the version number on the
RPM.pm module itself, which as a CVS artifact was well into the 1.XX range.
This should make it easier for developers who need to rely on a minimal version
installed in their code, a la:

	use RPM 1.51;

where previously, you would have had to look at RPM.pm directly to see what
value you needed for the "use" line. Now, you can use the actual module
version. (And since all the sub-packages like RPM::Header, etc., include this
module anyway, there's little harm in using it as a baseline marker in your own
modules or scripts.)

Again, this would not have happened without Alexey's work.

Randy
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Randy J. Ray      Topix.net	Palo Alto, CA		        [email protected]