[ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.43_01

Happy new year!  Here's a release candidate for MakeMaker fixing, amongst
other things, installation with 5.6.1, weird interactions with people who have
installed Exporter from CPAN, keeping Apple's tar from spewing resource fork
files and a fix for Win32 Pugs users.

http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.43_01.tar.gz


6.43_01  Tue Jan  1 16:06:47 PST 2008
    Bug Fixes
    * Change the "is this really a Perl core library directory" checks to
      look for strict instead of Exporter.  Now that Exporter is on CPAN
      it can wind up in site_perl.
    * split_command() will now set aside a little more space for macro
      expansion.  This should help on systems with cramped command line
      lengths.  Specifically, Pugs on Win32.  [rt.cpan.org 20145]

    Installation
    * MakeMaker would not install if the installed MakeMaker was too old,
      like on 5.6.1.  The installation process was still using the
      installed MakeMaker in a few places.  This has been fixed.
      [rt.cpan.org 24746]

    OS X
    * "make dist" will no longer bundle up resource fork files (._foo).
      [rt.cpan.org 29525]

    Docs
    * The documentation of VERSION_FROM was recommending vstrings (1.2.3)
      which have never worked right.
    * The documentation for the accepted values of LICENSE moved to
      Module::Build::API. [rt.cpan.org 32020]

    Tests
    * The compilation test was testing the installed modules, not the
      about-to-be-installed.
    * xs.t would fail if ExtUtils::CBuilder was not installed.

    Misc
    * Cleanups brought to you by no more 5.5 compatibility!
    * MakeMaker is now perlcritic clean at severity level 5... except
      the really silly ones.
    * DIE use vars DIE!
    * Added some resources to the META.yml

6.42  Fri Dec  7 17:00:14 PST 2007
    Bug Fixes
    - 6.33 moved PREREQ_FATAL to happen after CONFIGURE.  This meant if
      your CONFIGURE use a prereq it would fail and no PREREQ_FATAL
      message would be displayed.
    - Put the "nicetext" functionality back, VMS needs it to deal with
      other people's custom make.  But rename it to the more
      accurate maketext_filter(), test it and fix a bug where it would
      stop processing if it saw a macro declaration.


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