Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.44

On 29/02/2008, Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a release of 6.43_01 with ExtUtils::Install updated to 1.45.
>  http://schwern.org/~schwern/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.44.tar.gz
>
>  OS X users will be happy to know the issues with Apple's "special" tar has
>  been fixed, no more ._Foo files.
>
>  Win32 pugs developers should note that a long standing issue with long
>  commands has been fixed.
>
>  MakeMaker will now install on a fresh 5.6.
>
>  A note to p5p, I haven't incorporated the ABSPERL whitespace patch.  I'm
>  afraid it might cause problems.  I'm looking into a more general solution for
>  whitespace in paths.  Feel free to reapply the bleadperl patches.
>
>
>  6.44  Thu Feb 28 16:06:04 PST 2008
>      Bug Fixes
>      * Updated bundled ExtUtils::Install to 1.45 which should fix some
>        Cygwin issues. [rt.cpan.org 33291]
>
>
>  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

While not trying to make Schwerns life difficult I released
ExtUtils::Install 1.46 just now.

Relevant part of the changes file is:

1.46 2008-03-01 12:42:35

Apply patches from Michael Schwern (rt #33688, rt #31429, rt #31248)
and from Slaven Rezic (rt #33290).  Also implemented the suggestion from
Schwern about not dieing when failing to remove a shadow file that is
later on in INC than the installed version. (rt #2928)

Patch for p5p will follow later on.

yves

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