Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.44

On 02/03/2008, demerphq <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/03/2008, demerphq <[email protected]> wrote:
>  > On 01/03/2008, demerphq <[email protected]> wrote:
>  >  > 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.
>  >
>  >
>  > Changes applied to blead as change #33404
>  >
>  >  http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/33404
>
>
> Following up on a problem Schwern noticed with ExtUtils::Install's
>  META.yml I have released 1.47. Besides  resolving rt #13740 and rt
>  #33735 it also contains some new features (support for a "always
>  copies mode") and a newer cleaner optional interface to install(),
>  both to see what happened and to pass arguments in.
>
>  http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13740
>  http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33735

Following up on some CPANTesters results I have uploaded a new version
1.49 just a few minutes ago. This deprecates the recently added
EU_ALWAYS_COPY and replaces it with the properly named
EU_INSTALL_ALWAYS_COPY, removes some prereqs that were confusing
CPANPLUS and skips some tests that fail as root when run as root.

Yves

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