Module-Build 0.27_03

on Perl CPAN

We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do all compiling of C code (for
example, when compiling XS modules). (This change actually
occurred in 0.27_01, but it was mistakenly omitted from the Changes
file.)

Fixed an issue on Win32 (and other case-tolerant
non-case-preserving systems, possibly like VMS?) in which the
current working directory would sometimes be reported with
different case, fooling us into thinking that we were in the wrong
directory. [David Golden]

The extra_compiler_flags setting was not actually being passed
along to ExtUtils::CBuilder so it could pass it along to the
compiler. Now it is.

The synonyms 'scripts' and 'prereq' for 'script_files' and
'requires' were broken in a previous version (0.27_01, probably),
but now they're fixed. [David Golden]

Previously, we assumed that any custom subclass of Module::Build
was located in _build/lib/. This is only true if the author used
the subclass() method, though. We now use %INC to find where the
custom subclass really is, so that we can "use lib" it. We also
issue a warning if it seems to be outside the build directory.
[Spotted by Peter Tandler]

Added a URL for each license type that we know about, which will
appear as resources=>license: in the generated META.yml file.

If the user passes a no_index parameter to our constructor, we now
pass that through when building the META.yml file. [Richard
Soderberg, RT #9603]

A few more status messages can now be suppressed by using 'quiet'
mode. [Dave Rolsky]

Added some more entries to the default MANIFEST.SKIP file. [Chris
Dolan]

Our POD parser will now accept "AUTHORS" as well as "AUTHOR" when
looking for the author list in a module. [David Wheeler]

When looking for the POD to auto-generate a README file, or for the
AUTHOR or ABSTRACT for the distribution, we now also look for a
*.pod with the same name as the *.pm file specified by
'version_from'. [David Golden]

The recommended dependency on ExtUtils::ParseXS has been moved into
the "C_support" auto_feature.

When building XS files, we now pass the -DVERSION and -DXS_VERSION
flags to the compiler. [Spotted by Jerry Hedden]

If a distribution has XS files and Module::Build has not been
configured with the "C_support" feature, we now issue a
warning. [Suggested by Jerry Hedden]

Added a dir_contains() method.

Some versions of MakeMaker, CPANPLUS, and/or PAUSE thought that a
certain line of our code was declaring a $VERSION when we didn't
intend to. The line has been obscurified so they won't think that
anymore. [Jos Boumans, RT #14226]

Added the Apache, MIT, and Mozilla licenses to the list of licenses
that this module knows about. [Bob Ippolito]

Fixed a pretty significant typo in the documentation for
auto_features. [Spotted by Jonas B. Nielsen]

In order to aid people who want to do customization of the META.yml
file, we've added a "metafile" property that can then be easily
overridden in subclasses, changed do_create_meta_yml() to
do_create_metafile(), and split out the code that actually
generates the YAML into a new method, write_metafile(). [David
Wheeler]

Fixed a couple of non-helpful behaviors with extra_compiler_flags
and extra_linker_flags. These will automatically be run through
split_like_shell() when given to new() as strings.

When the user doesn't have ExtUtils::ParseXS installed and we use
the old 'xsubpp', the displayed command line for creating the .c
file from the .xs file was missing its newline. Now it's got it.