Module-Build 0.27_04

on Perl CPAN

Removed experimental feature that extended the prerequisite system
to apply ('requires', 'recommends', and 'conflicts') prereqs to all
actions. Most of the internal extensiblity has been retained so
that prereq types can easily be added, more selectively.

Added a 'prereq_report' action that shows the user a well-formatted
list of all prerequisites, the versions required, and the versions
actually installed. [David Wheeler]

Clarified the directory name that's created during the 'distdir'
action. [Suggested by Tyler MacDonald]

Fixed a bug when creating the META.yml file without the help of
YAML.pm - some common strings weren't quoted & escaped properly.
Now only some uncommon ones are. [Spotted by Joshua ben Jore]

Fixed a bug in which an "UNINST=1" argument specified to a
passthrough Makefile's "make install" wasn't actually seen by
Module::Build.

Rather than dying when the Build script is run from the wrong
directory, it now simply chdir()s into the right directory and
keeps going. [Suggested by Dominique Quatravaux]

Added an "Examples on CPAN" section to the cookbook, with an
initial entry pointing to John Peacock's SVN-Notify-Mirror
distribution.

Add an invoked_action() method to return the name of the original
action invoked by the user.

Add 'meta-spec' field to the generated META.yml file, including the
version of the specification followed by the current Module::Build
and the url where the specification can be found.

Introduced two actions, 'html' & 'manpages', that generate
documentation for POD when the respective feature is enabled. The
actions will generate the documents even if there is no set place
to install to. However, if the actions are invoked as a dependency
of another action (e.g. build), the documentation will only be
built when there is a default or user-specified place to install to.

Added support for environment variable, 'MODULEBUILDRC', which can
be used to specify the full path to an option file to use instead
of the default location of ~/.modulebuildrc. A special undocumented
setting of 'NONE' tells Module::Build not to load any user settings,
so tests can be run without tainting from user options.

Documented and improved preliminary support for more Getopt::Long
style options are supported, including boolean options (--verbose,
--no-verbose), and use of hyphens in option names in addition to
underscores.

The option to disable/enable reading of the ~/.modulebuildrc file
is changed from 'skip_rcfile' to 'use_rcfile'

Allow the 'distmeta' action to continue when 'MANIFEST' is missing,
omitting the generation of the 'provieds' field. [Steven Schubiger]

Fixed some failing regex from generated MANIFEST.SKIP file.

Fixed an edge case in $VERSION parsing where we thought a package()
declaration was happening but it wasn't. [David Golden]

Added docs for the install_destination() and install_types() methods.