Module-Build 0.27_08

on Perl CPAN

Due to shell quoting issues and differences in syntax between
various flavors of Windows, the code for the 'pl2bat' utility
distributed with Perl has been incorporated into M::B::P::Windows.
[Thanks to Dr Bean and Ron Savage for help testing and isolating
the problem.]

Modify add_build_element() so that it only adds elements if they
don't already exist. [David Wheeler]

Fixed a bug in the 'pass-through' Makefile.PL in which we would die
if CPAN::Shell->install returned false, but apparently this return
value is unreliable. Now we only die if the module is actually
unavailable after installation.

Fixed testing problems on VMS related to non-case-preserving
filesystems. We now bundle Tie::CPHash in the distribution (just
for testing purposes, it doesn't get installed) to help with
this. [Craig Berry and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

We incorrectly documented the 'dynamic_config' flag in the META.yml
file as having a default value of false, but according to the
META.yml spec (which, for heaven's sake, we wrote) its default
value is true. Fixed. [Spotted by Adam Kennedy]

The have_c_compiler() method was dying if the ExtUtils::CBuilder
module wasn't around, which is obviously an unhelpful thing to do.
Now it just returns false. [Spotted by John Peacock]

Fix detection of $VERSION expressions that are not
assignments. [Spotted by Chris Dolan]

Obfuscate one of our constructs that uses a $VERSION variable,
because it was getting picked up by ExtUtils::MakeMaker's
version-finder. [Spotted by Randal Schwartz]

The config_data script for querying and/or setting a module's
config data was forgetting to call write() after setting config
values (though setting feature values was working fine).
Fixed. [Brian Duggan]

On Windows, remove the pl2bat generated 'Build.bat' script without
the annoying "The batch file cannot be found." error. [Solution
provided by RazTK and foxidrive on newsgroup alt.msdos.batch]

Our version comparisons should now work correctly with modules that
use version.pm to delcare their versions (e.g. "our $VERSION =
version->new('1.0.0')"). [John Peacock and Ron Savage]

We now create a Build.bat script on versions of Windows where it
makes sense. [Yves]

Fixed the verbiage around choosing the correct make-alike on
different platforms to suggest using 'perl -V:make'. [Suggested by
anonymous user]