Module-Build 0.36

on Perl CPAN

No changes from 0.35_15 other than the version number.

Summary of major changes since 0.35:

Enhancements:

• Added 'Build installdeps' action to install needed dependencies via
  a user-configurable command line program. (Defaults to 'cpan'.)

• Command line options may be set via the PERL_MB_OPT environment
  variable (similar to PERL_MM_OPT in ExtUtils::MakeMaker)

• Generates MYMETA.yml during Build.PL (new standard protocol for
  communicating configuration results between toolchain components)

• Reduced amount of console output under normal operation (use --verbose
  to see all output)

• Added experimental inc/ bundling; see Module::Build::Bundling for
  details.

New or changed properties:

• Added 'share_dir' property to provide File::ShareDir support;
  File::ShareDir automatically added to 'requires' if 'share_dir' is set

• Added 'needs_compiler' property. Defaults to true if XS or c_source
  exist. If true, ExtUtils::CBuilder is also added to build_requires.

• 'C_support' is no longer an optional feature. Modern ExtUtils::CBuilder
  and ExtUtils::ParseXS added to the 'requires' list. This ensures that
  upgrading Module::Build will upgrade these critical modules.

• Clarified that 'apache' in the license attribute indicates the Apache
  License 2.0 and added 'apache_1_1' for the older version of the license
  (RT#50614)

Deprecations:

• Module::Build::Compat 'passthrough' style has been deprecated. Using
  'passthrough' will issue warnings on Makefile.PL generation. See
  Module::Build::Compat documentation for rationale.
  

Internals:

• Replaced use of YAML.pm with YAML::Tiny; Module::Build::YAML is now
  based on YAML::Tiny as well

• A new get_metadata() method has been added as a simpler wrapper around
  the old, kludgy prepare_metadata() API.

• Replaced guts of new_from_context(). Build.PL is now executed in a
  separate process before resume() is called. (This is generally only of
  interest to Module::Build or toolchain developers) (RT#49350)

• Add support for 'package NAME VERSION' syntax added in Perl 5.11.1

Notable bug fixes:

• The "test" action now dies when using the 'use_tap_harness'
  option and tests fail, matching the behavior under Test::Harness.
  (RT#49080) [initial patch from David Wheeler; revised by David Golden]

• Updated PPM generation to PPM v4 (RT#49600) [Olivier Mengue]

• When module_name is not supplied, no packlist was being written; fixed
  by guessing module_name from dist_version_from or the directory name
  (just like ExtUtils::Manifest does without NAME) [David Golden]

• Failure to detect a compiler will now warn during Build.PL and be a
  fatal error when trying to compile during Build. (RT#48918) [David
  Golden]

• Auto-detection of abstract and author fixed for mixed-case POD headers
  (RT#51117) [David Wheeler]

• resume() was not restoring additions to @INC added in Build.PL
  (RT#50145) [David Golden]

• When tarball paths are less than 100 characters, disables 'prefix'
  mode of Archive::Tar for maximum compatibility (RT#50571) [David Golden]

• Merging 'requires' and 'build_requires' in Module::Build::Compat could
  lead to duplicate PREREQ_PM entries; now the highest version is used
  for PREREQ_PM. (RT#50948) [David Golden]

• Module::Build::Compat will now die with an error if advanced,
  non-numeric prerequisites are given, as these are not supported by
  ExtUtils::MakeMaker in PREREQ_PM [David Golden]