[Module-build-general] Ready for release 0.16?

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

Hi,

Because of the recent P5P postings & Dave's perl.com article, there's 
been significant interest in rolling out a new CPAN release of M::B 
fairly soon.  There are several bug fixes and new features (most 
notably Module::Signature support, and the 'destdir' installation 
parameter, which will allow Chip to make a Debian distro) that would be 
nice for people to see rather than seeing what's in 0.15.

The known outstanding bugs are:

  * C compilation (the compile_c() and link_c() methods) are known to 
fail with at least 1 or 2 of the supported compilers on Win32.  Randy 
Sims has volunteered to work on a fix, but if he's unable to do so 
fairly soon, I'm tempted to release it in its current state to get the 
other fixes released (Win32 fixes for the Makefile.PL wrapper, for 
example).

  * The Module::Signature support is still incomplete.  Or rather, the 
testing thereof is incomplete in that it'll fail rudely if someone has 
Module::Signature installed but doesn't have keys in their keychain.  I 
think I'll disable the testing of it for the time being.

Anything else?

  -Ken