[Module-build-general] ANNOUNCE: 0.18 -> CPAN

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

Hi,

In a spirit of adventure, and against the barrage of difficulties 
presented by the flaky CVS server at SourceForge, I just released 
version 0.18 of Module::Build.  I didn't get [m]any success/failure 
reports for the last couple days, so I figured the best way to vet it 
out was to start getting the automated smoke tests.

  -Ken

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     Module-Build-0.18.tar.gz

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   file: $CPAN/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Module-Build-0.18.tar.gz
   size: 60816 bytes
    md5: 18f35dc7e5751f8e56554f564293d0bc

Changes since 0.17:

  - We now rewrite the shebang lines of scripts ourselves, rather than
    relying on MakeMaker routines to do it.  MakeMaker changed the way
    this happened (not the result, but where the code lived) a few
    times.  [Suggested by Richard Clamp]

  - The scripts() method has changed to script_files(), and likewise
    the 'scripts' parameter has changed to 'script_files'.  The old
    names can still be used for backward compatibility.

  - Support for the 'scripts' parameter (which is now 'script_files')
    was broken in 0.17, now it's fixed.  [Richard Clamp]

  - We now recommend ExtUtils::ParseXS 2.02, which will fail to load
    with perl 5.005 or earlier (which is proper, because it doesn't
    work with those versions).  When it fails to load, we still fall
    back to using the xsubpp script for XS parsing. [spotted by Dave
    Rolsky, fix suggested by Richard Clamp]

  - Now works on VMS - the Build script's shebang-line-equivalent
    wasn't being formed correctly there - though just about everything
    else worked fine.  [Tested & patched by Michael Schwern]

  - Eliminated a warning that occurred if 'perl Build.PL' or the
    check_installed_status() method was run with -w.  [Spotted by
    Michael Schwern]