[Module-build-general] ANNOUNCE: Alzabo 0.72 (now with Module::Build goodness)

[Dave R. <au...@ur...>]

[ Normally, this'd be OT, but the main change for this release is that
Alzabo's fairly complex build/test/install system now uses Module::Build.
Looking at Alzabo's use of Module::Build may be helpful for people
interested in customizing this sort of stuff. ]

Alzabo is a program and a module suite, with two core functions. Its first
use is as a data modelling tool. Through either a schema creation
interface or a perl program, you can create a set of schema, table,
column, etc.  objects to represent your data model. Alzabo is also capable
of reverse engineering your data model from an existing system.

Its second function is as an RDBMS to object mapping system. Once you have
created a schema, you can use the Alzabo::Runtime::Table and
Alzabo::Runtime::Row classes to access its data. These classes offer a
high level interface to common operations such as SQL SELECT, INSERT,
DELETE, and UPDATE commands.

Please see http://www.alzabo.org/ for more info.  Alzabo can be installed
via the CPAN shell or downloaded from SourceForge.


0.72  April 12, 2003

ENHANCEMENTS:

- Rewrote the complex build/install system to use Module::Build, which
simplified quite a bit of code.  Additionally, this should eliminate
problems reported by Win32 users with the generated Makefile, because
there is no longer a Makefile ;)

BUG FIXES:

- Fixed the Alzabo::MethodMaker->docs_as_pod method, which simply died
when used with a recent version of Params::Validate.  Reported by Ken
Williams.