[Module-build-general] [BETA] version 0.18_03 -> CPAN

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

Hey,

In part because the anonymous CVS access doesn't seem to be working at 
sourceforge, and in part because I've now implemented support for the 
'install_path' parameter (allowing customization of installation paths 
- and it was basically a one-line patch!  Who knew!), I just uploaded a 
new beta to CPAN and sourceforge:

   http://search.cpan.org/author/KWILLIAMS/Module-Build-0.18_03/ (will 
take a couple days)

   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45731 
(available now)

The changes since version 0.18_02 are below.

  -Ken


0.18_03

  - Added support for the 'install_path' parameter, which allows custom
    specification of where things should be installed.  This is a major
    improvement to Module::Build's functionality.

  - Command-line arguments may now either be specified using the syntax
    '--foo foovalue' as well as the traditional syntax 'foo=foovalue'.
    The former is often more convenient for shell tab-completion when
    the value is a filename (as in 'Build test --test_files t/basic.t').

  - Command-line arguments may now include non-named parameters, which
    make some actions more natural.  For instance, the 'diff' action
    may now be invoked as 'Build diff -u' rather than as
    'Build diff flags=-u'.

  - Pass-through Makefile.PLs now convert unknown Makefile.PL
    parameters to lower-case and hand them to Build.PL, rather than
    ignoring them.  This means we only have to account for the
    differences in the interface, not the entire interface, in
    translating parameters.

  - We now issue a warning & don't proceed if asked to make a distdir
    and there's no MANIFEST or it's empty.

  - We now install scripts by default to $Config{installsitebin}
    instead of $Config{installscript}.  Neither is a great choice, but
    the former is likely to be [analogous to] /usr/local/bin, and the
    latter is likely to be [something like] /usr/bin .  If/when there's
    a $Config{installsitescript}, we'll start using that automatically.

  - Moved INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to increase compatibility with various
    odd versions of 'make' during 'make install' on case-insensitive
    filesystems (like nmake on Win32, often).  Only affects the
    Makefile compatibility layer.  [reported by Andrew Savage]

  - Module::Build->known_actions() now works as a class method.

  - We now use the correct perl interpreter (via
    Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter) in pass-through makefiles.

  - Pass-through makefiles now list each action individually rather
    than using a ".DEFAULT" catch-all.  This improves compatibility
    with 'nmake' on Win32, and probably some other less common 'make'
    dialects.  [Andrew Savage]

  - We're now more aggressive about testing the pass-through makefiles,
    e.g. making sure they can run 'all' and 'test' targets, and making
    sure the Makefile itself actually exists.