Re: [Module::Build] Ready for 0.22?

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

On Friday, January 9, 2004, at 04:24  PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

> On approximately 1/9/2004 9:29 AM, came the following characters from
> the keyboard of Ken Williams:
>> Hey,
>> Any outstanding issues before I release 0.22 to CPAN?
>
> Well, I still haven't been able to do a PPM install of a M::B built 
> distribution for a trivial XS module.  But whether that is 
> Module::Build, Archive::Tar, or PPM I have no clue.  And yes, this is 
> with 0.21_02.  But I think you are aware of this one, and it may not 
> be a showstopper for M::B 0.22 ... although until it is resolved, we 
> won't really know where the bug is.

Oh sorry, I left one item out of the "Changes" list:

  - The 'dist' action now accepts an optional 'tar' parameter to use a
    system utility for building the tarball, and a 'gzip' parameter for
    compressing it.  If these are used, Archive::Tar won't be invoked.

The idea is that people who still can't get Archive::Tar to work might 
have some other alternative, like a Cygwin tar/gzip or whatever.

There are also changes since 0.21_02 in how the PPD file is built, I 
think those address your other concerns.

  -Ken