module-build-general

[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

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

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

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Ken Williams wrote:

>   * 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.

That sounds fine to me.  I think this needs to be fixed in
Module::Signature, not in Module::Build.  But the functionality is still
useful.


-dave

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

[Autrijus T. <aut...@au...>]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:29:49PM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> That sounds fine to me.  I think this needs to be fixed in
> Module::Signature, not in Module::Build.  But the functionality is still
> useful.

That sound file to me too.  This is just a quick note to say I'm
following the discussion, it's just I can't get around to fix it
until early next month, after the Taipei.pm's P3P conferences are
settled.

(Patches are, of course, highly welcome.)

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

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

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

On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 07:53  PM, Autrijus Tang wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:29:49PM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>> That sounds fine to me.  I think this needs to be fixed in
>> Module::Signature, not in Module::Build.  But the functionality is 
>> still
>> useful.
>
> That sound file to me too.  This is just a quick note to say I'm
> following the discussion, it's just I can't get around to fix it
> until early next month, after the Taipei.pm's P3P conferences are
> settled.

No problem.  At some point I may want your feedback on the 
mini-language stuff I just proposed to the list, what with your 
experience on ExtUtils::AutoInstall.


>
> (Patches are, of course, highly welcome.)

Yeah, yeah. =)  Patches to my master's thesis, which is due in two 
days, are equally welcome! ;-)

  -Ken

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

[Randy W. S. <Ra...@Th...>]

On 2/18/2003 5:17 PM, Ken Williams wrote:
> 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).

I hope to have this fixed in the next day or two, but depending on how 
my schedule works out it may be as late as this weekend. I have started 
on the fixes, and I don't expect them to take too much longer; testing 
is where most of the time will be involved. In addition to testing with 
the included test scripts, I'd also like to test against some M::B ready 
modules from CPAN (both XS & pure perl). Does anyone have a list of such 
modules?

Randy.