# $File: //depot/cpanplus/dist/ChangeLog $ # $Revision: #7 $ $Change: 3185 $ $DateTime: 2003/01/04 20:38:05 $ [Changes for 0.041 - January 5, 2002] This "Happy New Year!" edition brought in numerous bugfixes and the French translation. * New Features - Support for installing Module::Build-based distributions. - The default shell now has auto-completion for command flags. - Messages localized to French by Alain Barbet. - 'o --short' now shows a reduced listing of outdated local files, by listing only one module per distribution. * Bug fixes (and their first reporters): - Mirror list won't be fetched during automatic upgrading. (Richard Soderberg) - 'cpansmoke' was sending out duplicated reports for prereqs. (Alain Barbet) - Personal config files was clobbered by the default one. (Richard Clamp) - Upgrading was broken due to incompatible Config.pm. (Jost Krieger) - All submodules now has proper version numbers. (Alain Barbet) - The 'undef' and '' versions in PREREQ_PM is now correctly interpreted. - The 'z' command can now handle distnames as arguments. - 's conf' in shell was broken. [Changes for 0.040 - November 4, 2002] After five months in the development branch, we finally have another major release, featuring massively rewritten, refactored and tested code. We are looking for translators for "lib/CPANPLUS/I18N/CPANPLUS.pot" -- please contact if you are interested in filling the "" slots with messages in your language. * New Features - A 'Classic' shell that emulates the CPAN.pm shell. - Internationalization framework for localized messages. - Comprehensive unit-test suites for CPANPLUS.pm and Backend.pm. - Tab completion in the Default shell. - Shell commands now takes options (e.g. 'install --force Module::Name'). - New 'b' (autobundle) and 'z' (open shell in module directory) commands. - Checking for newer modules with 'o' is now significantly faster. - New configuration option, 'skiptest', to skip the 'make test' phase. - New 'signature' option to check PGP signatures before installation. - All Backend's module methods now works with either names or objects. - Return values are now CPANPLUS::Backend::RV objects. - Support for Perl version-specific build/ and dist/ directories. - Multiple configuration file support in Setup.pm. - Fetching modules with 'curl' is now possible. * Bug fixes (and their first reporters): - Auto installation was broken on Cygwin. - The 'x' command (reload_indices) was leaking memory. (Jochen Stenzel) - The 'o' command did not recognize 'old' @INC paths (Jost Krieger) - Infinite loops when installing core modules are fixed. (chemboy) - Fixed problems about subdirs in CPAN's author directories. (Jost Krieger) - Contact address was missing in CPANPLUS's POD. (Mark-Jason Dominus) - Use user-specified 'perl' executable instead of %ENV's. (Lupe Christoph) - Without IPC::Run, open3() on Linux was flushed badly. (Jorrit Waalboer) - Report.pm used to send duplicate UNKNOWN reports. (Alain Barbet) [Changes for 0.036 - July 30, 2002] This release fixed the showstopping bug in 0.034 that prevented first-time users from installing dependencies. * New Features - The space after the '!' command in default shell is now optional. - Some new FAQ entries applied from -devel. * Bug fixes (and their first reporters): - Fixed Makefile.PL so AutoInstall is no longer broken. (Jonathan Leffler) - Spelling corrections. (Jonathan Leffler) - Prereq modules used to send duplicate reports by cpansmoke -s. (Randy Kobes) - PERL_EXTUTILS_AUTOINSTALL is now set by cpansmoke to avoid interactions. - LWP tests in t/3-backend.t now refuses to run without HTML::HeadParser. - Setting defaults based on existing configuration now actually work. [Changes for 0.035 - June 4, 2002] This version rolls in the bugfixes reported by Jost Krieger. Thanks! * New Features - The 'o' command is now accepted by bin/cpanp. * Bug fixes (and their first reporters): - Fixed infinite recursive fetching CHECKSUM on bad MD5s. (Jost Krieger) - Retracted the painfully slow algorithm used in 'o'. (Jost Krieger) - The 'could not remove directory' error during uninstall is made non-fatal. [Changes for 0.034 - June 1, 2002] This is primarily a bug-fix version to address various bugs found in testing- related functions. * New Features - New 'v' command in default shell to re-display the version banner. - The 'o' command now takes optional arguments to limit modules checked. * Bug fixes (and their first reporters): - Default.pm may warn about 'next' statements inside eval. (Peter Barabas) - Win32 was having problem with double-quote commands in Make.pm. (Yves Orton) - Report.pm now closes the report filehandle before sending it. (Jost Krieger) - The "'" character in user-entered module names will now expand to "::". - New CPANPLUS::Internals::System module has fixed problems caused by $|=1. - Makefile.PL on VMS and MacPerl should now work better. - Setup.pm now defaults to use passive FTP. - Report.pm was sending bogus FAILs for OS-specific modules. - Report.pm now detects missing dependencies and sends recommendations. [Changes for 0.033 - May 1, 2002] Following the 'next-day followup' tradition, this is _yet another_ bugfix release, due to a rather lousy bug: $CPANPLUS::VERSION was not incremented. * Bug fixes (and their first reporters): - SMTP host in 'cpantest' script should be onion.perl.org. (Lee Goddard) - Timeout controls in 'cpansmoke' segfaults on some version of ActivePerl. - Interactive 'make test' processes are now handled correctly. - Bundle modules that stores in lib/Bundle/ is recognized. - Bundles are now always installed regardless of the 'force' setting. - Make.pm was runing 'make test' verbosely on all Unix platforms. [Changes for 0.032 - April 30, 2002] This release went out with the http://perl.com/ article, "Becoming a CPAN Tester with CPANPLUS", which is also available in this version as CPANPLUS::TesterGuide (without the Lord of the Ring quote, though). * New Features - Setup.pm now uses previous version's settings as default. - Returned entries in reports() are changed from hashrefs to arrayrefs. - When sending 'unknown' reports, advise the author to include a test suite. - Selections in shell now accepts '*'; bounds of 'x..y' are checked. - CPANPLUS now correctly guesses full distnames from partial ones. - URL is displayed for test reports that contains detailed information. - The make() and install() methods now takes a 'prereq_target' argument. - Added support for external FTP executable. - 'cpansmoke -p' no longer installs prereqs, but sets PERL5LIB to their blib. - Bundle installation's procedure revamped; allows upgrade and distnames now. * Bug fixes (and their first reporters): - Methods in CPANPLUS.pm should display error messages. (Mark-Jason Dominus) - AutoInstall was reporting success on failed installs. (Jochen Stenzel) - Outdated CHECKSUM files prevents installation. (Jochen Stenzel) - Fixed self-dependencies caused by missing UNINST=1. (Jochen Stenzel) - Fixed co-dependencies between core and site modules. (Robert S Creager) - Failed tests prevents installation even with 'force'. (Chia-Liang Kao) - The "use Socket" line in t/3-backend.t was crashing solaris. (Andy Lester) - Setup.pm should check for non-writable Config.pm first. (Tony Cook) - Fixed buffering problems with interactive Makefile.PL. (Jorrit Waalboer) - Old files in build/ is now removed before extracting a module. - Nmake.exe is now placed in Perl's directory, not the Windows directory. - External commands used to break on Cygwin and Windows 9x. - External calls on unzip, gunzip and lynx was all broken. - If the user saves an empty report, cpantest won't send it out now. - The -a flag of cpansmoke should only send out 'make test' failures. - AutoInstall.pm was confusing versions with Sort::Versions installed. - The order of 'makeflags' and 'makemakerflags' were wrong in Setup.pm. - User won't be prompted to enter Setup twice on first-time runs. - Host guessing was not working for people living in GMT +0. [Changes for 0.031 - April 10, 2002] Following the 'next-day followup' tradition established by version 0.02, this is yet another bugfix release, due to numerous Windows-related issues in bundled utilities, and a glitch in the AutoInstaller code. * New Features - Storable images are now tagged with the Storable versions. - Old storable images are deleted during the configuration process. * Bug fixes (and their first reporters): - Use AutoInstall 0.29 to resolve installation glitches. (Jochen Stenzel) - Fixed IPC::Run's buffering so interactive installs work. (Jorrit Waalboer) - 'cpansmoke' now falls back to fork() on platforms without alarm(). - 'cpansmoke' won't re-fetch distfiles if its arguments are module names. - 'cpantest' was using the incorrect 'perl.org' as its SMTP server. - 'cpanp' was unable to handle '--flags' with Term::ReadLine::Perl on Win32. - The scary 'Unlinking C:\' messages during uninstall() are eliminated. [Changes for 0.03 - April 9, 2002] This release is dedicated to Elaine -HFB- Ashton, for her tireless efforts on maintaining search.cpan.org, perl advocacy, and sponsoring the cpantest/cpansmoke integration support present in this release. See the "Notes on CPAN testing" section in README for instructions on how to use the test-related integrations. * New Shell Commands - 'c' checks testing results of modules from testers.cpan.org. - 'x' fetches and reloads indices. - 'o' searches for installed modules that have a newer version on CPAN. - 'u' uninstalls modules. - 'r' fetches and displays README files of modules. - 't' tests modules without installing them. * New Features - The module/author tree is loaded on demand instead of at startup. - CHECKSUM files are fetched only when needed. - CHECKSUM file is now parsed instead of eval()'ed to improve security. - New 'cpantest' configuration variable. ('Report module build results?') - Bundles Kurt Starsinic's 'cpantest' script to report test results. - Added the 'cpansmoke' script to help batch-testing CPAN modules. - install() and make() now take a 'target' option to control the make target. - Failed host will not be retried within the same session. - Paged output for README and command listings exceeding screen rows. - Better formatting for version numbers (%3.4f instead of %7s). - _can_use() now takes a 'complain' option to control display warnings or not. - _make() uses IPC::Run and/or IPC::Open3 to capture external command buffers. - Dependency probing in Makefile.PL is now enabled by default. - Module operation commands in Shell now accepts number ranges (e.g. 1..10). - New installed(), reports() and validate() public methods in Backend.pm. - Module operation methods in Backend.pm now takes modobj, modname or distname. - New pathname() method of Backend returns the canonical distname of a module. - Most Backend methods that operates on modules are also Module object methods. - The Configuration setup process may be completed automatically now. - Properties of Module and Author objects are available as accessor methods. - Makefile.PL can automatically fetch and install nmake.exe on Windows. * Bug fixes (and their first reporters): - Setup.pm used to break newer Term::ReadLine versions. (Matt Sergeant) - ^D in Default Shell should print "\n" on exit. (Jorrit Waalboer) - Archive::Tar was failing on Debian GNU/Linux. (Jorrit Waalboer) - _ask_prereq() message may exceed column 80. (Jorrit Waalboer) - 'make distclean' used to complain about Config.pm and .pm~. (Jochen Stenzel) - Shell should report errors encountered during failed commands. (Mark Fowler) - Defaults to cpanplus@example.com, not $Config{cf_email}. (Peter Sergeant) - Fixed endless dependency loop on modules not in modtree. (Barrie Slaymaker) - More accurate Win32 installation instructions. - Various tarball filename parsing failures fixed. - Modules belong to the core Perl distribution are never fetched or installed. [Changes for 0.02 - March 27, 2002] This is mainly a bugfix release, due to the rather serious issue of not able to change configuration variables from the default shell. * New Features - Separated Shell::Default's version number from Backend; both are displayed. * Bug fixes (and their first reporters): - Don't let Archive::Tar set uid/gid to prevent local exploit. (Ton Hospel) - Scalar configuration variable setting was mistaken as hash in default shell. - Documentation fixes in various places. [Changes for 0.01 - March 26, 2002] Initial CPAN release.