Revision history for Perl extension ExtUtils::ModuleMaker.

0.51 February 8, 2008

ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::Interactive:: Change prompt for Abstract; make it 44-characters long.

0.50 February 8, 2008

'modulemaker' script was failing to initialize certain variables. Diagnosed as problems in ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::Opts. Perl 5.10-related upgrade to Getopts::Std required declaration of $Getopts::Std::STANDARD_HELP_VERSION with assignment of true value. Eliminated croak(Usage()).

0.49 March 27, 2007

Responded to bug report http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25830 that when either INCLUDE_POD_COVERAGE_TEST or INCLUDE_POD_TEST is used on Windows, using File::Spec::catfile to generate filenames for MANIFEST results in Windows-style path separators (\) appearing in MANIFEST. Though most of the time you want to use catfile to generate system-specific paths, in this case you do not because ExtUtils::Manifest uses only Unix-style path separators (/). Fixed.

Responded to bug report
0.48 March 26, 2007

Responded to bug report http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25830 of warnings being thrown during 'make test' in a situation where requestor Paul_AV had added a local license to EU::MM::Licenses::Local. It turned out that at line 80 of EU::MM::Interactive I had failed to s/Standard/Local/g. Fixed.

0.47 May 17, 2006

Added two more options: INCLUDE_ID_LINE and INCLUDE_WARNINGS. Both are off by default. Setting either to a true value includes a Subversion-style 'Id' keyword at the top of each Perl module created by ModuleMaker or inserts 'use warnings;' in the same location.

0.46 April 29, 2006

Use of Devel::Cover for coverage analysis indicated that most subroutines in lib/ExtUtils/ModuleMaker/Utility.pm were no longer covered. It turned out that, with one exception, they had all been superseded by calls to File::Save::Home functions. Hence, they could safely be deleted from the file and the distribution. The one exception, getdir_and_file(), was moved into lib/ExtUtils/ModuleMaker.pm.

0.45 April 5, 2006

In response to bug report from Gabriel Fortuna, corrected bug in t/01_ini.t.

0.44 December 24, 2005

Corrected one typo in ExtUtils/ModuleMaker.pm: '\' before @ in e-mail address in BUGS section.

Corrected typo in POD erroneously crediting David Golden with ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::PBP. It should have been ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::TT.

Deleted File::Temp from PM_PREREQ key in Makefile.PL. It's only used in the test suite, and when it appears there it's within SKIP blocks in case user is using Perl older than 5.6y.

Per bug report from David Golden, changed remaining references to generate_pm_file() in StandardText.pm and Utility.pm to refer to complete_build().

Rewrote Initializers::validate_values() and set_author_composite() in response to bug reports from David Golden and Terrence Brannon. Added t/miscargs/919.t, 920.t and 921.t to test these revisions. There remained one minor problem with the modulemaker command-line mode, however. If in command-line mode you try to specify an empty string as the argument to -p (CPANID), -o (ORGANIZATION) or -w (WEBSITE) (and perhaps others not yet discovered), those values do not appear on the interactive mode's AUTHOR menu. Instead, you get the default values -- either ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::Defaults or ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::Personal Defaults, if the latter is installed. OTOH, if you store a personal defaults file with an empty string as the value for, say, ORGANIZATION, your lib/.pm file will be created correctly (with no extra linespace for the missing attribute). Furthermore, if on the command-line you specify an empty string for any of those three attributes and you suppress interactive mode with -I option, the lib/.pm file will use the default value, which is not what you wanted.

By tossing in 'defined' at three points in ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::Opts, I solved the problem of supplying an empty string to CPANID, ORGANIZATION and WEBSITE in the modulemaker command-line utility.

Modified 4 subs in lib/ExtUtils/ModuleMaker/Auxiliary.pm to use subs from new CPAN module File::Save::Home rather than subs from lib/ExtUtils/ModuleMaker/Utility.pm. Added File::Save::Home to the PREREQ_PM key in Makefile.PL.

0.43 September 29, 2005

• In response to report from CPAN tester imacat, corrected the number of unskipped tests in the SKIP block call in all test files. I had failed to account for the tests found within subroutines such as Auxiliary::savepretesting_status() (3) and restorepretesting_status (5) in computing the number of unskipped tests. This became evident when I tested without Module::Build on the system.

0.42 September 28, 2005

• Converted all test files (except t/01_ini.t) to have an END block which does the 'reprocessing' of the .modulemaker directory and personal defaults files as needed, notwithstanding any die or croak. In cases where t/*.t files encompassed several test blocks, this entailed extracting each block from such a file and creating a separate test file for it. Thus, this meant the creation of several new directories beneath t/, including failsafe/, mmkr/, miscargs/, license/, makedefaults/.

0.41 September 19, 2005

• Corrected error in lib/ExtUtils/ModuleMaker/Utility.pm gethome_directory(): double backslashes messed up tests on Windows.

0.40 September 18, 2005

• Extensive refactoring; additional documentation; new default values added, particularly with regard to naming of tests.

0.39 September 5, 2005

• v0.38 was reported by two beta-testers to fail in tests depending on whether the user had or had not previously created a home/.modulemaker directory on user's system. Set v0.38 for deletion from CPAN.

0.38 September 4, 2005

• v0.37 failed to include t/testlib/ExtUtils/ModuleMaker/Alt_no_Todo.pm in MANIFEST, which meant it wasn't bundled in tarball that went up to CPAN. Corrected MANIFEST; set v0.37 for deletion from CPAN.

0.37 September 3, 2005

• Added method make_selections_defaults() to the public interface. User can now override the default values for attributes in the object created by ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::new(). The values which a user enters in a particular invocation of new() can be saved in a file called ExtUtils/ModuleMaker/Personal/Defaults.pm which overrides ExtUtils/ModuleMaker/Defaults.pm. This file is saved in a .modulemaker/ directory which is in turn located beneath the user's home directory or an equivalent thereto. make_selections_defaults() can be activated from the modulemaker command line via the '-s' option or from modulemaker interactive mode's Main Menu, choice 'H'.
• Added capability for user to override particular methods called within ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::complete_build. This is done by setting the ALT_BUILD attribute passed to new() or by passing the name of a Perl package to the '-d' option to the modulemaker utility in command-line mode.
• To prepare for the two extensions to ExtUtils::ModuleMaker's capabilities described above, most of the quasi-public methods previously found in ExtUtils/ModuleMaker.pm were moved to ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::Initializers.pm (in the case of methods called within new() for the purpose of initializing attributes with default values) or to ExtUtils/ModuleMaker/StandardText.pm (in the case of methods called within complete_build() for the purpose of creating directories, files and writing content to files. These two packages are require-d into the ExtUtils::ModuleMaker object at run-time.
• Addition of the new capabilities described above required the creation of many new tests. Some test files were renumbered so that there are no longer gaps in their order.

0.36 July 18, 2005

• Corrected error pointed out by CPAN tester Scott R. Godin: IO::Capture and subclasses were omitted from MANIFEST, causing failure in t/11_miscargs.t.
• Added additional command-line option '-q' to suppress sub new() in .pm file created by modulemaker. Added tests to t/09_mmkr.t to test suppression of POD and suppression of sub new() in .pm file created by modulemaker. Along the way, wrote additional testing subroutines and added them to t/testlib/Auxiliary.pm:

  exported: checkpm_file make_compact not exported: pod_present constructor_present

• Typographic cleanup of what modulemaker prints to STDOUT for Directives menu (mistake caused by my wrap settings in vi).
• Commented out SecondStyles.pm so it will no longer be bundled via make dist and no longer be uploaded to CPAN.

0.35 July 17, 2005

• Removed support for Perl 4 style module names (e.g., D'oh).
• Added many tests, including tests for the modulemaker utility in non-interactive mode.
• Extensive refactoring, including extraction of most variable and subroutine declarations from modulemaker utility and placed them in lib/ExtUtils/ModuleMaker/Interactive.pm. Done to simplify future maintenance and make coverage results more transparent.
• Added partial_dump() method to ModuleMaker.pm. This is not yet viewed as publicly available but is used to diagnose the content of the EUMM object during development.
• Improvements in documentation; more to come.

0.34 - Intermediate version not released to CPAN.

0.33 July 8, 2005

• Primary maintenance taken over by James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org).
• scripts/modulemaker
  • modulemaker utility revised with objective of making it possible to specify all options on the command-line
  • Included ABSTRACT in Main Menu and created prompt for new abstract
  • Allowed for additional command-line options for specification of abstract and author info
  • Modified Usage message to reflect additional command-line options; placed options in alphabetical order
• lib/ExtUtils/ModuleMaker.pm:
  • Corrected typing errors in several places
  • Modified ORGANIZATION in POD to parallel wording of CPANID
  • Changed $defaults{ABSTRACT} to 'Module abstract (<= 44 characters) goes here'
  • Allowed for ORGANIZATION, where defined, to be included in AUTHOR COMPOSITE and thereby included in Author section of POD
  • Fixed Block_Begin() and Block_Begin_BareBones() to eliminate blank first line in .pm files
  • Deletion of superseded/deprecated subroutines and corresponding POD
• t/*.t
  • Corrected names of test files on first lines of each of 02_simple.t, 03_quick.t and 04_compact.t
  • Created 05_abstract. to test current and new features: -- correct Author and Email in Makefile.PL -- placement of Abstract in POD -- placement of Author info in POD -- placement of History info in POD rather than in Changes
  • Created t/06_build.t and t/07_proxy.t to test alternative BUILD_SYSTEMs
  • Created t/08_modulemaker.t to pave the way for testing of the modulemaker utility (much to be done)

0.32 June 16 2003 (YAPC::Boca_Raton)

• Removed Fakefile.PL that was for testing but only caused problems. The content has been held over after __END__ in Makefile.PL
• Added missing fullname for libpng license which was causing an odd number of parts in a hash
• Added support for Module::Build (patch from Dave Rolsky)
• Fixed misplaced backslash when generating the new method
• Generated Makefile.PL now has a prerequisite of Test::Simple

0.312_29 September 2002 (YAPC::Munich)

• Complete rewrite from the ground up for the 0.3xxx line
• Created by ExtUtils::ModuleMaker 0.202
• Now object oriented for customizability
• Licenses in two new modules:

  ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::Licenses::Standard ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::Licenses::Local

• Customize for local environment by subclassing, example in

  ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::SecondStyle

• Tests now use Test::More
• New interactive script 'modulemaker'
• Removed old scripts 'newmodule' and 'eumm'
• Old functions are deprecated, but still here for now

  Quick_Module Generate_Module_Files

• Fixed missing VERSION_FROM in Makefile.PL
• pod and new method can now be optional in extra modules

  and different in each module

0.204_01 Fri May 31 2002 - joshua@cpan.org

• Renamed eumm to the more memorable newmodule
• Documented newmodule
• More testing. We use Test::More now
• Verbose prints to STDOUT not STDERR
• Minor internal changes

0.202_02 Wed May 29 2002 - joshua@cpan.org

• New feature: create compact base directories
• New program: eumm (name TBD) frontend.

0.202_01 Sat May 25 2002 - joshua@cpan.org

• Creates .cvsignore
• Creates MANIFEST.SKIP

0.202 Fri Dec 28 2001

• Fixed typo on line 134 of Licences.pm

0.201_02 Fri Jul 27 2001

• Coming out party for the module at TPC 5.0
• Change name of module from ModuleMaker to ExtUtils::ModuleMaker
• Added Licences.pm including:
  • LICENSE file added to the manifest
  • Now support all 21 licenses approved by opensource.org
• Added simple tests
• Need to add INLINE hooks, XS hooks, and better testing

0.2001+ Wed Jul 18 2001

• Minor housekeeping details

0.2 Sun Jul 08 20:47:34 2001

• original version; created by ModuleMaker 0.2
• Amazingly incestuous isn't it.