Hi all, I've reviewed the changes, logs, and bugs since the last release. It looks like time to ship an alpha. I think the version.pm and tilde.t fixes are sorely needed.
The few things which I can think of which might want some attention before we start into the alpha phase again: 1. I would like to see the Cookbook entry on Bundling get some scrutiny. The recommendation of using --install_base $foo means that you'll get "$foo/lib/perl5/Module/Build.pm" or other variously shaped trees depending on your Config.pm. Should we just point to the latest.pm here instead? 2. Where are we on David's install_dirs work? Is there an RT ticket for this? 3. Are we ready to claim that we're META 1.4? http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37478 4. fakeinstall is busted? Schwern, can you elaborate on that or should we put this in RT? http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module.build/2008/09/msg1557.html 5. Help windows users create archives that pause will accept? Archive::Tar->create_archive("$file.tar.gz", 1, grep {!-d $_} @$files); http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39804 I now have 15 minutes of MB tuits left for this month, which is about enough time to ship two alphas if I don't have to think too hard. Thanks, Eric -- "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana." --Groucho Marx --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------