On 2005-03-12, at 10:28:42 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.25_09.tar.gz > or > http://svn.schwern.org/svn/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/trunk > or > a CPAN near you > > Its another alpha release of MakeMaker! This one is a release candidate. > The last few rounds of changes have all been specific to VMS so I don't > expect many problems though I'd like it if the mod_perl folks can do their > usual hammering as well as PDL, Tk, WxPerl, etc...
I've just tested with two of my modules (Convert::Binary::C and Devel::PPPort, both XS and the first one with a 700 line Makefile.PL), and noticed the (re-)running 'make test' triggers re-building of _all_ OBJECT files and PL_FILES targets, even though they're not touched. Is this a known "feature"? If so, why has the behaviour been changed? > As for the VMS issues, I believe there are a few left wrt older versions of > MMS. Unless these can be resolved posthaste I'm going to have to drop > support for those versions of MMS for this release. Sorry, I can't hold it > up a release any longer. > > The new version of dmake released by Steve Hay is not well tested. I'd > appreciate if folks can give that a knock about. > http://search.cpan.org/~shay/dmake-4.3-20050307-SHAY/ > > I've reviewed the open bugs on rt.cpan.org and nothing looks urgent enough > to hold up a badly needed new stable release. If you feel otherwise, please > yell. Not quite a bug, but if I rework my 'license' patch http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8561 do you see a chance of integrating it in the near future (not the next release, of course)? Marcus -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
