Revision history for Module-Metadata

1.000038  2023-04-28 11:25:40Z
  - detects "class" syntax

1.000037  2019-09-07 18:32:44Z
  - add decode_pod option for automatic =encoding handling

1.000036  2019-04-18 18:25:15Z
  - properly clean up temp dirs after testing

1.000035  2019-04-18 02:43:11Z
  - quieten noisy tests (issue #31)

1.000034  2018-07-19 20:26:18Z (TRIAL RELEASE)
  - fix how relative paths are absolutized, so they work properly on MSWin32
    (Christian Walde, PR#24)

1.000033  2016-07-24 23:32:58Z
  - fix file operation in tests for VMS

1.000032  2016-04-23 22:36:24Z (TRIAL RELEASE)
  - use a more strict matching heuristic when attempting to infer the
    "primary" module name in a parsed .pm file
  - only report "main" as the module name if code was seen outside another
    namespace, fixing bad results for pod files (RT#107525)

1.000031  2015-11-24 03:57:55Z (TRIAL RELEASE)
  - be less noisy on failure when building as part of perl core (see perl
    RT#126685)

1.000030  2015-11-20 03:03:24Z (TRIAL RELEASE)
  - temp dirs cleaned up during tests (Steve Hay)
  - more accurately mark tests as TODO, so as to have a quieter and less
    confusing test run without passing TODO tests. This release is primarily
    intended for the perl 5.23.5 release.

1.000029  2015-09-11 16:25:43Z (TRIAL RELEASE)
  - fix missing "use" statement in refactored test helper (only affected older
    perls, due to other module interactions)

1.000028  2015-09-11 04:24:39Z (TRIAL RELEASE)
  - refactored and expanded test cases
  - fixed a $VERSION extraction issue on perl 5.6.2 (RT#105978, PR#17)
  - fix the detection of package Foo when $Foo::VERSION is set (RT#85961)

1.000027  2015-04-11 00:21:26Z
  - work around issues with an unconfigured Log::Contextual (Kent Fredric)
  - allow tests to pass in a perl with no taint support (James Raspass)

1.000026  2015-01-17 19:22:34Z
  - patched tests to be less noisy in blead builds (Dave Mitchell, RT#101491)

1.000025  2015-01-04 18:56:00Z
  - evaluate version assignment in a clean environment, to fix assignment in a
    block (RT#101095)

1.000024  2014-06-03 01:52:46Z
  - fix inaccurate prerequisite declaration on Test::More (in 1.000023)

1.000023  2014-06-02 02:37:17Z
  - support installations on older perls with an ExtUtils::MakeMaker earlier
    than 6.63_03

1.000022 - 2014-04-29
  - work around change in comparison behaviour in Test::More 0.95_01 by being
    more explicit with our tests - now explicitly checking the string form of
    the extracted version, rather than the entire version object
  - ensure the extracted version is returned as a version object in all cases
    (RT#87782, Randy Stauner)

1.000021 - 2014-04-29
  - fix use of newer interface from File::Path, to avoid another prereq on
    older perls (Graham Knop, PR#7)
  - fixed all out of date prereq declarations

1.000020 - 2014-04-27
  - new is_indexable() object method (ether, RT#84357)
  - eliminated dependency on IO::File (and by virtue, XS) - thanks, leont!
  - removed cruft in test infrastructure left behind from separation from
    Module::Build (ether)
  - repository moved to https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/Module-Metadata
  - .pm file is now wholly ascii, for nicer fatpacking (RT#95086)
  - some code micro-optimizations (Olivier Mengué, PR#4)

1.000019 - 2013-10-06
  - warnings now disabled inside during the evaluation of generated version
    sub (BinGOs, RT#89282)

1.000018 - 2013-09-11
  - re-release of detainting fix without unstated non-core test dependencies

1.000017 - 2013-09-10
  - detaint version, if needed (RT#88576, Chris Williams)

1.000016 - 2013-08-21
  - Re-release to fix prereqs and other metadata

1.000015 - 2013-08-21
  - Change wording about safety/security to satisfy CVE-2013-1437

1.000014 - 2013-05-09
  - Remove "now installs to 'site' for perl 5.12+" from last version

1.000013 - 2013-05-08
  - Fix reliance on recent Test::Builder
  - Make tests perl 5.6 compatible
  - now installs to 'site' for perl 5.12+, as per p5p recommendation

1.000012 - 2013-05-04
  - improved package detection heuristics (thanks, Edward Zborowski!)
  - fix ->contains_pod (RT#84932, Tokuhiro Matsuno)
  - fix detection of pod after __END__ (RT79656, Tokuhiro Matsuno)

1.000011 - 2012-08-16
  - LEONT++ hasn't found any issues with my changes; mark it done (or at
    least ready for smoking). (APEIRON)

1.000010_003 - 2012-08-16 01:00:00
  - Remove other spurious message (APEIRON)

1.000010_002 - 2012-08-15 20:15:00
  - APEIRON is an idiot (APEIRON)

1.000010_001 - 2012-08-15 20:00:00
  - Dev release to test removing a warning about modules not using the
    'eval $VERSION' syntax which causes lots of spew. (APEIRON)

1.000010 - 2012-07-29 19:30:00
  - Performance improvement: the creation of a Module::Metadata object
    for a typical module file has been sped up by about 40% (VPIT)
  - Fix t/metadata.t failure under Cygwin (JDHEDDEN)
  - Portability fix-ups for new_from_module() and test failures on VMS (CBERRY)

1.000009 - 2012-02-08 12:00:00
  - API of 'provides' changed to require a 'version' argument to future
    proof the function against CPAN Meta Spec changes (DAGOLDEN)
  - Fatal errors now use 'croak' instead of 'die'; Carp added as
    prerequisite (DAGOLDEN)

1.000008 - 2012-02-07 22:30:00
  - Adds 'provides' method to generate a CPAN META provides data structure
    correctly; use of package_versions_from_directory is discouraged (DAGOLDEN)

1.000007 - 2011-09-07 12:00:00
  - Apply VMS fixes backported from blead (Craig A. Berry)

1.000006 - 2011-08-29 04:00:00
  - Support PACKAGE BLOCK syntax (VPIT)

1.000005 - 2011-08-02 09:45:00
  - Localize $package::VERSION during version discovery (MIYAGAWA)
  - Fix references to Module::Build::ModuleInfo [RT #66133] (DAGOLDEN)
  - Added 'new_from_handle()' method [RT #68875] (DAGOLDEN)
  - Improved documentation (SYNOPSIS, broke out class/object method, and
    other minor edits) (DAGOLDEN)

1.000004 - 2011-02-03 07:55:00
  - Fix broken metadata.t when @INC has relative paths (JJORE)

1.000003 - 2011-01-06 21:35:00
  - Pod cleanup (DAGOLDEN)

1.000002 - 2010-12-10 12:00:00
  - Remove Module::Metadata::Version and depend directly on version.pm
    (DAGOLDEN)
  - Munge versions that fail even "lax" version number rules to try
    to return something sensible (DAGOLDEN)

1.000001 - 2010-07-09 00:52:37
  - fix build code to prevent Author.PL being mistakenly run during make
    and add some extra author-side tools (MSTROUT)

1.000000 - 2010-07-07
  - Initial release (MSTROUT)
  - Code extracted from Module::Build + Module::Build::Version (MSTROUT)
  - Tests extracted from Module::Build (DAGOLDEN)
  - POD coverage (MSTROUT)
  - Use of Log::Contextual when loaded with fallback to warn() (MSTROUT)