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GFUJI / XS-Assert-0.002 / Changes 
Revision history for Perl extension XS::Assert

0.002 Mon Sep 14 17:21:37 2009
	- forgot "install_headers 'assert.h'"

0.001 Mon Sep 14 10:43:35 2009
	- original version; created by Module::Setup