Changes for version 2.011

  • fixed support for filenames in MANIFEST containing characters meaningful to the regular expression engine e.g. c++
  • now ignores comments in the MANIFEST
  • Bug #2013: Rob replaced the eval() in get_meta() with a do() which fixes problems with Makefile.PLs that do eval()s and generally cleans up the code nicely
  • renamed option --pkgname to --name and --nopkgprfx --no-prfx
  • added options: --epoch, --buildrequires, --source
  • several options now handle multiple instances
  • made --requires, --provides and other "list" type options aggregatable such that users may pass these multiple times
  • added --prologue and --epilogue for support of inserting arbitrary code to sections of the spec file
  • the --doc option now supports a replacement mode, in addition to the normal additive mode
  • all doc files now have their shebang fixed
  • removed warning regarding MakeMaker versions
  • added auto-upgrade funtionality (see --upgrade)
  • enhancements to code that extracts author information from POD
  • enhancements to --mk-rpm-dirs
  • fixed bugs # 2071, 2061, 2054, 2045, 2044, 2013, 2010
  • POD rearranged
  • docs now encourage use of CPAN bug tracker

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A Perl module packager