Changelog

All notable changes to Alien::Xrepo will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

v1.0.7 - 2026-10-15

Fixed

• Limit each package to one registry refresh and one automatic retry per build tree. The counter is stored in checkpoint data so this limit is applied even if the build is resumed after a mid-stage failure.
• Checkpoints now record each stage as completed before persisting, so a resumed build does not repeat tasks that completed in a previous attempt.

v1.0.6 - 2026-10-14

Alpha runtime dependency diagnostic for FFI libraries. If, say libsdl3_ttf requires freetype, Alien::Xrepo will let you know.

It's... a work in progress.

Added

• Runtime dependency diagnostic for FFI libraries:
  • Alien::Xrepo gains runtime_deps, fetch_closure, scan_runtime_deps, loader_env_var, and dep_search_dirs.
  • Alien::Xrepo::PackageInfo gains the deps and runtime_deps fields plus with_runtime_deps.

Changed

• Alien::Xrepo::Build records each package's runtime dependencies so they ride into the snapshot and back out through Runtime::package_info without a second scan. Also warns when a dependency is unresolved.
• Require Alien::Xmake v1.0.5

v1.0.5 - 2026-10-14

Added

• Alien::Xrepo::Build::assert_installed, an opt-in all-or-nothing check a packaging caller runs after run(): it drops the just-written snapshot and dies listing every package that failed, so a dist with a broken package fails its build instead of being reported green. run() itself stays non-fatal so one failed package never hides the siblings that did install.
• Alien::Xrepo::Runtime snapshot introspection: has_snapshot, snapshot_path, and snapshot_errors, so a consumer's tests can tell a cold checkout (no snapshot) from a snapshot that was written but is incomplete (a failed build).

Changed

• Alien::Xrepo::MB and Alien::Xrepo::MM now call assert_installed after the build, turning a partial or failed install into a build failure.

v1.0.4 - 2026-10-07

Fixed

• ExtUtils::Install installs files as readonly (mode 0444) so Xmake's templates (used by xmake create, etc.) would copy readonly files into a project and then try to modify them which obviously does not work. I just copy them to the global xmake directory on first use and fix permissions.
• In situations like prebuilt libs bundled in a single archive, libpath used to resolve to whichever lib the filesystem happened to sort first. The runtime library now uses the package's links; falling back to the first lib when none match.

v1.0.3 - 2026-10-06

Added

• system recipe option. With system => 1 a package is allowed to resolve from the system (Homebrew, apt, vcpkg, ...), which makes add_extsources() in a package recipe usable again. Without it an install is a private build into its own store, as before.

Fixed

• system installs no longer automatically collapse into a source build.
• A package reported with an install tree but no libfiles is no longer mistaken for a header-only package.

v1.0.2 - 2026-10-04

• Make some of the flaky tests Author's tests. Their failure means very little, honestly, and could fail for a lot of reasons.

v1.0.1 - 2026-09-11

Added

• Alien::Xrepo::MB and Alien::Xrepo::MM, generic Module::Build and ExtUtils::MakeMaker integrations for Alien distributions
• Build engine share_dir option: per-package installs land under <share>/<pkg> via installdir, and the snapshot records share-relative paths so an installed dist resolves packages after relocation to the site sharedir.
• Example distributions demonstrating the new recipe shapes:
  • Exotic::SDL3 installs multiple shared libraries for FFI consumers with one Alien
  • Exotic::Ninja demos a binary tool alien
  • Exotic::Zstandard and Exotic::Lsquic demonstrate Alien::Xrepo::MB
  • Exotic::Raylib6 example distribution on the using Alien::Xrepo::MM
  • Exotic::SQLite3
  • Exotic::Zlib demos static library building for cc_lib_flags consumers like Inline::C or XS
  • Exotic::Vcpkg::zlib installs a lib from a 3rd party repo
• Package version pinning

v1.0.0 - 2026-09-07

Splitting this out of the Alien::Xmake dist and repo

Changed

• It exists? Check the Alien::Xmake changelog, I guess