September 2007 Archives
Adam J. Foxson has released CPAN::Testers::Report. From the docs:
This is the first distribution in the CPAN::Testers namespace. This module is designed to be part of the next-generation implementation of the CPAN Tester's stack. When complete, this distribution and its constituents will obsolete Test::Reporter.
The current version is 0.01.
One of the improvements in Test-Simple 0.71 is that it "[f]ixed a problem with BEGIN { use_ok } silently failing when there's no plan set." Turns out that some modules like DBI and XML::LibXML have accidentally relied on the old behavior, so that if you have Test-Simple 0.71 installed, DBI 1.59 and XML::LibXML 1.64 will fail their tests. There may be others as well, but those are all that I know of for sure.
Addendum: It breaks my own WWW::Mechanize, too, but Mech has plenty of other things breaking for it as well, so it's not so bad.
Ask Solem has released Module::Build::Debian which adds a build debian command to build Debian packages of Perl modules. Current version is 1.0.0.
Martin Thurn has released Tk::Wizard 2.113 which includes new -width and -height options. See the Changelog for details.
Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni has released Sys::Syslog 0.21 which includes a new pipe feature to support named pipes on HP/UX. See the Changelog
Steffen Ullrich has released IO::Socket::SSL 1.09 which includes a new stop_ssl() method to match the existing start_ssl() method. See the Changelog for details.
Carl Franks has released version 0.01004 of HTML::FormFu, which includes (among other changes), a helper script for deployment, html_formfu_deploy.pl. See the Changelog for details.
The associated Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu, also by Carl, has also had a new release (0.01002), which fixes a memory leak. Changelog.
Marcus Ramberg has released 0.6 which now supports files that don't have MIME types of text/*, eg. XML files. See the Changelog for details. Note that 0.7 has subsequently been released, and includes a dependency fix.
Hayden Stainsby has released WWW::Metaweb 0.02, which includes changes to the API (read() and write() methods merged into a single query() method) as well as fixes to JSON conversion and other changes. See the Changelog for details.
Michael G Schwern has released ExtUtils::Install 1.44 which includes a major bugfix. From the Changelog:
install() would always try to uninstall different versions of the installed files when $uninstall_shadows was given whether it was true or false. This meant "make install" and "Build install" would both always try to uninstall differing versions of the modules.
Yuval Kogman has released Mail::Summary::Tools 0.06 which includes formatting fixes for text output (link expansion, empty sections) and no longer caches unsuccessful URI shortening.
See the Changelog for details.
Tels has released Graph::Easy 0.58. Changes include:
graph_easycommand line tool has fixes for PNG output- parser speed improvements
- Graph::Easy and Graph::Easy::Group have new root_node() and type() methods
- base class has new methods for handling errors
See the Changelog for details.
Note: the Manual distribution has also been updated to 0.40.