Alien-Build

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  - Better support for Alien::MSYS + Test::Alien (gh#323)
  - Better handle it when flags are undef by not passing into
    Text::ParseWords::shellwords(gh#314, gh#324)

2.51      2022-08-03 09:57:08 -0600
  - Remove use of duplicate lddlfalgs in Test::Alien which could cause failures
    on AIX (gh#217, gh#316)

2.50      2022-06-23 11:53:00 -0500
  - Documentation updates (gh#308, gh#310)

2.49      2022-06-23 11:19:08 -0500
  - Fix tests to pass on systems that do not have a compiler (gh#309)

2.48      2022-03-13 11:20:19 -0600
  - Added atleast_version to Probe::CommandLine and Probe::CBuilder plugins
    (gh#299, gh#300, shawnlaffan++)
  - Added Alien::Util module (gh#301)

2.47      2022-03-07 07:03:52 -0700
  - Fixed bug where Probe::CBuilder plugin could report the wrong diagnostic
    when throwing an exception (gh#296, gh#297, shawnlaffan++)

2.46      2021-11-30 15:17:58 -0700
  - Fix bug where the Build::Copy plugin could fail when spaces are in
    the target path (gh#290, gh#292 kiwiroy++)

2.45      2021-10-28 04:55:28 -0600
  - On macOS / OS X the Build::Copy plugin now uses cp -pPR instead of
    cp -aR; on modern macOS this does the same thing, on very old versions
    of OS X the -a option is not recognized (gh#288)

2.44      2021-10-20 17:51:21 -0600
  - Fix bug in Alien::Build::Log::Abbreviate (gh#287 kiwiroy++)

2.43_01   2021-09-30 10:10:07 -0600
  - Fix test for Decode::DirListingFtpCopy which was incorrectly testing
    Decode::DirListing (gh#285, gh#286)

2.42      2021-09-29 09:54:26 -0600
  - Improved documentation relating to the Alien::Base alt methods and
    the PkgConfig plugins use of pkg_name property (gh#234, gh#284)

2.41      2021-06-21 22:50:57 -0600
  - Documentation fixes (gh#266, gh#267)
  - Use parent instead of base in code and documentation (gh#268)

2.40      2021-05-13 06:44:37 -0600
  - Test::Alien tests will issue a diagnostic if you call them without
    alien_ok which is probably a mistake (gh#262, gh#263)

2.39_01   2021-05-12 04:14:06 -0600
  - Add support for HTTP request headers on all appropriate core fetch plugins
    (gh#256, gh#259)
  - The fetch method on Alien::Build  now has a http_headers option
    (gh#256, gh#259)
  - Fix bug where symlinks to directories were incorrectly being skipped
    (gh#255, gh#260)

2.38      2021-01-11 14:35:54 -0700
  - Fixed a bug the can cause an array dereference error in pkg-config command line
    plugin on MSYS2 / MinGW environment (gh#243)
  - Changed the auto-generated module name for Test::Alien, in a way that works
    around a probable bug / issue with ExtUtils::CBuilder (gh#243)

2.37      2020-11-02 09:09:13 -0700
  - Tests that rely on its behavior unset ALIEN_BUILD_PKG_CONFIG (gh#239)

2.36_01   2020-10-31 03:33:21 -0600
  - Fixed a bug where Probe and PkgConfig plugins could provide compiler / linker flags
    when the PkgConfig probe fails, but another probe succeed. (gh#238)

2.35_01   2020-10-28 02:06:21 -0600
  - Added install properties: system_probe_class and system_probe_instance_id (gh#237)
  - Added hook properties: probe_class and probe_instance_id (gh#237)

2.34_01   2020-10-27 04:23:24 -0600
  - Added instance_id property to Alien::Build::Plugin class (gh#235)
  - Added plugin_instance_prop method to Alien::Build class (gh#235)

2.33      2020-09-21 03:21:40 -0600
  - Skip problematic test on cygwin (gh#232)

2.32      2020-09-11 10:42:41 -0600
  - Production release identical to 2.27_01

2.31_01   2020-09-09 06:26:25 -0600
  - Diagnostic release

2.30_01   2020-09-08 14:48:12 -0600
  - Documentation fixes (gh#223, #224, #225, shawnlaffan++)
  - Use shorter filename paths for test files to keep older versions of tar
    happy (gh#228, gh#229, gh#230)

2.29      2020-08-10 09:16:59 -0600
  - Move to new GitHub org: https://github.com/PerlAlien
  - Fixed meta which was incorrectly requiring 5.8.1 instead of 5.8.4

2.28      2020-08-04 21:33:19 -0600
  - Production release identical to 2.27_01

2.27_01   2020-08-03 13:47:02 -0600
  - Some fixes for the unofficial `msys` fork of Perl (gh#211, gh#212)
  - Honour user supplied `config.site` for autoconf (gh#215, gh#218, hakonhagland++)
  - Hard drop of support for Perl 5.8.1, 5.8.2 and 5.8.3.  AB will refuse to install
    on these elder Perls.  Please upgrade to at least 5.8.4.  (gh#200, gh#201, gh#219)

2.26      2020-06-16 07:11:13 -0600
  - Diagnostic release

2.25      2020-06-10 09:18:25 -0600
  - Fixed bug where alien library directory flags could be used in the wrong
    order by Test::Alien, mostly a problem on NetBSD and similar platforms
    (gh#203)

2.24_01   2020-06-07 18:13:55 -0600
  - Disable parallel build when clean install is enabled
    (gh#197, gh#198, shawnlaffan++)
  - Dropping support for Perl 5.8.1, 5.8.2 and 5.8.3.  For now AB will install
    on these versions of Perl, but a warning will be issued, along with a 3
    minute sleep at configure time.  Please upgrade to 5.8.4 (or preferrably
    5.32).  Starting July 1st, AB will refuse to install on these elderly Perls.
    (gh#200, gh#201)

2.23      2020-05-15 18:36:59 -0400
  - Workaround apparent bug in pkgconf + arm64 (gh#196)

2.22      2020-05-05 07:02:49 -0600
  - Added dynamic_dir method to Alien::Base (gh#191, shawnlaffan++)

2.21      2020-04-11 08:27:21 -0600
  - Fix the handling of version regular expression for the Prefer::SortVersions
    plugin to handle regular expressions with multiple capture groups (gh#189)

2.20      2020-04-10 06:21:54 -0600
  - xs_ok does a better workaround for faux fork on cygwin (gh#153, gh#187, gh#188)

2.19      2020-04-09 02:56:14 -0600
  - Production release identical to 2.18_01

2.18_01   2020-04-03 10:06:45 -0600
  - Add Build::Copy plugin (gh#186)

2.17      2020-03-19 21:03:39 -0600
  - Production release identical to 2.16_01

2.16_01   2020-03-17 13:56:13 -0600
  - Probe::Vcpkg adds include property (gh#184)
  - Build::Autoconf will now copy .dll files from bin to dynamic
    directory on MSWin32 (gh#183)

2.15      2020-03-16 06:53:31 -0600
  - Tests on Windows will use the system temp directory rather than
    a temp directory under the install directory. A temp directory
    under the install directory was used to work around typically
    Linux systems that have noexec set on /tmp.  Since this is less
    normal on Windows, and can cause mkpath errors if the install
    directory is too deep we will use the windows system temp directory.
    (gh#181, gh#182)

2.14      2020-03-15 12:49:17 -0600
  - Added ffi_name property to Probe::Vcpkg plugin (gh#179)
  - Documentation fixes (gh#180)

2.12      2020-03-09 10:02:37 -0600
  - Fixed bug where Probe::Vcpkg plugin doesn't set version probe hook
    property (gh#178)

2.11      2020-03-09 03:04:49 -0600
  - Production release identical to 2.10

2.10_01   2020-03-08 17:13:05 -0600
  - Probe::Vcpkg plugin defaults to name property (gh#177)

2.09_01   2020-03-08 09:58:17 -0600
  - Added Alien::Build::Plugin::Probe::Vcpkg (gh#3, gh#175)

2.08      2020-02-15 17:16:30 -0700
  - Production release identical to 2.07_01

2.07_01   2020-02-14 19:00:22 -0700
  - Fix Alien::Build::Interpolate bug introduced in 2.06_01 (gh#171)

2.06_01   2020-02-14 12:23:02 -0700
  - Several helpers for Alien::Build::Interpolate::Default no longer
    require Aliens if the tools are already found in the PATH (gh#168)
  - Better document dynamic vs. static libraries in AlienAuthor and FAQ
    documents (gh#110, gh#169)
  - Prefer nmake or gmake over dmake on Windows, even if Perl is
    configured to use dmake (gh#95, gh#170)

2.05_01   2020-02-11 15:19:01 -0700
  - Fix bug where the autoconf plugin could use the wrong configure if
    there is another "configure" script somewhere in the PATH on Windows
    (gh#166, gh#167)

2.04      2020-02-05 19:05:32 -0700
  - Production release identical to 2.03_01

2.03_01   2020-02-04 21:29:35 -0700
  - Add use strict to generated ::Installl::Files modules (gh#162, gh#163)

2.02      2020-02-04 13:12:49 -0700
  - Production release identical to 2.01_01

2.01_01   2020-02-03 10:51:43 -0700
  - Prefer Decode::HTML if HTML::Parser is already installed and Mojolicious
    or Mojo::DOM58 are not (gh#160)

2.00      2020-02-02 06:25:13 -0700
  - Production release identical to 1.99_01

1.99_01   2020-01-30 12:57:33 -0700
  - Decode::Mojo plugin remembers which version of Mojo::DOM it is using (gh#159)

1.98      2020-01-30 07:53:10 -0700
  - Production release identical to 1.97_01

Changes  view on Meta::CPAN

1.93      2019-12-09 02:22:44 -0700
  - curl plugin not used unless required -J option is supported.
    (gh#147, gh#148)

1.92      2019-11-04 04:33:57 -0700
  - Require Test2::API 1.302096 for features used in test suite.

1.91      2019-11-01 20:19:19 -0600
  - Fix bug where Test::Alien::Diag could crash for Aliens without
    dynamic libraries.

1.90      2019-11-01 16:15:32 -0700
  - Added Test::Alien::Diag (gh#142)
  - Test::Alien ffi_ok add api option. (gh#143)

1.89      2019-09-25 07:58:39 -0600
  - Production release identical to 1.88_01

1.88_01   2019-09-24 11:53:18 -0600
  - Add options cbuilder_check amd cbuilder_config to Test::Alien xs_ok
    function (gh#140, Test-Alien-CPP#3, Test-Alien-CPP#4)

1.87_01   2019-09-24 07:38:31 -0600
  - Test::Alien directive with_subtest will attempt to catch SEGV and bail
    on on test file with a helpful diagnostic.  The prove util frequently
    does not provide a useful diagnostic for SEGV on its own (gh#138, gh#139).

1.86      2019-09-13 06:27:21 -0600
  - PAUSE permission fix

1.85      2019-08-30 14:19:16 -0400
  - Production release identical to 1.84_01

1.84_01   2019-08-26 10:59:58 -0400
  - Delay removal of temp files for Test::Alien till `make clean` instead of
    test termination on Windows (only) to avoid warning on test termination.
    (gh#130, gh#136)

1.83      2019-08-19 18:31:19 -0400
  - Production release identical to 1.81_01

1.82_01   2019-08-18 19:47:10 -0400
  - Stricter Perl::Critic policies (gh#135)

1.81_01   2019-08-16 19:16:33 -0400
  - Fix log class inheritence bug.

1.80_01   2019-08-15 20:52:50 -0400
  - Use Perl::Critic Freenode policies for development (gh#128)
  - Add new configurable log class (gh#123)

1.79      2019-07-15 14:26:16 -0400
  - Fix CBuilder probe plugin on platforms where /tmp is mounted noexec (gh#133, gh#134)

1.78      2019-06-30 21:31:23 -0400
  - Production release identical to 1.77_01

1.77_01   2019-06-28 12:08:12 -0400
  - _alien/alien.json file is generated using ->canonical(1) for reproducibility
    (gh#132 Grinnz++ for the suggestion)
  - _alien/alien.json file is generated using ->ascii to avoid warnings / errors
    when unicode is included in install/runtime properties.
    (gh#132 Grinnz++ for the suggestion)

1.76      2019-06-23 11:01:08 -0400
  - Production release identical to 1.75_01

1.75_01   2019-06-07 15:06:30 -0400
  - Download::Negotiate defaults to Deocde::Mojo instead of Decode::HTML for
    share installs that require parsing an HTML index (gh#127, gh#115).

1.74      2019-05-22 08:43:10 -0400
  - Check if share directory exists before clean_install
    (gh#114, gh#126 zmughal++ for the report)

1.73      2019-05-20 14:49:10 -0400
  - Production release identical to 1.72_01

1.72_01   2019-05-11 04:12:13 -0600
  - Merged Alien-Build-Plugin-Decode-Mojo into this dist (gh#18)
  - Put Alien -l flags first in xs_ok (gh#121 kiwiroy++)

1.71_01   2019-04-30 05:41:40 -0400
  - Add clean_install hook (gh#111, gh#114)
  - EXPERIMENTAL Add mm_install method to Alien::Build::MM (gh#111, gh#114)
  - EXPERIMENTAL CAUTION Add alien_clean_install target to Makefile generated
    by Alien::Build::MM (gh#111, gh#114)

1.70_01   2019-04-29 18:57:53 -0400
  - Add alien_clean target for Alien::Build::MM (gh#118, gh#119)

1.69      2019-04-27 10:59:10 -0400
  - Add runtime property ffi_checklib (gh#117)
    Related to https://github.com/Perl5-FFI/FFI-CheckLib/issues/13

1.68      2019-04-23 04:57:49 -0400
  - Add decoder property to Download::Negotiate plugin (gh#115, gh#116)

1.67      2019-04-22 07:55:59 -0400
  - Production release identical to 1.66_01

1.66_01   2019-04-21 13:46:14 -0400
  - Fix to Fetch::CurlCommand plugin.  It's handling of URLs with trailing slash (/)
    wasn't quite right.  (gh#112, gh#113)

1.65      2019-04-11 09:15:37 -0400
  - Further improvements with ExtUtils::Depends compatability (gh#107, gh#109).
  - Improved documentation (gh#106).
  - Updated spec for ALIEN_INSTALL_TYPE.  When set, Alien consumers that
    require an opt-in for using an Alien may use the fact that this environment
    variable is set as an opt-in (gh#104, gh#106).

1.64_01   2019-04-10 13:06:45 -0400
  - Improved compatability with ExtUtils::Depends (gh#107, gh#108).

1.63      2019-04-08 17:19:03 -0400
  - Documentation improvements
  - Fixed bug in Test::Alien::Build alienfile_skip_if_missing_prereqs
    where subtest / test was always skipped regardless of requirements.
    It now (correctly) only skips if there are missing requirements.

Changes  view on Meta::CPAN

    Test2::API is still a run-time dependency, but that has
    been in-core since 5.26.

1.48      2018-07-04 20:33:29 -0400
  - Production release identical to 1.47_01

1.47_01   2018-07-03 23:17:09 -0400
  - Fixed bug where Alien::Base was capturing stderr and stdout
    from pkg-config, instead of just stdout which is what it should
    be doing.
  - Additional diagnostics for xz fail

1.46      2018-06-25 03:08:25 +0000
  - Production release identical to 1.45_01

1.45_01   2018-06-24 08:13:08 -0400
  - Add alt method to Alien::Base.  This merges the capabilities from
    Alien::Role::Alt into core, making that role now obsolete.
  - Add alt_names and alt_exists methods to Alien::Base.  This was a
    capability missing from Alien::Role::Alt
  - Fix bug in Alien::Build::MM where 'make alien_prop_runtime' printed
    install instead of runtime properties

1.44_01   2018-06-20 06:36:57 -0600
  - Added Alien::Build::Plugin::Prefer::GoodVersion

1.43      2018-06-03 06:41:28 -0400
  - Documentation fixes
  - Use a custom site.config to ensure libraries are installed in lib
    and not lib64 or lib/64 for share installs

1.42      2018-05-09 08:19:18 -0400
  - Corrected typo for install_prop->{old}->{prefix} (had been preifx)

1.41      2018-04-24 06:19:18 -0400
  - before and after directives in alienfile triggers requirement on Alien::Build 1.40

1.40_01   2018-04-12 09:21:05 -0400
  - Add before and after directives to alienfile syntax

1.39      2018-03-09 05:51:47 -0500
  - Production release identical to 1.38_01

1.38_01   2018-03-01 03:27:29 -0500
  - Additional testing diagnostics

1.37      2018-02-23 10:13:44 -0500
  - Fixed cmake test which would fail without a C++ compiler (gh#53 ppisar++)

1.36      2018-02-05 10:51:59 -0500
  - Production release identical to 1.35_01

1.35_01   2017-12-28 12:42:56 -0500
  - Improve diagnostic in command line extraction test

1.34_01   2017-12-27 10:30:10 -0500
  - Add env_interpolate meta property.
  - PkgConfig plugins now attempt to set PKG_CONFIG environment variable during build

1.33_01   2017-11-08 11:54:19 -0500
  - Improve diagnostic for partially installed Alien error

1.32      2017-11-03 13:15:35 -0400
  - Add ALIEN_INSTALL_NETWORK environment variable.  Set to false if you don't
    want to allow network fetch.

1.31_01   2017-10-31 16:50:52 -0400
  - Fix testing prereq bug introduced in 1.30_01.

1.30_01   2017-10-31 14:24:15 -0400
  - Add prefer property to Download::Negotiate plugin

1.29_01   2017-10-30 09:54:22 -0400
  - Fix bug in Alien::Base::Wrapper where -l flags were being ignored by EUMM
  - MSYS plugin works with ffi build
  - Windows specific fixes for Alien::Base::Wrapper
  - Removed optional dependency on Test::Exec

1.28      2017-10-29 19:39:19 -0400
  - Production release identical to 1.27_01

1.27_01   2017-10-27 10:26:18 -0400
  - Fix incompatibility with older versions of ExtUtils::MakeMaker where test
    directive in alienfile was ignored.

1.26_01   2017-10-25 12:28:58 -0400
  - Fix Test::Alien bug where -L could be placed after directories specified in %Config
    (this was already handled correctly by Alien::Base::Wrapper).
  - Remove cpp and C++ options for xs_ok (I don't believe these were used in practice
    and were issuing deprecation warnings for a while).
  - A number of documentation errors have been fixed (jjatria++ leto++)

1.25      2017-10-09 08:57:34 -0400
  - Production release identical to 1.24_01

1.24_01   2017-10-08 10:40:11 -0400
  - Build process now considers share/pkgconfig in addition to lib/pkgconfig
    for all things pkg-config related (gh#39, gh#40 a3f++)

1.23_01   2017-10-07 20:58:52 -0400
  - Improve SSL diagnostics for Download::Negotiate and Fetch::HTTPTiny
    plugins.

1.22      2017-10-05 11:43:25 -0400
  - Improved bootstrap_ssl to allow use of Net::SSLeay, if it is already
    installed.
  - Windows path fix in test suite

1.21      2017-10-02 15:36:33 -0400
  - Fix bug in Test::Alien where extra_compiler_flags or extra_linker_flags
    could override (instead of augment) the alien cflags or libs.  This is
    most commonly a problem when using Test::Alien::CPP.

1.20      2017-10-01 06:52:36 -0400
  - Remove dependency on Alien::Base::ModuleBuild
  - Add access to environment via %{env.VARNAME}
  - Move Alien::Base::PkgConfig from ABMB

1.19_01   2017-09-28 13:06:28 -0400
  - Add Alien::Build::Version::Basic
  - Add Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::CurlCommand
  - Add Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::Wget
  - Workaround for old tar on Solaris
  - Fix test for Solaris 64 bit
  - Add start_url directive to alienfile
  - Add bootstrap_ssl property to Alien::Build::Plugin::Download::Negotiate

1.18      2017-09-22 06:40:51 -0400
  - Fixed bug where Probe::CBuilder plugin might not play nice with other
    probes.

1.17_01   2017-09-20 14:36:41 -0400
  - Add apply_plugin to Alien::Build::Meta
  - Deprecated Alien::Build::Plugin subplugin method (use apply_plugin instead)

1.16      2017-09-17 16:30:02 -0400
  - Removed unused internal module Alien::Build::Util::Win32::RegistryDump

1.15_01   2017-09-15 03:24:43 -0400
  - Fix for race condition introduced in 1.14_01

1.14_01   2017-09-14 16:35:29 -0400
  - Add alien_subtest, alien_checkpoint_ok and alien_resume_ok
    to Test::Alien::Build
  - add test directive to alienfile
  - add test method to Alien::Build
  - add alien_test target to Alien::Build::MM

1.12      2017-09-11 10:11:14 -0400
  - Production release identical to 1.11_01

Changes  view on Meta::CPAN

0.73      2017-07-24 07:19:49 -0400
  - Fetch::FTP plugin will not attempt FTP transfer with non-FTP URLs
  - Otherwise production release mostly identical with 0.72_01 release

0.72_01   2017-07-22 07:36:35 -0400
  - Marking C++ support in Test::Alien as EXPERIMENTAL
    (it seems to be unreliable on MSWin32, possibly others)
  - Fixed Extract::CommandLine probe of tar command to see if it
    can handle tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.xz (feature introduced in
    0.69_01).
  - Extract::CommandLine fallback on ptar if bsdtar or tar are
    not available.
  - Add Fetch::LocalDir plugin
  - Add tmp flag for local files to avoid copies

0.71_01   2017-07-21 15:07:32 -0400
  - Improve Alien::Autotools support by updating ACLOCAL_PATH
    when you requires 'Alien::Autotools';
  - Add cbuilder_compile option to Test::Alien xs_ok function
  - Add cbuilder_link option to Test::Alien xs_ok function
  - Add cpp option to Test::Alien xs_ok function
  - Add C++ option to Test::Alien xs_ok function

0.70_01   2017-07-21 07:23:04 -0400
  - (Alien::Build::MM) Fix race condition with parallel make (GH#24)

0.69_01   2017-07-20 12:17:12 -0400
  - Allow Alien::Build or Alien::Base as requires in alienfile.
  - Fix warnings that sometimes come from Build::SearchDep plugin
  - Extract::CommandLine tests to see if tar can handle tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.xz
    to avoid needing Alien::gzip, Alien::bzip2 or Alien::xz

0.68_01   2017-07-19 08:54:58 -0400
  - ALIEN_BUILD_PKG_CONFIG can be used to override the PkgConfig::Negotiate
    logic.
  - Extra diagnostics for PkgConfig::PP failure in gather stage

0.67_01   2017-07-18 13:52:56 -0400
  - Merged Alien-Base and Alien-Build.  For the old Alien-Base change log
    see Changes.Alien-Base

0.66      2017-07-17 02:46:11 -0400
  - Fix cmake helper.

0.65_01   2017-07-16 12:29:36 -0400
  - Fixed bug in Core::Download plugin which would fail if download
    was a directory tree instead of a tarball

0.64_01   2017-07-15 15:41:49 -0400
  - Merged Alien-Base-Wrapper and Alien-Build.  For the old Alien-Base-Wrapper change log
    see Changes.Alien-Base-Wrapper

0.63      2017-07-15 14:38:40 -0400
  - Extract::CommandLine plugin to use Alien::Gzip, Alien::Libbz2 and Alien::xz
    when gzip, bzip2 or xz is not provided by operating system

0.62      2017-07-13 21:27:31 +0000
  - Add support for rc file ~/.alienfile/rc.pl
  - Add start_url meta property
  - Fetch plugins use start_url property by default
  - Turn off Test2::Plugin::SRand, which seemed to be triggering an error in File::Temp
    see fd3208bfe8613aae63e4439aa1f4c78d01be086e

0.61      2017-07-13 11:10:46 +0000
  - Add passive property to Download::Negotiate plugin
  - Add passive property to Fetch::NetFTP plugin
  - Add log directive to alienfile

0.60      2017-07-12 22:26:22 -0400
  - Fix broken test t/01_use.t

0.59      2017-07-12 21:10:14 -0400
  - ACTUALLY removed Alien::Build::Plugin::Probe::GnuWin32, which
    I promised to remove two releases ago :/

0.58      2017-07-12 20:19:13 -0400
  - If PkgConfig.pm is needed, version 0.14026 will be required
    (PkgConfig.pm is a dynamic prereq on environments that do
    not have pkg-config or pkgconf).

0.57      2017-07-12 16:45:54 -0400
  - Add alienfile_ok to Test::Alien::Build
  - Fixed bug with preload and postload environment variables
  - Removed Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::PromptBeforeDownload
    which is now a separate distribution
  - Removed Alien::Build::Plugin::Probe::GnuWin32
    which is now a separate distribution

0.56_01   2017-07-11 16:39:38 -0400
  - Merged Test-Alien and Alien-Build.  For the old Test-Alien change log
    see Changes.Test-Alien
  - Import helpers from Aliens that are required using requires.
    (this was always the intent, but for some reason was not implemented until now).
  - Add helper_ok test to Test::Alien
  - Add interpolate_template_is test to Test::Alien
  - Add Test::Alien::Build
  - Add has_helper method to Alien::Build::Interpolate

0.55      2017-07-09 12:25:06 -0400
  - Use lib/pkgconfig and share/aclocal from any Alien::Base requires.
    Previously only Alien::Base modules build with alienfile + Alien::Build
    were used.

0.54      2017-07-07 01:28:54 -0400
  - Alien::Build::MM add alien_prop target

0.53      2017-07-06 13:04:34 -0400
  - Build::SearchDep sets CXXFLAGS (in addition to CFLAGS) for C++ projects
  - Probe::CBuilder adds aliens property
  - Probe::CBuilder adds lang property
  - Build::SearchDep adds public_I property
  - Build::SearchDep adds public_l property

0.52      2017-06-28 17:26:24 -0400
  - Enhanced Fetch::NetFTP plugin to try passive mode if active fails.

0.51      2017-06-27 15:04:19 -0400
  - Fixup ACLOCAL_PATH on Windows

0.50      2017-06-27 12:50:12 -0400
  - Update ACLOCAL_PATH for any required Alien that has a share/aclocal directory.

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0.27      2017-03-16 21:00:02 -0400
  - %{cwd} helper uses / on windows instead of \

0.26      2017-03-16 15:03:53 -0400
  - Fixed bug where LWP FTP download could require either DirListing or HTML
    for decode.
  - Add %{cwd} helper

0.25      2017-03-10 15:05:03 -0500
  - You may now abreviate %{alien.foo.bar} as %{.foo.bar}

0.24      2017-03-10 02:23:40 -0500
  - Added Alien::Build::Wrapper

0.23      2017-03-09 22:02:41 -0500
  - Can store values using \'%{alien.install.foo}' notation
    with scalar command sequence
  - Filled out the AlienAuthor manual

0.22      2017-03-09 14:18:39 -0500
  - Add subplugin method to Alien::Build::Plugin
  - Filled out the FAQ

0.21      2017-03-06 00:09:33 -0500
  - Net::FTP plugin doesn't require trailing / in URL

0.20      2017-03-04 18:52:11 -0500
  - Remove experimental Alien::Base2.  Use Alien::Base 0.036 or better
    instead!

0.19      2017-03-01 08:53:14 +1100
  - Fix some platform and environment specific bugs in the test suite

0.18      2017-02-21 18:12:28 +1100
  - download hook gets called, even if you are using the fetch,
    decode, prefer hooks.

0.17      2017-02-16 08:28:19 +1100
  - Can now store the output of a command into a property using
    a scalar reference, like this:
    [ 'command', '--flags', \'%{alien.runtime.foo}' ]

0.16      2017-02-15 20:07:05 +1100
  - Add prefix to %{configure} helper for Build::Autoconf plugin
  - Add hook_prop to Alien::Build
  - Add system method to Alien::Build

0.15      2017-02-09 14:08:46 -0500
  - Fixed bug where requires sometimes did not return a hash reference

0.14      2017-02-09 02:07:09 -0500
  - Add meta directive to alienfile.
  - Use .pc files from dependant Aliens that used Alien::Build
  - Work around for elder Perls 5.8.7 and earlier

0.12      2017-02-08 15:39:56 -0500
  - Added Probe::GnuWin32 plugin

0.11      2017-02-08 07:56:08 -0500
  - Fixed regression in architecture logic for Alien::Build::MM
  - Fix bug where compile error wouldn't throw exception from
    Alien::Build->load

0.10      2017-02-06 05:24:25 -0500
  - Add heuristic to determine version from filename using
    Prefer::SortVersions plugin
  - Add log method to Alien::Build
  - Fixed bug in probe where first 'share' would be accepted (gh#7)

0.09      2017-02-04 17:31:00 -0500
  - Using an undefined property in command interpolation is now an
    error.
  - Added patch support.
  - Add meta property platform.compiler_type to flag Microsoft
    Visual C++ ("microsoft") compared with everything else ("unix")

0.08      2017-02-04 11:33:01 -0500
  - Fixed prereq bug introduced in 0.07

0.07      2017-02-04 11:21:13 -0500
  - The namespace Alien::Build::Plugin::Core is reserved for plugins
    that are automatically loaded for all instances of Alien::Build
  - Major refactor of Alien::Base2.  Please do not use it.
  - Improved documentation
  - Added Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::Local
  - Added support for ALIEN_BUILD_POSTLOAD
  - Fixed bug where PkgConfig negotiator plugin could cause prereqs
    to get added inappropriately
  - Make PkgConfig.pm a prereq on platforms that do not provide
    pkg-config or pkgconf.

0.06      2017-02-02 22:00:38 -0500
  - Added support for ALIEN_BUILD_PRELOAD
  - Legacy Alien::Base compatibility bug fixes
  - json files now use pretty formatting which is much easier
    to read

0.05      2017-02-02 12:06:36 -0500
  - Fixed bug in Alien::Base2 runtime
  - Added meta property "arch"
  - install state file is now called "state.json" to differentiate
    from runtime file "alien.json"

0.04      2017-02-01 17:19:10 -0500
  - Improved documentation

0.03      2017-02-01 11:56:07 -0500
  - Fixed interpolator bug expressed in older versions of Perl
  - Add patch hook to Alien::Build
  - Add patch directive to alienfile
  - Fixes for Microsoft Windows / Strawberry Perl
  - Removed dangerous autosave option from Alien::Build
  - Fixed error when trying to load modules without a $VERSION
  - test suite now runs correctly if ALIEN_INSTALL_TYPE is set
  - The Fetch::HTTPTiny and Fetch::LWP plugins now add the necessary
    SSL modules if the URL is of the https scheme.

0.02      2017-01-31 13:22:29 -0500
  - Extensive documentation improvements
    (documentation is still fairly incomplete).
  - Removed alienfile#prop
  - Added alienfile#meta_prop
  - Fixed a bug in Download::Negotiate and Prefer::SortVersions that
    expressed itself in Perl 5.14, 5.16 (and probably older Perls).
  - make distclean is less noisy now with Alien::Build::MM

0.01      2017-01-30 22:26:05 -0500
  - initial version



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