[ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.46

[Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>]

http://schwern.org/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.46.tar.gz

The feature everyone's been asking for, you can finally alter how the META.yml
is written.  Borrowing from Module::Build, you can now specify META_MERGE and
META_ADD in your Makefile.PL to add new values to META.yml.  META_MERGE merges
the new values with the defaults, META_ADD overwrites.

This allows MakeMaker users to take full advantage of META.yml and specify
things MakeMaker does not explicitly support, like resources and build_requires.

NOTE:  EXTRA_META has been REMOVED!  It was never documented, anyone using it
should switch to using META_MERGE.

Finally, the latest META.yml spec is used (1.4).

A practical example of use is here:
http://search.cpan.org/src/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.81_02/Makefile.PL


6.46  Sat Sep 27 17:34:03 EDT 2008
    Bug Fixes
    - Fix META_MERGE for more than one level of hashes.  [rt.cpan.org 39348]


6.45_02  Sun Sep  7 13:59:14 PDT 2008
    Bug Fixes
    - Updated bundled ExtUtils::Command to 1.14, ExtUtils::Install to
      1.50 and ExtUtils::Manifest to 1.54

    Test Fixes
    - t/writemakefile_args.t had the wrong skip amoung causing failures
      when run without version.pm (mostly 5.6 users)


6.45_01  Sat Sep  6 03:19:03 PDT 2008
    New Features
    * META_ADD and META_MERGE have been added to manipulate the META.yml.
      Thanks to Adriano Ferreira.                       [rt.cpan.org 21282]
    - META.yml now includes configure_requires ExtUtils::MakeMaker by
      default.                                          [rt.cpan.org 32337]
    - META.yml now excludes t/ and inc/ from indexing by default.
    - META.yml license is now "unknown" instead of undef if a LICENSE is not
      given.
    - META.yml now conforms to version 1.4 of the spec.

    Bug Fixes
    - Make @MM_Sections and @Overridable global again.  It's an undocumented
      but used way to manipulate MakeMaker behavior. [rt.cpan.org 36047]

    Portability
    * Changed the name/dmake test in MM_Win32.pm to use regexs to that
      they are able to handle Perl on a Stick absolute paths.


6.44  Thu Feb 28 16:06:04 PST 2008
    Bug Fixes
    * Updated bundled ExtUtils::Install to 1.45 which should fix some
      Cygwin issues. [rt.cpan.org 33291]


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