7.05_25 Tue Jul  7 18:13:13 BST 2015

    No changes since 7.05_24
    Testing dist build

7.05_24 Wed Jul  1 19:18:11 BST 2015
    Bug fixes:
    - Fix missing pipe in Cygwin rebase command

7.05_23 Wed Jun 24 20:17:09 BST 2015
    Bug fixes:
    - Sanitise make_type on Win32
    - Cygwin: do not mess with the image base and do an ephemeral rebase on i686

7.05_22 Sun Jun 14 14:06:36 BST 2015
    Dist fixes:
    - eval $VERSION in all modules

7.05_21 Sat Jun 13 14:57:44 BST 2015
    Enhancements:
    - Intermediate META.* and *.ppd files now stored under blib/

    Test fixes:
    - fixed an executable bit on one of the tests

7.05_20 Sat Apr  4 16:20:54 BST 2015
    Test fixes:
    - Disable the unicode filename tests for now

7.05_19 Fri Mar 27 16:48:15 GMT 2015
    Test fixes:
    - Also skip t/basic.t unicode test on Win32

7.05_18 Fri Mar 27 12:16:05 GMT 2015
    Bug fixes:
    - Fix LINKTYPE => '' backwards compatibility
    - Have Makefile starting comments reflect decoded @ARGV, not raw

    Test fixes:
    - Restore t/basic.t unicode test, except on BSD

7.05_17 Tue Mar 24 12:11:47 GMT 2015
    Bug fixes:
    - Fix RT#103042 - maniadd failure needs "die" to stop make

7.05_16 Mon Mar  9 11:17:40 GMT 2015
    Bug fixes:
    - Add non-overridable "config" target for subdirs_manifypod's benefit

    Test fixes:
    - Fix Cygwin tests for manifypods() changes
    - Skip a Mkbootstrap test on Cygwin

7.05_15 Thu Mar  5 19:22:51 GMT 2015
    Bug fixes:
    - Resolve core integration regression with META handling
    - Make "manifypods" go into subdirs
    - Add various targets to .PHONY to avoid disk IO with dmake

7.05_14 Fri Feb 20 16:43:30 GMT 2015
    Bug fixes:
    - Add static/dynamic no-ops - needed by nmake and others

    Test fixes:
    - PL_FILES of a "module" was untested 

7.05_13 Wed Feb 18 22:17:53 GMT 2015
    Enhancements:
    - do proper conversion to 2.x for META_ADD/MERGE

    Bug fixes:
    - Resolved [RT#102009] subdir override of top_target lacking pure_nolink

    Test fixes:
    - Various tests no longer require a separate .pm file for testing
    - Handle unicode correctly in hash2files() function

7.05_12 Sat Feb  7 15:00:09 GMT 2015
    Bug fixes:
    - Fixed race condition in realclean
    - Fixed race condition with subdirs_$linktype

    Dist fixes:
    - Made %ExtraPrereqs match bundled prereqs
    - Included MANIFEST.SKIP from ExtUtils::Manifest

7.05_11 Sat Jan 31 16:11:06 GMT 2015
    Bug fixes:
    - Don't make Makefile.aperl until static done so find *.a in blib
    - Fixed precedence issue in linkext
    - Make WriteEmptyMakefile produce Makefile compat with subdirs-test_*
    - Relaxed the requirements for v5.6.1 in bundled version

    Test fixes:
    - Support v5.6.1 in various tests

    Doc fixes:
    - Clarified XSBUILD documentation slightly

7.05_10 Mon Jan 26 15:06:37 GMT 2015
    Test fixes:
    - Update XSBUILD test to work when compiling under C++

7.05_09 Fri Jan 23 10:15:47 GMT 2015
    Bug fixes:
    - pure_nolink as dep of dynamic/static in top_targets in case override
      ( fixes a build issue in core)
    - Only add DynaLoader to makeaperl if -Dusedl

7.05_08 Tue Jan 20 10:00:01 GMT 2015
    Enhancements:
    - Add XSBUILD option: control XSMULTI per XS type and per-object
    - Cache is_make_type results for performance (196 in normal WriteMakefile)

    Bug fixes:
    - Eliminate non-error STDERR
    - Use $from (rename to $object) param not $(OBJECT) in xs_make_dynamic_lib
    - Set $(OBJECT) if XSMULTI
    - Eliminate unnecessary MM_NW5 const_cccmd override
    - Make WriteEmptyMakefile Makefile functional when called in subdir
    - WriteEmptyMakefile rmtree _eumm, clean target removes Makefile
    - WriteEmptyMakefile not recurse by default
    - Make manifypods dep on blibdirs as needs it to function
    - Back-compat linkext -> subdirs_(perl-linktype) if LINKTYPE= and some DIR
    - Eliminate leak of dirhandles in ExtUtils::Liblist::lsdir
    - perllocal.pod generation "Perl in Space" fix
    - quote_literal PASTHRU_* as can have "" in
    - Switch to using version->stringify, never ->normal

    Test fixes:
    - Introduce use of $ENV{AUTHOR_TESTING} - don't skip some if true
    - Skip static tests if not static perl and not author - false negatives

    Doc fixes:
    - PL_FILES better documented

    Dist fixes:
    - The bundled Encode::Locale has been updated to 1.04

7.05_07 Fri Jan  9 15:58:49 GMT 2015
    Bug fixes:
    - Dynamic and static targets now depend from pure_nolink

    Test fixes:
    - Skip XS static on Haiku as well
    - Correctly skip static linking test on shrplib perls
    - Handle an occasional race condition in pm_to_blib.t

7.05_06 Thu Jan  8 19:03:48 GMT 2015
    Enhancements:
    - Refactored XS handling
    - XSMULTI=>1 - put multiple *.xs under lib, it "just works"
    - pure_all target split so can do "make dynamic" and "make static"

    Bug fixes:
    - dist_ci target fixed for nmake
    - Avoid dmake warning with XS
    - Borland and GNU compiler can be specified with full path
    - Fix parallel-build problems with split of pure_all target
    - Make Win32 miniperl tests pass if no chcp
    - Fix metadata extraction problem with *.pm with CRLF

    Test fixes:
    - Now tested: XS builds of static, bootstrap code system
    - XS tests now pluggable
    - Win32 t/basic.t now tries Win32 module before chcp

    Doc fixes:
    - FAQ updated for XSMULTI
    - Improve doc for oneliner method

7.05_05 Wed Dec 31 22:42:17 GMT 2014
    Enhancements:
    - Metadata is now represented internally as Meta Spec 2.0
    - Use intermediate files to store META.* and *.ppd files
    - ExtUtils::Command has been re-incorporated at 1.19 of that module

    Bug fixes:
    - the SHELL env var needs to be set if gmake is used on Win32
    - No longer manify top-level README.pod document
    - Some "dubious code" in the shebang fixin has been fixed
    - Lots of XS-handling code tidyups

    Test fixes:
    - Ensure that tempdirs get tidied up after tests
    - ExtUtils::Command tests have been added

    Doc fixes:
    - Lots of changes to the FAQ document

    Dist fixes:
    - Bundled CPAN::Meta, CPAN::Meta::Requirements and Parse::CPAN::Meta
      updated to latest versions
    - No longer bundle CPAN::Meta and prereqs on perls < 5.008001
    - 'version' added to the no_index declaration

7.05_04 Wed Dec 24 14:31:17 GMT 2014
    Core fixes:
    - Fix for lack of B module at build time when in core

7.05_03 Wed Dec 24 11:45:58 GMT 2014
    Bug fixes:
    - Revert LibList to a previous working state
    - Fix distsignature dependencies for parallel make
    - Check exit status for commands in "make ci" target
    - RT#100268 fix wrong variable being used
    - Make open_for_writing() exportable for utf8 encoding
    - Made prereqs work minus version-range if no CPAN::Meta::Requirements

    Test fixes:
    - vstrings test was recfactored
    - prereqs test acquired labels for all tests

    QA fixes:
    - use containerised travis builds for extra speed
    - blead build has been prioritised as it takes the longest

7.05_02 Mon Dec 15 20:06:12 GMT 2014
    VMS fixes:
    - Unixify path in t/INSTALL_BASE.t

    Test fixes:
    - perl_lib calls fixed in tests
    - t/Liblist_Kid.t fixed for Win32 and others

7.05_01 Sat Dec  6 15:44:55 GMT 2014
    Enhancements:
    - version ranges are now supported for PREREQS, etc.

    Bug fixes:
    - Also quote linker paths to handle spaces
    - Avoid cmdline duplication if ARCHLIB and LIB are identical

    Test fixes:
    - Removed done_testing from a number of test files
    - Added a subdir with a space test

7.04 Tue Dec  2 12:43:48 GMT 2014

    No changes from 7.03_06

7.03_06 Mon Dec  1 15:35:28 GMT 2014
    Doc fixes:
    - Corrected MAGICXS documentation

7.03_05 Fri Nov 28 18:27:09 GMT 2014
    Doc fixes:
    - Remove Module::Build encouragement

7.03_04 Thu Nov 27 14:35:15 GMT 2014
    Core fixes:
    - Do not use ccstdflags with the core extensions

7.03_03 Tue Nov 25 16:37:57 GMT 2014
    Win32 Fixes:
    - Eliminate sub-process spawning when checking make type

7.03_02 Mon Nov 24 13:18:09 GMT 2014
    VMS fixes:
    - Fix a couple of missing vendor targets
    - Remove VAXCCURSE from ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid::_vms_ext.

7.03_01 Tue Nov 18 21:29:40 GMT 2014
    VMS fixes:
    - Handle spaces in install targets
    - Allow spaces in eliminate_macros and fixpath
    - Remove fixpath call from ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid::_vms_ext.
    - Override is_make_type() as checks as unnecessary

    Core fixes:
    - Wrap parse_abstract() call to Encode in eval() to
      avoid build failures
    - Fix issue with CCFLAGS in core

7.02 Sat Nov  8 07:13:40 GMT 2014

    No changes from 7.01_09

7.01_09 Thu Nov  6 21:41:32 GMT 2014
    Test fixes:
    - Marked a test in pm_to_blib.t as TODO until further
      investigation can be scheduled

7.01_08 Tue Nov  4 20:24:29 GMT 2014
    Test fixes:
    - roll back change in 7.01_07 and scrub PERL_INSTALL_QUIET
      environment variable

7.01_07 Tue Nov  4 19:26:46 GMT 2014
    Test fixes:
    - Changed a regex in pm_to_blib.t to be more forgiving

7.01_06 Mon Nov  3 20:31:05 GMT 2014
    Bug fixes:
    - Resolved regression with TEST_FILES

    Win32 fixes:
    - Targetted fix for nmake bug
    - miniperl.t core test fixed for Windows

7.01_05 Mon Nov  3 10:14:11 GMT 2014
    VMS fixes:
    - Handle switches in $(PERL) by prepending MCR
    - Don't quote MAKE on VMS in Test::Utils

7.01_04 Fri Oct 31 09:38:06 GMT 2014
    API change:
    - writeMakefile() has been removed after 20 years of being deprecated

    Bug fixes:
    - Regression in xs.t with older versions of xsubpp has been resolved
    - We now don't produce Borland C export symbols if BCC support dropped

7.01_03 Thu Oct 30 19:12:57 GMT 2014
    Bug fixes:
    - Using NMAKE was broken this has been fixed

7.01_02 Sat Oct 25 17:45:46 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    - Resolve a regression with FIXIN and core builds on Win32

7.01_01 Sat Oct 25 13:45:00 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    - Resolve issue with Win32 perl builds in core

7.00 Wed Oct 22 20:13:38 BST 2014

    No changes from 6.99_18

6.99_18 Mon Oct 20 10:02:58 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    - Resolve regression with taint and get_version() [RT#99580]

    VMS fixes:
    - Avoid .NOTPARALLEL on VMS as it is a syntax error for MMS and MMK
    - Quotes are not stripped from argv[0] on VMS so need stripping
    - Move MCR from PERL to PERLRUN on VMS and other *RUN variables

6.99_17 Sun Oct 12 19:37:04 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    - Fix test that got broke under core since 6.99_15

6.99_16 Thu Oct  2 19:29:49 BST 2014
    Dist fixes:
    - Move File::Copy::Recursive from bundled to where it is
      used, so that it will not get installed as a runtime
      prereq

6.99_15 Sun Sep 21 13:21:46 BST 2014
    Enhancements:
    - If core, add ccwarnflags and ccstdflags, if available

    Doc fixes:
    - Fix internal links

6.99_14 Fri Sep 19 14:59:08 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    - Fixes to fallback version module for core integration problems

6.99_13 Mon Sep 15 20:02:47 BST 2014
    Enhancements:
    - Bundle Encode::Locale as ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Locale

    Bug fixes:
    - Make included version module have standardised dist versioning

6.99_12 Thu Sep 11 15:27:31 BST 2014
    Enhancements:
    - Now include a fallback version module for bootstrapping

    Bug fixes:
    - Support libfoo.0.dylib style libraries on Darwin

6.99_11 Mon Sep  8 14:20:26 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    - Handle chcp failure better on MSWin32
    - Tests should be parallelisable once again

    Doc fixes:
    - Document that GNU make is usable on MSWin32 now

6.99_10 Thu Sep  4 14:28:01 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    - Fixes for being integrated with core
    - Fixed the code page reset on MSWin32
    - Fixed test failures on BSD with UTF8 filenames
    - Fixed regression with quoting of $(PERL) when
      command line flags are used

6.99_09 Thu Aug 28 11:01:37 BST 2014
    Enhancements:
    - Support GNU Make on Windows
    - Support paths and filenames that are UTF8 encoded
    - MM->can_run() added for finding programs (ported from
      IPC::Cmd)

    Bug fixes:
    - Handle UTF8 when generating manpages correctly
    - Generated Makefile contents are now consistently sorted

6.99_08 Mon Aug 18 14:17:04 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    - Liblist::Kid: can now handle -l:foo.so invocations properly
    - Scripts will no longer have the 'not running under some shell' code
      applied when rewriting shebang lines.
    - version is now used to parse prereqs versions internally
    - Support UTF8 encoded command-line args and Makefile.PL args
    - Generated META.files will now always have linefeed EOLs, even on
      Windows
    - Rewrite the version line eval handling to have less insane edge cases

    Doc fixes:
    - Documentation now includes links to Dist::Zilla, File::ShareDir and
      File::ShareDir::Install
    - Clarified support policy for < v5.8.1 in README

    Misc:
    - Updated bundled CPAN::Meta::Requirements to version 2.126
    - Updated bundled ExtUtils::Manifest to version 1.65

6.99_07 Wed Jul 30 17:36:14 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    - Resolve 'wide character in print' warnings

6.99_06 Mon Jul 28 15:02:25 BST 2014
    Enhancements:
    - Improvements and tests for the spaces-in-stuff handling

6.99_05 Tue Jul 22 12:32:03 BST 2014
    Enhancements:
    - Enable working with (including installing to) directories with spaces in names

6.99_04 Sat Jul 12 12:43:08 BST 2014
    Enhancements:
    - No longer report each file being manified. Only summarise.

6.99_03 Fri Jul  4 11:02:21 BST 2014
    Doc Fixes:
    - PATCHING document has been rewritten as CONTRIBUTING and TODO
      document has been removed

    Bug Fixes:
    - Rearranged bundled prereqs so CPAN::Meta::Requirements won't
      get stomped on if it is installed already, but CPAN::Meta isn't

6.99_02 Thu Jun  5 12:15:28 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    * MM->parse_version will no longer warn if it could
      not determine the $VERSION due to syntax errors etc.

6.99_01 Tue Jun  3 22:17:30 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    * Disregard some warnings during tests when cross-compiling

    Doc fixes:
    * Clarified the use and limitations of META_ADD, META_MERGE

    Test fixes:
    * Sanitise env vars in tests

6.98 Tue Apr 29 21:27:59 BST 2014

    No changes from 6.97_02

6.97_02 Mon Apr 28 11:44:56 BST 2014
    Dist fixes:
    * Removed redundant File::Spec check from Makefile.PL

6.97_01 Thu Apr 24 14:23:02 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    * Resolve another regression related to not recursing into distdirs

6.96 Fri Apr 11 21:54:25 BST 2014

    No changes from 6.95_02

6.95_02 Mon Apr  7 15:26:20 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    * Work-around v5.10.1 for the MIN_PERL_VERSION v-string handling

6.95_01 Wed Apr  2 21:49:22 BST 2014
    Bug fixes:
    * Make MIN_PERL_VERSION handle v-strings properly

6.94 Tue Mar 25 19:26:31 GMT 2014

    No changes from 6.93_01

6.93_01 Mon Mar 24 16:53:31 GMT 2014
    Bug fixes:
    * Resolved a regression in MM_Unix.pm
      (https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/issues/96)

6.92 Thu Mar 13 16:18:32 GMT 2014

    No changes from 6.91_01

6.91_01 Thu Mar  6 13:48:22 GMT 2014
    Test fixes:
    * Make meta tests more robust to changes in CPAN::Meta

6.90 Thu Feb 20 20:46:04 GMT 2014

    No changes from 6.89_01

6.89_01 Mon Feb 17 15:56:39 GMT 2014
    Bug fixes:
    * Libraries are not transitive on Android

6.88 Fri Jan 31 20:49:13 GMT 2014

    No changes from 6.87_05

6.87_05 Tue Jan 28 13:54:21 GMT 2014
    Bug fixes:
    * Synchronisation with blead to remove old cross-compilation model

6.87_04 Sun Jan 26 19:29:05 GMT 2014
    Bug fixes:
    * On Android, pass PERL_LIB through rel2abs().

6.87_03 Sun Jan 19 17:49:43 GMT 2014
    Bug fixes:
    * Get rid of unused printf arguments in dynamic_bs

6.87_02 Sat Jan 18 13:00:36 GMT 2014
    Doc fixes:
    * Update documentation for LICENSE attribute.

    Bug fixes:
    * Get rid of unused printf arguments in dir_target

6.87_01 Sun Jan 12 10:31:41 GMT 2014
    Doc fixes:
    * mention that TEST_REQUIRES is in v6.64 and above

6.86 Sat Jan  4 12:17:53 GMT 2014

    No changes from 6.85_07

6.85_07 Wed Jan  1 18:55:22 GMT 2014
    Bug fixes:
    * Expanded test coverage for metafiles

    Doc fixes:
    * Documentation expanded to mention JSON metafiles

6.85_06 Mon Dec 30 23:14:37 GMT 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * Explicitly require dynaloader before using mod2fname

6.85_05 Sun Dec 29 11:25:00 GMT 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * Export 'configure' section of prereqs when meta-spec version 2

    Doc fixes:
    * Document BUILD_REQUIRES defaults

6.85_04 Mon Dec 23 15:00:14 GMT 2013

    No changes since v6.85_03 fixing repo tags

6.85_03 Mon Dec 23 14:55:37 GMT 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * RT#91540 PREREQ_FATAL not recognised on command line

6.85_02 Tue Dec 17 10:13:28 GMT 2013
    New features:
    * Added PPM_UNINSTALL_EXEC and PPM_UNINSTALL_SCRIPT options
      to PPD generation

6.85_01 Mon Dec 16 13:15:43 GMT 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * harden xsubpp locating loop in MM_Unix

6.84 Sat Nov 30 15:22:35 GMT 2013

    No changes from 6.83_06

6.83_06 Fri Nov 29 21:50:51 GMT 2013
    Doc fixes:
    * Correct the documentation for MAGICXS

6.83_05 Mon Nov 25 22:51:11 GMT 2013
    New Features:
    * Added MAGICXS attribute to explicitly enable automagic
      XS building.

    Bug fixes:
    * RT#90780 fix Macro `BOOTSTRAP' redefined warnings
    * Only enable automatic OBJECT generation if MAGICXS is true

6.83_04 Sun Nov 17 11:41:43 GMT 2013
    New Features:
    * OBJECT can now be specified as an array
    * build C_FILES/O_FILES/OBJECT automatically from XS

6.83_03 Fri Nov 15 09:44:26 GMT 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * Don't recurse into stale dist dirs

6.83_02 Tue Nov 12 11:11:34 GMT 2013
    Misc:
    * Enable bootstrapping to work on v5.10.x again

6.83_01 Tue Nov  5 11:43:50 GMT 2013
    Misc:
    * disable make parallelism for pure_all target

6.82 Mon Nov  4 19:20:07 GMT 2013

    No changes from 6.81_05

6.81_05 Sat Nov  2 21:29:42 GMT 2013
    Misc:
    * Special-case the bundling of version, so
      that XS versions don't get overwritten

6.81_04 Fri Nov  1 19:54:09 GMT 2013
    Doc fixes:
    * Update XSPROTOARG docs for changes in xsubpp

6.81_03 Thu Oct 24 20:50:15 BST 2013
    Doc Fixes:
    * Clarify heir-apparent in FAQ

    Misc:
    * Changed GNU-Style to Unix-Style
    * VMS will now report 'make' style

6.81_02 Thu Oct 17 12:20:59 BST 2013
    Misc:
    * Updated bundled JSON::PP

6.81_01 Wed Oct 16 08:59:03 BST 2013
    Misc:
    * Updated bundled Test-Simple

6.80 Tue Oct 15 16:04:50 BST 2013

    No changes from 6.79_04

6.79_04 Fri Oct 11 18:57:51 BST 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * Add CP_NONEMPTY to the list of tools in Makefile

6.79_03 Fri Oct 11 13:56:53 BST 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * don't copy .bs portably :)

6.79_02 Fri Oct 11 12:58:01 BST 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * RT#28992 don't copy .bs files if they are empty

6.79_01 Tue Oct  1 14:59:27 BST 2013
    VMS fixes:
    * Remove MM_TEST_ROOT feature for VMS test support

6.78 Mon Sep 23 13:44:39 BST 2013

    No changes from 6.77_08

6.77_08 Sun Sep 22 18:43:23 BST 2013
    New feature:
    * Made UNINST an attribute, so removing shadowed modules
      can be set 'perl Makefile.PL UNINST=1'

6.77_07 Sat Sep 21 09:44:19 BST 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * do not set default switches in Test::Harness; not even -w

6.77_06 Thu Sep 19 15:36:59 BST 2013
    Dist fixes:
    * Previous tarball was corrupted

6.77_05 Thu Sep 19 14:09:00 BST 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * Fix 3 more tests to work in parallel. Now works with HARNESS_OPTIONS=j64

6.77_04 Wed Sep 18 19:23:38 BST 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * Fixed PERL_SRC for core tests after parallelisation
      enhancements were made in 6.77_01

6.77_03 Mon Sep 16 12:20:25 BST 2013
    VMS fixes:
    * CCFLAGS may have appendages not from PERL_MM_OPT

6.77_02 Thu Sep 12 21:21:12 BST 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * Support 'perl' as a PREREQ_PM target
    * RT#77029 Support linefeeds in abstract parsing
    * Skip some tests when cross-compiling core

6.77_01 Tue Sep 10 15:20:42 BST 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * RT#7248 warn if NAME is not valid package name
    * Perl#36539 reverse search order for finding perl
    * parse_version() should work with taint mode now
    * RT#69590 enable tests to be run in parallel

6.76 Fri Sep  6 13:32:42 BST 2013

    No changes from 6.75_04

6.75_04 Thu Sep  5 12:07:59 BST 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * Sanitise make on MSWin32 when reporting Makefile type

6.75_03 Tue Sep  3 00:24:23 BST 2013
    New features:
    * Added RECURSIVE_TEST_FILES attribute to 'test'
    * Report the type of Makefile being generated

    Bug fixes:
    * RT#17041 more sortification of hashes to Makefile

6.75_02 Sun Sep  1 21:50:48 BST 2013
    Bug fixes:
    * RT#49043 binmode STDIN breaks prompt() on MSWin32
    * RT#14505 Handle -Wl,-rpath correctly
    * RT#17041 Sort manification and copying events for perceptive
      cleanliness

6.75_01 Thu Aug 29 15:06:27 BST 2013
    New features:
    * Added NO_PERLLOCAL option to allow suppression of writing
      installs to perllocal.pod
    * Added NO_PACKLIST option to allow suppression of writing
      packlist files for installations

    Bug Fixes:
    * RT#32894 deal with legitimate linker flags correctly
    * RT#88222 check that Time::HiRes has 'stat' before using it

    Doc Fixes:
    * RT#87350 Document DLEXT parameter (sisyphus)

6.74 Tue Aug 27 12:43:05 BST 2013
    No changes from 6.73_12

6.73_12 Fri Aug 23 10:49:13 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * Preserve runtime requires when PREREQ_PM argument is empty or undef
      (miyagawa)
    * RT#88037 regen run of Makefile.PL will use same -MCross arg as
      initial .PL run (bulk88)

6.73_11 Sat Aug 17 22:51:14 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * RT#87911 prepend SUFFIX with a '.' if one isn't supplied

6.73_10 Fri Aug 16 16:40:09 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * RT#87839 resolve bootstrap problems when required prereqs
      are missing

6.73_09 Fri Aug  9 19:58:32 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * Bundle code from Text::ParseWords to handle splitting
      PERL_MM_OPT (actually removing Text::ParseWords this time).

6.73_08 Fri Aug  9 19:49:27 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * Bundle code from Text::ParseWords to handle splitting
      PERL_MM_OPT.

6.73_07 Wed Aug  7 16:07:04 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * Set ACTIVEPERL_CONFIG_SILENT=1 during tests to make
      ActivePerl less vocal about things

6.73_06 Tue Aug  6 00:50:08 BST 2013
    New features:
    * RT#70201 replace -M with Time::HiRes::stat

    Bug Fixes:
    * Split PERL_MM_OPT like a shell would, instead of split ' '

    Win32 Fixes:
    * Correct an oversight with Liblist Kid fix

6.73_05 Mon Aug  5 17:44:00 BST 2013
    Win32 fixes:
    * Fix hash randomisation problems with Liblist Kid

6.73_04 Thu Aug  1 22:34:31 BST 2013
    Doc fixes:
    * Corrected example for PM => {}

6.73_03 Tue Jul 30 22:09:52 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * Fix clean_subdirs target that was generating
      warning on BSD

6.73_02 Fri Jul 26 13:32:43 BST 2013
    Misc:
    * Updated bundled Parse::CPAN::Meta

6.73_01 Wed Jul 24 23:49:56 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * Robustified parse_version()

6.72 Wed Jul 24 18:38:19 BST 2013
    No changes from 6.71_01

6.71_01 Wed Jul 24 09:31:07 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * Resolved more regressions in parse_version code

6.70 Tue Jul 23 21:55:23 BST 2013
    No changes from 6.69_09

6.69_09 Sun Jul 21 09:22:40 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * RT#86976 Fix version parsing bug introduced in 6.69_05
      Part Deux :)

6.69_08 Wed Jul 17 00:36:28 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * RT#86976 Fix version parsing bug introduced in 6.69_05

6.69_07 Tue Jul 16 15:32:25 BST 2013
    New features:
    * RT#4550 report the file created after make dist

    Bug Fixes:
    * RT#66113 strip control characters from ABSTRACT
    * RT#20662 Don't check for config.h if it doesn't exist

6.69_06 Fri Jul 12 14:49:32 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * RT#64163 clean_subdirs infinite loop if subdir already gone
    * RT#79348 doesn't support miniperl in installation paths

    Doc Fixes:
    * Fix META_MERGE example
    * RT#31053 Mention configure_requires in PREREQ_FATAL documentation
    * RT#14680 Document TEST_FILES usage with 'make test'
    * RT#21285 Document 'make veryclean'

6.69_05 Thu Jul 11 22:10:10 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * Resolve RT#9452 regression with
      parse_version() (Victor Efimov)
    * RT#28632 use LD and OPTIMIZE in recursive Makefile.PL
      invocations (Niko Tyni)

6.69_04 Wed Jul 10 11:48:22 BST 2013
    Cygwin Fixes:
    * Revert RT#54703 and apply patch from RT#69401 to
      resolve /cygdrive issues (Reini Urban)

6.69_03 Tue Jul  9 22:39:54 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * RT#61419 Avoid invisible interactive question when
      rebuilding Makefile (Slaven Rezic)
    * VERSION also now really handles v-strings correctly.

    Cygwin Fixes:
    * RT#54703 - Don't hardcode /cygdrive (Jerry Hedden)

    Misc:
    * Install into site when 5.12 or above

6.69_02 Tue Jul  2 13:12:51 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes:
    * [RT#86609] VERSION_FROM now handles v-strings correctly.
    * VERSION also now handles v-strings correctly.

    Misc:
    * Updated bundled CPAN::Meta and removed Version::Requirements

6.69_01 Thu Jun 20 12:49:45 BST 2013
    Win32 Fixes:
    * resolve regression on Win32 introduced in 6.67_01
      (bingos)

6.68 Fri Jun 14 23:26:11 BST 2013
    No changes from 6.67_05

6.67_05 Thu Jun 13 21:52:46 BST 2013
    Doc fixes:
    * RT#86007 - Restore meaning for divorced sentence

6.67_04 Mon Jun 10 20:18:25 BST 2013
    Bug fixes
    * Address RT#85406, where specifying 'meta-spec' in
      META_[ADD|MERGE] would remove all prereqs (bingos)

6.67_03 Wed Jun  5 22:03:28 BST 2013
    Doc Fixes
    * Document how to specify meta-spec in META_MERGE (bingos)

6.67_02 Sun Jun  2 18:27:45 BST 2013
    Bug Fixes
    * Allow v-prefixed version strings once more (bingos)
    * Typos fixed (David Steinbrunner)
    * Resolve test failure with latest CPAN::Meta

6.67_01 Thu Apr 25 21:03:58 BST 2013
    Doc Fixes
    * Change references to makemaker.org in the docs
      (Reported as RT#83246 by dolmen)

    VOS Fixes
    * 'core' files are keep files (*.kp) on vos, adjust the
      'clean' target to account for this (Paul Green)

    Win32 Fixes
    * Increase dmake MAXLINELENGTH to 800000 (RT#77215) as
      per kmx's recommendations (kmx)

    Cygwin Fixes
    * Allow linking of Cygwin libraries (Reini Urban)

6.66 Fri Apr 19 17:53:13 BST 2013
    No changes from 6.65_03

6.65_03 Mon Apr 15 13:44:24 BST 2013
    Test Fixes
    * Use File::Temp in parse_* tests to resolve race conditions
      on 64bit Windows
      (bingos)

6.65_02 Sun Apr 14 10:56:41 BST 2013
    Test Fixes
    * t/xs.t is now running tests against the XS build.
      (Michael G Schwern) (Leon Timmermans)


6.65_01 Tue Mar 19 00:06:17 CET 2013
    New Features
    * Improvements perlcritic support. (M. Schwern)
    * Improvements to dynamic linking for gcc (Tobias Leich)
      [github #43]
    * Change $(PERL_HDRS) from a hard coded list of headers to
      reading install directory for available header files. Allows
      us to work with any version of Perl properly.
      (Yves Orton, Craig A. Berry) [github #47]

    Doc Fixes
    * Numerous typo fixes. (Ben Bullock)
      [github #33] [github #34] [github #35]
    * Various FAQ and doc improvements (M. Schwern, Ivan Bessarabov)
      [github #44]

    Bug Fixes
    * fixes relating to hash ordering (Yves Orton)
      [github #46] [rt.cpan.org #83441] [rt.perl.org #116857]
    * fixes to Mksymlists (Ben Bullock, Yves Orton)
      [github #48] [github #49] [github #51]


6.64  Sun Dec 16 18:27:40 PST 2012
    Build Fixes
    * Update the home page in the meta file.  makemaker.org has been
      unmaintained for a while.


6.63_04  Thu Nov 22 13:18:06 PST 2012
    Test Fixes
    * Eliminated the problematic and not very useful PASTHRU test
      on Windows.  A better test will come after stable. [github 41]
      (Michael G Schwern)
    * Avoid a new regex warning in 5.17.x in t/MM_OS2.t. (Craig A. Berry)

    VMS Fixes
    * Better ignore files due to non-case-preserving filesystems.
      (Craig A. Berry)


6.63_03  Thu Nov  1 19:52:30 PDT 2012
    New Features
    * Added TEST_REQUIRES keyword to specify prerequisites only needed
      for testing.  [github 29] (Ricardo Signes)

    Bug Fixes
    * Update bundled modules: ExtUtils::Install to 1.54, ExtUtils::Manifest
      to 1.60.
    * Update CPAN::Meta::YAML to 0.08 for compatibility with older versions
      of Scalar::Util.

    Misc
    * Change 'Note' to 'Warning' when libraries aren't found since people
      often fail to realise that this is the cause of a build failure.
      [github 20] (Matt Trout)

    Test Fixes
    * Added an early test to check for a common 5.6 bug where 0.01 is
      incorrectly stringified to 1.e-02.  [rt.cpan.org 74095]

    Doc Fixes
    * Clarified NAME. [rt.cpan.org 73361]
    * SYNOPSIS is a bit more useful.


6.63_02  Tue Nov  1 17:02:40 PDT 2011
    Test Fixes
    * Inform BSDPAN (on FreeBSD) to not register modules installed while
      testing. [rt.cpan.org 70232]
    * Fix t/echo.t test on Win32. [rt.cpan.org 72097]
    * Fix t/echo.t test on VMS. (Craig A. Berry)
    * Fix t/Win32.t to handle the change to init_others(). [rt.cpan.org 72096]

    Bug Fixes
    * Fix VMS's echo() for the interface changes. (Craig A. Berry)
    * Fix VMS's dollar sign escaping. (Craig A. Berry)

    Misc
    * my::bundle::copy_bundles() will only load File::Copy::Recursive if
      it needs it, allowing vendors packaging MakeMaker to just delete
      bundled/*
    * Bundling can be overridden by setting the BUILDING_AS_PACKAGE
      environment variable.  This makes life easier for vendor packagers.
    * Stripped the Windows newlines off Parse::CPAN::Meta to avoid
      confusing old versions of Module::Signature.

    Docs
    * README.packaging explains how to package MakeMaker
    * bundled/README explains what the bundled directory is about.
    

6.63_01  Sun Oct 23 16:57:24 PDT 2011
    Bug Fixes
    * Stray $ in the PPD and meta files (for example, from the ABSTRACT)
      are now escaped.  [rt.cpan.org 71847]

    Possibly incompatible changes
    * echo() now escapes all dollar signs by default

    New Features
    * echo() has an option to allow make variable expansion.
    * echo() is now passed a hash of options (old style $appending flag
      still works for compatibility).
    * quote_literal() now escapes dollar signs, but allows make variables.
    * quote_literal() has an option to escape make variables.
    * escape_dollarsigns() to escape dollar signs but allow variables
    * escape_all_dollarsigns() to escape all dollar signs

    Improvements
    * The PPD VERSION is now derived from the VERSION variable in the Makefile
      rather than hard coded.

    Bundled Modules
    * Updated CPAN::Meta to 2.112621
    * Updated CPAN::Meta::YAML to 0.004
    * Updated JSON::PP to 2.27200


6.62  Sun Oct 23 16:43:36 PDT 2011
    No changes from 6.61_01


6.61_01  Sat Sep 24 22:16:13 PDT 2011
    Win32
    * Liblist::Kid now checks the ActiveState MinGW library path environment
      variable [MITHALDU]
    * Further fixes to the Win32 quoting rules.  Fixes failures on VC8+.
      [rt.cpan.org #69528] [SHAY]


6.59  Fri Aug  5 12:09:00 BST
    No changes since 6.58_01


6.58_01  Wed Aug  3 21:12:00 BST
    Doc Fixes
    * Corrected the repository location [chorny]

    Bug Fixes
    * Removed the %INC check from _has_cpan_meta and updated the CPAN::Meta
      bundled with EUMM to one that doesn't set $VERSION in a begin block
      so it can't appear to be loaded, thus causing us to mistakenly try
      and call methods on CPAN::Meta modules - this is due to older versions
      in site_perl shadowing our installation of other bundled modules.
      [rt.cpan.org 69465] [rt.cpan.org 69900] [MSTROUT]


6.58  Wed Jul  6 14:17:06 PDT 2011
    No changes since 6.57_11


6.57_11  Thu May 19 17:26:31 PDT 2011
    Bug Fixes
    * Changed CPAN::Meta to accept version objects. [github #16]
    * Massage bad versions and warn the user about them. [github #15]
    * Protect against CPAN::Meta dying during metafile validation
      and generation.

    VMS
    * Fix prereq.t to work around "local %ENV = %ENV" bug

    Win32
    * Liblist::Kid can now recognize long compiler paths
      (Christian Walde) [github #11]


6.57_10  Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:36:38 +1000
    Bug Fixes
    * Relaxed strictures on prerequisite versions.  Invalid versions now
      issue a warning and are set to 0 rather than dying. [github #7]
    * Upgraded CPAN::Meta to 2.110930 which fixes a glitch in writing
      MYMETA.yml if your module's version number was 1.4. [github #9]
    * Convert LICENSE entries which are unknown to CPAN::Meta to
      "unknown" rather than dying. [github #10]


6.57_09  Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:13:39 +1100
    Misc
    * Make CPAN ignore bundled modules
    * Accidentally rolled Version::Requirements into the version bundle
    * Deleted now unused ExtUtils::MakeMaker::YAML


6.57_08  Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:52:47 +1100
    VMS
    * Removed dependency on cc_runtime.h for VMS as well.

    Misc
    * Changed how modules are bundled to avoid replacing XS version of
      Scalar::Util with a pure Perl version [github #4]


6.57_07  Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:31:31 +1100
    Enhancements
    * Generates META.json and MYMETA.json in addition to
      META.yml and MYMETA.yml (David Golden)
    * MYMETA has the runtime requirements made priority over META_*
      keys to allow generation of a correct META.* into the dist while
      still generating an accurate MYMETA.* locally (Matt S Trout)
    * Distributions should not depend on cc_runtime.h from core as it is
      only needed for B::CC
    * Now uses CPAN::Meta to generate META files.

    Bug Fixes
    * MYMETA.yml generation from META.yml actually works (Matt S Trout)
    * All required META fields are generated, even if they must be filled
      with "unknown" in place of real data (David Golden)

    Test Fixes
    * miniperl.t is no longer run outside of the perl core.  Its only relevant
      to bleadperl and requires no backwards compatibility [rt.cpan.org 61868]

    Cygwin
    * Rebase behaviour was improved (Reini Urban)
    * Build man pages (Reini Urban)

    Win32
    * Spot valid lib files on Win32 when .a and .lib are mixed.
      (Christian Walde) [github #3]
    * Extensive testing of ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid for Win32
      (Christian Walde)
    * Implemented proper emulation of DOS escaping rules in ExtUtils::MM_Win32
      (Christian Walde)


6.57_06  Wed Oct 06 13:49:00 EEST 2010
    Win32
    * Work around dmake's limitations on how long a "line" can be.
      [rt.cpan.org 61286]
    * ActivePerl 1007 can now see gcc. [rt.cpan.org 55752] (Christian Walde)

    Bug Fixes
    * Fix for AUTHOR and undocumented usage of MM->new() (Alexandr Ciornii)

6.57_05  Sat Sep 11 23:24:00 EEST 2010
    Bug Fixes
    * AUTHOR compatibility code should also be called after CONFIGURE callback

6.57_04  Thu Sep 09 23:59:00 EEST 2010
    Bug Fixes
    * Fix several_authors.t
    * Upgrade bundled modules: ExtUtils::Manifest 1.58.

6.57_03  Thu Sep 09 01:31:00 EEST 2010
    Bug Fixes
    * Update MANIFEST

6.57_02  Wed Sep 08 02:40:00 EEST 2010
    Bug Fixes
    * Don't do MANIFEST checks in PERL_CORE (Robin Barker)
    
    New Features
    * Accept several values (arrayref) in AUTHOR (Alexandr Ciornii)
    * Add MYMETA.yml support (Adam Kennedy, Alexandr Ciornii)
    * NO_MYMETA key to suppress MYMETA.yml generation (Alexandr Ciornii)

6.57_01  Tue Aug 24 01:36:20 PDT 2010
    Improvements
    * parse_abstract() is more robust supporting "Package.pm" and multiple
      dashes and spaces. [rt.perl.org 74438]

    Bug Fixes
    * Recognize .so files in AIX. [rt.cpan.org 41360] (Jens Rehsack)
    * Remove manual image-base generation on Win32/gcc [rt.cpan.org 47138]
      (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
    * Use the bundled versions of our dependencies if they're not installed.
    * Eliminate use of foreach qw() which will be deprecated in 5.14.
      [rt.cpan.org 57124] (Zefram)

    Test Fixes
    * Guard against old versions of YAML::Tiny that worked differently.
      [rt.cpan.org 55500]


6.56  Thu Dec 17 14:02:14 PST 2009
    * Stable release of 6.55_03


6.55_03  Fri Dec  4 23:08:02 PDT 2009 
    Bug Fixes
    * BUILD_REQUIRES will not be used when generating ppd, PRINT_PREREQ and
    'requires' section of META.yml (Alexandr Ciornii)

    OS/2
    * Better compatibility with miniperl [rt.cpan.org 48534] (Ilya Zakharevich)

    Win32
    * mingw64 support (Sisyphus)
    * Fixed a typo causing bad Makefiles for Visual C++ users (Steve Hay)

    New Features
    * The new "package NAME VERSION" syntax from 5.11 is now supported by
      parse_version() and thus VERSION_FROM.  The first version declaration,
      package or $VERSION, is used. (David Golden)


6.55_02  Wed Aug  5 00:36:36 PDT 2009
    Feature Changes
    * PREFIX now applies to relative directories.  This is a change since
      6.20 when they were ignored.  Its necessary for relocatable Perls.

    VMS
    * Refactoring of "MakeMaker Parameters" section in 6.55_01 broke VMS.
      (Craig Berry)


6.55_01  Tue Jul 14 15:53:30 PDT 2009
    Test Fixes
    * The tests got a bit overzealous and removed the LIB environment variable
      while is necessary for some compilers to work. [rt.cpan.org 47722]
      (Jan Dubois)
    * Another fix for arch_check() on Windows changing how we normalize
      long and short filenames. [rt.cpan.org 47723] (Jan Dubois)

    New Features
    * BUILD_REQUIRES is added, similar to PREREQ_PM but for modules which
      are necessary to build, but not run, your module. (Alexandr Ciornii)


6.54  Tue Jul  7 16:48:22 PDT 2009
    Test Fixes
    * Added perl core boilerplate code to a few new tests which were missing
      them.


6.53_03  Thu Jul  2 14:47:45 PDT 2009
    Bug Fixes
    * You'd get a warning if you had a PREREQ_PM on a module with no $VERSION
      like Config (broken in 6.51_01) [rt.cpan.org 47448]

    Test Fixes
    * Upgrade the version of Test::More we ship with to 0.88.
    * Fix MM_Cygwin.t for older Perls missing Cygwin::win_to_posix_path()
      broken in 6.53_01.
    * Fix miniperl.t for Windows.  Our method of shutting off XS didn't
      work for Win32.pm
    * Old versions of version.pm, like what ships with OS X, dent Foo->VERSION
      causing prereq.t to fail.  [rt.cpan.org 47296]
    * Add missing core test boilerplates
      [blead e39d780342f3e91579069fdc80eda72bfe639ae7]


6.53_02  Sun Jun  7 19:24:56 PDT 2009
    Test Fixes
    * Stray use of Shell::Command broke older perls

    Other
    * MakeMaker will now automatically test itself with multiple
      perl versions before releasing.


6.53_01  Sun Jun  7 19:02:20 PDT 2009
    Bug Fixes
    * blib will now be rebuilt if the Makefile is changed
      [rt.cpan.org 46658]
    * 6.52 broke the setting of EXTRALIBS, LDLOADLIBS and BSLOADLIBS
      when $self->{LIBS}[0] is undefined.
      [rt.cpan.org 46633] (Craig Berry)

    Cygwin
    * Fixed MM_Cygwin.t when the path prefix (ie. cygdrive) has been
      changed by the user. [rt.cpan.org 46585] (JDHEDDEN)

    VMS
    * Removed attempts to compensate for the "bin" logical added
      by some versions of GNV, Craig says they're futile.
      Put a warning into the Makefile.PL instead.
      [rt.cpan.org 46679] (Craig Berry)
    * Removed the arch_check() special case for VMS.
      [rt.cpan.org 46678] (Craig Berry)

    Win32
    * Restore building the core by not trying to load the Win32
      module in arch_check() with miniperl.
      [rt.cpan.org 46667] (Max Maischein)

    Tests
    * Forgot to get rid of the tests for bytes and vmsish
      which were removed in 6.51_01.
    * Stopped running a Windows specific arch_check.t test
      on non-Windows. (Craig Berry)
      [rt.cpan.org 46678]


6.52  Sat May 30 11:22:04 PDT 2009
    Docs
    * Documented CONFIGURE_REQUIRES (Alexandr Ciornii)
    * Modernized the docs for PREREQ_PM


6.51_04  Sun May 24 14:04:11 PDT 2009
    Other
    * All work on INSTALLHTML* has been reverted pending a fix for
      [rt.cpan.org 45600]


6.51_03  Sat May 23 22:38:26 PDT 2009
    Bug Fixes
    * Building *.C files was broken in 6.37. [rt.cpan.org 45557]
      Thanks to Rajesh Mandalemula for spotting it.
    New Features
    * Optional parameter CONFIGURE_REQUIRES was added, to control
      this section in META.yml (Alexandr Ciornii)


6.51_02  Mon Apr 13 21:19:56 PDT 2009
    Bug Fixes
    * Fix a minor bug with the new PERM_DIR stuff which caused EUI to think
      PERM_DIR was an install skip file.
    * A Win32 function call in the last alpha broke Win32 builds.


6.51_01  Fri Apr 10 14:30:27 PDT 2009
    New Features
    * Module installation will not be stopped by a broken Pod::Man.
      Man pages will just not be installed.
      [rt.cpan.org 43546] (Jesse Vincent)
    * vim swap files, *.swp, will now be ignored by MakeMaker.
    * Added PERM_DIR to control permissions on directories.
      [rt.cpan.org 3927] (Rajesh Mandalemula)

    Feature Changes
    * Modules in PREREQ_PM are no longer loaded in order to figure out
      their version.  parse_version() is used instead.
      [rt.cpan.org 44646]
    * PPD files generated with "make ppd" now use the new REQUIRES key
      rather than the now deprecated DEPENDENCY.
      [rt.cpan.org 25179] (GAAS)
    * PPD files no longer contain the deprecated OS tag.
    * fixin is a bit less restrictive allowing things like 
      #!perl5.8.8 and #!perl-debug [rt.cpan.org 29442]
    * Remove the unused perm_rw() and perm_rwx() methods.

    Bug Fixes
    * On 5.10 "make ppd" would generate the wrong ARCHITECTURE saying the
      version is 5.1 instead of 5.10.
    * Our pod2man emulation now requires an argument to --perm_rw.
      [rt.cpan.org 35190] (imacat)
    * DISTVNAME was documented as a WriteMakefile() param but you'd
      get a warning if you tried to use it.  [rt.cpan.org 43217]
    * Better support for parallel make installs.
      [rt.cpan.org 32758] (Brendan O'Dea)
    * parse_version() will now skip uses of $VERSION in conditions
      [rt.cpan.org 9452] (jc@unser.net)
    * The architecture mismatch warning could show up on Win32 due
      to long vs short filenames being used to compare.
      [rt.cpan.org 33532] (DAGOLDEN)
    * maybe_command() will recognize Windows executables in
      /cygdrive on Cygwin [rt.cpan.org 16375] (PJF)
    * parse_version() will now look for the first use of $VERSION
      that results in $VERSION being set.

    Test Fixes
    * basic.t will not leave a "bin" environment variable defined on VMS.
      [rt.cpan.org 42150] (John E. Malmberg)
    * Made the tests work ok on systems whose makes assume that files which
      have the same mod time are out of date.  This is often the case for
      the tests which generate files and run make rapidly.
      [rt.cpan.org 29955] (Ken Hirsch)
    * skip test numbers were wrong on VMS in t/basic.t
      [rt.cpan.org 43511] (John E. Malmberg)

    Portability
    * Removed a few hard coded uses of the "false" command.
      [rt.cpan.org 44504]

    VMS
    * Fixed a few calls to catfile() that should be catdir().
      (John E. Malmberg)
    * Override catdir() and catfile() to expand macros.  This is normally done
      inside File::Spec::VMS but is really a MakeMaker-only thing.
      (John E. Malmberg)

    Other
    * Remove ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes and vmsish which are unused and
      seem to never have been used.
    * Repository now on github.


6.50  Sun Mar 22 12:28:06 PDT 2009
    Windows    
    * Remove the special checks for compilers that need a "manifest".  Instead,
      the code will just be a no-op if there's no manifest.  Or something.
      I dunno, I'm hoping Jan and Steve know what they're doing.
      [rt.perl.org 61492]


6.49_01  Thu Feb 19 17:06:36 PST 2009
    New OS Support
    * Recognize "Haiku", a resurrection of BeOS.

    New Features
    - META.yml now includes ExtUtils::MakeMaker in build_requires by
      default.

    Test Fixes
    - ExtUtils::Install 1.51 changed its output breaking some tests that
      were looking for /^Writing/ [rt.cpan.org 42927]

    Bug Fixes
    - Upgrade bundled modules:  ExtUtils::Install 1.52, ExtUtils::Command
      1.16, ExtUtils::Manifest 1.56.

    Other
    - The MakeMaker repository moved slightly.  Changed the metadata to
      reflect this.  [rt.cpan.org 41571]


6.48  Mon Oct 20 11:18:13 PDT 2008
    Test Fixes
    * Protect against stray environment variables effecting the tests.
      [rt.cpan.org 14930]


6.47_02  Thu Oct 16 16:14:20 PDT 2008
    Test Fixes
    * MIN_PERL_VERSION test had some goofs on VMS. [thanks Craig Berry]


6.47_01  Tue Oct 14 12:38:05 EDT 2008
    New Features
    * Added optional parameter MIN_PERL_VERSION, to define minimal
      required perl version for dependency checks and to pass on to
      META.yml and ppd files.        [rt.cpan.org 28374]
      Thanks to David Golden, Alexandr Ciornii (chorny) and Martin Becker

    Bug Fixes
    * Guard against a path to Perl with a space in it.
      From Max Maischein.  [bleadperl@32905]  

    Test Fixes
    - Small fix for VOS from Paul Green [bleadperl@33259]

    Other
    * $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Revision, $ExtUtils::MM_Unix::Revision and 
      $ExtUtils::MM_VMS::Revision are all now based on $VERSION.  You
      shouldn't be using them for anything anyway.


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 amount 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]


6.43_01  Tue Jan  1 16:06:47 PST 2008
    Bug Fixes
    * Change the "is this really a Perl core library directory" checks to
      look for strict instead of Exporter.  Now that Exporter is on CPAN
      it can wind up in site_perl.
    * split_command() will now set aside a little more space for macro
      expansion.  This should help on systems with cramped command line
      lengths.  Specifically, Pugs on Win32.  [rt.cpan.org 20145]

    Installation
    * MakeMaker would not install if the installed MakeMaker was too old,
      like on 5.6.1.  The installation process was still using the
      installed MakeMaker in a few places.  This has been fixed.
      [rt.cpan.org 24746]

    OS X
    * "make dist" will no longer bundle up resource fork files (._foo).
      [rt.cpan.org 29525]

    Docs
    * The documentation of VERSION_FROM was recommending vstrings (1.2.3)
      which have never worked right.
    * The documentation for the accepted values of LICENSE moved to
      Module::Build::API. [rt.cpan.org 32020]

    Tests
    * The compilation test was testing the installed modules, not the
      about-to-be-installed.
    * xs.t would fail if ExtUtils::CBuilder was not installed.
    
    Misc
    * Cleanups brought to you by no more 5.5 compatibility!
    * MakeMaker is now perlcritic clean at severity level 5... except
      the really silly ones.
    * DIE use vars DIE!
    * Added some resources to the META.yml

6.42  Fri Dec  7 17:00:14 PST 2007
    Bug Fixes
    - 6.33 moved PREREQ_FATAL to happen after CONFIGURE.  This meant if
      your CONFIGURE use a prereq it would fail and no PREREQ_FATAL
      message would be displayed.
    - Put the "nicetext" functionality back, VMS needs it to deal with
      other people's custom make.  But rename it to the more
      accurate maketext_filter(), test it and fix a bug where it would
      stop processing if it saw a macro declaration.

6.40  Thu Dec  6 03:00:47 PST 2007
    Bug Fixes
    - Remove the dubious nicetext() Makefile formatting hack to account for
      a lack of space between the target and colon needed on VMS.  This
      interfered with META.yml creation on VMS and possibly other output.
    - Fix the remaining targets which don't have a space between the target
      and the colon.

6.38  Wed Nov 28 16:01:12 PST 2007
    Releasing 6.37_03 as 6.38.

6.37_03  Mon Nov 26 14:15:34 PST 2007
    Tests
    - parse_version.t had wrong test count when version.pm isn't installed.
    - Fixed some warnings in the XS module we're using for testing.
    - "our $VERSION" test in parse_version.t was never running
    - Quoting uses of 1.2.3 style versions in parse_version.t to protect
      older perls.

    Portability
    - Moved the minimum required version up to 5.6.0.

6.37_02  Sun Nov 25 23:33:14 PST 2007
    Test Improvements
    - Added a test for a basic XS build.

    Bug Fixes
    - A refactoring in 6.37_01 broke XS compilation.

6.37_01  Sun Nov 25 17:05:53 PST 2007
    Improvements
    - Upgraded the META.yml to version 1.3 of the spec (which really
      doesn't change anything).  Thanks bdfoy.
    - MakeMaker now always includes the required 'author' field in 
      the META.yml even if it's undef to comply with the META.yml spec.
    - Updated ExtUtils-Install to latest version (1.44)
    - Unified the version numbers of all modules.

    Test Fixes
    - cd() test on VMS used non-native paths. [bleadperl 31534]
    - Removed uses of "no_plan" in tests to remain compatible with
      old versions of Test::Harness.
    - writemakefile_args.t had the wrong test count if version.pm isn't
      installed.

    Bug Fixes
    - $VERSION detection code would be confused by "sub version"
      [rt.cpan.org 30747]
    - LINKTYPE=static will now be propagated to child builds.
      [bleadperl 31761]

    Portability Fixes
    - Add "dragonfly" to the list of BSDish operating systems
    - BSD detection code would not pick up bsdos or internix
    - Fix detection of shared libperl on NetBSD [bleadperl 31526]


6.36  Tue Jul  3 01:06:40 PDT 2007
    Test Fixes
    - version.pm prior to 0.7203 caused Foo->VERSION to reformat
      $Foo::VERSION.  This caused prereq.t to fail.

6.35  Sun Jul  1 20:53:38 PDT 2007
    New Features
    * MakeMaker will now try to "use version" before parsing $VERSION.
      This allows "$VERSION = qv(1.2.3)" to work.

    Test Fixes
    - writemakefile_args.t now works with older versions of version.pm

6.34  Sat Jun 30 11:06:54 CDT 2007
    Test Fixes
    - Accidentally hard coded the version of strict.pm [rt.cpan.org 27838]

6.33  Fri Jun 29 17:15:34 CDT 2007
    New Features
    * VERSION now accepts version objects without warning.
      [rt.cpan.org 26075]

    Bug Fixes
    - Properly not installing MANIFEST.SKIP when ExtUtils::Manifest is not
      being installed. [rt.cpan.org 21318]
    - fixin() no longer clobbers $/ [rt.cpan.org 26234]
    - Fixed bug finding cross-compiled perls [bleadperl 31404]
    - Looking up to 8 levels up to find uninstalled perls
      [bleadperl 30932]
    * A test failure in a sub-project would not cause "make test" to
      fail. [rt.cpan.org 27804]

    Windows
    - Embed manifest files in EXEs and DLLs when building with VC++ 8.x
      [bleadperl #29266] [rt.cpan.org 26208]
    - Improved the subdir command code so DIR can do more than one level
      down. [rt.cpan.org 25180]
    - Fix static builds on Win32 by using -DPERLDLL [bleadperl 31229]

    VMS
    - Use linker flags rather than compiler flags to determine if the
      perl sharable image was linked debug.  This keeps OPTIMIZE from
      confusing things. [rt.cpan.org 25268]
    - Accidental use of $\ in a regex. [bleadperl 30521]

    BSD
    - If calling perl causes MakeMaker to emit warnings, then it
      cannot find the location of its binary. [rt.cpan.org 23178]

    Doc Improvements
    - Typo fixes.  $(TOUNIX) -> $(TO_UNIX).  [rt.cpan.org 23495]
    - The example for setting $VERSION from $Revision$ in SVN was
      incorrect. (Thanks to ROBERTMAY@cpan.org) [rt.cpan.org 26995]
    - Document what's wrong with PREFIX and what to use instead.
      [rt.cpan.org 12919]
    - Improve the PREREQ_FATAL docs to make it really clear that you
      do NOT want to use this!

    Misc
    - Provide information during the install about whether we're using the
      installed or provided dependency (ie. ExtUtils::Command).
    - Updated included versions of ExtUtils::Manifest and Command.
    - Add .bak and .old to veryclean [rt.cpan.org 21284]
    - Improved the PREREQ_FATAL message.

6.32  Wed Feb 21 07:59:57 PST 2007
    New Features
    - WriteEmptyMakefile() is now exportable upon request.
    
    Bug Fixes
    - Set binmode() when writing to files in Command.t for operating
      systems which need that sort of thing.  [bleadperl #29578]
    - Fixed a minor duplication in manifypod_target().  [rt.cpan.org 22149]

    Test Fixes
    - The build_man.t test would fail if your Perl is configured to not
      generate man pages ($Config{installman3dir} is set to none).

    Doc Improvements
    - Made the home dir install examples a little more friendly to non-Unix
      folks.

    Misc
    - miniperl no longer has the Win32 functions.
    - Turn on "use strict" where it was missing.

6.31  Mon Oct  9 16:54:47 PDT 2006
    - Update our META.yml to version 1.2 of the spec.
    * Update the SEE ALSO to mention Module::Build, Module::Install,
      ExtUtils::ModuleMaker and Module::Starter.
    - Fix ARCHITECTURE tag in PPD generation for 5.8 (patch taken from
      ActiveState 819). [rt.cpan.org 20566]
    * Bring ExtUtils::Manifest up to 1.48

6.30_04  Mon Sep 11 16:14:06 EDT 2006
    - EXTRA_META has been undocumented as I don't like the way the
      interface works but I don't want to hold up 6.31.  It will be
      replaced with something better next version.
    - Added explaination of distclean behavior and instructions on how to
      blow away anything not in the MANIFEST to the FAQ.
    * 6.30_01 broke overrides of PM.  MakeMaker would add to a user
      suplied PM rather than simply accepting it.
    * Document INSTALL_BASE.
    * Added "How do I install a module into my home directory?" to the FAQ
    * Added "How do I get MakeMaker and Module::Build to install to the
      same place?"
    - Moving ExtUtils::Mksymlists and ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap back into
      lib/ because no independent distribution has taken them over.

6.30_03  Fri Sep  1 17:03:11 EDT 2006
    - Minor fix to Command.t for Win32.

6.30_02  Fri Sep  1 15:03:55 EDT 2006
    - Updated to ExtUtils::Install 1.41
    * Won't scan for and build man pages when MAN3PODS is deliberately set
      empty.
    - Minor VMS fixes. [bleadperl@26813]
    - VMS->one_liner must quote "--" argument. [bleadperl@27613]
    * Split INSTALLSCRIPT into INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITESCRIPT and
      INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT so it now honors INSTALLDIRS. [bleadperl@26536]
    - Minor fix to work with Pod::man 2.04. [bleadperl@26457]
    - $Revision was broken.
    - Updated our internal version of Test::More to catch a few warnings.
    - ExtUtils::Command::test_f() test was broken.
    - Clarified that test_f() exits.

6.30_01  Tue Aug 16 23:53:27 PDT 2005
    * Fixed compiling modules using an uninstalled Perl on Win32 by using
      the proper perl header location for Windows (which is different from
      Unix).  Looks like a very old bug.  [bugs.perl.org 36128]
    - $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Revision accidentally left in a stray "Revision".
      [thanks pdx.pm for noticing this]
    - Fixed the $VERSION = $Revision$ example in the MakeMaker docs and the
      FAQ. [thanks again, pdx.pm]
    - Elaborated on the differences between CVS, SVN and others when using
      $Revision$ based $VERSIONs.
    * ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Install, ExtUtils::Manifest,
      ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists and ExtUtils::Packlist
      are all now considered to be separate distributions.  To avoid a 
      circular dependency, MakeMaker distributes its own versions but CPAN 
      should not index them and they will not overwrite a newer, installed 
      version.
    * Added EXTRA_META option to allow module authors to append extra
      text to the generated META.yml.
    * Added a LICENSE field mirroring Module::Build's license.
    * META.yml support updated to version 1.1.  All required fields
      now generated.  (NOTE: 1.1 isn't yet complete but we're going with
      it anyway.  MakeMaker uses "author" instead of "authored_by" as its
      expected the former will be used in 1.1 final).
    * Non-conforming version_from and installdirs META.yml fields removed.
    * META.yml distribution_type field now intelligent enough to guess at
      the type rather than hard code 'module'.
    * INSTALLBASE changed to INSTALL_BASE to match Module::Build.
    * Added a MAKE parameter for Windows users to say if they're using
      dmake or nmake.

6.30  Fri May 20 16:05:38 PDT 2005
    * PL_FILES behavior tweak again to restore old behavior.  Sometimes its 
      supposed to run before pm_to_blib, sometimes after.
    - Some tests shipped with 'no_plan' which will break on older 
      Test::Harness.

6.29  Thu May 19 14:15:21 PDT 2005
    * The behavior of PL_FILES is restored to its pre-6.26 behavior as several
      CPAN modules depend on this.  PL programs run via PL_FILES have 
      INST_LIB and INST_ARCH in their @INC and so can load any just built 
      modules.
    - Now honors PERL_CORE environment variable.
    - Testing to ensure FIRST_MAKEFILE is honored.

6.28  Tue Apr 12 16:17:07 PDT 2005
    - Fix realclean so it cleans up files installed from ext/ in the core
    - Fix dir_target() so it doesn't warn should any of the INST_* paths
      be the same (as with the ext/ modules in the core)
    - Fix MANIFEST.SKIP so it skips not just _darcs/ but everything inside
      it and any which happen to be in subdirs.
    - MM_AIX forgot to import neatvalue() from E::MakeMaker. 
      (bleadperl@24185)
    - Fixed a minor C<<>> POD nit (Scott Lanning)

6.27  Mon Apr  4 16:36:14 PDT 2005
    * Added _darcs to the list of revision control administrative 
      directories skipped both in libscan and in MANIFEST.SKIP.

6.26_01 Mon Mar 28 21:34:39 PST 2005
    * PL_FILES was broken in the last release.  The .PL files were not being
      passed the file they were to generate.
    * How PL_FILES runs the programs and what it does with the value is 
      now documented.
    * The default behavior of PL_FILES is now documented.

6.26  Mon Mar 21 20:36:22 PST 2005

6.25_12 Fri Mar 18 16:15:35 PST 2005
    - Use the generic dmake search.cpan.org URL in the README so the newest
      version is found.
    - Fixed pm_to_blib trouble on VMS introduced in 6.25_10.

6.25_11 Tue Mar 15 02:00:20 PST 2005
    - Fixed minor parent class dependency loop in ExtUtils::MM_Any.
    - Fixed a circular dependency on processed PL files introduced as part
      of RT 6460 in 6.25_02.

6.25_10 Sun Mar 13 16:14:04 PST 2005
    - pm_to_blib.ts is gone, back to pm_to_blib (except on VMS).  I 
      couldn't make it work and still retain backwards compatibility.
      This fixes the recompilation problems that plagued _09 and various
      previous alpha releases.

6.25_09  Sat Mar 12 10:10:34 PST 2005
    - Stubbing out PASTHRU on VMS.  $(MMSQUALIFIERS) should do the equivalent
      and better.
    - Added test to check for the existence of a compiler so XS tests are
      now possible.

6.25_08  Tue Feb  8 09:04:36 EST 2005
    - Fixing xsubpp on VMS.  Had a foo/bar path in it.
    - Turning XSUBPP into a runable command by the addition of PERLRUN
      made it unusable as a dependency.  Added XSUBPPRUN for that and left
      XSUBPP alone.
    - Removed DESTDIR from PASTHRU as install is not recursive and it can
      make commands too long on VMS.
    - Older versions of MMS cannot handle directory targets at all.  Using
      .exists files everywhere.
    - Restore missing *.Opt clean on VMS.
    - Fix .exists files accidentally getting caught in static builds.
    - Older versions of MMS cannot handle directory targets at all.
    - Add Interix support (bleadperl@33892)
    - distsign target changed to distsignature to avoid clash with
      Module::Install

6.25_07  Fri Dec 31 03:47:20 EST 2004
    - perllocal on VMS was inserting executables twice.
    - No longer using $(IGNORE) macro.  Turns out MMS/K was not honoring
      it.  Using "-$(NOECHO) command" which seems to make everybody happy.
    - Executables with no extension weren't getting installed on VMS due to 
      a bug in rename().  Broken sometime in this series of alphas.

6.25_06  Sun Dec 26 17:21:37 EST 2004
    - Forgot to define BOOTDEP macro.
    - .exists files are back.  Directories cannot be used directly as 
      targets as their mod time changes too frequently.
    * Added INSTALLBASE as an alternative to PREFIX but haven't documented
      it yet.  I'll do that next release.

6.25_05  Wed Dec 22 07:59:02 EST 2004
    - One of the 6.25 alphas broke BSD make.  It doesn't like "- @ command".
      Fixed by adding an $(IGNORE) macro.
    - 6.25 alphas caused a Makefile to be added to the dist.  Fixed.
    - The new cd() code needed to be dependent on dmake or nmake for
      Windows.  Not Win9x vs WinNT/XP.

6.25_04  Tue Dec 21 00:53:06 EST 2004
    - 6.25_03 was always rebuilding XS modules.

6.25_03  Mon Dec 20 23:04:22 EST 2004
    - dir_target() is back.  Now each directory to be created has its own 
      target like before, but no more .exists or blibdirs.ts files.  This
      ensures that each blib directory is created as necessary and fixes
      things like SVN's perl bindings.

6.25_02  Mon Dec 20 03:31:49 EST 2004
    - Set PM_FILTER as late as possible so it can see all the earlier
      macro definitions.  Necessary for challenged make implementations
      like nmake.  Should fix Mail::SpamAssassin installs on Win32.
      [rt.cpan.org 4545]
    - clean and realclean are now more careful about accidentally deleting
      directories instead of files.  [rt.cpan.org 6851]
    - small fix for parallel builds, make sure pm_to_blib has run before
      we try to use stuff in blib. [rt.cpan.org 6460]
    - MAKEFILE=foo appears to have been broken for recursive builds and
      several other things.  I think this was broken by 6.18.

6.25_01  Fri Dec 17 21:29:04 EST 2004
    * *.bak added to the default MANIFEST.SKIP.
    * META.yml will no longer be generated in the build directory.  It will
      only appear in the distdir.  This should make it easier on developers,
      they don't have to worry about checking the file in all the time.
    * Similarly, the SIGNATURE file will not be updated in the build 
      directory.  It will only be generated in the distdir.
    - A bunch of redundant Win9x and VMS code removed.
    - 'make test' on Windows no longer pre-expands its list of test files.
      This caused problems on large distributions like bioperl.  Thanks to
      Tim Bunce for suggesting the obvious fix.

6.25  Wed Dec 15 06:59:46 EST 2004
    - Build.PL was being considered like Module_pm.PL.  Build.PL is now 
      ignored.  [radek@karnet.pl] [rt.cpan.org 8809]
    - Devel::Cover cover_db/ directory now ignored by MANIFEST.SKIP

6.24_01 Thu Dec  9 00:44:48 EST 2004
    - Docs encouraged possibly insecure use of /tmp [CAN-2004-0976 via Debian]
    - Remove empty rpath from .so files [bleadperl@23183]
    - At long last the core man page title has its apostrophe.
    - BeOS tests fixed [Ingo Weinhold] [perlbug #32717]
    - Putting a pm_to_blib target back (alias of pm_to_blib.ts) in case
      anyone was depending on it being there (mod_perl was).

6.24 Tue Nov 30 15:35:13 EST 2004
    - dir_target() was accidentally named dir_targets() causing problems
      installing some Tk modules.

6.23 Fri Nov 26 16:01:50 EST 2004
    - MM_MacOS lost its $VERSION causing some CPAN indexing problems.  Enough
      people noticed this to warrant a quick release.

6.22 Tue Nov 23 22:22:22 EST 2004
    - Minor glitch in Command.t test on Win32 [thanks Steve Hay]
    * Fixed MANIFEST.SKIP so it avoids all the new *.ts files.
    - Don't spuriously define pasthru arguments

6.21_03 Sat Apr 3 2004
    - pm_to_blib and blibdirs stamp files now pm_to_blib.ts and blibdirs.ts
      everywhere because some filesystems insist you have a dot in the 
      filename.  This eliminates a bunch of special case code.
    - Minor potential glitch in the version check logic.
    - Making Makefile rebuild logic more resistant to inconsequential
      errors when cleaning up things that are going to be rebuilt anyway.
    - Adding SCCS to the list of directories in MANIFEST.SKIP.
    * Fixing blibdirs so it doesn't rebuild every make run.
    * Using a more conservative MAX_EXEC_LEN for Win98 to allow building
      large modules like Encode. [Greg Matheson]
    * test target mangled by dmake.  Doesn't seem to like q{}.
      [Greg Matheson]
    - instmodsh now using Archive::Tar to create archives if available.
      [Slaven Rezic]
    - instmodsh now using more portable tar flags to create archives.
      [Slaven Rezic]
    - Added FAQ entry for "How do I use a module without installing it?"
      and "How do I keep from installing man pages?" [Joe Cromie]
    - Fixed finding the default MANIFEST.SKIP if its on a different volume
      [Ilya Zakharevich]
    - When building Perl, we had a chance of picking up the old installed
      xsubpp from @INC [Andreas Koenig]
    - makeaperl() now a bit more intellegent about ignoring perl libraries
      not called libperl.  [Ilya Zakharevich bleadperl@22032]
    * MacOS Classic (MacPerl) is no longer supported.  Please use
      Module::Build instead.
    * Restored pm_to_blib.ts so pm_to_blib generation will be quiessent on
      VMS. [rt 4675]
    - For simplicity, dir_target() is now a no-op.  Should not effect any
      existing uses.
    - Converted utility commands from using $(PERLRUN) to $(ABSPERLRUN).
      This allows distclean to work with SDBM_File. [rt 5616]
    - realclean was using "rm -f" instead of "rm -rf" meaning directories
      wouldn't be properly cleaned.  Caused by bleadperl@7952. [rt 5208]
    - fixpath() could undo wraplist() on VMS [rt 4955]
    - ensure ExtUtils::Command::rm_f deletes all versions of a file on VMS
      [rt 4687]
    - hint.t generating improperly named hint files on OS's where $^O
      contains a '.'.  They should be converted to underscores.  Test
      mistake, not a bug.  [rt 5365]
    - Fixed ExtUtils::Command::chmod() so it will work on directories on
      VMS. [rt 4676]
    - parse_version.t was using no_plan causing trouble on older T::Hs.
      [rt 5633]

6.21 Tue Nov 11 00:12:56 PST 2003
    - NetBSD was looking in INSTALLARCHLIB/CORE for libperl instead of 
      PERL_ARCHLIB/CORE.  Would cause problems if INSTALLARCHLIB was changed
      (ie. LIB or PREFIX used). [Jochen Eisinger]
    - Turns out a handful of modules use dir_target().  Restored a version
      for backwards compatibility.
    - Moved blibdirs target from top_targets() to its own section.  Lots of
      modules rewrite top_targets() so blibdirs wouldn't be written.

6.20 Thu Nov  6 02:25:58 PST 2003
    - Fixing dos2unix on Cygwin.  In-place editing doesn't work 100% so we
      take a more conservative approach.
    - Small postamble.t test temp file cleanup fix for Cygwin and Windows.
    - Small Command.t test fix for 5.5.3.  No real bug [rt 4290]
    - Small Liblist fix for Cygwin and import libraries [Gerrit P. Haase]
    - metafile error message slightly mangled.  Bare $! mistake confusing 
      nmake [rt 4285 4301]

6.19 Mon Nov  3 22:53:56 PST 2003
    - Removed 00setup_dummy.t and zz_cleanup_dummy.t.  Tests now setup and
      teardown the dummy modules as needed.
    - Little test glitch on systems without $Config{usevendorprefix} set
    - INSTALL(SITE|VENDOR)MAN*DIR now fall back to $(INSTALLMAN*DIR)
      instead of copying its value.  This lets "perl Makefile.PL 
      INSTALLMAN1DIR=/some/man/man1" work like expected.

6.18 Mon Nov  3 20:09:51 PST 2003
    - parse_version() was blowing over $_ (Ilya Zakharevich)
    - 5.6.2 has the same Cygwin shared lib name fix as 5.7.0. (Gerrit Haase)
    * When $Config{install(site|vendor)man*dir} aren't set it will now
      fall back to $Config{installman*dir}.  Similar for 
      $Config{install(site|vendor)bin}.  This preserves behavior for older
      Perls.
    * Eliminated the dependency on perl.h for pure-perl builds.
    * Eliminated .exists files.  Added blibdirs target using MKPATH instead.
    - Removed now unused dir_target() method.
    - Added a little documentation to instmodsh.
    * Made sure PREFIX always has something in it.  Module authors like to use
      it when extending MakeMaker.  Currently using one of 
      PERL/SITE/VENDORPREFIX based on the value of INSTALLDIRS.
    * Added SIGN to generate module signatures with cpansign (Autrijus Tang)
    - Slight tweaks to MAKEFILE_OLD and MAKE_APERL_FILE restoring a mistake
      made around 6.06 to fix static builds on OS/2
    - Added ExtUtils::Command::dos2unix()
    * manicopy() would make the copied files read-only if 'cp' was used.
    * Fixed prereq check for modules which are also keywords like if.pm and
      open.pm (Autrijus Tang)
    - Made ExtUtils::Command mv and cp return whether or not they succeeded.
    * metafile_addtomanifest now mentions what its doing.
    * metafile will not die if it can't write to META.yml, just emit a 
      warning.  This lets 'make dist' continue with a read-only META.yml
    - Small fix to identify UWIN on NT (Randy Sims)
    * metafile will not touch the META.yml if it does not need to be changed
      (Thanks to Tim Bunce for this idea)
    * Fixed 'make uninstall' which looks like its been broken since last
      November and nobody noticed.
    - Fixing minor bug in VMS prefixification logic when PREFIX was not set
      by the user.
    - Fixing potential bug in prefixification for relative directories
    * Documented UNINST=1

6.17 Sun Sep 14 20:52:45 PDT 2003
    - Fixing LD so it can be set properly on Win32. (Orton Yves)
    * Fixing the init_PERL() "tack $Config{exe_ext} onto $^X" logic so 
      it works on VMS allowing $^X to be found.
    * Fixing make install UNINST=1 on Windows so it can search PERL5LIB
      (Orton Yves)
    - Fixing "could not open MANIFEST" test for OS/2 (and probably others) 
      where a read-only file cannot be deleted.
    - Hacking around the fact that when built for debugging, VMS creates
      ndbgperl.exe.
    - Eliminating the never implemented "help" argument.

6.16 Mon Aug 18 01:39:51 PDT 2003
    * Fixing the max exec length for Windows to account for old
      versions of nmake (the one you can download for free from MS).
    - Hack to normalize //foo//bar paths in ExtUtils::Installed.
      [Sreeji K Das]
    * Adding Module::Build utility files to MANIFEST.SKIP
    - PREREQ_PRINT is supposed to exit after dumping. (Wolfgang Friebel
      bleadperl@20530)
    - maniadd() was trying to open the MANIFEST even if it didn't need to
      causing unnecessary errors for read-only MANIFESTs (rt.cpan.org 3180)

6.15 Sun Aug  3 16:41:05 PDT 2003
    - Make FIXIN on Win32 use the new pl2bat rather than an already
      installed one when building the core (Mattia Barbon)

6.14 Sun Aug  3 16:23:27 PDT 2003
    - Adding a reference to the Module::Build META.yml spec in the META.yml
      itself and the metafile documentation.
    - Removed Begin/End comments from manifypods that were getting in the
      way of users adding code to the manifypods target.
    - Putting a POD2MAN macro back as an alias to POD2MAN_EXE and using
      it instead of POD2MAN.  This allows people to generate their own man 
      installation targets in a backwards compatible way.
    * Adding reference to the Module::Build META file spec in the docs.

6.13 Thu Jul 31 16:48:01 PDT 2003
    - Generated META.yml now has the prereqs in sorted order (Andy Lester)
    - Arguments to child Makefile.PLs were still having .. prepended.  This
      was exposed by the earlier fix of rt.perl.org 4345.
    - extralibs.ld (for static builds) wasn't being cleaned up.

6.12 Tue Jul 29 22:19:38 PDT 2003
    - Should any of your prefixes be /, MakeMaker might lose this and
      prepend your prefix as "prefixyour/directory" rather than
      "prefix/your/directory" (Ed Moy bleadperl 20283)
    - Reversing "realclean was duplicating work already done by clean"
      (CVS 1.124 MM_Unix.pm).  Turns out it wasn't a duplication and this
      was causing INST_* files to be left behind if your INST_LIB wasn't
      blib/* as in the perl core.  realclean now removes the files copied
      to INST_*.
    - Eliminating xsubpp_version().  No longer relevant.  It was checking
      for a feature added to xsubpp before 5.003_07 and doing it in a
      really bizarre way.

6.11 Thu Jul 24 01:24:37 PDT 2003
    - Small grammatical doc touch up by Sean Burke
    - Making basic.t clean up better after itself so it can be run
      twice without setting up and cleaning up Big-Dummy again.
    * Noting where to find make in the README
    * Noting that MakeMaker does not produce a GNU make compatible Makefile
      on Windows.

6.10_08 Mon Jul 21 18:17:06 PDT 2003
    * $Config{installvendorman*dir} was being ignored and our default
      always used. [rt.cpan.org #2949]
    * Setting NORECURS to true was still resulting in a Makefile which
      tried to recurse into subdirectories which contained a Makefile.PL
      (it simply wouldn't have run them to generate Makefile's).
      This appears to be a rather old bug.
      [rt.cpan.org #2951]
    * [rt.perl.org #4345] Arguments passed to WriteMakefile() would get
      stopped upon by $self->{PARENT} in recursive builds in the process
      of prepending a .. onto it.
    - Command.t now using its own temp directory when testing 
      expand_wildcards() so no stray files confuse it.
    * No longer warning about 'postamble' attribute.
    - Added installvars() to list INSTALL* variables so we don't keep
      repeating the list all over the code.
    - Added init_DEST() to create DESTINSTALL* variables for installing
      with DESTDIR set.
    * DESTDIR + PREFIX now does not duplicate DESTDIR.  [Redhat #91892
      and part of rt.cpan.org #2954]
    * DESTDIR is now not directly prepended to the INSTALL* variables.
      installation targets now use DESTINSTALL* instead.  This prevents
      the DESTDIR from showing up in places it shouldn't like perllocal.pod.
      DESTDIR is still appearing in .packlist (bug). [rt.cpan.org #2954]
    - MM_VMS->prefixify() wasn't honoring the %Config_Override causing
      some MakeMaker generated config variables to be ignored.
    - MM_VMS->prefixify() was only VMSifying part of its filepaths causing 
      internal comparisions to get confused and think it had to prefixify 
      when it didn't.

6.10_07 Sat Jul  5 16:12:52 PDT 2003
    * Fixing location of perllocal.pod so its always in INSTALLARCHLIB
      instead of one for each perl, site and vendor.
    - Sun's make treats escaped newlines oddly.  Switching oneliner() back
      to using multiple -e's.
    * Bug in libscan() meant that any .pm containing RCS or CVS or SCCS
      in its name (for example, RCS.pm) would be skipped.
    - Command.t was getting confused in the core because it was reading
      files from the core t/ directory, not MakeMaker's t/ directry.
    - MM_OS2 PERL_ARCHIVE_AFTER test wrong for a.out systems (Ilya)
    - Fixing perllocal.pod and XS installation on VMS.  An extraneous
      newline was introduced when changing the install macros over to
      $(ECHO).
    - Added $(ECHO_N) macro to emulate 'echo -n'

6.10_06 Sat Jun  7 00:55:29 PDT 2003
    - Whoops, Liblist.t busted on VMS after I turned strict on in
      ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid.  Merely a test bug, not a real bug.
    - Fixed metafile_addtomanifest failure so the proper error shows.
    - Fixed metafile_addtomanifest failure diagnostic leaking out during
      the basic.t test on Windows.

6.10_05 Fri Jun  6 18:15:30 PDT 2003
    * Documenting META.yml, NO_META
    * Documenting the fact that distdir will auto generate META.yml and 
      alter your manifest.
    * Adding META.yml autogeneration to the FAQ
    - Recognizing comments with leading whitespace in MANIFESTs better.
    - Small ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid problem on VMS (Craig Berry)
    * Fixed "make install UNINST=1".  Appears to have been broken somewhere
      around 6.06_01.
    - Documented the fourth argument to ExtUtils::Install::install()
    - install() will now honor a PERL5LIB change between ExtUtils::Install
      loading and install() running when uninstalling shadows.
    - META.yml generation deals gracefully when the MANIFEST is read-only
      (Slaven rt.cpan.org 2723)
    - Fixing tests on limited dir depth VMS systems by moving the 
      dummy-install dir one level up (Craig Berry rt.cpan.org 2747)

6.10_04 Fri May 23 01:13:04 PDT 2003
    - Working around BSD threaading bug in version check. [from bleadperl]
    - Added the Makefile to the dist dependencies. (Slaven Rezic)
    - Reversing the find_perl() version check failure warning introced in
      6.10_03.  Too talkative, warned when nothing was wrong.
    * Fixing META.yml auto-addition when there's no newline at the end 
      of the MANIFEST [rt.cpan.org 2444]
    * Making it a bit more obvious in the MANIFEST where META.yml comes from.
    - Fixed $_ clobbering in ExtUtils::Manifest functions.
    - [rt.cpan.org 2591] some LD_RUN_PATH thing (Marek Rouchal)
    - Added core.\d+ files to 'make clean' [rt.cpan.org 2543] (Slaven Rezic)
    - INST_* targets were expanded too early (Stas Bekman)
    - Adding ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes (bytes.pm backwards compat wrapper)
    - Fixing MM_MacOS so it will compile on 5.5.x machines (use bytes wrapper)
    * Reducing perldepend set of CORE/*.h dependencies to what 5.5.3 has.
      5.5.3 should be able to compile XS again.
    * Eliminating fakethr.h and perlsfio.h from VMS's perldepend as they
      sometimes don't get installed.
    - ExtUtils::Install was making a few directories even with the
      "don't really do it" switch on (Slaven Rezic)
    * can build static linked perl binaries again.  Probably damaged in
      6.06_01 when $self->{MAKEFILE} became FIRST_MAKEFILE. (Nick Clark)

6.10_03 Fri Apr 11 00:21:25 PDT 2003
    * Added NO_META WriteMakefile() option to suppress generation of
      META.yml. (Spoon, rt.cpan.org 2359)
    - Spurious linebreak in uninstall_from_sitedirs on VMS (Craig Berry)
    * A bit after 6.05 man page names would come out as lib::Foo::Bar
      if the module name didn't contain a ::.  Found with podulators.
      Fixed.
    * Skipping installation of RCS ,v files.
    * 'make ci' was busted between 6.05 and 6.06_01.  Fixed. (Andreas)
    - 'make test' was broken when there's no tests.  Introduced in 6.06_03.
      (Stas Bekman)
    - Solving some directory depth problems in tests on oldish VMS systems.
      (Craig Berry)
    - Fixing MM_MacOS so it compiles on UTF-8 systems. (Jarkko)
    - Making find_perl() more talkative when the version check fails
      miserably.
    - Fixing PERL_ARCHIVE on VMS so XS can compile again (Craig Berry)

6.10_02 Mon Apr  7 00:57:15 PDT 2003
    * Removed 2>&1 experiment introduced in 6.10_01 for all non-Unixen
      except for OS/2.  Thought Perl might emulate `... 2>&1`.  It doesn't.
      Just on OS/2.

6.10_01 Sun Apr  6 19:31:42 PDT 2003
    - Making install "Skip ... (unchanged)" message happen consistently
    - Checking file sizes as well as modification times when deciding
      to skip installing a file.
    - OS/2 was using $(RM) instead of $(RM_F) (Ilya)
    - OS/2 needs .dll removed on failed build (Ilya)
    - fixin() was assuming that rename() can overwrite the target (Ilya)
    - manifypods target was empty if there are no pods to manify.  Put in
      at least $(NOECHO) $(NOOP)
    - Cygwin test to check for finding pod2man when building the perl core
      removed.  No longer relevent.
    - Small fixes for dmake (Mattia Barbon)
    * Added "Reporting bugs" section to the PATCHING doc.
    - Minor bug in compile test missed ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid
    - Removing $(VERSION_FROM) from Makefile dependency.  It was too
      annoying to rebuild the Makefile every time the module changed.
      Mentioned it in the FAQ instead.
    - Fixing PERL_ARCHIVE macro on VMS.  Apparently it never appeared
      properly before. (Craig Berry)
    - Fixing ECHO on dmake.
    - Adding os_flavor() and os_flavor_is()
    - Making basic.t error output combine STDOUT & STDERR for easier 
      reading.
    * ExtUtils::Manifest will now work case insensitively.
    - Fixed 'subroutine redefined' warnings in 00compile.t
    - Fixed it so typemaps are only looked for in the perl core library.
    * Hacking around VMS filesystem problems reconstructing package names
      from filenames in ExtUtils::Installed.  (Jesper Naur)

# There was no 6.06, I jumped straight to 6.10_XX because there's been
# so much change between 6.05 and now.

6.06_05 Mon Mar 31 02:44:11 PST 2003
    - Syncing into bleadperl.  Minor nits revealed...
    - AutoSplit open filehandle bug was fixed in bleadperl.  Averted a
      warning because of this.
    - hint files were only being loaded if . happened to be in @INC.
      A bug/feature of File::Spec was stripping off the current dir from
      the front of hintfile paths causing Perl to look for them in @INC.
      Worked around.
    - Now checking $! for errors if a hint file returns undef
    - compile test was testing all of perl!  Scaling back to just ExtUtils/

6.06_04 Sun Mar 30 20:34:39 PST 2003
    - Now looking for ExtUtils::xsubpp through @INC rather than just
      the perl core directories.  This helps ExtUtils::ParseXS.
    - Systems which don't put their libraries under their $Config{prefix}
      (OS X, Debian) weren't putting their libraries in the spot declared
      in Config.  It was going under $Config{prefix}.
    - Prerequisites check now deals better with X.Y_Z style alpha versions
    - ExtUtils::Liblist->ext() was using $Config{perllibs} which is a 5.6.1
      thing.  Falling back to $Config{libs} if perllibs isn't there.
    - ExtUtils::Command::MM now reads from @ARGV if called with no
      args.  Makes the one liner a bit simpler.
    * Restored ExtUtils::Liblist::ext() for backwards compatibility.
      Missing since 5.6.1.
    - Switching to relative dirs for self-building to shorten
      command line lengths.
    - Fixing minor test warning on VMS when compiling ExtUtils::Manifest
    - Skipping STDIN read prompt() tests on 5.5.3.  Can't test due to
      eof() not honor tied handles.
    - Config.pm on 5.5.3 doesn't have any concept of vendor*.  This was
      causing warnings when generating the Makefile.

6.06_03 Sat Mar 29 19:44:53 PST 2003
    - Added AUTHOR and ABSTRACT_FROM info to Makefile.PL for ppd generation.
    - Added echo() method to portably echo text to a file.
    - Worked around 5.8.0 eval 'require Foo::Bar' bug causing MakeMaker
      to think modules weren't installed.
    - Modernized VMS doc_*_install targets
    - Changed some $(PERL) -e "print ..." code to use $(ECHO).
    - Replaced uses of Delete/NoLog/NoConfirm with $(RM_F) in MM_VMS
    - Fixed some duplicate macros making MMS happy.
    - Fixed $ExtUtils::MM_VMS::Revision.  It was just the $VERSION before.
    - Fixed ExtUtils::Command::MM::perllocal_install(), uninstall(),
      warn_if_old_packlist().
    * Pulling File::Spec::VMS::fixpath() and eliminate_macros() into MM_VMS
      as the new cannonical location.  They never should have been in F::S
      in the first place.
    * ExtUtils::Command::eqtime() would truncate the file being equalized!
      Holdover from exclusive .exists usage.
    - Cleaned up hard coded 'echo' and '@' to $(ECHO) and $(NOECHO)
    - $(SAY) is now $(ECHO) on VMS
    - Moved rogue initializations from tools_other() to init_others()
    - Normalized MM_VMS's tools_other() to mostly use its superclass.
    - split_command() was off-by-one when calculating max command line
      lengths causing it to run over on VMS
    - made split_command() a bit smarter, taking into account some macro
      expansion
    - Fixed initialization of OBJECT, DISTNAME and LDFROM on VMS
    - Fixed *_install target uses of File::Spec.
    - Added ExtUtils::MakeMaker::vmsish wrapper around vmsish so MM_VMS
      can be compiled on non-VMS machines.  For testing.
    * Added ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial about writing modules with
      MakeMaker.
    - Removed "always use h2xs" dogma.
    - Added compile & POD test
    * 'make distdir' now generates META.yml module meta-data file.
      Proof of concept.  Have to syncronize with Module::Build.
    * Added maniadd() to ExtUtils::Manifest to add entries to the MANIFEST
    * ExtUtils::Command::chmod was not interpreting file permissions as
      octal.  Also, docs & tests slightly wrong (thanks Stas Bekman).
    - ExtUtils::Install was hard coding blib/lib and blib/arch, unportable
      [perl #21526]

6.06_02 Mon Dec 23 20:39:57 PST 2002
    * Lots of Win32 fixes busted between 6.05 and 6.06_01.  
    * split_command() tests still not happy on Win32.  Problems with
      shell vs Makefile escaping makes testing difficult.
    * VMS still broken.  Need to convert File::Spec method calls back to
      object method calls so the weird FS::VMS->eliminate_macros() and 
      fixpath() work again.

6.06_01 Thu Dec 19 00:14:49 PST 2002
    - Andreas found that when building the core it is desirable for
      MakeMaker to use a relative path to perl.
    - File::Spec->catfile() has a bug where the resulting file may not be
      canonicalized.  This was causing problems when generating manpaths.
      MakeMaker now uses its own fixed override for catfile().
    - Fixed the POD recognition regex to properly catch /=head\d/ tags.
    * Added a PATCHING guideline document.
    - Updated the class hierarchy in NOTES.
    - Installed.t now cleans up after itself better.
    - Steve Purkis rewrote the manifypods system to use Pod::Man
      rather than pod2man.  Its now portable and manifypods() moved from 
      MM_Unix to MM_Any.  As a result, lots of icky and redudant code went
      away.  This also removes the POD2MAN macro, but noone should be
      using that.  
    - "make manifypods" now works on Win32
    - "make manifypods" is now be faster
    - Made MM_Unix->find_perl more portable.  Eliminated MM_Win32->find_perl
      override.  MM_VMS->find_perl remains.
    * find_perl() can now handle filenames with spaces in them (RT448)
    * find_perl() on Win32 no longer produces spurious "File Creation error"
      messages (perlbug ID 20020709.001)
    - Removed unfinished and unused maybe_command_in_dirs()
    - Removed dead SelfLoader cruft from MM_Unix.
    - Fixed PPD generation when the ppd contains quotes (RT1473)
    - Fixed PPD generation on VMS
    - Moved Win9x specific subdir_x() code from MM_Unix to MM_Win95
    * Craig Berry fixed hint files on VMS
    - Added the perl_onliner() method to generate portable, safe one-liners
    - Changing hardcoded $self->{MAKEFILE} to $(FIRST_MAKEFILE).
    * Rafael Garcia-Suarez made MakeMaker ignore Subversion control files
      by default.
    - Added MAKEFILE_OLD macro.
    * No longer generating man pages by default on VMS.
    - Improved DISTNAME docs
    * Documented DISTVNAME and VERSION_SYM
    * Documented dist()
    - Seperated dist_core() into dist, tardist, uutardist, tarfile,
      zipdist, zipfile and shdist_target methods.  Allows elimination
      of redundant code in MM_VMS.
    - Replaced WARN_IF_OLD_PACKLIST, DOC_INSTALL and UNINSTALL
      one-liners with ExtUtils::Command::MM functions
    - Replaced VMS hand-rolled perl code for TOUCH, CHMOD, RM_F and RM_RF
      with ExtUtils::Command functions.  Added TEST_F.
    - Adding clean_subdirs target and clean_subdirs_target() method to
      generate same.  This allows easier overriding of an unportable part
      of the clean target.
    - Defined DEV_NULL for MacOS
    - Removed ROOTEXT from MM_MacOS, apparently unused
    - Added $(DIRFILESEP) macro and init_DIRFILESEP to avoid
      hardcoding / or \.  Reduces code duplication in the MM_* modules.
    - Added init_platform() and platform_constants() for OS specific
      macros.  Moved OS specific macros from constants() overrides there.
    - Added init_VERSION() to setup various *VERSION* macros.
    - Added default wraplist() to make porting easier.
    - Added makemakerdflt_target() to guarantee 'all' is the default
      target.
    - Added special_targets() to handle things like .PHONY and make sure
      they come first.
    - Added init_linker() to initialize linker relatied macros.
    - MM_MacOS constants() disolves
        Moved MACPERL_SRC, MACPERL_LIB, MACPERL_INC from init_main() to 
          init_platform().
        Moved DEFINE and INC tweaking from constants() to init_main()
        Moved DEFINE_VERSION & XS_DEFINE_VERSION from constants() to
          init_VERSION().
        Eliminated MODULES.  Unused and its the same as TO_INST_PM
        Moved .INCLUDE from constants() to special_targets()

    - MM_NW5 constants() & init_others() disolves
        Moved LIBPTH, BASE_IMPORT, NLM_VERSION, MPKTOOL, TOOLPATH from 
          init_others() to init_platform()
        Moved INCLUDE and PATH definitions from constants() to 
          init_platform()
        Moved BOOT_SYMBOL, NLM_SHORT_NAME, PATH and INCLUDE from
          constants() to init_platform()

    - MM_Unix constants() goes on a diet
        Moved all macro definitions to init_* methods.
        Added MM_REVISION for completeness
        Using wraplist() instead of manual joining
        Moved .NO_CONFIG_REC, .SUFFIXES and .PHONY to special_targets()
        Moved makemakerdflt: to makemakerdeflt_target()
        Moved INST_{STATIC,DYNAMIC,BOOT} to init_INST()
        Moved EXPORT_LIST, PERL_ARCHIVE & PERL_ARCHIVE_AFTER to init_linker().
        Moved PERL_MALLOC_DEF to init_platform()

    - MM_VMS constants() goes on a diet
        Moved DEFINE from constants() to init_main()
        Moved OBJECT & LDFROM from constants() to init_others()
        Moved MM_VMS_REVISION and PERL_VMS to init_platform
        Added MM_VMS_VERSION
        Moved DEFINE_VERSION, XS_DEFINE_VERSION and MAKEMAKER changes to
            init_VERSION
        Moved .SUFFIXES changes to special_targets() override.
        Eliminated $self->{PM_TO_BLIB}.  Its redundant with $self->{PM}.
        constants() now consists only of fixpath() calls.

    - MM_Win32 constants() goes away
        Moved .USESHELL to special_targets() override.
        Everything else was redundant.

    - Added $(VERSION_FROM) to $(MAKEFILE) dependencies.  Helpful for
      XS builds where the version number is very sensitive.
    - export_list(), perl_archive() and perl_archive_after() consolodated
      into init_linker().
    - Added MM_NW5_VERSION, MM_Unix_VERSION, MM_Win32_VERSION, 
      MM_VMS_VERSION.
    - Eliminated duplicate code in constants() overrides
    - Added all_target() for easier customization of what's run by default
    - Eliminated duplicate top_targets() overrides
    - Made tool_autosplit() method portable.  Moved to MM_Any.  Eliminated
      overrides.
    - Adding realclean_subdirs target and realclean_subdirs_target()
      method to generate same.  This allows easier overriding of an 
      unportable part of the realclean target.    
    - Added oneliner() to create portable perl one-liners.
    - Craig Berry found some typos in ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid's VMS part
    * ExtUtils::Install did not work on MacPerl due to a hardcoded '.'
    * prompt() will now read from STDIN.
    - Craig Berry made sure extliblist() is always called even if LIBS
      is explicitly set to empty.
    * Added DESTDIR to make repacking easier.
    * $(*PREFIX) are returned to the INSTALL* variables.
    * Split $(PREFIX) into $(PERLPREFIX) and $(PREFIX).  The former
      holds the location of the core libraries.  The latter is the
      optional override prefix supplied by the user.
    * PREFIX overrides all other *PREFIXes when set in the Makefile.PL.
      This restores "make install PREFIX=foo".
    - Added quote_literal() to handle some shell quoting.
    - ExtUtils::MM_VMS now compilable on non-VMS platforms.
    - J. D. Laub made MakeMaker honor $Config{installstyle}
    - Renaming on OS/2 requires the target file to be removed.  
      Partially fixed by Ilya, should be applied universally later.
    - Default MANIFEST.SKIP not catching files in subdirs.  Fixed by Ilya.
    - Ilya fixed ExtUtils::Liblist->ext when called outside MakeMaker.
    - realclean was duplicating work already done by clean
    - Adding an explicit LICENSE
    - Cleaning up ExtUtils::Install docs.
    - ExtUtils::Install::uninstall() now has default verbose and
      dont_execute arguments.
    - Added some basic ExtUtils::Install tests
    - Fixed ExtUtils::Install::install() for relative dirs
    - Added split_command() and max_exec_len() to deal with long
      commands.
    - Seperated escape_newlines() from quote_literal().  This may
      be pointless.
    - pm_to_blib() now generated with split_command().  3x speedup.
    - added init_dist() to initialize distribution constants
    - ExtUtils::Install::pm_to_blib() working around open filehandle
      bug in AutoSplit for systems with mandatory file locking.

6.05 Tue Aug 27 16:09:51 PDT 2002
    - Output format of the hint file verbose diagnostic is now in
      a format native to the OS, so it broke a test on non-Unixen.

6.04 Mon Aug 26 18:31:11 PDT 2002 
    - Little fix for pre-5.8 Cygwin test to get the shared library names 
      right.
    * disttest on Win9X broken because of forgotten tabs
    * WriteMakefile argument verification should now be accurate
    - Documented the LD flag.
    * Documented prompt()
    * vendor install was not adding to packlist or updating perllocal.
    - Supporting $Config{vendorarchexp} and $Config{vendorlibexp}.
    - Fixed conflict on VMS between logical names and directories 
      (bleadperl 17488)
    - Fixed space-vs-tab bug on Netware (bleadperl 17579)
    - Mysterious NetWare fix from Ananth (bleadperl 17376)
    - Support OPTIMIZE in MacOS (bleadperl 17347)
    - Support hints in MacOS (mutation of bleadperl 17347)
    * Default man installation directories were using $(MAN*EXT) to
      generate the directory name.  This turned out to be wrong more
      often than right, so we'll use man1 and man3 hard-coded.
    - Debian folks fixed the doc_install targets so the Appending
      diagnostic gives the correct directory for perllocal.pod
    * Added ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ
    - Quieted some warnings on MacOS (bleadperl 17669)

6.03 Wed Jun 19 17:06:14 EDT 2002
    - Documented that we're clamping down on cargo-cult MakeMaker
      programming.
    - Eased up the parameter verification to leave errant values alone.
    - Doug MacEachern documented LDDLFLAGS and added to known parameters.
    - Possible fix for XS compiles on Cygwin for pre 5.8 perls.

6.02 Sat Jun 15 19:46:06 EDT 2002
    - ExtUtils::Installed->modules() was broken in scalar context
    - Sync bleadperl 16922:  Netware updates from Ananth Kesari.
    - Sync bleadperl 16922:  MM_NW5 tests
    - Sync bleadperl 16938 & 16974:  MM_MacOS->macify fixes from pudge.
    - Sync bleadperl 16989 & 16942:  Small test fixes for MacPerl from pudge.
    - Improved WriteMakefile param verification to differenciate between
      parameters which don't exist and those that just take strings/numbers.
      [RT #707]
    * Documented TEST_VERBOSE

6.01 Thu May 30 14:48:57 EDT 2002
    - MacOS Classic fixes from Pudge: recursive make repair,
      post_initialize() now used, DEFINE & INC work with relative paths,
      removed dead hybrid method/function call code.
    * WriteMakefile now a bit more tolerant of wrong arguments, it will
      warn and try to soldier on rather than just vomiting.
    - Netware whitespace nits (bleadperl@16811)
    - Netware Perl version number tag when building dynamic libraries
      needs to match the current perl version instead of being hard coded
      (a mutation of bleadperl@16851)
    - OS/2 bug in TEST_F target found by John Poltorak (bleadperl@16839)
    - README in 6.00 still declared this as alpha.

6.00 Sat May 25 17:14:09 EDT 2002
    - VMS 8-level limit test tweak (bleadperl@16764)
    * Here goes nothing.

5.96_01 Wed May 22 19:11:09 EDT 2002
    - Fixed ExtUtils::testlib so it doesn't taint @INC.
    - Fixed ExtUtils::Command so it groks % shell wildcard on VMS.
      [RT 625]
    - MM now depends on Test::Harness 2.00 on VMS else tests with -T
      won't work, command line too long.
    - Added Craig's patch to fix limited level VMSs in the core.

5.95_01 Sat May 18 14:40:12 EDT 2002
    - Fixed ExtUtils::testlib so it has a reasonable chance of working
      under taint mode.

5.94_02 Fri May 17 17:16:04 EDT 2002
    - Fixing Manifest.t test for relative @INC when core testing.

5.94_01 Fri May 17 14:53:54 EDT 2002
    - Small NetWare change from Novell.
    - worked around 5.005_03's lack of a $Config{siteprefix} and
      $Config{sitebin}.
    - Small cross compilation changes (bleadperl 16582, 16548)

    [[ Test Fixes ]]
    - Fixing ExtUtils::Command tests for VMS shell wildcard differences.
    - Fixing ExtUtils::Installed tests so they don't go looking at already
      installed installed lists.

5.93_01 Mon May  6 00:54:39 EDT 2002
    - fixed basic.t for limited depth VMS systems
    * MM_BeOS was totally hosed by a typo.
    - Made the ExtUtils::Command docs clear about how things come
      from @ARGV not @_.
    - Quieted nmake banners in disttest

    * Backporting to 5.005_03
    - 'require 5.006' statements to 5.00503
    - Removing uses of File::Spec::Functions
    - Adding MODE arg to mkdir()
    - Changing uses of 'our' to 'use vars'
    - Changing uses of 'no warnings' to 'local $SIG{__WARN__}'
    - Changing 3-arg opens to 2-arg
    - Changing 'open my $fh' to 'open FH'
    - 5.005_03's File::Find doesn't have 'no_chdir'

5.92_01 Mon Apr 29 23:09:38 EDT 2002
    - Fixing case of modules with no .pm files on VMS.
    - LDLOADLIBS fix for NetBSD and easier overriding (bleadperl 16233)
    * syncing in MM_MacOS from pudge.
    - syncing in NetWare fixes (16266 & 16190)
    - Cleaning up MM_NW5.pm somewhat.

5.91_02 Wed Apr 24 01:29:56 EDT 2002
    - Adjustments to tests for inclusion in the core.

5.91_01 Wed Apr 24 00:11:06 EDT 2002
    [[ API Changes ]]
    * A failing Makefile.PL in a subdir will now kill the whole
      makefile making process.
    * "make install PREFIX=something" will no longer work.  Sorry.
    - Now supporting the usevendorprefix %Config setting
    - Tests now guaranteed to run in alphabetical order.
    - Allowing $VERSION = 0.

    [[ Bug Fixes ]]
    - Missing prerequisite warning malformatted.
    - INSTALL*MAN*DIR and INST_MAN*DIR weren't allowed on the command 
      line.
    * For years now skipcheck() has been returning a different
      value than what was documented.
    - Partially reversing Ken's "speed up ExtUtils::Manifest" patch
      from 5.51_01 so MANIFEST overrides MANIFEST.SKIP.
    * Fixed PREFIXification so it works on Win32.
    * Fixed PREFIXification so it works on VMS.
    - Fixed INSTALLMAN*DIR=none on VMS.
    * NetWare fixes (bleadperl@16076)
    - Craig Berry fixed some macro corruption on VMS.
    - Systems configured to not have man pages now honored thanks to
      Paul Green
    - Hack to allow 5.6.X versions of ExtUtils::Embed use MY implicitly.
    - Moved use of glob out of MM_Unix so MacPerl could build

    [[ Test Changes ]]
    - Shortening directory levels to accomodate old VMS's
    - was using a slightly wrong prefix for the prefix tests

    [[ Doc Fixes ]]
    - Documenting VERBINST

5.90_01 Thu Apr 11 01:11:54 EDT 2002
    [[ API Changes ]]
    * Implementation of the new PREFIX logic.
    * Added new INSTALL targets:
        INSTALLSITEBIN
        INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR   INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR 
        INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR
        INSTALLVENDORBIN INSTALLVENDORLIB INSTALLVENDORARCH
        SITEPREFIX VENDORPREFIX
    * INSTALLDIRS=site now properly using $Config{siteprefixexp}
      (Thieved from Debian.  Thanks!)
    * Added INSTALLDIRS=vendor & support for vendor directories
      (Thieved from Debian.  Thanks!)

    [[ Bug Fixes ]]
    - nmake syntax nits from Mattia Barbon
    - ExtUtils::Packlist fix for files with spaces in them from Jan Dubois
      (bleadperl@15800)
    - Old, old, old dmake bug in MM_Win32->pm_to_blib fixed by Nick
      (bleadperl 15847)

    [[ Internals ]]
    - Purging leftover PDP compiler flags.

5.55_03 Sat Apr  6 21:57:01 EST 2002
    - Reversing "fix" for RT 444.  It wasn't really fixed and it
      caused havoc with Compress::Zlib and Tk.

5.55_02 Sat Apr  6 03:09:15 EST 2002
    [[ Bug Fixes ]]
    - Craig Berry fixed install on VMS (again, I munged the last patch)
    - MakeMaker might not be recognizing it's in PERL_SRC on Win32.
      Made safer.
    - For some reason MM_VMS was using $Config{arch} instead of
      $Config{archname}
    - Fix (well, hack) for creating ABSPERL on VMS.
    - Quieting some warnings revealed by ExtUtils::Constant
    - test_via_script had a typo and forgot INST_ARCHLIB

    [[ Test Fixes ]]
    - INST.t has to tell MakeMaker it's in the PERL_CORE
    - Fixing expected values of INST_* when building the core.

5.55_01 Thu Apr  4 23:58:06 EST 2002
    [[ API Changes ]]
    * Long deprecated INST_EXE completely removed.
    - Removing TEST_LIBS constant (never seen in a stable MM anyway)
    - Added $default argument to prefixify() for safer prefixification.

    [[ Bug Fixes ]]
    - $mm->{PERM_*} were not being set
    - fixin() redundantly chmod'ing scripts.  Let the Makefile do that.
    - The above means MM_Unix will now compile cleanly under strict
    * init_dirscan's search for Makefile.PL's will no longer look
      inside a distdir.
    * Fixed running tests when there are t/'s in subdirs.
    - MM_DOS inheriting from MM_Unix instead of MM_Win32.  DJGPP
      appears to be unix-like (bleadperl@15650)
    - Escaping constants with # in them so they're not confused as
      make comments (bleadperl)
    * ExtUtils::MM_Win95 didn't return a true value
    - Fixing disttest when perl is a relative path.
    * Fixed disttest & tests in subdirs on Win95
    - Fixed recursive Makefile.PL scan on VMS so it skips the distdir
    - Fixed a bug when an alternative MAKEFILE is specified and you're
      using something other than a Makefile.PL (RT 444)
    - Quieting uninit warning when there are no tests.

    [[ Doc Fixes ]]
    - Documented INSTALLMAN*DIR == 'none' feature.

    [[ Test Fixes ]]
    - Paul Green's which_perl patch to build a proper Perl on systems
      that use command extensions.
    - basic.t's Makefile.PL PREFIX call wasn't properly quoted for VMS
      (Craig Berry)
    - little initialization glitch in MM_Win32.t

    [[ Internals ]]
    - INST_* constants moved to init_INST
    - INSTALL* constants moved to inst_INSTALL
    * Internal warning supression removed.
    - Temporarily turning off SelfLoader in MM_Unix so warnings
      have the right line numbers.

5.54_01 Sat Mar 30 02:32:44 EST 2002
    [[ New Features ]]
    * Added FULLPERLRUN and FULLPERLRUNINST

    [[ Bug Fixes ]]
    - hint files were made a little too noisy in 5.53_01

    [[ Test Fixes ]]
    - adjusting for NFS time drift
    - basic.t was finding the wrong perl in the core

    [[ Internals ]]
    - FULLPERL* PERL* setup moved to init_PERL

5.53_02 Fri Mar 29 04:47:44 EST 2002
    - Adjusted for Perl core.  Synced into bleadperl.

5.53_01 Fri Mar 29 00:13:02 EST 2002
    [[ Bug Fixes ]]
    - Removed duplicate NAME macro definition
    - Fixed makemakerdflt target for VMS
    * bleadperl@11460 introduced a bug with recursive Makefile.PL's not
      having '.' in @INC.  PDL should build now.
    * MANIFEST.SKIP only working on file names, not full relative paths.
      Only since 5.51_01  (RT 413)
    * make test TEST_VERBOSE=1 was busted by 5.50_01 (RT 423)
    * Error messages from dying Makefile.PL's and hint files were
      accidentally supressed in 5.48_04.  Fixed.
    * Makefile.PL's are supposed to be run in package main.  5.48_04
      broke this.  Fixed.
    * Fixing installing on VMS.

5.52_01 Tue Mar 26 00:24:26 EST 2002
    [[ Bug Fixes ]]
    * ActivePerl 5.6.1/build 631 now 100%
    - Fixed some SelfLoader warnings
    * ExtUtils::MM_Win32 not subclassed off of ExtUtils::MM_Any properly
    - Bug in local $ENV{FOO} was causing failures in MM_Win32 tests.
      Compensating for the bug.
    - $Config{prefixexp} is sometimes bad on ActivePerl, compensating
    - Accidentally left htmlifypods tests in MM_Win32 tests

    [[ Doc Changes ]]
    - Expanding Known Good list
    - Adding Known Programs to README

5.51_01 Mon Mar 18 01:37:02 EST 2002
    [[ API Changes ]]
    - Removing xsubpp and typemap from the distribution.  These are not
      Perl version independent files and should not be upgraded.
    - Removing ExtUtils::Embed.  Version specific module and should
      not be updated.
    - Removing ExtUtils::Constant.  Not directly tied to MakeMaker.
      Will be distributed seperately by Nick Clark.

    [[ New Features ]]
    * realclean now deletes 'dist' directory.

    [[ Bug Fixes ]]
    * Fixing ExtUtils::Installed for VMS
    * Fixed it so MakeMaker can build itself without needing an eariler
      version installed
    * Fixed ExtUtils::Installed so packlists work on VMS
    * ExtUtils::MM_VMS test had a stupid typo that prevented most
      of the tests from running.
    - Fixing VMS so 'mmk' is always 'mmk all' (bleadperl 15218)
    - ExtUtils::MM_Any->catfile was calling catdir
    - Added Ken William's "speed up ExtUtils::Manifest" patch.
    - Added Nick Clark's return value of manifest routines patch
      (bleadperl@14978)
    - Merging in bleadperl changes (14438, 14453, 14611, 14612, 14622,
      14655, 14677, 14688, 14902, 15023, 15187, 15367)
    - bleadperl change 15325 (VMS 'mmk all' hack) rejected.
    - ExtUtils::MM_Any->test_via_harness() now using -MExtUtils::testlib
      instead of -I's.  This keeps the command line shorter on VMS, but
      it means TEST_LIB doesn't work anymore.  May prove problematic.
    - PERLRUN now uses FULLPERL instead of PERL.  This avoids 
      accidental use of miniperl.  May cause problems in the core.
    - Fixed test_via_harness() on VMS so it uses PERLRUN.
    - ExtUtils::Manifest wrongly handling MANIFEST on VMS.
    - ExtUtils::Manifest::maniskip broken due to misuse of /o on a regex.

5.50_01 Mon Mar  4 23:44:48 EST 2002
    [[ API Changes ]]
    - htmlifypods and all HTML targets have been removed.  It didn't
      work properly.  A target for HTMLifying of docs will be
      added sometime in the future (read: send a patch).
    - Deprecated ROOTEXT variable removed (its been deprecated for
      more than five years).
    - Removed ExtUtils::Miniperl from the CPAN distribution.  Can't
      see how its useful outside the core.

    [[ New Features ]]
    * Emacs backup files (ie. *~) are no longer copied into blib
      (this means you won't get Foo.pm~ accidentally installed anymore).
    - prefixify() now returns if the prefixification worked or not.
    - added the Perl patchlevel info to the description embedded in DLLs
      (Ilya Zakharevich perl change 14810)

    [[ Bug Fixes ]]
    * 5.49_01 broke anything that depended on the MM class to be loaded
      with ExtUtils::MakeMaker, like CPAN.  Temporarily fixed.
    * Many places wrongfully assume MM methods can be called as class
      methods!  Inside and outside of MakeMaker.
    * DOS now acts like Win32 instead of Unix.  This should be less wrong.
    - Netware tweak from Ananth Kesari (perl change 14780)

    [[ Doc Changes ]]
    * made the docs about the behavior of PREFIX a bit more vague
      reflecting its odd behavior.    
    - Replaced references to %Config with things people are more likely
      to understand in PREFIX & LIB docs.
    - Put PREFIX before LIB in the docs.

    [[ Internal Refactorings ]]
    - File::Spec wrappers consolidated in MM_Any
    - test_via_harness/script consolidated in MM_Any
    * Added ExtUtils::Command::MM to replace large -e "one-liners"
    * Added ExtUtils::MM_UWIN, took UWIN specific code out of MM_Unix.
    * Added ExtUtils::MM_DOS, took some DOS specific code out of MM_Unix
    - Added a dist() override to MM_OS2.
    - Took the OS/2 specific code out of MM_Unix's dist()
    - Starting to quote as many command line switches as possible
      to make VMS have to override less of MM_Unix.

5.49_01 Mon Feb  4 00:42:40 EST 2002
    - Default TEST_LIBS now contains absolute paths, so tests can
      chdir without breaking @INC.
    - Some bug fixes in MM_Win32 were missing in MM_NW5.
    - LLIBPERL was not being set.
    - Gisle Aas fixed a warning in prompt when the user hits ctrl-D
      or pipes STDIN to /dev/null.
    - VMS's test is now a proper ->can check.
    - Stray newline in Command.t causing havoc (bleadperl 14441)

    * Lots of internal changes.  Everything from here on is an internal
      change.
    - Broke ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid out into its own .pm.  Temporary.
    - Broke MM and MY out into their own .pm's.  Possibly temporary.
    - Broke ExtUtils::MM_Win95 out of ExtUtils::MM_Win32.  MM_Win95
      is now an MM_Win32 subclass.
    - Removed wrapper methods from ExtUtils::Liblist that were
      defering File::Spec loading.  Almost everything uses File::Spec
    - Changed most of the 'our's to 'use vars' in prep for 5.005_03
      backporting
    - Changed ExtUtils::MakeMaker->import(...) cargo-cultery in MM_* 
      modules to proper "use ExtUtils::MakeMaker qw(...)"
    - All non-Unix MM_* modules now directly inherit from MM_Unix.
      They did this before, but in a round-about way.
    - MM_* modules no longer directly muck with @MM::ISA.  Instead
      @MM::ISA does that itself.
    - Removed unnecessary require of Exporter in many MM_* modules.
    - MM_Cygwin was using an MM_Unix function directly without have
      explicitly required MM_Unix.
    - Most of MM_NW5 was redundant with MM_Win32.  So MM_NW5 is now
      a subclass of Win32 and the reduendant code has been deleted.
    - Replaced lots of calls to File::Spec->updir, curdir and rootdir
      with a global in MM_Unix.  Should make things a bit faster.
    - Untabified ExtUtils::MakeMaker.  I hate tabs.
    - "Which MM subclass should I use" logic moved from EU::MakeMaker
      to EU::MM.
    - Deprecated EU::MakeMaker::Version_check deleted.

5.48_04 Mon Jan 21 19:28:38 EST 2002
    - No longer requiring Test::More
    - Now tested to work with a clean 5.6.1
    - Stripped out $Revision based $VERSIONs.
    - Rolled in patches from p5p, vmsperl & VOS (14325, 14338, 14360, 14364)
    * hint files now run in a safer context.  Only $self is available.
    - ExtUtils::testlib now provides absolute paths into @INC.
      No longer obsolete
    - Little test fixes

5.48_03 Thu Jan 17 23:44:38 EST 2002
    * moved bin/inst to bin/instmodsh
    * Some Win32 backporting fixes.  The -x switch doesn't seem to
      work on Win32/5.6.1.
    * Bug on Win32.  MAKEMAKER variable not set properly.
    * _02 broke hints files.  Now fixed.
    - Minor prereq error formatting glitch
    - ExtUtils::testlib no longer a thin wrapper around blib, now a 
      thin wrapper around lib like it was.  blib is noisy on 5.6.1.
    - Nick and chromatic found and fixed some warnings in the tests

5.48_02 Wed Jan 16 19:11:26 EST 2002
    - Fixed some Win32 warnings.  Needs more work.

5.48_01 Wed Jan 16 15:10:28 EST 2002
    * Adapted from bleadperl@14303
    * Backported to 5.6.1
    - inst and xsubpp moved out of lib/ and into bin/
    - ExtUtils::testlib obsoleted.  Now a thin wrapper around blib.pm
    ***--> Non-Unix platforms not tested at all!  Please test and report
           back.  Tests probably only need minor fixes.

