We are pleased to announce what should be the last beta before
the grand 0.051 release of CPANPLUS.
You can obtain it from
http://cpanplus.xs4all.nl/src/CPANPLUS-0.050_04.tar.gz
Or a CPAN near you.
Below is a list of changes in this release;
Changes for 0.050_04 Sun Dec 26 16:54:46 CET 2004
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* Add rsync support to CPANPLUS
* List rsync mirrors during setup
* Default to the email mentioned in Config.pm during setup
* Add timeout support for fetching files from mirrors
* Config version has gone up because of new timeout version
-- reconfiguration required
* Mention Bundle::CPANPLUS::Dependencies in the Makefile.PL
* Add license information to dslip output
* Send N/A Grade to cpantesters when your perl version is
too low according to the Makefile.PL
* Drop dependancy on Mail::Send for test reporting, use a
fixed version of Test::Reporter instead
* Alias $modobj->name to $modobj->module for more DWIMery
* cpan2dist now allows creation of distributions from local
tarballs as well
* cpan2dist now uses the newly defined dist standard to find
out where distributions were created
* cpan2dist (and CPANPLUS::Dist) plugin detection is now regex
based
* Specifying CPANPLUS object id's when creating fake module
or author objects is now optional
* Small backward-compat hack to make sure old versions of
ExtUtils::AutoInstall keep working with the new CPANPLUS
* Various documentation patches
* Update various bundled modules
