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Changes for version 0.5.0 - 2012-06-08

  • 00 IMPORTANT CHANGES
    • Errors that occur when a version fails to validate have changed in some circumstances.
    • Now reports the version token that failed to validate.
    • laxness can be overridden globally via new GENTOO_PERLMOD_VERSION_OPTS=" always_lax=$n "
    • user provided data can now be stripped from error output by GENTOO_PERLMOD_VERSION_OPTS=" taint_safe "
    • carp messages can be more verbose about context/options by setting GENTOO_PERLMOD_VERSION_OPTS=" carp_debug "
  • Dependencies::Develop::Changed
    • recommends : Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::KENTNL::Lite 0.01009803 -> v1.3.0
    • suggests : Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::KENTNL v1.2.0 -> v1.3.0
  • Internals
    • Carp now loaded on-demand.
    • List::MoreUtils now loaded on demand, which is good, because its only used at lax = 2
    • croak is proxied via _fatal() which takes lots more information.

Documentation

Command line utility for translating cpan versions to gentoo equivalents.

Modules

Convert arbitrary Perl Modules' versions into normalised Gentoo versions.