Alien::Base 0.008 and 0.009 released to CPAN

[Graham Ollis]

Alien::Base 0.009 has been released to CPAN and should be available at a mirror near you shortly.

New features include:

• Individual commands for the options alien_build_commands and alien_install_commands can be specified as array references in addition to strings. (example use by Alien::FFI 0.05)
  
• Commands specified as array references will be executed using the multiple argument form of the system function.
• Benefits include: This is usually a more portable way of embedding spaces in command arguments as quoting is not portable
• multiple argument form does not usually invoke the shell

New features included from 0.008 include:

• Support for https repositories. (example use by Alien::GMP 0.0.6_01)
  

If you have any questions, concerns, or even better patches, please feel free to contact the Alien::Base team via this mailing list and the GitHub issue tracker:

https://github.com/Perl5-Alien/Alien-Base/issues

Thanks and Happy Australia Day,

Graham