Alien::Base 0.031 has been released to CPAN

[Graham Ollis]

Alien::Base 0.031 has been released to CPAN and should be available from a mirror near you!

New features include:

• There is now a version method on Alien::Base that is a shortcut for $alien->config('version');
• The diagnostic message displayed when no repository packages can be found has been improved.  Previously it was a bit of a head scratcher when see even by myself.
• A number of new FAQs have been added to the documentation to Alien::Build::FAQ, check out the section "Can/Should I write a tool oriented Alien module using Alien::Base that provides executables instead of a library?" if you do, or are planning on maintaining a tool oriented Alien module. 
• Adjusted the test suite so that it will work with Perls that do not have . (the current directory) in the module path @INC.  This is now an option when building bleed Perl, and will be the default in a future version of Perl.

New bug fixes:

• OpenBSD has its own Pure Perl implementation of pkg-config with some interesting quirks that was causing the test suite to fail.  The test suite has been adjusted to work around these quirks.

If you have any questions, concerns, or even better patches, please feel free to contact the Alien::Base team via this mailing list, #native on irc.perl.org, or the GitHub issue tracker:

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

Happy Data Privacy Day!  

Graham