0.005 release

[Graham Ollis]

As mentioned on gh#43 I think we are ready for a 0.005 release. Mohawk2 said that 0.004_05 is "rc" worthy. Here are the specific things that I have done to test this release:

. Tested rpms builds on OBS
. Tested in travis both shared and system builds
. Tested on all the major platforms except osx (Linux, windows, several flavors of *bsd, solaris) AB 0.004_04 plus the Acme dists
. Monitored cpan testers 0.004_01 had a Windows bug which I fixed in _02.
. Tested all reverse dependencies on linux only found one incompat and i notified the author
. Made PR for Alien::LibXML to demonstrate and test new windows support

Two really important features

. Windows support
. Static library support for more reliable XS support

Less important but good

. Bug fixes
. Start of FFI support (baby steps)

The API changes are almost entirely backward compatible. And I feel the risks are small.

I've also attempted to engage with some Alien:: authors to some limited success.

Discuss

[mohawk]

I think Graham has taken all sensibly available steps to check the new 0.005 will be better in every way than 0.004. Joel, what do you think?

[Zakariyya Mughal]

On 2014-09-10 at 19:38:26 -0700, mohawk wrote:
> I think Graham has taken all sensibly available steps to check the new
> 0.005 will be better in every way than 0.004. Joel, what do you think?

I am good with releasing v0.005. It needs some testing and the main
objective for this release is making Win32 support better.

I have my Windows 7 VM spun up for testing from Git later tonight. I
will let you know how it goes.

Cheers,
- Zaki Mughal

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[Graham Ollis]

Zaki,

I am eager to hear of any results you might have Windows wise. I have done some MSWin32 testing on my Windows 7 machine at home, but of course every environment is a little different.

I have lots of VMs that I use for testing, but one popular platform I can't test at the moment is OS X.  I get the impression that nobody in the core is able to test there?  There are three passes for darwin (OS X) on cpantesters for 0.004_05, but of course that doesn't tell us that the Acme dist will install.  I may be getting a mac mini in December that I can use for testing.

Do you want to follow up on getting this list added to lists.perl.org?

Joel,

I think everyone would appreciate your approval for 0.005.

[Joel Berger]

I'm game for a release once Zaki tells us about his win 7 testing. Great work everyone! I've been very impressed.

As far as lists.perl.org, i suppose we can send them a patch (really a diff -u patch!) but i think more people will discover the list via our own documentation, which should be added.

Joel

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[Graham Ollis]

I think gh#69 should also go into 0.005, pending review of the wording and such by the group.  It is documentation and meta only, so I don't think we need another dev release just for that.  It addresses the "our own documentation" comment Joel mentioned.

[mohawk]

I agree the doc patches should go into 0.005.

[Graham Ollis]

Zaki, were you able to test anything on your win 7 vm?

On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 10:59:00 PM UTC-4, Zakariyya Mughal wrote:

[Zakariyya Mughal]

On 2014-09-11 at 09:50:59 -0700, Graham Ollis wrote:
> Zaki, were you able to test anything on your win 7 vm?

I was able to.

Alien::Base installed without a hitch.

As for the two Alien dists I'm testing, I'm having issues with some of
the linking, but I see that the binaries run fine for
<https://github.com/zmughal/p5-Alien-LibMagic> (file.exe runs) and
<https://github.com/zmughal/p5-Alien-UDUNITS2> (udunits2.exe runs). I'm
going to have to figure out how to get Inline::C to like the flags I'm
passing it. It's great to see them build so easily when previously I
had to add Alien::MSYS and change configure on my own. I say release it.
Can't hurt.

I'm going to continue to figure out what may be the issue. It's likely
neither Alien::Base or Inline::C that are at fault.

Cheers,
- Zaki Mughal

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[Graham Ollis]

Just sent 0.005 to CPAN.

[Joel Berger]

\o/

On Sep 11, 2014 12:31 PM, "Graham Ollis" <plic...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just sent 0.005 to CPAN.

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[Graham Ollis]

Also, I will do the Acme modules now.  Almost forgot that bit.

[Zakariyya Mughal]

On 2014-09-11 at 10:31:57 -0700, Graham Ollis wrote:
> Just sent 0.005 to CPAN.
>

Excellent! I have just sent a PR to add the list to <http://lists.perl.org/>
<https://github.com/perlorg/perlweb/pull/137>.

Cheers,
- Zaki Mughal

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[mohawk]

Nice work!