Alien::Base 0.016 released to CPAN

[Graham Ollis]

Alien::Base 0.016 has been released to CPAN and should be available from a mirror near you shortly.

New features include:

• The alien_stage_install option has been added.  This installs the packages to blib during the ./Build step instead of to the final location during the the ./Build install step.  
  
• The alien_stage_install is the on when a ppm (ActiveState) build is detected, as AS packages are constructed from the generated blib 
  
• On OS X install_name_tool is used to more reliably relocate dynamic libraries
  

New bug fixes include:

• Fixed a bug relating to the use of absolute URLs (see GitHub #116, polettix++)
  

IMPORTANT: Starting with Alien::Base 0.017, the alien_stage_install option will be by ON by default.  If you are owner of an Alien distribution that uses Alien::Base, please test it to make sure that it works with this option on.  Please see this GitHub issue for details on this change and the motivation behind it:

https://github.com/Perl5-Alien/Alien-Base/pull/117

Currently the plan is to release 0.017 with this change on or after May 25.  If you believe this change will affect you, please contact the AB team either by commenting on the pull request, or this mailing list, and modify your distribution to explicitly turn off alien_stage_install.

Additional heads up:  I will be at YAPC::NA in Salt Lake City in June this year talking about FFI::Platypus.  If we have collaborated on Alien::Base (or anything Perlish) and are going to be there be sure to track me down and say hello :)

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

Thank you and Happy Earth Day.

Graham