use Perl

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce we've just released CPANPLUS 0.052. Below is a
list of changes for this release. You can get it from

        http://cpanplus.xs4all.nl/~kane/CPANPLUS-0.052.tar.gz

or soon from a CPAN near you.

Changes for 0.052 Wed Feb 9 18:44:13 CET 2005
====================================================

* Make auto-installation work (with some guess work) if
        $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} is set.
* Setup decent defaults for the callbacks, so scripts
        don't have to set them unless they want actual callback
        behaviour (This helps ExtUtils::AutoInstall greatly).
* chmod() extracted files to 755 so we do not get permission
        denied errors when trying to remove them or copy over them
        if they were not +w for the user.
* Don't use sudo, even if it's configured, if the user is
        root already.
* Default to 'prefer binary programs' if Compress::Zlib is
        not installed.
* Make 'parse_module' deal better with paths that have sub
        directories in them.
* Make 'parse_module' deal better with version numbers
        that have letters in them.
* Don't shell out to get the perl version if the perl we
        looking for is $^X;
* Improve finding a proper homedir for cpanplus on VMS
* Accept the perl version as an optional argument to
        'module_is_supplied_with_perl_core'
* Require Test::Reporter 1.27 for test reporting; it fixes
        many bugs.
* Only load Module::Build when we really needed it, not on
        any installation.
* Fix a bug that made 's reconfigure' not use the defaults
        from your current config.
* RedHat 9.0's stock perl has a few serious bugs in it
        (they applied custom patches) and will break CPANPLUS
        badly. Add a note to the makefile.pl that redhat users
        should upgrade their perl.
* CPANPLUS::inc was encountering 'use' calls that had windows
        paths rather than unix paths (???). Patch to compensate
        for this.
* Module::Load::Conditional cache is being flushed in standard
        flush runs now, allowing use of LWP (and similar) when it
        becomes available, even if it previously wasn't.
* Don't copy 'Config.pm-orig' to 'Config.pm' during Makefile.PL
        stage -- if the user has a custom config and forgets to set
        the environment var, CPANPLUS' tests will use the wrong config.
* Some tarballs have '.' as directory, rather than project sub
        directory. Guess first for extraction dir and verify, only
        then try the actual extract path.
* Improve documentation in the Default shell
* Improve test reporting texts as supplied by Barbie
* Add a callback to munge test reports before they are sent
* Add versions of loaded dependencies to the test reports.
* Make limited tests on skipped configuration work properly.
* Don't use sudo to install into our own sandbox for
        Module::Build tests
* Skip module::build tests if we're under PERL_CORE and
        M::B is not available (not yet integrated)
* Skip install tests if run under PERL_CORE
* Adjust include paths and paths to perl when tests are
        run under PERL_CORE
* Update bundled IPC::Run to version 0.80
* Update bundled Module::Build to version 0.26081
* Improve tests