stow 2.3.0 added external runtime dependencies on Hash::Merge and
Clone::Choose. Historically stow hasn't had runtime dependencies other
than Perl itself, which is a useful property if you're managing the
installation of Perl using stow; the bootstrapping instructions in
stow's manual would need updating to describe how to install these two
modules (and any dependencies they have now or in the future) as well.
However, Hash::Merge is much more general than stow actually needs, so
replace the merge() call with a few lines of equivalent code -- this
avoids the external dependencies, and is clearer than the merge()
call.
Many thanks to Adam Sampson for this patch:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2019-06/msg00001.html
.stowrc can be obtained from $HOME and/or the current working
directory; however only the $HOME case was tested before, because
during tests Stow was being run from $HOME.
So switch $TEST_DIR to an absolute path, create a new run_from/
subdirectory, and chdir to that before invoking any Stow code. This
allows us to test the behaviour of .stowrc in $HOME and run_from/
separately.
Remove the dependency on the ancient and unmaintained texi2html, which
was difficult to get running on most distros other than openSUSE.
There are two more modern alternative approaches which can replace
this:
- Use texi2any
- Use makeinfo --html --no-split
The latter seems to be the standard way these days, so we switch to
that; however we keep Makefile rules for all three, and a phony
meta-rule 'manual-single-html-all' to allow quick comparison between
them. Make tweaks accordingly to minimise the differences and improve
the output.
The rules for the older two approaches do not get triggered by
default.
Fixes#21: https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/21
Add a new expand_tilde() function that performs tilde expansion of
strings, and corresponding unit tests:
* A ~ at the beginning of a path is expanded to the user's home
directory.
* Literal '~' can be provided with '\~'
Combine this with expand_environment() in a new expand_filepath()
function which applies all (both) required expansion functions to a
string, and use that in get_config_file_options() to expand .stowrc
options.
Add more tests to check that tilde expanded in correct places, i.e.:
* expanded for --target and --dir
* not expanded for --ignore, --defer, or --override
Update documentation on stowrc files according to this functionality
change.
Fixes#14: https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/14
Since 2.3.0 is a long overdue release and has many changes,
document them in NEWS in three groups:
- New features / changes in behaviour
- Documentation fixes and enhancements
- Fixes for bugs and technical debt
This is now necessary in order to prevent pause.perl.org from
complaining:
Status: Decreasing version number
=================================
module : Stow::Util
version: undef
in file: lib/Stow/Util.pm
status : Not indexed because lib/Stow/Util.pm in
A/AS/ASPIERS/Stow-v2.2.0.tar.gz has a higher version number
(0)
This is more in keeping with the UNIX convention of no output on success,
and is also the way Stow v1.x behaved. Thanks to Adam Sampson for the suggestion.
