podlators 4.05

Getting all the details right in a highly portable Perl core module that tries to support very old versions of Perl is tricky! And I clearly didn't do a good job of documenting previous decisions.

This release reintroduces pod2man.PL and pod2text.PL generator scripts to get the right Perl invocation. I thought ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build now took care of this, but apparently they only take care of this on UNIX platforms, not on the non-UNIX platforms that require special execution logic.

Thanks to a patch by Niko Tyni, this version of Pod::Man also falls back to non-utf8 behavior if the utf8 option is specified but the Encode module doesn't exist. This can help with some cross-build situations.

I also finally figured out the problem with occasional test failures on random platforms: I was trying to clean up the temporary directory used by tests after each test, but the CPAN test systems run all the tests in parallel, so the tests were racing with each other. This release just leaves the temporary directory around and deletes it in make clean.

You can get the latest version from the podlators distribution page.