The dmake-4.12-20090907-SHAY release is a binary release of the latest
version of the dmake source available from its current maintainers
(OpenOffice.org). I've been waiting (and chasing after them) for quite a
while to get 4.12 "officially" released and uploaded on
http://tools.openoffice.org/dmake/ but so far this still hasn't happened.
I therefore decided to release the latest source available in SVN at the
location given in the README.TXT file (which is identical to the version
in OpenOffice 3.1.1, and is what I believe should be made available as
the "official" 4.12 at the above location).
This version has a number of changes in it which *are* detailed in the
ChangeLog: diff that with the ChangeLog in dmake-4.11-20080107-SHAY to
see (at least some of) what's new. In particular, it contains a fix for
CPAN RT #32220, which is one reason that I wanted to get a new release out.
In fact, the ChangeLog may very well be up-to-date, i.e. there may not
have been any changes since the last entry in it (2008-02-26). The SVN
log for the above location shows some activity later than that, but it
virtually all appears to be integrations into different development streams.
In any case, the binary builds that I've put on CPAN simply contain the
ChangeLog from the source that they are built from. I don't modify the
ChangeLog at all because I very rarely have anything to do with the
changes in it, so I'm not in a position to fill in the blanks if there
are any.
I will continue to chase OOo for an "official" 4.12, and I'll also try
to check that the ChangeLog is indeed up-to-date.
RT for rt.cpan.org