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Fergal Daly wrote: > The old interface is still there, setting all the @EXPORT stuff by hand will > still work, so it's not so much an interface change as an alternate > interface. I suppose any module that wants to be widely used with older > versions of perl will have to continue doing it by hand but I don't think > that's a reason not to include it. I think Brent is just more concerned about what happens when a module uses the new interface, but the user doesn't have that version of Exporter available. Having an ugly effect on earlier Perl's is not good, no matter how nice the improvements are. > Alternatively, I could just move the whole thing into EasyExporter or > Exporter::Easy as it is totally independent of the guts of Exporter. That > makes it easy for people to install it on an old version too. > I suggest you follow this route and create Exporter::Easy as you mentioned; then, if the pumpking deems this a worthy addition to the core, you can make sure that 'use Exporter::Easy' is effectively a no-op for Perl > 5.9.0. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748Thread Previous | Thread Next