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I've been a bad boy and not been testing recent releases of version.pm
on earlier Perl's. I've fixed the compatibility problems with one
exception: I'm using 'no warnings' to suppress the "redefined" noise
when I replace UNIVERSAL::VERSION with a version-object aware sub. This
is fine for 5.6.x, but I'm not sure the best way to get around it for 5.005.
I've got a "compatibility" module for warnings.pm which I could include
with the 5.005 pure Perl version.pm module, but all it does is some
horrific fiddling with the global $SIG{__WARN__}. I don't feel all that
bad using it during testing, but I don't want to install it. I could
strip out the 'no warnings' line and just leave the couple of warnings
during the test, but it would also show up anytime you used version.pm too.
So the question is: should I install a "compatibility" warnings.pm on
5.005 to mostly DTRT? I can't figure out how to fake
no warnings qw(redefine);
using an inline package (i.e. I can get it loaded but I cannot convince
'use' that it _is_ already loaded).
John
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