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On Wed 23.Dec'09 at 20:37:34 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 06:56:12PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > >> While trying to build Pod::Abstract 0.19 > >> http://search.cpan.org/~blilburne/Pod-Abstract-0.19/ > >> on perl 5.11.3 I got the following warning: > >> > >> UNIVERSAL->import is deprecated and will be removed in a future perl > >> at ..../perl/lib/site_perl/5.11.3/Pod/Abstract/Path.pm line 7 > >> > >> The module installs but then another module fails its test as it > >> checks it STDERR and now it > >> has unexpected output on it. > >> > >> Do I understand correctly that best course of action is to notify the > >> author of Pod::Abstract ask him to stop importing the > >> functions from UNIVERSAL ? > > > > Yes. It would be very useful if you could do this. I'm not sure what > > the exact fix needs to be in this case. > > It seems that > > use UNIVERSAL; > > generates the same warning so I had to write > > use UNIVERSAL (); This would be commit cd477a63. It's mentioned in the perldelta as: C<< UNIVERSAL-E<gt>import() >> is now deprecated. rjbs: was the intent that a bare 'use UNIVERSAL' is also now deprecated? If so, I'd love a perldelta patch.Thread Previous | Thread Next