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When we added Version::Requirements to the core (to support CPAN::Meta) we encountered a problem: its installation to lib/Version/Requirements.pm conflicted with lib/version/Internals.* We decided that this wouldn't matter: on a case-sensitive filesystem, it could be found properly even if installed to a directory with a different casing. We changed the policy and moved forward. Now we're finding the big problem here: when something crawls @INC, it finds "version/Requirements.pm" or "Version/Internals" depending on which got to make lib/Version first. This has caused problems for Strawberry Perl ( http://csjewell.dreamwidth.org/20536.html ) and for FatPacker and presumably for other things that I haven't noticed yet. I propose to rename and deprecate Version::Requirements, to import the new library and deprecation to core, so that we can remove V::R in 5.18 at the absolute latest. Also, that we should re-instate the previous, more strict testing for case conflicts. Any objections? -- rjbsThread Next