Hi David, I am getting up to speed with some old distributions, some have sort of been out of reach and some have just been gathering cruft. Most are from back when UNIVERSAL was the way to go :-)
jonasbn On 27 Aug 2014, at 14:20, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 09:17:19AM +0200, Jonas Br?ms? Nielsen wrote: > >> I am a getting a lot of failure reports from CPAN testers on issues with >> UNIVERSAL. These testers are using: >> perl 5.21.3 >> >> The error is: >> "UNIVERSAL does not export anything" >> >> So my question as a module author is, where do I get information on this new >> behaviour of UNIVERSAL, I am not able to install perl 5.21.2 using perlbrew, >> so I do not know where to look for the documentation and what steps to take >> to get this error addressed. > > It's been deprecated for quite some time, and the fact that it was > deprecated was documented in, eg, 5.18.1: > https://metacpan.org/pod/release/RJBS/perl-5.18.1/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm > > ICBA to check all the other 5.18s or any further back, but I presume it > was documented in 5.1[68].*. > >> Can anybody provide hints or pointers on how to get more information on this >> new version of UNIVERSAL. > > I thought that there was a policy to have upcoming deprecations generate > warnings, which would make this more obvious, but I don't remember > seeing any for this. Either I misremember, or this deprecation was > created before the warning policy. > > -- > David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club"
