Re: [Openinteract-dev] Beware Class::Fields 0.14 in the CPAN

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> MSCHWERN/Class-Fields-0.14.tar.gz says that it has a version of
> base.pm that is newer than the version in 5.8, so the CPAN shell
> recommends that you install it. However, the version of fields.pm it
> installs is older than the version in 5.8, and breaks things.
> 
> I've contacted Schwern about it, but he has no immediate plans to
> update it. This is bad, because SPOPS depends on it, and therefore
> OpenInteract is also busted.
> 
> Beware when updating your 5.8 installation: you could be breaking it.

I *think* we only use the 'use base' functionality of Class::Fields. 
So I may be able to remove that requirement. (I think I was under 
the impression that Class::Accessor depended on Class::Fields, but 
that's not so.)

If I pulled out the PREREQ in Makefile.PL we should be ok, since 
base.pm has been shipped with Perl since 5.004_04.

Chris

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