[Perlunit-devel] What's up with "use base 'Error'"?

[Matthias F. <mf...@hi...>]

Hi people,

I've downloaded the most recent version of PerlUnit to get the renamed
classes, and I'm hitting a problem involving the use of the Error class,
which Test::Unit::Exception is derived from.  (This is new since v1.14.) 

Is this supposed to be Test::Unit::Error, or the Error.pm module from
CPAN?  It looks to me like it's probably the CPAN module, and if that's
right, I don't think it's such a good thing.  We don't have that module
installed here, and while we're loose enough that I can get it installed
without difficulty, I would think that having PerlUnit dependent on an
optional module rather cuts into its usefulness.  Am I blowing against the
wind?  (And, of course, is there an alternative?)

By the way, I looked for discussion about this in the mailing list
archives but I couldn't find anything.  Sorry if I missed something that
was there.  If there's a way to search the archive I didn't see it.  Grr.

Matthias