On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 03:13:57AM -0400, Jesse wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:07:54AM +0200, Abigail wrote:
> > > Hm, that sounds like a sane idea. put a BEGIN block in that bitches
> > > if you're using the old module instead of the new module, but
> > > otherwise just wrapper the old module.
> >
> > Huh?
> >
> > What's the point of that? To even get such a module, you need to upgrade.
> > If you don't upgrade, you still have to old, working, code.
>
> When existing application code uses a module in the old namespace and it
> is dropped onto a box with a perl install that doesn't already have the
> old module. Not making existing applications need to be rewritten just
> because we want to shuffle modules around the namespace is a win.
So, this application cannot find the module. What BEGIN block is it
then supposed to run?
Abigail
