On Nov 29, 2004, at 11:11, Jos I. Boumans wrote:
If you limit that to objects, then it should be possible to use
cleverly use Data::Dumper here ...
Perhaps, but we're using coderefs right now, so that wouldn't work
i'm afraid.
Fair enough - just looking for some middle ground. But you
mentioned you've since worked around this, so maybe it's not worth
the effort to change CPAN++ and M::B to agree here..
yes we have worked around here, but as stated below, if the guts of
M::B change in a way that effects our workaround, things will break
again. so we have to agree on *something* here to make sure things
keep working.
At risk of sounding silly, why not agree on using objects in @INC?
AFAIK, you'd still be able to accomplish the same things you would
with coderefs. Ok, so it's a bit more work to write the classes than
a simple sub (albeit, not much). And the existing coderefs CPAN++
uses in @INC would have to be refactored, as would M::B's code above.
But at least that would solve one compatibility problem.
Would that make sense / be a lot of work from the CPAN++ side?
but what's the point?
the current behaviour of M::B is wrong in either case -- the
stringification of refs.
why allow one and disallow the other? what's the benefit to either
party? what's the difference between allowing objects and disallowing
coderefs?
Hmm, I thought the point was to allow CPAN+ to use complex behaviour in
@INC, and for M::B to preserve that when it serializes @INC. Allowing
objects and not coderefs was a 'halfway house' suggestion -- it's easy
to serialize objects, and hard to serialize coderefs -- that would let
us do that.
But if that's not a requirement, then yeah, not much point in doing the
extra work. M::B should just ignore refs. The last bit of code I sent
does that. Now we just need some tests & some docs to back that up.
-Steve
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