| Subject: | when is experimental |
With perl >= 5.18, use of 'when' results in a warning that it's marked as experimental. This, for example, is the result of the hourly rt-fulltext-indexer run:
[13668] [Wed Jun 17 15:05:02 2015] [warning]: when is experimental at /usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm line 100. (/usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm:100)
[13668] [Wed Jun 17 15:05:02 2015] [warning]: when is experimental at /usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm line 103. (/usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm:103)
[13668] [Wed Jun 17 15:05:02 2015] [warning]: when is experimental at /usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm line 106. (/usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm:106)
[13668] [Wed Jun 17 15:05:02 2015] [warning]: when is experimental at /usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm line 109. (/usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm:109)
[13668] [Wed Jun 17 15:05:02 2015] [warning]: when is experimental at /usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm line 112. (/usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm:112)
[13668] [Wed Jun 17 15:05:02 2015] [warning]: when is experimental at /usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm line 115. (/usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm:115)
[13668] [Wed Jun 17 15:05:02 2015] [warning]: when is experimental at /usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm line 118. (/usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm:118)
[13668] [Wed Jun 17 15:05:02 2015] [warning]: when is experimental at /usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm line 123. (/usr/share/request-tracker4/plugins/RT-Extension-SMSNotify/lib/RT/Action/SMSNotify.pm:123)
Here is a fairly helpful discussion about this situation:
http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1w154n/givenwhen_is_now_experimental_should_i_stop_using/
An immediate fix might:
no if $] >= 5.018, warnings => "experimental";
but you might prefer to refactor the code to be refactored not use givan/when...