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Id: 12003
Status: resolved
Worked: 15 min
Priority: 0/
Queue: CGI-Prototype
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Owner: MERLYN [...] cpan.org
Requestors: kynn [...] panix.com
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 0.9050
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Fri Mar 25 16:11:23 2005 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: Installation bug
CGI-Prototype-0.9050 perl v5.8.4 built for i686-linux-thread-multi Linux luna 2.4.18-686-smp #1 SMP Sun Apr 14 12:07:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown test t/10-CGIPH-core.t fails with older versions of HTTP::Message. The reason for the failure is that on line 85 of CGI/Prototype/Mecha.pm there is a call to HTTP::Message->parse(...); older versions of HTTP::Message implement parse as an AUTOLOADed *instance* method only (the method call is delegated to the HTTP::Message instance's _headers object), and therefore it fails when called as a class method. (More recent versions of HTTP::Message implement parse explicitly, and it can be called either as a class or an instance method.) The solution is simple: upgrade HTTP::Message, but it takes a while and a bit of skill to figure out that this is the source of the problem. Since this may discourage some potential users from installing and using this module, I think this is enough of a bug to warrant attention. One solution would be to specify some minimum version number for HTTP::Message, but this is problematic, because it appears that it is WWW::Mechanize, not CGI::Prototype(::Mecha) that brings in HTTP::Message. Maybe there is some way to specify such a dependency in Makefile.PL, but this is beyond my depth.
  Wed Mar 30 16:37:33 2005 MERLYN [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added 15 min
[guest - Fri Mar 25 16:11:23 2005]: Show quoted text
> CGI-Prototype-0.9050 > perl v5.8.4 built for i686-linux-thread-multi > Linux luna 2.4.18-686-smp #1 SMP Sun Apr 14 12:07:19 EST 2002 i686 > unknown > > test t/10-CGIPH-core.t fails with older versions of HTTP::Message. > > The reason for the failure is that on line 85 of > CGI/Prototype/Mecha.pm there is a call to HTTP::Message-
> >parse(...); older versions of HTTP::Message implement parse as an
> AUTOLOADed *instance* method only (the method call is delegated to > the HTTP::Message instance's _headers object), and therefore it > fails when called as a class method. (More recent versions of > HTTP::Message implement parse explicitly, and it can be called > either as a class or an instance method.) > > The solution is simple: upgrade HTTP::Message, but it takes a while > and a bit of skill to figure out that this is the source of the > problem. Since this may discourage some potential users from > installing and using this module, I think this is enough of a bug > to warrant attention. > > One solution would be to specify some minimum version number for > HTTP::Message, but this is problematic, because it appears that it > is WWW::Mechanize, not CGI::Prototype(::Mecha) that brings in > HTTP::Message. Maybe there is some way to specify such a > dependency in Makefile.PL, but this is beyond my depth.
I added a dependency on the latest LWP in the release 0.9051, so I'm reporting this bug closed unless you can reproduce it in the next release. Thanks for your bug report!
  Wed Mar 30 16:37:34 2005 MERLYN [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'
  Wed Mar 30 16:37:34 2005 MERLYN [...] cpan.org - Given to MERLYN