Bug #120223 for Test-Without-Module: @INC hook should die directly

Mon Feb 13 02:07:25 2017 haarg [...] haarg.org - Ticket created

Subject:

@INC hook should die directly

Rather than generating a fake file with a die inside it, the @INC hook used should just die directly. This is both simpler and a closer match to perl's own behavior when it can't find a file. This is especially true on perl 5.8, where after a failure to load a missing module, the %INC entry should not exist. Generating a fake file like this module does leaves the apparent file entry in %INC, and later attempts to load the file will appear to succeed. Here is a demonstration of the differences: https://gist.github.com/haarg/c55c702c08fc59a8d61b1265f1c07353

Thu Mar 30 15:15:57 2017 corion [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Thanks to the CPAN PRC, this is now implemented and on its way onto CPAN in version 0.19 Am Mo 13. Feb 2017, 02:07:25, haarg schrieb: Show quoted text

> Rather than generating a fake file with a die inside it, the @INC hook > used should just die directly. This is both simpler and a closer match > to perl's own behavior when it can't find a file. This is especially > true on perl 5.8, where after a failure to load a missing module, the > %INC entry should not exist. Generating a fake file like this module > does leaves the apparent file entry in %INC, and later attempts to > load the file will appear to succeed. > > Here is a demonstration of the differences: > https://gist.github.com/haarg/c55c702c08fc59a8d61b1265f1c07353

Thu Mar 30 15:15:58 2017 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Thu Mar 30 15:16:49 2017 corion [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'