Bug #29598 for MailTools: shared bug between MIME tools and Mail tools

Tue Sep 25 02:36:12 2007 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

shared bug between MIME tools and Mail tools

Back in April there was a thread on P5P about a driving-you-mad bug that was finally tracked down by Rick Delaney. Google has it here: http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/browse_thread/thread/c69cf6ab2b16f985/62b09eab3381584f?lnk=gst&q=%22is+ambiguous%22&rnum=8#62b09eab3381584f The recipe to reproduce is easy: take a bleadperl without Date::Format module installed, install Mailtools and then test MIME tools. I don't know what exactly Mailtools needs to do to prevent this bug but I'm sure you figure out quicker than I do. Thanks,

Tue Sep 25 06:28:24 2007 MARKOV [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

This problem is also shown by other of my Perl modules when tested with perl 5.10. I hope someone fixes this before 5.10 is released for real: closedir() attempted on invalid dirhandle DIR at /home/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls/perl/p7R8oCc/perl-5.8.0@30900/lib/site_perl/5.9.5/Mail/Field.pm line 9 The other problem: Warning: Use of "require" without parentheses is ambiguous at (eval 486) line 1 is a behavioral difference between 5.8 and 5.10, so doesn't seem to be my problem either. The piece of code which triggers this is quite silly, and I had a discussion whether to rewrite it or not. As maintainer, not the original author, I do not know what code will break if I change it (I do not know the reason behind the presumed stupidiness) I have added Date::Format and Date::Parse to the requirements for installation, to 2.00_03

Tue Sep 25 06:29:06 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Tue Sep 25 06:29:37 2007 MARKOV [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'