| Subject: | Crypt::X509 should not export error(), new(), not_before(), not_after(), or serial() |
| Date: | Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:18:31 -0500 |
| To: | bug-Crypt-X509 [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg [...] fifthhorseman.net> |
The attached simple demonstration program produces a spurious warning
because of subroutines needlessly exported by Crypt::X509:
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> 0 dkg@pip:~$ ./demo-new.pl
> Subroutine new redefined at ./demo-new.pl line 8.
> 0 dkg@pip:~$
The documentation makes no claims that it will export any subroutines
by default, but X509.pm contains:
our @EXPORT = qw(error new not_before not_after serial);
I believe these should all be removed from @EXPORT.
Is there reason to believe these symbols are expected to be exported?
It would be good to be able to do things like:
use Crypt::X509;
in other modules that also define subs named new() or error() without
seeing these warnings.
Does this make sense? Or is there some reason i'm missing for these
items are exported and the others are not?
--dkg
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