| Subject: | Loading Perl::Critic fails in PodSpelling |
Loading of the Perl::Critic fails. When trying the example in the documentation /1/, the loading (use Perl::Critic) seems to result some kind of loop that exist with 'out of memory'.
This behavior was observed with Perl::Critic version 1.119 with ActiveState Perl 5.16.3 /2/ on Windows 7 with latest patches.
It seems that commenting out the line 'use vars qw{ $VERSION @ISA @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS };' in File::ShareDir 1.03 will make this work. Even though this was in another module, there seems to be Exporter changes in Perl::Critic 1.119. This used to work at least with Perl::Critic 1.117. I am not sure if I had 1.118 installed. I did not understand the problem so I am not completely sure if this is a bug or an issue in Perl::Critic itself or in my environment.
The include and call path for failure line was:
1. use Perl::Critic::Config;
2. use Perl::Critic::PolicyFactory;
3. @site_policy_names = plugins(); #Exported by Module::Pluggable # v4.8
4. Module::Pluggable::Object.pm
5. my $res = eval { $self->_require($plugin) };
6. package Perl::Critic::Policy::Documentation::PodSpelling;
7. use Text::ParseWords qw< >; # v3.29
8. use Pod::Wordlist; # Pod 2.4.2
9. File::ShareDir; # v1.03
10. use vars qw{ $VERSION @ISA @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS };
/1/ Example that fails
use Perl::Critic; # <-- Does not load
my $file = shift;
print "file ($file)";
my $critic = Perl::Critic->new();
my @violations = $critic->critique($file);
print @violations;
/2/
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