Re: conflict with Thread::Running

hi dave,

thanx for the insight.  particularly, the pointer around identifying how 
'supported' a module appears to be

last nite, i finished retiring my use of Thread::Running, in favor of 
other 'thread' modules, thus side-stepping this 'load.pm' issue

--sk

Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> how do i trouble-shoot this?  conceptually, what is Thread::Running
>> doing to hammer DateTime's 'now' method?
>>
>>
>> guru> cat test
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>> use DateTime;
>> use Thread::Running;
>> my $dt = DateTime->now( time_zone => 'local' );
>>
>> guru> ./test
>> Could not find file for 'DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Unix' at /usr/lib/
>> perl
>> 5/site_perl/5.8.8/load.pm line 256.
> 
> Note this error message is coming from load.pm, which is _not_ being 
> used by DateTime. Apparently, this is something Thread::Running uses, 
> and it's apparently breaking module loading.
> 
> I note that load.pm has one negative review about not installing or 
> working with Perl 5.8.7. It's been 18 months since the last release, and 
> nearly 3 years since the last Thread::Running release.
> 
> My conclusion is that these modules are broken somehow, and not really 
> supported any longer. I'd suggest looking into fixing them, or exploring 
> an alternate solution. I know there are a number of actively maintained 
> thread-related solutions on CPAN.
> 
> 
> -dave
> 
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