[Dbix-class] install problem

[Matt S Trout]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:04:29PM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Anyway, I finally ran it and tracked down the problem.
> t/cdbi-t/01-columns.t says (among other things):
> 
> ...
> package State;
> ...
> package City;
> ...
> City->has_a(State => 'State');
> 
> That method call is resolved to DBIx/Class/CDBICompat/HasA.pm which
> says, in a context where $f_class eq 'State':
> 
>  eval "require $f_class";
> 
> That causes a search though @INC and on my machine there *is* a package
> called State, so the eval resolves to that package, which has nothing to
> do with DBIx::Class or cities etc. Not surprisingly, the test fails when
> it tries to invoke methods on that class.

Gack! And this is why the DBIC tests only use packages under the DBICTest::
namespace. One more reason to split CDBICompat out before 0.05, I guess :)

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