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Item7790: TWiki's included version of Locale::Maketext::Lexicon doesn't compile in Perl 5.24

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TWiki ships with its own version (0.49) of Locale::Maketext::Lexicon. Unfortunately, this version is outdated and does not compile under Perl 5.24. It used to issue a warning since 5.14, but now it's about time to act. The error message says:

Can't use 'defined(%hash)' (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?) at ...trunk/core/lib/CPAN/lib/Locale/Maketext/Lexicon.pm line 286.

Current versions of Locale::Maketext::Lexicon don't have that issue. In production, if you do have Locale::Maketext::Lexicon installed on your system, then you don't notice the problem, because TWiki prefers system libraries over its own. If you haven't Locale::Maketext::Lexicon installed on your system and rely on TWiki providing it, you'll notice that localisation just doesn't work.

So, in effect, starting with Perl 5.24 TWiki's Locale::Maketext::Lexicon is useless. There are two options:

  1. Upgrade TWiki's version to a current version (e.g. Debian Stable comes with 1.00) or
  2. Drop Locale::Maketext::Lexicon from the distribution.
-- TWiki:Main/HaraldJoerg - 2017-04-02

Discussed at TWiki:Codev/KampalaReleaseMeeting2017x05x04:

  • Need to ship latest version

-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 2017-04-21

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Summary TWiki's included version of Locale::Maketext::Lexicon doesn't compile in Perl 5.24
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.HaraldJoerg
Codebase ~twiki4
SVN Range TWiki-6.0.2-trunk, Sun, 12 Feb 2017, build 30309
AppliesTo NotTWiki
Component Locale::Maketext::Lexicon
Priority Normal
CurrentState Closed
WaitingFor

Checkins TWikirev:30386
TargetRelease minor
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Topic revision: r5 - 2018-07-17 - PeterThoeny
 
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