On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Chris Prather <perig...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Yuval Kogman <nothingm...@woobling.org> > wrote: >> 2009/1/7 Stevan Little <stevan.lit...@iinteractive.com> >> >>> Tom, >>> >>> Nope, sorry 'meta' is used internally in Moose too much to override. >> >> >> Actually this is not as true today as it used to be... But we're still a bit >> too far off from being able to disable it. >> I think realistically it can be done in a branch in a few hours of work if >> anybody wants to try. > > How much of CPAN will it break if/when switched off ...
The fix for CPAN modules is easy: instead of using $package->meta or Class::MOP::Class->initialize($package), use Class::MOP::get_metaclass_by_name($package). Also, it'll only break if you actually rename or don't install ->meta, so it's not going to break any back compat. It'll only break if you use a naughty MooseX, and it will generally break spectacularly. There's no reason not to do this. I'll get started on the branch. > > -Chris > Shawn
