From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:16:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 08/17] gitweb: Add optional output caching
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Z6i-89mW8Gom3QQa8R1puV+wksNmh029GaUjS@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201010070106.30864.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 23:06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 22:01, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > +               $cache ||= 'GitwebCache::SimpleFileCache';
>> > +               eval "require $cache";
>>
>> Just:
>>
>>     eval { require $cache };
>>
>> Instead?
>
> Wouldn't work correctly.  We want to use 'require BAREWORD' version,
> where BAREWORD is name of module, e.g. GitwebCache::SimpleFileCache,
> and which makes Perl to search for GitwebCache/SimpleFileCache.pm
> in @INC.

Ah, I've been using perl5i too much :)

> Well, we could insert hooks into @INC, but I don't think we want to use
> such hack.

There's also:

    eval {
         my $path = $cache;
         $path =~ s[::][/]g;
         $path .= ".pm";
         require $path;
    };

But at that point it's probably easier just to use string eval. Unless there's
a performance issue (very unlikely).