Importing Dependency Version

[perldc]

I'm using Email::Date::Format version 1/004 which has a dependency on Exporter 5.57. My server only has an older Exporter 5.562. I downloaded the latest version of Exporter which is currently 5.58 and I put it in my lib directory for my current project. Is there a way that I can tell the Email::Date::Format module to use the version of Exporter in my lib folder? In my main script i'm currently using

use lib qw{./lib/Exporter};
use Exporter 5.68;

I've even tried editing Format.pm and changing

use Exporter 5.57 'import';
to
use lib qw{./lib/Exporter};
use Exporter 5.68 'import'; #thinking maybe if i specific the exact ve
+rsion it may find it

[Anonymous Monk]

Is there a way that I can tell the Email::Date::Format module to use the version of Exporter in my lib folder?

Yes, by telling perl from your script

use lib '/absolute/path/to/my/lib';
use Email::Date::Format;

I've event tried editing Format.pm and changing

In that case try replacing  use Exporter 5.57 'import'; only with  use Exporter ; and nothing else

use lib...; only belongs in scripts

OTOH, 5.6.1, the perl you seem to have, is 12 decades old (120 years), you can install a newer perl like citrusperl in your home directory, or use perlbrew or perlall to do the same from sources

[Khen1950fx]

FWIW, the parameter for lib must be a directory and not a file. Here's what I tried with Exporter-5.67:

#!/usr/bin/perl -l

BEGIN { 
    unshift @INC, '/root/mylib/lib';
}

use strict;
use warnings;
require Exporter;
use Email::Date::Format;
use lib '/root/mylib/lib';

print "Email::Date::Format: ", $Email::Date::Format::VERSION;
print "Exporter: ", $Exporter::VERSION;

[perldc]

That script seems to work and use the Exporter in my projects lib directory. I'm not sure why but I was using:

use strict;
use warnings;
use lib qw{./lib};

print "Email::Date::Format: ", $Email::Date::Format::VERSION;
print "Exporter: ", $Exporter::VERSION;

which did not work. Simply moving the use warnings; to the end does work.

use strict;
use lib qw{./lib};
use warnings;

print "Email::Date::Format: ", $Email::Date::Format::VERSION;
print "Exporter: ", $Exporter::VERSION;

Apparently there is a special order to for "use" which I did not know about.