or plugin is using deprecated code, or relying on side-effects then
there could be incompatibility.
-Most issues found with pre-existing components have been easy to solve,
+Most issues found with pre-existing components have been easy to solve,
and a complete description of behavior changes which may cause compatibility
issues, or warnings to be emitted is included below to help if you have
problems.
=head1 Known backwards compatibility breakages.
-=head2 Moose applications
+=head2 Components which inherit from Moose::Object before Catalyst::Component
-Moose components for Catalyst 5.70 needed to do
+Moose components which say:
+ package TestApp::Controller::Example;
+ use Moose;
extends qw/Moose::Object Catalyst::Component/;
-to be able to use the constructor provided by Moose. In 5.80
-C<Catalyst::Component> already inherits from C<Moose::Object>. Therefore you
-shouldn't directly inherit from C<Moose::Object> yourself, otherwise your
-Class' @ISA will not linearize with C3.
+to use the constructor provided by Moose, whilst working if you do some hacks
+with the C< BUILDARGS > method, will not work with Catalyst 5.80 as
+C<Catalyst::Component> inherits from C<Moose::Object>, and so C< @ISA > fails
+to linearise.
+
+The fix for this, is to not inherit directly from C<Moose::Object>
+yourself. Having components which do not inherit their constructor from
+C<Catalyst::Component> is B<unsupported>, and has never been recommended,
+therefore you're on your own if you're using this technique. You'll need
+to detect the version of Catalyst your application is running with and deal
+with it appropriately.
You will also see this issue if you do the following:
- use Moose;
+ package TestApp::Controller::Example;
+ use Moose;
use base 'Catalyst::Controller';
as C< use base > appends to @ISA.
-FIXME - Add note about the appropriate magic to detect $Catalyst::VERSION
-and work around it at compile time.
+The correct way to use Moose in a component in a both forward and backwards
+compatible way is:
+
+ package TestApp::Controller::Root;
+ use Moose;
+ BEGIN { extends 'Catalyst::Component' }; # Or ::Controller, or whatever
+
+Note that the C< extends > decleration needs to occur in a begin block for
+L<attributes> to operate correctly.
=head2 Anonymous closures installed directly into the symbol table