I18N.pm is incompatible with perl < 5.8.3

["Tom G. Christensen" <tgc@statsbiblioteket.dk>]

Hello,

While running the git 1.7.9 testsuite on RHEL 3 with perl 5.8.0 and 
gettext 0.11.4 I got this error in t0202-gettext-perl.sh:
# test_external test Perl Git::I18N API failed: /usr/bin/perl 
/builddir/build/BUILD/git-1.7.9/t/t0202/test.pl
# test_external_without_stderr test no stderr: Perl Git::I18N API 
failed: /usr/bin/perl /builddir/build/BUILD/git-1.7.9/t/t0202/test.pl:

A verbose run gave me this:
# test_external test Perl Git::I18N API failed: /usr/bin/perl 
/builddir/build/BUILD/git-1.7.9/t/t0202/test.pl
# expecting no stderr from previous command
# test_external_without_stderr test no stderr: Perl Git::I18N API 
failed: /usr/bin/perl /builddir/build/BUILD/git-1.7.9/t/t0202/test.pl:
# Stderr is:
"import" is not exported by the Exporter module
Can't continue after import errors at 
/builddir/build/BUILD/git-1.7.9/t/../perl/blib/lib/Git/I18N.pm line 5
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
/builddir/build/BUILD/git-1.7.9/t/../perl/blib/lib/Git/I18N.pm line 5.
Compilation failed in require at 
/builddir/build/BUILD/git-1.7.9/t/t0202/test.pl line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
/builddir/build/BUILD/git-1.7.9/t/t0202/test.pl line 8.
# Looks like your test died before it could output anything.

I found the cause and the solution here:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module.build/2008/02/msg1214.html

I've changed
  use Exporter 'import'
to
  BEGIN {
   require Exporter;
   *{import} = \&Exporter::import;
   }
in I18N.pm.

The test now passes (GETTEXT_LOCALE=1):
# lib-gettext: No is_IS UTF-8 locale available
# lib-gettext: No is_IS ISO-8859-1 locale available
# run 1: Perl Git::I18N API (/usr/bin/perl 
/builddir/build/BUILD/git-1.7.9/t/t0202/test.pl)
1..8
ok 1 - Testing Git::I18N with NO Perl gettext library
ok 2 - Git::I18N is located at 
/builddir/build/BUILD/git-1.7.9/t/../perl/blib/lib/Git/I18N.pm
ok 3 - sanity: Git::I18N has 1 export(s)
ok 4 - sanity: Git::I18N exports everything by default
ok 5 - sanity: __ has a $ prototype
ok 6 - Passing a string through __() in the C locale works
ok 7 - Without a gettext library + <C> locale <TEST: A Perl test string> 
turns into <TEST: A Perl test string>
ok 8 - Without a gettext library + <is> locale <TEST: A Perl test 
string> turns into <TEST: A Perl test string>
# test_external test Perl Git::I18N API was ok
# expecting no stderr from previous command
# test_external_without_stderr test no stderr: Perl Git::I18N API was ok

-tgc