Item676: package Assert; causes namespace collisions

Using a package named "Assert" instead of "Foswiki::Assert" or other causes it to fly into any other Assert.pm in @INC and explode.

Since this is a pertty generic module name, perhaps it should be namespaced. Note that Assert.pm does include Foswiki-specific code.

Specifically this causes problems when old TWiki /lib/s are lurking in the @INC, presumably because of the nasty ref trickery Assert performs.

This possibly also applies to Monitor and TWiki.

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Indeed. Can't do much about TWiki, but Assert, Monitor and Unit should probably be renamed something less generic. I called them that originally because I wanted to release them to CPAN, but gave up on that a long time ago.

Would like to target this for 2.0

-- CrawfordCurrie - 29 Jun 2010