Hi,
Below is the mail I sent to John Barbee:

Hi John,

When working I am trying to get a directory object and go over all of its sub directories.
I found out that when I am asking for the name of the subdir object, I get an error message.

The error message is:

Can't call method "extension" on an undefined value at
        /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Apache/CVS/File.pm line 231 (#1
+)
    (F) You used the syntax of a method call, but the slot filled by t
+he
    object reference or package name contains an undefined value.  Som
+ething
    like this will reproduce the error:
[download]

Looking on the subdir object I saw its rcsconfig object is undef.
Looking in sub load in Apache::CVS::Directory I saw the following:

    foreach my $path ( @directories ) {
        $self->push('directory',
                    Apache::CVS::Directory->new($self->path() . "/$pat
+h"));
    }
[download]

And:

    foreach my $path ( @files ) {
        if ( $path =~ /,v$/ ) {
            $self->push('file',
                        Apache::CVS::File->new($self->path() . "/$path
+",
                                                      $self->rcs_confi
+g()));
        } else {
            $self->push('plain_file',
                        Apache::CVS::PlainFile->new($self->path() . "/
+$path"));
        }
    }
[download]

The bottom line is - just by fixing the directory object creation to work like the file creation by sending the $self->rcsconfig object it seems I fixed the problem.
Is it a bug ?
Maybe you did this for a reason, and I harm something else by fixing it like that ?
If it is a bug, and this is a good fix, how do we proceed to release a new version ?
Thanks,
And I will appriciate a quick response,
shushu

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