I'm trying to rename a package without having to go and change all my code that uses it. I suppose this is like creating a package synonym.
My package name is MWLOG and I'd like to change it to Log::Writer.
So far what I've done seems to work but I'm checking here to see if I've done it the proper 'perl' way.
What I did was copy MWLOG to Log::Writer and then change MWLOG to be ...
package MWLOG;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Log::Writer;
our @ISA = qw(Log::Writer);
our $VERSION = '1.06';
1;

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This seems to work. However, what I'd really like is for MWLOG's version to be the same as Log::Writer's version.
Changing the version to 
our $VERSION = $Log::Writer::VERSION;

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does not seem to work.
When I try and build my make file with I get the following error. 
#perl Makefile.PL
WARNING: Setting VERSION via file 'MWLOG.pm' failed
 at /home/utils/perl/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 523
Writing Makefile for MWLOG

In reply to renaming a package by mifflin

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