Comment 2 for bug 1616501

Using %ENV to pass the request object around won't work for Perl 5.18 and later, as stuff assigned to %ENV gets immediately stringified:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html#%25ENV

It worked prior to 5.18 because the stringification used to happen only when passing the environment to child processes.

An alternative would be ensuring that +GlobalRequest is turned on for /eg, which in turn would allow use of Apache2::RequestUtil->request (although per bug 1579219 I at least would prefer that the check be wrapped well enough so that mod_perl remains an optional dependency for OpenSRF :) )

Removing pullrequest for now.