--- AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm	2010/10/12 06:51:15	1.334
+++ AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm	2010/12/03 18:39:06	1.340
@@ -1169,7 +1169,7 @@
 
 use Carp ();
 
-our $VERSION = '5.271';
+our $VERSION = '5.29';
 our $MODEL;
 
 our $AUTOLOAD;
@@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@
          }
 
          $MODEL
-           or die "No event module selected for AnyEvent and autodetect failed. Install any one of these modules: EV, Event or Glib.\n";
+           or die "AnyEvent: backend autodetection failed - did you properly install AnyEvent?\n";
       }
    }
 
@@ -1302,14 +1302,18 @@
    push @{"$MODEL\::ISA"}, "AnyEvent::Base";
    unshift @ISA, $MODEL;
 
-   # now nuke some methods that are overriden by the backend.
+   # now nuke some methods that are overridden by the backend.
    # SUPER is not allowed.
    for (qw(time signal child idle)) {
       undef &{"AnyEvent::Base::$_"}
          if defined &{"$MODEL\::$_"};
    }
 
-   require AnyEvent::Strict if $ENV{PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT};
+   if ($ENV{PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT}) {
+      eval { require AnyEvent::Strict };
+      warn "AnyEvent: cannot load AnyEvent::Strict: $@"
+         if $@ && $VERBOSE;
+   }
 
    (shift @post_detect)->() while @post_detect;
 
@@ -2681,7 +2685,7 @@
 
 Asynchronous DNS: L<AnyEvent::DNS>.
 
-Thread support: L<Coro>, L<Coro::AnyEvent>, L<Coro::EV L<Coro::Event    >,
+Thread support: L<Coro>, L<Coro::AnyEvent>, L<Coro::EV>, L<Coro::Event>.
 
 Nontrivial usage examples: L<AnyEvent::GPSD>, L<AnyEvent::IRC>,
 L<AnyEvent::HTTP>.