On 03/08/2012 11:53 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
Just thought I'd share with the group and experience I just had. In perhaps
the hope of sparing others of the PITA I just went through.
...
> use Common; # contains timestamp()
> use Date::Manip;
...
> Shouldn't this have thrown SOME kind of error/warning what was going on?
You might want to make that suggestion to the module maintainer:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Date-Manip
Ultimately, the only way to protect yourself against changes in modules
and/or Perl itself is to write (and run) regression tests.
> "In circuit" the code runs as a daemon and errors aren't easy to get at.
Log::Log4perl is very useful in general, and has special features for
debugging running services:
http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/Log-Log4perl-1.36/lib/Log/Log4perl.pm
HTH,
David
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