[Koha-devel] A solution to add debugger functionality to most koha *.pl scripts, thoughts please?

[Mason James]

On 2009/02/10, at 6:01 PM, Mason James wrote:

> Hi Koha developers,
>
> I have been talking with John and Paul at BibLibre for some months  
> now about a
> correct way to add Data::Dumper, Smart::Comments,  
> insert::your::favorite::debugger stuff
> to the Koha perl files *once and for all*
>
>
> After a few false starts and some googling - this is the method I  
> have used and tested...
>
>
> use C4::Debug;
> use if $debug, 'Data::Dumper' ;
> use if $debug, 'Smart::Comments' ;
> # use if $debug, 'YAML::Dumper;   # etc....
>

> Is there a better way than this?


A question from me too..

Is there a clever way to add this code to *just* Debug.pm which would  
enable D::D and S::C functionality to all perl files that 'use  
C4::Debug'?

That would be the cleanest way, i think - but i don't know how to do  
this, or if it's possible in perl :/

anyone?