NAME

Meta::Utils::Debug - handle debug of perl scripts in base.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Debug.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.29

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Utils::Debug qw();
        Meta::Utils::Debug::debug_use();

DESCRIPTION

This package handles perl debugging in base and makes sure that if you're not a perl developer you will not suffer from the lags of doing things like: use strict qw(vars refs subs); use diagnostics;etc... For all programmers that change this package - this package is the first that gets used in every package in base - keep it lean and mean...

FUNCTIONS

        BEGIN()
        debug()
        msg($)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

BEGIN()

This begin block makes sure that the code in it gets run in compile time which will load up the debugging libs if indeed the variable BASE_PERL_DEBU is set.

set

This is the set which has all the functions that need debug.

debug()

This functions returns a boolean telling you whether your'e in debug mode or not.

msg($)

This method will output debug message. currently it just prints to stderr.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV initial code brought in
        0.01 MV make quality checks on perl code
        0.02 MV more perl checks
        0.03 MV make Meta::Utils::Opts object oriented
        0.04 MV check that all uses have qw
        0.05 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation
        0.06 MV more on tests/more checks to perl
        0.07 MV more perl code quality
        0.08 MV more perl code quality
        0.09 MV finish Simul documentation
        0.10 MV perl code quality
        0.11 MV more perl quality
        0.12 MV more perl quality
        0.13 MV perl documentation
        0.14 MV more perl quality
        0.15 MV perl qulity code
        0.16 MV more perl code quality
        0.17 MV revision change
        0.18 MV languages.pl test online
        0.19 MV perl packaging
        0.20 MV md5 project
        0.21 MV database
        0.22 MV perl module versions in files
        0.23 MV movies and small fixes
        0.24 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.25 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.26 MV website construction
        0.27 MV web site automation
        0.28 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.29 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Meta::Ds::Set(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.