testing work on Dist::Zilla to begin
Guess what I worked on today in Dist::Zilla? Logging! I’m beginning to think I may have a logging-tweaking addiction.
Actually, the logging changes I made were quite minor. Most of today’s work was in re-documenting Getopt::Long::Descriptive, which was only tangentially related to Dist::Zilla – but it was pretty sorely needed.
The big win in the final(?) set of logging changes is that I can now enable debugging logs per-plugin, or just for the core Dist::Zilla library, or globally. For example:
$ dzil build -v
[ absolutely all debugging output ]
$ dzil build -v PodWeaver
[ normal logging, plus debug output from PodWeaver plugin ]
$ dzil build -v PodWeaver -v AllFiles
[ normal logging, plus debug output from PodWeaver and AllFiles plugins ]
$ dzil build -v -
[ normal logging, plus debug output from Dist::Zilla core behavior ]
As I write tests, I will be adding a lot more debugging output, and getting at
just the debugging output I want will be (I predict) extremely useful. I
improved the way I access log messages when testing, which should be similarly
helpful. Finally, I added a means to suppress the logging of fatal messages to
selected output streams, meaning that log_fatal no longer prints the error
message and then dies with it.
I did make one other quick addition: I added a new dzil nop command, which
does nothing but initialize the Dist::Zilla object. This makes it easy to run:
$ dzil nop -v
…and see all the “plugin foo (package v1.23) online” messages.
Tomorrow, assuming I can stay awake, I’ll probably start getting to work on writing useful tests. If I had remembered that daylight saving changes tonight, I would’ve gone to bed earlier!