#32740: Documentation error and a "feature" request

On Mon Jan 28 12:46:37 2008, ZOFFIX wrote:
> Hello. I've noticed that documentation contains an error:
>
> my $info = CPAN::SQLite::Info(CPAN => $cpan);
>
> Should read:
>
> my $info = CPAN::SQLite::Info->new(CPAN => $cpan);
>
> .. or at least that's what error say :)

Thanks for pointing that out - that's been fixed in my svn copy.

> Also, I was wondering if there would be a way to disable any print outs
> the module does. I am getting this in the shell:
>
> Reading information from C:\Perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz
> Reading information from C:\Perl\cpan\sources\modules\03modlist.data.gz
> Reading information from
> C:\Perl\cpan\sources\modules\02packages.details.txt.gz
> No dist_name/version/cpanid for
> T/TO/TOMC/scripts/CS-Talk/source/dstructs/trees/ValueTree.pm.gz: skipping
> No dist_name/version/cpanid for T/TO/TOMC/Simple.pm.gz: skipping
>
> And it is making the use of the module much harder.
>
> I am on:
> This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
> (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
>
> Thanks

Are these messages appearing in the terminal window? Updating the
database both from the cpandb script and from within the CPAN.pm shell
should have these messages logged in a log file (by default, named
something like cpan_sqlite_log_time_of_day, in the same directory as the
cpandb.sql database file). Is that not happening for you?

Actually, I see now that if you're using something other than the
supplied cpandb script it would be useful to make things less verbose.
In version 0.19, which has just been uploaded to CPAN, the information
messages will only get printed if the CPAN_SQLITE_DEBUG environment
variable is set. Thanks for the suggestion.