Since CPANTesters for Log-Any are all showing green for last week's trial release, I've pushed a new standard release of Log::Any 1.042 to CPAN.

Log::Any is for logging what DBI is for databases and CHI is for caching: A common interface to allow CPAN libraries to have logging that integrates with the library user's existing logging.

This release includes a significant performance improvement for when log outputs are not configured. This means Log::Any is even less obtrusive for use in CPAN modules. The overhead for a log method that doesn't need to do anything is down to one method call and one wantarray check.

Logging methods now also return the formatted log message (which is why we need a wantarray check). This means we can use the return value in die and/or warn calls, like so:

use Log::Any '$log'; if ( !-e 'config.yml' ) { die $log->error( 'config.yml does not exist' ); }

Doing it this way instead of adding new methods to Log::Any prevents us from needing to create methods like error_die , warn_die , error_warn , warn_warn , fatal_die , fatal_warn , and other impractical combinations ( debug_die ? emergency_warn ?)

Finally, the default adapter for your logger can now be configured with arguments. So the simplest way to log to a file (but still allow others to direct logs elsewhere) would be:

use Log::Any '$log', default_adapter => [ File => 'myapp.log' ];

So give it a try and add some logging to your CPAN library. If you have any issues, report them at the Log::Any project on Github