Currently I'm using no logger in my modules. I just use die, warn, croak and carp. I want to change that. After a short investigation I saw that Log::Log4perl is the logger I want to use. But now I'm not sure if I should use it directly or not. Or in other words. If my modules should have a dependency on it.

I've seen the following message from cpan:

Loading internal logger. Log::Log4perl recommended for better logging

So cpan has an internal logger. And if Log::Log4perl is available then this logger is used. So there is no hard dependency.

What is your opinion? Should I also use an internal logger, e.g. My::Log and only use Log::Log4perl if it is available?

I would like to do that this way. I don't want to invent things which are already there. So another question. Is there already an implementation of an internal logger (is it a wrapper class around Log::Log4perl?) ?

Thanks for your help!

In reply to Dependency to Log::Log4perl by Dirk80

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