Hi Wayne,

The last commit on the Guiguts repository was a little over three years ago. If I were in your place, I might fork the repository, for example on GitHub, and start making my commits there (an excellent resource on learning Git is the Git Book). That way, changes would be public and other users could benefit from them, and if the developers are still active, they could pull selected changes back into their code.

You don't need to know a ton of Perl for basic debugging tasks - a lot of my debugging needs are covered by Data::Dump, e.g. use Data::Dump 'pp'; and then at strategic places pp $variable;. What might also be helpful is use Carp 'cluck';, then cluck "test"; will give you stack traces. And as you begin to understand more and more Perl, that will help in posting better questions, such as locating the source of problems by boiling the code down to the minimum needed for others to be able to reproduce the problem.

Of course we're happy to help, and if I made it sound too much like you already need to know Perl before asking questions here, that's not the case - you should have the willingness to learn Perl :-)

Regards,
-- Hauke D

In reply to Re^9: File permissions problem by haukex
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