help with noload

[Silly Kirby]

All, I am stuck, and I hope someone here can glance at my problem and
tell me what I am doing wrong. I would appreciate
it.

The following code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use WordNet::QueryData;
my $wn = WordNet::QueryData->new(noload=>1);
print "Synset: ", join(", ", $wn->querySense("cat#n#7", "syns")),
"\n";

produces the following error:
silly@wrentit:~/practice/querydataPractice$ qd.pl
Dir = noload
Verbose = 1
Loading WordNet data...
(loadExclusions) at /usr/share/perl5/WordNet/QueryData.pm line 310.
Not able to open noload/noun.exc or noload\noun.exc: No such file or
directory at /usr/share/perl5/WordNet/QueryData.pm line 319.

But it runs fine without the noload hash argument:
silly@wrentit:~/practice/querydataPractice$ qd.pl
Synset: big_cat#n#1, cat#n#7

My OS is Kubuntu Jaunty Jackalope
My Perl is: This is perl, v5.10.0 built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-
multi
printevn shows WNHOME=/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/
Plus it works without the noload hash, but I need the noload for my
project.

I installed QueryData like so:
silly@wrentit:~/practice/querydataPractice$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e
'install WordNet::QueryData'
and got:
WordNet::QueryData is up to date (1.47).

It seems like it is reading the hash argument as a regular argument in
which the Dir variable is assigned the first string. Is there some
package I need to make the constructor accept hashes as arguments?

I bet there is some very basic thing I don't know. Can anyone point me
in the right direction? thanks, Silly

[Danny Brian]

The newest version of QueryData is 1.48 per the distribution, but the $VERSION in QueryData.pm appears to read 1.47. I'd guess that CPAN.pm is not upgrading your installation properly because of that. Try downloading it from CPAN directly and installing.

[Silly Kirby]

Thanks Danny, I did as you suggested and all works properly now. I guess I got confused cuz http://search.cpan.org/dist/WordNet-QueryData/QueryData.pm shows version 1.47 at the top of the page and the synopsis shows the use of noload.

If i was a good girl, which i am not, i would try to figure out why CPAN is passing out 1.47 as the good version through perl -MCPAN -e 'install WordNet::QueryData'. But as it is, I am happy it works properly now and i will go forth without concern. Silly

[Danny Brian]

It's because the module has the wrong version number. Jason needs to fix it.

[Jason Rennie]

It is fixed, but CPAN doesn't allow updates without a file name change.  The link from the csail page is the authoritative source.  I upload to CPAN mainly for the formatted man page.

Cheers,

Jason

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