A colleague of mine is beginning to use GDAL via the Perl bindings (the
bindings are not the main issue however). He makes quite simple errors,
but is perplexed when he gets rather scary looking / uninformative error
messages. For example he forgot to open Shapefile with update turned on
(it is
Ari,
It's funny because I myself got caught by the same issue a few days ago.
So I've just improved error reporting on shapefile layer for SetFeature(),
CreateFeature() and DeleteFeature() operations in trunk (r17255). It was
trivial in that case as the OGRShapeLayer object has a flag to
