At
http://thenceforward.net/parrot/coverage/configure-build/coverage.html I
have for over a year displayed the results of coverage analysis on
Parrot's configuration and build tools.
I have come to realize that while these reports are very useful for me
as the maintainer of the Perl 5 aspect of these tools, they may be less
useful for other Parrot developers because they display no metadata
about the coverage run. They do not, for example, display:
* the SVN revision number at which coverage was run
* which branch of the repository was being tested (if not trunk)
* the date and time coverage was run (though this is available if you go
one directory level up)
Furthermore, suppose I wanted to display the coverage for a CPAN module.
It would be useful to display the module's official version number.
I could, I suppose, modify the shell script that runs my coverage
analysis to also create a plain-text metadata file in the same directory
as the .html files. But that would require a user to do browser
navigation. Not elegant.
Are there any options currently available that would achieve these
objectives? Or do these go on the D::C wishlist?
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
