In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the report for week 19 of my work on improving Devel::Cover.
This report covers 22.09 to 28.09. This week I released Devel::Cover versions 0.95 and 0.96. I spent some time tracking down a strange bug. Christian Walde reported in https://github.com/pjcj/Devel--Cover/issues/29 that Devel::Cover was going into an infinite loop running the Moo test suite, and in particular on one of the xt/ tests. (It was xt/super-jenga.t.) I was unable to repeat the problem, so Christian allowed me to login to his machine. There I could repeat the problem, but copying Devel/Cover.pm locally and running with -I . to use the local file caused the problem not to occur. It turned out that during global destruction a file-scoped lexical variable had already been destroyed when a subroutine using it was called. This strange situation caused the infinite loop in that subroutine. I wanted to fix the problem by checking ${^GLOBAL_PHASE} but, unfortunately, that variable doesn't exist before 5.14, so I ended up just checking that the lexical variable wasn't false. (The variable holds a regex.) Closed Github tickets: 29 cover -test on windows loops endlessly 27 Newer versions assume $^X is always pointing to Perl executable Merged pull requests: 28 You are sat next to me so I guess this is ok (I was sat next to him, and forgot that I would use the title here.) You can see the commits at https://github.com/pjcj/Devel--Cover/commits/master Hours worked: 22.09 1:45 24.09 7:10 Total 8:55 -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net
