In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering March 2013.
Sorry for the delay in this report. Most of March and all of April has been a very busy time for me outside of grant work on Devel::Cover. This month I released Devel::Cover 1.01. March's work started by continuing there February's had left off. David Golden had politely observed that the coverage reporting for ||= operators in his Path::Iterator::Rule module was somewhat less than optimal. So I got hold of the module's source, pared the module down to the minimum required to reproduce the problem, and fixed it, along with another problem that showed up too. The problem boiled down to C< $x ||= $y > being in void context, but we want to show the coverage as if were not. This was one of those problems where the majority of the effort was spent in locating and defining the problem, and the solution was relatively simple from that point. In any case, the coverage looks much healthier now: http://cpancover.com/latest/Path-Iterator-Rule-1.005/blib-lib-Path-Iterator-Rule-pm--condition.html This month, perls 5.14.4, 5.16.3, 5.17.10 were released. I tested against these, along with 5.17.9 from February. It's obviously important that Devel::Cover works with newly released stable versions of perl, so I always try to test with the release candidates too. I also try to keep up with the development releases (5.17.x at the moment), which are far more of a moving target as far as Devel::Cover is concerned. Of course, this should make it more likely that there won't be any problems when 5.18.0 is released, and it also means that the cpantesters failure reports I get from those people running development releases use generally useful. Devel::Cover now also reports coverage for more of the files that gcov can exercise. I investigated removing the dependency on B::Deparse. Unfortunately, that won't be simple, and may not be worth the effort, but I did at least reduce the number of calls to B::Deparse. Closed Github tickets: 52 cover ignores .cc file Merged pull requests: 47 Fix for mod_perl on Debian setting $^X to apache2 49 fix: respect to $Devel::Cover::Silent You can see the commits at https://github.com/pjcj/Devel--Cover/commits/master Hours worked: 01.03 7:30 29.03 2:15 Total 9:45 Total hours worked on grant: 257:35 -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net
