Huzzah!
On 5/1/13 3:38 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > 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 >
