In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the report for week 9 of my work on improving Devel::Cover.
This report covers 14.07 to 20.07. This week I released Devel::Cover 0.91 and 0.92. I made a change I've been considering for quite some time, which is to get the @INC directories from perl itself. At build time we put the @INC directories in @Devel::Cover::Inc::Inc so that we will be able to ignore them by default at runtime. That works well normally, but sometimes the build environment differs from the run environment which can result in default coverage of core modules. The solution is to shell out to perl and ask it what its @INC is. Of course it's not quite that easy. And shelling out isn't very nice, but when the new V module for introspection is in place we can use that instead. I knew this was a risky commit, but cpantesters didn't show any problems. Nevertheless, I had broken things for people using local::lib. Thankfully, Olivier Mengué noticed and patched it up for me. I also fixed up a change I made last week which made all the tests fail on Windows. Devel::Cover itself still worked, but almost all of the tests didn't. Christian Walde's cpantesters smoker detected the problem quickly and we diagnosed the problem together on IRC. So I eventually got around to installing Perl on Windows (which turned out to be pretty simple) and then it was just a matter of getting the quoting such that both *nix and Windows were happy, and hoping that other platforms work too. (On which note, does anyone use Devel::Cover on anything other than *nix and Windows?) As usual, I made other various fixes and updates. Closed RT tickets: 68991 t/e2e epic fail when prefix for perl is not the physical location 76528 Devel/Cover/Inc.pm contains temporary install destination DESTDIR 66881 Symlinked directories can cause ignore functionality to fail 37349 /usr/local/* ommitted in Inc 32345 Devel::Cover 0.63 fails 1 test under Perl 5.8.7, Ubuntu 6.06 Closed Github tickets: 25 Fix inc directories when working with local::lib Merged pull requests: 25 Fix inc directories when working with local::lib Fixed cpantesters reports: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/251a6589-6ef1-1014-92c1-140f3373d4b5 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/d50bb259-6bf5-1014-86c6-f8fbafede0e8 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/675f887f-6fa2-1014-9b4e-081b3373d4b5 You can see the commits at https://github.com/pjcj/Devel--Cover/commits/master Hours worked: 14.07 03:20 16.07 04:25 20.07 01:15 Total 09:00 -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net
