Installing and using Devel::Cover on Win32 for the first time today, I noticed several things and would like to know if my experience is anomalous.
1. Since I don't have a C-compiler, I first went to ActiveState's PPM Repository, but Devel::Cover's latest version (0.50) is listed as a FAIL on Windows. kobesearch.cpan.org directed me to http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/5.8/, from which I was able to download and install a tarball of Devel::Cover v0.47. Following crazy's instructions, I was able to install it successfully. 2. The Devel::Cover docs describe this as the way to run coverage on an uninstalled module: HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES=-MDevel::Cover make test cover I found that, on Windows, I had to switch the syntax around to get it to work with nmake nmake test HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES=-MDevel::Cover cover Is that other people's experience? 3. The module whose coverage I was examining was ExtUtils::ModuleMaker. I had used Devel::Cover on this module on Darwin, so I knew what to expect for results. But when I ran 'cover' on Windows, it ran coverage (and created coverage report .html files) not just on the '.pm' files contained within EU::MM, but also on *31* .pm files contained under my 'Perl/lib' directory. lib/AutoLoader.pm lib/B.pm lib/B/Debug.pm lib/B/Deparse.pm lib/Carp.pm lib/Carp/Heavy.pm lib/Config.pm lib/Cwd.pm lib/DynaLoader.pm lib/Exporter.pm lib/Exporter/Heavy.pm lib/Fcntl.pm lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/Glob.pm lib/File/Path.pm lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm lib/Storable.pm lib/Test/Builder.pm lib/Test/More.pm lib/XSLoader.pm lib/base.pm lib/blib.pm lib/overload.pm lib/re.pm lib/strict.pm lib/threads.pm lib/threads/shared.pm lib/vars.pm lib/warnings.pm lib/warnings/register.pm My hunch is that these are modules and pragmas called by Devel::Cover. Correct? But why do I get these in the printout from Devel::Cover on Windows but not on Darwin? Jim Keenan ===== Affiliations: Perl Seminar NY / New York Perlmongers / Toronto Perlmongers __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com
