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Ovid (2709)

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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Thursday March 29, 2007
03:04 PM

Bad Thought For the Day (CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS.pm)

[ #32836 ]

Wouldn't it be interesting to have an option for CPAN and CPANPLUS to automatically run Devel::Cover with the test suite and if the coverage falls below a certain percentage to give you the option of abandoning the install?

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  • I've been wondering whether CPANTS could add coverage as one of its metrics. It's fraught with difficulty of course :)
  • If you follow the instructions here [cpan.org] you'll see that you just have to set the following %ENV var:

    HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES=-MDevel::Cover

    And then, whenever make test is run, so is coverage... ;)

    • I know to set the environment variable, but I don't believe there's an option to abandon the install if the coverage is below a certain point. I'd really like that (particularly if the module's a dependency in a chain of modules and I want to look at things closer).