Comments on: Perl Module Monday: Devel::Cover http://www.dereferenced.com/2011/07/04/perl-module-monday-develcover/ A preponderance of Perl, an excess of XML, and additional alliterations. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:50:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: rjray http://www.dereferenced.com/2011/07/04/perl-module-monday-develcover/comment-page-1/#comment-890 rjray Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:24:32 +0000 http://www.dereferenced.com/?p=145#comment-890 I only call it alpha because the module's documentation refers to itself as alpha, in the second paragraph under "DESCRIPTION". I agree completely that it is a very strong, very functional tool. This is why I recommend it so strongly! (CGI does use auto-loading, but it does not use splitting. Rather, it dynamically creates subroutines on demand using symbol table manipulation and closures.) I only call it alpha because the module’s documentation refers to itself as alpha, in the second paragraph under “DESCRIPTION”. I agree completely that it is a very strong, very functional tool. This is why I recommend it so strongly!

(CGI does use auto-loading, but it does not use splitting. Rather, it dynamically creates subroutines on demand using symbol table manipulation and closures.)

]]> By: mirod http://www.dereferenced.com/2011/07/04/perl-module-monday-develcover/comment-page-1/#comment-886 mirod Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:29:18 +0000 http://www.dereferenced.com/?p=145#comment-886 I certainly would NOT call Devel::Cover alpha-level-software: it has been around for a long time, over 10 years actually. I have been using it for more 7 or 8 years. More tellingly, it was used in the phalanx project, you may remember it, around 2002, to display test coverage of the 100 most important modules (including CGI, which IIRC uses AutoLoader, so there may be a way to get coverage for your code). So it has been widely used for a long time and on a wide variety of test cases. The fact that it doesn't play nice with Auto(Loader|Split) is either a bug (which I see you submitted) or a limit of the technology used. It doesn't make the module alpha. I certainly would NOT call Devel::Cover alpha-level-software: it has been around for a long time, over 10 years actually. I have been using it for more 7 or 8 years. More tellingly, it was used in the phalanx project, you may remember it, around 2002, to display test coverage of the 100 most important modules (including CGI, which IIRC uses AutoLoader, so there may be a way to get coverage for your code). So it has been widely used for a long time and on a wide variety of test cases.

The fact that it doesn’t play nice with Auto(Loader|Split) is either a bug (which I see you submitted) or a limit of the technology used. It doesn’t make the module alpha.

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