On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:06:43PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:54:42PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> 
> > Collecting any sort of coverage data is a complete bitch. Let me just 
> > say right now that doing it across _all_ of CPAN is flat out impossible.
> > 
> > It's impossible.

And remember folks, only perl can parse Perl.

> I completly agree.

However, the problem is only slightly harder than testing all of CPAN.

> Now, if somebody sets up a system to collect coverage data thats generated
> at various decentralised machines and provides a nice interface to the
> results, CPANTS might be able to use coverage statistics as a metric.

This has been on the Devel::Cover TODO list for a while now.  I have
some ideas but nothing implemented.  If someone wants to take a look at
this, I suggest basing your work on cpancover in the Devel::Cover
distribution.  (I think I have mentioned this before.)

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