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.) -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net