[tapx-dev] Broken coverage testing

Ovid publiustemp-tapx at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 9 11:14:34 BST 2007


--- Leif Eriksen <leif.eriksen at bigpond.com> wrote:

> The argument I have against that is that D::C was working fine and,
> for no apparent reason, stopped working.
> It didnt stop after an 'svn up' on the TAP::Parser code, or a 
> 'cpan install Devel::Cover' - it stopped between one code edit and
> another. And that code edit wasnt a change to a module in the lib
> path, it was a change to t/030-grammar.t.
> 
> So what does that mean ? No idea, but once it broke its never worked
> again.

Are you running 'cover --delete' between Devel::Cover runs?  Maybe
there's a problem in the cover_db/ database which is causing the
problem.
 
> Also, I can only find D::C releases 0.59, 0.60 and 0.61(current) on
> CPAN - anyone know where some older ones might be ?

I would have thought it would be on the backpan, but I don't see it
there :(

Cheers,
Ovid

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