[tapx-dev] Broken coverage testing

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Andy Armstrong
# on Thursday 09 August 2007 06:27 am:

>When I chatted to Paul Johnson about it he seemed pretty convinced  
>that it's a D::C bug. In a sense it must be a D::C bug - we're  
>certainly not doing anything purposely to upset D::C - and D::C's job
>   is to handle whatever we throw at it - within reason.

I suspect it might have something to do with the anonymous subs being 
nested at multiple levels and/or subprocesses.  But, I can't manage to 
replicate it in any test scenario or other modules (IPC::Run, 
dotReader, Module::Build, and a few others.)

>For clarification have you ever been able to get coverage for the  
>whole test suite? I didn't attempt it until a couple of weeks ago and
>   it was broken then.

Same here.

--Eric
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