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On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:18:03PM +0000, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > Richard Foley <Richard.Foley <at> rfi.net> writes: > > On Thursday 20 March 2008 00:00:13 Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I suppose that's the price to be paid for writing code that lives > > > outside of the core whilst maintaining a rather incestuous relationship > > > with the core itself. > > > Is that a good reason to move Devel::Cover into the core? > > IMO... > > absolutely. I very much appreciate the sentiment and reasoning behind this idea, but I'd hate to do anything which raised the bar on people wanting to write interesting, useful or just plain cool code. Having to keep Devel::Cover running through such changes comes under that heading for me. If we had a large corps of core programmers just twiddling their thumbs or writing Web 2.0 apps whilst waiting for some core hacking to come along I might think differently but, although I'd be very happy for someone else to fix up Devel::Cover after core changes, it's pretty much something that I signed up for when I wrote code that messes with the core and invited people to use it. Of course, any help in that area (including bug reports) is extremely welcome but otherwise please bear with me as I collect together sufficient tuits of appropriate shape to deal with the inevitable breakage caused by progression. -- Paul Johnson - paul@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.netThread Previous | Thread Next