From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T07:04:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rcov 0.4.0 (code coverage) - scriptability, accuracy, unrotten internals

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:17:47AM +0900, Zed Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 01:09 +0900, Jeff Rose wrote:
> > This is awesome.  It's enlightening and sad to see the coverage of some 
> > of my unit tests, but without a doubt I'm hooked.  Visually looking at 
> > the test coverage (or lack thereof) is really much more effective than I 
> > thought.  If anything this will help to be a lot more conscious about 
> > creating solid test suites, rather than cherry picking the easy/obvious 
> > ones that most likely don't do the job like they should.
> > 
> > When do we get a gem?
> 
> Mauricio, I'll hook you up with gem builds if you want.  I use rcov a
> lot and having gems makes it easier for me to get other developers to
> use it.

The one thing that has been blocking (or at least pushing down the TODO list)
the RubyGems package was how to combine it with cross-compilation for win32,
since I figured a RubyGems package would be of most value to win32 users who
have no access to a C toolchain. There are a few other problems I'd have liked
to solve, but they're much more general and probably addressable at RubyGems'
level (C runtime compatibility, ABI checking...).

A "normal" RubyGems package (i.e. one that requires a C compiler) should be
very easy, so I should be able to get one out fairly quickly. 

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Mauricio Fernandez  -   http://eigenclass.org   -  singular Ruby