After staring at Devel::Cover code for most of a day I believe the crux of the problem is that the cover program merges only half of the databases. It merges that runs portion which contains basic count statistics but does not merge the structure portion which contains mappings of counts data to source code locations. The solution is pretty straigthforward, a function to copy missing structure files from the various source databases into the structures directory for the target database.

It has nothing to do with a difference between the handling of .pm and .pl files.

I'm at least 75% sure this is right :)

--DrWhy

"If God had meant for us to think for ourselves he would have given us brains. Oh, wait..."

In reply to Re: How To Merge Devel::Cover databases by DrWhy
in thread How To Merge Devel::Cover databases by DrWhy

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