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Id: 21098
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Devel-Cover
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: DROLSKY [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 0.58
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Mon Aug 21 02:48:51 2006 DROLSKY [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: cover has confusing docs for -report
When I run cover --help it tells me the following: -report report_format - report format required (default html) But if a format is required why is there a default? If I run "cover -report" it fails with a somewhat obscure error: Bad option at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.7/Devel/Cover/Report/Html_minimal.pm line 675 I guess that makes this two bug reports in one. Sorry.
  Mon Aug 21 02:49:25 2006 DROLSKY [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Mon Aug 21 02:48:51 2006, DROLSKY wrote: Show quoted text
> When I run cover --help it tells me the following:
For the record, I'm using Devel::Cover 0.58.
  Mon Aug 21 02:49:26 2006 DROLSKY [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Fri Dec 29 20:38:48 2006 paul [...] pjcj.net - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #21098] cover has confusing docs for -report
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:38:17 +0100
To: via RT <bug-Devel-Cover [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: Paul Johnson <paul [...] pjcj.net>
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:48:52AM -0400, via RT wrote: Show quoted text
> When I run cover --help it tells me the following: > > -report report_format - report format required (default html) > > But if a format is required why is there a default?
That's an unclear description, I'm afraid. I wanted to say that it is the format of the report required by the user. I've just dropped the word "required". Show quoted text
> If I run "cover -report" it fails with a somewhat obscure error: > > Bad option at > /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.7/Devel/Cover/Report/Html_minimal.pm line 675
This is a little tricky. There are general options to cover, and each report can take extra options specific to the report. Unknown options are passed though to the report for it to deal with. I probably need to completely overhaul how that works, but for now I've just changed the error message to something hopefully a little more clear. Show quoted text
> I guess that makes this two bug reports in one. Sorry.
That's fine - two patches in one ;-) http://pjcj.sytes.net/svnweb/Devel::Cover/revision/?rev=187 -- Paul Johnson - paul@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net
  Fri Dec 29 20:40:46 2006 PJCJ [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'