Adding tests to and refactoring the perl debugger - Grant Conclusion Report
Mon, 10-Dec-2012 by
Alan Haggai Alavi
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> * [http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/09/adding-tests-to-and-refactorin-1.html](http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/09/adding-tests-to-and-refactorin-1.html)
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> * [http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/09/adding-tests-to-and-refactorin-2.html](http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/09/adding-tests-to-and-refactorin-2.html)
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> * [http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/10/adding-tests-to-and-refactorin-3.html](http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/10/adding-tests-to-and-refactorin-3.html)
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> * [http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/11/adding-tests-to-and-refactorin-4.html](http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/11/adding-tests-to-and-refactorin-4.html)
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> During the grant I have learnt what `git rebase` was all about, how to use
> it, and why it was sometimes a good idea, and also became familiar with more
> features of the debugger.
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> If anyone is interested in a more modular debugger for Perl, while doing away
> with backwards compatibility, they can look at `Devel::Trepan`:
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> * [http://metacpan.org/module/Devel::Trepan](http://metacpan.org/module/Devel::Trepan)
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> * [http://github.com/rocky/Perl-Devel-Trepan](http://github.com/rocky/Perl-Devel-Trepan)
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> Otherwise, the refactored debugger should be more amenable to changes, and
> the additional test assertions will better ascertain it is not going to be
> broken as easily.
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> I would like to thank Alan Haggai Alavi (my grant manager), Father
> Chrysostomos ( [https://metacpan.org/author/SPROUT](https://metacpan.org/author/SPROUT) - for applying some of my
> changesets and for fixing a bug or two I discovered), Ricardo Signes (the
> perl 5 pumpking), Rocky Bernstein (for writing `Devel-Trepan` and commenting
> on the grant reports), and the other perl5-porters.
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> I am planning on continuing working on the perl debugger, and other parts
> of the perl 5 core after the end of the grant, but I thank the Perl Foundation
> for giving me the grant, which has motivated me.
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> Regards, and Happy Holidays,
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> -- Shlomi Fish
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