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Coverage TODO

* v3.0 beta

- Windows kit.
    - Why doesn't setup.py install work? procmon to the rescue?
- Try installation on Ubuntu.
- Proper project layout.
+ Code moved to bitbucket.
- Investigate package over module installation.


* Speed

+ C extension collector
- Ignore certain modules
- Tricky swapping of collector like figleaf, pycov, et al.
- Seems like there should be a faster way to manage all the line number sets in
    CodeAnalyzer.raw_analyze.
- If tracing, canonical_filename_cache overlaps with should_trace_cache.  Skip
    canonical_filename_cache. Maybe it isn't even worth it...

* Accuracy

- Record magic number of module to ensure code hasn't changed
- Record version of coverage data file, so we can update what's stored there.
- Record options in coverage data file, so multiple runs are certain to make
    sense together.
- Do I still need the lines in annotate_file that deal specially with "else"?

* Power

- API for getting coverage data.
- Instruction tracing instead of line tracing.
- Path tracing (how does this even work?)
- Branch coverage
- Count execution of lines
- Track callers of functions (ala std module trace)
- Method/Class/Module coverage reporting.

* Convenience

- Why can't you specify execute (-x) and report (-r) in the same invocation?
    Maybe just because -x needs the rest of the command line?
- How will coverage.py package install over coverage.py module?
- Support 2.3 - 3.0?
    http://pythonology.blogspot.com/2009/02/making-code-run-on-python-20-through-30.html

* Beauty

- HTML report
- Syntax coloring in HTML report
- Dynamic effects in HTML report
- Footer in reports pointing to coverage home page.

* Community

- New docs, rather than pointing to Gareth's
    - Min version is 2.3.
    - Distinction between ignore (files not to trace), exclude (lines not to trace),
        and omit (files not to report)
    - Changes from coverage 2.x:
        - Bare "except:" lines now count as executable code.
        - Double function decorators: all decorator lines count as executable code.
+ Be sure --help text is complete (-i is missing).
- Host the project somewhere with a real bug tracker, google code I guess.
- Point discussion to TIP
- PEP 8 compliance?

* Modernization

+ Decide on minimum supported version
    + 2.3
    + Get rid of the basestring protection
    + Use enumerate
    + Use sets instead of dicts
- Get rid of the recursive nonsense.
- Docstrings.
- Remove huge document-style comments.
+ Remove singleton
    + Initialization of instance variables in the class.
- Better names:
    + self.cache -> self.cache_filename -> CoverageData.filename
    + self.usecache -> CoverageData.use_file
- More classes:
    - Module munging
    + Coverage data files
- Why are some imports at the top of the file, and some in functions?
+ Get rid of sys.exitfunc use.
+ True and False (with no backward adaptation: the constants are new in 2.2.1)
+ Get rid of compiler module
    + In analyzing code
    + In test_coverage.py
- Style:
    + lineno
    + filename

* Correctness

- What does -p (parallel mode) mean with -e (erase data)?

* Tests

- Tests about the .coverage file.
- Tests about the --long-form of arguments.
- Tests about overriding the .coverage filename.
- Tests about parallel mode.
+ Tests about assigning a multi-line string.
- Tests about tricky docstrings.
- Coverage test coverage.py!
- Tests that tracing stops after calling stop()
- More intensive thread testing.