A quick dash through the code in the LCFG::Client::Fetch module (which is relatively small and fairly straightforward) means that all the LCFG client code has been checked using perlcritic and improved where necessary/possible. This completes the work for stages 4 and 5 of the project plan.
Some of the work involved in this stage has been rather more complex than anticipated. Mostly that was not related directly to resolving issues highlighted by perlcritic. In the main it was because whilst investigating the issues raised I spotted other, big problems with sections of code that I felt needed to be resolved. Those could have been kept separate and done as an additional stage in the project plan but I thought it was better to just do them. In particular, I have made large improvements to the sending and receiving of UDP messages for notifications and acknowledgements. I’ve also improved the logic involved with handling the “secure mode” and split out lots of sections of code into smaller, more easily testable, chunks.
This takes the effort expended up to about 7 days. That’s about 1 day over what I had expected but that was accounted for in stages 1 and 2, the gap between predicted and actual effort requirements has not worsened.