parallel testing when STDOUT is not a terminal

[Andy Armstrong]

On 4 Dec 2007, at 13:17, David Golden wrote:
> I've discovered that having HARNESS_OPTIONS=j9 is not a nice thing to
> set as a default.  Test output for CPAN::Reporter winds up really
> screwed up, as shown below.  Is there a non-ornamented way of running
> tests in parallel?  I.e. running them in parallel and getting just
> summary output rather than watching the little bars grow across the
> screen?  Or perhaps this is something like colors where it needs to
> happen automatically if STDOUT is not a terminal.

Yes, the formatting is naive at the moment. Experimental even.

A good parallel prove spell goes something like this:

$ prove --state=slow,save -rb -Q -j9 t

The --state thing makes it run the slowest tests first - which helps  
with scheduling for a parallel run. -Q turns off the nasty output.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten