[tapx-dev] Help Us With Test::Harness 3.0

[Andy Armstrong]

Hi David,

On 23 Jul 2007, at 13:30, Ovid wrote:
> From: David Golden <xdaveg at gmail.com>
>
>> One point of potential breakage -- if the final messages about
>> success/failure have changed, then CPAN::Reporter and potentially
>> other toolchain tools that look for those to interpret test results
>> with greater granularity than pass/fail will need to be patched.
>>
>> Is T::H 3.0 going to be "wire compatible" with only internals  
>> changing
>> or is output format changing as well?
>
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for bringing this up.  Much of this will be driven  
> TAP::Harness::Compatible.  It's designed to be fully compatible  
> with Test::Harness.  Andy Armstrong can do a better job of  
> answering how well the format matches.

I think the right thing to do would be for T::R not to have a  
dependency on the output formatting if it's running with  
TAP::Harness. We need to ensure we've exposed enough of an interface  
that T::R can get the information it needs by a more direct route.

Does that sound sensible?

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net