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

[Andy Armstrong]

On 23 Jul 2007, at 14:03, Ovid wrote:
>> 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?
>
> It sounds very sensible to me.  It also may not work.  Plenty of  
> folks will have T::R installed and they'll bitch when it's an old  
> T::R and it fails when they upgrade to TH3.  Also, we don't know  
> how many "stealth" output parsers people have written out there.  I  
> wholeheartedly agree that since we've made it easy to properly  
> extract this information, people should go that route.  However, to  
> get TH3 out there, we need to minimize how many thing we break.

OK - a two pronged attack then :)

Make sure the current formatting isn't going to break screen scrapers  
and ensure we make it easy for people to get the information they're  
currently scraping by more legitimate means.

I'll have a look at T::R as soon as I get some headspace.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net