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

[Andy Armstrong]

On 23 Jul 2007, at 15:09, David Golden wrote:
> First -- note that I'm talking about CPAN::Reporter, not
> Test::Reporter.  Test::Reporter only formats and submit reports.
> CPAN::Reporter does the parsing -- CPANPLUS does as well.
>
> A more direct way of getting information on results would be
> excellent, but the old parsing way still has to be supported to be
> backwards compatible for things prior to T::H 3.0.

Yup. I'm going to make sure we're generating compatible output this  
evening.

> It's also worth noting that these results are generated in an entirely
> separate process -- i.e. "make test" so by "interface" you need to be
> thinking of IPC.  I (and others) have speculated about getting T::H to
> output, say, YAML, on request (environment variable?) to make parsing
> results easier.

A YAML view sounds like a good idea. I'll put that on the TODO list.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net