[tapx-dev] using TAP::Parser in anger

[Ovid]

--- Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Is anyone interested in getting TAP::Parser in use in parrot and/or 
> pugs?
> 
> Parrot in particular would keep us honest about breaking our --exec 
> functionality.
> 
>   https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk/lib/Parrot/Test/Harness.pm

A couple of points about this.  On the design team minutes for Perl 6
back in May 2007, there was discussion of getting parrallelizable test
runs going.  Nick was going to work on this, but he found it difficult
with Test::Harness.  As a result, he apparently was going to delay this
work until TAP::Parser enters the core.

  http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/33245

Also, chromatic did some work with TAP::Parser for Parrot tests:

 
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/cpan_module_review_tapparser.html
  http://tinyurl.com/24adgp

It would also be good to get all of Perl's tests parsing with
TAP::Parser rather than Test::Harness.  That might shake out a few more
corner cases.  Rafael explained to me on P5P how to do that, but I
can't seem to find the email now :(

Cheers,
Ovid

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