[tapx-dev] Thoughts about Test::Harness 3.0

Shlomi Fish shlomif at iglu.org.il
Thu Jun 7 18:32:29 BST 2007


On Thursday 07 June 2007, Andy Lester wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Well maybe there was an impedance mismatch. Perhaps I didn't phrase
> > myself
> > better or thought about it too much. Or perhaps you were too
> > trigger happy to
> > prove me wrong. In any case, here is what I have to say:
>
> I think part of the impedance mismatch is that you write a lot.  It
> helps to have your key points presented in the first sentence.

Point taken.

>
> So, let me ask again:
>
> * What exactly is not being done that should be being done?
>

What I believed was pointless was the fact that people are trying to enhance 
Test::Harness by making it use TAP::Parser, while in my opinion it should be 
in deep maintenance mode.

> * What exactly are people wasting their time on?
>

On working on Test::Harness 3.0.

> One sentence per answer, please.
>

"One sentence". Can you summarise the works of Aristotle in one sentence? Some 
things require a bit more than that.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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