[tapx-dev] TAP::Parser - Dump execrc?

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Ovid
# on Monday 12 March 2007 05:00 am:

>What about 't/driver' (no extension) and if someone wants a different
>location:

Why not just './exec' (or './driver', './tap.driver', './test.driver', 
or './tap.exec')?  (I don't like the potential directory name clash in 
t/.)

>  runtests --driver path/to/driver
>
>The --execrc and --exec switches would go away entirely.

Isn't --driver ::= --exec?  I'm in favor of dropping execrc, but I'm not 
sure what's wrong with --exec.

>The driver script would be assumed to be executable.  On Windows it
>might have to be:
>
>  runtests --driver 'perl path\to\driver'

Aside:  The current --exec handler in runtests is naive.  Needs to 
handle "path to\perl" and such.  Too bad the OS which is most likely to 
have that problem doesn't support symlinks, eh?  I guess there's always 
the .bat file.

>someone should be allowed
>to write the driver program in any language they want.

Or symlink it to a binary.

--Eric
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