[tapx-dev] 24728 and 25405 are Displaying diagnostics is a TH 3 show stopper.

[Michael G Schwern]

Andy Armstrong wrote:
> On 13 Mar 2007, at 10:28, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>> Because TAP::Parser has no way of differentiating between  
>> information on
>> STDOUT and STDERR it cannot tell the difference between a warning  
>> on STDERR
>> and a junk TAP line on STDOUT.  This is bad.  This is very, very bad.
> 
> Understand now. Unless anyone has an bright ideas before the end of  
> the week I'll make that top priority when I come back to this on Friday.

I'm going to wave my hands in the general direction of PerlIO.  Maybe
there's some way it can cause the stuff coming from STDOUT and STDERR be
labeled as such, perhaps with a prefix on each line.  I know PerlIO is a 5.8
thing so it might require saying that STDOUT/ERR synchronization will only
happen for 5.8 and everyone else has to live with the desync.