[tapx-dev] Solution to synching STDOUT and STDERR?

[Ovid]

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

> # from Ovid
> # on Wednesday 14 March 2007 02:15 am:
> 
> >The streams
> >only need to be in synch when runtests (or prove) is in VERBOSE
> mode.
> >There is no information lost and everyone's happy, yes?  Otherwise,
> > let STDERR be STDERR and the problem is solved.  Does this work?
> 
> These diagnostic errors are beginning to look like TAP error data (as

> Schwern suggested), maybe they should be specifically labelled as
> such by the producer and sent on STDOUT.

Except that my proposal should also solve the problem for people who
have upgraded TAP::Parser friends but has an old Test::Builder.  If we
*can* help out people with older Perl's, we should.  What am I
overlooking?

Cheers,
Ovid

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