POE Failures

[Ovid]

I just noticed in the POE failures that raw output looks like this:

  prove -vl t/30_loops/10_select/all_errors.t
  t/30_loops/10_select/all_errors......
  1..0 # most of these should move into other test files
   No subtests run 

  Test Summary Report
  -------------------
  t/30_loops/10_select/all_errors.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
    Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
  Files=1, Tests=0,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr  0.01 sys +  0.03 cusr  0.01 csys =  0.06 CPU)
  Result: NOTESTS

Why is this a failure?  Hadn't we agreed that 1..0 is enough to specifiy 'skip all'?  While it's not officially part of the TAP spec, the '1.0 # SKIP' message is redundant and probably suboptimal (what happens when someone does '1..13 # SKIP', for example?).

Was this change never implemented?  We've been bitten by this before.  From the Changes file, I see this:

        - Relaxed strict parsing of skip plan for pre v13 TAP.

Cheers,
Ovid

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