Test file numbers

[Andy Armstrong]

On 1 Oct 2007, at 09:53, Ovid wrote:
> Speaking of TH3, what are the chances that we can ship by this  
> weekend?
>  I know we need another test run on VMS.  What else?

Parallel support. I'm going round in circles on the display  
architecture. Results will definitely arrive out of order when we  
fork and run multiple tests in parallel. That implies that a real  
time display handler (e.g. console) must modify its behavior for  
parallel testing and a deferred display handler (e.g. html, PDF) will  
have to keep track of multiple simultaneous sources of output.

I can't really get past the current architecture - which has a per- 
run object and many per-test-script objects. It's possible with the  
current interface to write simple display drivers that implement both  
functions in a single class. I think I'll just go with that.

I'll speed up TAP::Formatter::Console::ParallelSession, move parallel  
support based on the forking behaviour of the paa branch into trunk  
and be done with it.

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Andy Armstrong, Hexten