What's with verbose rewriting the TAP?

Michael G Schwern schwern at pobox.com
Wed Feb 18 20:24:59 GMT 2009


I've just noticed another instance of "prove -v" rewriting the TAP so that
you're not really seeing what the test output.

For reference, that's...

Verbose mode adds numbers where there were no numbers.
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=40053

Verbose mode normalizes directive names (ie. "skip" becomes "SKIP")
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43407

If verbose isn't showing me the real test output, I can't trust it to do test
debugging.

Is this intentional?  Or is it an artifact of the implementation?  If it's the
latter, I'll dig in and fix it.  If it's intentional, can we have a
--normalize-tap flag instead?


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