Failures and Verbosity

[David E. Wheeler]

On Feb 20, 2009, at 3:12 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

> While hacking in a new flag to show test comments, I noticed that the
> 'failures' option made the 'verbose' option, when it's 1, much less
> verbose. That seems backwards to me. Should it not be that, when
> 'failures' is true, it shows failures, but when 'verbose' is >= 1, it
> should show everything, no matter what 'failures' is set to?
>
> The docs day "Only show test failures (this is a no-op if C<verbose>
> is selected)." That seems much more consistent to me, although I'd
> like to get rid of the "Only" at the beginning. Should I change that,
> or have people come to depend on the existing (weird) version?

For now, I've checked in the change to the behavior (r1273), so that  
"failures" (and the new "comments" option) is overridden by verbosity,  
rather than the other way around. I can reverse that, though, if need  
be.

Best,

David