[tap-l] Nested TAP

Ricardo SIGNES tap at rjbs.manxome.org
Mon Apr 14 12:59:34 UTC 2008


* Ovid <publiustemp-perlqa3 at yahoo.com> [2008-04-10T05:42:07]
> I hated this decision, but was hard-pressed to argue against it because
> making things backwards-compatible seemed to involve putting a
> full-blown parser into the TAP producer.  (In other words, sort of like
> embedding Test::Harness into Test::Builder).  I *think* I've figured
> out how to make things backwards-compatible and not require a parser. 
> The background is here:
> 
>   http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/36120

This looked pretty reasonable to me when I read it.  I haven't seen anyone
respond.  Getting nested TAP onto the table would be a huge win.  What are the
objections to this approach?

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rjbs


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