Various notes for those who are curious. Please remember that the parser is
still alpha software! I have no plans to label it beta until such time that I
know all core features are added. With luck, they'll be working, too.
Feedback appreciated.
* Rename all boolean methods with 'is_'.
I've done this in my local repository and have deprecated the original method
names. They will now issue a warning but will not be removed until 1.00. For
example:
if ( $test->passed ) { ... }
Has become:
if ( $test->is_ok ) { ... }
We still have two boolean methods which don't begin with 'is_':
$test->has_todo and $test->has_skip. I don't feel entirely comfortable with
this.
* Write TAPx::Harness.
This should now be relatively straightforward. You'll still have plenty of
control over the output merely by passing in callbacks to override default
behavior.
* Make it work on older versions.
Much work has already been done in this regard.
* Make tprove offer almost identical functionality and output as prove.
I plan to add support for reading a .tproverc.
Aside from duplicating the current behavior, I also plan to some new switches:
-c. --color Run tests with colored output.
By default, if Term::ANSIColor is installed, will show failing tests in red.
Controllable via .tproverc.
-f, --failures Only show failing tests.
-m, --match Only tests which match the --match regex will be run.
This might seem odd, but more than once I've found it useful if I want to run,
for example, my 'customer' tests.
* Find people with VMS or MacPerl who are willing to test the parser.
Currently, I'm pretty sure I'll get test failures on both. I initially tried
to cargo-cult in the code from Test::Harness, but since I couldn't reliably
test it, I stopped.
Cheers,
Ovid
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