Re: Worrying about future proofing TAP is a little premature

2007-03-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Michael G Schwern wrote: So, we seem to have drifted from the topic of test groups over to this topic of future proofing against broken versions and TAP producer / parser version negotiation. I have a simple solution for this. If all we do is argue about TAP

Re: Worrying about future proofing TAP is a little premature

2007-03-13 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 13 Mar 2007, at 07:39, Shlomi Fish wrote: Point is, its a little premature to worry about future proofing TAP against versioning mistakes when we're not producing new versions! I said last week that I'm worried about how much time has been spend talking about TAP extensions and so

Re: Worrying about future proofing TAP is a little premature

2007-03-13 Thread Andy Lester
On Mar 13, 2007, at 2:39 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hmmm I sent Andy a patch to correct some typos in TAP.pm (the TAP spec) and received no reply. Here is the message for your inspection. Dude, two days in patch land is teeny. Applied, thank you. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

Re: Worrying about future proofing TAP is a little premature

2007-03-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
On 3/13/07, Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 2:39 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hmmm I sent Andy a patch to correct some typos in TAP.pm (the TAP spec) and received no reply. Here is the message for your inspection. Dude, two days in patch land is teeny. Applied,

Worrying about future proofing TAP is a little premature

2007-03-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
So, we seem to have drifted from the topic of test groups over to this topic of future proofing against broken versions and TAP producer / parser version negotiation. I have a simple solution for this. If all we do is argue about TAP extensions and never actually produce one we will never have

Re: Worrying about future proofing TAP is a little premature

2007-03-12 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 12 Mar 2007, at 23:49, Michael G Schwern wrote: And nothing done to work on the TAP diagnostic syntax, easily the most pressing new TAP feature. I've been thinking about that today. I've got other stuff today tomorrow and Wednesday but my plan was to get some code out by the end of the

Re: Worrying about future proofing TAP is a little premature

2007-03-12 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Michael G Schwern # on Monday 12 March 2007 04:49 pm: If all we do is argue about TAP extensions and never actually produce one we will never have to worry about new versions! That's a good plan. To implement it, we really need a committee. Perhaps perl-qa is a little overwhelmed with