On 16 Aug 2006, at 19:38, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
[snip]
I don’t know about you, but I tend to prefer a well-defined and
simple wire formats over APIs. :-) In a sense, it’s declarative,
rather than imperative. Integration of heterogenous systems is
much easier that way – even subsystems for which no explicit
format emitter is available can participate without much trouble.
You can easily scale the complexity of the participants at either
end of the wire to match your needs. At one extreme of the scale,
you might telnet to your smoke server and manually tap in (pun
intended) “ok 1”, “not ok 2” responses. Then you can go through
scripts which manually `print "ok 1"` through Test::More all the
way to Test::Class. Your infrastructure can be as simple or
complex as you want or need.
I think this is a powerful benefit.
You're right it can be a bonus. But to sell that to a group of people
who already have something that works very well, is already
integrated with their IDE, continuous integration package, build
system, etc. you've got a tough job ;-)
Adrian
