On 21 Aug 2006, at 17:43, Ovid wrote:
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If I've spent a lot of time building something that is deemed
unsuitable for the future direction of TAP and the testing
framework, I really don't want to continue working on it.
Is it useful to you?
If it *is* suitable but needs some work, I'd like to know that, too.
For what it's worth: I think what you've done so far is great :-)
The next time I need to fiddle with test harnesses and TAP parsing
I'll be looking at it closely. Until then though I'm not sure that
I've got anything useful to contribute.
Primarily because I'm a lazy SOB and prefer to spend my free time
carousing rather than expending what few mental facilities I have
remaining on difficult things like software design.
The other reason is that I get very nervous designing stuff without a
solid "I need to do Foo". I've found that I really suck at designing
infrastructure up-front, and find it much more effective to extract
infrastructure out of at least semi-working code. That's just my kink.
So if it is useful to you I'd say carry on - I'm sure other folk will
join in when they encounter similar itches. If it isn't, maybe let it
rest a little until it will be directly useful to you.
(desperately hoping this doesn't sound mean :-)
Adrian
