Ovid wrote in perl.qa :
>> I've had similar issues with test output out of sequence, especially when
>> I pipe the output into more or tee (sometimes 2>&1 helps, but not
>> always).
>
> What about an optional environment variable which forcess *all* output
> to STDOUT or STDERR but, if not present, leaves things as is? Seems
> like that would work and would also be backwards compatible.
What's exactly the problem with sending everything to stdout by default?
T::H knows how to cope with that. I don't like the environment variable
idea. It's easy to forget your environment and be surprised when
switching to anthoer session or machine.
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