--- chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running tests or not running tests or ceasing to run tests as they're > running is *not* T::B's problem.
Could you please send Schwern a patch to remove all traces of the BAIL_OUT functionality? > You cannot solve it reliably at the T::B level. That's like saying (pre < TH 3) that we can't have test GUIs in Perl because you can't write them reliably with TH. Just because Test::Builder is has been written to be so inflexible does not mean that the idea itself is bad. > You can't even guarantee that the TAP you get comes from T::B, or > Perl 5 ... ... which is completely orthogonal to the problem. People aren't asking for a new feature of TAP. They're not asking for TAP behavior to be altered. This has nothing to do with TAP. They're just saying "hey, stop my test program/suite." This is made even more clear in Test::Most when a test program dies and the plan is not fulfilled, you get a TAP parse error because of a bad plan. If alternate TAP producers don't want to implent die/bail on fail, so what? As long as they aren't producing incompatible TAP, it's OK TO HAVE DIFFERENT FEATURES. > If you want to stop running a long test suite when it produces 1 .. n > failures, do it in the code that *runs* the test suite. This is not a black and white issue. Like the whole "all tests in separate processes" debate which went on a while ago, you can make reasonable arguments for each case: 1. The code which runs the tests should also stop them. 2. The tests should control their own behavior. I think *both* arguments have merit and I welcome alternate solutions. JFDI. If Andy implements the command line feature, that would obviate a some of the current need for Test::Most and that would be a GOOD THING. Though about those deferred plans and YAML diagnostics. Hmm ... :) Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI - http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ Personal blog - http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/
