On Aug 21, 2008, at 13:58, chromatic wrote:
I wonder why anyone wants a test so complex that its diagnostic requires you to serialize and deserialize objects and/or nested data structures to and from custom TAP producers and consumers, and, if you really need to do that, if you should start with a testing zeitgeist which doesn't consider a strict separation of producer and consumer a necessary and sufficient condition.
So this begs the question: What is this serialization thingy for, exactly? What will it be used for? Why does anything need to be serialized? TAP is a protocol for test results, not an object broker or remote execution protocol. Is it?
Best, David
