> However, most perl tests don't care about TAP, they use Test::More and > Test::Harness and happen to exchange data via TAP. If Test::More and > Test::Harness decied to use "YAP" (YAML Anything Protocol? :), then most > applications would probably never notice.
most _perl_ applications would never notice. IMHO however this overhaul ends up playing out, TAPs current marvel is that it's wonderfully simple and very forgiving - if the new version isn't completely back compatible y'all should call it something else, lest you risk alienating all the non-perl folks who embraced the protocol because of it's simplicity. in other words, call it TAP but break current non-perl TAP implementations and I think you'll wipe out the userbase that some of us spent a lot of effort trying to win over (and succeeding :) --Geoff
