Re: TAP and the exit code

2009-01-27 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Michael G Schwern # on Tuesday 27 January 2009 18:16: >For example, if a test program knows that it is going to >exit abnormally, even after it has finished emitting TAP according to > its plan, it should emit one final "not ok" line before exiting. So, 1. TAP::Harness should store that

Re: numeric plans - feature or symptom?

2009-01-27 Thread Michael G Schwern
chromatic wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009 20:48:57 Michael G Schwern wrote: > >> But these days a TAP parser can catch most premature exits by just looking >> at the exit code of the test, so the plan is less useful than it once was. > > That assumes that the TAP parser has some degree of cont

Re: Let us stop rehashing plans

2009-01-27 Thread Michael G Schwern
David Cantrell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:16:33AM +0800, Gaurav Vaidya wrote: > >> Based on the recent questions on the TAP mailing list asking about the >> significance of "1..", I wonder if this could be simplified to: >> TAP version 13 >> 1..2 # Initialization >> ok 1