Re: Mad TAP proposal

2007-11-01 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 1 Nov 2007, at 21:12, brian d foy wrote: I hadn't been paying too close attention, but it looks like TSP might be able to do the stuff I am doing with Test::Manifest. If TSP become core, that would be really nice. :) Well I'd like that - but it's not without controversy :) -- Andy Armstro

Re: Mad TAP proposal

2007-11-01 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have this ticket in the Test::Harness RT queue: > > http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29633 > > Martin Thurn is asking for a SKIP_OUT directive that would skip all > remaining test files and return a PASS.

Re: Mad TAP proposal

2007-11-01 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-01 15:50]: > The config needs to be dynamic at test time - so it might as > well be a script that runs and outputs a description of which > tests to run, right? But it only needs to be dynamic in a minority of cases. So it seems to me it should be the

Re: Mad TAP proposal

2007-11-01 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 1 Nov 2007, at 14:31, A. Pagaltzis wrote: This way they can have control over not only which files to run, but which routines (if they're using Test::Class), etc, etc. … TAP encompasses scenarios where the notion of files and test routines doesn’t even compute. Yes - agree 100%. Hence it s

Re: Mad TAP proposal

2007-11-01 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Michael Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-01 15:15]: > Sounds to me like it should just be a custom test harness. If > the user needs to dynamically figure out which tests to run, > then why not create a custom harness which will do what they > need. I was going to say the same. Then it occure