On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 06:26:46PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > Define a new version of TAP with a single change. > > Specifically, emit a version number in the TAP output that describes the > version of TAP that's being emitted.
While this may be an interesting idea, its irrelevant to the TBT problem because... > This would then make it possible to > > a) Add new features/change the format without breaking tools that read it. ...the diagnostics emitted by Test::Builder are TAP comments, if TAP even sees them at all since they go to STDERR which most TAP parsers ignore. There was no protocol change here because there never was a protocol. Test::Builder::Tester parses comments! BAD! EVIL! WRONG! -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern Insulting our readers is part of our business model. http://somethingpositive.net/sp07122005.shtml
