* TAP output for user-facing tools?
@ 2020-06-22 17:51 Eric Wong
2021-02-08 21:28 ` Eric Wong
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From: Eric Wong @ 2020-06-22 17:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: meta
Hey all, so I've been wondering about how to express
debug/tracing output to user-facing command-line tools.
Our test suite already uses TAP. So does git.git, Perl itself
and the majority of Perl projects I've encountered.
But I haven't seen it used for user-facing CLI tools...
It seems better than inventing random new formats *shrug*
TAP = Test Anything Protocol: https://testanything.org/
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* Re: TAP output for user-facing tools?
2020-06-22 17:51 TAP output for user-facing tools? Eric Wong
@ 2021-02-08 21:28 ` Eric Wong
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From: Eric Wong @ 2021-02-08 21:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: meta
Eric Wong wrote:
> Hey all, so I've been wondering about how to express
> debug/tracing output to user-facing command-line tools.
So I've started using "#" for diagnostic/progress messages in
lei.
I may replace "I:" prefixed messages with them, at least in lei.
"W:" and "E:" will probably stay for warnings and errors,
respectively, but maybe "# W:" and "# E:" ?
> Our test suite already uses TAP. So does git.git, Perl itself
> and the majority of Perl projects I've encountered.
>
> But I haven't seen it used for user-facing CLI tools...
> It seems better than inventing random new formats *shrug*
Other messages ("ok", "not ok", 1..$TEST_NR) may make sense
for "lei import", but not "lei q".
> TAP = Test Anything Protocol: https://testanything.org/
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