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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: TAP output for user-facing tools?
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 20:28:26 -0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210208212826.GA20168@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200622175128.GA6811@dcvr>

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/

      reply	other threads:[~2021-02-08 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-22 17:51 TAP output for user-facing tools? Eric Wong
2021-02-08 21:28 ` Eric Wong [this message]

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