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/