[tap-l] Need comments on TH3 Presenation

[Ovid]

----- Original Message ----
From: Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net>

> I've updated it with that text :)

Thanks!  I still feel that my copy was awkward, so if you have a better way of writing it, that's fine.

In other news, still working on my presentation.  (http://vienna.yapceurope.org/ye2007/talk/475)  Here's my basic plan:

* Show version 1 of TAP.
* Quickly (one slide per second), whip through the next twelve versions.
* Compare the version 1 grammar to the version 13 grammar [1]
* TAP is evolving faster than the parsers
* Why not refactor Test::Harness?
* Test::Harness RT queue
* Show things TAP::Parser can do that Test::Harness cannot (or is clumsy at) [2]
   - TODO and SKIP identification


   - TODO and SKIP lists (--directives)
   - Colored test output
   - GUIs (anyone want to fix the GTK GUI?)
   - Failures only
   - Callback actions
   - Improved diagnostics
   - Multi-language test suites
* To Test::Harness 3.0 and beyond
   - Improve test coverage
   - Improve documenation
   - Parallel tests
* TAP::Parser internals

I would love feedback on any and all of this.

Cheers,
Ovid

[1] The version 1 grammar looks like this (simplified):

 tap        ::= plan "\n" lines
 plan       ::= '1..' posInteger
 lines      ::= line {line}
 line       ::= 'not ' ? 'ok ' posInteger "\n"
 posInteger ::= ( digit - '0' ) { digit }

The version 13 grammar, of course, is at:

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/TAP-Parser/lib/TAP/Parser/Grammar.pm#TAP_GRAMMAR
  http://tinyurl.com/yw7t7e

[2] Is there anything that Test::Harness can do that TAP::Parser cannot?


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