[tap-l] Nested TAP

[Andy Armstrong]

On 14 Apr 2008, at 21:05, Michael Peters wrote:
>> Another point in favour of your suggestion: there's no need for a
>> producer to contain a parser unless it aggregates tests. If it's just
>> generating nested TAP it can probably generate the summary result
>> based on its own bookkeeping.
>
> Not really. For instance if there are multiple threads producing TAP  
> the parent
> would have to communicate to the child what test number it is before  
> it can
> produce the summary line.

Agreed. I could have put that better. What I meant was "there will be  
some cases in which a useful producer can emit nested TAP without  
being a parser / aggregator".

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Andy Armstrong, Hexten