[tap-l] Outputting TAP from the shell

[Jeremiah C. Foster]

Hello Patrick and everyone else,

	I am doing some testing using bash and perl (and even expect, yuck.) I
will use your library and test it out. I have stolen some stuff from the
git project and written some stuff of my own so I may have a bit of a
NIH syndrome.

	Also, I proposed to brian d. foy an article on TAP for The Perl Journal
(it would be an article for those new to TAP). Is it okay to post parts
of it to this list for expert commentary?

	Many thanks,

	Jeremiah



On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 13:40 -0400, Patrick LeBoutillier wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I published a small BASH library that outputs TAP. I called it
> 'tap-functions' and it's modeled after libtap/JTap.
> All the details are here in the TAP wiki:
> http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/Tap-functions
> 
> Usage is pretty basic, the only thing that needs some getting used to
> is the fact that functions that expect boolean values, like 'ok' and
> 'skip', take 0 to mean success and everything else to mean false (in
> accordance with the usual shell script logic).
> 
> I have performed basic testing and it looks pretty good, but if anyone
> has the time to try it out to see how useable it is that'd be great.
> As usual all comments/suggestions are welcome.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Patrick

> >
> >  It would certainly make it accessible to people who don't know Perl -
> >  which is a good thing. I'd say go for it.
> >
> >  --
> >  Andy Armstrong, Hexten