[tap-l] stream concatenation question

EBo ebo at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Aug 27 05:10:13 BST 2010


> Strictly speaking, prove is not a TAP producer. It merely runs the
tests.
> ...

Thank you for the clarification.

> Now that I've TAP-danced around your question: this is legacy.

oooo, another fun name for David and Andy ;-)

I'm tempted to use the name for the consumer, but this one is yours unless
you don't mind me using it ;-)

>> If there is not, looking at the draft standards grammar,  a potential
>> solution is to add an optional Test-Name to the TAP's Header EBNF 
>> grammar:
>> 
>>   Header      = [Comments] [Version]  [Comments] [Test-Name]
>>   Test-Name   = "NAME" SP Name-String [SP  Description]
>>   Name-String = 1*(%x21-22 %x24-FF) ; printable UTF8  without SPACE 
>>      or "#"
> 
> You know, I think this would solve some other issues I've had with
trying
> to store TAP history.

What were you thinking in regards to storing TAP history?

  EBo --



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