On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 08:05:13PM -0800, David Wheeler wrote: > >The way Test::Builder works, diagnostics always go to STDERR. Is there > >a reason for this beyond "It's tricky to correlate diagnostics to the > >appropriate test numbers"? (I agree with that, but I'm willing to take > >my chances on certain occasions.) > > Personally, I would love it if they went to STDOUT, if for no other > reason than that they would be properly output relative to the > surrounding context.
STDOUT and STDERR being desynced is a bug. The solution is not to mash them together into one stream but to fix that bug. > I get diagnostics appearing far away from the > output of tests that they're right next to in the code all the time. I > though I'd fixed that by turning off buffering on STDERR (Andy > committed that patch, I think), but it still happens. :-( Is this associated with the recent versions of TH that attempt to capture STDERR?
