On Monday 14 August 2006 17:20, jerry gay wrote: > > I've added the plan for the neutral todo mechanism to Pugs' TASKS > > file, getting help from many others on #perl6. The new todo marks look > > like this: > > > > todo :pugs<6.28.0>, :p6p5<0.110>, :parrot<1.00>; > > is $got, $expected; # affected by the preceding todo call > > or equivalently, > > > is $got, $expected, todo :pugs<6.2.13>, :p6p5<0.110>; > > this is a proposed api change to the test library for perl6. i expect that > since these are the first tests written in perl6, they'll be used my many > as a starting point for writing their own tests in the future. i'd like to > hear from the perl-qa folks on what they think about supporting this > feature: is this an acceptable proposal, or is there some other (better) > way?
Ugh, so this means editing the canonical test repository for every status-changing update to every implementation? Yuck. This seems like a problem for implementation-specific harnesses and reporting tools. -- c
