On Wednesday 06 September 2006 22:50, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > "t/sample-tests/todo" in the Test-Harness distribution reads:
> >
> > <<<<<<<<<<<
> > print <<DUMMY_TEST;
> > 1..5 todo 3 2;
> > ok 1
> > ok 2
> > not ok 3
> > ok 4
> > ok 5
> > DUMMY_TEST
> >
> > As one can see, the "1..5" plan is followed by the "todo 3 2;"
> > directive. This is supposed to indicate something about plan ahead todo
> > tests. (Instead of the "# TODO" directives in the individual tests'
> > outputs. Now:
> >
> > 1. t/sample-tests/todo is being run by Test-Harness, which seems to think
> > the "not ok 3" is a todo test.
> >
> > 2. This todo-enabled plan is not documented in:
> >
> > http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/Test-Harness/lib/Test/Harness/TAP.pod
> >
> > 3. TAPx-Parser version 0.20 cannot handle it.
> >
> > --------------
> >
> > I'd like to know what I should do about this feature, because right now
> > I'm trying to convert Test-Run to use TAPX::Harness, and this is giving
> > me problems.
>
> These "old style" todo tests were never really documented until I stumbled
> on them inside Test::Harness and Test.pm, nobody really understood, aren't
> very useful and weren't really used.
>
> They were deprecated a while ago. Since they were never really documented
> or used I just hid the deprecation notice inside Test::Harness as it was
> only interesting to folks hacking on it. This notice used to appear in
> Test::Harness but it appears to have been removed.
>
> =begin _deprecated
>
> Alternatively, you can specify a list of what tests are todo as part
> of the test header.
>
> 1..23 todo 5 12 23
>
> This only works if the header appears at the beginning of the test.
>
> This style is B<deprecated>.
>
> =end _deprecated
>
>
> Don't push them forward into TAP. Any feature which relies on static test
> numbering is broken. Just let them die.
OK, thanks. I'll forward-port this sample-tests script to the new "# TODO"
syntax , and would not take measurements to handle this situation.
Thanks for the heads up.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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