----- Original Message ---- From: Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Because TAP forbids unescaped hash marks in descriptions and that's how my > parser works, it falls down and goes boom. Unless I hear differently, I'm > going to have to adjust my parser to allow them. Otherwise I can't even > parse the Perl core tests, much less many different test modules on the CPAN. > This is because many people are putting their descriptions after hash marks, > not before.
> We could just fix the core. I considered sending patches, but then, there are so many Perl modules on the CPAN with similar problems that the thought of writing patches for all of them, much less getting them accepted, seems daunting. Since the basic idea seems to be "make it easy to install modules", it seems that allowing more flexible TAP is a win. Also, I've been told several times that Test::Harness should be considered the definitive source on TAP, despite the TAP specification. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book -- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/
