David Golden wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> But it's really more useful for more complicated formatting.  Something 
>> simple
>> like making subtle whitespace differences visible should be a feature of the
>> TAP consumer.
> 
> Which is why it will be nice when the "consumer" isn't just getting
> text output on a filehandle.
> 
> /me wants structured TAP capture and easy Harness plugins to change
> how things are presented.
> 
> I hope I can finally get CPAN Testers 2.0 far along this year so that
> next year at a QA hackathon, I can spend more time with the
> TAP/Harness team.

TAP::Harness already reads structured diagnostics, if it sees a "TAP version
13" header.  Doesn't really do anything with it, but the data is available.
It's Test::Builder that's dragging its feet.

AndyA hacked in some basic diagnostic handling to Test::More with
Test::More::Diagnostic if you want to play.
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-More-Diagnostic


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