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On Thursday 27 January 2005 00:50, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 06:28:20PM -0500, David Golden wrote: > > But is there any reason they can't be run in the same process? > > In general I think its a bad idea for the test and the thing which > generates its output to be in the same process. Why? Because then how > do you, the user, change the output format? You have to trust that the > test author used something that you can pass in arguments or > environment variables or whatever to be able to spit out the format you > want. This is, of course, the problem with any all-in-one system. The > various implementations of XUnit, for example, have this problem. And > then what happens if Module::Foo is using Foo::Runner that takes its > arguments in one way and Module::Bar is using Bar::Runner that takes > its arguments in another way? > > The nice part of the "test | parser" model is because there's a common > format you can stick any parser on the end and generate any output you > like. The current trouble is we have only one parser and its not > terribly flexible. If I understand the current test model correctly, the seperation also has the advantage that if the test dies, the parser is largely unaffected. It even tells you *where* it died (e.g. "after test #7"). If you have test/parser in one process, a die() might tear it down completely, and you get only "test process died" out of it. Best wishes, Tels - -- Signed on Thu Jan 27 17:45:34 2005 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "I am soo clumsy today." *crash* -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQfkbWHcLPEOTuEwVAQGraAf8C0Q7fgnpoNQJcIsPAHULf02Pb+NordIL Io4FDnjIz/ryuecXj067Gz6aTZv3gFMeTWZuqWMqE/FffNSZxHoJ8935yaJCBlv/ +QUA9Q7/3b7Anj7BodlJCvVVotfR1lGD+DlEQLjqrv8C5wd0hMQFnkxws7AFv3tB mKGGAUyO9ZodscvBj+1l5gBPSWEAMlVYS48cRC/2MAl2xTmv6xfqFHFvaqA9HKTP qz3OSAdCw2wKOWm/vzs5p/t2vUcaInH1xC5nXfecBqwERTcHROLeMcwc3rDntQgJ NxgR3/4zCd2y6LN9CHr2vEg/4cImoBXjTU8Fi50SKi2BsP3/rw8nGw== =I6+J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
