Tap Version Number

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Andy Armstrong
# on Friday 09 March 2007 04:47 pm:

I'm just adding support for specifying the TAP version number[1] to  
TAPx::Parser. It seems reasonable that the version, if present,  
should be the first thing in the TAP.

I think that should always be the case.  While I don't forsee needing to 
do it differently, I think it's safe to assume:  if we ever need to 
break that for some reason, then it's a newer version of TAP.

Taking that logic a step further, I vote YAGNI on the complete syntax 
for meta-information bit.  If we need more syntax, we bump the version 
and continue on our merry way, right?

Is anybody itching for more metadata right now?


I figure we should keep including this link in every mail until 
everybody has read it so many times that they start complaining :-)

  http://perl-qa.yi.org/index.php/TAP_version

--Eric
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Re: Tap Version Number

[Michael G Schwern]

Eric Wilhelm wrote:
 I think that should always be the case.  While I don't forsee needing to 
 do it differently, I think it's safe to assume:  if we ever need to 
 break that for some reason, then it's a newer version of TAP.
 
 Taking that logic a step further, I vote YAGNI on the complete syntax 
 for meta-information bit.  If we need more syntax, we bump the version 
 and continue on our merry way, right?

Right.


 Is anybody itching for more metadata right now?

Yes, but that's a wholly different thing and should not be lumped in with
the TAP version.