Re: TAP output for user-facing tools?

2021-02-08 Thread Eric Wong
Eric Wong wrote: > Hey all, so I've been wondering about how to express > debug/tracing output to user-facing command-line tools. So I've started using "#" for diagnostic/progress messages in lei. I may replace "I:" prefixed messages with them, at least in lei. "W:" and "E:" will probably stay f

TAP output for user-facing tools?

2020-06-22 Thread Eric Wong
Hey all, so I've been wondering about how to express debug/tracing output to user-facing command-line tools. Our test suite already uses TAP. So does git.git, Perl itself and the majority of Perl projects I've encountered. But I haven't seen it used for user-facing CLI tools... It seems better t