Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 20/17] [ng] news: update w.r.t. recent changes in testsuite harnesses (TESTS based)

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 29 May 2012, Akim Demaille wrote:

> Le 23 mai 2012 à 11:34, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :
>
> > +  This is not a big deal in practice, since as of today, all the real
> > +  world packages out there actually use 'test-driver' for most (if not
> > +  all) of their tests (the introduction of TAP support in mainstream
> > +  automake being too recent for those packages to have had time to phase
> > +  out their protocol-less tests, assuming they wanted to -- which is
> > +  usually not the case either).
>
> Actually I don't even know what benefit there is from using
> this "standard" (even though I google'd, and browsed the
> Automake documentation (btw, there is no index for TAP)).

As described to me, it is to solve the problem that parallel-tests 
mode (really tests with per-test log files) is incapable of supporting 
large test suites on systems with command-line length restrictions. 
;-)

I see some benefits from TAP but I also see useful features missing 
from it.  A weakness of TAP is that the test itself is expected to 
know when the test is expected to fail.  With Automake tests, this was 
configured externally.

Bob
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