Re: [tap] "ok 1 description" vs "ok 1

Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> writes:
> Steffen Schwigon wrote:
>> So it already flip-flop'ed in the short history
>> 
>>  TH2early (not stripped),
>>  TH2late  (stripped),
>>  TH3/TP   (not stripped),
>> 
>> ?
>
> Yep, that's about right.  Nothing before TH2 did anything at all
> with the description.

(I'm dreaming about TAP... my thoughts drip out incrementally...)

I'm getting unsure again because: It could also mean that not
stripping was ok and the stripping was an experiment that was reverted
with some reason with TH3. I don't know. Who doeas? $Ovid? @Andy? 
$You?

>> I agree then that stripping the dash from description might not be
>> so end-of-world as I initially thought.
>> 
>> I'm maybe one of the very few who currently depend on the exact
>> descriptions but I can probably even change my evaluation tools.
>
> Fortunately, it will be self consistent within one tool.

Hm, not neccessarily as I provide an API to evaluate the archived TAP
by descriptions. It would just work as long as I control the
evaluation environment, which I still do at the moment.

> What are you doing with them?

Archiving to track history of testruns and recognize result
changes. Probably similar to Smolder, I think, maybe more
finegrained. Therefore I care for single tests and their descriptions.

Kind regards,
Steffen 
-- 
Steffen Schwigon <ss5@renormalist.net>
Dresden Perl Mongers <http://dresden-pm.org/>
German Perl-Workshop 2009 <http://www.perl-workshop.de/en/2009>
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Re: [tap] "ok 1 description" vs "ok 1 - description"