Change to NUnit-console

Hi All,

The new roadmap for NUnit 2.5 (http://nunit.org/?p=roadmap lists one item 
that I'd like to run by this group...

"Eliminate use of stylesheet to format console output and drop the 
/transform option."

The console runner currently creates an xml file and then reformats
that file to produce the familiar console output, like this

<quote>
Tests run: 6, Failures: 0, Not run: 5, Time: 0.063 seconds

Tests not run:
1) NUnit.Tests.Assemblies.MockTestFixture.MockTest4 : ignoring this test
method
for now
2) NUnit.Tests.Assemblies.MockTestFixture.MockTest5 : Method MockTest5's
signatu
re is not correct: it must be a public method.
3) NUnit.Tests.IgnoredFixture.Test1 :
4) NUnit.Tests.IgnoredFixture.Test2 :
5) NUnit.Tests.IgnoredFixture.Test3 :
</quote>

The /transform option may be used to change the appearance of that text
output,
but most people want to use it for an entirely different purpose - to
produce
an html report file - and are disappointed that it cannot do that.

It's really much simpler to maintain the console output in NUnit if it is
produced directly, independent of the xml file. My suspicion is that few
people - if any - are using the /transform option. It's function can
readily be replaced by transforming the xml file as a separate step,
which is what you have to do anyway to produce an xml report.

This change will make the console runner easier to maintain and doesn't
seem to have serious negative impacts - but I'd like to hear from you
if there is something I missed.

Charlie



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