Re: TAP::Harness and -w

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Ovid <[email protected]> wrote:
> What toolchain software is being impacted by this and how hard would it be to make the switch?

AFAIK only ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build use it. The latter
can already use TAP::Harness, but there are some details we'd might
want to fix first (such as environmental variables).
Module::Build::Tiny is already using TAP::Harness exclusively.

> People have long known that TAP::Harness is a better alternative to Test::Harness, but the compatibility layer meant that people wouldn't have to make that switch right away.

Given toolchain still has to support perl < 5.10.1, using TAP::Harness
means an extra non-core dependency. I suspect that's the real reason.

Possibly we could use TAP::Harness but fall back on Test::Harness if
the former is not present. Disadvantage may be different test results
depending on this because of the -w issue.

Leon