[TIP] TAP vs subunit

[Remko Tronçon]

Hi Robert,

> TAP is/was a very good fit for Perl, but its really awkward for most
> everything else - and AFAICT it hasn't really changed to fit the more
> object orientated approach possible in other languages. 

Could you elaborate why OO doesn't fit in TAP?

> Consider e.g. 
> https://github.com/remko/pycotap/blob/master/pycotap/__init__.py#L132
> which doesn't provide semantic information (that the error is an
> unexpected success) to TAP consumers.

Isn't this a problem with 'unittest' not providing any more information, 
rather than a problem with TAP or pycotap? Also, which semantic 
information would you expect? There's nothing to report in this case afaict?

> I'd use junitxml (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/junitxml) which is both

One downside (apart from XML not being as trivial to generate as TAP) is 
that it isn't streamable, so you can't get live updates. Might not be 
necessary for you.

TAP certainly isn't perfect, but it is a pragmatic solution that does the trick 
in my case.

thanks!
Remko