On 2015-06-01 14:45 -0700, Arthur Schwarz wrote:
> http://testanything.org/
>
> Explicitly specifies that a test plan is optional.
[...]
> The operand part of this paragraph is " The plan is optional ..." which
> directly contradicts "It must appear once ...". Your diagnostic message is
> either incorrect, or more likely, there should be a statement in the
> Automake Manual providing guidance.
The plan line has to be mandatory for this feature to work as
intended (i.e., for the TAP consumer to determine whether a
producer has run to completion or not). An optional plan would
be useless.
Other TAP consumers behave similarly to Automake's in this regard.
Take prove for example, the de-facto reference implementation of a
TAP consumer, which outputs a similar error message:
% prove -ve sh test.sh
test.sh ..
ok 1
All 1 subtests passed
Test Summary Report
-------------------
test.sh (Wstat: 0 Tests: 1 Failed: 0)
Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
Files=1, Tests=1, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.03 CPU)
Result: FAIL
The bug is in the TAP documentation.
Cheers,
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Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
