Re: Autotools GSoC ideas

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hello Ralf and all GNU hackers.

On Monday 07 March 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'll throw a couple of suggestions for Autotools out there:
> 
> 1) Interfacing with the Test Anything Protocol (TAP) (or maybe another
> test protocol?).  Automake-generated Makefiles could be consumers of the
> protocol for third-party testsuites.  Automake-generated simple
> testsuites (TESTS) and Autoconf-generated Autotest testsuites could be
> producers.
>
FYI, you can find (unofficial?) specifications and documentation for the
TAP format here:
 <http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/Test-Harness-2.64/lib/Test/Harness/TAP.pod>

Regards,
    Stefano