Re: [GSoC] Early design discussion for TAP/SubUnit support in automake.

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Stefano Lattarini
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Robert.
>> >>
>> > OTOH, I do believe this is a real concern, to be carefully addressed and
>> > tested for.  Thanks for bringing this up.
>>
>> For Both TAP and subunit the test script running needs to feed into a
>> single parser:
>>
> This is not possible with the current implementation/design of third-party
> test drivers in Automake.  Every test script listed in $(TESTS) is passed
> *separately* to dedicated instance of the proper test driver; this means
> that the output of *each* test script in $(TESTS) will be parsed by a
> different instance of the TAP (or SubUnit) parser.

Crossed wires: I meant each test script having a different instance: I
phrased it poorly. Put differently there should be a 1:1 mapping
between test script that runs and parser instances.

-Rob