Revision history for TAP-Parser

0.51
    - 'execrc' file now allows 'regex' matches for tests.
    - rename 'TAPx' --> 'TAP'
    - Reimplemented the parse logic of TAP::Parser as a state machine.
    - Removed various ad-hoc state variables from TAP::Parser and moved
      their logic into the state machine.
    - Removed now-unused is_first / is_last methods from Iterator and
      simplified remaining logic to suit.
    - Removed now-redundant t/140-varsource.t.
    - Implemented TAP version syntax.
    - Tidied TAP::Harness::Compatible documentation
    - Removed redundant modules below TAP::Harness::Compatible
    - Removed unused compatibility tests

0.50_07 5 March 2007
    - Fixed bug where we erroneously checked the test number instead of number
      of tests run to determine if we've run more tests than we planned.
    - Add a --directives switch to 'runtests' which only shows test results
      with directives (such as 'TODO' or 'SKIP').
    - Removed some dead code from TAPx::Parser.
    - Added color support for Windows using Win32::Console.
    - Made Color::failure_output reset colors before printing
      the trailing newline.
    - Corrected some issues with the 'runtests' docs and removed some
      performance notes which no longer seem accurate.
    - Fixed bug whereby if tests without file extensions were included then
      the spacing of the result leaders would be off.
    - execrc file is now a YAML file.
    - Removed white background on the test failures.  It was too garish for
      me.  Just more proof that we need better ways of overriding color
      support.
    - Started work on TAPx::Harness::Compatible. Right now it's mainly just
      a direct lift of Test::Harness to make sure the tests work.
    - Commented out use Data::Dumper::Simple in T::Harness.pm - it's not
      a core module.
    - Added next_raw to TAPx::Parser::Iterator which skips any fixes for
      quirky TAP that are implemented by next. Used to support
      TAPx::Harness::Compatible::Iterator
    - Applied our version number to all T::H::Compatible modules
    - Removed T::H::C::Assert. It's documented as being private to
      Test::Harness and we're not going to need it.
    - Refactored runtests to call aggregate_tests to expose the
      interface we need for the compatibility layer.
    - Make it possible to pass an end time to summary so that it needn't
      be called immediately after the tests complete.
    - Moved callback handling into TAPx::Base and altered TAPx::Parser
      to use it.
    - Made TAPx::Harness into a subclass of TAPx::Base and implemented
      made_parser callback.
    - Moved the dispatch of callbacks out of run and into next so that
      they're called when TAPx::Harness iterates through the results.
    - Implemented PERL_TEST_HARNESS_DUMP_TAP which names a directory
      into which the raw TAP of any tests run via TAPx::Harness will
      be written.
    - Rewrote the TAPx::Grammar->tokenize method to return a
      TAPx::Parser::Result object.  Code is much cleaner now.
    - Moved the official grammar from TAPx::Parser to TAPx::Parser::Grammar,
      provided a link and updated the grammar.
    - Fixed bug where a properly escaped '# TODO' line in a test description
      would still be reported as a TODO test.
    - Added patches/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.31.patch - a patch against EUMM
      that makes test_harness use TAPx::Harness instead of Test::Harness
      if PERL_EUMM_USE_TAPX is true and TAPx::Harness is installed. In
      other words cause 'make test' for EUMM based models to use
      TAPx::Harness.
    - Added support for timer option to TAPx::Harness which causes the
      elapsed time for each test to be displayed.
    - Setup tapx-dev@hexten.net mailing list.
    - Fixed accumulating @$exec bug in TAPx::Harness.
    - Made runtests pass '--exec' option as an array.
    - (#24679) TAPx::Harness now reports failure for tests that die
      after completing all subtests.
    - Added in_todo attribute on TAPx::Parser which is true while the
      most recently seen test was a TODO.
    - (#24728) TAPx::Harness now supresses diagnostics from failed
      TODOs. Not sure if the semantics of this are correct yet.
      
0.50_06 18 January 2007
    - Fixed doc typo in examples/README [rt.cpan.org #24409]
    - Colored test output is now the default for 'runtests' unless
      you're running under windows or -t STDOUT is false.
      [rt.cpan.org #24310]
    - Removed the .t extension from t/source_tests/*.t since those are
      'test tests' which caused false negatives when running recursive
      tests. [Adrian Howard]
    - Somewhere along the way, the exit status started working again.
      Go figure.
    - Factored color output so that disabling it under Windows is
      cleaner.
    - Added explicit switch to :crlf layer after open3 under Windows.
      open3 defaults to raw mode resulting in spurious \r characters input
      parsed input.
    - Made Iterator do an explicit wait for subprocess termination.
      Needed to get process status correctly on Windows.
    - Fixed bug which didn't allow t/010-regression.t to be run directly
      via Perl unless you specified Perl's full path.
    - Removed SIG{CHLD} handler (which we shouldn't need I think because
      we explicitly waitpid) and made binmode ':crlf' conditional on
      IS_WIN32. On Mac OS these two things combined to expose a problem
      which meant that output from test scripts was sometimes lost.
    - Made t/110-source.t use File::Spec->catfile to build path to
      test script.
    - Made Iterator::FH init is_first, is_last to 0 rather than undef
      for consistency with array iterator.
    - Added t/120-varsource.t to test is_first and is_last semantics
      over files with small numbers of lines.
    - Added check for valid callback keys.
    - Added t/130-results.t for Result classes.

0.50_05 15 January 2007
    - Removed debugging code accidentally left in bin/runtests.
    - Removed 'local $/ = ...' from the iterator.  Hopefully that will fix the
      line ending bug, but I don't know about the wstat problem.

0.50_04 14 January 2007
    - BACKWARDS IMCOMPATIBLE:  Renamed all '::Results' classes to '::Result'
      because they represent a single result.
    - Fixed bug where piping would break verbose output.
    - IPC::Open3::open3 now takes a @command list rather than a $command
      string.  This should make it work under Windows.
    - Added 'stdout_sterr' sample test back to regression tests.  IPC::Open3
      appears to make it work.
    - Bug fix:  don't print 'All tests successful' if no tests are run.
    - Refactored 'runtests' to make it a bit easier to follow.
    - Bug fix:  Junk and comments now allowed before a leading plan.
    - HARNESS_ACTIVE and HARNESS_VERSION environment variables now set.
    - Renamed 'problems' in TAPx::Parser and TAPx::Aggregator to
      'has_problems'.

0.50_03 08 January 2007

    - Fixed bug where '-q' or '-Q' with colored tests weren't suppressing all
      information.
    - Fixed an annoying MANIFEST nit.
    - Made '-h' for runtests now report help.  Using a new harness requires
      the full --harness switch.
    - Added 'problems' method to TAPx::Parser and TAPx::Parser::Aggregator.
    - Deprecatd 'todo_failed' in favor of 'todo_passed'
    - Add -I switch to runtests.
    - Fixed runtests doc nit (smylers)
    - Removed TAPx::Parser::Builder.
    - A few more POD nits taken care of.
    - Completely removed all traces of C<--merge> as IPC::Open3 seems to be
      working.
    - Moved the tprove* examples to examples/bin in hopes of them no longer
      showing up in CPAN's docs.
    - Made the 'unexpectedly succeeded' message clearer (Adam Kennedy)

0.50_02 06 January 2007
    - Added some files I left out of the manifest (reported by Florian
      Ragwitz).
    - Added strict to Makefile.PL and changed @PROGRAM to @program (reported
      Florian Ragwitz).

0.50_01 06 January 2007
    - Added a new example which shows to how test Perl, Ruby, and URLs all at
      the same time using 'execrc' files.
    - Fixed the diagnostic format mangling bug.
    - We no longer override Test::Builder to merge streams.  Instead, we go
      ahead and use IPC::Open3.  It remains to be seen whether or not this is
      a good idea.
    - Fixed vms nit:  for failing tests, vms often has the 'not' on a line by
      itself.
    - Fixed bugs where unplanned tests were not reporting as a failure (test
      number greater than tests planned).
    - TAPx::Parser constructor can now take an 'exec' option to tell it what
      to execute to create the stream (huge performance boost).
    - Added TAPx::Parser::Source.  This allows us to run tests in just about
      any programming language.
    - Renamed the filename() method to source() in TAPx::Parser::Source::Perl.
    - We now cache the @INC values found for TAPx::Parser::Source::Perl.
    - Added two test harnesses, TAPx::Harness and TAPx::Harness::Color.
    - Removed references to manual stream construction from TAPx::Parser
      documentation.  Users should not (usually) need to worry about streams.
    - Added bin/runtests utility.  This is very similar to 'prove'.
    - Renumbered tests to make it easier to add new ones.
    - Corrected some minor documentation nits.
    - Makefile.PL is no longer auto-generated (it's built by hand).
    - Fixed regression test bug where driving tests through the harness I'm
      testing caused things to break.
    - BUG:  exit() values are now broken.  I don't know how to capture them
      with IPC::Open3.  However, since no one appears to be using them, this
      might not be an issue.

0.41  12 December 2006
    - Fixed (?) 10-regression.t test which failed on Windows.  Removed the
      segfault test as it has no meaning on Windows.  Reported by PSINNOTT
      <link@redbrick.dcu.ie> and fix recommended by Schwern based on his
      Test::Harness experience.
      http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21624

0.40  05 December 2006
    - Removed TAPx::Parser::Streamed and folded its functionality into
      TAPx::Parser.
    - Fixed bug where sometimes is_good_plan() would return a false positive
      (exposed by refactoring).
    - A number of tiny performance enhancements.

0.33  22 September 2006
    - OK, I'm getting ticked off by some of the comments on Perl-QA so I
      rushed this out the door and broke it :(  I'm backing out one test and
      slowing down a bit.

0.32  22 September 2006
    - Applied patch from Schwern which fixed the Builder package name (TAPx::
      instead of TAPX:: -- stupid case-insensitive package names!).
      [rt.cpan.org #21605]

0.31  21 September 2006
    - Fixed bug where Carp::croak without parens could cause Perl to fail to
      compile on some platforms. [Andreas J. Koenig]
    - Eliminated the non-portable redirect of STDERR to STDOUT (2>&1) and
      fixed the synchronization issue.  This involves overridding
      Test::Builder::failure_output() in a very sneaky way.  I may have to
      back this out.
    - Renamed boolean methods to begin with 'is_'.  The methods they replace
      are documented, deprecated, and will not be removed prior to version
      1.00.

0.30  17 September 2006
    - Fixed bug where no output would still claim to have a good plan.
    - Fixed bug where no output would cause parser to die.
    - Fixed bug where failing to specify a plan would be two parse errors
      instead of one.
    - Fixed bug where a correct plan count in an incorrect place would still
      report as a 'good_plan'.
    - Fixed bug where comments could accidently be misparsed as directives.
    - Eliminated testing of internal structure of result objects.  The other
      tests cover this.
    - Allow hash marks in descriptions.  This was causing a problem because
      many test suites (Regexp::Common and Perl core) allowed them to exist.
    - Added support for SKIP directives in plans.
    - Did some work simplifying &TAPx::Parser::_initialize.  It's not great,
      but it's better than it was.
    - TODO tests now always pass, regardless of actual_passed status.
    - Removed 'use warnings' and now use -w
    - 'switches' may now be passed to the TAPx::Parser constructor.
    - Added 'exit' status.
    - Added 'wait' status.
    - Eliminated 'use base'.  This is part of the plan to make TAPx::Parser
      compatible with older versions of Perl.
    - Added 'source' key to the TAPx::Parser constructor.  Making new parsers
      is now much easier.
    - Renamed iterator first() and last() methods to is_first() and is_last().
      Credit:  Aristotle.
    - Planned tests != tests run is now a parse error.  It was really stupid
      of me not to do that in the first place.
    - Added massive regression test suite in t/100-regression.t
    - Updated the grammar to show that comments are allowed.
    - Comments are now permitted after an ending plan.

0.22  13 September 2006
    - Removed buggy support for multi-line chunks from streams.  If your
      streams or iterators return anything but single lines, this is a bug.
    - Fixed bug whereby blank lines in TAP would confuse the parser.  Reported
      by Torsten Schoenfeld.
    - Added first() and last() methods to the iterator.
    - TAPx::Parser::Source::Perl now has a 'switches' method which allows
      switches to be passed to the perl executable running the test file.
      This allows tprove to accept a '-l' argument to force lib/ to be
      included in Perl's @INC.

0.21  8 September 2006
    - Included experimental GTK interface written by Torsten Schoenfeld.
    - Fixed bad docs in examples/tprove_color
    - Applied patch from Shlomi Fish fixing bug where runs from one stream
      could leak into another when bailing out.  [rt.cpan.org #21379] 
    - Fixed some typos in the POD.
    - Corrected the grammar to allow for a plan of "1..0" (infinite stream).
    - Started to add proper acknowledgements.

0.20  2 September 2006
    - Fixed bug reported by GEOFFR.  When no tap output was found, an
      "Unitialized value" warning occurred.  [rt.cpan.org #21205]
    - Updated tprove to now report a test failure when no tap output found.
    - Removed examples/tprove_color2 as tprove_color now works.
    - Vastly improved callback system and updated the docs for how to use
      them.
    - Changed TAPx::Parser::Source::Perl to use Symbol::gensym() instead of a
      hard-to-guess filehandle name.

0.12  30 July 2006
    - Added a test colorization script
    - Callback support added.
    - Added TAPx::Parser::Source::Perl.
    - Added TAPx::Parser::Aggregator. 
    - Added version numbers to all classes.
    - Added 'todo_failed' test result and parser.
    - 00-load.t now loads all classes instead of having individual tests load
      their supporting classes.
    - Changed $parser->results to $parser->next

0.11  25 July, 2006
    - Renamed is_skip and is_todo to has_skip and has_todo.  Much less
      confusing since a result responding true to those also responded true to
      is_test.
    - Added simplistic bin/tprove to run tests.  Much harder than I thought
      and much code stolen from Test::Harness.
    - Modified stolen iterator to fix a bug with stream handling when extra
      newlines were encountered.
    - Added TAPx::Parser::Iterator (stolen from Test::Harness::Iterator)
    - Normalized internal structure of result objects.
    - All tokens now have a 'type' key.  This greatly simplifies internals.
    - Copied much result POD info into the main docs.
    - Corrected the bug report URLs.
    - Minor updates to the grammar listed in the POD.

0.10  23 July, 2006
    - Oh my Larry, we gots docs!
    - _parse and _tap are now private methods.
    - Stream support has been added.
    - Moved the grammar into its own class.
    - Pulled remaining parser functionality out of lexer.
    - Added type() method to Results().
    - Parse errors no longer croak().  Instead, they are available through the
      parse_errors() method.
    - Added good_plan() method.
    - tests_planned != tests_run is no longer a parse error.
    - Renamed test_count() to tests_run().
    - Renamed num_tests() to tests_planned().

0.03  17 July, 2006
    - 'Bail out!' is now handled.
    - The parser is now data driven, thus skipping a huge if/else chain
    - We now track all TODOs, SKIPs, passes and fails by test number.
    - Removed all non-core modules.
    - Store original line for each TAP line.  Available through
      $result->raw().
    - Renamed test is_ok() to passed() and added actual_passed().  The former
      method takes into account TODO tests and the latter returns the actual
      pass/fail status.
    - Fixed a bug where SKIP tests would not be identified correctly.

0.02  8 July, 2006
    - Moved some lexer responsibility to the parser.  This will allow us to
      eventually parse streams.
    - Properly track passed/failed tests, even accounting for TODO.
    - Added support for comments and unknown lines.
    - Allow explicit and inferred test numbers to be mixed.
    - Allow escaped hashes in the test description.
    - Renamed to TAPx::Parser.  Will probably rename it again.

0.01  Date/time
    - First version, unreleased on an unsuspecting world.
    - No, you'll never know when ...