From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:06:02 +0100
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Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org, git@vger.kernel.org,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [notmuch] Using test-lib.sh under GPLv3?
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On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:27:37 -0800 (PST), Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> writes:
> 
> > I like the simple and powerful test suite used by Git and I would like
> > to use something like that in Notmuch project (http://notmuchmail.org/).
> > [...]
>
> Have you thought about using TAP (Test Anything Protocol) format for
> your testsuite?  Its page (http://testanything.org) has a TAP-producing
> bash library: http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/Tap-functions

Yes, somebody has mentiond TAP on notmuch list. From a quick look at TAP
shell library it seems to me a bit more complex then git's library and
it also requires bash.

If we need to use some TAP-based tools, we could easily change the
output of git's library to conform to TAP. Right?

Michal