[Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Improving Cabal's Test Support

[Henning Thielemann]

Richard G. schrieb:
> I think that formatted plain-text output would be much better than XML,
> something that is human-readable and relatively easy to parse via
> machine.  Something similar to the GHC error output would work well
> because developers are familiar with it.
> 
> Test <n>:<Result>
>     <Location>
>     <Error message>
> 
> E.g.,
> 
> Test 1:Passed
>     src/Some/File.hs:23
> 
> Test 2:Failed
>     src/Some/File.hs:27
>     Expecting `4'; received `5'.
> 
> Test 3:Error
>     src/Some/OtherFile.hs:39

This is the format Emacs parses and lets you jump right to the according
file and position.

>     Unexpected exception.
> 
> This would keep the complexity low in Cabal and allow for easy
> transformation to XML.