= tapview =
// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0

tapview is a minimalist pure consumer for TAP (Test Anything
Protocol).  It is fully compliant with TAP version 14, including the
"bail" and "struct" pragmas.  It requires only a POSIX-compliant shell
and has bo external program dependencies

It's intended for projects that aleady have one or more TAP producers
built into their code and want a viewer that is small, lightweight,
portable, has no pesky dependencies, and can easily be embedded in
a project distribution.

tapview has a line-by-line parser, so it adds as little latency
to your test-viewing pipeline as possible.

Also included is tapdiffer, a tap producer that digests differences
between standard input and a specified checkfile to produce a TAP
report that can be fed to tapview.

Permission is specifically granted for this code to be redistributed
under the prevailing license of your project, provided that license
is OSD-compliant. Otherwise MIT-0 applies.

To use this viewer, wite your tests to produce a report in TAP format.
Then just pipe the output to tapview. If you want a simple usage
example to look at, see the test Makefile in the tapview project.

https://gitlab.com/esr/spellcheck

That example will also show you how to use the auxiliary tapdiffer
script.

If you find this code useful, please 
https://www.patreon.com/esr[support me on Patreon.]

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This code is commonly packaged as "tapview".

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