= 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.

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.

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

Note: tapview has an alternative that might be better if your project
already has a Python dependency. The look and feel of tapview was
based on a lightweight Python TAP consumer called "tappy". While tappy
is not fully up to date with the TAP standard as I write in early
2024, it has one advantage over tapview: it interprets faster.  If you
have hundreds of tests that run in near-constant time each you might be
able to notice a difference.

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