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[Q] TAP13 YAML blocks format #127

Closed plroebuck closed 6 years ago

plroebuck commented 6 years ago

For TAP13, the specification mentions:

Currently (2007/03/17) the format of the data structure represented by a YAML block has not been standardized.

Since that was over a decade ago, was it ever standardized?

mblayman commented 6 years ago

In short, no, it was not standardized formally. PR #36 was a first draft of TAP version 14 which attempted to formalize the YAML block structure, but the effort stalled. The PR has been open since 2015. I think those involved with it have lost interest.

plroebuck commented 6 years ago

Lacking a standard, is there at least a canonical format?

mblayman commented 6 years ago

No, I would say there is not a canonical format. I believe the closest that there is to the standard is the content of the TAP 14 draft spec. That draft was produced by maintainers of some of the most popular TAP producers/consumers (including Perl where the first implementations originated from).