Taskbot: TAP vs Subunit

[Kamil Paral]

> = TAP =
> 
> TAP is not unittest-specific, and is human-readable plaintext format.
> 
> It also has just PASS/FAIL logic, but there is a possibility to add YAML
> 'metadata' to any result (since TAP v. 13).
> 
> The real issue with TAP is Python support.
> There is a TAP-consumer library created as an example for PyParsing
> <http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/file/detail/TAP.py>, but it does not
> support the v13 protocol, and is quite useless as such.
> TAP-producer library for Python <https://github.com/rjbs/pytap> is also using
> the old version (i.e. no YAML extensions), and seems to be dead (2 years
> since last update). It is also quite badly written.

Doesn't autotest support TAP results storage? How do they do it?

Lucas, can you comment? Thanks.