[RFC] change test output to subunit when stdout is a pipe

[Martin Pool]

2009/7/20 Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>:

> I redirect for several reasons:
>  - to capture for sharing with others
>  - to generate test lists to run on ec2
>  - as part of my shrinking-failure workflow:
>   selftest --subunit | subunit-filter --no-skips | tee failing.log |
> subunit2pyunit
>   cat failing.log | subunit-ls > failing.list
>   # hack on a failed test
>   selftest --load-list failing.list --subunit | ...

Maybe (somewhat separate from the selftest option) this should be
turned into 'bzr selftest --failures-to failing.list' as a builtin
shortcut? I'd probably use that a lot...

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>