On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 07:43:41PM -0600, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: > As part of the ongoing effort to improve Automake integration and > mindful of the eventual goal to run test scripts in slave > interpreters, I have come to the conclusion that it would be better > to provide an API call for getting filenames in the testsuite rather > than expecting test scripts to use variables. API calls can be > aliased back into a master interpreter, while variable namespaces > are separate between interpreters.
In principle, I like this idea. It's difficult to properly control an API when users have direct access to internal variables of the test framework. Deprecating $subdir is going to be difficult (*), but perhaps we could do something like adding another runtest option that helps the maintainers of testsuites to find and remove deprecated features (for example, by not setting $subdir and catching the error as it propagates up to runtest.exp). * The GCC testsuite uses $subdir extensively and I'm sure other testsuites do, too. Cheers, Ben
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