The recent questions about adding a test case led to my asking "How are
test script arguments passed in DejaGnu?" and finding not only that the
mechanism is not documented, but that it is another "surprise"
variable: runtests.
This mechanism is probably older than Tcl's [info script] command,
explaining the presence of the test script name in $runtests, but now I
ask whether this should be changed or documented as it currently is. I
suppose that "runtests" could be considered the test script's "argv",
but want to be clear if this what we really want to maintain long-term,
especially with its "odd" structure of { ARGV0
{REST-OF-ARGV-IN-ONE-INNER-LIST} } with an ARGV0 that (in modern Tcl)
duplicates [file tail [info script]].
Also, runtest_file_p tries to hide the structure of runtests, but should
also implicitly use it, instead of requiring that it be passed as an
argument. I propose that runtest_file_p's argument list should be
changed to { testlist {testcase {}} } and that runtest_file_p should use
the runtests global itself if called with only one argument. This would
also allow for the "runtests" global, having long been an internal
detail, to eventually be deprecated and moved into a namespace with
other DejaGnu internals, leaving a backwards compatibility shim that
will be removed in 2.0.
-- Jacob
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