The reason they were put into the packages directory in the first place is because this forms a proper python package so that more code can be shared amongst test cases. I don't know why the symlink was ever created in the first place, sounds like that was probably put in place by someone who thought packages/python/lldbsuite/test was too much to type (hard to argue with, tbh). In any case, as long as you can maintain the package structure so that a testcase can write "from support import fs" then you can re-arrange stuff however you like.
I also think some people had expressed interest in writing bindings for other languages, but I haven't heard anything about that in some time, so until I see more effort on that front a concrete proposal, we don't need to worry about it. On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 9:38 AM Chris Bieneman via lldb-dev < lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> wrote: > So, I want to delete the testcases symlink from the LLDB tree, and move > the tests out of the packages directory into tests/testcases. > > A few reasons why I want to do this: > (1) I can't imagine symlinks in SVN is something that works well on > platforms that don't support symlinks (like Windows) > (2) It trips up scripts and tools that try to operate on the files without > calling realpath (while I know I could fix those, it is easier to just fix > this) > (3) It seems to me that it is completely unnecessary. In lldbsuite's > __init__.py we already find the test cases by path from the lldb checkout > root, so having them live in the python packages just seems odd. > > Thoughts? > > Is there a reason why they need to live in the packages directory that I'm > unaware of? > > -Chris > _______________________________________________ > lldb-dev mailing list > lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org > http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev >
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