[cfe-dev] Deprecating libc++'s testit script

[Eric Fiselier]

>I dislike this, testit makes it very easy to run the tests on a fresh
>netbsd vm without having to install python first...

I understand that the simplicity is beneficial to many users. The
reason I want to remove the script outright is because at some point
testit will no longer provide decent test coverage over all of libc++.
testit users may fail to see failing tests in newer parts of libc++
and that would be detrimental to libc++ quality as a whole.

Until a significant number of incompatible tests are checked into
libc++ I see no reason why testit can't remain in the repository but
once using testit becomes a "gotcha" I would like it to be removed.

/Eric


On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 03:52:41PM -0500, Eric Fiselier wrote:
>> I am hoping to remove libcxx/test/testit in the very near future. I
>> would like all users to use LLVM LIT to run the libc++ tests. testit
>> is being removed to allow for more complex test formats including
>> micro-benchmarks and tests for the soon to come filesystem library.
>
> I dislike this, testit makes it very easy to run the tests on a fresh
> netbsd vm without having to install python first...
>
> Joerg