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

[Chandler Carruth]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 2:01 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...


The rest of the LLVM project has required python for running tests for
years, and it hasn't been a problem. I don't think its reasonable to hold
up simplifying the infrastructure because of this (quite narrow) use case.
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