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

[Jonathan Roelofs]

Joerg,

Would you be okay with this if we got the remote testing stuff working 
such that tests are driven from a separate machine? That would alleviate 
the need for python on the machine under test.


Jon

On 1/9/15 11:57 AM, Chandler Carruth wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
> <joerg at britannica.bec.de <mailto: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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