[LLVMdev] Is there room for another build system?

[Óscar Fuentes]

Kenneth Boyd <zaimoni at zaimoni.com> writes:

>>> I've been thinking of constructing a mirror test suite coordinated
>>> using shell scripts (bash)
>>
>> Please no, pick a real language.  I love bash and it is fine for any  
>> 200 line or less program, but for much beyond that, something else.   
>> Python?c? C++?
>>   
> If I thought C was an appropriate choice to get this done, I'd be 
> patching the expect source code instead to deal with Microsoft's 
> non-implementation of POSIX.
>
> If a language conceals the differences between POSIX and Microsoftian C 
> for interprocess control, hides badly non-POSIX filepaths from me, and 
> has a reasonable track record of forward compatibility, and has a 
> reasonably universal build process, I'll consider crash-learning the 
> language if I'm not already working in it.

For my test suite I use Tcl (with TclX, no Expect). It watches stdout
and stderr, gets exit codes and has a timer for killing hanged
processes. Process control works the same on Windows and Unix and takes
a less than 30 lines of code.

What else do you need?

-- 
Oscar