[llvm-dev] de-posixifying list tests?

[Rafael Espíndola via llvm-dev]

On 30 March 2017 at 14:36, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:
> We could make lit tests more portable by unconditionally setting
> execute_external to False in lit.common.cfg. This would use the lit shell on
> all platforms, and make it impossible to accidentally write tests that don't
> run on Windows from Posix.
>
> We have a long term goal to do this anyway:
> https://bugs.llvm.org//show_bug.cgi?id=5241 Want to be the first LLVM
> project to do it?

Interesting. I will keep sending the patches for review. Of the things
I have seen used that I don't plan to implement right away is
subshell.

Cheers,
Rafael