Re: an autotest design flaw

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bruno Haible wrote on Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:41:50PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> > That's one of the (few) advantages of having the
> > whole suite as a single script.
> 
> I still don't see the advantage of requiring a "make testsuite" step.

It's the other way round: the possibility to use the flexibility of m4
is helpful, both for implementing a testsuite environment, and deploying
invidividual tests, once you're used to it.

If I understand correctly though, one factor was also the possibility to
write a testsuite environment that did not require a shell with
functions, at the time Autotest was created.  I may be wrong on this.

Cheers,
Ralf