Re: new DejaGnu team member

[Dan Kegel]

James Dein wrote:
> > Can you give an example of when you'd need to use this new feature?
>
> We need it immediately (literally!), which is why I'm working on it 
> now.  I have written an internal design doc that has been reviewed and 
> approved.  However, a proposal to this list would have to be more 
> explicit than what I put in the doc.

How about a hint? :-)

> > Also, you may want to coordinate with the guy who's implementing
> > dg support in QMTest.
>
> QMTest?? What's that?  And, who's that?  Naturally, I want to coordinate 
> whenever possible.
>
> My work should be backward compatible with today's dg.  That is a 
> principal design goal.

That's also one of QMTest's goals (where dg != dejagnu, but rather the
little dg driver built on top of dejagnu).  QMTest is a Python-based GUI-mostly
dejagnu replacement.  See testsuite/README.QMTEST in the gcc source tree.
Also, search the gcc mailing list archives for posts by the QMTest
author.

I'm not endorsing QMTest, just noting that they are
supporting dg in a non-dejagnu environment, and
you want to avoid pissing them off because they're
doing something that is a Good Thing, namely rewriting
a lot of the non-dg tests into dg form.
- Dan