Re: Proposition: move some of the tests from misc/ to specific directories

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 15/06/2023 à 02:14, Pádraig Brady a écrit :
> On 14/06/2023 21:37, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to get the opinion of this list on some tests paths 
> > changes.
> >
> > Currently, many tests are located in the misc/ directory. For about 39
> > of the binaries, there are more than one test.
> > I propose that for these binaries, we should move these tests into their
> > own specific directories.
> >
> > For example, tests/misc/tty-eof.pl and tests/misc/tty.sh into tests/tty/
> >
> > This change would help us more easily identify which tests need to be
> > run for each program.
> >
> > I have already prepared the patches needed for this change. As an
> > example, I've attached the first one in the stack.
>
> I think this is better in the long run.
> Over time we've been moving from larger perl scripts
> to individual shell scripts for tests, as the latter
> are more representative of how the coreutils are usually used.
>
> If you send the patches to me, I'll squash and merge.
>
> caveats to note are that some scripts do test multiple utils.
> You can key off print_ver_ to identify utils being tested,
> which shows the current distribution like:
What would you prefer to do when it is the case?

For example, tests/misc/uniq-collate.sh has
"print_ver_ uniq printf"

Still move it in uniq or keeping in misc?

Thanks

Cheers,
Sylvestre