On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Martin Bligh <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:09 AM, John Admanski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I don't suppose I could convince you to use a character other than '.' to
> > identify hierarchal tests. I know it's the more natural way to do it in
> > python, but it now means that if I see a result for X.Y I can't tell if
> it's
> > test X with tag Y or test X.Y, and if you have multiple tags it's even
> > messier (is X.Y.Z test X or X.Y or X.Y.Z?)
> > In practice it probably won't be much of a problem for a person, there
> > probably won't be much of a naming conflict, but when trying to write any
> > kind of generic queries or scripts it'll be more of a pain.
>
> Hmm. fair point. I'll see if I can change it to / ... I ran into problems
> doing
> that the first time, can't recall why. Will do it as a separate patch
> though.
>

I doubt / can be made to work without a lot of...work. We use the test name
to construct result paths all over the place, so using a character which the
filesystem will interpret is just going to be painful. Really, we should
actually add an explicit check to run_test to reject any test name or tag
with a / in it. I recommend using some other glyph (colon?) that means
nothing to both python and the filesystem.
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