On 12/08/2025 04:26, Patrick Robb wrote:
Oh yeah - is there a reason why we don't call touch in the init function? running touch should be idempotent so we aren't worried about it being called too many times. I was reminded when I saw in the softnic testsuite that it is being called in the testsuite setup. Maybe this is extra work on the testsuite side for no reason.
The idea is that an artifact is just a definition of a file. We use the constructor to define one, and we use the methods to actually operatore on it. I originally implemented this behaviour, but there was a case – which I can't remember right now – where this wasn't wanted. Overall, it should be clearer to the test writer to calls operational methods explicitly.
