On 8/29/25 10:47 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
There is an option for XML logs that is currently a bit "half-baked"
and, as far as I can tell, what it
Sorry about that, I'm probably the only one that ever used it. The
entire idea of the .sum files was so the output could be easily diff'd,
XML potentially being somewhat better cause at least it was structured.
The idea of using a JSON file is probably better than fixing the minimal
XML support. Or support both.
There are plans to radically overhaul XML support for the DejaGnu 1.7
release. There is some preliminary code on the "psql" branch but I am
unsure if that code will ultimately be merged or prove to
That was never really finished obviously, it was an experiment, which
is why it's still in a branch. Personally I think a database would be
much better than piles of text files in any format. The XML files (or
JSON) could be imported was the idea.
All that said, once the infrastructure for the revised XML support is
complete, reusing it to also produce .sum.json files would be
relatively simple, really only a matter of output syntax. (Note that
that would mean the resulting JSON structure would mirror the XML tree
structure.)
Sounds good to me.
For example, the currently planned major highlight for 1.6.4 will be a
rewritten table-driven default_target_compile because that procedure
is teetering on the edge of "BigBallOfMud" unmaintainability.
Life maintaining a 35 year old program... Design "decisions" made in
the early years were never really designed, just cranked out because we
we desperately needed it for testing so we could do supported quarterly
releases. Cross testing to embedded systems was very experimental at the
time, the era of SRECs, 9600 baud serial ports, and debug ROM monitors.
Refactoring the target support is probably a good idea since the
technology has changed considerably.
I don't know how much maintenance DejaGNU is getting these days
DejaGnu has always suffered from lack of funding for any maintenance,
unlike the rest of the toolchain. Post Cygnus Support, any work on
DejaGnu has been voluntary. I think there has also been a bit of the
"don't break the test results", which discourages development beyond
critical bug fixing. I'd be nice to see a little more support to fix and
improve long-standing problems. I'm actually surprised nobody wrote a
replacement.
- rob -
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