On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Adam Dinwoodie <a...@dinwoodie.org> wrote:
>> One disadvantage of this though, if this kind of framework does not
>> get popular, then any new test feature must be added at both places
>> but it's a waste of time to support both. So...
>
> I don't follow: if we end up implementing every test twice, as we have
> here, then I agree, but I don't think there's much value in doing that
> except as a proof of concept, as in this immediate discussion.  The
> obvious-to-me way to do this would be following the precedent of the
> core code: gradually migrate things away from shell code to C code.

Not the tests themselves. Test features, like --valgrind, --debug,
--verbose and that kind of stuff. These are handled by test-lib.sh. If
we add support for --new-fancy-thing to test-lib.sh then we need some
more code in test-lib.c as well.
-- 
Duy

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