Tom Lane wrote:
Expect is very cool, but it would impose an extra dependency on tcl that
we don't now have for building and testing,
True. I was pointing to it more as an example of the sorts of tools
people have built for this type of problem.
I'm pretty sure there are re-implementations of Expect out there that
don't use Tcl; would you be happier with, say, a perl-based tool?
Yes, because we already have a dependency on perl. But don't be
surprised if we can't find such a beast, especially one that runs under
the weird MSys DTK perl - I won't even begin to tell you the nightmares
that caused with getting buildfarm to work on Windows.
BTW, further reading indicates that AS Expect does exist for Windows,
but it's a commercial offering, not a free one. Others appear to be
somewhat limited in value, but I could be wrong.
cheers
andrew
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