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1. Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 03:54:08 JST Adrian Cochrane

   Reading through the rest of DejaGNU extended libs for Expect, the TCL-based testrunner, I see:

   * Nicer debugger commands abstract (mostly) TCL's `uplevel` builtin-command.
   * It's own error handling for unknown TCL commands, or rather ones which throws exceptions upon being dynamically loaded.
   * Clear global state.
   * Log status & exit.
   * Log test results to XML, building upon custom XML serialization utilities.
   * Configure whether/how to expect failures.
   ...

   1/3?

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 04:15:27 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     * Record test results with all relevant information to XML as per global configuration. Now this here looks a proper testrunner! Has numerous wrappers for different success statuses.
     * Counters to be run during that recording.
     * Access containing testsuite & configure where it logs to.
     * Assemble "target" strings.
     * Run all tests in a testsuite.
     * Run a test validating its output as per global config.
     * Many configurably-remote testrunning utils, with oens to wait on a command.
     ...

     2/3!

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 04:24:23 JST Adrian Cochrane

     in reply to

     * Utils for running build commands.
     * Utils for locating build commands.
     * Internal utils (used for linking common libraries) for loading "multilibs".

     DejaGNU looks more like a proper testrunner, & more, than Expect!

     2.1/2.1 Fin! Publish tomorrow.

     Soon: FreeType SFNT support
     Next: Solr's plugins system (in place of revisitting BinUtils)
     Then: FreeType smoothing
     Later: GNU MultiPrecision library