Re: "widely supported scripting language" for make test (was ITS#5809)

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Michael Ströder wrote:

> What do you consider a "widely supported scripting language"?
>
> During some discussions about the test suite I felt that having a more 
> powerful scripting language would help dealing with some of the problems 
> in a more elegant way.

I know this is going to raise a can of worms.  Since we're aiming at all 
Un*x platforms without very special development tools, I believe plain 
sh and awk (no gawk or so) is sort of mandatory.

I concur we could make use of much better languages (I'd vote python 
over perl, but that's personal taste), but I think we cannot have stock 
tests requiring python right now.

For more specialized things, like developers-only tests python would 
probably be fine.

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
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