Re: Suggestion: tests: refactor tests to new init.sh-style shell scripts

[Jim Meyering]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Jim,
>
>> On Apr 10, 2017, at 11:32, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>> [...]
>> I applied it and ran "make check" which showed this:
>> [...]
>> No big deal. Just means that the "quiet" test also uses the
>> now-removed cv-vars files.
>
> Oops, missed it completely... fix now.
>
>> Thanks also for fixing my bugs. In your "maint: fix wrong PATH in
>> testsuite", the log has a typo: s/independantly/independently/
>
> Fixed, and also converted three more tests.
>
> These are the remaining ones:
> --
> 8bit
> 8to7
> badenc
> binary2
> binary3
> dc
> eval
> mac-mf
> madding
> newjis
> uniq
> utf8-1
> utf8-2
> utf8-3
> utf8-4
> xemacs
> ---
>
> They are either long, or contain non-ascii characters.
> I can make each into a separate 'init.sh style' shell script,
> or add them to misc.pl like the others (but then it'll be quite messy).
> What do you think ?

Hi Assaf,
Sorry about the delay. These changes look great, and I too like the
idea of putting each of the remaining tests in separate init.sh-using
scripts.

Thank you for all of that work.
Jim