[dmd-internals] dmd commit, revision 663

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/7/10 17:08 CDT, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>
> Don Clugston wrote:
>> On 7 September 2010 09:03, Brad Roberts<braddr at puremagic.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> My plan at this point is to replace the makefile+do_test.sh with a c++ or d
>>> executable.  I'm tempted to use D, but that introduces a bootstrapping concern
>>> as well as a reliability concern.
>>>
>>
>> I think we should be dogfooding as much as we can. Also, we could do
>> some more interesting things with a D test program.
>>
>>
>
> I already wrote a test script runner, it's called shell.exe. (It's
> written in (boo, hiss) C.)

I boo and hiss not at the language, but at the existence of shell.exe. 
It's an extremely peculiar program with a weird spec and with an 
extremely generic name. Define testrunner or something, not shell.exe.

Andrei