[dmd-internals] dmd commit, revision 663

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/7/10 18:27 CDT, Walter Bright wrote:
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> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Renaming shell is fine, and is certainly easier than reimplementing it.
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> Whether it is peculiar or not is irrelevant, what is relevant is is it
> good for running test suites?

I'd very much rather use standard available tools with a minimum of 
custom scripting, but I don't know how far this could take us under 
Windows without cygwin. The many small binaries defined to support the 
test suite reek really foul to a Unix user.

Andrei