[dmd-internals] dmd commit, revision 663

[Brad Roberts]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Walter Bright wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Renaming shell is fine, and is certainly easier than reimplementing it.
> 
> Whether it is peculiar or not is irrelevant, what is relevant is is it good
> for running test suites?

As far as I'm concerned, one gigantic script of all the commands for all 
the tests per platform isn't an acceptable solution.  It 'works', but it's 
well below my 'good enough' bar.  I do agree that the code, as it stands, 
is unacceptable on windows.

Regardless.. with what I got done this weekend, I think we're several 
important steps ahead of where we've been for the last couple years.