[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Feature Requests-577034 ] consolidate [make*] and [remove*]

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Feature Requests item #577034, was opened at 2002-07-03 12:08
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Category: 33. tcltest Package
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Don Porter (dgp)
>Assigned to: Don Porter (dgp)
Summary: consolidate [make*] and [remove*]

Initial Comment:

[makeFile] and [makeDirectory] create files and
directories.
[removeFile] and [removeDirectory] remove them, and
if [cleanupTests] discovers they have not been removed,
it removes them anyway.

This kind of fail-safe cleanup is useful for more than
files and directories.   The existence of the
cleanupTestsHook command testifies that people
have a need to add more cleanup operations to
[cleanupTests].

Instead new commands [make] and [remove] should
be introduced (maybe as subcommands of one
command, [resource] ?) that is extensible to control
the fail-safe cleanup of any resource needed by a
test.

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Comment By: Andreas Kupries (andreas_kupries)
Date: 2002-07-04 11:57

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Proposal: Have the make command remember full paths, etc. 
and provide a retrieve command which returns it, use the 
filename as key.

Example using the old functions:

Instead of 
   set path(foo) [makeFile {...} foo]
and later
   $path(foo)

use
   makeFile {..} foo
and later
  [pathOf foo]

Much nicer than to provide the framework for remembering 
stuff in each test file.




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