Re: [Tcllib-devel] anyone taking a look at the current tcllib testsuite and tcl/tk 8.5?

[Virden, L. W. <lv...@ca...>]

I'd suggest that if stdout is not a terminal that the default be
non-interactive output... That would take care of the most common case.
I always redirect output so that I can have something to copy and paste
into bug reports...

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-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Kupries [mailto:and...@ac...]=20
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:10 PM
To: Virden, Larry W.; tcl...@li...
Subject: RE: [Tcllib-devel] anyone taking a look at the current tcllib
testsuite and tcl/tk 8.5?



> It turns out that all the output I am getting from tcllib's test suite

> is strangely \r terminated. That threw me off - I thought that it was=20
> all output from the sak test, when in fact it was just lots of weird=20
> output from whatever tcllib is now using as a test harness.

tcltest. sak however has changed to use animated feedback by default,
for an interactive terminal. Regular logs via -v and -l, see also the
built-in documentation reachable via

	% ./sak help test

> I'm just getting failures in math-fuzzy-ManyCompares-1.1 (and two=20
> other math locations that don't seem to be identified...) expose-1.0,=20
> and set-1.0.
>
> Sorry about that - the new output structure is really disconcerting.

Hm. Ok. Did you sak directly ? Or via 'make test' ?

We, well I, got have several complaints about this change, see for
example the patch
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1584520&grou=
p_i
d=3D12883&
atid=3D312883

Now I am trying to think about useful defaults ... Like

*	When running from 'make test' assume a (non-interactive)
buildsystem,
	and use the verbose log (option -v, verbose).

*	When running sak directly assume interactive use, and use the
	new animated feedback.

There was also a proposal to somehow determine in sak if stdout is a
redirection or pipe and use the verbose log in these cases.

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