Re: [PATCH] t/meson.build: fix up tests for 'seen' branch

On 10/21/24 5:14 PM, Taylor Blau wrote:

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 08:04:16AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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For our integration-style tests I'd be okay with not listing the files
individually, such that we instead use e.g. prove(1) to run all tests
via a single test target. It would be a regression in functionality as
we now cannot easily run e.g. "meson test t0000*", but at least we would
not have to maintain the list of test scripts anymore.

I quite like the ability to run tNNNN-*.sh individually when spelled
like that (i.e. including the test number, but not the full script
name).

I find that for the areas that I have worked on most over the years that
I have the relevant test numbers committed by heart, but often don't
know the full script name. So it is nice to be able to refer to them by
number only.

Am I reading it write that this suggests that Meson would lose that
ability?

If "meson test" simply ran the prove(1) utility then it would still be
possible to do:

meson test --test-args "--args --to --prove"

This would not actually do what you want, since prove(1) doesn't
implement "t0000*" style globbing, does it?

So your reading is correct -- meson's own globbing support relies on
meson knowing the list of all test names, which means you do have to
maintain that list somehow (and have that list update when you do "git
pull" and new tests materialize).


-- 
Eli Schwartz