From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git in Outreachy December 2019?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:04:48 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1909261257160.15067@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190923165828.GA27068@szeder.dev>
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Hi,
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 02:47:23PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 01:23:18PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > > Also, things like the code tracing via `-x` (which relies on Bash
> > > > functionality in order to work properly,
> > >
> > > Not really.
> >
> > To work properly. What I meant was the trick we need to play with
> > `BASH_XTRACEFD`.
>
> I'm still unsure what BASH_XTRACEFD trick you mean. AFAICT we don't
> play any tricks with it to make '-x' work properly, and indeed '-x'
> tracing works properly even without BASH_XTRACEFD (and to achive that
> we did have to play some tricks, but not any with BASH_XTRACEFD;
> perhaps these tricks are what you meant?).
It works okay some of the time. But IIRC `-x -V` requires the
`BASH_XTRACEFD` trick.
However, I start to feel like I am distracted deliberately from my main
argument: that shell scripting is simply an awful language to implement
a highly reliable test framework. That we need to rely on Bash, at least
some of the time, is just _one_ of the many shortcomings.
> > > > and which _still_ does not work as intended if your test case
> > > > evaluates a lazy prereq that has not been evaluated before
> > >
> > > I don't see any striking differences between the trace output of a test
> > > involving a lazy prereq from Bash or dash:
> > >
> > > [...]
> >
> > The evaluation of the lazy prereq is indeed not different between Bash
> > or dash. It is nevertheless quite disruptive in the trace of a test
> > script, especially when it is evaluated for a test case that is skipped
> > explicitly via the `--run` option.
>
> But then the actual issue is the unnecessary evaluation of the prereq
> even when the test framework could know in advance that the test case
> should be skipped anyway, and the trace from it is a mere side effect,
> no?
I forgot a crucial tidbit: if you run with `-x` and a lazy prereq is
evaluated, not only is the output disruptive, the trace is also turned
off after the lazy prereq, _before_ the actual test case is run. So you
don't see any trace of the actual test case.
In any case, I really do not want to see this thread derailed into
specifics of Bashisms and bugs in our test framework.
My main point should not be diluted: a test framework should be
implemented in a language that offers speedy execution of even
complicated logic, proper error checking, and higher data types (i.e.
other than "everything is a string"). Unix shell script is not it.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-26 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-27 5:17 Git in Outreachy December 2019? Jeff King
2019-08-31 7:58 ` Christian Couder
2019-08-31 19:44 ` Olga Telezhnaya
2019-09-04 19:41 ` Jeff King
2019-09-05 7:24 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-05 19:39 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-06 11:55 ` Carlo Arenas
2019-09-07 6:39 ` Jeff King
2019-09-07 10:13 ` Carlo Arenas
2019-09-07 6:36 ` Jeff King
2019-09-08 14:56 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-09 17:00 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:07 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 9:47 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 19:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-26 21:54 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 11:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-13 20:03 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-13 20:51 ` Jeff King
2019-09-16 18:42 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-16 21:33 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-16 21:44 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-16 23:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-09-17 0:59 ` Jeff King
2019-09-17 11:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-17 12:02 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-23 12:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-23 16:58 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 11:04 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2019-09-26 13:28 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 19:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-26 21:44 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-27 22:18 ` Jeff King
2019-10-09 17:25 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-10-11 6:34 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:19 ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 14:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-17 15:10 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 12:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-23 19:30 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:07 ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 14:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-24 15:33 ` Jeff King
2019-09-28 3:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-24 0:55 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-26 12:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-30 8:55 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-28 4:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-20 17:04 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-21 1:47 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-23 14:23 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 19:40 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 22:29 ` Philip Oakley
2019-10-22 21:16 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-23 11:49 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 17:58 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 19:27 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 20:48 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 19:15 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 20:38 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 21:28 ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 17:07 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-26 7:09 ` Jeff King
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