Re: meson and check-tests

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 11:28 PM Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 at 18:40, Ashutosh Bapat
> <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > --schedule or the test selection becomes part of the test command
> > itself in the current master. By passing it as an argument, in these
> > patches, we are allowing those to be overridden if TESTS is set at the
> > time of running the test. I like this idea. I was pondering whether we
> > really need two separate arguments --schedule and --tests
> > respectively. IIUC, we can't pass them as a single argument (say
> > --test-selection or --selection) because the subsequent --schedule
> > would be treated as a separate argument if not quoted correctly. That
> > isn't a problem with value of tests. To avoid quoting '--schedule
> > ...', we have two separate arguments. Am I right?
>
> Yes, that is exactly why we have both '--schedule' and '--tests'
> flags. Also, a comment is added to clarify this.

The comment is useful if we want to understand this change but I feel
it's confusing when reading the code. I don't think we need the
comment. The code is clearer than before as is.

>
> > It might be better to make this explicit in the code -- by making sure
> > that only one of them is passed and writing a comment about it.
> > ArgumentParser might have some trick to specify that passing both the
> > arguments is an error.
>
> I did not understand why only one of them needed to be passed at a
> time. For example in ecpg tests
> (src/interfaces/ecpg/test/meson.build), both '--schedule' and
> '--tests' options are passed.

Is it because it has both schedule as well as sql?
'ecpg': {
'expecteddir': meson.current_source_dir(),
'inputdir': meson.current_build_dir(),
'schedule': ecpg_test_files,
'sql': [
'sql/twophase',
],

I see sql/twophase is not part of ecpg_schedule and it's passes
separately to testwrap.

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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat