Re: 07AT_ARG_OPTION.diff

[Derek Robert Price]

Akim Demaille wrote:

> Index: ChangeLog
> 2003-03-28  Derek Price  <address@hidden>
>
>         * lib/autotest/general.m4: Comment various HELP_* diversions.
>         (PARSE_ARGS_BEGIN): New section for option parsing related
>         initialization.
>         (AT_INIT): Reformat default help to delineate standard Autotest
>         options from package specific ones.  Alter at_prev handling for
>         arguments with options.
>         (AT_ARG_OPTION,AT_ARG_OPTION_ARG): New macros to define package
>         specific options and associated help.
>
> Derek, could you comment your proposal please?  What is the purpose?
> What kind of application do you have in mind?
>  

This was all to define the AT_ARG_OPTION & AT_ARG_OPTION_ARG macros.

Basically, this allows a generated testsuite to accept arbitrary options 
on the command line.

My purpose was to allow the CVS test suite I am creating to accept some 
of the same options the old test suite did, for instance, -r to only run 
the remote tests and -s to specify the name of an alternate server 
executable to test against the client. I have duplicated the -r behavior 
using keywords, though it doesn't hurt to maintain the old options for 
backwards compatibility, but I hadn't come up with an easier way to 
implement -s <server> yet, which allows for testing a CVS client against 
an older (or newer) server executable instead of against itself.

Derek

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