[Asterisk-code-review] runtests: Add the ability to run the test suite in a loop (testsuite[master])

Corey Farrell asteriskteam at digium.com
Sun Oct 25 16:45:32 CDT 2015


Corey Farrell has posted comments on this change.

Change subject: runtests: Add the ability to run the test suite in a loop
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Patch Set 3:

> > Rather than "-n -1" for loop forever, I'd make it "-n" with no
 > > option argument for loop forever or specify a number of
 > iterations:
 > > "-n 5".
 > >
 > > Optparse is deprecated BTW.
 > 
 > Nuts. optparse doesn't support the 'optional argument':
 > 
 > "Typically, a given option either takes an argument or it doesn’t.
 > Lots of people want an “optional option arguments” feature, meaning
 > that some options will take an argument if they see it, and won’t
 > if they don’t. This is somewhat controversial, because it makes
 > parsing ambiguous: if -a takes an optional argument and -b is
 > another option entirely, how do we interpret -ab? Because of this
 > ambiguity, optparse does not support this feature."
 > 
 > Of course, it looks like argparse does, so that's awkward. I'm a
 > little hesitant to toss Python 2.6 out with this patch however. Any
 > strong feelings if I stick with the -1?

As long as we find a clearer way to say that in --help it I have no objection.

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