Re: an autotest design flaw

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Paul,

* Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:03:13PM CET:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I think the right implementation
> > would be a library of shell functions.
> 
> Thanks.  That's the right direction for Autoconf in general, one that
> we've long had sentiment to explore -- but not the resources.

The difference being that implementing a test suite environment with
shell functions, and in the long term dumping Autotest, is not something
that comes with huge loads of legacy code that is to be kept working.
Only a small load.

Cheers,
Ralf