RE: Testsuite Patches: Part 2: test ranges as args to testsuite

[Tim Van Holder]

> I refrained from doing this to avoid making testsuite too complex, I
> personally use my shell to do such things:
>
> ~ % echo {1..30}                                                 nostromo
10:25
Not everyone has such an 3l33t shell ;-)

> but if people think this might be useful, I wouldn't resist.
I think it's useful. Whether I qualify as 'people' is another matter
entirely.

> Still, I don't think this is what we want.  What we want is to tag the
> tests with some keywords, and ask to run the tests that match that
> keyword.  E.g.
>
>         ./testsuite --match=autoheader
>
> and have to the tests that run autoheader run.  This is on my TODO
> list for the real release of Autotest.
Fine by me - I just added this as a quick fix so I could use
'testsuite -e' and still easily get past those tests that are known to
fail.