Re: The New parallel-tests Framework (was: Various testsuites)

[NightStrike]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello once again,
>
> allow me to expand upon this topic a bit more.  In this message, I will
> not try to be fair towards the different test suite frameworks; instead,
> I'll bluntly praise the new parallel-tests driver.  :-)
>
>> Automake TESTS support, as of version 1.11, consists of two different
>> test drivers that run tests from within a makefile.  The old one is
>> pretty minimalistic in test suite functionality, the new one (selected
>> with the `parallel-tests' option) is mostly backward-compatible, but
>> also offers some more and slightly changed functionality.  It still
>> operates as a set of rules within a makefile.
>
> Here is a small tour through the features of the new framework.  I hope
> you don't mind that I just post it here.

Thanks!