Re: MI testsuite to use PTY for inferior

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:36:29AM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote:
>  > If it would be OK, I'd prefer to just have the TTY work with all MI
>  > tests, not making it optional. I'd like to repost the patch with all of
>  > the problems found already, and with that additional change. Is this OK?
>  > 
>  > My theory is that no FE can/should use MI with out separating the inferior
>  > output via a pty. So, it's OK to test GDB under these assumptions.
> 
>  I think you should at least test for ptys first, so that the old tests are
> run if/when they are not available.

Won't do any good - expect relies on PTYs.  If the system the tests are
run on does not have PTYs, it won't have the testsuite either.

>  More generally I think its wrong to force
> the frontend to separate the output.  Currently, I get reasonable behaviour
> with Emacs without doing this and would always include interleaved output as a
> user option.

Would it hurt you to stitch them back together, though?  The fewer
interfaces we have to support, the better...

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