On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 08:39:49PM +0930, David Kettler wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> This series follows up on recent discussion about adding a test suite
> summary and restoring some facilities of command line loading.  I went
> with John's first suggestion of a command line argument to provide the
> summary.  The directory loading and URI loading are restored as
> features of the -l command line parameter.
> 

Between the two options of -walnut-summarize and -walnut-run, my
preference would be for -walnut-run, but honestly, I don't very much like
either of them.  I feel that we are moving in the wrong direction with
this unit testing framework, and should reconsider its basic design.  It
currently has a mainly command-line UI, embedded in the existing Conkeror
command-line UI.  I think this is the fundamental flaw in its design.  The
more complexity we are tempted to add to Conkeror core, and the more
abstraction barriers we are tempted to break, all for the sake of a
testing framework UI which was overcomplex to begin with, and which we
hardly use to test anything worthwhile, the more we should ask if the
present command-line interface is the best possible UI.

-- 
John Foerch
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