Late last night (the only time of the day I have free any more), I committed a changeset to CVS that introduced a new command-line option to each of the utilities: -g|--global-databases-file. This option allows you to specify the path of the ``databases'' file at run-time, which in turn points to the location of GNATS databases on the system. I chose 'g' as the option simply because it wasn't being used by any of the command-line tools. I still need to update the documentation (*.info and *.man pages) with the new option, but at least we're getting somewhere. ;-) (I'm not really happy about using global variables, but it was the quickest solution available.)
This is an important feature, as it allows us to now build a suite of test scripts using autotest (from autoconf). Monotone's integration of autotest to build a comprehensive regression test suite is inspiring. I'll probably borrow heavily from their implementation to get ours off the ground, and the first test I plan on writing is for BUG#491 and Alex's patch. If we find ourselves needing to make this type of change again, there is a nice framework tool for command-line utilities called GNU Gengetopt [1] that generates the options parser. It would certainly help with consistency. Anyway, back to the grind. References ========== 1. http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/gengetopt.html -- Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats
