#15363: Do some cleaning up of the testsuite driver
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Reporter: lantti | Owner: (none)
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: 8.6.1
Component: Test Suite | Version: 8.4.3
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When trying to understand the GHC test suite I noticed some small
improvements that I could do to it. This would probably work nicely as my
first task on GHC:
Rewrite the timeout.hs in python, it doesn't seem to do anything that
would strictly need the Haskell libraries to be used and it is the only
part of the test suite driver that is not written in python.
Or;
See if the timeout scripts could be eliminated altogether as the python
subprocess module that we are using can now (since python 3.3) handle
timeouts by itself and using the timeout scripts effectively doubles the
number of processes we need to create for each test case. Notice that the
timeout scripts do more than just generating the timeout.
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Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15363>
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