[qmtest] [PATCH] Make dotted context keys available in the environment.

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:13:12PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Cool.
> 
> + For example, a context variable
> +       "CompilerTable.c_path" would correspond to an
> +       environment variable
> +       "<envar>QMV_CompilerTable__c_path</envar>".</para>
> 
> I suggest you reword this as:
> 
>   For example, the value of the context property "CompilerTable.c_path" is
> available as the
>   value of the environment variable "QMV_CompilerTable__c_path".

Yeah, that is better.

> +        # And if there is a context file, use it.
> +        if os.path.exists(context_file):
> +            argv += ("-C", context_file)
> 
> I believe that (from looking at cmdline.py) that a file named "context" will
> be used implicitly if no other context file is provided.  So, this code is
> probably redundant and can be omitted.

It's not, actually; cmdline.py checks for a file "context" in the
current directory only, and we don't chdir to the test directories
while running the regression suite.  I suppose I could add logic for
that instead, but this way seems cleaner.

-- Nathaniel

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