[qmtest] [PATCH] Don't use elaborate configuration stuff to find library directory
Mark Mitchell
mark at codesourcery.com
Tue Aug 24 06:13:46 UTC 2004
Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>The patch attached for review removes the 'lib_dir' configuration variable
>from everywhere it's used, and stops get_lib_directory from depending on
>qm.prefix and qm.lib_dir.
>
>This is a little more inconsistent (get_lib_directory now works differently
>from the other get_*_directory functions), but it is simpler and more
>reliable, and, more importantly, it works even if we are not running the
>'qmtest' executable itself (which reaches into the qm namespace and defines
>qm.prefix). Thus with this patch, it is possible to write third party scripts
>that do things like
> import qm.test.base
> results_iterator = qm.test.base.load_results(open("foo.qmr"), None)
> for result in results_iterator
>
>
This is very clever. Please check it in!
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