[lttng-dev] [RFC/PATCH 0/3] babeltrace: test harness improvements + new tests

[Nathan Lynch]

On 10/25/2016 12:43 PM, Michael Jeanson wrote:
> On 2016-10-25 12:05, Nathan Lynch wrote:
>> On 10/25/2016 10:50 AM, Jonathan Rajotte Julien wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2016-10-25 11:34 AM, Nathan Lynch wrote:
>>>> This is working toward moving from popt to GLib for command-line
>>>> parsing.
>>>
>>> What is the motivation behind this ?
>>
>> Babeltrace already uses GLib extensively and, as best I can tell, it
>> doesn't do anything with command-line options that GLib doesn't support.
>>  GLib's command-line parsing facility is explicitly intended to be a
>> replacement for popt:
>>
>> https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Commandline-option-parser.html#glib-Commandline-option-parser.description
>>
>> I'm also working on improving Babeltrace's MinGW port and removing the
>> popt dependency will make that easier.
> 
> You should have a look at
> https://github.com/mjeanson/babeltrace/commits/mingw64

ah, great!  I see some overlap with local changes I have already, but it
looks like you've gotten further.

What can I do to help this effort along?