[U-Boot-Users] [RFC PATCH] Add u-boot command regression tests.

Mike Frysinger
2007-11-28T18:11:07Z

On Monday 26 November 2007, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> My experience with expect is that it worked well for simple cases, but
> when I started matching more patterns and more complex patterns, it
> would get harder and harder to match reliably. Also, its asynchronous
> timing-based capture (which causes "capture breaks" in different places
> when you least expect it) drove me crazy. Then to debug the pattern
> matching (or not matching, or mismatching, as the case usually was) was
> difficult.

i think that's really nature of the beast and not a deficiency in expect. how
do you know when things stop coming in ? you dont ... so write properly
anchored input matches and things work nicely
-mike
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