From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:11:07 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [RFC PATCH] Add u-boot command regression tests. In-Reply-To: <474ACEEC.1080801@ge.com> References: <20071125232920.C2FF9246B5@gemini.denx.de> <474ACEEC.1080801@ge.com> Message-ID: <200711281311.08028.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20071128/8dda484f/attachment.pgp