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

[Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:32:08PM -0500, gvb.uboot wrote:
> Hmmm, I seem to have hit a resonance.

:-)

> More background trivia... my weekend experiment was using python-serial. 
>  I chose that and used it to capture whole serial transactions (waited 
> until it appeared no more serial characters were being sent) so I could 
> then use python regexp matching to do simpler, more elaborate, and more 
> sane (yes, all three) pattern matching than what I was able to do with 
> expect due to expect breaking the serial stream in semi-random time 
> based chunks.
> 
> Another option that I have not experimented with is a python-based expect:
>   <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pexpect/>

That was what we used; two python sub-versions later they had changed
some internal interfaces and everything stopped working. Nothing that
looks like a stable platform to depend on ...

Robert
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