[PATCH 6 of 6 V2] test-pattern: actually update tests using the patterns

[Gregory Szorc]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 05:07:06PM +0100, Boris Feld wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 18:09 -0500, Augie Fackler wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:11:20PM +0100, Boris Feld wrote:
> > > > # HG changeset patch
> > > > # User Boris Feld <boris.feld at octobus.net>
> > > > # Date 1509866592 -3600
> > > > #      Sun Nov 05 08:23:12 2017 +0100
> > > > # Node ID 715948f2256fa181c4f3730825492f9da0f74b2e
> > > > # Parent  c06ed80fc1063905dc6a711fc32c88d5913b0db6
> > > > # EXP-Topic better-substitute
> > > > # Available At https://bitbucket.org/octobus/mercurial-devel/
> > > > #              hg pull https://bitbucket.org/octobus/mercurial-deve
> > > > l/ -r 715948f2256f
> > > > test-pattern: actually update tests using the patterns
> > >
> > >
> > > I love this feature. Buuuuut, could we get away with a non-.py file
> > > for configuring the substitutions? Maybe just use a configparser file
> > > for now?
> > >
> > > I'm hesitant to use Python files for config languages, it's been a
> > > bad
> > > experience in the past.
> >
> > We give a try to the INI format but it doesn't seem to handle well
> > multi-lines and special characters which are painful for defining 200
> > characters regexp.
>
> For the record, this argument was not convincing.
>
> >
> > One argument in favor Python files is that we can have dynamic
> > definition that computes values from the environment. run-test.py
> > already has to do this for LOCALIP, so we expect more case to show up.
>
> But this one seems unavoidable and hopelessly regrettable. Queued with
> regret.
>

The run-tests.py changes in this series broke Python 3. First, a path
component needs a b''. Second, execfile() doesn't exist in Python 3.

I didn't want to drop the series wholesale from hg-committed. If you could
send a fixup commit so it can be folded in, it would be appreciated.
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