So I'd be happy to stick with POSIX sh and friends with the odd small
C program to mop up the missing functionality, like we do now.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, but you said it more completely.
What's a bit tedious for all users of the tests, especially those like
developers who should run it a lot, are their serial nature. I see
Automake supports parallelising tests these days. That presumably would
help ‘make -sj check’ go more like the clappers.
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Parallel-Test-Harness.html
I've looked at that. The key stumbling block is you have to create a nmh
environment to run pretty much any of the tests, and we'd have to make
sure that one set of nmh mail folders doesn't step on another set of
nmh mail folders. This is obviously not insurmountable; someone just needs
to roll up their sleeves and do the work.
--Ken