Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #12531: --run_test in Boost 1.62 does not accept test names which contain ':'

Subject: Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #12531: --run_test in Boost 1.62 does not accept test names which contain ':'
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-10-19 20:46:32

#12531: --run_test in Boost 1.62 does not accept test names which contain ':'
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  Reporter:  Igor Akhmetov <igor.akhmetov@…>  |      Owner:  renficiaud
      Type:  Bugs                             |     Status:  assigned
 Milestone:  To Be Determined                 |  Component:  test
   Version:  Boost 1.62.0                     |   Severity:  Problem
Resolution:                                   |   Keywords:
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Comment (by renficiaud):

 > Quoting command line arguments is already required though to correctly
 pass test names which > contain quotes or spaces.

 I am not sure to understand: do you have test names with quotes or spaces?

 Quoting would help in the sense that ':' would not be interpreted as a
 filter separator within quotes, which in turn would remove the need for
 back-slashing the ':'. For your own use case, it would use at much as many
 additional chars, but would have better readability ("ns::X" and ns\:\:X
 have both 2 additional chars, but "ns::X::Y" is more readable and has less
 chars than ns\:\:X\:\:Y).

 You would then have something like

     --run_test="ns::X":"ns::Y":suite1/suite2/"ns2::X","ns2::Y"

 There is indeed one use case needing specifying filters from environment
 variable (and it is on the ticket I mentioned).

 If it were only me, I would rather remove the support for any special
 chars from the test unit names and replace everything by "_" (ns_ _X
 instead of ns::X), that would things much cleaner.

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/12531#comment:6>
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