Re: run BISTs for all installed packages

[Carnë Draug]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 03:12, Andrew Janke <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 1/21/19 11:44 AM, "Markus Mützel" wrote:
> > I frequently cross-compile for Windows with all packages. But I very rarely 
> > actually test whether they work as expected.
> > Is there an easy way to run all BISTs of all installed packages?
> > Something that would be more streamlined than loading the packages one 
> > after the other and manually running "test" for all files.
> >
> > Markus
> >
>
> Here's a function to do this.
>
> __test_pkgs__     ## test all installed packages
> __test_pkgs__ control   ## test a single package
> __test_pkgs__ ({'control','io'})    ## test just a list of specified
> packages
>
> I'm using this in my (new, experimental) jsonstuff package:
> https://github.com/apjanke/octave-jsonstuff. You can have a look there
> to see how to call it on multiple OSes in a Travis CI environment.
> (Windows isn't working there yet, but I think it's close.) You can also
> just run it interactively; it has no dependencies except for Octave itself.
>
> The Windows Octave installers seem to come with a bunch of packages
> preinstalled, so a plain __test_pkgs__ will end up testing a lot of
> stuff there.
>

Beware that not all package tests are in .m files.  There will be
tests in .cc files which get compiled into .oct files.  Such tests
will get discarded together with the source files.