Hi Kamila,
I find myself copy-pasting this feature over and over
in my Automake scripts, as seen in e.g.
https://github.com/iczelia/balrogg/blob/trunk/Makefile.am
Since it's useful for you, I have no objection, but I agree with John
that such a thing looks challenging to implement portably.
OTOH, if it doesn't work reliably on Windows, it could just become a
no-op with a warning. We aren't obliged to implement every feature
equally on nonfree systems. Pretty much anything else would be a better
way to spend precious development time.
Unfortunately, zsh can't do it
Where does zsh come into it? If the test is written specifically in zsh?
interactive programs + AM_TEST_TIMEOUT
Yeah, I wouldn't worry about that. I doubt anyone using automake runs
truly interactive tests requiring input from the user in real time. More
or less the whole point is to avoid such things :). --thanks, karl.
