On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Kornel Benko <kor...@lyx.org> wrote: > Am Montag, 25. März 2013 um 15:52:28, schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > <lasgout...@lyx.org> > >> Le 24/03/2013 00:00, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > >> > This patch allows for autotests to modify preferences (or we could > >> > think of where we would want to run the same test with several > >> > different preferences files). We might as well also clean up the bind > >> > file, even though I don't have a specific use case in mind, but if a > >> > test changes it, it could lead to trouble for the other tests (e.g. > >> > \unbind "M-x" "command-execute" would invalidate all the tests I > >> > think). > >> > >> Why do not autotests use their own userdir and delete it afterwards > >> instead of polluting the normal one (If I understand correctly what the > >> code does)? > >> > >> JMarc > > > > In cmake it works already that way, sort of, It uses own userdir, but does > > not remove it afterwards.
I think that part of the problem of using a fresh userdir for each test would be that configure would have to be run each time. What if we only generate a vanilla userdir once and then copy it for each test? Scott
