Reading Writing and Support Classes

[Tom Tromey]

This is a reply to some relatively old email...

Anthony> My feeling is that for tests that really require File
Anthony> support, we should tag them with something like HAVE_File.
Anthony> HAVE_File can be set by default in the choose script, and
Anthony> then implementations that don't support File stuff just
Anthony> !HAVE_File.  Or something like that.

I agree.  We should also keep a list of all the tags we define and
what they are intended to mean.

Anthony> I kind of think that we should have a
Anthony> SimpleTestHarness.java.in, and then set the srcdir and temp
Anthony> dir at configure time.  What do you think?

That would be fine with me.

Tom