Re: meson: Optionally disable installation of test modules

Hi,

On 2023-02-22 10:09:10 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 20.02.23 20:48, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2023-02-20 19:43:56 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > I don't think any callers try to copy a directory source, so the
> > > shutil.copytree() stuff isn't necessary.
> >
> > I'd like to use it for installing docs outside of the normal install
> > target. Of course we could add the ability at a later point, but that seems a
> > bit pointless back-forth to me.
>
> I figured it could be useful as a general installation tool, but the current
> script has specific command-line options for this specific purpose, so I
> don't think it would work for your purpose anyway.
>
> For the purpose here, we really just need something that does
>
> for src in sys.argv[1:-1]:
> shutil.copy2(src, sys.argv[-1])
>
> But we need to call it twice for different sets of files and destinations,
> and since we can't have more than one command per test, we either need to
> write two "tests" or write a wrapper script like the one we have here.

How about making the arguments
--install target-path list of files or directories
--install another-path another set of files

> I don't know what the best way to slice this is, but it's not a lot of code
> that we couldn't move around again in the future.

That's true. The main work here is going through all the test modules, and
that won't be affected by changing the argument syntax.

Greetings,

Andres Freund