NAME

       gnatpython-mainloop - command line interface for testsuite mainloop (in the ACATS/Fixed bugs style)

SYNOPSIS

       gnatpython-mainloop [options] test_list_file command_pattern

DESCRIPTION

       gnatpython-mainloop program use the MainLoop package which provides a class called MainLoop that provides
       a generic implementation of a testsuite main loop. Parallelism, abortion and time  control  are  the  key
       features.

       Each MainLoop instance controls a set of Workers whose number is set by the user. The list of tasks/tests
       to be achieved by the workers, is provided by a list. The mainloop distribute the  elements  to  the  the
       workers  when they have nothing to do. Usually, an element is a string identifying the test to be run. An
       element can also be a list in that case the worker will execute  sequentially  each  "subelement".   This
       case is used to address dependency between tests (occurs for example with the ACATS).

       When  a  worker  is asked to run a test, the command is executed by calling run_testcase (testid). Once a
       test  is  finished  the  function  collect_result  will  be  called  with  test  id,   and   process   (a
       gnatpython.ex.Run  object)  and the job_info as parameters. Both run_testcase and collect_result are user
       defined functions.

       Note also that from the user point view there is no parallelism to handle.  The two user defined function
       run_testcase and collect_result are called sequentially.

       Note that this main page is written using comments from the code by the package maintainer.

OPTIONS

       Options are not documented.

SEE ALSO

       gnatpython-rlimit
              gnatpython-opt-parser

                                                November 7, 2011                          gnatpython-mainloop(1)