testbot/lib: If we cannot open the log file, then log to stderr.

[Austin English]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Christian Costa <titan.costa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 15/10/2012 21:29, Austin English a écrit :
>
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Christian Costa <titan.costa at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 15/10/2012 21:16, Austin English a écrit :
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Christian Costa
>>>> <titan.costa at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 15/10/2012 18:07, Dmitry Timoshkov a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>>> Christian Costa <titan.costa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Indeed that would be great to be able to download some files along
>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> test.
>>>>>>> Typically for me avi files and dlls (or .drv) would be great ! :D
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just do what other tests do: embed all the required data into the
>>>>>> test:
>>>>>> be it a PE executable, TIFF/GIF/PNG/etc image, or even a RIFF/AVI
>>>>>> file.
>>>>>> That way the tests don't depend on any external files, or abilities in
>>>>>> the tested environment to download them.
>>>>>>
>>>>> It seems a bit complicated for a test I will run only once and not
>>>>> intended
>>>>> to be part of the test suite.
>>>>
>>>> You could use a self extracting exe.
>>>>
>>> Why not if I can make it run the test after the extraction.
>>> That said why not improving test bot download extra files? Is there a
>>> specific reason for that?
>>
>> I'm not against improving the testbot, it was just a suggestion.
>>
> It's a good one.I will file a bug in bugzilla for the test bot and try your
> suggestion.
> Do you know any simple tool that enables to do that?

7-zip, look into its -sfx option.

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-Austin