smbtorture - why has it's output format changed?

[Gary R. Schmidt]

Okay, I spent a few days a while ago whacking up a parser for the output 
of smbtorture so it could be used as a "see, it works" sort of thing, 
(pointed at Samba 3 servers (and yes, I *know* it's not really meant for 
that, but it's a good yardstick)).

Yesterday, I update my samba 4 sources after some time in limbo, build 
it anew, and find that it has all changed.

Why?

I can understand adding tests, and I can almost understand changing it 
to allow sub-tests, but removing tests?  No, you don't do that.

And changing the output format?  Who do you think you are?  Microsoft?

It merely wastes my time adding wrappers and so forth to make it 
parseable again, but I can no longer rely on it in any form, for all I 
know the next iteration will remove *all* functionality from it.

So, how persistent will the "new" smbtorture structure be?

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)

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