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Subject: Re: gprbuild and package renames (testsuites)
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> I don't think you'll be able to run all three testsuites from the same executable.

No, it's likely not feasible today. Dependency Injection is likely a better way in most cases.

> In the end, the case statement approach doesn't scale really well. We ended up using "extending" and "extending all" projects. For instance: ...

> This solution is not so easy to setup, and is kind of fragile because it frequently happens that gprbuild doesn't properly recompile all the files (though I could never reproduce systematically and thus report it).

Yikes, that reminds me of the old Borland C++ Builder - Two rebuilds in order to be sure that everything was up to date :-S