[gnugo-devel] New regress.pike option --limit-commands

[Gunnar Farnebäck]

Have you ever wanted to run all tactical tests in the testsuite, not
only the ones in reading.tst and capture.tst, but not everything else?
This has been possible with regress.pike by listing specific test
numbers, namely

./regress.pike reading capture trevor:262,590,670,671,1030,1040 nngs:371 
trevorc:1621 trevord:261 auto03:8 nando:35,111,151

but obviously it's a bit cumbersome to collect the desired test
numbers.

Now there's a simpler solution. Ticket 133
(http://trac.gnugo.org/gnugo/ticket/133) adds an option
--limit-commands to regress.pike (or -l for short) so that we can do
the task above with the much easier

./regress.pike -l attack,defend

The patch also reorders semeai.tst numerically instead of being split
between different test types. With this new regress.pike feature I can
see no advantage with having semeai.tst ordered the way it was.
Protest if you disagree.

/Gunnar