Re: [PATCH 3/4] meson: introduce kwargs variable for tests

From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: May 15, 2025, 07:39 UTC
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZQ=JfJ+KPShnoam5xkhxg6wbX5hqguXYbpxkLvf2e8kOQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20250506-pks-meson-tap-v1-3-5aaab2942a4c@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

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> Meson has the ability to create a kwargs dictionary that can then be
> passed to any function call with the `kwargs:` positional argument. This
> allows one to deduplicate common parameters that one wishes to pass to
> several different function invocations.
>
> Our tests already have one common parameter that we use everywhere,
> "timeout", and we're about to add a second common parameter in the next
> commit. Let's prepare for this by introducing `test_kwargs` so that we
> can deduplicate these common arguments.
>

This is a nice cleanup and a good to know. Looks good.

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