[issue25220] Enhance and refactor test.regrtest (convert regrtest.py to a package)

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

"This may be opening a can of worms, but I wonder if what we should really do is re-engineer regrtest from the ground up,"

It's not a full reengineering. My patch takes the current code and split it into smaller files. It's not a new implementation or anything like that.

"keeping the existing regrtest around until we are satisfied with its replacement..."

why are you saying "replacement"? Replaced by what?

"(I've used --single, but it's been a long time, and I think it may have only been when I was testing regrtest after modifying it...)"

You can propose to remove this option if you think that it's useless. I don't want to touch options, I don't know how regrtest is used, and regrtest works right? (If it works, don't touch it :-))

"I haven't looked at Victor's code to see if I like his re-engineering, but I'm really talking about starting the re-engineering from the API, and only then thinking about the code to implement it."

Sorry, but writing a new regrtest project is a full new project. Please open a new issue if you want to invest time on that.

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