Suggestion: make jtdiff more flexible on summary file naming

[Tiago Daitx]

Hi Jonathan,

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 1:38 PM Jonathan Gibbons
<jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Tiago,
>
> It is not so much that jtreg is being strict as much as it is about
> looking at the argument and inferring the kind of content, based
> on the standard output generated by the main jtreg tool.
>
> It would probably be reasonable to provide a way to force the
> command-line arguments to be treated as summary files.

Is there any preference on doing that as another command line argument
(so that it does show in --help) or could this be done as simply as
looking for a system or java property?

My only concern about doing it as a property is how to make people
aware that it exists. Do you have any suggestions where that
should/could be mentioned? Somewhere in the documentation? In or close
to the "File not recognized" error message?

I am willing to submit patches for this proposal, just trying to
figure out what is considered an acceptable solution.

Regards,
Tiago

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