Cannot run tests if lvt file has spaces

[siefkenj]

It appears that l3build save is not set up to run an lvt file with spaces in the name. It errors on the line

\input file with spaces.lvt

I am trying to write tests that work with \jobname when the jobname has spaces, so renaming my tests to not have spaces isn't an option.

[josephwright]

I'm happy to look at the the naming-of-tests issue, but I wouldn't expect you to use the name of the test file as part of the test. For example, we need to test spaces in names, UTF-8 non-ASCII chars, etc., and do that in a test that is called something like space-test with an auxiliary file which has the space in the name.

[siefkenj]

@josephwright I am not quite sure what you mean. How would an auxiliary file affect \jobname?

[josephwright]

@siefkenj I mean that a test of something-with-filenames is not linked to 'jobname, it's just \input <whatever auxiliary file>; the setup is not intended to impart semantics to the names of the test files.

[josephwright]

@zauguin, @FrankMittelbach Opinions here?

[FrankMittelbach]

Personally I would just list it as a restriction on test file names. Sure one could guard the name everywhere but this is error prone and there isn't really a need for it (testing code with spaces in file names can easily be done by using your own file names (even those based on jobname) within the test.

[FrankMittelbach]

ok, if you really have a package that internally uses \jobname and you want to test how that package behaves with spaces inside \jobname, that wouldn't work out of the box. However, that is a very singular case and you could test for it with something like

\def\jobname{foo bar}
\usepackage{mypkg}

or the like.