needs support for multi-line constructs

[aspiers]

Without the ability to do for loops etc., this test framework is severely limited. I would suggest switching to a more mature and feature-complete framework e.g. Sharness:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/201591

[mpapis]

I was thinking about that, introducing comment iterators would break compatibility with running this scripts in shell, on other hand adding multiline shell constructs would complicate things as any for or if is evaluated as a whole not allowing checking single line results in it.

TF helped to move RVM to any testing which is more shell like and does the minimal testing available, but in the end it's very complicated topic, I was considering adding interpretation of basic multiline constructs like iterators and conditions - but this is not that important for now (at least for me - RVM can be tested now).