remove some custom logic in testament around flags, testExec (#18090)

* remove some custom logic in testament around flags, testExec

* remove testExec, custom logic around flags from testament

* fixup

testament/categories.nim

@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ const
     "debugger",
     "dll",
     "examples",
-    "flags",
     "gc",
     "io",
     "js",
@@ -48,26 +47,6 @@ proc isTestFile*(file: string): bool =
   let (_, name, ext) = splitFile(file)
   result = ext == ".nim" and name.startsWith("t")
 
-# --------------------- flags tests -------------------------------------------
-
-proc flagTests(r: var TResults, cat: Category, options: string) =
-  # --genscript
-  const filename = testsDir/"flags"/"tgenscript"
-  const genopts = " --genscript"
-  let nimcache = nimcacheDir(filename, genopts, targetC)
-  testSpec r, makeTest(filename, genopts, cat)
-
-  when defined(windows):
-    testExec r, makeTest(filename, " cmd /c cd " & nimcache &
-                         " && compile_tgenscript.bat", cat)
-
-  elif defined(posix):
-    testExec r, makeTest(filename, " sh -c \"cd " & nimcache &
-                         " && sh compile_tgenscript.sh\"", cat)
-
-  # Run
-  testExec r, makeTest(filename, " " & nimcache / "tgenscript", cat)
-
 # --------------------- DLL generation tests ----------------------------------
 
 proc runBasicDLLTest(c, r: var TResults, cat: Category, options: string) =
@@ -705,8 +684,6 @@ proc processCategory(r: var TResults, cat: Category,
         jsTests(r, cat, options)
     of "dll":
       dllTests(r, cat, options)
-    of "flags":
-      flagTests(r, cat, options)
     of "gc":
       gcTests(r, cat, options)
     of "longgc":

testament/testament.nim

@@ -621,22 +621,6 @@ proc testC(r: var TResults, test: TTest, action: TTestAction) =
     if exitCode != 0: given.err = reExitcodesDiffer
   if given.err == reSuccess: inc(r.passed)
 
-proc testExec(r: var TResults, test: TTest) =
-  # runs executable or script, just goes by exit code
-  if not checkDisabled(r, test): return
-
-  inc(r.total)
-  let (outp, errC) = execCmdEx(test.options.strip())
-  var given: TSpec
-  if errC == 0:
-    given.err = reSuccess
-  else:
-    given.err = reExitcodesDiffer
-    given.msg = outp
-
-  if given.err == reSuccess: inc(r.passed)
-  r.addResult(test, targetC, "", given.msg, given.err)
-
 proc makeTest(test, options: string, cat: Category): TTest =
   result.cat = cat
   result.name = test