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On 12/08/2025 04:26, Patrick Robb wrote:
> Oh yeah - is there a reason why we don't call touch in the init 
> function? running touch should be idempotent so we aren't worried about 
> it being called too many times. I was reminded when I saw in the softnic 
> testsuite that it is being called in the testsuite setup. Maybe this is 
> extra work on the testsuite side for no reason.

The idea is that an artifact is just a definition of a file. We use the 
constructor to define one, and we use the methods to actually operatore 
on it. I originally implemented this behaviour, but there was a case – 
which I can't remember right now – where this wasn't wanted. Overall, it 
should be clearer to the test writer to calls operational methods 
explicitly.