Windows Tests

[Greg Ward]

On 22 April 2011, Matt Mackall said:
> To the extent that these sorts of conversions are mechanical, we
> probably want to figure out how to unify them with our existing .t files
> so we don't need to duplicate everything.
> 
> My thought is we can add some new markers to the .t format for
> Windows/Unix-specific commands and responses:
> 
>   $ hg status
>   [U] foo/bar
>   [W] foo\bar
> 
>   [U] $ cat foo
>   [W] $ type foo
>   This is the contents of foo.

Eek.  I just checked the calendar -- you're almost a month late for
April Fool's Day!

Perhaps you chose bad examples: IMHO run-tests.py can and should paper
over simple, obvious, common things like / vs \ and cat vs type.
However, for non-common things, some sort of platform conditional
would be nice.

E.g. anything that does chmod +x and then tests that hg preserves
that would be Unix-only.  So do we want syntax like this:

  if unix:
    $ chmod +x foo
    $ hg commit -A
      ...

or this:

  [U] $ chmod +x foo
  [U] $ hg commit -A
  [U]   ...

?  Since the test language is simple and line-based, the latter seems
more natural.
   
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