Windows Tests

Eduard-Cristian Stefan alexandrul.ct at gmail.com
Thu May 5 00:27:49 CDT 2011


On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 15:51, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> Realistically, we're not going to be able to maintain two independent
> test suites. The majority of developers use Unix so the Windows test
> suite would not keep pace. We need to share as much as possible between
> Windows tests and Unix tests to have any hope of succeeding.
>
> So we've either got to figure out how to run the existing tests on
> Windows unmodified or how to minimally annotate test files with the
> changes needed for Windows.

Like a runner that will read existing tests and convert the steps
to the windows equivalents? Just an idea, I don't have the experience
to implement such a thing.

Have a nice day,
  Eduard


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