Windows Tests

[Sune Foldager]

On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:30:23 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
>Isaac Jurado <diptongo at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So we've either got to figure out how to run the existing tests on
>>> Windows unmodified
>>
>> Maybe something like this?  Although a bit outdated:
>>
>>     http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> The MSYS may work too:
>>
>>     http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys
>>
>> Both alternatives are much lighter than a full Cygwin install.  Even
>> including a bourne-shell.
>
>I think part of the fun is to run the commands using cmd.exe -- this is
>what most users will end up doing, so if the test suite is to have any
>value, we need to test in that environment.

I think this is unrealistic; cmd.exe is a bag of hurt in this sceanrio.
It's not just the lack of obvious commands, but also the lack of any
shell intelligence. I think it's more viable to ..*sigh*..simulate bash
to some extent.

-Sune