Another MSYS puzzle

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 2012-06-11 02:05, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> Adrian Buehlmann wrote, On 06/11/2012 12:17 AM:
>> Encountered on test-walk.t:
> 
>>    $ hg debugwalk -I 'relpath:../beans'
> 
> Msys makes it relatively easy to run 99% of the unix test suite on 
> windows. The last percent might not be worth it ... especially not when 
> we are fighting msys quirks.

True. But I would really like to have those relpath examples tested on
Windows. I think in that case it is worth the digging.

> But in this case, for starting Mercurial we could use
>    >>> from mercurial.dispatch import request, dispatch
>    >>> dispatch(request(['debugwalk', '-I', 'relpath:../beans']))

That's also a very interesting idea!

> dispatch.run could perhaps be extended to take an optional argv as 
> parameter, or run-tests could have it as some kind of 'macro', or ...