a question about testing hgweb (concerning spawndetached on windows)

[Simon Heimberg]

On 2014-02-03, 20:45 +0100 Patrick Mézard wrote: 

> On 03/02/14 14:09, Simon Heimberg wrote:
>> Do we test "hgweb writing on output socket" (in the test suite)?
>>  
>> If we do, this comment from mercurial.win32.spawndetached is not totally
>> true. It works for me with python 2.6.6 on windows 7 x64, when running
>> under MinGW/MSYS.
>>  
>>     # Not running the command in shell mode makes Python 2.6 hang when
>>     # writing to hgweb output socket.
>>     comspec = os.environ.get("COMSPEC", "cmd.exe")
>>     args = comspec + " /c " + arg
>>  copied from mercurial.win32.spawndetached,
>>  see http://selenic.com/repo/hg/file/a959f7167077/mercurial/win32.py#l330
>>  
>> This comment originates from 2f7a38f336f4, submitted by Patrick Mezard
>> <pmezard at gmail.com>.
>>  see http://selenic.com/repo/hg/rev/2f7a38f336f4/#l3.16
>>  
>> 
>> At my windows computer, the tests with 'hg serve' run much better when 
>> not
>> running with 'COMSPEC'.
>
>The python 2.6 was 2.6.1 at best and it is likely the bug got fixed since
> then. If it works for you in all relevant Windows setup, just get rid of
> it.

In all relevant windows setup? Hm, I only have one...
Would this mean Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8, with python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6
each? (Or even more python versions?)


What do I have to run exactly to be sure that "hgweb writing on output
socket" works?
  $ hg serve -???
(Then I could try this on computers not able to run the test suite.)


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> Patrick Mézard