Running tests on Windows

[jeffpc at optonline.net]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:44:25AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:02:39PM +0200, Patrick M?zard wrote:
> > Besides, are there any plans to improve testing support on non-Unix 
> > platforms?
> 
> The plan now is to write a simple sh-like shell in Python and port the
> test scripts to it, hopefully with very few changes.

For what its worth...I have written a small shell - pyhgsh. It's written in
python, and I still have some things to do with it. It is meant to restrict
user access to only the repositories they are supposed to have access to. It
allows you to either get an interactive shell, or push/pull over ssh.

It is _not_ done, and I know that there is at least one way to break out of
it. (Hopefully, I'll get to fix it in the next few days.) Here's a repo with
it if anyone is interested:
http://www.josefsipek.net/repos/index.cgi/hg-pyhgsh

I am not sure if the sh-like shell that you are thinking about could be used
as a login shell - but I think it would make sense to.

Jeff Sipek.

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