Running tests on Windows

[Patrick Mézard]

jeffpc at optonline.net wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:44:25AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:02:39PM +0200, Patrick M?zard wrote:
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>>> 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. 
>   
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> http://www.josefsipek.net/repos/index.cgi/hg-pyhgsh
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> 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.
>   

Thank you for the link jeff. I do not know if it can be used to emulate 
some sh behaviour. I suppose shlex could be used also for the 
tokenization part. The real problem is reimplementing  portably unix 
commands/tools like kill or cat without rewriting everything.

Would it be useful to open a ticket on the bug tracker about it? At 
least, to follow developments in a single place instead of the mailing-list.

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Patrick Mézard