Re: [Monotone-devel] Contributed scripts and how to handle them...

[CooSoft Support]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> CooSoft Support <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
> > 1) I take it what I need to get up to speed on tests can be found
> > under the notes directory?
> >     
>
> I found it fairly easy just to read the existing tests, and test/*.lua.
>
>   
> > 2) Cross-platform issues, e.g. could I even run diff -r on say a
> > Windows platform? 
> >     
>
> Yes. Compiling monotone on Windows requires MinGW, which provides bash
> and gnu coreutils. So just pretend you are on a POSIX system.
>   
Excellent - will write the tests accordingly. Interesting about 
requiring MinGW, I thought they used MS Visual studio. Ok will do that 
and if necessary the platform tests can be put in if all else fails. I 
assume that a standard Perl interpreter is included in the Windows build 
environment (that is what the script is written in)?

Many thanks, Tony.
>   
> > Would it be enough to only test on say Linux/Unix/OSX?
> >     
>
> No, we officially support MinGW and Cygwin. But that doesn't mean you
> have to run tests there. I (and a couple other people) will run the
> testsuite on MinGW and Cygwin, and fix/report any problems.
>
> On the other hand, some tests don't work on MinGW; that's what
> "skip_if(ostype == "Windows")" is for. It exits a test with a
> non-failure status.
>
> Contrib stuff could be limited to non-MinGW, but it would be nice if
> that were not the case.
>
>