Re: Failing tests on MSVC in libs-base

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Ivan Vučica wrote:
> I saw this: this was recently addressed by replacing probe of 
> example.org/silly-url-test because example.org started returning 503 
> or similar for that URL instead of 404.
>
> Incoming PR addressed this on every other platform by replacing 
> example.org with another piece of infrastructure we don’t fully 
> control, gnustep.github.io, so I merged it. (As I mentioned on that 
> PR, worse solution would be if it depended on our infrastructure: DNS, 
> Nginx, … on gnustep.org. Then any flake on home.gnustep.org or with 
> Gandi for DNS would also start people’s tests failing.)

I don't think this was the correct solution. Gregory added a file to the 
websites, but that's not the intent of a 404!
Also, I think it is case-sensitive.

I don't think the PR was a good one? RIght now we fail on windows (just 
checked) and FreeBSD, Linux... so it is a consistent "broken" behaviour, 
not just windows.

Riccardo