Hi, All: A couple of weeks ago in a chat with Alfredo, he asked me to test his work on the vagrant-gpii-ci plugin <https://github.com/amatas/vagrant-gpii-ci>. In working on the new gpii-testem repo, I decided that Windows was the best test VM, as it lets me test the most browsers at once, and finally made good on my promise. I wanted to share my experiences with the group.
First, the likes: 1. I am so excited to have an easy way to test on Windows. 2. With the new plugin, you don't have to have a Vagrantfile or any other odd boilerplate in each package, just a single configuration file. That's a big improvement. 3. Chocolatey <https://chocolatey.org/packages> makes everything really easy to install. 4. Once you get used to a couple of Windows-specific oddities (like having to use do.ps1 to launch everything), it works reasonably well. Now, for the first big problem: If I launch the vagrant commands from my Mac, the files in c:/vagrant on the Windows VM have the wrong carriage return. If I open the file in notepad, all files appear to be one line long. The particular scripts I'm working with have a "double forward slash" comment on the first line, so basically no code is ever executed. Checking out the code from the repo, the CR/LFs are handled correctly, and the tests pass. I have written this up here: https://issues.gpii.net/browse/GPII-2303 I also have some issues specifically around browsers: 1. Edge won't run at all in the VM, it asks you to sign in with a different account. 2. IE11 is basically unusable out of the box, as it starts up and asks you some questions that you must click to answer before the browser will work. It also has a warning about Java displayed in the footer by default. 3. Chrome fails to upgrade with Chocolatey (I took out that step for now). 4. If I don't upgrade Firefox as part of my setup, choco will throw warnings about that being "incompletely installed", and it won't be available. I have rolled these up into a single issue here: https://issues.gpii.net/browse/GPII-2304 Thanks again to Alfredo for his work so far. I'm looking forward to using this more once these issues are resolved. Cheers, Tony
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