On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Reinier Lamers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> More compact tests are easier to write and easier to >> run. And it would allow windows tests to be run by that large >> fraction of users who are unwilling to install msys or cygwin. > > I don't think that people who are unwilling to install msys or cygwin (fairly > familiar programs that come as a Windows installer package) will be willing to > install some obscure Haskell shell.
No, the problem is that we don't *want* them to install msys or cygwin, which don't behave like windows. The point is to avoid special-casing because of things like pwd failing to work properly. The same issues hold on non-GNU platforms like solaris, where we have a whole horde of test portability problems. We solve some of them by always running tests in bash, but we still run into trouble with tools like grep and fgrep. David _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
