Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] 4.0.6

[Wez Furlong]

On 2001-05-02 15:43:57, "Andi Gutmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 03:38 PM 5/2/2001 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote:
> >Seriously though, win32 is particular hard to do automated testing.
> >Maybe we could use cygwin for running the test-suite under win32 and
at
> >least be able to use standard *nix tools?

> The nature of PHP on Windows is that it's really best to compile it
with
> Visual C++. It uses native threading support and ISAPI support.
> I don't think it's a good or feasible idea to move to cygwin.

I agree about the compiling part, but cygwin isn't just a compiler - you
get bash, sed, perl, awk and all those unix tools.  I'm suggesting that
perhaps the test suite could be run using those tools on a win32
platform.

--Wez.



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