Alan W. Irwin wrote: >Hmm... It's interesting how my comment about a parallel windows scripting >system for ctest has sparked so much interest. A consensus seems to have >formed for building jim/tcl as part of PLplot and making jim scripts with >the same functionality as plplot-test.sh and the various test*.sh scripts, >but I have two reservations about this solution. > > > > ...
>It appears the only downside to the windows bash solution is our windows >developers and users will need to independently install bash if they want to >use ctest and/or the install-tree plplot-test.sh tests. I doubt installing >a windows bash is going to be a difficult burden for Arjen or any other >windows developer that wants to contribute to PLplot since Werner has >already been successful at this, and almost by definition our developers are >good at installing PLplot dependencies. That leaves only the question of >our users. To make life easier for them, I think we should put together a >test to look for bash. If that test fails we should give the appropriate >warning message, force BUILD_TEST to OFF, and not configure or install >plplot-test.sh and the test*.sh scripts. Also, Werner should expand our >wiki a bit more giving a reference to windows bash and perhaps a sentence or >two about how to install it if that is not obvious. > > I appreciate your conservative approach to this topic. So I tried to get win-bash to work on my PC (http://win-bash.sf.net). Installing it is a non-issue - just get the executable and put it in a convenient directory. However, when I simply tried to run plplot-test.sh, it complained that the file did not exist - despite the fact that I gave both absolute and relative paths. It may be that I do not understand how it is supposed to operate, but it seems weird that: > win-bash .\plplot-test.sh (and any variation on the name/directory I tried) should report that the file does not exist. (I am going to file a bug report/question for this, because if it works, it would be a very useful tool). Regards, Arjen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
