Alex’s claim should be broadened: The right direction is to eventually not use Cygwin for anything at all.
> On Aug 2, 2017, at 8:35 PM, Alex Christensen <achristen...@apple.com> wrote: > > I think eventually running all tests on Windows without Cygwin would be a > step in the right direction. > >> On Aug 2, 2017, at 9:53 AM, Szabo, Stephan (San Francisco) >> <stephan.sz...@sony.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> As part of Sony's work on getting the jsconly build for Windows, we're also >> looking at the possibility of trying to remove/reduce the dependency on >> Cygwin for the javascript tests from run-javascript-tests since the build >> itself runs from a normal windows shell. Internally we did a very >> preliminary POC of a version of run-jsc-stress-tests for windows which built >> perl scripts for the test scripts rather than shell scripts and were able to >> get a bunch of the tests running. We attached that to >> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174985 . Obviously, that's not a >> reasonable version for inclusion, but we wanted to discuss whether there was >> support for removing the dependency before doing too much more down this >> path. >> >> Our current thinking is that if we go forward with this, we'd probably step >> it as: >> 1. Move the test script and test runner code from run-jsc-stress-tests into >> a ruby file that is included from the main script >> 2. Make an option to allow using an alternate version of the above >> 3. Make an alternate version that didn't rely on shell >> >> Thanks, >> Stephan >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >> https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
