[asdf-devel] New test and windows

[Robert Goldman]

On 12/24/10 Dec 24 -10:51 AM, Stelian Ionescu wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 10:40 -0600, Robert Goldman wrote:
>> On 12/24/10 Dec 24 -10:31 AM, Robert Goldman wrote:
>>> On 12/24/10 Dec 24 -9:55 AM, Stelian Ionescu wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 09:38 -0600, Robert Goldman wrote:
>>>>> I pushed a new test for asdf:run-shell-command that I believe will not
>>>>> work on Windows.  The first step should be to use reader switches to
>>>>> remove the test contents when running on Windows, but ideally we should
>>>>> supply some windows code to take the place of the posix code where
>>>>> appropriate.
>>>>>
>>>>> The current test relies on /usr/bin/true and /usr/bin/false to test how
>>>>> asdf:run-shell-command checks exit codes.
>>>>
>>>> AFAIK POSIX requires «true» and «false» to reside in /bin not /usr/bin
>>>
>>> OK, now checking both POSIX and Mac positions for these files.  Pushed a
>>> new version.  Thanks, Stelian.
>>
>> Actually, I am not sure I did the right thing here.  I am looking at the
>> POSIX standard now (which I'm not good at navigating).
>>
>> It seems like what POSIX mandates is only that I be able to say "true"
>> or "false" to any compliant shell, and it will do the right thing.  I
>> don't /believe/ that it dictates a location.
>>
>> So perhaps I have done the wrong thing here by giving a full pathname,
>> and I should simply be using "true" and "false" without directory
>> specifiers.
> 
> That's even better, especially since most shells have them as built-ins
> 

Done now.  Pretty sure this will not work on Windows, but I have no idea
how to fix it.  For now, I believe that this test will simply not run on
Windows, which is as good as I can manage w/o any windows machine....