[asdf-devel] New test and windows

[Thomas M. Hermann]

I can write a batch script for the testing on Windows. I have other
obligations, but will try to get to it around the end of the week.

~ Tom
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Thomas M. Hermann
Odonata Research LLC
http://www.odonata-research.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasmhermann


On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:

> On 12/27/10 Dec 27 -7:45 AM, Thomas M. Hermann wrote:
> > Robert,
> >
> > Just got a chance to look at the tests in LispWorks 6.0.1 on Win7. I
> > couldn't use the 'run-tests.sh' script for obvious reasons. I tried to
> > load 'run-shell-command-test.script' by hand but ran into an issue with
> > loading 'script-support.lisp' because *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* was
> > not cwd. I wrapped the load command with a LET binding for the cwd and
> > then ran into an issue with finding the temporary ASDF FASL.
> >
> > I did a little perusing of the tests and noticed that 'test1.script',
> > for example, is specific to Unix/Posix/Linux/etc systems. So, my
> > impression is that the tests are fundamentally not usable on Windows at
> > the moment. It appears that there is a fair amount of work required to
> > update the tests so that they are not Unix/Posix/Linux/etc specific. I
> > have some motivation to improve Windows support for ASDF because I have
> > come to rely on it quite a bit, so I'll start working through the tests
> > as time allows and see if I can get things rolling.
>
> If you can get any of the tests running on windows, it might be helpful
> to distinguish between those that do and don't work.
>
> I suppose this would require adding a batch script paralleling
> run-tests.sh.  If you were to do that, you could push something onto
> *features* to indicate windowsness.  Currently, we have to try all the
> possible features, since there's no implementation-independent way to
> indicate OS.
>
> cheers,
> r
>
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