3.1.7 status

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On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Jason Miller <jason at milr.com> wrote:
> On 11:46 Mon 29 Feb     , Robert Goldman wrote:
>> the 3.1.7 release candidate now passes all tests on Mac and Linux, for
>> me at least.
>>
>> UIOP does not seem able to detect cygwin -- it has code that looks like
>> uiop:os-unix-p should return t when cygwin is running, but that code
>> seems not to work. It looks for a :CYGWIN feature which is not present,
>> at least not under SBCL.  I can see that uname -o returns "Cygwin", but
>> can't run that from inside SBCL -- catch 22.
>
> I believe that code only detects if the lisp host was linked with
> cygwin, which makes sense because then the lisp host will think that it
> is running on a posix system.  If the lisp host is linked as a native
> windows executable, then using windows style pathnames is correct
>
Note that the lisp script for driving tests also runs with Windows
pathname style (on whatever style is native to the lisp implementation
that was used to compile asdf-tools, by default ccl, sbcl or allegro
all of which use Windows pathname style).

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