Re: Supporting TAP tests with MSVC and Windows

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> On 06/25/2015 07:40 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>>
>>> Here is v6, a rebased version on HEAD (79f2b5d). There were some
>>> conflicts with the indentation and some other patches related to
>>> pg_rewind and initdb's tests.
>>
>>
>> Attached is v7, rebased on 0b157a0.
>
>
> Thanks! I fiddled with this a bit more, to centralize more of the
> platform-dependent stuff to RewindTest.pm. Also, Windows doesn't have "cat"
> and "touch" if you haven't installed MinGW, so I replaced those calls with
> built-in perl code.
>
> Can you double-check that the attached still works in your environment? It
> works for me now.

Sure, I'll double check and update your last version as necessary.

> We need to put some instructions in the docs on how to install IPC::Run on
> Windows. I can write up something unless you're eager to.

I'll do it. That's fine, but it is going to be closer to a ninja
version of what you did.
--
Michael