Re: [Monotone-devel] Contributed scripts and how to handle them...

[Stephen Leake]

CooSoft Support <address@hidden> writes:

> 1) I take it what I need to get up to speed on tests can be found
> under the notes directory?

I found it fairly easy just to read the existing tests, and test/*.lua.

> 2) Cross-platform issues, e.g. could I even run diff -r on say a
> Windows platform? 

Yes. Compiling monotone on Windows requires MinGW, which provides bash
and gnu coreutils. So just pretend you are on a POSIX system. 

> Would it be enough to only test on say Linux/Unix/OSX?

No, we officially support MinGW and Cygwin. But that doesn't mean you
have to run tests there. I (and a couple other people) will run the
testsuite on MinGW and Cygwin, and fix/report any problems.

On the other hand, some tests don't work on MinGW; that's what
"skip_if(ostype == "Windows")" is for. It exits a test with a
non-failure status.

Contrib stuff could be limited to non-MinGW, but it would be nice if
that were not the case.

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