[cmpilato@collab.net] Re: subversion client test suite

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@newton.ch.collab.net>]

Mike meant to send this to the dev list.

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To: Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@newton.ch.collab.net>
Subject: Re: subversion client test suite
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From: cmpilato@collab.net
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Date: 09 Mar 2001 09:18:09 -0600
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Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@newton.ch.collab.net> writes:

> Perl (or Python) is just a happier, more friendly, more integrated
> environment for doing all the things that {sh, diff, cmp, awk, sed,
> ..} do.  

In addition to this, we currently have no dependency on the Windows
platforms for the cygnus stuffs.  APR, Subversion, and Friends build
without a hitch on an out-of-the-box Windows 95+ installation with the
MSVC 6.0.  ActivePerl is a Beautiful Thing for such Windows machines,
and I was able to install (and run) Python just as easily on a box of
the above type.

If you can't give me a test suite in C, C++, Perl, Python, or some
other non-cygwin-requiring manifestation, *that* is a non-starter.
We already have a "__check__" project for the build system in Windows,
and it would be fairly painless, I imagine, to have that project run
perl or python scripts to do the testing.


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