Why is cygwin needed to run mustella?

[Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>]

Hi,

I am currently investigating the build-problems of the mustella testsuite. Currently I'm trygin to understand mustella itself.
Since I first heard about it, I was wondering why we need Cygwin to run the suite. Currently the only thing I could find, was that you start the suite using a ".sh" command and Cygwin lets you execute that ... Is this the only reason? If yes I would strongly suggest to translate that ".sh" to a ".cmd" or ".bat" file as all other projects do and get rid of the Cygwin dependency. I for instance don't want Cygwin on my machine.

So if anyone of you has more info on this ... I'd be glad to hear :)

Chris

AW: Why is cygwin needed to run mustella?

[Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>]

Ok ... so it's probably the git bash that's doing the magic.
I much more prefer that as I have to have GIT installed anyway in order to checkout the stuff ;-)

Chris
________________________________________
Von: Kessler CTR Mark J <ma...@usmc.mil>
Gesendet: Montag, 14. Juli 2014 11:56
An: dev@flex.apache.org
Betreff: RE: Why is cygwin needed to run mustella?

You can use anything that has a shell for it.  I use Git for windows currently instead of Cygwin.

-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Christofer Dutz [mailto:christofer.dutz@c-ware.de]
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 10:47 AM
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Subject: AW: Why is cygwin needed to run mustella?

Actually I was pretty surprized to see that I could execute the sh files on my Windows machine without any need of Cygwin.
Well I would like to reduce the amount of dependencies needed to build flex. Currently it's more difficult to setup than it needs to be.

Think I have my hands in way too much different parts here. So I guess I won't start refactoring the SDKs build itself ... it was much more a simple question what else Cygwin is needed for. What however I think might be worth investigating would be to have some sort of watchdog wrapper around execution of Flash tests that kills the Flashplayer if a test doesn't return within a given time.

Chris




-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Alex Harui [mailto:aharui@adobe.com]
Gesendet: Sonntag, 13. Juli 2014 16:35
An: dev@flex.apache.org
Betreff: Re: Why is cygwin needed to run mustella?

There are other .sh files created and used by the main .sh files.  What would you convert to, Ant?  If so, feel free to take that on.

On 7/13/14 4:22 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <ch...@c-ware.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am currently investigating the build-problems of the mustella
>testsuite. Currently I'm trygin to understand mustella itself.
>Since I first heard about it, I was wondering why we need Cygwin to run
>the suite. Currently the only thing I could find, was that you start
>the suite using a ".sh" command and Cygwin lets you execute that ... Is
>this the only reason? If yes I would strongly suggest to translate that ".sh"
>to a ".cmd" or ".bat" file as all other projects do and get rid of the
>Cygwin dependency. I for instance don't want Cygwin on my machine.
>
>So if anyone of you has more info on this ... I'd be glad to hear :)
>
>Chris

RE: Why is cygwin needed to run mustella?

[Kessler CTR Mark J <ma...@usmc.mil>]

You can use anything that has a shell for it.  I use Git for windows currently instead of Cygwin.

-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Christofer Dutz [mailto:christofer.dutz@c-ware.de]
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 10:47 AM
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Subject: AW: Why is cygwin needed to run mustella?

Actually I was pretty surprized to see that I could execute the sh files on my Windows machine without any need of Cygwin.
Well I would like to reduce the amount of dependencies needed to build flex. Currently it's more difficult to setup than it needs to be.

Think I have my hands in way too much different parts here. So I guess I won't start refactoring the SDKs build itself ... it was much more a simple question what else Cygwin is needed for. What however I think might be worth investigating would be to have some sort of watchdog wrapper around execution of Flash tests that kills the Flashplayer if a test doesn't return within a given time.

Chris




-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Alex Harui [mailto:aharui@adobe.com]
Gesendet: Sonntag, 13. Juli 2014 16:35
An: dev@flex.apache.org
Betreff: Re: Why is cygwin needed to run mustella?

There are other .sh files created and used by the main .sh files.  What would you convert to, Ant?  If so, feel free to take that on.

On 7/13/14 4:22 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <ch...@c-ware.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am currently investigating the build-problems of the mustella
>testsuite. Currently I'm trygin to understand mustella itself.
>Since I first heard about it, I was wondering why we need Cygwin to run
>the suite. Currently the only thing I could find, was that you start
>the suite using a ".sh" command and Cygwin lets you execute that ... Is
>this the only reason? If yes I would strongly suggest to translate that ".sh"
>to a ".cmd" or ".bat" file as all other projects do and get rid of the
>Cygwin dependency. I for instance don't want Cygwin on my machine.
>
>So if anyone of you has more info on this ... I'd be glad to hear :)
>
>Chris

AW: Why is cygwin needed to run mustella?

[Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>]

Actually I was pretty surprized to see that I could execute the sh files on my Windows machine without any need of Cygwin.
Well I would like to reduce the amount of dependencies needed to build flex. Currently it's more difficult to setup than it needs to be. 

Think I have my hands in way too much different parts here. So I guess I won't start refactoring the SDKs build itself ... it was much more a simple question what else Cygwin is needed for. What however I think might be worth investigating would be to have some sort of watchdog wrapper around execution of Flash tests that kills the Flashplayer if a test doesn't return within a given time.

Chris




-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Alex Harui [mailto:aharui@adobe.com] 
Gesendet: Sonntag, 13. Juli 2014 16:35
An: dev@flex.apache.org
Betreff: Re: Why is cygwin needed to run mustella?

There are other .sh files created and used by the main .sh files.  What would you convert to, Ant?  If so, feel free to take that on.

On 7/13/14 4:22 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <ch...@c-ware.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am currently investigating the build-problems of the mustella 
>testsuite. Currently I'm trygin to understand mustella itself.
>Since I first heard about it, I was wondering why we need Cygwin to run 
>the suite. Currently the only thing I could find, was that you start 
>the suite using a ".sh" command and Cygwin lets you execute that ... Is 
>this the only reason? If yes I would strongly suggest to translate that ".sh"
>to a ".cmd" or ".bat" file as all other projects do and get rid of the 
>Cygwin dependency. I for instance don't want Cygwin on my machine.
>
>So if anyone of you has more info on this ... I'd be glad to hear :)
>
>Chris

Re: Why is cygwin needed to run mustella?

[Alex Harui <ah...@adobe.com>]

There are other .sh files created and used by the main .sh files.  What
would you convert to, Ant?  If so, feel free to take that on.

On 7/13/14 4:22 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <ch...@c-ware.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am currently investigating the build-problems of the mustella
>testsuite. Currently I'm trygin to understand mustella itself.
>Since I first heard about it, I was wondering why we need Cygwin to run
>the suite. Currently the only thing I could find, was that you start the
>suite using a ".sh" command and Cygwin lets you execute that ... Is this
>the only reason? If yes I would strongly suggest to translate that ".sh"
>to a ".cmd" or ".bat" file as all other projects do and get rid of the
>Cygwin dependency. I for instance don't want Cygwin on my machine.
>
>So if anyone of you has more info on this ... I'd be glad to hear :)
>
>Chris