Re: windows smoke tester (was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2010, #02; Wed, 11))

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 12, 2010, 22:29 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimp5TSvjcmZG-pGtG6ep3axertqWuooS7e+A3Ow@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C647360.50304@gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 22:19, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:

> I checked out Avar's (Aevar?)

Whatever works :)

> branch One problem is that I don't have any of the perl TAP
> modules. It's complaining about TAP/Harness/Archive.pm. Any
> suggestions for installing additional perl modules under msysgit?

I don't know what msysgit does for perl but if you can make it use strawberry perl's perl + modules that'd be easiest:

    http://strawberryperl.com

It comes with an easy-to use CPAN shell out of the box.

> Another problem is that the mingw sh.exe is _really_ slow (the box is an
> oldish Dell Latitude).

Odd that sh.exe is the slowest bit.

One thing (as the t/README notes) that'll make the tests much faster is using a ramdisk for the trash directory, but I don't know if Windows can do that.