On 5/17/2010 3:26 PM, Markus Roberts wrote:
1. Mechanical changes and differences supported by ruby. For example,
literal "/" characters used to join file path components that need to be
replaced with the File::Separator and similar.
Actually, the MRI port helps here massively by accepting both forward
and backward slashes. The actual trouble is handling drive letters and
UNCs which are widely unacceptable to many regexps throughout the code.
2. Behavioral changes, such as threading / forking, which may function
differently or not have analogs under MS Windows. In some cases this
will require finessing (e.g. the system for shelling out & capturing the
output)
Replacing Process.fork was quite easy, using the sys-process library
from Daniel Berger's sys-utils suite
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/sysutils/
Other things like the eventloop can be worked around for now, by simply
disabling them.
I'm currently working down a list of ~600 failing specs on windows. Many
of those are probably traceable to similar root causes, for example
quite a bunch of
> rm: cannot unlink `C:/Users/david/AppData/Local
> /Temp/host_integration_testing20100517-5688-lnaffp-0': Permission
> denied
and
> Not deleting tmpfile C:/Users/david/AppData/Local
> /Temp/file120100517-5688-usbjvi-0 outside of /tmp or /var/folders
Best Regards, David
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