Re: MiniDFSCluster on Windows unfortunatelly requires native toolchain for automated tests

2014-06-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello Chris, thanks for answering. I am not happy about the fact, that it might be not possible to have generic fallbacks in all cases. For the actual method in question I think File#isWriteable is a perfectly fine fallback especially as it is used in Posix systems anyway (and is never really rel

Re: MiniDFSCluster on Windows unfortunatelly requires native toolchain for automated tests

2014-06-20 Thread Chris Nauroth
Hello Bernd, This is my first time looking at Commons VFS. It looks like a very useful project, and I'm sorry to hear that we've caused some grief for your tests. I can provide some background on these changes. Traditionally, 1.2 and earlier versions didn't officially support Windows beyond a b

MiniDFSCluster on Windows unfortunatelly requires native toolchain for automated tests

2014-06-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, in the Commons VFS project we have a Provider for HDFS. This Provider is unit-tested with the help of the excelent MiniDFSCluster component. A while back I enabled automated testing on Windows (cause it worked for me), but I did not realize it only works with cygwin (namely ls.exe) in the