[py-dev] towards a 0.8.0 release!

[holger krekel]

Hi Brian! 

On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:50 -0700, Brian Dorsey wrote:
> On 23/04/05, holger krekel <hpk at trillke.net> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> <snip>
> > - the main missing piece is testing things much more
> >   on windows (speaking of which: has anyone recently
> >   used py.test on win32 and could try out:
> > 
> >     python py/bin/py.test py
> 
> This mostly passes for me on my home Windows XP machine. Only two of
> the tests give errors, but they give lots of them.
> 
> py/path/svn/testing/test_urlcommand.py[73] FFF.F.........FFF..FFFFFFF...FFFFFFFF
> F.FFF......FFFFFFF.FFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFF
> py/path/svn/testing/test_wccommand.py[85] FFFFFFFFFFF...FFFFF.......F........FFF
> ...F
> 
> I'm seeing lots of errors like this: 
> Error: [None]: svn: Unrecognized URL scheme
> ''file://c%3A%5Cdocume%7E1%5Cbrian%5Clocals%7E1%5Ctemp%5Cpytest-0%5Crepo/otherdir''
> 
> So I may have an old or different version of svn installed. 

Quite likely, it's a problem of command line parsing / escaping things properly. 

> I'll see if I can track down the failures. 
> 
> That said... I'm probably not a normal windows user... I doubt most
> windows users even have svn in their path. ;)

Hum, i see.  What is a proper way to get at the location 
of such a binary on win32? 

cheers & thanks, 

    holger