On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:40:24AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2007 13:46 schrieb Dave Page:
> >
> >>Can we rename the test please?
> >>
> >
> >I'm thinking no. Brain-dead systems should produce brain-dead test
> >results.
> >
> >
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> Not doing this would seem like sheer bloody-mindedness. We have
> workarounds for craziness on many systems. Not providing for this will
> mean that we have to disable the ECPG tests for Vista. I don't see how
> that helps anyone.
Agreed.
> More seriously, we need to get the ECPG regression test rewritten in C,
> as was done for the main line regression tests. Maybe we need to factor
> out some of that into a library so the common code can be used in both
> programs. At any rate, until this is done we can't run the ECPG tests on
> MSVC builds.
IIRC, Joachim has at least started work on that. (Unrelated to vista - ecpg
tests are broken on both mingw and msvc for vista)
//Magnus
