Thread: Support Python 3 tests under MSVC

Here are a couple of patches, one for master and one for the back
branches from 9.5 to 10 to allow testing of plpython3 and associated
contrib modules when building with MSVC.

I've tested this out on a Windows 2016 machine with Visual Studio 2017.

I'd like to apply these - they only affect the testing script
vcregress.pl, so they should be very low risk.


cheers

andrew



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On 4/30/18 15:52, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I'd like to apply these - they only affect the testing script
> vcregress.pl, so they should be very low risk.

In case there are concerns about maintaining a second copy of the
"mangle" script: The obvious answer is to rewrite that script in Python.
 I tried that once upon a time but it got too complicated.

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On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 4:52 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 4/30/18 15:52, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> I'd like to apply these - they only affect the testing script
>> vcregress.pl, so they should be very low risk.
>
> In case there are concerns about maintaining a second copy of the
> "mangle" script: The obvious answer is to rewrite that script in Python.
>  I tried that once upon a time but it got too complicated.
>


Well, as you can see I have rewritten it in perl :-) We could extract
that into a perl package and centralize it, but I'm not sure it's
worth the trouble.

Here's a new version of the master patch. I wasn't able to resist the
temptation to do a little cleaning up. In particular, we really don't
need to call python to tell us which version we have - we can do what
we do elsewhere and look to see what python build directory we have. I
also removed the completely redundant first parameter of
subdircheck().

cheers

andrew

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