[darcs-users] darcs patch: Obviate DARCS_TESTING_HOME workaround by setting %APPD...

[Trent W. Buck]

Salvatore Insalaco <kirby81 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:59:52 +1000, Trent W.Buck wrote:
>>> Trent W. Buck wrote:
>>> > Is there any reason we can't simply have the test harness set the $HOME
>>> > *and* %APPDATA% environment variables?
>>>
>>> Apparently I haven't submitted this patch to the list yet.  Here it
>>> is.  It needs to be tested by a Windows user!
>>
>> Salvatore, could you have a look?
>> Thanks,
>
> I think that testing this patch requires a working darcs test
> environment on Windows, that means autoconf / make / mingw and so on.

Er, the functional test framework has been "cabal test" or "./Setup
test" for some time now.  You will require bash, but not (AFAIK) make or
autoconf.