test suite early failure on 3.10 Windows

[Chris Muller]

I have never tested Magma under Windows Vista or Windows 7, but I have
under Windows XP, including the convenient launching of the other
test-player images via OSProcess.  IIRC, I think I installed the
plug-in from SqueakMap..

  - Chris

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 22:07 -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 01:25:35PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 15:48 -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
>> > > On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:37:23PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
>> > > > I loaded magma into a 3.10 basic image along with OSProcess,
>> > > > NewCompiler, their dependencies and some other stuff on Linux.  I copied
>> > > > it to Windows Vista and executed
>> > > > MagmaTestCase fullSuite maDebug
>> > > > The image got changed to _magmaTestConductor image, but before any other
>> > > > windows were launched I got the error whose stack trace appears below.
>> > > >
>> > > > The problem seems to be that in the 2nd item up the stack,
>> > > > ExternalWindowsOSProcess>>value,
>> > > > self initialStdErr
>> > > > returns nil.
>> > > >
>> > > > Any ideas?
>> > >
>> > > Ross,
>> > >
>> > > OSProcess has very limited functionality on Windows, and the required
>> > > plugin is not distributed with the VM. Sorry.
>> > >
>> > > Dave
>> > Ouch!
>> >
>> > Is the plugin not distributed because it doesn't work well?
>> >
>> > Is magma (as distinct from the test suite) believed to work on Windows?
>> > Is there a way to run the tests with me manually launching things?
>>
>> Magma is in no way dependent on OSProcess. That is just a convenience
>> for setting up tests, nothing more.
>>
> Yes, but that still leaves the question of whether magma is known to
> work on Windows (esp Vista).  Without a way of testing it, that's hard
> to tell.
> Ross
>
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