[darcs-users] fwd: volunteers with always-on boxes sought for automated testing

[David Roundy]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:45:01AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> David Roundy writes:
> 
>  > > That costs you nothing, except some time editing the scripts to use
>  > > "/usr/bin/env bash" instead of "/bin/sh" or whatever is currently
>  > > used.
>  > 
>  > Yes, that's a good idea.  Would you like to do this?
> 
> Maybe next week, but I'd need your help (an off-the-top-of-your-head
> list of platforms you've found problematic so I can go out of my way
> to check for /usr/bin/env and/or /bin/bash and/or /usr/bin/bash on
> them), and it would be nice to have buildbots to run the tests and see
> if "#!/usr/bin/env bash" works.  I believe that to be more portable
> than Miklos's suggestion of "#!/bin/bash", but nothing's certain when
> you're talking about portability!

Too late, Eric's already made this change.  And we really don't need to be
so very paranoid with the test suite.

As far as I know, the only platform we've gotten reports from regarding
bashisms is solaris.  Of course, I know there are debian folks who use
non-bash shells as sh, but they apparently don't also run the darcs test
suite.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University