[Biopython-dev] Compiling on modern windows (recent mingw)

[Saket Choudhary]

The constraint for me really is I do not have access to Windows/MAC
machines here.

Hunting for a  Windows machine is possible, besides these I need to
validate the _ArgumentList method for windows too


On 28 May 2013 22:06, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've got a hunch that spaces in the executable path might explain
> > some of these failures - I'm trying a patch for that here.
>
> Hi Tiago,
>
> Patch applied to master - this is essential for the rare case of
> calling a binary under Unix where the path/filename includes
> a space, but appears to be redundant under Windows XP:
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/815de571b623f1cd3659fe4c80e3917e1a437580
>
> I'm curious if that matters under Windows 8 or not - trying
> the example in the commit comment at the command line
> might be illuminating.
>
> Peter
>
> P.S. Saket - You might remember I touched on this issue in our
> discussion on GitHub about your bwa/samtools wrappers, which
> led to this commit keeping self.program_name as the binary only:
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/ca93be741c8fd9bad67106acb455348251797f3a
>