[BioRuby] Installing & testing BioRuby on Windows

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Again I thought it would be useful to write down what I did to get
>> BioRuby running on my Windows XP 32 bit machine (which will
>> be a buildslave).
>> ...
>> After that there were 4 failures and 7 errors, which I will cover in the
>> next email.
>
> Full details at end of email, here is my attempt to summarise and guess
> what is wrong:
>
> Errors (1), (2) and (3) are permission failures in testing calling commands.
> My guess is this is something about the batch file being used,
>
> C:\repositories\bioruby>test/data/command/echoarg2.bat Hello
> test: missing argument after `Hello'
>
> C:\repositories\bioruby>test/data/command/echoarg2.bat Hello World
> test: Hello: binary operator expected
>

Wrong slashes - that would have been cygwin's echo rather than Window's,

C:\repositories\bioruby>test\data\command\echoarg2.bat Hello
ECHO is on.

C:\repositories\bioruby>test\data\command\echoarg2.bat Hello World
World

So there isn't a problem with the batch file itself.

Peter