[BioRuby] Installing & testing BioRuby on Windows

[Naohisa Goto]

Hi,

I've fixed all of the test failures/errors which are reproduced on my
Windows machines.

Now 0 failures 0 errors, with latest git version, on Windows 7
Enterprise 32-bit with Ruby 1.9.3-p0 (mingw32).

Naohisa Goto
ngoto at gen-info.osaka-u.ac.jp / ng at biourby.org

> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Naohisa Goto
> <ngoto at gen-info.osaka-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > Sorry very late.
> >
> > On my Windows 7 (32-bit, Business or Enterprise) machines,
> > with Ruby 1.9.3-p0 downloaded from rubyinstaller.org, the 1), 2), and 3)
> > "Errno::EACCES: Permission denied" cannot be reproduced.
> > Instead, failure occur due to the change of command-line escaping in
> > Ruby 1.9, which would be the same as 9) and 10).
> >
> > The "Errno::EACCESS" might occurr when using other shell than cmd.exe
> > e.g. Cygwin's Bash, execution prohibition by security software, or by
> > access controll on NTFS.
> >
> > For 9) and 10): In Windows, command-line escaping is treated by each
> > software, and no "general" escaping way exists. This means the test is
> > bad for Windows. With Ruby 1.8.x, current BioRuby uses its internal
> > command-line string builder, but with Ruby 1.9.x, it uses Ruby's.
> >
> > 6), 7), and 8) may be due to text mode that is default file reading mode
> > when Ruby on windows and that ?may break things when reading binary
> > files.
> >
> > 11) may be the problem of removing a file before closing, as you said.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Naohisa Goto
> > ngoto at gen-info.osaka-u.ac.jp / ng at bioruby.org
> 
> Hi Goto-san,
> 
> Hmm. Can you mark some of these as known failures under
> Windows, or skip those tests under Windows?
> 
> Otherwise right now having a nightly build on Windows will always
> fail, and always send an error email. So It won't be helpful.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter

Naohisa Goto
ngoto at gen-info.osaka-u.ac.jp / ng at bioruby.org