Re: [Pybot-devel] portablility

[Gustavo N. <nie...@co...>]

Hi Aaron!

> I figured out the package deal about five minutes after I posted my
> message, isn't that how it always is ;-).  Anyway, for reasons to
> ridiculous to go into hear, I am currently using a windows machine.
> Their are two issues I have run into so far with portability:

Let's see..

> For reasons beyon me, the check for the development evironment does
> not succesfully change the path to the root pybot directory on a
> windows machine.  Patch1 takes care of this. Does it still run on
> Linux, It should.

pybot.py is not supposed to be run directly. That's why it was not
working for you. You should use the "run" script in the root directory.

Anyway, this was just a hack. I'm going to change this for something
more general. I'll create a script to detect where pybot modules are
and call pybot from there, replacing 'run' and 'scripts/pybot.py'
functionality.

> The second issue is that windows does not seem to provide SIGQUIT.  I
> have just prepended an if sys.platform not 'win32' so that pybot will
> not register a handler for a non-existant signal and cause an
> exception. Do you think a try:, except: pass would be more portable?

I was not aware of that. I'm not sure which platforms have this signal.
I'll remove handling of SIGQUIT signal until we figure it out.

> Does anyone care if it runs on windows?

I must confess I don't have much interest in Windows. On the other hand,
if you want to make it run on Windows, I'm not against it.

Thanks for the patches!

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Gustavo Niemeyer

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