windows smoke tester (was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2010, #02; Wed, 11))

On 12/08/10 11:35, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 17:34, Chris Packham [off-list ref] wrote:

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I've got a spare windows box at work I could set something up on it.
I've never used msysgit or MinGW so I might need some instructions/links
on that in addition to the smoker stuff.

I won't be able to help you there, sorry. I know Windows about as well
as IBM z/OS, which is to say not at all :)

I've got msysgit installed now via the net installer. I checked out
Avar's (Aevar?) branch One problem is that I don't have any of the perl
TAP modules. It's complaining about TAP/Harness/Archive.pm. Any
suggestions for installing additional perl modules under msysgit?

Another problem is that the mingw sh.exe is _really_ slow (the box is an
oldish Dell Latitude). It took a while for the net installer to run and
compile the devel branch but it got there eventually. It's not a huge
issue for me as the box is sitting idle but any suggestions for making
it run a bit smoother are welcome.